You want Top Swing

HTH

I guarantee that druid h wil be the first to post, in fairness he almost made me bat for the other team :lol:

I’d like to know what the fellow LBS guys are using these days, my old Shimano ones are finally giving up the ghost after 6 solid years of daily use. Tried some of the new style Shimano ones (with the black handles) and they are fraying cables after 6 months.

Find Park to bulky for my small girl like hands.

What was wrong with the old design? Why did you change it Shimano?

I don’t know the physics of how boiling water affects different materials but I do know it works.

Is that a swing arm I presume?

Dunk in boiling hot water for a few minutes, then try and drift out.

Failing that you need a spigot bearing puller, just managed to get my hands on one at last, will cost £50 though.

Well I haven’t ridden fixed for about 12 years,although I did commute for 3 years on it, I’m sure a couple of kicks in the heels will remind me. Might leave off the SPDs at first or just get used to it on the road.

I presume 32/16T as per SS is a good place to start?

Like the look of that velosolo, thanks for that, anyone know who the distributor is?

Wouldn’t it be cheaper to get a brickie round and just brick it up?

I take it the purchase of new curtains is being driven by a a woman :lol:

What size wheel? 20×1.75″? 500A? 20×13/8″

Let me know, we have a few NOS wheels kicking around as our shop is older than time itself :-)

The left side tyre will always have more wear, that’s due to roundabouts, so if that tyre is more worn down it will pull to the left, but not much.

That was a huge 360, almost looked like slow motion the rotation was so slow 8O

Now they are dissing short travel hardtails, for sale in flea markets :lol:

Yeah seems the wind is picking up, I think alot were getting a banker run in whereas Gee just went for it first time. I reckon he could end up with the win now.

And we’re back in the room :lol:

Was that the froks snapped off? No armour either, double hard.

I had similar with Magura forks and a Diatech headset, the lower cup on the headset was dragging against the steerer. If I backed off the preload the headset would be loose. Nothing a dremel couldn’t sort out (the headset, not the forks). Was only cheap so wouldn’t recommend that for the Cane Creek, beginning to see this more and more in the workshop lately, not sure why though.

I love all those rules,especially …

RULE 32:
Hydration packs are never to be seen on a road rider’s body. No argument will be entered into on this.

Went out Thurs night, got fairly wet, was brilliant, not cold out so who cares about some rain.

That software doesn’t like my PC, but yes I asked in branch and no staff there could tell me if it was genuine or not!

Ho hum – Member
“Your name’s not down, you’re not coming in!”

These are the best threads of eva

FSOL is one of my favs of all time

Time for some dnb me thinks

As above, in order of awesomeness,

Mario Kart

Super Mario (still not finished, wehy are kids games so hard?)

Super Mario Galaxy 2

Keepin’ it old skool

Awesome, the club is back open

Honda Integra, easy get one for that money, FUN all round, although it is slightly practical, can get a bike in the back. Love or hate thing though, personally I loved revving the tits off my CTR.

I guarantee no one has a bigger Camelbak than SFB, personaly I like to carry the minimum possible but then I’m a waif anyhow so don’t like too much extra weight.

Camelbak Lobo is just big enough for most of my rides.

As the muffin man says, got piled into a month ago with my son in the car, he was sitting in the front fortunately, it was only about a 25 mph impact but still enough to cave in the whole of the rear boot. The rear seats were intact however but he definately would have had some injuries. All he got was a slightly sore shoulder from the seatbelt.
Air bags did not deploy though, and the car was written off :-(

‘carry on working hard and you will do well in life’

How wrong he was :lol:

Early nineties dance you say?

Old School

Something new

Triple for me still thanks (3×9), although tempted to go 2×10 soonish once may drivetrain wears out.

Suits the flatish terrain that surrounds me. still don’t like the idea of losing the big ring though, I like to pedal down as well as up.

I’m not really sure what the problem is here, you bought a helmet, which I presume you were happy with at point of purchase. Now you’re not happy because it was made 3 years ago, but it’s still new with a warranty.

I regulary see bike products up to 2 years old fitted to the latest model of bike. Saying that the oldest helmets we have in stock are late ’09. Have you unwittingly been sold the display model? We used to have Giro helmets that are for display only, not for use as a helmet.

Similar problem that I had when I separated from my ex. Had to sell up to pay her off now can’t afford the prices round here.

Made enquiries about a mortgage and was told I would need around a £30k deposit and may still not get a mortgage, dispite the fact I’m paying more in rent than I would a mortgage!

As for council housing, forget it, unless you are the parent in care, which is usually the mother a LA is only responsible for the parent in care.

On the plus side at least my son can stay with me whenever I like, at least my ex didn’t withhold those rights to me, stay with the positives, it’s only money.

My lad when younger used to continually smash his head into things, he’s 7 now and nothing has changed :-)

His legs always look like someone has machine gunned bruises down them, we counted 28 the other day just on his legs!

When my lad was that age we used to put his smallest jeans on and then put on some trackies on top to keep the legs warm, or waterproofs over trackies.

Found a thin small beanie to put under his helmet, as for gloves, go to millets, they do some tiny ones there, got some fleece ones with padding.

Oh and daddies Buff which he hasn’t given back :-(