Any question answered...

they defo made their own bikes.

Thank you.

In which case, I think you'll need to rattle their cage.
You'll be lucky to find a part like that - even at one of their distributors.

Not bmw the car brand... if that’s what you were thinking??

@withered_preacher, @JurekB, @midlife

No, my mole looks nothing like a cat shape. It's on my back on the shoulder blade, it's not big and it's perfectly round. It's never caused any problem also, so no chance the NHS would do it for free, can't pass it as a concern for skin cancer.

The reason why I want to have it removed is rather silly and extremely superstitious. Things have been hard the last few years both persoanlly and professioally.

There is a saying in Chinese that if you have a mole on your back, exactly where mine is, you are destined to have to work very very hard and with little or no reward at the end of it. (Like having a burden on your back, the bigger the mole, the bigger the burden is etc etc)

Stupid, right? I never believed in it, still not sure if I do, espeically having been brought up in the Westen culture...

But having unwanted moles removed has a very deep root to chainging people's fate in the Chiense culture (this is getting more stupid, right?) Anyway, I thought, why not be a little more Chinese once in my life? What have I got to lose?

I’ve been sat in my bathroom watching a wasp traveling to and fro from a little crack in the wood under the bath to the window. It will return from its expedition a few moments later holding a little something and disappear under the bath... potential wasps nest?

not potential - IS.

It's your mole.
You don't want it.
For whatever reasons.
Not stupid at all.
Mine was probably no more than 5mm Ø.
On my cheek, a bit irritating as I could see it out of the corner of my eye.
Give your GP a go.

Being an avowed disbeliever in almost everything, I'd say it would be slightly insane to have it removed based on superstition. That said, if removal of such things is so ingrained in your culture there may be a huge psychological advantage to having it done.
And just to repeat this reiteration one more time; everything I say comes out of my ass.

Just go to a reputable private plastic surgery clinic, if you are in Cumbria I could point you in the right direction..

Curious as to how you get on. I'm covered in them. Generation before slip slop slap and quite a few before Generation iPad so actually saw sun in Australia.

Could you cannibalise the spherical washers that brake pads use, with a regular hex nut on top?

Brooklyn Machine Works not Bayerische Motoren Werke

Is there a term to Google to get images of forks that have jazzy paint jobs on the inside surfaces?

Try -
painted bike fork tang

It will give you a few :)

Thanks @SideshowBob

New question: where can I get universal cooker hood filters in or around Streatham tomorrow? Argos says no. B&Q no. Homebase has an expensive one.

Are these questions related? You're not going to spraypaint your fork in the kitchen with the extractor fan on are you?

I put "paint inside leg of fork" and found....
http://www.velominati.com/2016/03/the-suit-lining/

...that is merely a concept dreamed up by nuts to scare other nuts and their offspring into conforming to and fearing some other nonsensical notion which most kids would see through in five minutes if they weren’t the spawn of the spawn of a long line of morons. But I digress.

Funny to be reading that on the Velominati website 😉

but they have found some nice pictures of forks

I thought that was someone who's obsessed with BMW seatposts.

@JurekB, I might do, thanks, but the NHS isn't what it used to be. For example, this year, I can't even get a repeat blood test for my thyroid and vitamin b deficiency, both were borderline problematic in the last 3 years running...

@withered_preacher, I still don't really believe it, but when life is turning shit at every corner, I mean I am not at risk of being homeless or anything, so I am still better off than a lot of people. Anyway, when the wind just wouldn't blow your way no matter how hard you try and people around you just sit on their ass and are better of than you, you start looking for things that make little sense. I think there would have a psychological effect on me, because everytime things don't go my way, like get turned down for another job interview when you know you deserve a chance etc etc, I can hear my late mother saying to the younger me that when I grow up, my life would be a struggle and this mole has something to do with it...

On the same token, if you have a mole on your chest, ideally somewhere in the middle, that means you are born to be ambitious and are destained to achieve great things with little efforts. If you have a mole in the middle of your forehead, above and between your eyebrows, your life would be plain sailing and you will always be lucky no matter what you do.

The bigger the mole, the more 'magical power' it's suppoed to have... It's completely insane, right?

Might just get a black marker from WH Smith tomorrow, or get a couple of black spots tattooed.

@midlife, thanks mate, Cumbria might be a little far for such a minor procedure. If it were anything major, than I would.

@hippy, My uncle has over 60 of them just on his arms and legs and back. Yap, I counted when I was a kid... I am sure he has more but I can't exactly ask my uncle to stripe naked, can I? Have to you ever counted how many you have?

Anyone uses TSB bank? Have they not fixed their online banking properly yet? I use them as a my spare bank and have just logged in for the 1st time since they broke their IT system and struggeld to fix it for days and it's showing weird shit and nothing in different accounts.

Has my wife put you up to this question? I refuse to answer without my solicitor.

Ah.
Wrong continent.

Nope, I've got better things to do with my time. #getbusydying

I've got one on my chest that is almost certainly killing me as I type.