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Plastic bearings allow for lower body height and will take more load than an equivalent thickness needle bearing; I would guess the igus bearings are lighter and better physical packaging for a pedal than an equivalent oilite bush. Personally I would rather have slightly higher pedals and proper ball races,my easton flatboys on the intense are still going strong, 17 years old and zero maintenance

The problem with plastic bearings is that they fail very quickly if any abrasive gets in there, the grease will also act as a flush to drag out any contaminants that might have gotten in there. We use uhmwpe (ultra high molecular weight polyethelene) bearings at work in a grit laden sewage slurry environment, they have a constant grease feed which is purely to force any grit out of the seal on the bearing; with the correct maintenance regime they will last for 15-20 years, without then you're lucky to get 3 months before the bearing has destroyed itself and taken the journal shaft with it. Perhaps make it a monthly thing to squelch a load of grease till you get a purge of clean lubricant come out of inboard bearing?

Would expect so, have you been keeping up with the right lubrication regime?

I did, had the mortgage in principle, made the offer and was in within a couple of months. No pushy estate agent, my solicitor sorted everything out and I had no hassle at all, it was almost twenty years ago though. No chain though as the owners had already bought another house and moved out of the property.

I was in the same boat with my intense, ended up with some xfusion vengeance coil and they're absolute monsters. 1 1/8 straight steerer, 150-170 travel, 36mm stantions, high and low compression and rebound. They are astonishingly plush and the damping is excellent. Look into the reviews for them, a very good alternative to fox 36s and massively underrated by most accounts. I lucked on them for 180 quid and couldn't be happier edit: ideally you want the hlr version, there was an OEM version that specialized used that didn't have all the compression damping adjustments. Mine are 2011 models but I think that was towards the last year's that straight steerers were available. Also look at marzocchi 44 or 55 as another option.

Only if you wear the shorts with the thighs

Yeah, I discovered this when I had my supermoto engine cases stove enamalled, every single M6 threaded hole full of grit. In magnesium. f**k me I swore a lot and got very intemate with helicoils. If their blasted before coating then it's worthless trying to chemically strip to try to save the aesthetics like I did as it will be a uniform finish below the powder so you might as just get it reblasted again

If you're planning onrecoating then yes, blasting is better (as long as the blaster doesn't get happy filling the threads with grit!) as it will key the surface better. I specifically wanted the raw factory aesthetic so went for dichloromethane.

If you want it true raw aluminium as in with weld discolouration visible and natural finish on the tubes then it's chemical stripping with dichloromethane (the active ingredient in old formulation nitromors) which is not legal to buy for personal use and is particularly nasty stuff. Blasting it will give a uniform look to the material, losing the original finish on the tubes. I stripped the old powdercoat from my intense 5.5 using dichloromethane and it took days and days of apply, wait, scrape, apply, wait, scrape; many chemical burns were endured and the boilersuit I wore still has bits of red melted powdercoating embedded in it Bear in mind that was 7-8 year powdercoat and it was really hard work, frame came up lovely though

Welcome to wave 3 Meanwhile, our eldest (15) is back in school and the other three are homeschooling full time.

Considered a diesel heater? Might work out cheaper than electric, the Chinese clones are dirt cheap now. Says me who refused to buy a Chinese heater with chinglish instructions for the van and paid four* times the price for a webasto *and that was still a third of the RRP for the webasto heater

Some of us talk funny round here

Murder them quietly?

Fingers crossed, I think in this day and age the possibility for the sellers of completing chain free and quickly can have a massive impact on things. Hopefully it's enough of an incentive

You're doing it wrong, find an old oil burner gixxer motor and hammer that in there

2.4ghz is slower but longer range, turning off the 5ghz won't increase the speed. We have an odd dead spot in the lads room (his pc is hardwired but his phone struggles in one place) which I think is related to the central heating pipes in the floor by his door, when speed testing on my phone, outside his door I would get 140mbit, inside his room it would drop to 25mbit; switching him over to the 2.4 from the 5 improved things because the connection was more stable. See if you can set up the router to give two SSIDs out, one for each band and then force her to use the 2.4ghz. Failing that a powerline adaptor will likely help as it uses your household wiring to put an AP into the room she's in. Essentially, Wifi is shit

Putting this here for lack of a better place to put it, how on earth has a 23 month old stacked that many blocks on a unstable, non level surface. Might point out that he placed the blocks with both hands independently

Why can't we like posts twice? Awesome news

Sensible people get into pc gaming, that way you can laud it over the console players because your machine is more powerful and upgradable and customisable and games are cheap and peripherals are better and vr is better and you can even use it for word and excel! edit: I've managed to resist the last two steam sales some how, think I'm mentally offsetting paying full price for cyberpunk2077, not that I regret doing so because it's rather awesome (118 hours played, currently working through my second playthrough - a pure melee stealth build), but because the tightfist in me is saying that I shouldn't fritter money away on games that I don't have the time to play immediately and will be on sale again soon enough

Nope, just bought it 19 years ago Got fed up of renting after 6 months of starting my job so went and bought a house instead, made full use of the hsbc graduate mortgage and rather pleased I did.

Mortgage meeting today, got 15k fixed rate for 5 years @1.69% then variable or rejig. Taken it over 30 years to keep costs low to start with, by the time the fixed rate is up then we'll have almost 300 quid of cash spare (currently tied up in other debts) which can be hammered into this new one. Not going to miss 50 quid a month and we're getting a half hour floor plan extension, new windows and some rewiring work if needed. Paid 62k for the house, local market value of 161k, adding the extension will only put that up

I'm the same (except older), mrs wife knows that if I actually want something and it's of any reasonable value then I'll just go and buy it myself. Part of being an adult or something I think?

Keep the old one as well, as long as the hardware hasn't actually failed then throwing an ssd in for 30 quid with a fresh install will make a massive difference

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/353260943634 Something like that will be just fine

I picked up a Lenovo g50 for use on a long running site on the isle of man about 5 years ago, i3, 4gb ram and an ssd. Cost about 300 quid on offer and had been great, the ssd really makes a difference. Last week I put a new screen in it as the other one had been cracked, also upgraded the ram to 8gb as windows 10 really is a bit rubbish with 4. It's still going strong and for basic office use it's great.