scary_jeff

I've had a bit of lower back pain which I've just put down to riding with this new geo (back nowhere near vertical). If it's a pain at a specific point, you should see someone about it. If it's just a general pain after a couple of hours riding, then it's probably just muscle ache.

It's really stupid to hack a site like this, but if someone who thinks that "U have To Strong it" is a real sentence can hack it, the security must have been pretty weak. Nobody who knew what they were doing would bother with a site like that, there's probably some program that auto-hacks their particular forum software version.

Great, thanks for the replies. I was looking at something like that, but the word ISIS was putting me off. I have the correct extractor tool, but standing on the end of the spanner doesn't seem to be doing it so far. I'll have to borrow a bigger spanner. Cheers!

Hi Stupid question, I need to order a BBTool, but have no idea what sort to get. The BB is 68 mm according to Onza (it's a zoot) Here's a 'probably not that helpful' picture: I'm pretty sure there's 20 teeth. Also can anyone tell what kind of crank fitting that is? I think it's square taper but I haven't been able to get the crank off to prove it. I think the axle is too narrow for ISIS but I've never seen this 'octalink'. The cranks are middleburn.

Just bought it on play... only £0.65! What a great idea, so sick of the endless xfactor drones.

Someone said the youtube thing that scans for copyrighted music only checks against the first 30 seconds of the song, so you could try starting 30 seconds in, Never tried it myself though.

What's the harm in sending this part to Matt to analyse properly if there is no chance of a warranty replacement anyway? Whether the spacer was there or not, the failure could still be down to a manufacturing fault, which coincidentally happened to line up with some other features of the assembly. A lecturer at uni had a car part fail which the manufacturer told him was not covered under warranty because it was caused by bad driving style. He took some images using an SEM which clearly showed a casting defect resulting in a weak point in the part, sent them to the manufacturer, and they paid for the replacement

I didn't say smoking is stupid. I'm not sure what views it is make you want to chain smoke, but they certainly aren't 'views like mine', because you don't seem to have understood my one simple point.

I didn't tell you you could not state your view, I said doing so was irresponsible. I didn't make any comment regarding your particular smoking situation, which frankly has no relevance whatsoever. I didn't say smoking couldn't be held in a positive light, I said it was irresponsible to do so. I think it's clear who hasn't read whose post.

I'm talking about this year! Onza stock the correct (Ronnie) rim, but that is 36H so no good for me. 32H plus not wanting a drilled rim left me with only 2 or 3 choices, I had already spent more than I really wanted to on the bike, so I got a 'FireEye' rim which was pretty cheap. Working well so far, but I'm only a beginner really.

A Zoot. It's designed for 38mm, and a 32mm rim (rhyno lite) would only allow me to use ~25% of the brake pads. Pretty unusual situation I guess, but I think it's worth checking the rim you get is wide enough before buying.

If you're using a rear maggie, make sure the rim you get is wide enough for this to actually work in your frame. I needed 35mm+ which ruled out a lot of rims. Another solution is offset mounts, but this is a more expensive solution that just finding a wider rim. You might be able to find a drilled 24" DX32, someone posted a link a while ago, search should bring it up.

If you think smoking doesn't hurt anyone else, it's you who needs to grow up. It's an attitude and comments like yours that would convince more people to start smoking. Even if you yourself have no interest in giving up smoking, portrying it in any kind of positive light is just plain irresponsible, especially on a forum where lots of people are at an age where they might consider starting.

I redid one of my 4bolt mounts using a £15 kit off ebay. Drill not included of course, but you're also meant to use cutting fluid which wasn't included either. It did come with about 20 inserts though. One tip if you do it yourself: don't try and be clever and put two inserts in... it doesn't work, at least it didn't for me.

The wiki is good for bleeding, but are there any tips for setting up/aligning the calipers using 4 bolt mounts? I always find this a real pain in the ass, and almost impossible to get the pad alignment perfect.