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FEMA camp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FEMA_camps_conspiracy_theory

I see it every day

If you see it every day can't you stop and ask a local person ?

or are you flying in something ?

Yeah, I know, I was trying to probe @CYOA to determine whether jk/srs.

A few seconds of research says it's a reservoir for the nearby estate: http://www.bevendeanhistory.org.uk/estate/water.html

you're one of them aren't you...

So I was close then ?

Duh, ICBM launch site

Could anyone suggest a firm to talk to about a personal injury claim? or what to look for in the million of hits on google. Lot of ambulance chasers about at the moment

Does Shimano square taper BB axle length increase and decrease equally on either side with changes in axle length? I read this is true down to a certain length, but cannot remember what that was...

I read this is true down to a certain length, but cannot remember what that was...

I thought it was the other way around; symmetrical up to a point, above which the drive side gets longer than the non-drive side. I think up to 118mm are symmetrical.

If I wanted to write to Natwest about a direct debit I've overpaid, should I write to the local branch, the branch on my sort code, or is there some head office address I should send to?

Ah right may well be, that makes more sense too.

@jdmitch

Thanks - a bit of a dredge for AQA (5 days!), but happy that @mdcc_tester has confirmed that my assumption was right about the casting mark!

This:
https://personal.natwest.com/personal/ways-to-bank/branch-banking/branch-closures.html
... might affect your options?

I've previously sent letters, printed on paper, to the address in my cheque book. This seems to still work in spite of RBS's efforts to get me to stand in the street and talk loudly about personal matters into a phone I don't own.

What do I need to fit these SI cranks on my bb30 caad7?
I’ve got the cranks, bearing shields, a few small shims and wavey washer.
Getting super confused reading tech docs but I keep seeing a big fat spacer on the non drive side, 5 or 10mm or something. Where can I find these?

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@PhilDAS The cranks would be 5mm wider right? CAAD12 is BB30A (73mm) and CAAD7 is BB30, 68mm?

Though I'm not sure where you'd get the spacer. I went through the faff of getting a C Bear bottom bracket to use an Ultegra crankset with the CAAD12.

Shorter spindle? Used to be a 104mm but I'd guess you have 109mm on that. Though whether that'd mess with the chainline. (mostly guessing)

I don’t know honestly. They weren’t fitted to the 12, just pushed in for the picture a while ago but the lad I bought them off pulled them from his caad12 so I’d guess so.
Can’t believe I can’t find a definitive answer on what bits you need to fit a Cannondale crank into a Cannondale frame. Any diagrams just point at it and say “non drive side spacer”. Yeah cool, what is it and where the fuck can I get it from?!

Yeah, CAAD12 and recent Synapse are BB30A, which are 5mm wider than BB30.

http://www.cannondale.com/en/International/Innovation/bb30-bb30a.aspx
This seems to back up what you've seen...

'Cannondale Hollowgram BB30A cranks will work on both BB30 (68mm BB width) and BB30A (73mm bb width) by changing the non-drive side spacers.'

Give Sigma Sport a call as they're a Cannondale dealer. The workshop were really helpful when sitting there swearing at my frameset didn't fix anything. Swift Cycles are also a Cannondale Dealer (I'm assuming you're in London)

Or this might be promising
http://www.cannondalespares.com/Cannondale-Hollowgram-Chainset-Road-Spacer-Kit--KP483_/product_detail/3-42959

Seen a pretty decent looking Peugeot mixte on gumtree for not much, ticks all the boxes for a town bike for the missus to ride as she gets bigger during pregnancy.
Only issue is it’s a Peugeot, will the ballache of trying to find weird sized parts break me later? Or should I just bite the bullet and buy it? Obviously time is of the essence as baby is due end of April..

Unless it's Le Gumtree, you should be fine: Peugeot went over to British standard in the mid-Nineties and even before that, not all their bikes were weird.

Any idea how old it is? Any clues as to whether it made for the French or UK market (labels in French).

Either way, a cheap mixte sounds cheap enough to recycle, rather than repair.

^ this. All my pugs have been bsa and far easier than all the old raleighs with their 26tpi faff.

It is on gumtree, I’m afraid, haven’t seen anything which ticks all the boxes on eBay, this one for £150.
Apologies for the photo had to screengrab it..

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It's got an external BB so should be modern enough?

Sheldon Brown's Bottom Bracket Size Guide suggests that for Shimano 7400/01/02 cranks, the 112/113mm BBs have axles that are 3mm longer on the right hand side.

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/bbsize.html#dura

I only know this because I was looking for what size I needed.

But my question is this: In the cartoon King of the Hill, Hank's father Cotton has no shins, his feet having been grafted to his knees after being shot in WWII. Is there any real-life case of this having happened? It seems like a very odd injury to make up.