Thanks all, built a pi last night. Did what I needed – usb disk sharing music from back in the day via plexamp to bluetooth speakers.

Quite enjoyed digging into my brain from back in the day when I fettled more with ‘nix stuff.

Cheers

@jwray – what are you running it from?

Another missing favourites. Are they gone again?

The generation of the mignons makes a difference too. I replaced an older mignon with a Eureka Mignon Specialita (from the more silent range). The older versions were much noisier and clumped when down at fine grinds. They have much improved. Both are good though if you don’t want a massive grinder.

Yes, doesn’t flip out. The contact is solid against the piston.

My mt7s two finger levers did that out of the box. You could always push the levers away, but they were fine when hammering down trails. They did spring back, if they don’t it seems wrong.

In classic stw style, I swapped them to hc3 levers, which made great brakes fantastic imo. Pity they didn’t come as standard. Depends how OCD you are about brakes.

Does anyone put their dirty bikes in a nice camper? I like the idea of @zilog6128 and the modular system. Over the years a few mates have had them, but mostly due to cost they understandably didn’t want anything muddy or sharp rattling around inside.

The ideal seems a van plus camper. Two vans, um.

Hired a couple, really nice. Best camper is a mate’s borrowed 😉

thanks

or a rancilio silvia, if you can get a cheap one. i had a classic for years, lots of mods, great little machine.

OT: nice to see STW back to normal. Next we’ll have questions on log fires, audi, wine clubs and sudocrem removal from cats.

I’m a big fan of using narrow tessa tape, wrapped three times. Once around left edge, once around right edge and last in the middle. the combined force seems great

don’t suppose you know if the brown or black are better for summer use?

cut down salt intake?

it’s great stuff, think the imagery is bought from digital globe?

what’s the thoughts behind “some unusual elements… 130mm dropout rear end …with a 17mm thru-axle and 25mm location spacers, designed to maximise stiffness.”

somet goes wrong, it’s non standard, no? are the other standards not good enough? previous rear hub posts

Anyone?

called insurer. no increase they (DL) claim as it was a no faulter. we’ll see at renewal time :-(

the other people’s insurer are doing at the running about for us.

the thickest esi grips?

@ mikey74 many years ago (ahem) I did the same before studying earth sciences at Leeds. I would say online is the way to go initially. It’s easier to find a web page, blog, tutorial etc. If you don’t like it, you can move on. A lot of the books are quite generic and not very UK based.

For speed try a starter like arcgis.com (you can sign up for free) and youtube. The concepts are transferable. At Uni, you’ll find a mix of open-source and commercial mostly Esri and Pitney Bowes. I’ve used all of the above and more over the years. Keep on learning, it’s a great line of work. It’s really mixed…generalist roles, programming, analysis. In true singletrackworld style, people have shared their opinions, form your own and buy a log burner after Uni.

It was a company van doing work on my street. They will claim through their insurers.

I’d agree they ride really well. I’ve been riding steep natural trails and the handling is excellent.

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@xcjoe what downtube protector is that?

I rode one the other day, defo not flexi.

where in bristol you based?

high protein meat-shakes. A blended shake made of meat…plus some veg.

Thanks, dropped it off to EB. Quite handy as I wanted to look at some cartels.

Thanks for all your replies. Didn’t realise it was so contentious.

@csb yoga belt = bs7?

Thanks guys. I don’t suppose you could send me photo of what the inside edge and sill looks like after replacement?

cheers have emailed yt

backing away from the evil.

it’s hard to judge, mtbr doesn’t through them in good light.I seem to remember a privateer from EWS had a shocking time with them.

@ChrisHeath nice to see the Egypt and barley mow get a mention.

enduro got back to me, for future reference it was blue out.

black side slightly thicker inner ring, blue slightly thinner.

sounds like blue out?

good spot, they are max. Does it matter which way they go?

I’ve failed to find the exact bearings by matching the part numbers. SKF and NSK don’t seem to have them.

Will call canyon in the morning.

had a new internals replacement for a few months now. much better than the first generation. It has the blue washer.

Tried the end caps same issue. Defo gx cassette and xd hub ( el guapo)

mixed answers there. more air vs warranty job.

warranty, is that via a dealer? can tftuned do it under warranty, or does it need to go back via a shop?

it’s over a year old