Any question answered...

Is that a giant butt plug?

Well it's certainly fairly big, yes.

it's where i store my berghaus packable jacket

I use a £6 decathlon one often. It's cheap and nasty for the most part but folds into itself so the pocket becomes a pouch and then lives in my bag. Don't depend on it for any warmth layers under are for that. Not as boil in a bag water collecting as my other thicker waterproof(that now never gets worn).

euph?

Will a DA 7900/50 chainset play nicely with the rest of a 6700 groupset?

where's the best place in London to take a frame with a stuck seatpost if I'd rather the paint job isn't destroyed?

Is there such a thing as a carbon fork with front rack mounts for caliper brakes? I've found this for v brakes but was wondering if the former exists?

I've got a set of campagnolo mirage brakes which are missing barrel adjusters - does anyone know where I can get a suitable and not too expansive replacement ?
Thanks !

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i have the same problem yesterday. my cludge is using a spoke nipple as end-stop and fitting a flexi-noodle inline adjuster.

very interested to hear about any stash...

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I've always been fortunate with my gearing so have never needed to enter the murky world of the half link, but I think I need to now.

On my tarck biek god's own gear (48x19) just fits with the wheel slammed in the dropout but the chain is super tight and I can't centralise the wheel so it runs straight.

Is a half link what I need?

yes ti will give you almost 1/4 inch

Euph?

Spa cycles do one. I have it (http://www.spacycles.co.uk/products.php?plid=m2b0s29p2625)

Brilliant, thank you. Do you have a rack mounted on yours?

No, just guards. Cue a million people coming here to talk to you about fork rake, trail, front loading and the effects on handling ;)

Kinesis also do one. I'm sure there's lots: http://www.kinesisbikes.co.uk/products/forks/road/tracer-1-5

Is a half link what I need?

No. Everything will be better with a full link pair in there, moving the wheel back ½"

^ Everything? Like what? I'd rather move it back less than half an inch...

Chain will work better if its uniform. Not all half links are made the same + they can stretch weirdly.. But they exist for a reason and the 1/4 inch is that reason.

So get a full half link chain?

Get an 18.5 tooth sprocket instead?

I wouldn't. Its your call. They are just a worse type of chain.
Mdcctester s correct from engineering point of view and practical etc. But if you want mad tight bike. Like just mad tight.
Fit a small 23c?

Has anyone seen tried the rennen bmx decimal chain rings? They come in .1 tooth increments I'm not shibbing you.
Opinions from @mdcc_tester ?

Change the sprocket and chainring so you get approximately the same ratio with a different fraction-of-a-link. There are online calculators for this.

I think it's nonsense as at some point the chain would have to skip forward or backward by a tooth.