Any question answered...

Local carpet shops? Used to noise them up if I had to send a big oil painting abroad.

Make triangular tubes out of available cardboard.

I'll check with the PO: they might not be keen on DIY.

I know someone with a carpet shop: I'll check what size the tubes are.

I'll check, but pretty sure they need to be round.

I see, post pics when you've solved it.

As requested, finished it today, lorra lorra work but yummerz (IMO). 1st time I've ever done a sunken door mat too, very pleased with it all.

What options do I have for fixed/single speed wheels for a Surly cross check? Would like to put a 37mm+ tyres on. Hopefully around £100 to £150.

Novatec to Mavic A119

Well done.
Where did you source the risers, shurly not Rona?

Ta, thanks Mr Withered, chuffed with it. Yep, I ordered the 2 step risers from an online retailer in Quebec! Shipping was more than the actual cost of the parts but so worth it (IMO). They looked like this before 'adaptation' to fit the job. Made the job a lot easier in the end.

That kind of focus on getting a specific look is unhealthy, and I wholly approve.

So I have a frame from an unknown maker with no decals. I want it painted and I think decals makes a frame look finished.

Any ideas? I was thinking some gobshite bike pun in a forrin script...

Colango

How do you summon @b&d as it doesn't come up as a hyperlink?

@b&d

@b&d

He has evil magic preventing it.

@snottyotter gives your name as a blue hyperlink @b&d does not

it is some kind of annoying voodoo

@b&d

Oh, this doesn't work either.
@Velocio to the rescue?

didn't work, did it?

Ah, I see.

Yes, that won't work.

Hyperlinking of usernames and automatic "mentions" are driven by Twitter's convention on what is a username.

https://support.twitter.com/articles/101299#

Twitter only allows the following in usernames:

• alphanumeric characters (letters A-Z, numbers 0-9)
  
• underscores
  
• 15 characters or shorter
  
  

We already break the rules a little, we allow up to 40 characters. And we also allow unicode to work too.

But... if a username contains anything that is going to be escaped as a HTML entity, i.e. & > or < ... then the username matcher is only going to find the bits up to the ampersand... meaning it actually finds @b and as there is no user called "b", it thinks there is no match.

I'm happy to let anyone choose whatever username they want, but some will limit functionality.

didn't work, did it?

Easiest way to summon me is to head to the football thread, click on me and go from there.

head to the football thread