Any question answered...

Contact them. Could be identity theft

Thanks, spoke to them. Certainly looks like it 😬

Correct,

Looking online, for £300 you get EUR 332 from M&S and EUR 340 from Best FE

Anyone have any cool/stupid embroidered (sew/iron on) patches laying about?

Not really, but was searching for some recently and was astounded what you can find on eBay.

Yup, literally thousands on the auction site, mostly new straight out of HK. Hoping to find a couple older ones, like late 80's/90's kitsch. Should never have thrown away childhood caps/bags/etc.

I've got a small collection. You buying or just curious?

You buying or just curious?

He's buy-curious

I sold @umop3pisdn some 650b wheels with superstar comp Switch Ultra hubs. They are MTB 11sp but his 105 5800 cassette doesn't fit. Is there anyway of mounting a 11sp road cassette onto these?

What @mdcc_tester said. Just don't tell the gf...!

For real though pm me a pic of the stack and a rough idea of price per.

Is there anyway of mounting a 11sp road cassette onto these?

You can mill the back of the carrier which holds the three big sprockets. There's a bloke on TTF who will do it if you send him the carrier/big sprockets assembly.

Ta. I can do that. How much needs taken off? Thanks!

How much needs taken off?

1.85mm, same as the spacer you use to fit 10-speed cassettes to 11-speed hubs.

Ta!

Inverse freehub spacer

So the fork on my new touring bike is going to be with 15mm thru axle, we can change it to 12mm if absolutlely necessary as the fork is yet to be made.

The SON dynamo hub I have my heart on only does either 15mm / 6-bolt or 12mm / center lock.

I perfer the center lock system for the disc brakes but would dropping the fork compatibility to 12mm to make it compatible with the disc brake system a bit of a stupid move?

What are the disadvantages for a 12mm thru axle for the front? If any?

R8000 11-34 road cassette fits on a MTB hub. I have it on a Mavic 27.5 wheelset with 5800 group

It's a different size to other road cassettes. Not sure why they made one different to the rest

Hmm... I wanna keep most but will check if I have any I won't use.

Great thanks. Please take a photo of the ones you're keeping too though. My brain was hurting thinking of keywords to fight the auction site search algorithms.

12 mm thru axle is rapidly becoming the road standard, 15 mm more widely used for mtb where having a slightly stiffer axle when running suspension is desired.

I’d go 12 mm if I were you, will give you more road fork options.

12mm no need for 15mm as above.

the fork on my new touring bike is going to be with 15mm thru axle, we can change it to 12mm if absolutlely necessary as the fork is yet to be made

If you're having a steel fork built, it wouldn't be too difficult to incorporate a bushing into the design which allows it to use 12mm or 15mm. If you go with 12mm, it doesn't matter that much as any 15mm×100mm hub can be sleeved down to fit a 12mm×100mm fork. I'd go with 6-bolt anyway, CentreLock seems like something designed for weight-weenies who don't mind paying more for stuff which will wear out quicker, which doesn't fit my definition of touring bike. In fact, if it's a custom steel fork I'd go 15×110 Boost for the stronger symmetrical lacing, particularly on the SON which starts out with fairly closely spaced flanges, 48mm asymmetric for the CenterLock but 56mm symmetric for the Boost.

Portable electricity. Are we there yet? I'd like something I can power a few small-mid size rack mounted devices from that I could pop in the bottom of a flight case and where around. Would need to lift it so wouldn't want it too heavy. Similarly I don't want to spend 10 grand on it. Would need enough juice to power the equivalent of say 5 laptops from a wall outlet running up to 10 hours. Less visible but 10 = nice. Basically like one of those battery pack things for phones but with considerably more oomph.

@andyp, @Howard, @mdcc_tester, thanks for the input.

I just had a look at the carbon forks (Enve, Deda, Columbus etc) that I would want to swap to, the main reason why I went for a tapered headtube and fork at the first place, they are all 12mm axle wise, so maybe that's the answer there.

I'll ask about the 12/15mm compatible option, I think Ted briefly mentioned it when we spoke. By the way, it's a ti fork (I know what you all think about a ti fork, but Ted and I had a very detailed conversation on this a long time ago and my concerns have all been addressed)...

So folks, another question, you will be sick of me by the end of my project... (might be better to ask in the disc brakes thread, but seems it's the same bunch of people anyhow...)

Can Shimano road bike parts be mixed with MTB parts? Reason for asking is that I didn't even know there are different types of disc brake mounts and I like the look of the flat mount but I am running 1 X system with flat bars so by default it'd be post mount.

Can I use a set of ultegra calipers witht the M8000 parts for example?