Any question answered...

Ang on, could be wrong. Might be the other way round. Arrghhh!

Or maybe not. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_brake#V-brakes

So yah, looks like those are linear pull, and will not play that nice with road calipers.

weirdly there are some others on the planet x page that seem to work with all brakes, but i've used v-brake levers with road calipers before and its horrid! Don't want to make that mistake again...

Yeah - I guess you'd have to have the calipers wide open and then the braking would be super weak.

QUESTION: peg board and hooks for a tool-wall. Where from? Posted or collected.

For those gripped by my veal saga, you might be interested to know that Chadwick's supplier let them/me down so they gave me beef shin instead, at a bit of a cut down price. However I did get about half a cow's leg's worth.

yes, take the bike, there's some great fun riding to be done. We went earlier this year and weren't there long enough to fly the bikes out so hired road bikes from this place http://www.terradiversions.com/eng/BarcelonaRoadBike.asp . for a bit extra you can get a gps thing (like a shite garmin) which has pre loaded routes you can choose on the basis of length and ft gain

Fucksticks:

Best place in the UK to order replacement ENVE decals?

^everything's a bit messy and mismatched anyway, so why not leave as is..?

#dammitocdmeltdown

^^reported for decal apartheid.

How can I tell if olive oil is off? Found an unopened well-sealed bottle, BB Aug 2013. Tried a bit, doesn't seem obviously unpleasant other than unexpected pepperiness.

is not off

Mudguard poser:
Which of these will fit on my Planet X RT-57 running 25mm gatorskins?

http://www.ribblecycles.co.uk/sp/road-track-bike/mudguards-road-sks-narrow-guards-with-mudflap-p35-pair/sksamudr225

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/sks-bluemels-reflective-mudguard-set/

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/sks-commuter-road-mudguard/

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/sks-race-blade-clip-on-mudguard-set/

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/sks-bluemels-road-mudguard-set/

I think I like the second set of blumels the most. I'm after some longer guards to keep crap off my groupset as well as my club mates.

Also, which overshoes? I was gonna get the extreme winter DHBs, but they haz soldz outz.

Yes, I am very lazy today. UTFS, etc...

how much clearance on the rt-57, thought it was quite toight

might only have room for:

http://youtu.be/xrB6DRk2cwE

I could only just squeeze road racers on my Nanolight with 23s and they needed some light trimming...

If it tastes ok to you just use it, you won't die much at all.

I would like to purchase some Loctite Hysol 9340 epoxy adhesive.

Would anyone know of anywhere in the UK that would like to sell me this?

Everywhere I've found needs you to call them, and is shut.

Call them on Monday, if you still think what you have in mind is a good idea after a weekend's consideration.

We've found a sofa we really like in the sale, it looks nice and is comfortable. However, it's also a sofa bed, and the normal version of it, which was cheaper, is no longer available.

Is there any downside to having a sofa bed as a main sofa? Apart from people finding out and demanding to stay.

sofa beds are great for doing away with irksome small folk

I need a new freehub body for my Shimano RX31 wheel. A Sheldon article appears to suggest that modern Shimano freehubs are standardised, so I theoretically should be able to fit any Shimano 10 speed road freehub, e.g. this.

However, the product description says it is only for 105 hubs. Is this incorrect, or am I misunderstanding Sheldon and actually the freehubs are only standardised insomuch as the cassette splines are all the same?

If the latter, can anyone direct me to some sort of look-up table to tell me what product code I need for the correct freehub?

Apologies for the UTFS-ish question, but my Google-fu is really failing me.

Shimano parts lists usually state where a part is cross-compatible or identical with a part for another product. Although the RX31 freehub isn't strictly identical to anything else, the attachment spline, 10mm axle and 9×¼" loose ball bearing are common to a lot of Shimano hubs, so you should be able to use pretty much anything with the proviso that the seal ring will probably need to be matched to the freehub body, and the OLN spacing may be fractionally off. The RX31 is 11-speed, which has a wider freehub rotor than 8/9/10-speed, so you will definitely be off with the spacing. A complete FH-5800 hub from Wiggle barely costs more than the 5700 freehub rotor, I'd be inclined to buy a whole hub and gut it for the spare parts to fix your RX31 wheel.

2 Attachments

• EV-FH-5800-3719.pdf
• EV-WH-RX31-R-3649.pdf

my Google-fu is really failing me

Nearly all Shimano questions can be answered by googling [part number] + EV + pdf for exploded views or [part number] + SI + pdf for fitting/maintenance questions.

They weigh a fuck-tonne more than a conventional sofa, so check access into your property.

Thanks Tester, very much obliged. I will remember that trick for the future.

Rather embarrassingly, your answer also indirectly answered my un-asked question of "how the hell did I damage the splines of my freehub so quickly?". Answer - I installed a 10 speed cassette on it without a sodding spacer! Don't know how the hell I missed that when I fitted it. Expensive lesson learned.