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Image 1 — Eng/French/Italian frame?
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▲ 2 r/Vintage_bicycles

Eng/French/Italian frame?

So my other Miele bike frame was eng, it's a Japanese frame. Ishiwata 022.
This Miele I'm having a hard time turning the DS cup off the BB, and I tried both ways.
I don't want to go any farther without knowing the turn direct of the DS cup.

So this frame is a Tange Infinity frame, I have the DOC's for the frames but they don't tell the BB information.
Pics for stickers to frames, the Ishiwata 022 is the eng BB, the Tange Infinity is the one I'm trying to figure out, and added the Tange docs to show no info on the BB.

Both Japanese frames. The Ishiwata 022 is def Eng as I installed a seal eng BB in it.

I'm assuming strongly this is Eng BB, but after not moving this cup and the forces now that are going to be required to move it I better be certain i have this turn direction 100%

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.

u/l337g0g0 — 5 days ago
▲ 2 r/BikeRepair

UPDATE: both cups on BB seized.

I am really to good at this... LOL

It's locked in super hard, I can't hammer it or use my force.

The only last thing is cheater bar on the 36mm wrench now. :(

It could be permanent? :(

AND YES,,, There was play between the crank and washers, the Crank arm can rotate, it wasn't pressed up against the washers... Have to clear this up or Mr 20 years experience will have a field day on me for this one. LOL

But this washer hack is WAYYY to good.
I used the crank ring of the bike to clamp the washers to hold the 36mm wrench in place. HEHE /chefskiss
This cost 1$, 50C each washer. LOL

This is WAY to much fun.

I'm sorry this is some Sheldon Brown 2.0

u/l337g0g0 — 6 days ago
▲ 0 r/WindowsHelp

Asus laptop screen flickering to bright (washed out colors) on my laptop.

So for months now after a driver update, the screen would go bright and make the image grayish, ugly.
Close the lid open back up and it would flicker back to correct, where the colors are normal and the brightness is darker.
Between the two the screen is HORRIBLE with this brightness or what ever it is issue, and looks incredibly amazing when it's dark.

NOW,,, it starts dark after a reset and flickers to bright, so closing the lid does the opposite now>!?!?!?

I'm getting so frustrated at this cause i did all the adaptive brightness stuff and windows stuff. BTW I don't have adaptive brightness option.But I did everything the internet tells me to do and I don't have ANY adaptive brightness option ANYWHERE.

has anyone had this issue and know the quick and easy way to stop this????

I have a Windows whatever 11 I think, I have 4060 gpu Asus GAMING LAPTOP with all the Asus apps My Asus, Armory crate. NVIDIA experience.

Note, I had the laptop on best performance, and safe battery to 80% so it's not sitting over charged.

I think this is everything that is important to this situation, anyone have the option to stop this thing from switching brightness and let it jsut sit at the perfectly fine darker screen that makes the colors pop so well?

Thank you.

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u/l337g0g0 — 7 days ago
▲ 1 r/ASUSROG

Asus laptop screen flickering to bright (washed out colors) on my laptop.

So for months now after a driver update, the screen would go bright and make the image grayish, ugly.
Close the lid open back up and it would flicker back to correct, where the colors are normal and the brightness is darker.
Between the two the screen is HORRIBLE with this brightness or what ever it is issue, and looks incredibly amazing when it's dark.

NOW,,, it starts dark after a reset and flickers to bright, so closing the lid does the opposite now>!?!?!?

I'm getting so frustrated at this cause i did all the adaptive brightness stuff and windows stuff. BTW I don't have adaptive brightness option.But I did everything the internet tells me to do and I don't have ANY adaptive brightness option ANYWHERE.

has anyone had this issue and know the quick and easy way to stop this????

I have a Windows whatever 11 I think, I have 4060 gpu Asus GAMING LAPTOP with all the Asus apps My Asus, Armory crate. NVIDIA experience.

Note, I had the laptop on best performance, and safe battery to 80% so it's not sitting over charged.

I think this is everything that is important to this situation, anyone have the option to stop this thing from switching brightness and let it jsut sit at the perfectly fine darker screen that makes the colors pop so well?

Thank you.

EDIT::: The option in System > Display > Color management, down to Color Management: Automatically manage color for apps.
Activating this brought the colors back and darkened the screen.
I now found the option, is there a way to keep it like this and disable the Automatic part so it never changes for apps?
I have to use this for a while to see it it starts automatically switching again.But setting it to automatically manage color for apps gets it back to the way I want it.
Hopefully it doesn't start automatically switching again and stays on the dim color and bright grayish screen again.

Wish me luck and let me know if I can disable this but still keep this vibrate color with dim brightness?

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u/l337g0g0 — 7 days ago
▲ 1 r/techsupport

My screen keeps going bright (washed out colors) after resetting the laptop...

So for months now after a driver update, the screen would go bright and make the image grayish, ugly.
Close the lid open back up and it would flicker back to correct, where the colors are normal and the brightness is darker.
Between the two the screen is HORRIBLE with this brightness or what ever it is issue, and looks incredibly amazing when it's dark.

NOW,,, it starts dark after a reset and flickers to bright, so closing the lid does the opposite now>!?!?!?

I'm getting so frustrated at this cause i did all the adaptive brightness stuff and windows stuff. BTW I don't have adaptive brightness option.But I did everything the internet tells me to do and I don't have ANY adaptive brightness option ANYWHERE.

has anyone had this issue and know the quick and easy way to stop this????

I have a Windows whatever 11 I think, I have 4060 gpu Asus GAMING LAPTOP with all the Asus apps My Asus, Armory crate. NVIDIA experience.

Note, I had the laptop on best performance, and safe battery to 80% so it's not sitting over charged.

I think this is everything that is important to this situation, anyone have the option to stop this thing from switching brightness and let it jsut sit at the perfectly fine darker screen that makes the colors pop so well?

Thank you.

EDIT::: The option in System > Display > Color management, down to Color Management: Automatically manage color for apps.
Activating this brought the colors back and darkened the screen.
I now found the option, is there a way to keep it like this and disable the Automatic part so it never changes for apps?
I have to use this for a while to see it it starts automatically switching again.But setting it to automatically manage color for apps gets it back to the way I want it.
Hopefully it doesn't start automatically switching again and stays on the dim color and bright grayish screen again.

Wish me luck and let me know if I can disable this but still keep this vibrate color with dim brightness?

EDIT2: the YouTube videos are the same issue now, but when i go into the HRD settings where the HRD video button toggle is, just being in the settings fixes the video screen, then when i leave the option HRD window the videos go back, and no setting in the HDR window will make it stick.

This is bonkers vile what is happening here.

Anyone have these issues? There might be a HRD option issue here???? Even thought i got it to go back to dark with the auto control in the first edit, now videos are still washed out and the only way to get them back is to sit in the HRD option window?!?!? O.o

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u/l337g0g0 — 7 days ago
▲ 13 r/cineplex

Just watched Top Gun 40th at Yonge and Dundas...

Why are people hating on this Imax????

There was really no issues and I actually really really liked the Imax theater, it was really big, no head issue with people in front, maybe one row could possibly have that issue. but the rest of the theater was perfectly fine.
The image was super great, sharp.
Sound was so good you heard the jet fights sounds traveling across the theater, the theater rumbles when they did the flyby's and explosions etc.

So what's the deal with the bad take on this theater? I'm confused now.

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u/l337g0g0 — 8 days ago
▲ 1 r/BikeRepair

BB cup and cone might be seized. how bad can bad can this maybe be?

So 36 mm wrench and pin span couldn't turn either.
All other parts were VERY VERY easy to remove, crank arms, ring, bolt nuts etc.
I sprayed W-D40 into top bottom left right teeth, banged on it in all directions with socket wrench to ding it up to try and loosen it.

And it seems REALLY REALLY locked in. not a movement with so much pressure, the pin spammer was bending, so can only go so hard with it, and tons of my weight on the 36 mm wrench.

How bad can this be? (Is the frame toast if I lose the cup and cones, bearings over time?)
Is there ways to get these out? like machine them out with metal cutting, how expensive?

Or is this just maybe locked up hard and needs just a little more pressure, like hammer on the 36mm wrench just to edge it? Just that little bit to get the rotation started? (smack a hammer on the 36mm wrench)

Worried this will end the frame after the cup and cone and or bearings go over time.
The crank arms are showing a LITTLE play, not a lot, but I just discovered this play and wanted to lube and tighten, then discovered this issue.

Let me know what you think, options etc.

Thank you.

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u/l337g0g0 — 9 days ago
▲ 1 r/BikeRepair

Spokes back in the rim, what to use?

So lets have experience/knowledge sharing about what works best with wheel building lubricates/locking spokes and nubs.

I read you can use White grease, oil, purple lockite, and Boiled Linseed Oil.

My goal is to make nubs easy to turn for putting the spokes back, then to lock up so they don't vibrate lose over time riding. but obviously not tight where they are hard to turn to tru again if there is an issue moving forward.

What is not only going to do that, but is also simple?

Is purple lockite the best, seems the simplest, you buy spread, build and it stiffens and your GTG for a good while???
Oil grease stay slippery, and Boiled Linseed Oil takes lots of unnecessary work and dangerous from the flammable issues with rags. Where purple lockite has no overhead.
Lockite I can do in my room if I wanted, Boiled Linseed Oil needs a garage with fresh air and boiling apparatus.

And maybe use oil with Q-tip on the nubs to rims so they are easy to start off and the oil will evaporate pretty fast, like on a few rides? this with the main option also?

What you say?

u/l337g0g0 — 11 days ago
▲ 25 r/Biking+2 crossposts

(((Not my bike))) Found the 2nd sleeper/decoy bike, rate it 0/10

(((Not my bike)))

Found a 2nd sleeper/decoy bike.

Lets rate it guys...

u/l337g0g0 — 12 days ago
▲ 2 r/BikeRepair

Lets see if we can fix this back wheel or not (THIS IS AN EXPERIMENT TEST)

So I had an accident and the wheel was warped, a bike mechanic got it tru with muscle leverage.
I has a two dips (in the tape markers, Yellow and red) they are 1 to 2 mm dips.
They are smooth dips from 1 to 2 mm.

(((And I can't ride it like this as others say, I can feel these bumps when riding moderately, so these dips have to come out for these to be usable. already rid on it and those bumps are annoying. The two dips like this make that small normal section a bump essentially.

So I read a lot saying the tire is toast cause you can't tension spokes etc.

BUT... someone linked me a Sheldon Brown page where they show how you can take a dip out of a tire...
https://sheldonbrown.com/on-road-wheel-repairs.html
(A rim has a flat spot or is dented inward)

I want to see if I can get these two dips out with all your help and I'll tru it up and do a tension meter test and report back.

Who wants to do this experiment with me?

Here is the wheel, those are the areas of the dip, what is this next approach here?

Do you I do Sheldon Browns technique?
Do you think tensioning the all the green areas pops the dips out?

Ultimately is this a loss cause and unsafe? or doable under this condition of a 1 to 2 mm dips in those locations?

Thank you.

Again this is an experiment and not to ride on unless I get a consensus this will work and I'm GTG.

u/l337g0g0 — 15 days ago
▲ 132 r/granturismo4

So I've played GT3 4 5 recently and within the last year or so.
I had a super hard time with 3 cause of AI smashing me, and tire wear being the principle gate keeping of the races from my experience. 3 seemed like a to strong tire wear traction test.
I had a hard time with 4 cause of the steering with controller and AI was not as bad as 3 but stil an issue.
5 seemed so refined for steering with the controller, and AI don''t hit you unless you do stupid stuff.

Here's where it set in...
So 5 when you steer you understand if you are to fast around a turn and oversteer if you take it to slow. simple right, this is GT5 racing turns from my experience with a controller, just turn hard on your controller and hit the turn speed right and you can turn it perfectly.
But 4 has WAY more layers to race turning in this game with a controller that put me off before but now I've learned what they were trying to implement and I'm falling in love with it.

When you turn hard or doing the turn to fast you lose traction instead of understanding, they punish you by allowing you to overstear and lose traction and then that cause you to lose speed coming out of the turn and tire wear was a smaller factor here, not as much as 3, but you have to factor in speed by making sure you get the cars turning speed down so you don't oversteer and lose more speed then needed to make the turn, so it's teaching you a valuable lesson by punishing you for not hitting the racing line properly, cause if you deviate from it and oversteer coming out of the turn your tires lose traction and the TC kicks in, or you slide the car if you don't have TC on.

The analog control gradient has such a wide room for error it becomes value learning tool of race turning if you accept it and play into it and not fight it.

I've just fell in love with this game again. I can't wait to get in more powerful cars and races to really feel this out more.

one note: this game I think with all what I stated was 100% made with a steering wheel needed to REALLY embrace all this game has to offer, the control can work like I'm doing it, but that nuanced in the turning spectrum is WAY WAY more controlled with a steering wheel.

I might have to buy a CTR and a wheel and a car seat and just go all out on this game.
I'm in love guys...

What you all think about this?

u/l337g0g0 — 16 days ago
▲ 4 r/granturismo4

So what race cars in the game are under 345 horse power?

I can't buy chips to lower the horse power with more powerful race cars?
Do I really have to go to each dealership and look for race cars that are under 345 HP one by one?

Help plz.

Ohh is this a Spec II thingy? or default from the standard game?

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u/l337g0g0 — 16 days ago
▲ 51 r/Biking+2 crossposts

(((Not my bike, discovered walking by it)))

The bonus is the new bar tape and seat, this gives the thieves hope (seeing the top of the bike), till they walk around and see the bike and walk away. LOL

This has to be the greatest beater/decoy bike.

Rate this decoy bike out of ten.

u/l337g0g0 — 18 days ago
▲ 55 r/torontobiking

Insanity, so many people traveling on the wrong side of the path and not caring there is other people using that path NORMALLY.
Have kids doing wheelies with illegal battery scooters on the wrong side of the path at blistering speeds.
people waking on the bike path and have no awareness of what is around them or don't care.

How do you guys deal with this disaster?!?!

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u/l337g0g0 — 18 days ago
▲ 0 r/cineplex

Question in title.

Or do you have a photo of this theater, I was hearing bad stuff about sight lines, and this looks like no issue, so is this the Imax there?

u/l337g0g0 — 18 days ago
▲ 0 r/BikeRepair

I have the bearings and can use that tool, but was there a standard bearing size for pedals in this era?
2.381 mm (3/32″)?

u/l337g0g0 — 20 days ago
▲ 10 r/torontobiking

I had a close to death crash from one hitting my back wheel at a fast speed and I smashed my head on the pavement, it could have been a death blow/broken neck/back etc, if it happened in a different way like me not letting go of the bike etc.

I told the story to a bike shop guy and he told me a story about a coworker getting really hurt by one that crashed into him, then one of his coworker came to work and he thought that was him but he said no, but has his own story of a near head on collision.

Now there is this post in this sub.

Can someone please help me understand why are these standing scooters that are illegal in Toronto causing all these dangerous accidents?

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u/l337g0g0 — 22 days ago
▲ 2 r/BikeRepair

Front wheel good rim, back wheel cracked rim. (at 3 o'clock)

I need the back wheel. (from the issue below)
Can I swap the rims?

I also have a (ANOTHER, not in the picture) back wheel that was warped in an accident, it was trued back with force, (it was warped sideways within the brakes. so the warp was not extreme, extreme, but bad.
It is now left with a hop and dip from the impact. I know it's toast. UNLESS,,, can you take that rim off and plastic mallet the hop dip out of that rim? then re spoke it?

Thank you.

u/l337g0g0 — 28 days ago