Any question answered...

Haha fuck knows, google gives me this

http://uk.businessinsider.com/how-to-tell-a-noisy-coworker-to-shut-up-2014-11

http://www.wikihow.com/Ask-a-Colleague-to-Stop-Making-So-Much-Noise

I would say to them:

"stop fucking humming all day"

man the wikihow illustrations really help get the point across

Also, minor lol in the URL for that one if anyone cares to look at it.

Wikihow pictures are great http://damn.dog

I'm sorry to spoil your fun but your humming is really interfering with my tinnitus (to the point where I am about to go postal, as our former colonial friends put it).

What's that French word for the profile - elevation, length etc. - for the day in a one day or stage race...?

Le profil.

Parcours

Ta. Was troubling me.

Anyone had a broken tib (particularly if you had an IM rod) and getting back into cycling?

Physio isnt doing much help for me at the pace i want to go and pedalling is KILLING my ankle where the screws were placed. Sick to death of the turbo and dying to get out but its not looking likely at the current pace of improvement

As Urgl said to Atreyu "It has to hurt if it's to heal".
Listen to your leg it isn't well.

How horrid is this? (yes, I found how to get https://www.bikecad.ca/quickapplet to work)

Currently pondering if/how the down tube decals can be done

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Drop physio drink beer.

Some of the teeth on my sprocket have what look like chips in them, is this operator error or just poor choice of materials from Miche?

It's a Miche hub and cog, KMC Z510HX chain and a Vision track chainset, chainline seems spot on and it's probably the quietest setup I've had in term of drivetrain noise.

Edit for photo link fail...

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Can anyone tell me the jazzy paint that's popped up here a few times recently? Samples on the website were on bits of metal that looked like a motorcycle component, nearly pearlescent kinda paints

Miche = cheese

I mean there are some fairly hard Italian cheese, but Miche is full on ricotta.

Doesn't look a big deal to me, just the coating is gone.

The main problem I see is that your driveline is too clean. If you treated it more like I treat mine you wouldn't be able to see shit like this.

I should have taken a photo from a better angle, the chips are at 45 deg to the edge of the sprocket. Means about 1/5 of the width of the tooth is gone. Definitely like cheese though, you can see the porosity in the steel it's that full of holes.

Anything worth trying in terms of cost/quality between £7 for Miche and £45 for Phil in 18T?

EAI

I've used spendy Phil cogs, mid-range Condor cogs and cheap Planet-X cogs and had no trouble with any of them. In fact I had no trouble with my old Miche cog either but that probably got less use than the others.

I've recently started buying some SS stuff from these peeps. Can't comment on it yet but they might be worth a look.
http://www.velosolo.co.uk/shoptrack.html

Yeah, though didn't people have issues with chainline with them or was that another brand that was offset somehow?

http://hubjub.co.uk/eai-steel-cog-69-p.asp

Might've just been when used with some hubs:
http://www.velosolo.co.uk/faq.html#c10

Dunno about that, still running the EAI cogs I bought back in 2007- never had an issue with chainline.

Yeah, it might've been a hub.

Who made the hubs that had the flanges crack? (other than Campag). Was it Hope? Do Hope track hubs have a non-standard chainline?