Any question answered...

If MTB @Dick if road @eyebrows if you are prekariat and lower medium.

With the money left over buy some champagne from @vince and bring it to football drinks.

Am in the market for a front rack/basket combo and possible rear rack for a Surly CrossCheck that I'm about to build up.
I don't really want a massive basket; just enough to carry my commuting kit - tools, lock, work clothes (not shoes), or some bits for a day trip.
I was considering the PDW takeout, as it has slot for lock and comes with a waterproof bag.
Anyone any experience with these?
Alternatively, anyone got any suggestions for a porteur rack / basket that isn't $$$, massive or insanely heavy, and comes in black?
Also, was looking at the PDW payload for a rear rack, or Tubus Fly.
Any thoughts?

Am open to suggestions!

[Is there a 'Tester Approved' racks/baskets thread?]

What discipline?

Road racing and Crits

Just measured my Phil Wood cog again my old EAI GMP, and the Phil is 1.4mm thinner, hence throwing my chainline out and causing a HELL of a noise. Shift it over with BB spacers right?

Palace Bowman and £50 on rattle cans.

http://www.sjscycles.co.uk/alloy-front-carrier-cantilever-boss-mounting-black-alloy-prod14021/

Cog still fully engages w/spacers?

It's on the list, along with the kinesis, condor italia RC, cinelli experience.

Check out pelago for a front rack and tortec for a rear.

I think it's somethign to do with the spring that pushes the battery onto the LED (sort of thing). I've had a few of these over the years and they just end up not working. I've contacted Exposure in the past and mailed them to them and they've been fixed (as recommended on here) but I eventually went elsewhere. For the price I think I've bought a cheapo CatEye that's as bright and hasn't caused me any problems. I have a Diablo front one and that's been ace by the way.

Alternatively, anyone got any suggestions for a porteur rack / basket that isn't $$$, massive or insanely heavy, and comes in black?

Can you define how much you're willing to $$$? easiest way to narrow it down.

Web developers; have you made a reasonably complicated website (e.g. CRM, ERP, SCM, etc), and successfully implemented a search function?

The last two projects I've been on, search has been a bit of an after-thought. For the developer the code tends to be an unmaintainable and organic mess, and for the end user, the results are poor and often very slow to return.

Has anyone had success/experience with Lucene or similar?

I have a PDW Takeout (that's a smallish one, right?) which you are welcome to borrow to try out and see if it works for you? I don't actually want to sell it, but it's just sitting around at the moment. It is nice but the handlebar fittings are not exactly elegant.

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Web developers; have you made a reasonably complicated website (e.g. CRM, ERP, SCM, etc), and successfully implemented a search function?

Yes.

If search is added as an afterthought though, why bother adding it at all? People have pretty high expectations of the ol' text search box. Anything less than 'pretty darn good' is probably not worth bothering with.

Of course, if it's a priority feature, then chuck some money at it and do it right, but as you hint, it's not really something you can hand-roll. If search is a priority, high value feature, then the app needs to be structured with that in mind.

The pdw is at the top /slightly over my budget. Would prefer under £50

Thanks for the offer. I don't have the new bike yet to try it on, but will have a think about whether I want to try it out on something else.

The cheapest one that's not too big (compare to the Basil) is this;

There are some variation, but the name for this one is the M:Part FMP front rack.

You can simply zip tie a small basket on top of it.

Right, help me out with this. It makes sense in my head but I'd like more informed people than I to confirm/deny.

I've been running my entire drivetrain from new (EAI 18t Gold Medal Pro, Izumi Supertough, Zen*) and it's been fine and dandy and quiet as a mouse since day 1. However, I recently got hold of a Phil Wood 19t. After fitting the cog, it was making a horrendous grinding noise when I was out of the saddle or putting power down.

Now I initially thought it was a chain-line thing, as the Phil cog was 1.4mm thinner than the EAI. After spacing it out, the noise remains. After a bit of testing, it seems that the noise happens whenever I use any cog which ISN'T the 18t EAI. I got an older Supertough out, and it's not making a noise on the 19t cog.

So - my chain has just bedded in on this 18t cog, and will eventually bed down on any other cogs I use, right? This makes sense in my brain. Should I a) just ride through it b) keep the chain for the cog it's used to c) other.

p.s. the older Supertough is very gold but quite dull, but the newer one is much shinier, and has lost much of it's goldness. What's that all about? Both owned from new.

*I know, I know, first world problems.

New sprocket = new chain.

I've been running my entire drivetrain from new (EAI 18t Gold Medal Pro, Izumi Supertough, Zen*) and it's been fine and dandy and quiet as a mouse since day 1.

So how long have you been riding that set-up for?

The language give me the implication that your drivetrain have only been fitted a couple weeks ago.

maybe like 2 years of pretty mild use, haven't been commuting on it that much. Maybe 80km a week?

New chain, and possibly chainring.