Volume of oil that comes out may well be a lot less than what went in: some of it will be stuck to insides of the fork and some will have been used up keeping yout dust seals nice.

If its a case of only 5mls difference then i would go with the larger volume. And use a syringe to really soak the foam rings in oil after you put them back in: nice to think of a wee bit more oil sloshing around keeping your bushings and dust seals healthy. It’s only for lubrication in the lowers, however the volume on the right upper leg (damping) IS critical.

Anyone know what proportion of kids still do 9+ gcse’s and 3 or 4 full fat A-levels? And whether the stats include people retaking just one or 2 subjects and not doing a lot else that year? I am sure if i had done fewer i could have got ‘better’ grades!

At work (children’s mental health) I have encountered many cases where pupils felt pressurised to drop gcse’s following illness/hospitalisation, sometimes for their own benefit by having something realistic to focus on rather than being swamped with stuff they couldn’t possibly have had time to learn, but our own hospital school would frequently ‘wonder out loud’ what the failing child was going to do for the schools stats. 😕

LeeW – Member
Defence R&D, very busy and have been for ages.

Every bombing sortie over Libya is about my ward’s entire operating budget for the year, so I am sure we will be doing far more with far less soon enough. 🙁 Don’t get me started on my stealth pay cuts and freeze on training….

Skyline-GTR – Member

They don’t make SLX in IT 70 Italian thread, that’s a road standard!

Indeed they don’t. But in the original post states slx cranks and shimano bb (didn’t say which one). So I raised it early in case he was mistakenly using a roadie bb and about to kill his bb threads with it. An unscrupulous ebay/forum seller could have supplied a visually very similar roadie bb instead, or he could have bought the bb separately and just though ‘ah, HT2, that’ll do”. I bet a few folk here have mistakenly battled with fitting roadie bb’s to their mountain bikes. One prolific user of the classifieds/stranger to the other 2 forums here sold a few as ‘HT2’ as a ‘bargain’ recently, neglected to mention on a mountainbike forum that they were ultegra…

Having bought the whole lot from Merlin though (mentioned this a few posts in) it is certain that even if its oem it will have the right BB. I expect that with new correct BB, the problem is with the bb shell/threads or even the fitting of the previous BB.

By the way your user name hints at unsavoury passtimes sir.

😆

Rumour has it that Oldgit is actually a 22 year old lass, who just likes old gits.

And this isn’t really my name, I am just addicted to the horses.

of course, hifi.

I forgot to say I don’t get directional cables.

I used to get lager but i am not so sure about that now either.

OCB ftw.

😯

If it doesn’t go in nicely then stop! A new bb in a nicely threaded frame should go on by hand for the first few turns at least. If you bought it from merlin its certainly the right thread, but maybe your old bb was cross threaded and mashed up the threads a bit. I would be asking a good bike shop to have a look and see if the bottom bracket shell needs chasing through/retapping.

You need to check if your new BB is normal or italian thread. (was the crankset a real bargain?) If not italian thread (rarer and unlikely) it will be fine. I wouldn’t worry about the width of the whole bottom bracket or whether the threaded bits on the bb cups are longer (they probably are a bit), you just need to screw it in the right way with the plastic sleeve in, and with the correct number of spacers for the width of your bottom bracket shell. (explained in the instructions) And use loooads of grease everywhere.

yes if the damper is the right one, ie with a spring in it. AFAIK proper aftermarket rockshox forks are either supplied with a spring-return damper and a poploc or pushloc, or they have a ‘normal’ damper with a normal fork top lever. It is rather expensive to change: you have to buy a new compression damper and a poploc lever, so you are right to be making sure at the point of purchase!

Aren’t you coming then juan?

Ton will win then ‘travelled furthest to get here’ prize if you don’t.

(Ton, make sure you remind Nick of this get someone else to ask Nick about this so he doesn’t fob you off with some underpants or something.)

Probably missed something here about the distinction between reputable businesses with paying car parks and ‘hired in’ parking enforcers or clampers.

Most but not all of our city centre car parks are city council run, but what about NCP etc car parks? Or airport ones? Hospitals? Are those ones ‘private’ parking tickets too?

Guy Smiley! 😀

Roy that runs the South West Cyclocross series and Elite Velo training is like a younger less eyebrowed version of him. Ace bloke. Probably even better than the puppet one.

The only way to get around that is to not vote.

…we missed a huge opportunity voting ‘no’ to AV imo. Blue and red parties would have had to work much harder for their votes, (but not as hard as purple!), and there were and of course still are other colour parties available too.

Do get:
football (the game)
Rugby fans behaving nicely.

Don’t get:
rugby (the game)
football fans behaving badly.

Do get:
fuzzy logic where you have no other option
and also proper evidence based decisions
French wierdo cinema

don’t get:
any form of gambling, lotteries etc.
homeopathy 😉
conservatism

If you are local and you want to have a proper look, I think cogs bikes in Plymouth city centre sell kcnc, or at least they did when i bought some on ebay and found out they were so local to me. All the bits i’ve encountered so far seem well made and good VFM.

Already?!

Was it new, and don’t SC warranty their bearings?

Dunc, yes, mine turn green but only after 10ish hours if empty. Both chargers (slightly different versions to each other but i suspect the same gubbins inside) do the same. But I have realised they are not the same model as yours. (multi-size version with sprung sliding ‘negative’ terminal). My batteries are the blue protected 2500ma ones too. So I’ll stop muddying the waters now 😳

Absolutely, we will pee anywhere! A journey on the Route Nationale is just not complete without seeing someone taking a leak on the roadside.

I remember a right hoo-ha when one of our lads (inpatient childrens mental health) took a leak behind the shed in the garden (so no-one saw his winkle) because he would have had to wait 5 minutes for a pee. If i wasn’t at work being all professional like, I may well have done the same.

Edukator – Member

Jeeez, best not visit the UK again. Having stated on STW a few months back that only a revolution would change anything in the UK I can expect to be arrested on surfacing from the tunnel and sent down for four years.

The way i read that it sounded like you were just going to walk through. Apparently getting on the train with a ticket and ID/passport helps. 😀

About 10 hours from empty here, always have done and i get my expected 3 hours from each charged cell afterwards (confirmed they still do this on three painfully slow laps at 24/12 the other week). …so i guess its just a slow trickle charge not anything wrong with charger or batteries. They have been doing alright for a couple of years. (I have two chargers and six cells and its the same with either charger). They were so cheap i figured it was worth it being able to do four batteries in one day by investing about four quid in a second charger.

[edit] oh but i too went for protected cells for dischgarge protection and not catching on fire if i forget to switch charger off! 😯

Meg’s pregnant. There is a little Bullheart on the way.

Someone called him ‘Bullhorn’ on the classifieds earlier. Yikes!

I bet its like birthday party vs weddings, the price of the space is more if its ‘artist space’ whereas an office or workshop with a bit of natural light is much less sexy/costly. A friend has just started renting a tiny unit for storage and making jewellery, (not sure if natural light is as important for jewellery) round the back of some crappy old workshops/shops, nothing like £7 per square foot. More like £1 per square foot per month!

I love cheese and onion seabrooks fwiw, but not familiar with their wierder flavours. Are they really made with lard? 😯

Bobby’s onion rings are dirty but soooooo moreish.

Not too happy with food miles on crisps (it is surely no accident that KP and Walkers are located almost right in the centre of Engerland) cos you need a chuffin great lorry to move really not that much of them about. The walkers man also visits my local shop about 4 times a week for a shop that only ever has max 5 varieties of walkers products available, I dread to think how much driving he does for a few dozen boxes a day.

These are made just a few miles away from us though.

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm………….

That’s properly amazing. I can’t imagine how you and mrs Bullheart must be feeling right now. I too am now a little misty eyed for someone I have never met. Just wow, and warmest wishes Mark. 😀

I commute and ride lanes at night with one of those dealextreme (18650 battery/q5 emitter i think) torches, supposedly 240 lumens (not far off mrs j’s mark 3 joystick anyway) and absolutely fine if not rooty or technical. I have ridden a lot worse than that on a single one of those. Obviously you need a bar mount, charger and batteries, but all in it was about £30, plus you get a spare battery (sold in pairs) so six hours out the house instead of three.

BBB +1 Not that I’m excited about it or anything.

British Mountain Bike Series always seems to have kids races in the morning on a much shorter and easier course. Don’t know about the other big enduros but the Bontrager 24:12 has a mini-enduro for kids on a short course a couple of hours before the big race starts 24:12 aqnd BMBS ones for under 12 years or so were also free of charge as far as I remember. Cyclo-cross for kids also good as it’s cheap, the course isn’t usually dangerous and you get to go before all the grownups churn the course into horribleness.

Reason I love Plymouth #366: police stopped potential riot starting here last week, intelligence gathered from social media indicated that it would all start with our large-ish branch of Poundland. That is honestly true!

don’t know about the sping for elixir pads, but I’ve had a couple of sets for formula oro and they were fine. From the backing plate (thin like ‘proper’ formula pads) and the way the pad material bulges through the back slightly (a good thing i think), it would seem that they are not made on the same production line as the budget ssc etc ones.

never! (2 ‘old maxle’ pikes and a maxle lite reba team). But i am way less gnar than you 😆 you’d have thought that because they screw in clocwise from the right hand side that if there was any resistance in knackered or severely rattled hub bearings, it would tighten it up not loosen it…

…oh and that time when you could change your ‘screen name’ to whoever and whatever you liked….

That puts you up there with Rudeboy/Rudiboy and Tandemjeremy/Randomjeremy/the bloke who registered as Tandemjeremy after the hack that wasn’t the ‘real’ Tandemjeremy. Well done Rob 😀

Alexsimon, if you borrow a bike with a maverick, see if you can get some from someon same weight as you: they are very fiddle-with-able and have different negative spring and damping oil weights for different size folk, just chainging air pressure will not make it feel as good as it could be for you if it was set up for someone significantly heavier or lighter than you.

SC32’s often come up pretty cheap on classifieds. Mrs j has one and she loves them.

I’m afraid wankybars are only available in the new OOS (Over-Over-Size) 35.0mm ‘standard’, 880mm width cut-down-able to a svelte 750mm, and in anodised cerise, topaz or campylobacter yello-brown colorways.

I have same name as a very famous and rather handsome young surfer. (I once had a facebook friend request from a young and sadly mistaken American surf-betty.) Also the keyboard player from ‘Grand Drive’, and the legendary motormouthed horse racing man on BBC. One of the first people I ever looked after as a young care assistant was a semi-reformed gambling addict: he didn’t find my name at all funny.

“I run wankybars/11speed/wonder-grips etc on my bike.”

No.

You can run round the park in your tracksuit.
You can run a pub, a shop, a network of secret agents, or even a computer program/application.

You have wankybars/11speed/wonder-grips on your bike, but rest easy, your bike is therefore better than everyone else’s.

Seems to be the standard NHS toater in my umpteen wards experience. The timer is a bit unreliable and you have to remember to put timer on a bit less for each subsequent round when you are making toast for 30! You need to watch it if you are at all fussy about the brown-ness of your toast, which put me off as I like to put the toaster on and have a wander.

One of my pet hate mis-spendings of public money. They don’t get fixed by hospitals so much as the internal marketisation nhs trusts means it is often cheaper to buy a new one than to pay full rrp and then some for the spares, and pay estates department to fix it. And lord knows how much a fire callout costs: seen a good couple of dozen unnecessary fire alarms at work from dualit toasters over my 13 NHS years, which at our local general hospital was 3 appliances and a ladder platform thingy every time!

They are pretty to look at and easy to keep clean and shiny though.

Mate’s hustler had long lasting bearings, but when they did go they were really hard to get out. The excellent mechanic at an excellent LBS charged him £20 or so labour but said it would have been waaaaaaaay more if he actually charged him properly for how long it took. 😯

Single pivots often much easier to get bearings in and out of, particularly if pinch bolts involved.

Hecklers rule BTW. As does the Morewood Shova.

I cut and pasted the email in your profile Blower. I’ll try it again in case my email is being daft.

As long as the total of your basket is over £75, you put it in the box at the end and it knocks a tenner off. I’d have thought you’d need a different code every time you want a discount (actually just read the post above yours, maybe not), so if you had enough codes and you spaced your stuff into separate purchases of >£75 i don’t see why you couldn’t get more than one discount.