Any question answered...

Schwalbe should sufficient (20mm).

I put an ancient CRT telly outside my front door at my last place in south london for the council to collect, not even on the street, right by the door, hidden by a car, and tacked an apologetic note to it for my various neighbours.

The fairies spirited it away less than 12 hours later and it was with a heavy heart that I needed to cancel the 50 quid council pickup. It must have given whoever took it quite the workout as it weighed a fucking ton. They'll take basically anything, and very quickly.

I put a shitty computer desk outside (£20 from tesco and not particularly clean) and a under-sink bathroom organiser thing and they were gone in under an hour!

In fact, apart from the beds most of my old flats have been furnished almost entirely from street finds. It's a handy London thing I think

I wonder if it's a bit too suburban and settled round here for that - there are a couple of local spots where small bits of furniture regularly appear and then stay for days/weeks becoming more ruined before eventually someone clears it away...
It's a knackered old satellite dish, it's not like you can furnish a room with it...

It's a knackered old satellite dish, it's not like you can furnish a room with it...

True, you'd need more than one for that

^ ergo nightmare

My metalbed frame got taken when I was leaving dowanhill Road in less than an hour

(by trawling metal resellers)

Wow, I had always thought molasses came from a date palm. Because this kind of molasses was always used extensively in my family. I just thought ALL molasses was the same for some reason.

For those who have never tried this stuff, its good. And cheap. It looks just like regular molasses and costs the same or less. If you go to a Bangladeshi store you can often find it being sold in the original clay pot which was hung high up on a palm to collect the sap.

Looking at wikipedia it looks like this confusion is not restricted to myself only;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molasses#/media/File:Bhapa_Pitha_Bangladeshi_Style,_3_February,_2013.jpg

Under the general page for molasses they show a pitha (equivalent, a kind of rice flour crumpet) being flavoured with "Molasses" - but the only kind of molasses that would end up on a pitha in Bangladesh is the Sap of a Palm Tree, caller "Gur" a staple form of sugar in everything except tea.

A couple of Autumns ago I was having a tidy up:
the innards of a bed settee being the biggest lump.

I took it and some other stuff to a 'recycling yard'.
'Its iron mate, no good to me',
realising I was close to living a Billy Bragg song title,
[Arguing about metallurgy with the scrap man],
I visited another place who offered me £3,
but claimed they could only issue cheques for at least £5.

I went home and remembered i had some copper and brass bits,
from plumbing, and from dissecting abandoned gas boilers found in skips,
(I was trying to find a flat plate heat exchanger),
and some bits of scrap aluminium.

As I was carrying these across the pavement to the Espace,
a clean, new hire van pulled up alongside me.
Surprisingly it was some freelance street cleaners,
(round here they tend to use near-MOT failure Transit pickups with a scrawny
school age kid on the roof of the cab looking over the fences).

A bit of bargaining was ended when one answered the phone
and said t'other,'We gotta go, one of our dogs just got shot'.

freelance street cleaners

Nice euphemism.

If you're worried that nobody will take it, when you put it out tie a cheap £2 bike lock around it. Guaranteed to be gone within the hour.

The little plastic "adjuster" piece that comes with record threadless headsets, where does it go? Can't find a diagram or picture

I need some old style serif Roberts decals, where? Preferably solid black but black with a white key line could work...

Do you mean the plastic ring that looks like a crown? It goes slots-up on top of the upper dust seal, below the top bearing cover

Like these:
http://bicycledecals.net/robertsdecals.htm

That's the one, I'll have a look at that tomorrow, thanks!

TS, If you're struggling to find the right ones, but you have the artwork to hand then I can get some cut for you mate.

Have they opened Richmond Park back up in the evenings yet? I tried to cut through last Sat but they were still bambi shooting.

Do you even colours, bro?

Cheers, @roboto!

Are there any neat and preferably removable solutions to having disc tabs and track ends that would leave a frame track legal?

Any reason to avoid cranksets with GXP bottom brackets that I'm missing?

Two questions:

1. Are there any carbon frames with traditional, non-compact geometry and horizontal TTs?
   
2. What's the correct terminology in this simplified situation. Say you have the ingredients for a Martini. You have the spirit (gin or vodka), the vermouth (just the one choice) and the garnish (lemon peel or olive). Would you say the recipe has two "variables" (the spirit and the garnish) and if so what's the generic term for the choices for each variable? I feel like there are mathematical terms to use. People often refer to the vodka, the gin, the olive and the lemon peel as "variables" but they are one level below that.
   

Can anybody think or a reason why one of my headsets (a standard 1/1/8 CK) binds when I turn to the right (90deg) and loosens when I turn to the left (again 90deg). During riding this is obviously not an issue but there must be mechanically wrong for it to do that.