Any question answered...

I used to go to sleep to the single because good B-sides, but the weird foghorn noises near the end always woke me up and spooked me out.

Thanks for the response, I shall do the switch of the brakes and log the results of the experiment.

Why doesn't my profilepic.gif, erm, gif?

gif?

As far as I can see, it only has one frame, so if you're expecting animation you're going to be waiting a long time.

Its a moving gif on my pc but didn't move when it uploaded, I've noticed other avatars moving so I must've done summat wrong.

Edit, works here too.
Is 1.2mb too big?

1 Attachment

BB86 bb replacement time. Going to get one of these thread together varieties from wheels mfg. Do I spend £80 on the angular bearings, or £60 for regular spherical abec 3 bearings.

For a sram gxp crankset.

Amazing song. False ending I always called it, heard the term used by music journos on 6 music before too.

Its a moving gif on my pc but didn't move when it uploaded

Maybe the resize breaks it. Mine is natively 64×64, and I imagine I did that for a reason. File size doesn't seem to be an issue, I just changed mine temporarily to a 1.6MB png and it didn't object.

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Any reason to spend more than £4 on this crank extractor?

(standard square taper cranks)

EDIT: Other than the fact that I have a cheapo one in storage, and should probably buy a decent one if it's second time around.

Nah.

Spend money on a longer spannner

Another couple of quid gets you one with a handle, which makes life easier.

I've got both this and the Park Tool version and prefer the Lifeline as it has a better handle.

I'd definitely get this ^ over the first one posted

Spend the bare minimum, then you can throw it away after installing an HT2 system.

^ I'm hoping this is true.

Are the earthquakes in Mexico connected to the hurricanes?

No. Mexico sits on 3 tectonic plates. Hurricanes start as weather systems from the west coast of Africa.

But....

You know all that noise like National Burger Day or International Potato Day or what-the-fuck-ever?

Is there a centralised, semi official calendar with shit like this on? Because I'm fairly confident there have been at least 5 burger days this year according to the amount of emails I receive from Deliveroo. Is it just shoe-horned in whenever X burger chain or Y potato farm feels they have a surplus to get rid of?

The new calendar is due out tomorrow (Centralised National Day Calendar Day).

The international version usually comes about a week later (International Centralised National Day Calendar Day) although the exact date is tricky to pin down as it is linked to the first day that a waning moon is visible in the second half of September (so cloud cover can delay it a bit).

HTH.

I'm fairly confident there have been at least 5 burger days

Yeah, the trouble is that the UN are dicking about with shit like war, pestilence and famine instead of banging heads together and making everybody celebrate ground beef products on the same day, which is something which might actually be just about within their capabilities if they threw their full weight behind it.

Are the earthquakes in Mexico connected to the hurricanes?

It's not beyond the realms of possibility that a storm surge in the Caribbean could apply enough pressure to the Caribbean tectonic plate to trigger an earthquake, but it would be an earthquake which was going to happen soon anyway, because the underlying stress was already on the point of fracture. Shock waves from storms, explosions, other earthquakes or just somebody dropping a spanner can only change the timing of an earthquake, not it's location or magnitude.

What is the most cost effective 160 mm disc brake rotor? I don't want to go dirt-cheap as I feel that they'll be made terribly. 6 bolt please, for road riding.

I bought some eBay £2.50 ones and they've been fine. Haven't rusted or warped and I can't notice any difference in feel or function between them and shimano rotors.

Disclaimer: I haven't ridden down any mountains with them.

UberBike do some floating rotors for £15 iirc might be worth a punt

Bollox actually £25 which is OK for floaters I guess...