The Thompson Twins = Two characters in the Tin Tin comics.

That's two different types of coupling you've linked to there. They won't connect to each other.
That's the good thing about standards, there's so many to choose from. :roll:
PCL is the most commonly used in proper garages.
Those Universal ones are more of a hobby thing.
Looks like you need to but a male universal coupling with either a male or female thread to suit your inflator.

UB40 = A WW2 German submarine, famed for the a cappella harmonies of it's crew.
Take That = The name of the Indian restaurant where the band members played their first gig.
East 17 = The grid reference of the bands home town
Boyzone = A gentlemen's interest magazine.

BSP thread sizes are the bore of the pipe.
1/4 BSP sounds about right for a small compressor. The actual thread would be about 15mm diameter.

What exactly won't fit ?
Do you mean the metal spigot on the tyre inflator is to big to fit in the rubber hose or have you just got incompatible couplings ?

So is everyone else going to carry on smugly listing band names without an explanation as if they are some sort of in joke that no one else gets ?

The Levellers = A movement during the English Civil War that promoted equality for all people rather than being ruled by parliament or monarchy.

So is anyone going to give an explanation then ?

From memory, so don't be shy about correcting me if I got these wrong.
Rolling Stones = From Bob Dylan lyrics.
Beatles = apart from the obvious "beat" pun, the insect themed name was inspired by Buddy Holly and the Crickets.
The Doors = The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley
Heaven 17 = a ficyitious band in the novel A Clockwork Orange
The Straycats = A fictitious band in a film with Ringo Starr and David Essex, I can't remember the title.
Duran Duran = A character in the film Barbarella.

OK, thanks for that.
The cheque's been cashed, but no email yet.
Same happened last year, quite a long delay between the cheque and the email, so I guess I'm in again.

[pedant]Unless "themselves" is a euphemism.[/pedant]

Is Edinburgh now part of the USA ?
They're trousers, not pants.

Those mudguard stays look a bit of a hazard, they could do with trimming.

If I was overtaken by a bunch of roadies going only 3mph faster, I wouldn't worry too much about saying hello, I'd keep quiet and tag on the back for a free slipstream.

A hub geared full suspension bike yesterday.

Rohloff hub, tensioner and guide.

I've got their running shorts and shirts and they're OK.

I wear North Wave Lizzards which have got a very stiff sole.
I wouldn't want to ride on egg beaters with soft soled shoes.
I use the shoe shields as well to protect the soles.

I agree with the comments about fitness or endurance in one sport not always crossing over to another.
However, if you're looking to simulate the toughness of a marathon on a bike, I'd go for time, not distance.
How fast do you run your 20km ?
Double that, add a bit more for the 42km of a marathon, add a bit more for the slower pace of a longer run, then ride for that time.

Bikewhisperer, thanks for the suggestion.
I guess this stuff…
http://www.staples.co.uk/glue-and-sticky-tape/spray-glue/re-mount-400ml
…would do the trick as it is not permanent and should be easier to apply than tape.
I just want something that will hold the strip in place while I fit the tyre, but will peel off if I need to fit a tube out on the trail.

I'm vegan, so the feathers option is out. :D

I'll give the double sided tape a go.
It's all on there and sealed now, but some of the rim strip is not visible where it has folded over double and gone down below the edge of the rim.
I'll leave it for now, but I'll get some tape and do a tidier job next time.

Hi Ran, they're going OK so far thanks.
I'm regreasing them far more often than the recommended 100 hours and I haven't used the rebuild kits you sent me yet.

I still say they've got design faults though.

There's a step in the diameter by the inner bush, where both of mine snapped.
This causes a stress point (I'm a mechanic, not an engineer, so that's probably not the correct term). They would be far stronger, although slightly heavier, if there was a gradual taper.

The outer bearing is too small.
When the cage breaks up, all the balls go to one side, allowing the outer race and pedal body to slide off over the inner race and spindle. This is the main problem. Not just that the bearing fails, but that it fails so quickly.It can go from feeling perfectly OK to falling apart within a couple of hours of riding.
A full compliment bearing would be better. It would grind and scrape for a long time before it developed enough play to disassemble itself.
My idea of a washer, or maybe a flanged nut would help too. As long as the OD of the washer is bigger than the ID of the outer race, then no matter how badly worn the bearing is, it can't escape over the washer. Again, it would grind and scrape and wobble, but it would do it for hours before it wore the washer away and eventually fell off.
A tapered roller bearing would be even better. It would handle both thrust and axial loads better than a ball bearing and, if the OD of the inner race was bigger than the ID of the outer race, it would all still hold together if the bearing failed.

…and all the stuff that have the made in china on it (you know child labour).

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Maybe MXRs are different inside ?
Regular eggbeaters rely on a tiny caged ball bearing to locate the pedal body on the shaft. It's not up to the job.
When the bearing collapses it allows the pedal body to slide off the shaft.
In my experience, there is a very short interval between the first signs of the bearing making a noise or feeling rough, and it actually failing.

I keep thinking I ought to put a washer, slightly smaller than the OD of the bearing, between the nut and the bearing.
If the bearing fails it would act as a last resort to hold it all together.
I haven't tried it yet though.

No, I trimmed it off close to the rim when I first fitted it to the previous tyre.
That's the problem. If it was wider there would be something to hold on to and I could get it to stay in place better.
I could get round it by using another new 20" tube and trimming it off after I have inflated the tyre, but I'm trying to reuse the old one.

Can't give you any specific advice, but I've been messing with old army trucks for a while.
As a general rule, anything WW2 vintage is worth more than anything newer.
Being rare doesn't necessarily make it worth more.
http://www.hmvf.co.uk/ is probably the best place to ask for more information. It's a military vehicle forum, but it tends to cover NFS, AFS, and Civil Defence vehicles as well.

It's not just the bearings that fail…

To be fair, 2Pure's customer support is excellent, but then, customer support is no substitute for a selling a product that doesn't break in the first place.

Haze, if it's making a noise, the bearing will fail soon. Rebuild them now.

Some fashion tart who likes the idea of mountain biking but not the effort required

Item location: Bramley, Surrey,

Posh Southerner. :roll:

Therefore you need animal meat to provide them to your body

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A seed that in order to supply everyone one of us with would need to deforest quite a fair bit of the few remaining forest

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Regarding my previous Cycling Home At 2am post…
I live on my own and rarely carry a phone.
When I was single I used to joke that if I had an accident while bench pressing in my back garden I could be trapped under the bar for days before anyone found me.

I guess it does depend on how pedantic you want to be about the meaning of the word "wilderness" and whether the question is about being stuck a long way from civilisation with a broken bike and a long walk home, or being injured and unable to move with little hope of being found by a passer by.

It's 2am and I just got in from my commute home along the River Severn.
Quite often in the Winter, as I commute one way, I can see my untouched tracks from my previous journey the other way, which makes me realise that if I had fallen in and been unable to get out for whatever reason, I would still be there 12 hours later.
I'd still rather ride along the river bank than along the road though.

GrahamS, see miketually's reply above, that's what I was responding to.
It is confusing having income and expenditure all mixed up on one chart though, even with the different colours.

"Government grant for World Service" is an expenditure, and it's shown as one

What's that colour chart down the bottom right then with "Income" against the brown bit?
Surely "Commercial Business" is an income, not an expenditure too ?
And why is "Licence Fee" in its own little box off the main graph and shown smaller than "Licence Fee Collection Costs" ?
All in all, a badly drawn, confusing graph.

I find that graph a little confusing.
Surely "Talent" is an expenditure, while "Government grant for World Service" is an income.

Has anyone ever put two straight edges across a BB shell and measured the run out ?
If the maximum error is x mm and the plastic spacer washers compress by y mm when the bearings are tightened, then as long as x<y, what's the problem.

WHY THE HELL, has no one thought to put an alfine hub, where the bottom bracket is?

Don't know about Alfine, but Rohloff have got a minimum gear ratio to protect the hub from excessive torque.
If you put the cranks directly on the gearbox, then that is effectively a 1:1 drive ratio, far more torque than a Rohloff is designed for.
From what I remember of looking at the Nicolai frame mounted Rohloff, the cranks are below the gearbox and, presumably, there is some sort of gearing between the two.

I guess it depends on why your company is being taken over.
I worked for an independent truck dealer that got taken over by a chain of truck dealers.
There was never any doubt that they wanted to carry on the business and we would become part of their chain, so no one was too worried and there weren't many changes.
Getting taken over by an asset stripping company with a reputation for building houses on brownfield sites would have been a different matter.

"Do you use all those gears ?"

"My gears don't work. Could you have a look at them for me ?"

CoffeeKing, it's just a game.
The joke is that omnivores come up with the same limited number of comments on veganism, each time thinking they have thought up some witty, original justification for their diet, not realising that we have heard them all hundreds of times before.

"…there are arguments both ways and that examples of each can be used"

That's why scientists carry out research, to avoid arguments based on anecdotes.
However, if you want to swap anecdotes, I'll put this list up against the veggies you know.
http://www.veganfitness.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=723

…the 3 of the 4 veggies I know who are ill pretty much constantly and rather weak feeble individuals…

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Row 5, column 3.

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/m/cycle/7/Nokon/
I've got red on one bike and gold on the other.
My cunning plan is that when I replace the liners and have to thread all the coloured segments back on to the new liner, I will mix up the left over segments from one cable set in with the other and have red and gold striped cables.
How cool is that. 8)

Thinking about getting a cyclocross bike myself.
Just wondering…
Conventional rigid 29er mountain bike with 700c rims and drop bars.
Would that work ? It's not a common conversion, which makes me suspect it wouldn't.
Does anyone make hydraulic levers for drop bars ?