Three of us got rained on riding round Edge Hill Warks.
I got very wet because I fell in a stream.
Classic legs going really well but skill very limited.

I have used the plastic Bontrager rim strips with great success on non TLR rims.
They are shaped in profile to lock in the bead as well as seal the spoke holes.
I use their valves with them too.
However – easiest assembly ever were the Stans ArchEX with just SS yellow tape on. Almost like they were designed for it……

Bloke in the office did a page of everyone in there & their double.
I came out as Sam the Eagle (Muppets). It’ll be the heavy mono-brow & frowning demeanour, I suspect.
Barney Rubble was the absolute spit!

Hello from the For sale section.
Your wifes bike.
Can you reply, please?
Cheers.

Can you get a nut on the inside of the lamp body?
You might need to shape it to the curvature of the inside of the body & take the top off the nut to avoid a clash with the innereds.
If you go the glue route then I recommend liquid metal. Had some success with that.

Good luck.

As a kid I remember my dad having a handfull of these or something like.
I seem to remember him saying they were industrial – rolling in a drum with stuff to clean it???
I’m 50 too so its the duffer leading the……other old duffer, I am afraid.

Good luck with your quest!

Ahhh, yes.
As you rotate the little lever the tapered seal covers or uncovers the port. I see that now!
Thank you very much.
I should be able to work this out, now.

50 here. Kinesis HT.
2007 Meta stripped frame on the wall gathering dust after I used its bits for the K. after 2 years.
I remember listening to old boys saying they didn’t feel 50 or whatever and thinking “Yeah, right – Bravado BS”
I don’t feel 50………..

Another vote for the TLD XC.
Just got the lad some for £12 off the ‘bay.

I have used Bonti rim strips on various wheels including Bontis. I have had varying ease/difficulty seating the tyres – mostly OK with a compressor and a good resounding ping as the bead goes home.
No burping and good resistance as you try to break the bead when changing tyres.
My latest wheels are Arch EX. Yellow tape and a tubeless valve.
Only had one set of tyres on them so far – Bonti XR4 & MudX – but they went up with a track pump SO easily and seated themselves. Very light.

I would say that the amount of sealant is down to the type you use and the porosity of the tyres you have. Not the rim.

I didn’t get on with the Bonti stuff and use Joe’s.

We are in a static in Quantock Orchard park.
Really nice site with a short ride up Triscombe onto the ridge.
No bike riding dogs but the do like a ride in my trailer when they get tired.

Thanks for that Mr Cheese, I will look into that.

It was a bit of a tuning thing to do on Metas with Marz forks(07).
Take the spring out & put more air in to compensate.
I did it. It wasn’t detrimental but didn’t do owt either.

AVG. We had MSE & it didn’t stop a costly virus a couple of months back.
Bloke who fixed it put AVG on. He rates it highly & had nothing to gain. He seemed to know what he was on about.

Joe’s no flats over here. Would recommend.
Tried Stan’s & Bontrager. not so keen on these – Balling and poor low temp performance, iirc.

Hammer it is then.

The Chillblast suff looks very good to my untutored eye!

Thanks mate. A mine of info.
We have a much better idea of how to waist our monnies now!

Coopers (ATR) on my Disco 1.
Wearing well, good grip.
Mostly road work.

I’ve been commuting for the last 12 yrs on a Sprint RS.
Short, long, tour. 50+ to the gallon, 220 on a tank full.
It does it all.
It still does with nearly 90k on the clock.
I think they are quite good.

Cov City beating Spurs. FA Cup final 1987.
That’ll do.

Its been a while since I have had to have the AA out but I have always been impressed. The blokes have always been up for the challenge of getting me going again with a bit of skill & bodgery.

In a broken car with my mate who called out the RAC after I had explained to them that the car was repairable (Gear change ball-joint popped off).
RAC recovery low-loader turned up with no intention of attempting the fix. Not so good.

Jkomo
You could be my brother! (The cleverer one, at that)

The original was styled and engineered by the good lads & lasses at Rover (Canley in Coventry).
When BMW split they hung on to it.
We could all see it was a winner.
They left Rover with Rover 75……Which was nice…….
And to be fair they also left LR L322 RangeRover which WAS nice.

+1 for Uno.

CX500 Eurosport HAHA!
When I sold it I had to take it to the bloke.
I hadn’t ridden it for a month or so having got a CB700n Nighthawk to replace it.
Christ the old CX was “hinged” in the middle just like they said. Really felt it after the bike change( & the 700 was no handler!!)

You can buy the bearings for them quite cheaply and press them in.
I have done this but the repaired wheel is still in my spares box because I am still using the Shimano wheel that I bodged onto the mech 2 months ago.

Land Rover Discovery.

Biased because I work there, but I do love them.

I think it is the main pivot bolt. I can’t remember if it has a nut on it and that is why you can turn it without un-doing/tightening.
I have had some luck with sticky levers by slackening this bolt, filling it full of gt80 and working the levers like Billy-O then emptying the gt80 out.
I then tightened the bolt up but could not get much torque on it as it span. It hasn’t fallen apart yet though.
I took some photos of the shifter’s innereds a while back, If I can find them I will send them to you. let you know what you are in for.
Easy to get the indicator reading wrongly when you have the top off one of these babies but you can fiddle them back in to shape.
Keep the gt80 away from the window if you can.

I have some of that seam grip stuff and will take it with me.
Re taping would be better I suspect.

I think the Duck tape would not flex very well – but granted, a lot better than the brittle old shite that is on there at the mo.

You can make a kind of tap out of an old bolt of the correct thread or an old BB cup by sawing it across the threads. This gives it flutes and so somewhere for the paint to go.

My two-pen’oth…

I cleaned an aluminium component up once using steel wire-wool and the corrosion was horrific afterwards. The steel particals got into the alum and the elements did the rest.

Any history of cleaning the underside of the caliper with wire-wool or a wire brush?

I rode SPDs for years on the road then off.
I prefer flats now and am convinced this is a good move for me since my mate snapped his lower leg in a mild off when he did not un-clip.
I don’t think you need super shoes for it either. I use TNF Hedgehogs and only get loose on the pedals when I’m knackered. Its a practice/skill thing(I have a skill?).
PSA Go Outdoors have some good slim sealed Outland pedals for £18 or so.(Site shows £22 or £30 so I might have just struck lucky last week)

We are a family of 5. When the kids & their bikes were little we used a Maxxraxx which is very good. you would get 4 big bikes on fine, 5 requires moving the bars and removing some pedals.
I have gone for a Pendle 6 bike trailer off the ‘bay.
Trouble with a standard trailer is that with bikes being such awkward shapes they will take up loads of space and damage each other.

LandyZone is a good forum for finding stuff out like this.

Just bought a Panasonic Plasma and it is really impressive out of the box (THX setting).
Don’t get sucked into “its brighter – it must be better”
When we stood in the shop having a demo the chap put it to THX setting after we had been watching it in some other setting. It looked really dim! After about 2 minutes of chatting I looked at the picture and thought how good it was – this is the setting I will start with although there is a massive amount of adjustment for me to bu99er it up with.

I have just bodged a Shimano bottom jockey onto the bottom of my X9.
Intending to get something more appropriate but these things sometimes become permanent.
The original had a poor ball race in and the cage had broken up. I would have looked after it better if I had known its construction but I thought it was just that multi-holed spigot like X7.

I use a Park one with Muck-off in. Works a treat.
I rotate two chains so leave one in a jam-jar with White spirit in. The dirt off the chains drops to the bottom of the jar so you can drain off & re-use the cleanish white spirit over and over again.

Sprint RS over here. Been commuting on it for 12 years.
80k
55mpg
scary fast.
Runs very hot?? Gets hot stuck in traffic,fan comes on, temp drops, fan goes off, repeat until you are moving again. A bit like almost anything else out there.
I think its quite good.
Same family as the Daytona(Which I have always liked)but sat up fractionally.

It isn’t something silly like you need a 27mm seat tube is it?
Home made reamer out of a correct size seatpost with 4 slots cut up it(burrs removed) is my favourite.
The flapper wheel will take off material from places that are already to size as well as the under-size areas.