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Can anyone shed any light on this for me?

Replaced the front and rear tyres on my fixed gear bike last night, cleaned the chain and put it back together. This morning on the way in to work heard a slight grinding noise from the drive train area so assumed the chain was a bit dry after cleaning it.

Went to ride home this evening and the grinding was more like creaking, and noticed that the bottom belracket on the drive side was working it's way loose. This has never happened before in about a year of daily commuting.

Any thoughts?

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Italian BB?

what tyres did you put on?

Stop it!

are you in northern or southern hemisphere?

and which planet?

English

I had a quick search but no joy :(
The one I'm after is the knife on the right, they only make the one on the left (sans keyring loop) nowadays.

You're not happy to have it in classic red?

There's more swish options straight from Vict' on the Swiss site for the Pioneer Alox and so on.

You could always look at a Wenger.........

I'm after that specific one.
Didn't wenger and victorinox merge?

Ah, the first one you posted a few pages back was the smaller "Classic".
This one looks similar to a "Cadet", which also has a can opener and file.
http://www.mec.ca/product/4013-898/victorinox-cadet-knife/?q=knife%2Bvictorinox

I always thought they were technically separate brands. My do-it-all from the army surplus is a Wenger and it's one of the best things I've ever owned. Ever. Guy in the shop had some kind of story about which company is the army supplier which year and so on.

You may be right, though, they are probably both owned by the same heartless corporation.

Think you'll be out of luck if it's discontinued, but maybe have a search around cobbler's shops for older stock. I know at least one cobbler here in Swindon has a million different Victorinox, Inox, Wenger, Opinel, etc. I will have a look next time I'm passing if you like.

I've got a question, do you think they'll let me race my Neil at LVV? Planning on doing my track induction and I'd prefer to ride my own bike. Of course I'll make sure it's sparkling clean before I go but I'm worried that they won't like the amount of chips and scratches etc.

What do you guys think?

Also I have a set of these tyres which are minty fresh, are they track legal?

I'm worried that they won't like the amount of chips and scratches etc

You should have seen my brother's track iron before he got it refinished.

Corsa SC should pass muster at any track

So I'll be good? Just checked the rules and it says this:

The bike must be in good condition and undamaged

Oh yeah sorry that was just as an example of an anodised swiss army knife.

The bike must be in good condition and undamaged

The bike, not the paint :-)

If you could fail the bike check for paint chips, nobody with a painted bike would ever pass.

Okay great, I'll book a session! Cheers for the help

Ahh that makes sense, sounds a bit like cwc and mwc with army watches.
I semi-regularly scan various European ebays (the euro search on UK ebay doesn't show you everything) but no luck yet. If you do ever find yourself in that cobbler then I'd be hugely appreciative if you had a quick look for the elusive bantam alox. Let me know if there's anything in Sydenham I should keep an eye out for, there's a cracking Sainsbury's down here.

I have the option of ISIS or square taper for some cranks. I weigh ~90kg. Will I kill the ISIS bearings or the SqT crank interface?

Get better cranks.

Don't wanna. Middleburns.

free and good video capture software? i'd like to make a clip for a lecture and the internet doesn't work all that well in the theatre.

A little while ago someone on here was talking about some DT levers that all the pros used in the 70s/80s. They would have Campag groupsets but used these non-Campag levers because they were very good at not slipping.

Anyone know what I'm on about?

I'll hazard a guess at sun-tour

A quick Google says it might be them. I seem to remember the person linking to an article that mentioned Robert Millar but that could be a complete red herring.