Hi all.
I think getting the archive up and also looking at the video clip will give
everyone a good idea of what we're discussing.
I would suggest that to stop the bike it was called gloving the wheel.
To clean tires we called it wiping or fingering your tire(s).
It's all semantics and that was the Midwest.
Your locale may vary on phrase, but easily understood by all.
If anyone would like to ask any further Q's after all the posts and viewing
the archive, please let us know and those of us with this specific been
there, done that will be happy to pass more info along.
Often we would clean a riders tire next to us if we saw stuff sticking in
strip before punctured thru.
When litely done on a guy's rear tire often he never knew.
One way to thin skin for safecracking dexterity and sensitivity touch.
Ted Ernst
Palos Verdes Estates
CA USA
> Matthew Bowne said: "...As for the glove thang perhaps Ted Ernst will
> chime in and teach us ... what to do with our brakeless track bikes?... I
> just GOTTA learn to do it..."
>
> Ted Ernst discussed gloving the wheel on CR in the past. Search the
> invaluable CR Archives for (typed exactly as follows with quotes)
>
> "ernst" and "glove"
>
> at http://search.bikelist.org/
> first for your Sort
> ..........
> Peter Brueggeman
> La Jolla California USA
> 4peebee(at)peterbrueggeman.com