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Condor?

Where is the best multi-buy on inner tubes at the moment?

Ribble are normally good for Conti

Taking bikes on planes? I have heard tales that you are meant to let the tyres down to stop them from exploding due to, I assume, lower pressure in the hold. Is this true or just an old wives' tale? I started trying to work it out but my 20 year old knowledge of chemistry and total lack of knowledge about the pressure in aircraft holds meant that didn't go very far.

Taking bikes on planes? I have heard tales that you are meant to let the tyres down to stop them from exploding due to, I assume, lower pressure in the hold.

If they're pumped up near their limit then, yes, best to let a bit (20%) of air out as the lower pressure in the hold will increase the chance of them blowing and causing damage to your rim/tyre.

No need to deflate them completely though.

Take a bag of crisps on the plane with you. Observe.

I'm interested who cut these Nervex lugs on my Rory O Brien frame? Any ideas?

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It has an oil cap above the BB if that helps date it

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Ohhh that is awesome. Love the lugs and the oil cap is awesome!

The hold is not necessarily pressurised.

I know. The cabin usually is, equivalent to about 2500 metres, and look what happens to a bag of crisps there.

If you left a tyre inflated to 100 psi in the unpressurised hold there is a chance it would burst. So dropping pressure to, say, 50 psi stops that and still protects the rim from damage.

I have had tub success at the Evans near Mortimer street.

Sorry, misread your post as implying not much would happen.

Sounds like I should let some air out then, cheers all.

5 Vittoria for £20 from Wiggle is my go-to.

I went for 10 Vittoria for £37 from Ribble.

3 Specialized tubes for a tenner from Cyclesurgery - varying valve lengths.

Dammit...

Your 3.33 a unit from Cycle Surgery beats my 3.7 a unit from Ribble.
If I'd bought my ten tubes from CS it would have cost me £33 making me a saving of £4.

I could've put that £4 in a hi performance with profits fund and financed my unborn child's university education.
But I didn't.
Dammit.

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(publisher file, looking at excel spreadsheet. graphs in excel are pasted as links into publisher)

I need to get a fork made for Graham Weigh the track winter steed (as the fork with it can't be drilled for a brake and 28mm rake in 1" = hen's teeth)

Say I'd like to Go Mad and get a disc brake fork made...in 28mm rake, any reason why that would not work? Keeps the black ano on the Archetypes, and I get to try disc brakes which are supposedly The Business.

(next it will get a basket too at the front the way this is going...)
:)

My younger polo teammate has a fork made by Vernon Barker (Dronfield): 1" steerer, disc only, curvy legs with a nice crown. Can't remember what his dad paid for it.

It would be about £200 to get a custom fork made.

If you want a basket, increase the rake.

Does anyone know of a good Indian takeaway in North London that does delivery - Finsbury Park.

Usually disc brakes arent on such low rake forks, so just wondering if it could cause "bother".

Seems not then, tx :)

I have heard tales that you are meant to let the tyres down to stop them from exploding due to, I assume, lower pressure in the hold. Is this true or just an old wives' tale?

The reasoning is a old wives' tale; even if you flew your bike into space in an unpressurised vehicle, the pressure differential between the inside and the outside of the tyre would only go up by 1 bar, which makes no meaningful difference to the probability of spontaneous explosion unless you've started with the tyre way over the specified maximum pressure. The reason why they want your tyres let down is that a tyre explosion from whatever cause, even while the vehicle is on the ground and therefore at normal pressure, can release enough energy to damage adjacent property.