Trekkinn have SKS Bluemels from £15….

These are bluemel 65s which appear to be £27 on Trekkinn.

Second month in a row of sweet FA ☹️

Pah, 2 months with nothing – we’re on £25 on 8K over 17 months and counting. I’ve considered moving the money elsewhere many times, at some point I’m going to do so!

We have an old style (2003) volvo s40. A Voodoo Bizango goes in with front wheel off and back seats down, as does a road bike. Bit of a pain to get them in but they do fit.

I use milton tablets, as in the baby bottle sterilizing stuff. Entirely removes the smell from my gloves and I’m working on the assumption that if it’s safe enough for babies it can’t be doing that much damage to a pair of gloves. Also dead cheap!

To follow up on the 6 month old comments now that this thread has popped up again… I had a huge hole in a Marathon supreme a few months ago. I plugged it with 2 dynaplugs, can’t remember if it was 2 fat or 1 fat/1 skinny.

It’s been fine since, though the pointy end has come off one and is rattling (haven’t bothered taking it off to remove yet!). I run this tyre at 80 PSI.

A follow up on this having gotten around to some repairs last week…

So turns out Dynaplugs are some kind of voodoo and I take it all back, should have been prepared beforehand I guess, next time I expect it to be a trivial roadside repair.

Leo, Boris, Trump, Pope Francis & Mary a ten year old Irish girl were on a flight with just 4 parachutes . As the plane went down they were short one parachute, they agreed Leo should go first when he said ‘I need to sort out the corona virus in Ireland,I need one ‘ & off he went, Boris was next and said ‘Im the smartest man in England, I simply cannot die, I have to survive’, and out he jumped with a parachute, next was Trump and he said ‘I’m need to keep America great and sort out this corona virus’ and out he jumped.. one parachute left, Pope Francis said , little Mary you take it, I have lived a good life, you are young with your whole life ahead of you… take it. Mary replied.. it’s ok Francis, there’s two parachutes left, the smartest man in England took my school bag.

My wife’s also a teacher and is a little more public spirited. Her pupils are coming up to GSCEs and many of their parents work in the NHS.

+1

It’s been eye opening (and somewhat depressing) to see which of my friends are public spirited and which care about themselves only.

You wouldn’t post a thread “innertubes, really worth it?” if you got a puncture and hadn’t attempted to repair it yet

No! I would just have replaced the tube and carried on! What I was expecting to do here but not possible without a hacksaw this time! :)

I’ve never used a the valve nut on a tube, guessing I probably shouldn’t have on the tubeless valve either. I’m assuming it’s just the road grime that’s gotten in and corroded the threads. The nut is certainly more substantial that a tube nut (maybe twice as thick).

Only happened this morning so not tried any repair yet.

Mavic all road come in around £250 too. I got a rear a few weeks ago running tubeless, seems good to me.

I assume you can run both LMS and squeezelite on a Rasperry Pi with Raspian (I run LMS on a debian server and squeezelite on a debian linux frontend box but don’t see why they both can’t run on the same box).

<https://forums.slimdevices.com/forumdisplay.php?27-Logitech-Media-Server&gt;
<https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?97046-Announce-Squeezelite-a-small-headless-squeezeplay-emulator-for-linux-(alsa-only)&gt;
<https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?111486-Squeezelite-on-Pi4-playing-way-too-fast&gt;

Android remote control
<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.org.ngo.squeezer&hl=en&gt;

Should be pretty straigh forward.

I used these for the first time this morning in Glasgow (it was above freezing this morning here). I was also wearing my normal gloves underneath. It’s 10K door to door, normally I arrive in work with numb hands. Was sweaty this morning.

I’m using Marathon Supreme TL-Easy for commutting, no punctures yet (1 year) and not much wear either. Come in 35mm and 40mm (I’m using 40s). Maybe heavier than you want though…

Don’t forget it’s >£50k taxable pay before it’s reducing, so take your pension contributions off your gross pay. If you’re still >£50k think about extra pension contributions as getting the child benefit effectively makes the pension contribution cheaper.

Also remember that it’s calculated after any salary sacrafice, so you can deduct childcard vouchers (at least the ones I get which are the original vouchers @243/month) and cycle to work payments.

Have considered that but not keen – Have had to replace the washer twice in the last 2 years. Once glued that is not possible anymore and sods law says that the washer will fail the day after it’s glued.

These. They don’t last forever but as good as anything else, take 2xaaa batteries and last a good while on flash mode which is plenty bright enough.

Buy a few and replace when the die (I’ve had some last a couple of years, some 6 months).

Ditto liquid detergents. Ours was the same until we realised this and quit using them. Been fine ever since.

Now at 6 months with 8K (actually 8.2K) and nothing.

Far better in our battered lawn mower (much easier to start).

I use a Buzz Rack Quattro on a 53 plate volvo s40. Would recommend (the rack).

https://www.roofbox.co.uk/scripts/rbvehsel4_tab.php/all-products/buzz_rack_buzz_quattro_tilting_4_bike_carrier_no_brp204/Qx%40w%2C6M4PHS%2CZGenkQvENtmU%2C2

Do you have a carbon monoxide alarm?

Yes

I’ve asked a couple of installers/plumbers about this specifically and as to whether or not they should be serviced regularly.

Both said it’s not worth either servicing or insuring. Better to put aside the money you would spend for repairs if necessary.

We we’re in a flat for 12 years and spent £300 on repairs in that time for the already old when we moved in Worchester boiler. The boiler was never serviced.

We’re now in our house 2 years with a newish (think around 4/5 years old) potterton boiler. Have spent nothing on this yet.

Both plumbers we’re friends of friends who install/service boilers.

Take from this what you like, I plan to continue spending nothing on our boiler until it breaks down, but then I’m not a great believer in insurance in general.

Last 4 pairs I’ve gotten (whole family) were PoqSwim googles off of Amazon. Pretty much a copy of the speedo vanquisher googles at a quarter of the price.

Just went to get you a link for Amazon to find they’ve disappeared. Guess they’re a bit too much of a copy!

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Here’s the speedo version, best cheap googles I’ve found, but TBH having gone through loads of pairs I don’t think the same googles work for everyone.

https://www.allensswimwear.co.uk/speedo-opal-goggle-8-083378163.html
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8k put in 4 months ago, nothing still.

I’ve got a kit similar to the one above (more dies I think) that does various press fit install and extract. Completely painless. Was < £30 on Alibaba, took an age to come but best value bit of bike kit I’ve bought by a long way.

The frame is BB86 Road and no adapter was needed, this was a straight replacement for the Praxis BB, 24mm cranks.

I have just replaced the factory fitted Praxis BB in my Fuji 1.5. It lasted I year + 1 winter of commuting daily all weathers. In the end there was literally nothing left – totally disintegrated, when taking it out only the outer shell remained.

I’ve replaced it with a Rotor BB.

They might not be as bad as you imagine.

These really are. The worst damange being were someone has attacked one with a chisel removing a solid chunk of wood for no apparent reason, on top of this the panels are split and we have huge gaps beteen the batons.

I did caulk and gloss all the doors in our old flat and they came up not too bad, though at the same time not perfect. These doors are in worse condition than any of those and I’m just not seeing we’ll ever be happy with them if fixed up in a half assed fashion.

We bought a bedroom suite from The Painted Furniture Company last year and are very pleased with it.

My 910xt is the same. It adds the odd length.

Same here. I use this site to fix the miscounts.

I have a 2 year old pair, rather than the newest model – looking at the websites though they seem fairly similar though.

IMHO they’re not great in the wet (Glasgow). The neoprene collar seems to soak up water and then dump it inside. They’re fine if the road is wet but to keep my feet dry when it’s raining heavily I wear waterproof socks. After a down pour the whole inside of the boot is soaked.

Or, if your friend can bear to lose the 11t then use the 11speed cassette with the 10speed 1.85mm spacer behind it, on the 10speed freehub with a 12t lock-ring. Set the high and low limit screws and the 11 speed groupset will work as a 10 speed with one redundant shift.

I’m running a 105 11-28 cassette with one of the rings removed, can remember which, with 105 11s shifters + derailleur.

It works perfectly but was no good with a 1.85mm spacer, I’m using a 1.5mm spacer from here behind the 28t cog.

For a few months only probably worth looking into a 4G rolling sim (assuming decent coverage) rather than being tied into a long contract/buyout with virgin.

I have a couple of of these  ratchet straps already, I’m not sure I’d trust these alone in strapping it down though, would it not just fly out forward/backwards at the first opportunity and spear someone/something?

Thanks, I’d not come across the hg700 before, looks like it is the ultegra equivalent in 105.

This would have been ideal but for the fact that it looks like I’ve got a standard length rear derailleur (and it seems not to be readily [or at least cheaply] available in the UK) so would end up not much better off than running with a cog removed (would lose the 34T rather than the 11T though).

I’m going to pick up another 105 11-28 cassette and see how I get on running it as a 10S.

I saw the Ultegra cassette but I don’t really want to splash out that much on a cassette for winter use in Glasgow!

Plaster to what though? It’s just a hole currenly with nothing behind it.

It’s been quite a few years since I did this, and my checks at the time were more like $1500/year but…

Cheapest way to do it then was using a Citibank dollar account and Transferwize.

Thanks (I think). Will try a new topic with the correct subject…