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Bravo. I figure no one's weenie if they at least try to fix their own flats. You got lucky and only had to change the tire and not patch a hole.ReplyDelete
Last summer I discovered that a cold beer and a lawn chair works well and if you fix it on the front lawn the neighbors get entertainment, plus my bike reclines on the grass.
- AnonymousDecember 28, 2012 at 7:16 AM
Not sure a Truro whatsit would tempt me to put my bike on the sofa.ReplyDelete
To change a bike tire (with/without fenders) - turn it upside down on bars and saddle - have a plastic bag under each to protect them.
The wheel comes off and goes on more easily
As I sat in my sister's living room the week before Christmas, beverage in hand, I pondered the mystery of tread direction in front of an overturned bike. In the end, I had to flip the bike upright to figure out which way I needed to orient the tire. Soon, her new Christmas tires installed, she was on her way to much zippier, flat-free adventures. And it only took me like 45 minutes to get the 2 done!ReplyDelete
Blogger of the year award goes to Lovely Bicycle for this well-balanced entry.ReplyDelete
Bravo. But on the couch?ReplyDelete
- Mad BikerDecember 28, 2012 at 8:58 AM
Alas, I have everything to fix a flat in my seat bag, except the wine. I was prepared to buy a bigger bag until I found this: http://www.designsponge.com/2011/04/bicycle-wine-rack.html. Now, if I can only find a multi-tool with a corkscrew...ReplyDeleteReplies
- HT ChenDecember 29, 2012 at 4:17 AM
in addition to a bike related multitool, i keep a leatherman in my saddle bag just so i have a set of pliers around for emergencies. it was, however, not a coincidence that i chose a leatherman with a corkscrew :)Delete
- AnonymousDecember 28, 2012 at 9:48 AM
Please! Really now, placing a cycle on the living-room couch! Why that just screams, "Poor adolescent-like judgement"!ReplyDelete
On a helpful note, I've found that a light coating of talcum powder applied to the tire's interior can prevent tube failures due to chaffing if not splitting.
I've found your blog to be absolutely delightful and click onto it daily.
- AnonymousDecember 28, 2012 at 10:31 AM
sounds like you had a nice little date :) my bikes aren't allowed in the house for that very reason. soon they'll be lounging on the couch, while i get the wine out, and ask for some attention, a rub, a massage, or maybe they'll get kinky and ask me to get the camera out while they undress. never ends well so they now have their own place and our relationship is as friends which is better for all :)ReplyDelete
now tell the story of repairing a flat outside during a dark and stormy night--that will be a good read!
Love the Pedros tire levers. I have about six pairs. But one of my riding buddies teases me about my girly levers whenever I pull out a pair of pink ones. I've experienced many pinch flats, punctures and have destroyed a few tubes by clumsily mounting a stubborn tire with help from a tire lever. Never had a tube fail like that, however.ReplyDelete
MUCH nicer than fixing the flat out in the ice and snow!ReplyDelete
Congratulations on the happy event! And best wishes for a happy and healthy 2013!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 28, 2012 at 11:22 AM
All I could think of was the flat tire in The Christmas Story. Too Bad your husband did not put a Ralphie.ReplyDelete
I find that most of the time, if I can locate the puncture/hole, I can patch it without removing the wheel, which is fortunate, since on my bike, removing even the front wheel and re-attaching it is a half-hour process even without fixing or replacing the tube (the rear wheel is a whole other story). Just deflate, then pop the tire off the rim enough to pull the punctured section of tube out, patch it, let it dry, and then stuff the tube back in, put the tire back on the rim, and re-inflate. So far, that's worked out really well for me (though I've only really done it twice in the last few years). And, it only takes me about 10-15 min, even being an unskilled novice :) Also, if you do it that way, no couch needed as long as you have a kickstand.ReplyDelete
I recommend a good Oregon pinot noir, or a good Cotes du Rhone with a heavy concentration of grenache and syrah grapes. Oh, or a Spanish Tempranillo.... mmmm.
I find my 650B with fenders enjoys being put on her back like a baby when I change her tires: she rests in her saddle and handlebars and watches the clouds roll by while I do the work. Question, Velouria: how do the Hetres compare to Col de Vie or Schwalbe 38's? Do you have a sense of how the Lierres would be? I'm not sure I can get quite wide enough for the Hertes.ReplyDelete
"I very rarely get flats."ReplyDelete
I don't understand your words.
Actually, with some Armadillos on my commuter, I've had a similar experience, but my road tires are a constant flat festival, and while it can be inconvenient, it IS good to change tires often enough that you're comfortable doing it. When you do it once a year or less, it's going to take forever because you're really just not sure what you're doing. Practice makes perfect.
My strategy is to always have a spare tube, so that it's a matter of finding the offending object (usually glass, not always), removing it, replacing the tube, and going. Then I accumulate wounded tubes and, every so often, sit down with a tube and patch kit and fix 'em, then wrap them up and band them and put them back in the tube box for next time.ReplyDelete
When I do this, I feel very much like a fisherman must feel mending his nets. It's a contemplative exercise, and gives me a feeling that I'm really adding value to my cycling.
Yeah, I think it's weird too.
Dang. Wordpress isn't working properly today. This is lawschoolissoover.wordpress.com, AKA me.
You've somehow made reading about fixing your flat feel like I a romantic story by Hemingway. All of a sudden I can't wait for my next flat(crossing my fingers)!ReplyDelete
Brava! Wine, adventure and destiny. Makes me want to read some Hemingway.ReplyDelete
Very important things to remember about flats:ReplyDelete
1. Always check the tire casing for the embedded penetrant. Otherwise you greatly risk having your repaired tube flat again 100 yards from your last repair stop.
2. Be sure your rim tape is wide enough to completely cover the spoke holes, lest you go insane with repeated and untraceable punctures on the inside of the inner tube.
3. If you want puncture repair practice, move to goathead country and buy your Remas by the box of 100. Carry two spare tubes as well as patch kit. If you are lucky, you will flat no more than two times on a ride so that you can do the actual patching job in the comfort of your home with a glass of whatever is nice beside you and soothing music on the stereo.
4. If you are cheap or poor, you can use Office Max rubber cement ($1.99 for 4 oz jar) in lieu of real vulcanizing fluid, but you have to let it dry properly before applying the patch, and you must carefully press the patch down to ensure a good mating with the glue. It is not as adhesive as vulcanizing fluid. Also, it does not work well with home-made patches.
5. If you can, buy the 1 cm Remas as they will fit on even the skinniest tubes and work just as well on the fat ones.
6. Wait with eager anticipation for the continued improvement of tire sealants; with Stan's and others now far superior to Slime and ilk, there is hope for a long-lasting, quasi permanent fix for small punctures that does not require that your tires roll like cement.
I learned to patch tubes (using patches cut from old inner tubes) at the feet of sidewalk bicycle wallahs in New Delhi, aged 9 or 10. This is a skill that I've put to good use ever since.
- AnonymousDecember 28, 2012 at 12:57 PM
Brings back memories of working in a bike shop long, long, ago. Before moving into more complicated and serious repairs one had to do flat tire duty--replacing tires and tubes left in the shop and helping the walk-in customer who needed a quick fix--and do it in well under five minutes. One's hands and confidence gain a lot of strength. Now it takes me 30 minutes :)ReplyDelete
Ha! That's got to be one of your best posts ever. "It was a dark and stormy night, with heavy traffic and freezing rain..." Sounds like a great beginning to an epic tale. At first, I was shocked to see the image of your bicycle lounging on the couch but after reading of your concern and caring for the delicate nature of your velo, understand your efforts to provide comfort and compassion to your wounded transport.
"Turned out the cause was a failed inner tube. This one had split right at the seam. It happens, even with the nicest tubes." Seriously, I've had very good results using Schwalbe tubes. Never a split seam or pinch flat. They cost a little bit more, but for the added reliability it is very cheap insurance.
Now, maybe a nice hot soapy bath for your velo, and a good waxing and she'll be raring to go on your next adventure!
Great stuff!
- AnonymousDecember 28, 2012 at 1:13 PM
Wondered when you'd get around to the splitting inner tube issue. They are certainly at least 90% of all my flats the past decade. I've had tubes split the first time they were inflated. As far as I can tell the problem is all brands across the board and paying for Euro tubes makes no difference.ReplyDelete
Turn the clock back more than ten years and splitting tubes were simply unknown. As sure as the sun came up this morning I rode 41 years of the 20th century and never saw a tube split. That would include couple years as a shop mechanic and always always having the best pump on the ride and being called on to help for everyone else's flats. The first split tubes I saw were the 60 gram variety. Even those were not so bad the first years they were around and if used in a 700x23 and the rider was not too heavy. Couple years later tubes just stopped being reliable.Replies
Dead on, ....... almost. I haven't had top end tubes split (yet). the top end butyl from Conti, Michelin, etc have held up for me.Delete
I ran cheapo tubes in my lesser bikes for decades with no problems, then suddenly inexpensive tubes were all crap. Now the mid price tubes are questionable.
I replace inner tubes on a new bike before I ride them.
Any of my bikes that go on the track, ride in packs or do fast descends get highest quality butyl. the spares I carry in those circumstances are also the best I can source.
Wonderful writing, as always. Thanks for the smiles!ReplyDelete
"It was a dark and stormy night, with heavy traffic and freezing rain,"ReplyDelete
Epic start...
"Nodding eagerly, he opened a bottle of wine and made himself comfortable on our finest kitchen chair, in anticipation of the evening's entertainment."
Was Peppy in attendance? Probably on a perch at some altitude above the couch and at a distance...
"But generally speaking, if the tires are 650B I recommend red."
I would recommend a French red.
My bikes are well trained to not object to being clamped to a bike stand. It only takes once, and they grow to understand that this way they won't be scratched, that it takes less time, and that less harm comes to them. Especially bikes with fenders. That's at home of course. But then you were training for how to fix on the road. Get a very small bottles of wine for your flat kit. :-)
my bikes have never sat on the couch. Instead they prefer to rest on their heads when to lazy to be lifted into a workstand. i wont let them see this post, lest they get ideas about such leisure.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 28, 2012 at 3:11 PM
I was really impressed when I was doing a bike count a year ago to see a commuter, who got a punctured tyre on the road near me, change the tube, inflate it and ride off within 10 minutes, very impressive I thought!ReplyDelete
Half an hour to fix a puncture seems almost indecently hasty to me. My soigneuse,(and that's not a euphemism), Sophie Marceau,is never far behind whatever the weather and always packs a bottle of the finest Château de Châtelaine 1894 in her saddlebag for just such an eventuality. Also cold chicken, olives, a Bayonne ham, some paté of course and a small embossed silver flask of a decent Armagnac. Puncture, what puncture?!ReplyDelete
- Mary, UKDecember 28, 2012 at 4:05 PM
Getting that gorgeous young thing drunk and flat out on the sofa - shame on you girl!ReplyDelete
- heatherDecember 28, 2012 at 4:59 PM
Sweet, there's that lovely bike again...did you build that? Luckily you were close to home. Would a bike stand be helpful? My husband is lusting for one, tired of working on the floor. Wine helps.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 28, 2012 at 5:13 PM
You must have very clean bikes. I can't remove a wheel and tire on mine w/o getting dirt and grease all over my hands and everything I touch. Putting one on the couch would freak me out!ReplyDelete
You might want to think twice about hitting that red wine before embarking on bike repairs. It doesn't take me too much before I start getting clumsy and stupid, and at 0.1 tons of road hugging weight, I have a lot more mass to soak up that wine than you do.ReplyDelete
What kind of centerpulls do you have that you need to deflate a Hetre to get it past the brake? When I unhook the straddle cable on my MAFAC Raids, I can pass a whole lot more than a Hetre through there.Replies
These brakes use longish brake pads that touch the inside of the fork blades once tension is removed and thus cannot open farther than the fork allows.Delete
Richard Sachs just cuts down the brake pads to solve this issue: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ah_blake/5487219388/Delete
He claims it doesn't affect performance and might even help with brake judder on canti brakes.
@ HvB: I'm sorry, but that looks downright ghetto on a Richard Sachs.Delete
It's certainly not as elegant as "ATMO" hand written in marker on the tires.Delete
I had to trim the brake pads on Fear Rothar's old George Longstaff Audax, for the same reason. It works just fine. You can't even see unless you're right on top of the bike.Delete
I always try to patch without taking the wheel off. If it's a good flat it can be done in three or four minutes. No way I'm gonna mess with chaincases and other encumberments! Bad flats, like the one you had, are unfortunately a different story.ReplyDelete
I've always felt that beer is the better match for bicycle mechanics. Hefeweizen for complete overhauls, porter for replacing headsets and bottom brackets, amber ale for drivetrains, and a nice, hoppy and aromatic IPA for wheelbuilding. :DReplyDelete
Yummm, I like wheelbuilding....
Don't forget to add the sofa to your roadside repair kit.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 28, 2012 at 9:18 PM
650Bs have always struck me as pleasingly plump. But reclining on a sofa? Downright Rubenesque!ReplyDelete
Zin? With a tube change? What, were you raised in a barn? (I'm not even going to touch the sofa debacle).ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousDecember 28, 2012 at 11:09 PM
I don't know about most of you, but flats have never really been fun or festive while commuting. Though, I will admit that while touring they provide a nice break and a few unexpected memories.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 28, 2012 at 11:35 PM
All of your posts are so much fun to read, but this one "takes the cake". We have a lot of women riders in our club and this story hits home. I sent this blog to my many riding buddies including my wife and it hit home to everyone.Your writing is very special and I try to share it with all my friends.
Velouria, for the sake of disclosure so that we may all learn from your experience, what brand of tube suffered the split?ReplyDelete
I've used cheap QBP tubes that have been known to split - for me at the valve/tube juncture. A few riding buddies are leary of the cheap tubes and use Michelin, Conti or Schwalbe tubes and swear by them (or is it swear at them???).
You may note that inner tubes can take numerous patches and keep on going (5, 10 even 15). But the production quality factor seems to be a toss of the coin.Replies
It was a Specialized tube. They are high quality in our experience, so this is unusual. Hanging out with cycling friends and at bike shops, I have witnessed almost every brand of tube fail, usually at the seam. Sometimes overinflating the tire can be the cause.Delete
- AnonymousDecember 29, 2012 at 10:50 AM
Failure at the seam is entirely a production problem. Failure at the seam was simply unknown until recently. I suppose there is now a generation of cyclists who has never known anything else and accepts this state of affairs as normal.Delete
Heavier riders will have more trouble with seams.Very high pressure or using a narrow tube in a wide tire is a problem. Jacking the valve stem side to side when inflating with a hand pump will aggravate weak seams near the valve. In all cases the problem began when the tube was produced.
I had a tube this year that was split open near the valve new from the box. I had a whole batch of tubes that were more than an inch too long. Try stuffing an overly long tube under a tire bead at the side of the road. You will do very well to fit that in less than 30 minutes.
Some time or another you will run into a Goodyear, Dunlop, Michelin, Conti tube new in the box from an earlier era. Compare the rubber or butyl to a new tube. The new tubes are brittle and nonstretch.
I've heard the complaints that new tubes are "bad" from experienced cyclists but other than new-old-stock, is there a legitimate solution? It seems everyone lets a bad batch slip through every now and then.Delete
- AnonymousDecember 29, 2012 at 3:44 PM
Sorry MDI. NOS tubes are just for educational purposes. Not a solution, legitimate or otherwise.Delete
Only thing I know to do is to periodically complain to the store or the sales rep. Basically the buyers go to Interbike, fill their heads and eyes with high zoot bling, and tubes is done as an afterthought. Nothing matters but pricing and the ability to deliver. Every LBS knows about the problem.
It's not about bad batches. It's all tubes. They are brittle and poorly seamed. I've had marginally better luck w/ Euro tubes but no longer consider them reliable. I think of my tubes as the least dependable part on any of my bikes. If you know what a good tube looks like, feels like, you know there are none currently for sale.
Rubber is good stuff. It lasts. Collectors can still find prewar singletube tires that hold air and ride well. Good current production tires are very good indeed. I know of no historic clinchers as good as what I use everyday. Sewups are still quite good. There are good tubes in those sewups. The tubes in my good clincher tires suck.
I disagree that the problem was unheard of until recently. Back in the 70's and 80's I would get seam splits on tubes about as frequently as now. And there are tubes that seem to never fail (micehlins).Delete
IME the most frequent failure of cheap tubes like Specialized is the valves. The pin will bend, or won't open when pushed with my pump unless deflated to around 40 lbs. No big deal. If I'm pumping from 60 lbs to my usual 80 lbs, I just have to deflate to 40 first.
Changing on the wheel is fine if you know where the flat is. Thorn punctures are often quiet, slow, and hidden.
- AnonymousJanuary 2, 2013 at 6:17 PM
I've never had a tube split on me, and I use a mix of "quality" name brands and no-name cheapies. Maybe I'm just lucky: although my assertion of no split tubes will no doubt leave me with a double puncture on a busy motorway shoulder on the way home this afternoon...Delete
I love your blog but this entry is special. The thought that bikes are afraid of heights made me snort with laughter. Bad when eating breakfast.ReplyDelete
Thanks for bringing a bright spot into my life.
Amusing but what will you do if many miles from home at the moment of the next puncture?ReplyDelete
But wait, a business opportunity, mobile puncture repair service, trailer with sofa, tools and red wine, just a phone call away.
Ha! I'm now looking forward to my next flat, but will need to visit the liquor shop to select a suitable wine.ReplyDelete
Funny that many of my tube changes were done in the comfort of my home (often slow leaks). But I have had to do one in awkward places: the New Jersey approach to the GW bridge (a crime hot spot then) and 100 feet past the very annoying border patrol at Lubec, ME after a rather thorough search of all my panniers. Never had to do one in rain or snow. That would take me more than 5 minutes. And none of my bikes ever rested on a couch.ReplyDelete
Not gonna lie, I gasped in horror when I scrolled down an saw the picture of your bike on the couch. THAT'S WORSE THAN LETTING CHILDREN IN THE LIVING ROOM. (we weren't allowed in the living room as children; and yes, I'm a little scarred by that injustice)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 29, 2012 at 11:14 AM
Once stretched a Hetre should come off a rim very easily without any need for levers. Irrespective of hand strength. A very light rider using low pressures will not stretch a tire as quickly as a bigger rider. You could try blocking new tires at tandem pressure for a few weeks. Reduce pressure when riding if desired.ReplyDelete
Stretch is real and measurable. Put the vernier caliper over the tire when new. Check it a month later. Measure the tire at 30psi and again at 70psi. The casing grows and the bead grows.
Using showbike foil fenders on a utility bike means the utility bike has showbike problems and eats showbike time. My approach to working on foil fendered bikes is real simple. I won't. The owner can remove the fenders themselves if they want me to touch the bike.
Easily one of my favorite posts from you! Thanks for the delightfully silly read that makes the chore of changing a flat sound so romantic and lovely :)ReplyDelete
I have repaired many flats in my 26 years of cycling and it is only now, I realize I did not have the correct supplies. My usual repair kit is two tire tools (a.k.a. tire irons) and a Rema Tip Top touring patch kit. After reading your charming blog about repairing a flat, it became apparent, a glass or two of wine is a required accessory.ReplyDelete
Happy Holidays,
Still funny on the third read.ReplyDelete
This question is out of context, but the discussion seems to be here, so here goes: I'm starting to think seriously about having a custom frame built. I commute by bike every day on a late 90s Trek 520 with mustache bars, fenders, rack, and bottle generator/lights (except when it snows, for which I have a dedicated snow bike). I've toured on it, and I ride it on fire roads and easy single track.
What I don't like: small clearance resulting in slush/dirt/etc. getting jammed between front tire and fender; bottle generator rather than hub; too stiff and heavy frame for my (body) build (125 lbs, 54cm frame).
When I ride a pure road bike, I rediscover just how much faster I could be.
I'm not looking to replace the 520 as my commuter, as I like it's "unstealability." But I'm desiring a faster and lighter bike that would do well on road and easy dirt, that has some "spring" to it, and which I'd enjoy riding many miles at a fairly zippy pace.
So: In your experience, is a rando bike the way to go? Or would a relaxed (or not-so-relaxed?) road bike be better? What is the speed difference (for the same effort) of your Seven vs. the various rando bikes you've tested? For comparison, of your previous fleet, I guess the Sam would be the closest to the 520. Probably too vague to answer, or you've already answered this question before...Replies
Assuming you are addressing me, here is my current thinking:Delete
. The more bikes I try and the more riding I do in general, the more I realise that I do not like "relaxed roadbikes." To me, they just seem neither here nor there. I prefer to achieve comfort via nice tubing, wheels and tires, with the bike itself being made to go fast. That does not mean I must go fast, only that I can; that I am the limiting factor rather than the bike.
. On pavement, my Seven is significantly faster than any of the rando bikes I've tried, as was my Moser. They are just different animals in my opinion. If I know a ride will be all pavement, there is no way I'd choose anything other than a racing type bike, as long as that bike is comfortable.
. On dirt I find the rando bikes superior. Very possibly this is due to the 42mm tires. Roadbikes with narrow (<35mm in my book) tires will start to skip madly over rocks and ditches, and it freaks me out so much that I don't feel comfortable going at full speed. On 650Bx42mm, the same route is no problem.
. Almost equally nice on dirt I find cyclocross bikes that are "racy," light, and fit 700X35mm tires. The main difference between them and the low-trail randos is the handling. It is a matter of preference really.
. The main benefit I see for a bike like my former Sam, is stability + hauling capacity. It would make a great commuter, were I into diamond frame commuters, or a touring bike, were I into touring.
Hope this is helpful...
"Hope this is helpful..."Delete
It is, thanks.
- AnonymousDecember 29, 2012 at 9:22 PM
"To me, they just seem neither here nor there."Delete
"...I'd choose anything other than a racing type bike..."
Club riders often think like this. With all due respect, I consider the seven axiom S to be a relaxed fit leisure bike.
Seven also categorizes the axoim S as a heavy over-built (e.g. heavy) randonee-style bike:
I would also like to note that Frischknecht podiumed multiple times (including a 2 at worlds) on a flat bar "hybrid". The reason that UCI bans flat bars has more to do with tradition than real aero advantage (cf Tri bikes).
FWIW the Axiom S is also in their crit category. In other words, highly customisable.Delete
It is hard to generalise about these things. People can ride whatever they like.
You'd love the road test in the current issue of Bicycle Quarterly: it began as a comparison of two titanium road bikes, a Lynskey and a Seven Axiom SL. They then pitted the faster of the two against a steel 650b randonneur equipped with fenders, handlebar bag, lights and generator hub that was almost 10 lb. heavier. The steel randonneur performed better.Delete
Yes, I read that review in the Bicycle Quarterly. Don't know what to tell you, except that my experience is different from Jan's.Delete
While I very much enjoy BQ -- just signed up for another 3 years -- I have to say that many of Jan's tests seem to prove exactly that Jan and his friends like what they like. This is hyperbolic: I think he has done a great service in, for example, his tire tests and in his investigation of weight as it affects speed. And also, it is very hard to do scientific tests with such small samples and testers.Delete
I respect Jan's descriptions of his experiences, but honestly don't know what to make of the discrepancy between mine & his impressions. The ti vs rando article really brought this home more than anything I'd read in BQ previously. Been mulling over whether to write a response to that article.Delete
I haven't read the article yet, but I had heard about it, which is one reason that I was wondering about your experience. I can't quite believe the conclusion, but I'll have to read it to understand the details; their route could have a significant impact on the results---and maybe many long routes do favor rando bikes. In another area of my life, big wheel unicycles can cover large distances. People who ride both pure (direct drive) and geared (2-speed hub) report that over many miles, they end up the same, which also seems a bit counter-intuitive.Delete
Short route. Sprints and hill climbs on pavement. Differences they reported were tiny, but still. Some food for thought, for sure.Delete
- AnonymousDecember 31, 2012 at 12:19 AM
"...start to skip madly over rocks and ditches..." Are we on roads?Delete
My first mountain bike was a 1989 Gary Fisher HKII. Known earlier and later as the HooKooEeKoo. It came with Fisher Fattrax 26x1.9 tires that measured 42mm over the casing. A little more than that over the knobs, but knobs don't hold air and they got shaved pretty quick anyway. So it's a 559 and holds less air than 584 Hetres. And I weighed more than 50% more than V. The bike was a tank well over 30#. Always had a saddlebag of trail supplies. That bike did rocks and ditches. Didn't skip over them madly if you put the wheel where you wanted it. There were some 40mph singletrack descents that coulda been bad if the tires went mad. They never did.
If you need big cushy tires to go the places you want to go it's OK to use them. That's personal. Most of us or at least a lot of us are just fine, indeed very comfortable and secure, with a lot less tire. Those rando tires are supposed to keep it safe when it's been all night long on unfamiliar roads, maybe in the rain, maybe with a glimmering vintage Soubitez to show the road. There are circumstances where you could not have too much tire. If the bike is threatening to go out of control on ordinary roads and small adventures maybe the saddle should be lower.
"If you need big cushy tires to go the places you want to go it's OK to use them. That's personal ...a lot of us are just fine, indeed very comfortable and secure, with a lot less tire."Delete
Agreed 100%. My answer was personal, not general and certainly not prescriptive.
To be clear, I can ride and have ridden on dirt on tires as narrow as 23mm. But 650Bx42mm tires just feels so much better (to me) that I don't see any reason not to go that route. 700Cx35mm is nice also. Narrower than that starts to feel less nice. To each their own.
"So: In your experience, is a rando bike the way to go? Or would a relaxed (or not-so-relaxed?) road bike be better? What is the speed difference (for the same effort) of your Seven vs. the various rando bikes you've tested? For comparison, of your previous fleet, I guess the Sam would be the closest to the 520. Probably too vague to answer, or you've already answered this question before..."ReplyDelete
I can't speak of Seven, but I've commuted (15 miles 1 way) on two custom Rivendells, both converted to fixed gear drivetrains. I also owned, for about a year, a 1958 Herse randonneur. I must say that, as nice as the Herse was -- it fit me very well, and did so almost immediately, and it "encouraged" energetic riding despite its stout tubing -- I just prefer my higher trail Rivendells. Their fit and feel has become my benchmark. My only regret is that I didn't accept Grant's suggestion and have the seat tube made 72* instead of 73*. But with a long-setback post, they are fine.
When I ordered my 3 Riv customs I told them that I wanted to use them for fastish road riding with no need for fat tires. As it turns out, with normal reach calipers, I can squeeze in 34 mm tires and fenders if (1) the fender is the right shape and (2) I am careful about installation. I sold my initial Riv and now have a fixed commuter and a fixed gofast.
I also briefly owned a Sam Hillborne and I have to say that, compared to the Herse, the other Rivs, and to various other road bikes (including a very nice 1973 Motobecane Grand Record) it felt sluggish on pavement, much more like my Fargo with 35 mm Kojaks than like a nice road bike. Don't get me wrong, the Sam is a very nice bike for its purpose, but its purpose is as dirt+pavement all rounder, not a fast road bike.
Have (Deo gratias) just come into unexpected ownership of a nice blue Rambouillet frameset and I am eagerly collecting build parts (tubulars!). I think that a used Ram or the current Roadeo, from the Riv lineup, would be much more to your liking.
- AnonymousDecember 29, 2012 at 9:43 PM
I have never had a tube split on a seam in many years of riding and hundreds of flats. What is this a function of? Running high pressures, mounting issues, or maybe heavy braking on downhills.ReplyDelete
That was great.ReplyDelete
Tube splitting has been pretty rare in my experience. Most of the shops I've worked at have used cheap tubes from J&B or Action (mostly rebranded Kendas or similar) which are heavy but seem to hold up well enough. The splits have almost all been on lightweight tubes geared towards racing.ReplyDelete
Mostly we get pinch flats, a lot of punctures, valve damage and on one occasion, a bullet hole.
- AnonymousDecember 30, 2012 at 11:54 PM
This year I twice had the problem that carrying two spare tubes was not sufficient. Two spares and both defective as soon as I tried to pump them. New. Fresh. Boxed. Bad valves. Bad seams. Yes, there is a quality problem.ReplyDelete
The Big Dummy's not housebroken, so it just gets flipped upside down outdoors on some patio furniture. Had to swap a Big Apple for studs, was pleased to see that the fit was looser on Salsa Gordo than on Sun Rhyno Lite -- got the tire on barehanded, versus snapping tire levers with the Rhyno Lites.ReplyDelete
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Rising star: How a boutique biz went national
It's understandable if one man's business has him seeing stars: The posters he has been creating since 2000– featuring pictures of the night sky on a particular date were selling at a rate of nearly 100 a day over the holidays. And that number may rise: He's just signed an exclusive deal with Houghton Mifflin for rights to the book Find the Constellations, by H.A. Rey, illustrator of the Curious George series.
The man is Charlottesville's own Chris Vanden Wymelenberg. Just what is it about his Indigo Night posters that has big names like Marshall Field's and the Smithsonian Institution lining up to sell them?
At first glance, each image appears similar, with an indigo rectangle filled with stars and often the moon. But upon closer inspection, it's clear that no two are exactly alike: Not only are the stars always different, depending on the location and date, but each poster includes a custom message from the giver to the recipient along with an accurate astronomical description of how the stars appeared on the particular chosen night.
"Van," as friends call him, says that's the appeal. "There's a spiritual element," he says, "to connect with the night sky, the infinite, the beautiful."
Van's affinity for the sky at night goes back two decades to his time as a North Carolina-based yacht repairman and avid sailor studying celestial navigation. From that point on, he says, he was, well, starry-eyed.
When he and his "lifetime girlfriend," Michelle Cormier, a professional sailor and nurse, met seven years ago, the two decided to move north to Charlottesville to be closer to Cormier's family. But with no ocean nearby, maintaining a seaworthy vessel soon became burdensome. Van and Cormier sold their 31-foot sailboat four years ago to finance Indigo Night.
Though Van says reaction to his new business was immediately positive ("People were charmed," he says), explaining the concept could be difficult.
"There's no point of reference for this," he says.
That has dampened retail sales, he concedes, but he believes the descriptions offered in catalogs must be giving enough info to entice thousands of people to shell out the $49 for the 16" x 20" unframed poster. (A smaller version costs $10 less.)
Tampa, Florida, resident Jennifer Larson purchased an Indigo Night star map from the Marshall Field's catalog for her adopted daughter, born in China and abandoned by her mother the next day.
"I have often wondered about the first and last night that my daughter spent with her birth mother," wrote Larson in a letter to Indigo Night. "I imagined that they sat under the stars and hugged and cried... Then I saw your poster! I plan on using it as a tool to connect my daughter to her birth town and her birth mother."
In response to skeptics who might question the accuracy of the maps, Van says they've undergone some fairly intense scrutiny.
"It's not precise science," he says, "but it's science."
Charles Tolbert, an astronomy professor at UVA, calls the Indigo Night concept "very nice." While he objects to businesses that promise to name a star after a person ("meaningless," he says), he believes the Indigo Night service offers people a chance to "connect with the night sky." And he believes the off-the-shelf planetarium software used to create the posters is scientifically solid.
It's solid enough for endorsement by the Smithsonian, which tested the software for accuracy before agreeing to sell the maps through the Air and Space Museum gift shop.
Marshall Field's, a catalog owned by Target Corp. and distributed to millions of households, also thought the idea was a winner.
"Usually getting into a catalog takes six months," says Van. "We got in in one day."
That, he says, was a mixed blessing as orders increased exponentially almost immediately.
"We were in quite a panic the first year," he laughs.
With demand high, Van and Cormier added to the staff, bringing aboard graphic designers and writers. During holiday crunch time from November 1 to January 15, Indigo Night has six full-time employees. Come February, that number drops back to three. Each designer and writer, Van says, can produce about 30 star maps a day.
But productivity may soon have to rise when the new line of H.A. Rey-inspired children's posters and t-shirts becomes available this spring. In addition, each new Find the Constellations book sold will come with an Indigo Night insert, so the "potential is huge," says Van.
But although the couple is still shooting for the stars business-wise, their personal goal is decidedly more down to earth or perhaps out to sea: buying another boat.
"We're going to settle in here," says Van, "but we need to have sailing in our lives."
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Cook the Book: Tuna-Stuffed Hard-Boiled Eggs
In my mind deviled eggs have always been a distinctly American hors d'oeuvre. But after doing a bit of poking around, it seems as though these hard-boiled and stuffed eggs have been enjoyed for centuries and possibly date back to ancient Rome. The Book of Tapas by Simone and Inés Ortega has several different preparations of huevos rellenos, all of which make for an ideal predinner snack.
These Tuna-Stuffed Hard-Boiled Eggs particularly appealed to me since the filling of tuna, olives, red peppers, and mayo is pretty much identical to a tuna salad that I make at home on a regular basis. I followed the recipe but added an extra step to tone down the pungency of the onions. After chopping them I soaked them for about 10 minutes in cold water, which leaches out some of the sharpness that I was afraid would overpower the rest of the ingredients.
The eggs were just as enjoyable as I'd imagined that they would be with all of the great saltiness from the tuna and olives and a richness from the mayonnaise and yolks. In the egg-based tapas chapter Simone and Inés Ortega have all sort of wonderful ideas for stuffing hard boiled eggs—smoked salmon and salmon roe, a Russian salad of mayo, peas, carrots, and potatoes, and anchovies and watercress, certainly enough ideas to inspire cocktail hour spread of deviled eggs.
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Shell and halve the eggs lengthwise, then scoop out the yolks with a teaspoon, without piercing the whites. Cut a thin slice off the base of each egg white half so it stays upright. Finely chop the yolks and set aside.
Using a teaspoon, fill the egg whites with the tuna mixture, and garnish around the eggs with extra mayonnaise. Sprinkle the egg yolks over the eggs and chill in the refrigerator until ready to serve.
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Safety should be used near power lines
Power companies in the Susquehanna Valley are preparing for repairing power lines. Power officials are also stressing safety ahead of the storm.
Dozens of power trucks are poised for the storm in York County.
The Met-Ed vehicles comes from far and wide.
More than 2,000 extra workers were called in from Michigan, California and Canada.
"Bringing these crews in is just one more way to help us get the outages cleared up quicker if there are outages from this storm," said First Energy spokesperson Scott Surgeoner.
For the power companies, it's not as much of a question of if, but when the storm will cause outages.
PPL phoned customers Sunday to inform them that power could be out for a week in some areas.
PPL has brought crews from Kentucky to help with the storm cleanup.
"It's a tremendous asset. It's a great opportunity to restore customers as soon as we possibly can and as safely as we possibly can by supplementing our existing work crews," said PPL regional director John Levitinski.
Power company officials said safety for work crews will help them work as quickly as possible.
Customers should also be aware of dangerous situations.
Power safety tips:
- Never go near downed power lines and stay more than 30 feet away from one.
- Do not drive or walk over them.
- Stay in your car until help arrives.
"What we hope is our customers recognize that we are going to work as hard as we can, as quickly as we can to restore their service should we lose service," Surgeoner said.
Met-Ed officials said its crews cannot begin restoring power in earnest until the winds die down below 40 mph. Only then can crews get up high using bucket trucks.
The company has also secured the use of 10 helicopters. The helicopters will help them find damage and get crews out more quickly.


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Had we in the conservative world not made an uproar, I have no doubt but that the Obama speech, and the supporting teaching materials, would have encouraged children to come to the cult of Obama. Thanks to the uproar, the speech shows that the cult of Obama is pretty much comprised of one member — Obama himself.
You can read the speech here. My eyes rolled back into my head about 12 paragraphs in, after Obama's umteenth reference to himself. "I" this and "I" that. An enterprising Hot Air reader counted 55 self-references to Obama and only four to America. It a paralyzing speech made up of equal parts vanity and lecture.
When I was living in England, there was a running joke about Yorkshire codgers greeting every complaint about the hardships of modern life with a self-serving story beginning "When I were a lad…." Thus: "You call this snow? When I were a lad, it snowed like this every day, all summer long, and we had to walk through this wearing nothing but our swimsuits and snowshoes."
Obama has created his own "When I were a lad" speech. Unless his personal charm comes through in the videos (and some high schoolers with lingering affection for him may see it), most students will be twitching with the desperate desire either to run or to sleep.
We must be eternally vigilant, but I think we're safe this time.
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"Tom Sherbourne, released from the horrors of the First World War, is now a lighthouse keeper, cocooned on a remote Australian island with his young wife Izzy, who is content in everything but her failure to have a child.
One April morning a boat washes ashore carrying a dead man – and a crying baby. Safe from the real world, Tom and Izzy break the rules and follow their hearts.
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Last chance to see University choir before overseas tour
29 June 2012
An award-winning University of Sydney choir will hold a final concert this Sunday before embarking on an international tour where they will be performing in some of the world's most famous venues, including Westminster Abbey and at Notre Dame Cathedral.
Although it is known as the Sydney Conservatorium Chamber Choir, the 35 choir members include a mix of musicians and non-musicians from across the University of Sydney, including undergraduate students and postgraduates.
Just four of the choir members - who all need to pass an audition - are vocal students studying at the Conservatorium. Other choir members are majoring in instrument studies, or even studying in other faculties, including medicine and arts - there is even one chemistry student.
"We will be singing in Germany, at Westminster Abbey and at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris," says Simon Polson, the choir manager and a third year Bachelor of Musicology student. The choir will also travel to St Albans Cathedral, north of London.
They will be taking with them a repertoire of 30 choral works, including chant that dates back to the 1300s. They will also be performing contemporary works, including world premieres of two choral compositions by recent graduates from the Conservatorium, Huw Belling and Frederick Bayani-Mabalot.
The choir will be in safe hands with choir director Neil McEwan, says Polson: "He has an enormous amount of expertise and experience in the choral repertoire that we sing. He has also sung and studied in a number of the overseas venues in which we will be singing."
Jeremy Woodside, the choir's organist and a master's student at the Conservatorium, will have one of the most difficult jobs during the tour: before each performance he will have just one or two hours to practise on the instrument in each venue.
"Repertoire has been chosen from material included in concert programs from 2011 and 2012," says Polson. While the choristers normally rehearse for three hours for most of the year, the hours increase in the days leading up to concerts.
The choir's commitment and talent was rewarded earlier this month when it won the Open Choral and Chamber Choir events at the 2012 Sydney Eisteddfod.
This weekend's event, which will also double as a fundraising event for the tour, is the choir's final performance before heading overseas.
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Christie Announces Middle Class Tax Cut [AUDIO]
Governor Christie has been quiet in recent months on the idea of a tax cut in New Jersey but today he will announce plans for a new middle class tax cut.
Christie has proposed in the past a 10-percent income tax cut over three years, but a deal with Senate President Sweeney fell through last year. The proposal Christie will make today not only revives the tax cut, but also restores the earned income tax credit.
The Governor talked about the proposal with New Jersey 101.5's Jim Gearhart & Eric Scott.
The plan calls for increasing the state's earned income tax credit to 25 percent of the federal level from the current 20 percent, where it's been since Christie reduced it from 25 percent in 2010. But he also calls for implementing a bigger move aimed at the middle class and some higher earners.
At the end of a four-year phase-in, households earning up to $400,000 would receive an income tax credit equivalent to 10 percent of their property tax bill. The credits would be refundable and capped at $10,000.
Qualifying homeowners would get a $100 credit for the second half of 2013, then 4 percent of their property taxes next year, 8 percent in 2015 and 10 percent in 2016 and thereafter.
The governor also calls for gradually increasing the refund for renters — currently $50 — to $200 by 2015.
The conditional veto, which is essentially a call to action for lawmakers, does not lay the cost of the credit or what changes might be made to his budget proposal to accommodate it.
The nonpartisan Office of Legislative Services said this month that the state government could miss revenue estimates by $302 million in the budget year that ends June 30 and could be another $335 million short in the next fiscal year. The administration has said the state's finances are in better shape than that.
Last year, Christie struck his budget deal with state Sen. President Stephen Sweeney, a Democrat who is his partner on many major initiatives and his sparring partner on others. Last week, Sweeney said publicly that he was open to a tax cut in the coming year, though one was not in the budget proposal Christie has put forth.
Christie's new plan makes a few changes from the one he and Sweeney agreed to last year. For one, it would benefit higher-income households. Under last year's plan, only households making up to $250,000 would have been eligible for the credit for homeowners.
The other major difference is a "circuit-breaker" provision that lets the Legislature scrap the cuts if they're not affordable.
"This improves upon the bipartisan agreement we reached last year but was ultimately rejected by some legislators, who now have no reason to stand in the way of a responsible tax relief plan," the governor says in the conditional veto.
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Posted 03 November 2003 - 07:36 AM
I have no idea what "hunj" and "henge" mean.
Of course the Karahunj being discussed here is the one at Metsamor but one will also see that it is not unique, that rthere are other, if minor ones.
1. Karahunj, Mataghablur; A mountain in the Goris region, 1686 meters. A volcanic cone with smooth slopes and an almost spherical summit. Mostly used as pasture and grazing grounds.
2. Karahunj; Village in the Goris region at the convergence of Vararuk and Karahunj rivers.
3. Karahunj; A village of Artsakh in the Martuni region.
Is this an atttempt in Culture Murder?
Anchor stone? Anchor huh? This man is "at sea". He should be thrown to the sea with one of thhose stones around his neck.
How those qatsi lakotner can take an Arnenian story and end up ascribing it to some alien culture. It is sad but not nearly sad enough when we ourselves attempt to tie of our heritage to alien idiots the likes of Noah.
Rick Ney.
In five parts. Go to part 3 and see what those holes are.It seems some people are taking it more seriously than one would imagine. The place is turning to be a university of knowledge, if you will, on ancient science and more spcifically of ancient science and astronomy in Armenia.
It seems like excellence in astronomy did not beging with Victor Hambatsumian. BTW. Did you know that there is a galaxy named after the Armenian astronomer Markarian?
Posted 03 November 2003 - 10:09 PM
In the above post I said I had no idea what hengeor hunj meant.
I have no idea what "hunj" and "henge" mean.
Of course the Karahunj being discussed here is the one at
I should have read it furhter. Here it is, a segment of part 6 of the above site "astrology.com";
What's in a Name?
And then there is the name. For as long as anyone could remember, the site was called "Ghoshun Dash", a Turkish name meaning "Army Stone", probably because the complex looks like an army of soldiers when seen from a distance. Parsamian translated the name into Armenian, "Zorats Kar", but she couldn't help but notice that a nearby village and locality was called "Karahundj".
Parsamian first noted the 'coincidence' of the Karahundj with its translation into English, an Indo-European language like Armenian.
"The word 'Karahundj' is a complex word, made up of 'Kara' (from stone) and 'hundj'. 'hundj' is very close to 'henge.' So Kara-hundj translates into Stone-henge."
The tricky part is 'henge' and 'hundj'. There are no modern equivalents for these sounds in English or Armenian, both are ancient roots that have evolved into other words over time.
Parsamian adds, "The philologist Babkin Chukasian told me that in old Armenian the word 'hundj' may have been 'pundj' which means bouquet. Over time, we think they changed it to 'hundj' which is very close to the English 'henge'. Gerald Hawkins supposed that 'hundj' might be an old version of the word 'hung' or 'hang', which would make Stonehenge 'hanging stones."
Herouni thinks that "hundj" is a variant of the Armenian word for voice ('hunchuin'), and the name Karahundj means "Voice Stones" or "singing stones". He notes that at the March equinox, hundreds of people visit Stonehenge in England to listen to the stones, as the winds whistle through them. "Most people know England's Stonehenge, but there are others in England, Scotland, Ireland, even in Iceland and Brittany. One in the Hebrides is called 'Kalinish'. The first part 'Kali' is close to the Armenian 'Kara'. And 'nish' is a precursor of the Armenian 'n'shen' which translates into 'sign'. A town near another henge in England is named "Karnak", but in old English it was "Karnish," which is close to the Armenian for Stone Sign."
Posted 09 February 2004 - 01:00 PM
I think Nvard was the one who first brought this very interesting topic.
Posted 09 February 2004 - 01:38 PM
One of my fathers students has been living in that part of Armenia for many years and for 3 summers we have spend some time vacationing in Sisyan / goris
The way Aramayis has told me
It takes 7 stones to make a complete complexes, only 2 have holes on them on different time of year the light from the san will pass trough the hole and shine a light on one of the 7 stones, each stone has its mining - like ifteh light is on #1 stone its time to Horovel Arror if its on #2 its time to start planting trees if the light is on #6 its time to harvest grapes
This is the way I was told. And dont believe there is something extra ordinary, just Armenians doing there normal daily staff of inventing something
As for the starts or galaxies I was told that by a good friend that their are more Armenian named Galaxies and stars then any other .
Next time I find a star Im going to name it after you but what good will it do for me it will ignore me, will not even shine wan I look at it.
btw - the qarahunje vodka is the best -
Posted 09 February 2004 - 03:52 PM
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Posted 09 February 2004 - 06:52 PM
I have never been to Sisian, but I guess something is not right.
Steve, we all know that British Islands are(were) very special.
Posted 09 February 2004 - 07:37 PM
I have never been to Sisian, but I guess something is not right.
Steve, we all know that British Islands are(were) very special.
most al of them i soo are in circle or circle config,
most of standing up and some are laying dawn.
i remember one clos to Portaqart (20minut walk ) most all teh stons war stending up. and some carving's on the stones
Posted 11 February 2005 - 10:18 AM
The Lost World: New book places the birth of civilization in Carahunge
By Gayane Mkrtchyan
ArmeniaNow Reporter
A new book claims that Armenias Carahunge observatory is evidence of the worlds oldest civilization.
Scientist and radio physicist Paris Herouni argues in Armenians and Old Armenia that an advanced civilization existed in Armenia 7,500 years ago. Herouni, a graduate of Radiotechnical Department of Moscow Power Institute has 350 published scientic works, including monographs and 23 patents. Since 2000 he is a member of the group People to People Ambassador USA, which includes 30 top scientists of the world.
Herouni, 72, says that he was not attempting to gain fame or revolutionize history with his book, published in December 2004. Through scrupulous study, he says, he reached the conclusion that the stone circle at Carahunge is proof that Armenias civilization predates the Egyptians and Sumerians by 2,500 years.
There are magnificent buildings in the world the pyramids of Egypt, Stonehenge, wonderful temples in South American rainforests, which were created at least 6-15,000 years ago. Who are their authors? The world doesnt know, he says.
Scientists find that all of those are the result of a developed culture, but they dont know where that culture came from. This book gives an answer: Carahunge explains that 7,500 years ago Armenians possessed a stable and extensive knowledge. They knew that the Earth was round, knew its sizes. They knew that the Earth is rotating around its axis, as well as the laws of the movement of the cone-shaped axis, known as precession.
Every year since 1994 Herouni has organized scientific expeditions at his own expense to study Carahunge, which is situated near the town of Sisian, 200 kilometers south-east of Yerevan.
It is made up of hundreds of vertically standing stones of which 223 were numerated by Herounis scientific expedition. Of these, 84 stones have holes measuring 4-5 centimeters in diameter and prepared with care, pointing in different directions.
Carahunge consists of 80 stone telescopic tools, which have preserved their precision. Herouni says that one can use them for work even today.
By the precession laws of the Earths axis, using four telescopic methods, I calculated Carahunges age. It turned out to be 7,500 years old. This figure always terribly surprises everyone, because the most ancient civilization is believed by historians to have begun 5,000 years ago, and Carahunge had already a developed civilization some 2,500 years before that, he says.
After making his research and calculations, in 1999 the scientist got in touch with Prof. G. S. Hawkins in Washington, who is regarded as the worlds foremost specialist on stone monuments. Hawkins has been involved in studies of Stonehenge for all his life.
Herouni says that he was particularly interested in Hawkins opinion and soon he got the professors conclusion: I admire the precise calculations you have made. Hawkins acknowledges that Carahunge is 7,500 years old.
I am most impressed with the careful work you have done, and hope that the result will ultimately get recorded in literature, Hawkins wrote in his letter.
Carahunge is 3,500 years older than Englands Stonehenge and 3,000 years older than the Egyptian pyramids. The total area of the observatory is 7 hectares. According to the scientists findings, a temple consisting of 40 stones built in honor of the Armenians main God, Ari, meaning the Sun, is situated in the central part of Carahunge. Besides the temple, it had a large and developed observatory, and also a university that makes up the temples wings.
Herouni shows photographs shot from a helicopter and says: This is the central circle with 40 stones, which are without holes, these are the southern and northern wings. Soon this territory will be fenced and will be turned into a museum. Carahunge is situated at a height of nearly 1,750 meters, in a plane area.
The stones of Carahunge are made of basalt. Each of them weighs up to 10 tons. Those stones without holes make up one tool together with those having holes in them.
Over millenniums the stones became worn and grown over with thick layers of moss. However, Herouni says that the holes have been rather well preserved since they were cleanly processed once. The holes are telescopic tools that look at different points on the horizon.
Showing the photographs, Herouni explains in detail: Often you look through holes at some point of the zenith and see nothing, but in the past according to the law of precession, a star rose or passed through there. Knowing the laws of precession, I set forth formulas in my book and knowing todays positions of the stars, their coordinates, I count back and see that once a star appeared or went down from that same place. It is those calculations that allow me to decide the age.
He says that the brightest star of the constellation of the Swan, Alfa, whose name is Denema, passed through Carahunges zenith 7,630 years ago. Carahunges scientists had enough time both to build tools and work with them. And to achieve all that, they had already gone the way of sufficient development. According to Herouni, when Armenia embraced Christianity, Carahunge had already operated for 5,800 years.
The observatorys scientists knew the planets of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn, and Jupiter. They knew about the solar system 6,000 years before Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler and Newton. Carahunge proves that 7,500 years ago mathematics, technologies, a form of written language were developed in Armenia, as well as a state with a thousand-year-long history, with laws and order, says Herouni.
Carahunge literally means sounding stones. The scientist is convinced that they had a lot to say to people and continue to say today. Herouni explains that the ch phoneme gradually changed into j. He also says that there is a similarity in the names of the observatories of Stonehenge in England and Calenish in Scotland.
Herouni himself named the observatory Carahunge in 1994. Carahunge village is situated 30 kilometers from the observatory near the town of Goris. There are two Carahunge villages also in Artsakh and Herouni has started to research the origin of the villages names.
I understood that when Armenia embraced Christianity, when temples were being ruined, monuments were being destroyed and books were being burned, people barely had time to run away and so they founded villages with similar names in remote places, he says.
In Carahunge many stones are broken, uprooted. There are also many standing stones, some of the holes of which are broken, there are half-finished tools. It can be felt that they suddenly stopped the work.
It is mentioned in the book that besides Carahunge Armenians also had standing stones near the large village of Kaghzvan situated in Turkey to the west of Mount Ararat, again with holes, which bore pre-Christian crosses on them. Herouni got the photographs of the stones from his Dutch friends, who had climbed Mount Ararat.
The book Armenians and Old Armenia consists of three parts. The first is Carahunge, the second is devoted to the analysis of the Armenian language, and the third part is the history of Armenia beginning from the 40,000th year up to the adoption of Christianity. The book is published in 2,000 copies, most of which are sent abroad. Herouni finds that restoring Armenian history means restoring the authenticity of the worlds history.
Paris Herouni has quite serious scientific achievements in the main scientific directions in the spheres of radio-physics, radio-engineering, radio-astronomy. Herounis scientific trends are recognized and are being applied in developed countries.
Posted 20 May 2005 - 08:58 AM
Hunj comes from the Armenian word ''hnchel'' which means singing. Kara - hunj means singing stones.
Posted 20 May 2005 - 10:48 AM
"hnchel" in Armenian is written with letter "ch"
"hunj" is ritten with Armenian "j"
these words might sound similar but they don't have a commot root.
"hunj" is "henge"
Posted 20 May 2005 - 04:35 PM
Edited by Zartonk, 20 May 2005 - 07:11 PM.
Posted 21 May 2005 - 03:05 AM
''There are many Stonehenges, including others in England, Scotland, Ireland and Iceland. The one in Ireland is called "Kalinish", which is very close to the Armenian "Stone Sign". A town near another in England is named "Karnak", but in old English it was "Karnish," also meaning Stone Sign. The word Singing Stones makes sense, since at each site is in an open field, and the wind whistles through the stones. At Englands Stonehenge, groups gather at the March Solstice to listen.''
Source: http://www.tacentral...ry_ancient.html
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Posted 22 August 2005 - 07:05 AM
Please click the URL above the picture of Kurtan to see an expanded version..
No, no I don't have rocks in my head
Posted 17 June 2007 - 07:56 PM
"hnchel" in Armenian is written with letter "ch"
"hunj" is ritten with Armenian "j"
these words might sound similar but they don't have a commot root.
"hunj" is "henge"
That has already been answered by Mr. Heruni in his book as the article mentions. Corruptions of words happen over thousands of years. The entire problem with Eastern and Western Armenian is due to such phonetic corruptions.
Posted 17 June 2007 - 07:59 PM
The Lost World: New book places the birth of civilization in Carahunge
By Gayane Mkrtchyan
ArmeniaNow Reporter
Zo, have you read this book? It's got some interesting stuff. It would have helped if he collaborated with Jahukian, Davtyan, and Gavoukjian (who was alive when this project began.)
Karen Tokhatyan is continuing the rock carving research with continuous enthusiasm. We should be hearing from him soon.
Posted 21 June 2007 - 06:46 AM
Look what is happening at Karahunj...eerrr Stonehenge.
Edited by Arpa, 21 June 2007 - 06:48 AM.
Posted 14 September 2007 - 11:59 AM
Don't get me wrong. I have utmost respect towards Ejmiatsin, Geghart, Tatev, Khor Virap et al. But all those take us back to only 1700 years, while Garni et al take us even further back, to corroborate those of us that our culture goes back 4-5 thousand years.
Issue #37 (257), September 14, 2007
(September 14, 2007)
Digging History: Second pagan temple (slowly) unveiled in Artashat
By Arpi Harutyunyan
ArmeniaNow reporter
Armenian archeologists have discovered the second pagan temple in Armenia after Garni.
The temple found 5.5 meters under ground not far from the modern town of Artashat about 30 kilometers to the south-east of Yerevan was devoted to Mihr the God of the Sun in Armenian mythology. The temple the symbol of sun-worship was built near Artashat which maintained its status the longest among the capitals of Armenia - from the 2nd century B.C. to the 5th century A.D.
By discovering the remains of the temple we found out that the temple was even more gorgeous and beautiful than Garni. That means we have found a big historical wealth that needs being kept by all means, says Zhores Khachatryan, 72 year old coordinator of the archeological expedition team.
The expedition comprised of 15 workers of the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia had begun the excavations of the territory of capital Artashat in the 1970s. Before that large-scale excavations in the territories bordering Turkey were prohibited by Soviet authorities.
The findings reveal that Artshat occupied about 400 hectares of territory and had a population in 150,000 in its heyday. The fortification walls of the city stretched for more than 10,000 meters; 4,500 of them were unearthed by the scientists in 1970-80s.
The town founded on 12 hills in the neighborhood of Khor Virap built on the place of the temple devoted to the goddess of maternity and fertility Anahit used to be a big center of commerce, which is witnessed by more than 1,000 types of the found seals.
All the studies show Artashat was built in accord with a regular and a planned design project. However, unfortunately, we cannot research all the hills: the heart of Artashat was built on the marble ore that has been blown up for many times and has equaled that part [of the city] to ground, says archeologist Khachatryan with regret, who has been in the science for more than 60 years spending the greater part of the year on archeological sites. Khachatryan has also taken part in the excavations in Saint Petersburg (then, Leningrad), Crimea and Anapa. As he says he has passed the best Russian school.
The archeological team has also managed to find the public bath-house of Artshat with its 7 rooms 75 square meters each.
There is a mosaic floor and a tiny brook, bases and pools with beautiful ornaments have been found. Also a toilet with sewage system with more than 2,000 years of history, something you cant find even in modern-day villages, was found, laughs the archeologist.
The archeological works and others like it, were interrupted by the Karabakh movement in 1988 and the crisis in the later years. The archeological life in the newly independent Armenia gained new momentum in the early 2000s.
An expedition team was formed again in 2003. However, it had only 5 members instead of the former 15 because of insufficient [financial] means to have a larger group.
We knew from the very beginning there was a temple that was destroyed during the reign of King Tiridates in the 4th century, in times Christianity was spread. But we didnt know where exactly it was and what was its size, says Khachatryan.
Its already five years the archeological team with small financial means excavates the old Artashat. The latest studies concluded: the temple devoted to god Mihr was built on a hill on the left bank of Arax River. The hill was surrounded by walls where the limestone holy place was erected. The excavations disclosed also the 23 staircases leading to the temple.
1,625,000 drams (about $4,800) were allotted by the state budget for this year studies. Khachatryan says the money will hardly suffice to excavate a mausoleum, when they must excavate a whole city.
The archeologist is proud of the work of his team, but picks on the work of community heads as a result of which lands of Artashat that bear one of the most important pages of Armenias history are sold today.
They say exactly 6 hectares are sold, but what we see is a different size about 60 hectares. Sooner or later they will build castles wrecking our past to the ground, Khachatryan says with indignation hoping to save at least the remaining territories.
The archeologists think they may find at the end of the excavations that the temple may be reconstructed; however, they are unable to find whether it is possible to find financing for it.
Edited by Arpa, 16 September 2007 - 06:32 PM.
Posted 06 October 2007 - 10:35 AM
Artashat is said to have been chosen and developed on the advice of Hannibal:
"It is related that Hannibal, the Carthaginian, after the defeat of Antiochus III by the Romans, coming to Artaxias, king of Armenia, pointed out to him many other matters to his advantage, and observing the great natural capacities and the pleasantness of the site, then lying unoccupied and neglected, drew a model of a city for it, and bringing Artaxias thither, showed it to him and encouraged him to build. At which the king being pleased, and desiring him to oversee the work, erected a large and stately city, which was called after his own name, and made metropolis of Armenia." (Plutarch's Life of Lucullus)
Tigranes II was defeated by Lucius Lucullus in 68 BC at the Battle of Artashat, and the city remained a hotly contested military target for the next two centuries. Artashat was occupied by Syrian legions under the Roman general Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo in AD 58 as part of the short-lived first conquest of Armenia, and destroyed in AD 163 when Statius Priscus reconquered Armenia.
I'm sure Arthashat is one of the spots on the map of current borders of Armenia with the richest archeological material.
This could be a nice project for diaspora volunteers that may help the excavation work under professional guidence.
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