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happyslug

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4. As to the SKS Chainguard, it is the second one I have purchased.
Wed Nov 18, 2015, 10:50 PM
Nov 2015

I have had a SKS Chain Guard on my Cannondale for about five years, it has worked out while I do notice LESS grease on my trouser legs (Actually NO Grease, but I am trying to be conservative in my assessment). I had the same problem with that one, I ended up taking to my bike shop to install and thus what I know what he will charge (he may charge more, but anything less then $50 is cheaper then me buying the equipment to do so).

I am sorry about using the term "Conservative" in the above paragraph, but I am using it on a very narrow meaning, that meaning being one of saying on the careful side of change.

I have had people asked me where I obtain the Chainguard and I tell them mail order BUT I had to get a bike shop to install it. I recommend to them to ask about them at their bike store and how much it will cost them to have one installed. I should have followed my own advice.

Side Note: Conservative traditionally has been the Edmund Burke type conservative, someone who accepts Change when it is needed, but oppose change just to have a change (if you can prove a change is needed, Conservatives will supported it, but if you can not show that a change is needed, Conservatives will oppose the change).

Today's GOP is NOT Conservative, I question even if Reagan was "Conservative' but compared to today's GOP he was a Conservative Reagan actually funded AIDS research when such research was opposed by the Far Right). The best way to describe today's GOP is Reactionary, a term first used in references to Bourbon Kings of France AFTER Napoleon (i.e. 1815 till 1848).

A Reactionary is someone who supports a system where people wanted to return to an era that never was. The Reactionaries of 1815-1848 wanted France to return to the 1780s, but without returning to the Church its power to protect the peasants, without returning to the peasants the rights the peasants had in the 1780 (including a stronger say in local politics), maintaining the Districts of France, instead of returning to the Provinces of France (this difference relates to how in the 1700s parts of France had lower Taxes then other parts, do to the provinces being viewed as Independent of the Central Government of France, which the Districts, Created during the Revolution, being creation of the Central Government, tools of the Central Government).

Notice how things that harmed the lower classes since 1789, were NOT to be changed after 1815, but things that benefited that class had to be reversed. This is typical Reactionary, they want to return to a period that never was, the changes that benefited them are to be kept, but the changes that harmed them are to be reversed WITHOUT considering how those things worked together in the past (One example of this was the weakening of the Church, the Church in France had long acted as a brake to the extremes of the King and the Nobles, this check was abolished for all practical purposes during the Revolution, but was replaced by giving the lower classes a greater say in both local and national government. The Reactionaries of the 1815-1848 period did NOT want to return any power to the Church, but wanted to take away the power given to the lower classes during the revolution, thus "Returning' to a time period that never was).

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