Any question answered...

Where can I get super skinny tyres?

20-622 tyres:
Schwalbe Lugano
Conti GP4000Sii
Conti GP Supersonic

Not much else these days, now that 25 is a narrow tyre.

Cheers tester. Which do you reckon would be best for bimbling around HHV? Supersonic sound fancy...

You could try a wider rim as well, though obviously that's a more expensive solution. Someone might have a wheel with an Archetype or A23 you could try with the 23mm tyre you had to see if there's any more clearance.

GP4000Sii is both fast and strong

The very opposite of me :) cheers!

Are swissstop green still the pad of choice for alloy rims?

The green are designed to ensure longevity, but at a cost of wearing out the rims quicker due to the harder wearing rubber.

Swissstop BXP (blue) is what you're looking for if you want something that comparable to Koolstop Salmon in term of performance.

The BXP is pretty much the best you can go, last as long as standard Shimano pads, extremely powerful in both dry and wet, and almost as kind to the rims as the Koolstop Salmon.

I found my salmon pads weren't as effective in the dry (Australian summer dry) - koolstop black compound seemed to work better for me.
Feels like the salmon pads like a little bit of water to work better.

Normal crank extractor and a piece of aluminium rod.

I am having the same issue, wish to remove cannondale cranks and don't want to spend £50 quid on the cannondale tool I will never use again.

'Forum approved route' to Southend per-chance?

Well, actually from Tilbury onwards to S'end, I'm ok up to T'bury, beyond that... Banjo's and Unicorns I've heard..

There's one here from the Routes database here:

http://microcosm.app/out/drtHg

Not quite the one I did last week and really liked, but it looks similar. I could email that one if you PM me.

Yes - trawl the Cannondale thread or google 'don't buy kt013'

Or what Dammit said

But you should just buy KT013

Having a little trouble with the last part of the sram etap front derailleur installation. Those little wedges that are supposed to support the derailleur against the set tube, there isn't enough clearance to fit in the height of even the smallest wedge + bolt head height for my frame, let alone an allen key to tighten it down.

Anyone have any ideas? My current plan is a smaller profile bolt end if I can find one and sanding down the wedge until I can get it in.

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Aaah, cheers Tom (+many M's), I didn't know there was a forum routes database, apol's!

It appears to be biased towards the North a lot, I'd have to go miles out to pick up on that route up as I'm starting from Dirty Dartfud-> G'end-> across the mighty River Styx (aka Thames) to TurdBury-> the on't Southend.

has anyone ever conducted tests on carbon bars/stems to see if they legitimately improve comfort? similar to the test that BR ran on specific seatposts, recently.

TENS machines, do these things work for pain relief?

They did for me in the run up to back surgery. They didn't eradicate pain for me, but made it easier to deal with.

Wife found them mostly ineffective during pregnancy and in labour.

To summarise: "Yes, but.." and a "Not really" from our household.

Are there very wide but more normal looking affordable SPD shoes that you can normally walk on and don't look that out of place in a work environment? The ones I've tried so far from Chrome and Shimano are so small, i have to get about 3 sizes (EU) bigger to get in them so that will never be comfortable to walk on or even ride in.

(so annoying, back in the days with those fat lip shoes I could walk into any skate shop and find a pair of shoes that fitted, but even skate brands stopped making wide shoes)

FWIW Lake's wide fit shoes are just fucking awesome. I have H / EEEE width feet and they are a godsend. I am on pairs 2 & 3 now. They don't do a wide casual shoe, but you can go custom.

http://lakecycling.com/

It's all moot once you fitted decent tyres at a reasonable pressure on.

Their normal ones are seriously expensive. I got normal SPD shoes but wish to get a pair of affordable but normal looking ones, that i can go to the pub with, to the office, etc

I've come to the conclusion that no such thing exists. Giro Rumbles are okay looking in blue but I don't fit them. Shimano MT22s are fairly unassuming and great on the bike but are quite narrow, wear out quickly and basically impossible to get now. Flat pedals and sticky approach shoes are the best option, if you don't need retention

You were hit with the wide foot curse like me and as a whole the shoe industry hates us. Cheap shoes are not an option and won't be until 3d printing becomes more of a "thing."

where can i get 6 or 5 mm of bb30 axle spacers?

even over long (300k+) distances?

Even over long distance.