Not me but loads of people have – loads of my friends on social media are suddenly realising that the summer cold is actually COVID

Aah my apologies

Tweaks cycles have some great deals on pedals

Set of Shimano SPD’s for <£30 Inc cleats

https://www.tweekscycles.com/shimano-m520-spd-pedals-2006716/?utm_campaign=2505592_TWEEKSCYCLES2428A_R2R_Pedals&utm_medium=email&utm_source=dotdigital&dm_i=33LZ,1HPBS,9CGQNT,5Y6ED,1

It depends on if you need to move the TV off of the wall. If you want to mount the TV  flat to the wall then the cheap ones and the expensive ones are roughly the same. If you want to swivel the TV or have it mounted several in off of the wall then I would go for an expensive one, especially if the TV is heavy or expensive

Just be aware if you do get one on eBay to check the seller feedback as I had somebody selling dodgy 3D prints at a high price (he had reduced the amount of fill to virtually nothing)

Had to get eBay to step in at the end as he was a real chancer

Another seller printed them to exactly how hope said

Muckoff seem to have an interesting idea with quite a few different options

They seem to be using a ball valve

Muc-Off Big Bore Tubeless Valves

Thank you all for your encouragement, I’m actually booked in in September to do the 100 km off-road ride from London to Brighton

I’m just deciding whether to do it on my mountain bike or my gravel bike…. It’ll depend upon if a mate comes with me as he will be doing it on his mountain bike. But to be honest, I can’t imagine that there’s anything particularly gnarly between us and Brighton, and I think a gravel bike will be perfectly capable

I actually have a spare set of wheels now so I’m tempted to get myself a set of 30 mm road tires and run them at 90 PSI on there and see how that goes… Any recommendations for tubeless road tires in 700c ?

Thanks all, I have to say I wasn’t as arrow as I could have been as I was carrying spare tubes, pump and two big bottles on the bike as well as I was dressed according to the weather which was changeable

There was some really nice bikes out this morning though…..

I have a kask helmet for road and I am pleased with it. In the PSA thread someone was doing them for crazy low prices

If it’s an aluminium post in a steel frame, I wonder could you use gallium to corrode the aluminium? You would need to keep the frame warm at around 30° c for the gallium to remain liquid, but you could do that relatively easily either in the sun or by using a hair dryer or heat gun. The gallium within a few hours would migrate throughout the entirety of the aluminium of the post and would corrode it to the point where you could just crumble it out with your fingers.

I’ve never done this on a bike before but the gallium won’t harm the steel at all,And it will completely destroy aluminium parts

just to confirm though, your child has both the money and the item back ?

as a responsible parent you need to either

1, get the scooter back with the buyer ( that ship has sailed)

2, repay the money that the kid isnt entitled to

I think that option 2 is your only choice

Asking a dog walker for an unused poo bag to put a phone in when it started to rain on a “dry” ride

Try something non flappy ? I have been wearing one of my le col aero jerseys and they have the advantage of being skin tight and not flapping in the breeze

+1 to the oneup steerer tube storage and multitool

Great bit of kit !

Hoka Clifton 9’s are my favourite or Brookes glycerine are my wife’s

Most runners near me are either hoka or Brookes

Just check that you haven’t plugged the monitor into the onboard graphics card and not a discrete graphics card

It’s easy to do as Windows will seem to work fine, but as soon as you go into a game of course you’re using the built-in graphics card if you have one on the CPU which is likely to be terrible

Just make sure that the HDMI plug is plugged into the separate graphics card and not the motherboard

Damn that’s an incredibly good price on the helmet, speaking as somebody who paid full price for one about 3 weeks ago

@jezzep thank you for the advice. Can I just confirm where I need to put the grease? Do I need to disassemble to put the grease in? Or just squirt a load in

thankyou all

put it in the vice with some leather pads on the jaws and it popped off, all now done and i have matching orange hubs and lockrings :)

Thanks everyone for the advice. I will try that this evening…

Regarding the reason why I want to remove this, I have the external Shimano rings at the moment and the gap especially at the front is absolutely massive meaning it. On the left hand side you can see the seal of bearing. Now I’ve used the rings that use the cassette tool – The gap between the axle and the hub is now a lot smaller and I’m hoping a lot less gunk will get in there.

I’ll put leather around some mole grips and work it out :) The front ones come out by hand only

Endura seem to have 50% off all of their helmets at the moment

If you’re in the market for a new helmet, there’s some nice ones around £50

As a male who has just started wearing bib shorts, can anyone give any tips as to how to go to toilet? My current toilet breaks seem to involve taking my long sleeve top off completely so that I can then unhook one of the shoulder straps from the bib… I’m sure there must be a more elegant and quicker way to go for a wee ?

Thank you all. I have ordered the XT versions

I suspect spokes of bagshot can do this

Thanks for that

I see biketart have the xtr for £25 more – is there any advantage to going xtr apart from logo ?

Q

I have ordered from banana industries although not in the last month and everything I’ve ordered seems to have turned up okay

Thank you! It seems that third time was the charm. On the third time I didn’t just line it up. I lined it up with millimetre precision….. And then I checked it from underneath to verify there was no twist.

Thank you for the tips regarding the shims. I will get some now!

The 120 km ride tomorrow can go ahead in silence apart from my new spangly hope rear hub that is delightfully noisy!

A neighbour of mine once took all of their soil from some foundations that they had dug and spread it on the garden, raising the height of the garden on their side considerably. This meant that when they had their first garden party, all of the guests on their side of the fence who were above 5’5 were essentially shoulder height to the top of the fence.

Now we resolved this very amicably and we just put a higher fence in… But I could imagine how it would get very irritating if suddenly somebody built a deck that allowed everybody in the one garden to see to the other

my mitsubuishi said that i should drive it in low range / off road till 3k miles were on the clock – i suspect that this was essentially running in

Talking of crashes, did anybody see the crash right at the very end before the last tunnel? All of the other crashes that I saw seemed relatively minor with the rider wrapped in a blanket waiting to be picked up. This one the rider was face down in the recovery position with two paramedics. One of them about to inject something.

I hope the cyclist was okay?

Aah @infovore I assumed it was like a marathon welfare stop with energy drinks, gels etc etc.

Anyway we went prepared for anything and to be self sufficient and the plan worked.

Next year I am signed up to the 100. Just need to build up the miles until then. I’m very comfortable at about 120 km, and I did 78 before breakfast this morning. Just getting the time to be able to put the mileage in!

interesting the app states that there was meant to be a welfare stop at 18 miles which we looked for and didnt see – we saw toilets next to the side of the road and stopped there

hang on a sec there were food stops :) ?

did it today and my wife commented that marathons have far far better catering and a bag drop – this really was self supported with some toilets ( though i had to use the mcdonalds at 15k in). There were a load of really fast chain gangs who stopped for no one which i though was a little dangerous as you had packs ( 40+) riders going 40+ kph passing within inches of other cyclists going half that

Have signed up for next year and this time will do the 100 – does anyone know how to get all my friends into the same wave if we registered and paid separately ? several of us just realised we all had the idea today to sign up for the 100 next year and would like to all be in the same wave – do i just email them with the booking ID’s ?

Yes – Garmin user here. HRV is a good sign I am pushing it too hard if it goes red.

I think if you pay over a certain amount you get free shipping, my total was £120 and I got free shipping

By the way oneup components have a sale – just got myself a pump with an edc inside for my gravel bike https://uk.oneupcomponents.com/ took 2 days from order to arrive

The cheap tyres were not to be, sigma sports refunded today

They were 800 but I had them cut down to 780. Those 2 cm made a massive difference in my confidence in going through trees. I still don’t like to zigzag through traffic with them that wide and prefer my gravel bike which has very much narrower bars

Well as a redux to this I bought a set of hope rx24’s in 28 hole straight pull

Should arrive next week ! Really looking forward to them

go Knipex every time

https://www.screwfix.com/p/knipex-wire-rope-cutters-6-3-160mm-/112hl