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Car flew through the mot this morning, only advisory is a carry over from last year simply because I've been too lazy to change the rear pads Not too shabby for a twelve year old Ford with 166k on the clocks! Treated it to a new battery and rear wiper, nothing like pushing the boat out

Unfortunately this is a bicycle trials forum with less of the two stroke required to make the bikes run Try asking the same questions on the trials central forums and you'll probably have a much better response

https://m.pinkbike.com/buysell/2420137/ That's a f**king bargain! Would need to switch rear axle and sort out a local mate to collect and post them to you.

I'm always lurking here The forks are sitting here doing nowt, got to reassemble the air spring and pack out the top out spring (it's snapped a coil off the bottom but a nylon spacer will fix it). I've serviced the damper and there will be fresh oil throughout. It probably feels sluggish because all the bearings are shot and a misaligned rear mech will add a lot of drag. 20psi in tubed tyres won't help either, if you can be bothered to sort out the faff of tubeless then you can run much lower pressures without so much rolling resistance. I just picked up a conti trail king 2.2 pure grip (almost as sticky as the black chilli) which works perfectly set up tubeless; cost a whole 20 quid. Because most people are 27.5 or 29 now you may well pick up a pair of tubeless wheels for cheap. I'll have a trawl of pinkbike abs see if anything jumps out

Anyone? Mike's washing his hair so looks like I'm holding the torch on my own

Fork bushings will be shot, not a lot you can do bar some new forks, lower leg oil changes are a thing you know Some rockshox reba's would probably fit nicely, the difficulty now is finding decent forks with straight steerer tubes. I have got some 26" marzocchi 44 micro ti spare but you would need to sort out a 15mm front through hub/wheel and they're post mount so might need an adaptor for the front brake; they would be miles ahead of the suntour ones I would be looking at 100+postage at cost for them. Sack off the front mech and convert it to a narrow wide single front ring, pick up a new hanger and an slx mech, new cassette and chain and you're good to go drivetrain wise. Bleed the brakes to stop the fade. Pick up some new wheels, trawl pinkbike for what you need. The old mountain kings were a bit shite, the new mk2 version is much better. Before we can offer links, let us know what you want, wheelsize, axle size (diameter/length/qr/through axle?), number of gears, current gear ratios

That tortoise beaks are sharp?

He'll have the run of the garden when it's warm enough, we may extend the width of the enclosure towards the hot shed end to increase the living area as technically we could go almost across the width of the house. Will play it by ear as he grows, already got some grasses growing and will try to get a good set of beds seeded for food. Being desert torts I don't think they normally subsist purely on grass, a huge amount of fibre though. He's got an indoor temporary setup so will be a house tort for a while. I may well be picking your brains about the hot shed!

Those bike's are way outside of my budget so it had to be the reptile! We're going to build it an outdoor enclosure 13'x3', brick base 12-18" deep to start with, caged over the top with wire mesh, removable polycarb infill panels so we can make it a hothouse if need be (with alternative kingspann insulated panels for winter). A heated insulated shelter at one end with UV, ambient and basking spot. Going to be filled with soil for burrows and seeded for appropriate foodstuffs. When the weather is warm enough it will be able to have free roam of the garden (largely slabbed, concrete and sleepers so no major damageable items), all of the flowerbeds are already fenced off because Bilbo is a 37kg idiot of a labrador with a penchant for eating stuff he shouldn't*, just got to ensure that any plants accessible are sulcata suitable; will help keep the weeds from growing through the patio He** is two about 2 years old and around 7" long, Persephone is adamant that he's going to be called Nelson, not entire sure why but it is impossible to argue with three year olds *rose bushes, tomato plants, sundews, ferns, strawberries, loganberries, sleepers, rocks, concrete, astroturf, poo, screwdrivers, woodscrews, dogbeds, grass, mud, slate, building sand, toddlers plates, cellophane, gaffatape, zipties, wood, foam floor mats and fake leading on the french windows.... **Mrs wife thinks it's a he due to a slightly concave plastron but too early to tell for sure.

Picking up a sulcata on Saturday

I didn't even ask for it which is almost unheard of our company! That said, I was going to ask for one the very same day the payrise letter came through the post

Oh I had 2% at christmas as well but that's a company wide thing To be fair I've been underpaid for what I do for years so it's nice to get some recognition, I guess I should be on another 5k or so but it's a start!

I've had a really good couple of months... Invited onto the solidworks 2019 uk beta programme and found significant bugs. Had a 15% payrise out of the blue. MD agreed to buy me the finite element stress analysis package for solidworks so can value engineer things properly and make things better! Got 5.5k back on ppi claims. Bought the wife a 2200 quid cargo bike for 1100, cheaper than learning to drive and running a car. Went and collected it borrowing a van from work for nowt. Cars exhaust flexi was blowing, about 30 months ago I had the original ford one (which was welded to the manifold and split) replaced by MIJ exhausts in Walsall for 115 quid walk in walk out jobbie which was reasonable I thought. Two weeks later the hanger bracket they welded on snaps and takes the flexi with it, take it back in and they weld a new one in no problems with a stronger bracket; all is well and it goes through the next two MoTs. About 18 months ago it started rattling again and blowing from the flexi, as it was outside of the 12 month warranty I left it to see if it was flagged on last years MoT which it wasn't. It's gotten progressively worse over the last 12 months, car sounds like a loud tractor, is obviously blowing, bottom end torque dropped off dramatically and fuel economy plummeted by a good 10-15 mpg so I figured I would take it back and stump up the 100 odd quid to replace it again. Book the afternoon off work and got it in, manager takes a look at it, personally replaces flexi with new along with a new flange, gasket and slip joint. Does it all FoC as a warranty repair, despite it being almost 3 years since they did the first one, top notch service! Engine is now more responsive, quieter, smoother and mpg is back up in the 50s Need to get a dog crate to transport bilbo in the car, he outgrew his old one (not that it would have helped any in a crash because it was just a wire mesh one), I designed one to be fabricated out of polypropylene and handed it over to the fabricator we use at work to quote me a price, unfortunately he's snowed under so hasn't gotten round to it. Just out of random curiousity I checked ebay for tranzk9 boxes (they're top spec, last longer than your car bit of kit) and there was one to suit the s-max with 2 hours left on the auction and only 40 minute drive away. Won the bid with 200 quid, they're close to 400 new Booked in to see the midwife tomorrow morning Must be a bunch of good karma all come at once

Well the 40 does refer to its height in inches, I've only ever seen one at a ferrari oc meet in Lichfield, pure automotive engineering porn

Push the pistons back into the caliper, centralise it onto the disk and see how it goes. If the same pad is still rubbing after resetting it then it's likely to be a sticky seal. Take the pads out and thoroughly clean inside the caliper with a small squirt of brake cleaner and a small brush. Gently pump the pistons out a little and using an unfolded paperclip put a drop of oil on the seal. You can use brake oil but be careful not to get it on paintwork and use only a tiny amount. Push the pistons back in, pump them out, re-oil and repeat till both pistons are moving equally when you pull the lever. Clean up any excess oil with a clean cloth and refit the pads.

Like a blood stain that won't wash off

Only a few weeks time, I appear to have a badly bruised right side patella tendon which is less than ideal Who's coming?

We didn't do speeches, or a first dance, or toasting, or cake cutting (forgot) or a seating plan, or a sit down meal. We did however have tables full of cake, kegs full of cider, barrels full of wine, roll top bath full of beer, hog roast and a live band Oh and a Morris traveller to cart us around in!

Turns out that the bug I found in the solidworks2019 beta test was a pretty f**king big one, to the tune of the 7th most important, globally for beta 1 Got my name on the list of the top ten beta testers on the planet, well it was never going to be for riding a trials bike

7 3/4 hour round trip and we have a cargo bike Needs a new rear tube putting in, cables lubing, front brakes balancing and a couple of patches of missing paint I want to touch up but it's all good. Persephone is going to love it, unfortunately mrs wife has banned me from mounting catapults, bows and arrows, axle knives and a klaxon to it!

I personally wouldn't have put too much value on them, they're non adjustable and the steel stanchions so would guess they're either a base level oem trail fork or DJ. Cleaned up and serviced I would say 50-75 off the top of my head, knowing which model they are might help. Fwiw I paid 80 for my 44 rc3ti, 110 for my 44 tst micro and 180 for my x fusion vengeance hlr. All straight steerer and the x fusion are the best of the lot and in many ways equivalent to most modern forks.

Having had the ppi monies in the bank for a few weeks now we've been on the hunt for a cargo bike. Found a babboe curve in Hammersmith for 1100 quid which I'm collecting tomorrow evening! Unfortunately it's wider than both the front door and rear gate so it's going to have to live out in the front garden. Spent this afternoon clearing and levelling an 8'x6' area and casting a ground anchor into concrete to tie it down. Going to get it slabbed in the next few weeks but will do for now. Rather randomly, a stray spur thigh tortoise wandered up the garden path. No idea whose it is and no one has come looking so far, going to see if it's chipped at the vets and keep hold for the mean time So the family total bike count is now going to be eleven

The forks are flexing, pedal with less force or reinforce the forks

You're my hero, forget that jenny bird, marry me? [swoon]

I prefer my method to hailing our resident paint spraying expert better!