If you are using lockrings, don’t lockring down to the rim, instead use the lockring to lock the valve cap on.

I don’t think you should charge the battery whilst still connected on the car. Can fry the alternator apparently.

A trickle charge of 3-4 amps is fine left overnight, even longer if the battery is the maintenance free type.

Don’t forget that car batteries vent hydrogen whilst charging, mind any sparks or naked lights.

Yup, I’ve had the pleasure of shopping there too! 8O :(

As usual on these threads expect someone along in a moment to defend him, conclusively proving that the majority of his customers are just overly sensitive and therefore plainly wrong in their impressions of him! :roll:

Very small maybug?

Nothing special, but suits me perfectly: Modded 2008 Spesh Hardrock

2006 Italian Marzocchi MX Pro TAS ETA 120mm Fork, 2006 Hardrock wheels self-built on XT M760 Hubs: 36H (significantly stronger than 32H: useful for heavier riders like myself), and rims are usefully wider than the OE 2008 Hardrock (29.5mm vs. 26mm). DT Swiss Competition Double Butted spokes used on rear wheel as original spokes wrong length for new XT hub, Deore M510 V-Brakes inc. Levers, XTR spec. 72mm Cartridge Brake Pads with Kool-Stop Dual Compound inserts, XTR Brake Cables, full length rear outer, SRAM PC-870 Chain, LX M570 Rear Mech, STX-RC MC38 Shift Levers, ODI Rogue Lock-On Grips, USE SX Shokpost, WTB Speed V Comp Saddle, DMR V8 Pedals, VDO A8+ Computer, Crud Race Pac Mudguard Set.

Table Mountain and the cute ‘rock chucks’, Signal Hill for nice night view of city, Chapmans Peak to see the Baboons and let them trash your car. Mind you, been over a decade since I lived there!

Castrol LM or CL.

V8s get gritty? Mine never have, but then I did rebuild them correctly before I fitted them to bike (filled them with grease completely, adjust bearing preload correctly), and I do top them up with grease every now and then.

Another happy Autostitch user

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Didn’t Blair as PM say he wouldn’t be updating the Queen every Thursday (?) as per tradition if he didn’t want to? I don’t think he holds Royalty in very high regard (I’m quite sure that’s mutual), so they saved him the embarrassment of having to turn down the invite (what with him being a man of such high principles).

He’s also a war criminal, and he supported Shrub (little Bush) and the outlaw US (outlaw after the US refused to recognise the UN World Court including its earlier conviction for illegal use of force in Nicaragua).

Car gearbox oil as recommend by (among many others) Regina, Honda, & me. The fact that it costs about £8 per litre as opposed to about £60 a litre for say Finish Line Cross Country is an added bonus too.

Rumours abound that the best chain lube tested by one mag/site is actually re-bottled gear oil…amazing how quick people catch on (I was taught to use gear oil over 40 years ago).

Best place for centre columns (or monopods on your tripod as we like to call them) is the bin. It’s a stability thing.

I use a Manfrotto 55, centre column removed and replaced by a plate. Never missed the centre column.

Hmmm, if it were donkey remains you’d come across I’d point the finger at my mother in law. Maybe she has a younger relative who can only manage to talk the hind legs of a deer?

I honestly think that many Chinese take-away chips are better than many fish ‘n’ chip shop chips because the Chinese actually care about their clientèle and therefore give a shit about what they are serving.

I don’t think paedophile is an offensive word at all, because the majority of people, helped by the gutter media, use it to mean ‘someone who finds humans under 18 (or another arbitrary age limit based on country) sexually attractive (so pretty much most of us then), as opposed to it’s actual meaning of someone who finds prepubescent humans sexually attractive. And of course it doesn’t mean someone who abuses children, merely someone who finds them sexually interesting. So calling someone a ‘convicted paedophile’ is as informative as calling someone a ‘convicted homosexual’. Being a paedophile isn’t a crime, neither is being a homosexual.

I think the C word does it for most people.

Dwarfs

(sorry if that’s been done already)

Is the leaflet illustrated? Now you get blokes eh?

The only fictional car chases of note that I can think of off hand are Ronin and French Connection, the later alledgely being done for real in everyday traffic with no police approval or prior knowledge.

And then there’s Steve McQueens ‘nothing was speeded up’ Bullit. Yup. In his defence, perhaps he didn’t know what ‘speeded up’ meant?

1976, aged 11

To glue parts of your denture back together (outside your mouth) superglue would work surely? Not sure how temporary that would be though.

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You can’t beat a fresh install to give your PC a new lease of life.

they seem to be carefully designed so that the time it takes to eat one is exactly the same as the time it takes to get the next one out of its shell.

Worse, it seems to take as much energy calorific wise to open one as the energy one provides.

But with HT the tapers can be overtightened, thus damaging the cranks.

I’ve been doing my square tapers up very tight since they were called ‘cotterless’. Never had an issue. Mind you, I do grease them first. I’ve also heard from respected sources who claim not to have enountered problems. Can you provide some first hand evidence of this? Not saying you are wrong, just curious.

Fork oil weights vary wildly from brand to brand, there’s a chart on the WWW somewhere. The proper measurement to use is centiStokes@a given temperature, and the chart lists all common brands using this measurement.

I forget the name of the eqaution needed to calculate the viscosity of two mixed fluids, but I have a program on my PC called Shell Bunker Calc which does it for me, available free from the Shell website.

Yes

I can tell you that a Suntour SF7-XCM is 2495g. That may or may not help, but I tried.

And this time make sure she gets her crank bolts done up tightly and threadlocked!

Hollowtech 2 is lighter! You’d have to quantify better.

Her best option would depend on her particular needs, but a whole new MTB octalink crankset can be had for £20 from CRC (Shimano M443 170mm).

Isn’t that Paul Francis Gadd’s new home?

Neither white pedals nor white grips stay white for very long. They turn a miserable off-white colour, and grips in particular often never return from this state.

Petrol !
Works everytime and all the time, quick too !

Once you’ve had those pesky fumes (which travel in mysterious ways into very odd places) explode on you you’ll change your mind. Trust me. And I cycle without a helmet.

Paraffin, diesel, heating oil, or best of all industrial degreaser (try a hotel suppliers). Or pay way more for something relabelled as bike specific.

But why would anyone want to use GT85 in the first place

Well, it’s great for displacing water on your newly cleaned chain before oiling. It’s also great to spray on your bike prior to a mucky ride, the bike washes off easier then.

For road users, it actually makes an OKish chain lube.

For cooking we use a portable kettle barbecue (using coconut shell briquettes because they are more compact and less brittle to transport) for the evening meal, with the very stable work in all temps but sadly now discontinued (but available at silly prices second hand) Coleman Alpine stove for other duties. Part of the fun of camping for us is ‘roughing it’ just a little bit, so we eat out of army mess tins.

Depending on where you plan to camp, something to lay on to both insulate you from ground cold and give you some cushioning is nice. We’ve now thrown pride to the wind and use airbeds.

Again, depending on where you camp, a peg upgrade might be in order. One of our regular haunts has very stony ground and only ‘rock pegs’ will penetrate. If you are very smart and plan to camp somewhere stony, you’ll buy loads of extra ‘rock pegs’; you can sell them for a small fortune to all the less well prepared campers!

Not sure if you can still get them but we love our Eurohike Windsor 6 Man (Blacks/Millets).

Don’t be put off by the make, we own a Lichfield and another smaller Eurohike. For the price, and leisure use, they are fine.

I’ve posted a review somewhere to one of the UK camping sites.

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I’m being overly pedantic for this thread only, but strictly speaking an acronym would be RADAR, SCUBA, PIN etc. and an initialism would be GMT, HTML etc.

That’s not being pedantic. Words that made up of initials already have a name as you’ve correctly pointed out, the whole point about acronyms is that they form a pronounceable word.

And Tucker, I always thought that the stress in the word ‘controversy’ could go on either the first or second syllable.

Interesting. I was always taught first only. And a quick Google turns this up.

Might be an age thing? I’m 46.

People, especially those in the media, who incorrectly pronounce ‘privacy’ and/or ‘controversy’. I’m not even sure why they pronounce them wrong, is it to appease the Americans?

e.g. means ‘for example

i.e. means ‘that is to say’

Very different meanings.

Adding the last word of an acronym into a sentence ie The GMT time is

People that don’t know what an acronym is. :roll:

People that don’t know when to use i.e. and when to use e.g. :roll:

Merlin