dave85

Not in the slightest, the bit that broke off could slide out with the brake still jammed on given enough force.

Not necessarily less intelligent, more less imaginative. It doesnt take a volley of cusses to describe every situtation.

Just feel amazed there are a few people left with the modesty and brainpower not to swear blindly at every opportunity. Words do mean something, just because you're hardened to their over-use doesnt mean you should feel sorry to the people who know their meaning.

No, I'm just a wind-up merchant

All these high words and no action, I'm disappointed

Fight Fight Fight Fight

So you bounced about like a loon, thumped someone, and are feeling upset that they kicked you out?

Get him to go down the post office and enquire. Do it yourself too, and while you're at it, see if they've got my bb cup

There are two designs of tensiles, the splined bash ones (the UCI version) and normal ones, imagine that picture with the threads extending all the way up to the arm. On the first tensiles, the thread was very long and you could safely get a bashring on before the freewheel. Without a bashring, the freewheel screwed too far on and instead of tightening down on the arm as it should, it tightened down on the end of the threads. So they included a machined plain section (seen in the pic above). The UCI cranks have a spline to take a 5mm (I think) thick bashring, and still leave enough thread to hold the freewheel. My guess is your bashring has taken up too many threads, leaving the freewheel hanging on by probably only 6 or 8 mil. You'll more than likely have stripped the crank, freewheels are tough beasts so that should've survived.

How thick is that bashplate, does it fit on the splines (do your cranks even have bashplate splines?), and can you remember how much thread was showing when you screwed the freewheel on?

Anyone want to bet on this being a bird problem?

Put the bolt through from the hub side, through the rohloff arm and into the hanger

Sounds a lot like the bolt has corroded/cold welded itself to the helicoil (is the bolt stainless by any chance?) Could've done with some copper grease on it when you put it together, still, bit late for that If it rounded the hexagon, its in bloody tight, so faffing about cutting slots in the head wont help matters cos you just wont get the torque needed onto it (easi-outs and other extractors are a similar story, especially in this small size they tend to break before a well stuck bolt will shift) . Can you get to the bolt head (i.e. is it above a booster?) or is it sunk down? In the first case, get some mole grips on the bolt head, after soaking the thread as best you can in WD40 or similiar and giving it a few taps on the head with a light hammer. If the head isnt visible, try knocking a torx key into the hexagon, there may be enough left for it to bite on. Failing that, drill the head off, disassemble everything and get the mole grips on the remains of the bolt. If you have any other bolts left to get out, get them soaking in WD40 before you even think about taking an allen key to them, it'll save a lot of work. All else fails, you can drill the bolt out, but if you dont immediately understand what I mean by that, you'll probably be best taking it to someone who does know.

Might be a bit tight, can't really see from that photo.

What you're looking for is called a pump characteristic. Briefly, assuming its being driven by a close to constant speed power source, as the pressure being pumped (the head) against increases, the flowrate drops off. As the head decreases, the flowrate increases, depending on the pump design it can be a pretty steep curve, to the point at which losing all head will cause the motor to burn out.

You could try bolting the Rohloff to the inside of the hanger rather than the outside. Looking at it, it may shift the chainline a bit further inwards, but it'll be better 2 or 3 mil in rather than 10 or 12 out.

You missed the point, killing yourself is not ok, and considering it so is bloody selfish, to take a son away from your parents and a brother away from your sister. You can never know what is around, infact I had someone with just that mentality almost hit me the other night when I was out with a tractor. If you truly knew no one was about, surely you would take every blind corner using the full width of the road. Seeing as you're not omniscient, you either dont do that and are a lot more sensible than you make out, or you do and fully deserve whatever is coming.

Yeah, whatever size rotor you have already, you need the corresponding front bracket. You want the Post to IS type here

I tend to use a file to get the worst of the scratches out; if really bad use it like a normal file, then drawfiling (hold the handle of the file in one hand and the end of the file in the other, as you would hold a pair of handlebars, then pull the file towards you). Work your way up to a dead smooth file, make sure any scratches left are fairly smooth (sharp edges cause problems with the final stages). Fine wire wool and brasso or any liquid metal polish, soak the wool and polish away, then clean off with a cloth. Finally a soft cloth and brasso to finish. Always one cloth to put the brasso on and do the majority of the polishing, and one very clean cloth to take it off. Altho metal polish tolerates oil and grease, a wipe over with thinners or meths first helps lots. If you're allergic to files , use different grades of emery cloth, back them up onto a flat bit of wood so it doesnt curve and take the sharp machined edges (in this case the middleburn engraving) off.

This "If I crash and die, so what?" philosophy is f**king stupid. Im hazarding a guess that none of us are orphans, so we all have families. With a very few exceptions, if you stuff your little tin box into a tree, your family are going to be pretty upset about losing you. Regardless of that, if you dont die but your passenger does, how will you face yourself for the next sixty years? Like Chris, just injecting a bit of realism into the proceedings. And by the way, I do drive a mini on an almost daily basis.

You have to own a bike shop to pull that face

As much as you feel it at this time, she's not the only person on the face of the earth who can give you what you want. Don't martyr yourself to her by telling yourself that she can't be replaced, its the best way of screwing your future up. As Kev bluntly put it, things that are on and off as easily as that usually turn into big grief further down the line. Patronising as this will sound, at your age you will bounce back well so long as you put your mind to it. The answer to your frustration and upset cannot be found at the bottom of a bottle. The bottom of an altar is only slightly better. Kicking the door down and trashing the wall only means you have to fix it tommorow. You've a new bike soon, I suggest you take that out for a spin and see the friends that you wont have seen so much for a while. Keep heart

Are they Fall Guy forks?

10 quid pair of clippers that lasts years, or ten quid for a haircut you probably wont like when you get home? big decision

Yeah that's normal, one of the prices you pay for having a low top tube is bad clearance around the cassette area. If you need say, the 18 and the 12, split the cassette up and rearrange it so theyre next to each other. It'll look stupid but works.