Any question answered...

And throw away the juicys.

If you contact your local council they often have a large item collection service.

Yeah cheers. Lewisham council do seem to operate a recycling option but it's drop off only. At least as far as I can tell.

I need to post some bikes.

Who have people been using recently?

I have a mavic asksium rear wheel and today I noticed while cleaning it the freehub has a wobble.

Do I need to remove the cassette to be able to tighten the freehub?

If posting I’d go parcelforce. I find there’s savings to be had by measuring and printing off the correct label at home.

Alternatively I had a complete bike dropped off with me using a service called Nimber, guy put the bike in the back of his estate with the seats down and dropped it off to me at work. Only used it once but can’t fault it. Didn’t need any packaging

Grab the universal one from epicbleedkits.

thanks

And throw away the juicys.

thanks..?!

Parcelforce always have a 14% off code hanging about online and offer Quidco cash back.

Thanks, and @Pifko thanks too.

I have three bikes here with Mavic Ksyriums - I've just checked, and there's a smidge of wobble on each of the cassettes - but it is literally, just a smidge.

Question for any twitchers out there. My garden has become suddenly overrun by birds I don't recognise. They're about the same size as a blackbird, but fatter, with brown wings, a grey head, yellow beak and a speckled underneath. Anyone any ideas on what they might be? There's about 2 dozen of them sitting around in the snow eating fallen cherries.

there's a smidge of wobble on each of the cassettes

What kind of wobble? A bit of precession is normal as the freehub axis is often not precisely concentric with the hub axis. Significant free play between the freehub rotor and the hub on Mavic FTS[-L|-X] wheels usually means the hub is fucked due to insufficient maintenance of the bushing :)

about the same size as a blackbird, but fatter, with brown wings, a grey head, yellow beak and a speckled underneath

Do you know what a starling looks like?

I do, and they're not starlings. Fluffier and a completely different colour.

Definitely not starlings...

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What do they taste like?

Like fieldfares, I guess.

Dunno, but there's definitely enough for a decent-sized pie. At least 30 of them hopping around and sitting in the trees.

Yep, I reckon that's them. Quite jolly little things really. Evidently quite rare, except in my back garden. I just hope they leave enough cherries for the resident blackbird. Although he could do with losing a few grams, the big fat cherry-choffling bastard.

Grey head & grey upper rump between folded wings = fieldfares.
Winter visitors to the UK.

We have a bunch hanging around. They were attracted to the rosehips on the clmbing rose that grows through the holly tree. Unfortunately the rosehips seem generally to be too big for them to eat. I did my next best by throwing several handfuls of 'Wild Bird Food' onto the flattish roof of the woodshed to encourage them not to rest on the ground, as the neighbours have many birdicidal cats.

They are frequently seen eating the last of the windfall apples earlier in the Winter.
A few chopped up apples will appeal to them.

Choffling. That's a very pleasing word.

One of @Cycliste 's. It is a good word as despite being in no dictionary I've ever seen, it's completely obvious what it means.

Yup, it's funny how unusual birds seem to show up when it snows sometimes...

I remember a flock of waxwings (so cool-looking) choffling on our remaining crab apples one afternoon a few winters ago, and even a snipe ('erm, there's a bird a bit like a kiwi in the garden') hanging around for a few days, digging in the snow. #csb

Why is my Lezyne light glowing purple? And now blue?

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