Placed an order on an in stock crank on sunday night – not despatched until the following saturday. 🙄

Eve

Pretty name, not pretentious, don’t hear it very often.

Could also pair it up with a nice middle name

@ IHN – thanks for the info re road/mtb
send me details/pics of the levers you have when you get a moment.

mailboxDOThuntersplaceATyahooDOTcoDOTuk

I have noticed there are 2 types of bb7 available – road and mtb.

Is the difference just in the levers supplied or is it more than that?

Seems like i might have to start looking for a set of bb7’s then.

For those that mentioned them – Rim brakes are definitely out as my wheels don’t have a braking surface.

Thanks for the replies so far – all very helpful

I find it a bit rude that someone could think my whole belief system is so meaningless that it could be changed by knocking on my door.

By the way – my wife believes in god and goes to church regularly – i dont. She says i will find out one day – i say so will she.

Each to his or her own – if people want to believe the big book of fairy stories – that’s up to them. Just please don’t try to push it on me.

I had some tyres that i had the same problem with.

I found that the parts of the tyre that appear to be sitting lower hadn’t quite sat in the rim properly.
They were sitting a little low.

I just pumped the tyres up a little harder than i would normally and then ( with the wheel facing me) gently rolled that part of the tyre backwards ie: as if i was trying to push it off the rim – the tyre then gently popped onto the right part of the rim.

Never had any problem with it after that.

Hope that helps.

The wheels on the bus go round and round –
my 4 year olds sings it constantly and its now embedded in my brain – i was even whistling it at work the other day 🙁

Thanks for the replies chaps

Going to leave them for the moment –

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Thats what i thought as there are no flats on the boss.

They don’t really have to come off – just think they look a bit unsightly

We seem to have gone from the terrible two’s to the FURIOUS FOURS 😯

Sorry – i know that’s not really any help

Watches are another interest of mine – especially vintage

I have a small collection of omegas along with a few other bits and bobs and would always recommend anybody looking for a watch to consider vintage.

Some of mine

1967 Omega Speedmaster 321

1969 Omega Speedmaster MKII

1971 Omega Speedmaster MKII racing dial

My everyday watch is this Dugena Caribbean 200 – not sure of the date on this one but somewhere around the late sixties –

None of us know what’s around the corner.

Good luck and keep positive man

Thanks for that thisnotaspoon

Thanks for the replies.

Just been doing a bit of googling and came across another lava dome that the guy describes as 2005 with sliding dropouts..

Wonder if it is an import – certainly not many around

This is the pic i found on retrobike – frame seems exactly the same.

I used to own a cafe which i sold in 1998 – we had 3 dualits

I liberated one of the dualit toasters when i sold up and it is still in our kitchen today. Its probably about 15 years old now and i have only replaced one of the elements – about 6 years ago.

Any excuse to post a picture

Black and silver with Brown seat and grips – gold bb cups

Excuse gear cable – this was a not quite finished build photo

Now fitted with polished xt cranks and syncross pedals.

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Cheers for all the replies on this.

Missed out on the one in the classifieds unfortunately
But plenty of food for thought.

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Aren’t stif in harrogate?

http://www.stif.co.uk/

I was quite nervous about posting this as i thought it would be ripped apart. 🙂

Thank you all very much for your kind words

As far as the final spend goes – the wife thinks its a great bike for £200
In non wifey terms it was probably £500 ish 😆

Still got to get some new pedals (wellgo b54 i think) and a chain yet but hoping to be out next weekend

Thanks again chaps

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Ok – Cheers chaps

Thats put my mind at rest

Thanks again for the replies

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Thanks for the replies – much appreciated.

Has anyone ever had any problems with the tyres not sitting properly on a flow rim or worse still, coming off.

I only ask because the wall is really shallow and it just got me thinking.

I am in the process of building a bike up after a few years off.

Odered some bits from crc on monday and i have just been emailed (thursday) to let me know it has been despatched. 🙄

Ordered a seatpost off an ebay seller yesterday (absolute cycles) and it was with me today 🙂

The speed of the crc website is a joke – taking up to 1 min to load pages.
Will get the rest of my bits elsewhere.

By the way i am new here – sorry for my first post being a whine 😆

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