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Slight question dredge as Rogan asked similar - I'm going to be in Victoria tomorrow as it is an interchange in a convoluted rail journey. I'm looking for a new helmet and I have a weird shaped head. Are there any big bike shops around the area that might have a decent selection to try on?

I know dopplekorn said Condor before but they only list ten models online, two of which are pisspots and I've already struck out at shops with larger selections than that.

My fiancée uses cornflour on her clothes. I'm not sure how/why it works or quite how to do it but it seems to get results.

As an absolute last resort WD40 will usually dissolve dark oil stains, but there is a chance it will leave a lighter oil stain of its own.

Another serious last resort is turpentine, works a charm on oil based stains.
Usual warnings apply.

Trying to put a front brake on a tight steel track fork but the tyre is hitting the underside of the caliper. I want to keep using 23mm tyres if I can.

Any suggestions for a short-reach caliper with lots of space underneath for the tyre?
Already tried an old 105 single-pivot to no avail.

TriRig Omega has a fixed distance from body to brake blocks and the whole brake slides up and down on the pivot bolt to adjust the reach. Campag Delta, Shimano BR-7300 etc. do too, but the TriRig is available and takes normal pads. Might solve your problem, although a new fork would probably be cheaper.

Ive just noticed this morning that the paint on my bob jackson is bubbling from underneath, I can press these bubbles in and some of them just 'push in' and some 'pop'

am i fucked?

Frame herpes.

Its all along the top of the seat stays, and can only have happened over the few weeks. only changes Ive made are fitting mudguards. the seat bridge screw for the mudguard was very well bonded too the hole and felt quite stiff to take out but went back in just fine.

Cant think of anything else of note that may be related

too slow...

Why do pros like Gerald Ciolek and Jens Voight (and others if any) ride inline seatposts?

Can't afford Scherrit?

I saw one of those 'look at a pro's bike' things on a website like road.cc and there was an Aussie pro who rode with a Thomson Elite inline, a ridiculous saddle to bar drop, a ridiculous stem, and 38cm bars which were apparently too narrow for him.

Why? Personal preference, the same reason a lot of us use inline posts.

Cheers, some interesting options. Wanting to keep the original fork and (hard to tell just by looking) not sure that the Tririg would be slender enough even on the lowest setting.
Beginning to think that a 20mm tyre is the way forward. Or a clamp-on brake.

Or a single pivot 105 with the underside destroyed by bad filing.

Forgive me if you've already done so, but have you set up your current brake and seen if it fits then, rather than just having it 'loose'? You should gain a couple mm clearance under a dual caliper with it being cabled up by virtue of the way the arms move when they engage?

not sure that the Tririg would be slender enough even on the lowest setting

If the brake pads hit the rim, the brake body will easily clear a 23C tyre, I've got about 5mm all round between my TriRig and a 700×22 Vittoria Diamante Radiale

This inspired me to see if my single pivot caliper had more or less clearance depending on how open it was. Turns out it has more if it's open, so i've set it up quite wide and that seems to have worked. The gap is worryingly tight though, so my next question is: how tight is too tight? 1mm okay? Rizla paper okay?

Biological soap powder/liquid pre treating.

Pre treat the stain spots with proper Fairy Liquid washing liquid - the stuff you use to wash dishes (not a generic brand). Just pour it on the affected area and pat in in before sticking in the washing machine as normal. It will work a treat and far better than any expensive stain treatments which might damage the clothing.

There is something in Fairy Liquid which dissolves all sorts of oil. When animals get covered in oil they use FL to help remove oil from fur by gently using it neat on the affected areas and then wiping clean. I know this because a few years back my cat was drenched in engine oil and the vet/me tried to clean him but it was so bad he had to be shaved.

Personal preference = fit ?
So I am guessing these are the guys between frame sizes?
I thought laybacks had advantage over inline for dampening and act as suspension ..

Dan martin's F1 with Thomson Layback:

Interestingly I saw his R5 at Sigma yesterday with EXACT same bar set up and 2cm spacers but -17 stem instead; given Cervelo's epic stack ..

So my next question is why not slammed and 6 (or 10) degrees vs 2cm spacers and 17 degrees? Isnt it the same?

Ive just noticed this morning that the paint on my bob jackson is bubbling from underneath, I can press these bubbles in and some of them just 'push in' and some 'pop'

am i fucked?

following on, bursting some of them actual water comes out, so water is getting into the top of the seatstays somehow and its rusting the underneath. ffs.

"Irregardless"

^ Jump to last post in thread fail...

Sounds like Adam Hansen, who also makes his own carbon cycling shoes and chooses to position his race radio on the back of his neck for better aereos. If he finishes the Vuelta, it will be his 10th consecutive grand tour, so it must be working for him.