Any question answered...

Had my Park cable cutter for years. My difficulties in making a perfect cut on spiral brake outer is probably 100% my technique.

I for one welcome our new hydraulic overlords, with their nice cutting guides for Stanley-type blades.

i remember reading an interview with a pop star I think in the evening standard, where it said that the pop star's mother was a conservative mp. I remember it as being something like Jessie J's mother is Teresa May (it's not). Who is it I'm thinking of or have I gone mad?

You're Manchester based, right? Any suggestions for a good place to start?

Didn't Edwina Currie's daughter have a failed attempt at a pop career?

About 18 months ago I had Neil Orrell replace a cracked toptube in a 753 road frame, plus respray with repro decals. Not sure if he had a lathe in his shop, and I think he's since sold the shop anyway. Haven't got any relevant experience beyond that.

Paging @snottyotter

You could try Matt at 18Bikes over in Hope, he seems to do a lot of fixing stuff as well as just building frames.

@willhouse you don't know anyone with a lathe (or whatever's required for this and this)?

Can anyone recommend a physio in North/Central London? Needs to be NHS registered but I'm not looking for anything cycling specific. Cheers

yep, but it's not her I'm thinking of. Must have dreamt it

Maybe you just got a bit confused and were thinking of Lembit Öpik.

nope. it was definitely a young blonde female singer whose mum was a mp. but it's not, obviously. oddly by girlfriend swears she read the same article, but doesn't know who it is.

We could have a go, there's a machinist on our business park with a lathe if it comes to that, no idea what he'd charge though.

Anyone know a good place to give children's books away to?

Oh wow, thank you, that is significantly cheaper than I expected :-) out of interest, how long did it take? and what does the repair look like?

I know what you mean. If it's any consolation it cost me twice as much as that because I persisted in trying to use large pliers. Give it a go, you may be more skilled than me. I really am very clumsy.

Does anyone have a good (read nice) London - Baldock or Royston cycle route?

On road, and as car free as possible. I'm mostly finding things that look horrid :(

If you really want as car free as possible I'd look to combine something like the paths alongside the River Lea to Cheshunt ( http://www.sustrans.org.uk/sites/default/files/documents/london20docklands20leaflet.pdf ) and then the bottom bit of this: https://www.strava.com/activities/162788353 which goes that appropriate way on relatively quiet roads.

If you want roads and it's early then I tend to use the A10/A1010/B176 to get to Cheshunt: https://www.strava.com/activities/163173147 but it's hardly car free and rather functional (i.e. get out of London relatively quickly).

Never done the River Le[ea] path but some on here have.

Jarvis Cocker's mum was a Tory councillor.

Singer - check
Young, blonde, female - hmm

Any recommendations for a strengthening steerer bung to fit in a 1 inch ec90sl fork with a carbon steerer? Thanks

Don't know if this is the right section but anyway. Does anyone have experience with Musguard mudguards, specifically the front ones, can't seem to see review online. and following a recent crash my crud road racers are smashed up. I could replace them, but since its supposed to be summer I quite like the idea of detachable/portable guards. I figure the back just works like any other mtb style, and I've got an SKS one which does a good enough job, but currently got no protection on the front. Anyone?

How long ago was this? Jonathan Aitken's daughter had a go years back. She might be really popular now (I wouldn't know to be honest unless she's doing doom metal) but I doubt it.

SHe's probably as sucessful as Edwina Currie's daughter.

in the last year. I genuinely must have dreamt it

I think the original EC90SL probably came with a bear trap for headset adjustment, suggesting that Easton didn't think the steerer needed any reinforcement. The later (probably only 1.125") ones had a large diameter thread built in. I still have the bear trap which came with my 1" EC90Aero, but I'm not convinced that it's a work of genius. I went with a glued-in custom bung which is lighter and more secure. I can get bungs made, but as they are custom sized to each individual fork they are expensive, i.e. £100

Thanks for the offer but £100 maybe slightly more than I'd intended spending, I've ridden the forks for a couple of years with no issues but now I've questioned the plastic star nut like thing a previous owner fitted it'd be tempting fate not to address the issue. Think I've found an M part bung specified for 1" so will give it a go.

Can someone confirm I've got this the right way round... as I increase seat tube angle (e.g. 72 to 74deg) I'd need to increase layback of a seatpost to maintain a similar position relative to the BB?