I hadn’t read this thread until now. Two of us moved that very tree out of the way tonight. Took about 5 minutes without any tools. Enjoy your tree-free trail!

According to the What Car I happen to have here, the retained value after 3 years/36k miles of some of these cars:

Fiat Panda: 33%
Toyota Aygo (and there is a 5 door): 57%
Suzuki Alto: 44%
VW Fox: 48%
Skoda Fabia: 42%
Peugeot 107: 47%
Kia Picanto: 38%

Make of that what you will. The Panda is the most stylish!

Well, if you are considering replacing your boiler, you could replace it with a combi* boiler and then you wouldn’t need a hot water tank at all. And you can run showers from a combi.

*I’m assuming that you are staying oil-fired and that oil-fired combis exist

Well, if you are considering replacing your boiler, you could replace it with a combi boiler and then you wouldn’t need a hot water tank at all. And you can run showers from a combi.

Unless someone has stripped it, the frame is probably lacquered already. And a bit of car wax on top won’t do any harm.

If/when/where the lacquer gets scratched the aluminium underneath will oxidise locally. If there is lots of salt around for a long time it could become a problem, but if you give it the occasional winter wash (and wax) you should be fine.

Shorter bolts (strictly, just the ‘nuts’). Scrounge some from your LBS

Quick, to the rescue…

On-one stems are/were quite low-stack. And you only need to get so the bit of the stem with the top clamp bolt in is actually on the steerer. So if you are 20mm out to start with, you probably only need to gain 10mm back…

Mind you, it is his face, not mine

I don’t know the official answer. But in practice absolutely stupidly tight to stop it slipping (on both).

4 since ~1990. And I still (nearly) have all of them!