On 1/5/2025 3:22 PM, cyclintom wrote:

I got enough sleep last night but zi really felt tired this morning so I decided to take a flat easy ride. I decided to ride the Basso Lotto because the Colnago is in dreadful need of a cleaning and rewaxing the chain.. The Basso has Bontrager X lite

wheels on it. It also had Bontrager quick releases which are difficult to get properly tight.

So three blocks from the house4 at a stop light, the rear wheel pulled forward, locked against the seat tubee and dumped me into the middle of the street. The traffic was polite and allowed me to get up and get the bike out if the way. I retightened

the quick release and it happened again. So I tightened the quick release very tight and the wheel didn't move anymore. Another 5 blocks down the road my shoe came off. I stopped and reset that on much tighter.

I got all of the way into Alameda and misjudged a car turning right in front of me and nearly got hit. I turned lerft and proceeded down to a stop sign where I didn't even see cross traffic and was almost hit. I got on a bike path and misjudged a 100

degree turn and ran off of the path. Now none of this is something I would normally do. When I pulled into the coffee shop I could hardly stand. I was exhausted. I ordered coffee and something with a lot of sugar in it. I intended to take a shorter route
on the way back. I felt pretty bsd on the return trip. But without incident other than misjudging when a light would change. that was harmless since there was no traffic on that street and the light did change halfway into the intersection.

I have recently added half a Leveteracitam pill on doctor's advice and I think that is giving me a toxic blood level. I will back off of that and see what effect that has. Hopefully that will return me to normal.

Also the fit of the Basso which was fair needs to tuning. Shorter stem, narrower handlebars and higher levers. Let's hpe that this all helps.

Basso Loto has classic horizontal road ends. http://www.yellowjersey.org/photosfromthepast/basmia2.jpg

Use steel (internal cam) skewers; aluminum (open cam)
skewers will inherently slip.

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On Sun Jan 5 17:24:27 2025 AMuzi wrote:

On 1/5/2025 3:22 PM, cyclintom wrote:

I got enough sleep last night but zi really felt tired this morning so I decided to take a flat easy ride. I decided to ride the Basso Lotto because the Colnago is in dreadful need of a cleaning and rewaxing the chain.. The Basso has Bontrager X lite

wheels on it. It also had Bontrager quick releases which are difficult to get properly tight.

So three blocks from the house4 at a stop light, the rear wheel pulled forward, locked against the seat tubee and dumped me into the middle of the street. The traffic was polite and allowed me to get up and get the bike out if the way. I retightened

the quick release and it happened again. So I tightened the quick release very tight and the wheel didn't move anymore. Another 5 blocks down the road my shoe came off. I stopped and reset that on much tighter.

I got all of the way into Alameda and misjudged a car turning right in front of me and nearly got hit. I turned lerft and proceeded down to a stop sign where I didn't even see cross traffic and was almost hit. I got on a bike path and misjudged a 100

degree turn and ran off of the path. Now none of this is something I would normally do. When I pulled into the coffee shop I could hardly stand. I was exhausted. I ordered coffee and something with a lot of sugar in it. I intended to take a shorter route
on the way back. I felt pretty bsd on the return trip. But without incident other than misjudging when a light would change. that was harmless since there was no traffic on that street and the light did change halfway into the intersection.

I have recently added half a Leveteracitam pill on doctor's advice and I think that is giving me a toxic blood level. I will back off of that and see what effect that has. Hopefully that will return me to normal.

Also the fit of the Basso which was fair needs to tuning. Shorter stem, narrower handlebars and higher levers. Let's hpe that this all helps.

Basso Loto has classic horizontal road ends. http://www.yellowjersey.org/photosfromthepast/basmia2.jpg

Use steel (internal cam) skewers; aluminum (open cam)
skewers will inherently slip.

You are absolutely right. Campagnolo quick releases never had the problems that these aluminum quick releases do. I returned tol my two pills of leveteracitam last night rather than 2 1/2 and woke up this morning almost normal again.I will contact my
neurologist today and let him kno3w what happened to me yesterday.

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