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  1. Here's one I photographed earlier The avid IS-PM adaptor is thinner and wasted away, additionally it looks like you don't have the full compliment of conical alignment washers (should be 4 thick and 4 thin per caliper). I would just cut your offending nubbin off
  2. forteh

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    I've finally finished the design for the pedal car that I'm making for a local cycling community project I say making, talking nicely to the machineshop and welding bay at work
  3. Needs a turbo? Would 450bhp be too much?
  4. It's likely binding on the spacer tube between the two bearings, take the wheel out and give the axle a light tap on one end, that might be enough to remove the axial preload on the ball races.
  5. Persephone is four today, when did that happen! We bought her a purple ukulele
  6. forteh

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    With shipping from Australia
  7. forteh

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    Farkin hell they saw you coming with the steel didn't they? Won't the smaller hipsters escape through the holes in the mesh?
  8. Don't you dare drive down to Lichfield to steal him for your collection!
  9. 5 days old, put on 3 oz, now 10lb 12oz, babies are supposed to lose birth weight aren't they? We settled on Aneurin Fox for the name, took about 40 seconds of deliberation, if only brexshit was so easy! edit: named in part after Nye Bevan
  10. It's me that gets to put them through the washing machine though!
  11. Cloth nappies you say? How does that work?
  12. Well he kept us waiting an extra 8 days, no name yet but born at home with an hours labour, 10lb 9oz everyone doing excellently
  13. forteh

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    Do you require such a storage solution for your collection of hipsters? How many do you have? Asking for a friend
  14. You young whippersnapper you! Forty in 2 months, when did that happen?
  15. Mike is telling fibs, he's a demon up hills!
  16. Nope, wasn't last night Well she's a seasoned pro, this is only my second time but if it goes anything like the first time then it will be awesome; Watch this space!
  17. T minus three days, might be tonight, she's feeling niggly
  18. @MadManMike is your man I suspect, be carefull though he might try to ply you with rum, hot peppers or perhaps a new haircut
  19. If you put a taper on there then you may need a self extracting crank bolt on the end of the axle to draw the hub off, shouldn't be too much hassle to achieve
  20. Use an 8mm back plate, box section the same size as existing and put a spreader / backing plate on the other side to stop the tube crushing. Rotabroach through in situ and jobs a good un.
  21. Easy enough to do, I would go with the layout of the upper photo above, utilising the vertical members to make attachment easier. Make four gallows brackets the same size, the two inner ones will be inverted and in tension, the two outer ones will be in compression. Some sort of tube clamp can then be used to hold your 1" gas pipe on, at a pinch it could probably be lashed on with some decent rope. Depending on how big the existing steelwork is you may be able to use either keeklamps or lindapters (or similar) to clamp the gallows bracket, ideally bolting through or welding would be better but you might be limited to what tooling you can get there.
  22. 1. Business plan. 2. Bank loan. 3. Get premises. 4. Fix hondars. 5.???? 6. Profit. 7. Rinse. 8. Repeat.
  23. Plates are thicker I believe, certainly I've heard of plenty of people preferring less gears for a more reliable chain. Edit : 9 speed is 6.7mm wide, 12 speed is 5.25mm, that's 22% wider. Roller width is the same but the links need to be narrower to fit the cassette spacing.
  24. Still on 9 speed 32 by 34-11, does fine for all of the riding I do. Much stronger chain as well. Next time I replace drivetrain I'll probably up the chainring to 36ish and cassette up to 42 or so, give a little more at both ends of the range
  25. Couldn't tell you, I have a hope titanium square taper and RS7s
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