Any question answered...

or French or Swiss or Raleigh, and length and taper....

^^ I think if you don't make a habit of it you'll be fine.
Or die horribly.

Let me know how you get on, have always wanted to do this to my Pro 2 Evo front hub, the Superstar skewer has been fine tbh but would much rather a threaded axle like the on the rear wheel...

You've got it easy with changeable end caps and big ID bearings.

have I done permanent damage?

Seems unlikely, the official instructions for many stems of that pattern include prying the clamp open to get the bendy bits of bars through. I do have to say that the instructions don't mention a spoon handle, the correct method is to put the clamp screw in from the other side and use a washer as a thrust bearing to jack the clamp open.

have I done permanent damage?

There is no spoon. You'll be fine.

Phew! A spoon was drafted in because it was on my desk.

Will an SRAM Force 22 BB30 crankset fit a 68mm BSA shell when used with a Hope 30mm bottom bracket?

Will an SRAM Force 22 BB30 crankset fit a 68mm BSA shell when used with a Hope 30mm bottom bracket?

Does it use 18-20mm of spacers on the axle in order to fit in a BB30 shell? If it doesn't, then it won't go in a 386EVO BB, which is effectively what a BSC threaded shell with external 30mm bearings is.

Anyone bored?

Someone needs some help with inverse shims in the Cannondale thread.

Put him out of his misery

Anyone giving up cycling for lent?

I would do but I'm cranky today and the 'do I need the spacers on both sides' question unreasonably irritated me

I'm a bad person

Anybody into cycle speedway? Can you help me source a fork? Second hand through a club or a hint to an offer.

I'm about to buy this frame: https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/229911/ from the current owner, but in the mean time the fork has gone missing.

It's 1 1/8 steerer and I want it to be lugged, which rules out archie wilkinson.

Are there any bluetooth earpieces that don't make you look like a bellend?

I'd like to use something for directions on google maps whilst cycling but I don't want the city trader who's oh so busy that they've not had a chance to take their bluetooth earpiece out look.

Has she had her ears MOTd?

Anyone hardened steel with a torch?

I need a couple big cone spanners (24&25mm) and rather than shell out almost a tenner each for Park ones (only brand that goes to that size) I thought I could buy some steel and cut them myself. I can get a sheet of stainless big enough to make both for less than half the cost of 1 Park spanner.

My only concern is that the steel might be a bit soft and they won't last very long so I thought about trying to harden them with my mapp torch.

I've googled it and it seems possible but almost all the results I'm finding are from knife makers who talk for like 2 sentences about the hardening then 3 pages about why you'd quench in olive oil rather than sunflower oil and the tempering oven they've spent $500 building.

These will be for personal use only so I can't be bothered tempering, if they break, shit happens.

Im probably going to just give it a blast and see what happens, I did plan to just quench in water (it's free and less flamible, I'm reading that flash fire when quenching in oil is a risk) but if anyone knows any reason not to use water, I'm all ears.

Wilkinson was gonna be my only suggestion.

Do you know the a2c of the original fork?

Do you need the steepness of the speedway fork?

I'm looking at my Surly Hack/Steamroller fork (which is 1 1/8" and lugged) and thinking it can't be much longer than a Wilkinson speedway fork - 700c with small clearances for small tyre = 26" for with lots of clearance for a larger tyre?

I have some Bluetooth earphones I got from Aliexpress for about £6. Sound quality fairly good when they're working but connection does sometimes get a bit crackly. They're called qy7 or something.

I can get a sheet of stainless

Don't use stainless for spanners. Also, don't bother making your own spanners, it's more trouble than it's worth.

Is stainless softer than mild steel? I think I have a big sheet of mild steel at my parents.

Worth it if I have the material already?

Cheers, I already have some of these which are reasonable http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00OK5BELU/ , looking for something with just one earpiece.

Most stainless in sheet form generally doesn't harden in any useful way - cutting two spanners from scratch in a steel with sufficient carbon (i.e. not mild steel) will take time and effort. You might do better starting with a cheap stamped steel one that can be annealed if necessary, filed to size, then hardened again?
Quenching in water is cheap - the resultant steam is inoffensive. Expect the steel to rust soon afterwards.
Quenching in oil should leave a finish that is more likely resist corrosion - looks a bit like bluing if you take the trouble to temper it- but will fill the room with noxious fumes.
I can't imagine something with the thermal capacity of a cone spanner both vaporizing oil and being hot enough to ignite it, assuming the torch is turned off at the time...

(Waits for mdcc_tester to give a more correct explanation)