I suspect I’m not filing both sets of teeth evenly because I’m right handed and one side is cutting better than the other.

That is the commonly held view, but I have heard that you’d have to be quite a way out (like 10 degrees), and consistency so, from one side to the other to make it wander.

Is there a technique to sharpening a chain to keep it even ?

Maybe have it reground, so it’s nominally ‘perfect’, and try filing again?

Popped my left elbow twice (fractured joint as well first time). The first time, it was nearly a year before I was comfortable going full speed off-road for 2+ hours at a go. Second time was less complicated, but goog’s 6-12 weeks was about right.

I’ve got to be somewhere important in 2 weeks time and I need full use of my limbs!!

A simple “no” will suffice here……

In the good old days I’d have done it myself, but Mrs Feet frowns upon me doing that sort of thing. Really it should be a Gas Safe registered chap(ess) doing it. Mrs Feet would only blame me if the house blew up!

it is a fair point – you will get a commissioning certificate, so if there is a leak and the house blows up she can chew someone else’s ear about it rather than yours!!

You’re not supposed to, but it’s possible to DIY that fairly easily….

I was going to say that as well (assuming it is a direct swap/the bayonet (sic) doesn’t need moving on the supply pipe), but my flame proof suit isn’t to hand! 😆

Unfortunately not going this time, though do have a load of stuff to shift…

Price – I dunno, £15/£20 posted, depending on what the actual postage turns out to be. I could firm up on this if that’s in your price range. EMail me, gshort AT eatec DOT co DOT uk and I’ll get some photos to you.

If the levers do turn up (and I have my fingers crossed for you) will you please put a new thread up on the forum with pics?

Yes, will do – if they turn out to be smoke-and-mirrors then I have a ‘Plan B’, but that will involve getting hold of the standard 11-speed shifter, which will be equally as rare as hens teeth 🙄 This was supposed to be my winter bike – for this winter, not next FFS!!

JRA’s price for a full wheel with the Alfine 11-speed hub seems to be not much more than the cost of a hub…

I have the hub (in the drilling and colour I want – they had neither), I have the matching rim in the colour I want, the drop bar levers are (alledgedly – see other thread for potential EPIC FAIL content) on their way…. the joint kit is – literally – the last thing I need to get the beast up and running…..

Mister P – understood.

May well look to Europe then if the other leads don’t go anywhere……

Mister P – <cough> would it, er, be possible for Madison to supply directly? </cough>

Good calls – JRA won’t sell the joints on their own as they only have enough to cover the hubs they have in stock, which is fair enough I suppose.

Any others? 😉

So, thanks to Stoner (doffs cap in your direction sir) and SJS, I now have a silver, 32hole, hub sat on my desk. Woo, and indeed, Hoo….

…. however, they didn’t have the CJ-S700 cassette joint kit in stock and it’s obviously 1600g of uselessness without it. I have checked the usual suspects with no joy so I humbly ask for you help again in finding one of these out there in retail land…..

Got some 700c P2’s as well kicking about in the shed if you’re interested. 1.125″/~220mm steerer. Paint showing signs of use, but would price to reflect this if you can make use of them…..

I use two sets – some cheapo thick neoprene ones which are fine for cold days where they are thick enough to keep the cold out and will keep my feet warm in the event of unexpected rain and a pair of Pro H2O Endure’s for when it’s defo going to rain and I want to try and keep my feet dry. The Pro’s are really nice, thin, warm, reflective and will keep the rain out for ~45 mins of my hour commute even in the worst conditions. They are pricey and toe studs are a no-no….

Sounds like the condensate pipe. If it’s the condensate running back inside the house then collect it in the first instance and solve the problem, so it’s routed outside as it’s mildly corrosive. Could also be rain from outside running back along the pipe if it’s near-horizontal.

True enough…. if push comes to shove then a trip to Bridgwater is only 45 mins down the M5.

Ooooo – SJS for the win I think…. though I appear to be paying a 10% premium for silver. Ho hum.

Yes, retail hubs WERE on the on-one site…. but they don’t appear to be there any more….. 😥

Thanks Al – I will investigate that.

Any others??

Not this model, but every HP printer I’ve used gets the same generic XP64 driver from the HP site. Works with most apps fine, but is flakey printing from less mainstream software. HP seem keen to ignore problems with the generic driver on the grounds that XP is effectively a legacy system already, so there is little point putting development effort into it.

If it’s free-splitting wood, like ash, a 4 tonne electric one will be OK. If it’s knotty then it’ll struggle. Check the shape of the splitting wedge as well. As a general rule high power machines with a wide wedge are best as smaller tend to use use a thin wedge which have a nasty habit of getting the log stuck on (same logic as a spitting maul vs a felling axe). If you have a chainsaw to deal with the knotty bits then a smallish electric one will deal with most of your splitting.

Electric ones tend to have a twin-button start to stop accidental operation. If you are doing lots, this can be back breaking as you’re forever bending over loading/unloading the logs and starting/holding the buttons. Vertical spitters are much better in this respect but are major money….. Best solution I’ve found is a hydraulic tractor mounted splitter, 4ft lengths at a time and all the power you need 😉

Edit – I drifted slightly – in conclusion a maul will be quicker….

What they all said…..

True, but it’s paypal and I’ve had success in recovering the cash for ‘goods not as described’ or never turning up in the past…. plus I realy, really, really want to believe they are real, and everything on the internet is 100% factual, right 😉

Sod it – he’s just dropped the price by £60, so I think I’ll get a pair…… 🙂

Ah, I must of missed the sneaky edit and therefore the intended irony….

…..nothing to see here…. move along….. 8)

It has a time-machine ?

They’re touring again – minus Phil….. I think that is the important fact that some people may have missed here 😉

One other thing to bear in mind is that for welded structures (that’s bike frames – and let’s stay with steel for the moment), whilst the plain material of the tubes might have an endurance limit, the welds themselves do not (for design purposes) due to a) the stress concentraions caused by the geometry fo the weld and b) the local metalurgy (for S-N curves of various classes of welds, choose your weapon – BS7608 or the current EC3,Part 1-8). Hence, unless something has gone very wrong in the design (other stress raisers are present – holes, fillets etc), fatigue cracks will inititate at the weld and then either propogate through the crack or the parent material, depeding on the loading on the joint and how the deveopment of the crack affects that load path.

Fatigue of composite material is one of my pet subjects – whilst it is true that, until recently, fatigue was not considered too much of an issue if there was sufficient static strength built into the design, there is now alot of work going into understanding the fatigue mechanisms in composites and coming up with design tools to truly optimise composite structres for fatigue life.

WRT bike frames – is the EN test not a half-way-house between proof/fatigue loading (i.e. cyclical loads applied to the frame, but the loads are relatively high and relatively constant – IIRC the DIN test is like this as well)? Brant/Cy etc will obv be in a better position to answer this…

Some of it is public domain, some isn’t…. alot of the interesting stuff probably isn’t – they are very good at harvesting/protecting any IP from any work done for them. If you want to know anything specific email me and I’ll see if I can talk about it

EDIT: gshort AT eatec DOT co DOT uk

Having been on the inside and outside of the A380 program, the answer, as you may expect is ‘…it depends…’ I don’t think fatigue testing was done on the full size wing (1.5 x proof load only IIRC), but material/coupon/scale testing that was done in the pyramid of data leading up to the full scale structures was impressive/thorough.

My only comment is that 2 weeks will be nowhere near enough…… HTH

Agree, it’s a fair price and exactly what I was hoping would happen. However, I think the 8-speed ones look a little ‘industrial’, hence I’d like to see a pic first 😉

A bit of googling suggests there are American sites “selling” them as well – though none with stock

Surely wouldn’t be hard to adapt something like a 105 pair of units or even Tiagra. Then they could offer the hub with a selection of flat bar or drop bar shifter.

I looked at this, and don’t think it’s realistic in a simple bodge – none of the current Shimano levers have 11 speed and the cable pull is very different. Modding a Campag 11-speed lever might be an option, but they are v expensive and come in pairs, whereas you only need a brake lever for the LHS.

Still waiting for the hub to turn up (come on Wiggle…..), but if the Ebay page is to believed the next batch of levers won’t appear til May

Will they not wear when cornering as well (possible more when cornering due to scrubbing accross the tarmac), therefore retaining a rounded profile!

Not in my experience!!!! Just trundling along the road you spend almost all the time upright, so this is where the wear occured. They hot only wore, but chunked quite badly. This was a few years ago, but the cost, faff, (lack of) performance and weight put me off quite quickly. As I said above, if you can get a Marathon+S for ~£25, why bother??

Lots of toe in and

…. make sure the trailing edge of the pad touches the rim first.

My daughter went to nursery from 9 months – loves it, doesn’t understand why she can’t go and play with her friends everyday.

Hear what you’re saying about the quality of staff, but they’re all on just-above-minimum wage, but will have to have relevant NVQ’s at least. You will always get some good and some disinterested staff…..

Have a look around, ask questions about activities, numbers in each room, access to pre-schools/arrangements for places with local primaries, how do they record child development etc etc. If you don’t have a good feeling, walk away. The one we went for in the end wasn’t the most expensive, but had the best feeling and staff overall.

There was a big-old thread about this a while back, though I can’t find it at the moment…

You’ve found a retail Alfine 11 hub?!?!?!?! Where, man…. WHERE!!!!!!

Forget it – they’ll wear such that the section of the tyre squares which makes cornering more and more interesting.

Schwalbe Marathon+ or Durano+ for-the-puncture-proof-win.

Worst troll in quite a while……. 8)

C- : must try harder…..

Your thoughts?

Cut it off – Option 1 or 2 is no longer possible. Cut to the end credits – all live happily ever after.

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