Whilst it was available when i worked in a uniform in our 2500-staffed local hospital, I don't think I ever heard of anyone outside of A&E/theatres (numerous sets of scrubs 'on tap' there, understandably!) taking them up on laundering our uniforms. Withn the turnover/reliability of the laundry I simply wasn't supplied with enough sets to have been able to turn up for work five shifts a week and get into clean uniform: I washed my three sets twice a week at home as did all my colleagues.

[edit] it does boil my pee when i see someone in a sister's uniform in sainsbury's at 3.45pm though. [edit]

So new baby and new bike in same week?

that's how it works in my house too! 🙂
Happy ss/crossing!

Zoofighter not getting no leechy drafters on his commute, yesterday:

Pretty sure the wheelpro book says you really shouldn't build a mistmatch rim hole/spoke count. Will be hilarious when you try and true them for a start! Spoke tensions all over the place.

More interprofessional nastiniess than intellectual but:

-How many cardiothoracic surgeons does it take to change a lightbulb?
-One, he stands on a chair holding the lightbulb and waits for the ward to revolve around him.

-How many psychologists does it take to change a lightbulb?
-Answer is irrelevant unless the lightbulb wants to change.

My favourite one on here so far is the sartre one. 🙂

On GXP cranks, the crank bolt is meant to tighten the LH crank up (bastid tight to keep it from undoing) on the spacer only (the spindle is 'stepped' for this) and the drive side is therefore floating (ie it doesn't 'preload' against anything). Sounds like you somehow have too much width across the total width of the bb shell/spacer/bb cups/little gxp insert, hence the drive side crank 'binding' against the drive side bearing.
I remember my gxp bb's only coming with 2 spacers for 68mm bb shell- I wonder if they are set up for the possibility of 73mm plus chaingide/e-type derailleur as shimano allows with 3 spacers? I would try removing the one spacer you ave and reassemble, see what the chainline and gap between the RH crank and bb cup/bearing looks like. (it should be very close indeed but as i mentioned ablove not actually pressed in against it). My, what a lot of brackets. Happy spannering.

oh, or your LH side bearing is seized, so little torque means the crank spins inside the sized inner race, and more torque means it fastens on to the spacer properly but seized bearing prevents it from spinning freely. If it still does this with no spacers then your bearings are seizing. (usually the left hand one first for some reason)

Not this one by any chance?

http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/psa-more-ebay-dodgy-bike-stuff

It depends on how long they have been on ebay and how much they have bid on in last 1-6 months.

It could be someone who only bids on particularly niche things from a favourite seller. If you bid the start price on the woollyhatshop auctions (as opposed to buy it now) for example, you don't often win but when you do you get a real bargain, even if you bid on several different auctions from the same seller to get there.

Best post us a link I think!

I like a bit of capitalisation. In my head it comes out in a robot voice like this:

IT IS THE DISTANT FUTURE.

THE YEAR 2000.

MUCH HAS CHANGED SINCE THE ROBOTIC UPRISING OF THE LATE 1990'S.

Thanks for the tip btw. 🙂 Might have a little looky on their website now…

…but even the proper avid bleed kit only comes with the one size of barb. ❓

TandemJeremy – Member

Successfully sueing? Never herd of it and I can't think of any grounds that would make a successful court case likely

I think the bit where the op said he spoke to the landowner had me fairly sure it can and does happen. Why else would he be told that? Why not just say 'get orf, it's my land not yours'?

Our local FC woodsfolk got in some sort of hot water after someone road-gapped a public bridleway straight into (as in four feet off the ground) a horse and rider. There are warning signs up there now but trails still open.

I am sure you'd get a tenner per kit on ebay for that: someone does similar with o-ring kits for forks.

Schwalbe CX pro sport 26"x1.3.[/url]

you can't use the lifu socket one (reversible with preload cap adjuster on the other side) as the middle bit won't clear the narrower hole in the non-drive side on gxp bb's. Shame as it's a really neat tool.

All the others are fine.

[edit] mogrim beat me to it. I think the thread title is fairly obvious. I know my wife who also frequents this forum just won't bother reading it.

I wore a motherland err, France shirt all day yesterday and no one said anything. 😕

Alas I am at work this evening so no pastis or football related attire, although my poor (mostly English) colleagues will have to suffer my misty-eyed memories of past non-cheating France moments of brilliance, and very badly rendered terrace chants.

Who wrote it? What's his other job?

There used to be a sort of 'reader's/mates rides' section in Shred which had various semi-local-to-our-neck-of-the-woods folk showing off their pride and joy. One issue this featured someone who works for Silverfish, his lovely bike and also mentioned his comedy nickname in the piece. Then (somewhat foolishly IMO!) a few issues later they used the same nickname as the 'pen name' for the writer of the flux's glowing review. Did i mention that silverfish took on the distribution for Turner just a wee while before that? Good job it really is a great frame eh?

(oh and couple of mates know him)

Its a small world down here in pastyland. 😆

have you read the review of the new flux in the last-but-one shred magazine? It says it's great. And yes, it probably really really is!

But if you work out who wrote that particular review (and what his other job is) that might put you off. 🙁

*waves*

a peek at the blurb inside the mag confirms that it is indeed her.

by the way should anyone mention that all the issues seem to be downloadable? (i have read-only cheapy subs normally)

Other visitors landing today/tonight apparently include Madonna, Shakira and the president of Ghana!

I got all giddy for a minute cos i thought i'd read that Sharki had got all the way to the southern hemisphere on his Big Walk. 😳

Pawsy_Bear – Member

Take ownership of the problem and lock it in the back of your car. I dont leave mine unattended its under my ass or in the boot.

Probably not good enough for this sort of organised theft I fear, and waaaay more targeted than just emptying a boot/roof rack into a van and driving off.

Dunno about the BBF, but the reports of margam say that this was a well plannned targeted theft, where only the poshest bikes were stolen, often unlocking and moving bikes worth 'only' £2k to get to the ones that had been identified earlier in the day as targets. Some of the bikes were stolen from locked cars and vans, or from tents in which the owners were sleeping. Basically if someone from the 'team' at margam saw your bike and identified it as bling enough to go in the van, there was a very high chance of them having it.

samuri – Member

how they "smoked some downhillers" whilst riding their rigid on-one wearing a blindfold on the black route.

That's me that is.

awww, don't steal the zoofighter's thunder!

sounds like just the same MO as margam thefts then: take one van and cherry pick the poshest bikes. Some of the bikes at margam were very well secured by bike event standards, but the suspicion was that the thieves knew which ones they wanted hours before they stole them, and came suitably equipped to get into pretty much anything.

Lock gates in the evening and inspect all vehicles, or have mandatory bike sticker on top tube with corresponding ticket which can be kept by owner to produce on exit? All of this will cost even organisers money though.

Is the company as a whole a bit naff or is it just certain components?

pedals: mostly ace. nano's are identical to nukeproof and kona wah wah but cost loads less.
grips: identical to everyone except odi/raceface/cane creek but way cheaper.
ss bits: identical to loads of others but cheaper.
chain device: jury still out but way cheaper than posh brands.
bottom brackets: good if you want to colour match your cups by putting some properly sealed bearings in them, otherwise not worth it.
everything else: veeeeeerrrrry mixed reviews!

customer service/online reputation: dire!
face to face: nice friendly bloke, and donated loads of prizes to the Big Bike Bash last year.

[edit] garylake beat me to it 🙂 ^^

I forget which, but there is a Douglas Coupland book in which the main protagonist says that the button to close the doors is just there for anxious and impatient people and doesn't do anything.

Was it the self-same Interga type R i saw parked up at last year's Premier Southern Family-Friendly Booze-up, err Bike Event?[/url]

no schindlers lifts round Plymouth afaik, but plenty of schindlers escalators in '50's post-blitz rebuilt retro Debenhams.

Oh and I contacted eBay a while back about buying his own items and feedback left for himself.

blimey. I thought organised shill bidding and feedback on in ebay becasue it was just too big to police unless someone told them about it. Perhaps they just can't be bothered even when someone does, just as long as the listing and final value fees are paid 🙁 .

The two ebay id's belong to the same person, that is why! 😆

[EDIT] he was up to no good on here and SDH too, also with a couple of different logins here at least.

if the shock bushings are the same size on old and new shocks, you can just re-use the old 'top hats' on the new shock. Otherwise the measuring/ordering instructions on tftuned are ace.

sorry tinsy, I confused your name with the guy i bought it from last year on the classifieds here.

I also slightly overforked (by 15mm) an old (horst link) scott genius once, and it became a right hoot to ride.

Why wouldnt you run any sag?

'cos that's what it says in the manual. No Resonance System, 50psi negative pressure and all that. More by accident than anything else I have managed to get mine to juuuust stay locked out until I bounce on a rock/root up a climb, so there is some sort of rudimentary uphill compliance which I quite like but not really any bob or wallow. Or maybe my pedalling in circles is improving.

Possibly why it feels quite capable for 80mm cos you use all 80mm when you hit something rather than being 20mm into it when you sit on the bike.

BTW tinsy, my NRS (well, xtc team) is your old one, and it is still going very well indeed. 😀 At what age do you reckon it will become 'retro'?

I had u-turn revs on mine for a while and sometimes on climbs I would forget/not notice I had them wound out to 130. Funny really, on a bike that originally came with 80mm sids! Considering its a short travel xc race framet is amazing how fast you can go down/over roots and rocks with a good fork on the front before the back end really starts jumping around. Although if you run any sag at all on it (you shouldn't btw) it will become well wandery on climbs. In the end I got some reba teams and spacer'ed them down to 105mm which seems a happy medium.

robdeanhove – Member

welshwheels, it's quite common, it's refered to as a "short" 12hr, the same format is also used at TwentyFour12, BrightonBigDog and 24hrs of Exposure to name a few.

FWIW, the TwentyFour12 doesn't do this. 2 years ago I was last out in our team, got in at 11.50, got a big cheer as I went straght out to do another lap, got another big cheer from crowd and a hi-five on the finish line from Bontrager Himself at about 12.40. 😀 And as a competitor I prefer it that way.

yeah that chain isn't doing much wrapped round the crank arm. 🙂

cheeky trailsing on MOD land?? 😯 zoiks, never!!

Is it raining there yet? Still sunny over here, and fretting over pile of tyres/van interface. Think I'll take them all just in case!

I like 'trunion'.

and 'learning stick'.

..or buy, tax and insure a caravelle as a 'car', remove rear bench and make up some plywood 'lining' if you want the rear windows protected or private. I haven't bothered with this last bit with mine and its still an excellent bike van. Also far nicer for middle bench passengers as they get carpets, properly mounted belts/seats, opening windows, fan vents in the roof and a heater vent in the floor. Middle bench folds a bit and is removable but a bit of a faff.

I really don't think that is possible!

Only posts that seem to be unanswered are boring/repeat links, or bikey questions that either no one knows the answer to or are too 'banal' for people to bother answering. Oh and perhaps a couple of the recent 'hey its ace here in (insert warm foreign location), I'm so chuffed' threads

The contentious stuff aaaaaalways gets 'bites'!