Tell him to give 2×2 a ring. They do Land Rover (Decent quality £300 to £600 family bikes) and Roux (£450 to £1400 road bikes) as well as Bickerton and montague folding bikes. If he’s aiming at the Raleigh/DB side of things they’re well worth a look.

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@LoCo – have one going through the Fishers’ warranty setup right now. OEM Reba fitted to a Whyte. Not seen it before either, but now there’s two!

He said he wants every school to be above average.

Yup.

A blind bearing puller makes all the difference – you don’t need the spesh one, but spending 30 quid on one will save a MASSIVE amount of ball ache.

The bolts don’t mind which end you stick the hex key in, just make sure you’re turning it the right way.

almost forgot.

You can’t push the bearings through – there’s a lip and a washer in between them.

The plastic thingys are already fitted on the back when the bike is in the box. The front caliper isn’t, and most mechs don’t put the plastic things on when fitting it.

you wont be able to tether on payg on three

you can turn the phone into a wireless hotspot though, then pick up the wireless on the tablet/laptop.

The £15 unlimited data phone tether option is also available on PAYG on three. The Sims are free, too.

and am having real trouble getting the front gears to shift smoothly or consistantly

focused on that, as the indexing had been covered, more or less

Is the BB axle the right length? Normally 122.5 if it’s a 3 ring riveted tourney jobber. The other thing would be the front mech position. Cheaper rings are a lot more sensitive to crap positioning than the posher ones.

Turning left on red lights would be a start

1) Halfords/Boardman deliver frames in the same way that most manufacturers do with paint filling a previously stamped frame number

2) One insurance company says they need full frame number.

3) Halfords validate a partial frame number and give a voucher.

4) insurance company decide they don’t need a full frame number.

5) Halfords are crap.

?

6) Profit!

Nexus 4 all day long. It’ll be £260 by the time you get a bumper and postage but well worth it. 8gb hd ain’t great,leaves you with about 5gb to play with out of the box, but everything gets uploaded to box and drive and google music streams my Itunes library via 3g. I’m on 3 payg and it’s £15 a month with unlimited data, so that helps.

uneven piston movement and slightly sticky seals, or your qr is loose.

I think the problem is that the NHS can’t just buy a load of sugar pills and shovel them out to the homeopathy fans stickered as whatever ‘proper’ pill they think they need. They’d have to buy the ‘real’ pills from the manufacturers which would cost a load more.

Are you sure you’ve got the cable routed to the mech correctly? If it’s routed under the BB, it needs to go around the cam before you bolt it in place.

Not sure if it’s concept stores only, or elite stores too. The idea is, you walk in with your old lid, but fabby S3/Prevail and leave your old lid to be disposed of. The helmet stock is dispatched to dealers as a discounted bundle, so the lids are all brand new from Spesh and there’s no sending it off faffery like with the crash replacement.

Tl:Dr
Ask your local dealer, if they’re not doing it, your local concept store will be.

1st June is the official launch. It’s Prevail, S3 and S3 Ladies, most stores are getting a bundle of different sizes and colours, with the emphasis on medium and large.

We had somebody take a test ride on a Brompton – we were charging full price for the bike on a card and then refunding the charge when the bike was brought back. Chap goes out on his test ride, never saw him again.

Spesh dealer

We stayed in the St Giles, which is just off Tottenham court road. Nice enough room and right near the tube stop

Hate regrets more than apologies

and his mate was doing 100mph in a FORKLIFT?!?!

The repair problems I hate are the ones I can’t replicate – “it makes a funny creaking noise when I go uphill on wet days” – that kind of thing.

My favorite 😕

“usually starts after 5 or 6 miles of hard pedalling around Weston…you’ll have to do that to test it”

or

“I think my speedo is coming up slow:- can you ride alongside me so I can compare speedos?”

And the Op…..

Majorly crap LBS. Letting a bike out with a loose bar/stem/levers (not clear from the post) is unforgivable. Possible they don’t have a torque wrench and were scared of crushing the bars, although the matchmaker torx clamp jobbies are absolute shit.
They should’ve phoned about the BB, although I would steer clear of any homemade spacers the customer offered – who would be at fault if the collapsed/broke/exploded? I’ll get the proper WheelsMFG ones fanks.

Dremel – If he went at the frame without asking he’s a bloody idiot

No gear cable – just bloody weird

We get the “I’m an engineer/astrophysicist/architect(!)” a lot. It’ll get you nowhere. Not out of spite, but I’ve seen a lot of engineers who’ve tried to tighten a headset without undoing the stem bolts…

LBS spanner wiggler for 12 years and counting FWIW

Driving up to Alton Towers (from Bristol) one summer, pull into a services about halfway there. Waiting in the car for my Mrs, out she comes, chatting to my sister! Sister was on her way up to Glasgow, from south Wales..

make sure you’ve wrapped the cable around the pulley if the routing goes under the bb

Dark Island reserve

Dark Ale, 3 months aged in whisky casks. sup from a small port glass, gorgeous stuff.

nipples should be silver. If they’re any other colour it means they’re not brass, and are wrong

Ashley cole, y’mean.

Eden Hazard. knobber

It’s just a theory

Lots of people confuse ‘theory’ with ‘hypothesis’

The brake job sounds dear, although £15-£20 per end for brake pads is normal in actual real life shops. Just a thought, he could’ve been over quoting, because he didn’t want to/couldn’t do the job, and hoping an expensive quote would send the bloke elsewhere

stick a steel washer between the bolt washer and the caliper, then nip up the bolts alternately whilst holding the caliper in place. The steel washer stops the bolt washer from turning on the caliper and moving it as you tighten.

If that’s the Gloucester road one, I recovered my pinched kona from there. They had a nice DMR in at the time, too

just had that. Seemed to be a BT advert

If it’s your big toe, get to A+E/walk(heh) in centre. Broke my big toe and was in plaster upto my knee for 4 weeks, as it is important for balance and walking and stuff. Other toe, tape it to the bigger one next to it and prepare to hurt for a week or two. Ibuprofen helps, but see the doc if starts going cold or funny colours that’s not bruising

For the comments about suspension parts and 1 year this is a frame suspension parts are the shock and fork

Spesh count chain, seatstays and linkage as suspension parts, so it’s not a lifetime warranty on these parts. If there is a known issue however, they will normally sortit out even out of normal warranty..

P.s

If anyone has a 2012 camber/stumpy with the 142 rear axle, get your dealer to phone apesh about your ‘noisy freehub that keeps skipping’…thank me later!

Spesh Nimbus Armadillo, 4k miles in and 2 punctures ain’t bad.

“well now you’ve got Norfolk’s maddest man!”

or

“No way, you big spastic, you’re a mentalist!”

and 1200 others

at a guess, I’d say the expander is working loose. Either the whole thing , or if it’s like the one Spesh use, the hollow bolt that you screw the topcap bolt into and work loose.

Leon Knight. World class knobber.

I’ve seen a few of that era go like that, allez, sirrus, sequoia. Can’t see warranty being a problem, proof of purchase aside; they don’t have many frames left though – you might have a bit of a wait.

The ‘crash replacement’ policy is a shorthand way of saying ‘if it’s fecked and not covered by warranty’ policy. Once had a chap who backed his car over his E5 Aerotec S-works and had an S-Works SL-3 Tarmac as a replacement for £1100.

Spesh are awesome

Edit: Don’t ride it.