Any question answered...

Also. How do you get a parking ticket in the US? There is parking everywhere. Maybe Boston or NYC but in LA?

Pay the $100. Just pay it.

Expense it.

You were there at the behest of your job, make them pick up the tab.

Swapped stem on bicycle. New stem slightly smaller stack. Means spacers/top cap baggy/rattling. What do?

What do?

Add spacers

Moar spacers.

How do you get a parking ticket in the US?

Same way you get one anywhere; either you overstay on a meter, or you fail to read/understand the signs'n'lines and park at a time and place where it is prohibited.

Moar spacers

What, even more than the ones I said? :)

Can someone explain the difference between the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church to me as if I was five?

Architecture and geography.

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I parked outside a school that said you could park there any day that isnt a school day. Apparently thanksgiving is a holiday but still a school day. In that a thursday is technically a school day, even if its a national holiday.

Assholes.

gotta be worth a challenge.

Yeah, but as above, expense it, and if anyone wants to challenge it, it can be a drone at the employer who is paid to do that.

Forum favourite torque wrench? I need it for bike servicing, so in the range of 3-15 Nm should be sufficient. Preferably sub 30€

I use a simple X Tools one, it's probably not the most accurate but then I only use it for 4 or 5nm and about 12nm.

Forum favourite torque wrench...sub 30€

Which? Forum favourites include Wera, Britool, Park, Syntace (rebranded Wera, sometimes cheaper because bike shops discount more than tool shops), but none of them is cheap.

for bike servicing, so in the range of 3-15 Nm should be sufficient

You'll want a big one too, all the stuff that needs 30-60Nm likes to be done right too.

I believe the stuff that need to be clamped at 3-5 Nm are more sensible to under-/overtorquing. Also stem, saddle and seat post might be the only ones I‘d use the torque wrench for.

I believe

Your faith is touching, but misplaced.

Haha, the wheels are the only parts that I reclamp regularly and need higher torque. At least I think so.
I‘m just not ready to spend a lot of money on good tools yet.

If you switch from standard sized jockey wheels to oversized jockey wheels (for instance, a Rock Bros cage with 17t wheels) will you need a longer chain or will the chain be the same length but with gentler curves in its path?

Same length as long as the pulley cage can pivot enough to get the chain straight when in the big-big position with the chain too short. That's not a given, so check in the usual way, you may need a slightly longer chain.

brake pivot bolt

The tube nut was seized on the front brake I was removing and the bolt snapped.

Working on the basis that if SJS don't stock it then no-one does, I assume Tektro don't offer them as spares.

SJS do have Shimano pivot bolts and they look to be a match.

Does anyone know for certain if it'll fit.

SJS do have Shimano pivot bolts and they look to be a match.
Does anyone know for certain if it'll fit.

I haven't checked your individual case, but I have Tektro R530 calipers with aftermarket centre pivot bolts designed for Shimano brakes. Oh, that also means I must have the OE Tektro steel ones somewhere...

... do you want me to stick them in the post to you?

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