Good luck getting this untangled from the derailleur without tools.

Without tools? Did you read a different post to me?

I’ve done a chain break and add a quick link without a chain tool several times. Mainly as the chain tool i was carrying at the time was too crap to push the mushroomed pin out… A screwdriver through the link and a couple of rocks did the trick.

The Vasa ship, Royal palace, Skansen, ABBA museum if you’re into that.

Paradox museum is interesting, but i think you’d need kids in tow to enjoy it properly.

Fotografiska as well.

If the weathers good a boat trip around the archipelago would be fun. They have one or two on historic boats.

have an induction now as no mains gas here

I have no mains gas (there’s pretty much zero mains gas in the entire country).

I still cook on gas, bought a hob that would run on bottled.

Saying that, the latest generations of induction are a shit load better than those i was looking at 15 years ago.

Cables though, we’ve got quite a few eBay specials, is that a problem?

Rubbish connectors that aren’t very robust, thinnest gauge wire that can barely take the current, terrible grade of plastic for the cable outer.

The Ikea ones are very good for the money but as far as I know they don’t do a higher wattage one that’ll power/charge a USB-C laptop

They top out at a 45W model in the euro plug style, not sure if that’s enough grunt for your laptop, but works ok for mine.

If you didn’t check in and your receipts (Uber/Manchester flight) were timed before they offered you the reroute they may assume that you never intended to travel.

They are also duty bound to screw over customers at every opportunity.

Rather than ordering cheap of eBay and getting an unknown piece of junk, just grab the IKEA ones when you’re passing. Saw a tear down of the latest ones, and they are right up there with the decent big brand names as far as quality/feature/materials go.

Same with their cables.

Thoughts?

It sounds like you’ve never done this before so you don’t have any particular knowledge or experience to bring to this.

I did my first pads, discs, calipers, bleed on the road outside my house in the rain. Took all day, and only one trip to the motor factors. Nothing actually went wrong though, and the brakes worked perfectly for another 3 years or so, until i sold the car.

Nothings gone wrong on the 20+ sets i’ve done since. I hate doing drums though.

Don’t write off engineering either as there are many big problems out there crying out for new ideas. 

Got load of mathematicians working with me. Modelling batteries, traffic patterns, safety/crash modelling, people, manufacturing and supply, autonomous drive stuff.

They confirmed that as they would be ‘custom’ they didn’t offer refunds.

Except, as per some of the points on the last page, they can’t do that…

i’d rather blink the mud out from my eyes :D

Even the mud and grit that hits at 40-50kph? (Or more?)

Constructing a building purposefully in a way that means that signal doesn’t get in…..not illegal….. Hell I work In one such building (not a supermarket)

It’s more down to the fact that the cheapest, quickest way to put a retail space together under a single (large) roof is essentially to build a large metal box. Which in broad terms is a massive faraday cage.

The biggest challenge for most of these places is to ensure you *can* get a mobile signal in them.

‘maybe try before you buy next time?’ and ‘They’re pretty common tbf’ now come up and ride in the Lake District rather than heavily ridden trail centres or the tweed valley where on my the last three rides I’ve seen zero other riders.

I have the same issue, number of riders i’ve been within earshot of while out on my own in the last year = zero. (It’s probably only half a dozen in the last 2 years…)

I’d reckon on 75% of my rides i’ve seen no one. And the last set of tyre tracks  on the trail are the ones i laid down the last time i rode it…

I have a flick whenever i take the wheels off to do something, or if i get a big impact (pinch puncture or rim dent).

If they are buckled i obviously check, but i can’t recall last time i had a decent sized buckle. I’ve seen a few ebike and DH wheels that need a bit of preventative maintenance. a look over once every couple of months, rarely find anything wrong once they’ve been looked at once or twice. Until they fail completely.

I also build most of my own wheels and have been for 25+ years. So thoughts on many factory or custom built wheels are not repeatable.

See how many laps you can do before they change lane.

9 laps, 9 is my record. Driving up the M40 London to Birmingham.

the i10 we have reads 10% lower at 40mph

You sure? A car speedo should never read under what you are actually doing. It’s a legal/homologation requirement.

Aren’t they the ones with the massive steel surface/spider plus tiny carrier?

If they are, either get some better cooled discs (i have some 160mm ultegra level ones with cooling fins that i’ve not managed to get to rub) or bigger ones the same (plus the adaptors).

And TBH, they all do that, to one degree or another, eventually. Just depends on how well centred they are and what the clearances are. (And how hot they get.)

It’s likely there to make up for the limitations of the shock/shock tune, the mass damper is there to reduce the chatter from the trail.

You’d not get away with just bolting one on at random. The whole system has to be designed and tuned around it.

^ that’s what I was puzzling. You *want* the swingarm to move as freely as possible.

Only while you can control the movement.

This was the way last time i had to lean heavily on the NHS 20+ years ago.

The GP went above and beyond at every stage, contacting other services within the NHS and (eventually) a contracted third party provider when the NHS either gave me waiting times measured in years just for an initial consultation. Or simply didn’t respond.

At that point, all i needed to see him for was 20 minutes once a month for a general looksee and a renewal of my prescriptions.

I found out later that he was also dealing with the recent suicide of his son and a fairly serious illness of his own while trying to sort out my issues.

woo levels appear unclear.

Minimal woo. It’s a standard solution across several industries. You’ve probably got half a dozen of various sizes in your car.

I always struggle with peoples acceptance of low standards. Some is pleased with 300 k out of a waxed chain. With the fiddle doing it I want 3000. 300 is a weeks riding or less.

Get a couple or three chains on rotation, your cassette and chainrings will thank you too.

yeah, I do wax but it doesn’t half annoy me. Degrease chain, ultrasonic it, melt wax, let it soak. Anyone ever factor in the cost of the leccy?

Multiple chains at once, i usually wax 5 or 6 at the same time. And mostly, once they’ve been waxed once, do they really need serious degreasing or ultrasonic cleaning again?

The commuter has gone back to a big squirt of liquid grease once a week for the 100+ miles it does on the commute.

Some bikes aren’t suited for wax i guess.

That’s been a thing for years. I live about a km from the E45, which i can follow either to Norway or Sicily…

The old mapping programs were amusing, printing off directions to one of our “local” ski resorts. Turn right at the end of the road, turn left at the roundabout, drive for 630 km, your destination is on the left.

I get them from a car cleaning suppliers place.

Seem to be a bit more robust.

I’ve helped a mate with an almost identical repair, few years ago now.

£40 quid repair kit from eBay, a long evening with sandpaper and dust masks, couple of hours chopping bits of carbon fibre sheet up and sticking it down with epoxy, wrapping it with tape and leaving to dry. Then sand it back smooth (ish) and 5 or 6 coats of rattle can paint.

Think the hardest thing was getting something into the tube, behind the repair to make sure that we had something to support the bottom layer of CF. He’s moved away now, but think he still has the same bike.

I imagine engine components are much more of a lucrative market for theft now – cars are much more superficially different in terms of the bits you can see like pretty alloys – but sthare a lot more in the way of common components under the skin. Note these cars have all had most of the front removed and still have the wheels on

Came up in another thread about car repairs and ECU coding. ECUs and the devices they are bolted too are a big market now.

Some people are sensitive to it, some aren’t. Some are riding too wide, some are riding too narrow.

If you’re not having issues, and don’t need new cranks, don’t bother.

Working and travelling at 16 too. I can use a computer.

I was doing (unaccompanied) trips to europe at that age and younger, meeting up with chaperones once i’d already done the tricky stuff (ferry or flight with a bike, kit and clothes etc). Home life, well, i was living 90% independently from 14 due to reasons. I’d probably have been put into care these days.

I too can use computers. And design them, sort of.

This kid is probably not too young at all.

My brother was in the same boat as i, but a couple of years younger. He wouldn’t manage, christ, he was still having to be bailed out/collected/coached into his early/mid 20’s. He’s got nothing wrong with him, mentally or otherwise. Thankfully he’s doing *much* better now. Still all but IT illiterate.

So if it was my brother, probably too young.

Odd, over the last twenty-odd years of having cars with locking wheel nuts, I’ve never, ever had an issue with them, and that includes having to take a wheel off myself and put a spare on.

? I take 5 or 6 sets of wheels off and on twice a year (it’s the law). All but one have locking nuts. Only issue I’ve had in the last two decades is the locking nuts on my exes current car wearing out. Because they were 8-9 years old and had got to the end of their life!

(There are actually limits for how many times a wheel nut/bolt should be re-used based on torque and thread size.)

If they were some OZ Racing wheels at £1500 a set I may think differently!

Christ, the stock alloys on my car are about £400 each, retail. And the not the most expensive ones you can get. Plus near enough £200 quid a tyre. The winters aren’t that much cheaper.

Someone tried to get the alloys off the last one, took out all the stock nuts on one side and gave up on the locking nuts.

Erm, you can move the stem up and down the steerer tube very easily.

As long as you leave a load of un-needed steerer sticking out.

I miss tangfastics… Can’t get them here.

All of the liner will debond, naturally.

Um, no? I debonded about a cm or so “extra” around the cleat pocket. I’ve been using the shoes for another 5 or 6 years since then, can’t even feel the debonded bit.

and they are a nightmare to clean,

Alloy wheels are bad enough!

Might i suggest a soft bottle brush in a drill?

I’ve got some CNCed bits like this (and did in the past have alloy wheels with ~20 spokes) and the bottle brush in a drill is a life saver.

Make WFH a compulsory part of every contract where it is physically possible. Make the infrastructure needed to make it feasible cheap and easily available.

If your dickheads in the C suite whine, chuck them out of their private jet at 30000 feet.

Easy way to increase the savings.

One to smuggle back from holiday…

Just pray it doesn’t extend itself when you’re walking through the green channel.

I always thought electric shifting was a  gimmick

So did i, so i tried loads of it (Red eTap, Di2 10, 11 12 speed, Di2 wireless, EPS, SRAM AXS (on and off road varieties)

It’s still a gimmick, a couple of the add on gimmicks i quite liked, so when a bike came up with only a €400 or so price hike over the similarly equipped mechanical version (and available immediately, not 12 months down the line) i bought it.

It’s just a different way of cutting the same cake. It’s no faster or more accurate than my mech systems, if anything the AXS was worse. It’s no lighter. No more durable, no more repeatable. Doesn’t really need more, or less, looking after. *Shrug*

Don’t see many topics about riding/mending or buying bikes and parts from the 90’s.

We all go to retrobike for that. I recognise 20+ of the regulars on here from there…

You can partially detach the insole/liner on many shoes by pushing the plate (4 bolt at a guess) into the shoe a bit, you can then rotate it edge on and slide it out through the cleat slot. Install by reversing the process and then push the liner back into place on the inside. Have done that on a few shoes. Mostly winter boots though.

Some of my neighbours have them and the noise is, well, nonexistent.

My mate has one under the balcony supplying all his heating needs and it’s a bit noisy for ~15 seconds when the fan kicks in, but then settles down to a quiet hum. Probably quieter than the gas CH i had in the UK. And quieter than the start up and shut down noise of my GSHP if i leave the service room door open.

Costs him less than the wood/pellet/electric he was using before. A lot less. Now he’s got solar/battery as well the electricity co is paying him due to local feed in tarrifs.

My ex-inlaws have one (just for heating, no hot water), the outdoor unit is ~1m from their bedroom window. ex-FiL would have ripped it off the wall and hoofed it into the next country if it’d had been disturbing his sleep. They’ve also now installed GSHP, so the ASHP is now used as a booster and AC (it’s a dual directional one).

It seems strange to live in a world where I could buy a car that goes from 0-60mph in under 4s. That is the super-car performance that my adolescent self dreamt of and since I never actually grew up it is very hard to resist.

And then you get into BEV supercar territory where 0-60 is a chunk under 3 seconds and then they keep on accelerating at the same rate. 0-200 kph in ~10 seconds is organ re-arrangingly quick and i would doubt whether even 1% of the customers buying these cars (even the sub 5 second ones!) are in any way capable of dealing with that sort of acceleration if they get even the slightest bit outside the envelope where traction control helps. (or when they turn it off.)

It’s a bizarre trend started by Tesla as a way to convince petrolheads that electricity is ‘better’

Pretty much this, if you want a big battery that charges fast, and motors/invertor/battery that are efficient and allow you to regenerate even the smallest amount of energy, speccing the powerpack up to accelerate like a race car is just a matter of going from 16 mm cable to 20mm and changing a few of parameters in the system. Then managing the heat. The rest of the hardware is already there and capable.

He’s just such a high profile bellend despite heading up some incredible people doing spectacular things.

He mostly gets in the way, shouts at people and sacks them if they disagree with him or if they refuse to sign off on something that he thinks is good enough. There are some issues at Tesla which the authorities are picking at now. God knows how many court cases his legal team are fighting at the moment. Certainly into 4 digits.

The two can sort of balance each other out so instead of having a video you can have a step by step guide of what you want to do.

I’m either lucky or cursed, i get a full visual image AND an internal dialogue telling me whats going on. Recently spent a couple of hours trying to explain the circular nature of our next gen HMI and how we should crosslink between related pages without going up and then back down the structure. I was explaining it to the guy who designed the framework… Though i do come from a pure hardware background, and very complicated hardware at that!

my maths is poor.

Compared to my colleagues, mine is poor too. I made sure to get to a level where other people do the maths for me as soon as possible. (2 years)

I’m also terrible at languages (my own and others) and music, art stuff.

A good friend of mine has no internal dialogue AND no images either… Which i find weird.

yet every weekend there always seems to be something that needs a strip down or a service or some sort of tinkering.

That’s most likely a you issue, or at least a “you not putting things together properly” issue.

My servicing/strip down tally of *my* bikes, or bikes i look after is about 4 hours this year. And that’s mostly going over the second hand bikes we bought for the kids at easter.

All i’ve done other than that is lube chains, clean and pump tyres. Including the kids and ex doing 2 weeks at a bike park with her bloke and his kids, only thing that failed was her blokes freewheel. Which he serviced himself.

I’ll have a couple of pairs of forks and a shock or two needing a service soon though.