Any question answered...

No thank you

I have one and it sounds good to me, purportedly better sound card than current ipods.
Sandisk, that is.

Is there a good looking black triple chainset with hollow Axle that is not made FSA?
Something looking like a Praxis maybe or white industries?

How much money?

Ive been looking at these recently, I think they look like normal boring SRAM cranks, so not mega ugly but not the pinnacle of beauty either. Pretty cheap second hand. Truvativ Elita.

Middleburn also but they're expensive.

I also had the idea of bodging an X0 triple spider onto the SRAM Force/Rival cranks with removable spider. Don't know if that one would have worked or not.

Others may be able to give better advice if you want HTii BB instead of SRAM

Edit: oh my, not what you were after at all but I've just found out about the Jeff Jones XTR crank mod. Gorgeous.

What's the name for this plastic part on the caliper spring and are replacements available anywhere?

*it's a brake spring guide according to Shimno apparently...

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are replacements available anywhere?

Use a piece of suitably sized PTFE cable sleeve from an electronics supplier

Why can't my other half's phone connect to the chrome cast?

Background :

• UK android phone
  
• UK chromecast
  
• in the US
  
• location on
  
• wifi on
  
• my US phone connects and my UK phone connect
  
• both using the same wifi
  
  
  

Every time I search I get a load of useless results saying "if other devices dont connect it may be your router. I assume this is Google rigging the results to prevent people sharing faults in their product.

Any ideas?

Will dig through my electronics box and see what I can find. Cheers

I'm less worried about sound quality (use while riding) than I am about capacity, ease of use and battery life. Any comment on those?

My SRAM X0 derailleur doesn't have a barrel adjuster which makes adjusting the derailleur a huge faff. What is the best way to add adjustment to a cable run with only non-threaded cable stops?

I'm thinking of sticking a Ritchey cable adjuster for STIs in the rear derailleur like this:

But from what I've read they're prone to losing tension. Would I be better off with an inline adjuster?

I'm trying to replace the inner cable on my rear cantilever brake, with Tektro road levers. On my Charge Plug single speed.

The yoke on the rear was too high, which robbed me of mechanical advantage. Also the inner was a bit frayed. So I decided to change it, as a nice little fettle whilst watching the Giro.

My issue is that I can't, for the life of me, guide the new cable into the cable route that goes from the lever to the outer, underneath the bar tape.

If I feed one in from high and right, not going through the cable end housing, I can get it to feed through. But if I use the cable end housing then it just sticks once it's into the little hole inside the lever. Like the angle of attack is not aligned.

Poor photo attached. You can just about make out the hole that the cable goes into, above and behind the cable end housing and the mounting bolt.

If I feed it backwards, from the rear of the bike, through the outer, it comes through just fine,onto the lever.

Any tips?

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I went ahead and got a new bike from Evans and took advantage of their part ex deal. Am I stupid for swapping this in?

I've just dug it out the back of the garage where it has sat pretty much since it was given to me after I had plans to get it working. Now I've got it out I don't think it's the worst but not sure it's worth keeping

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You're gonna have to unwrap the bars and first feed the inner through, then put the outer over it, push it all the way in the hood, and finally rewrap.

Trying to push the inner trough the outer while wrapped is an unnecessary frustrating endeavour.

Feed cable into lever bit.
Pull the end out and make a big loop(so the cable comes out towards you then goes back on itself towards the hole).
Feed end into cable outer(it will have a big loop of cable sticking out of the pictured part between the 2 holes).
Feed more cable in so it comes out the other end of the outer cable.
Carefully pull inner cable tight and the lever end should flip around 180 degrees and sort itself out.

What @Tijs said: unwrap time.

I've used 2 pairs of those levers and I've never been able to recable them without unwrapping the bars.

I tried the big loop thing and it was a disaster, too tight a turn and it frayed and curled the cable.

Probably rewrap time. Arse biscuits.

Bugger.

I rewrapped it. Luckily the fabric hex tape is lovely and stretchy to unwrap and redo.

As with most such jobs, it wasn't too bad in the end.

As with most such jobs, it wasn't too bad in the end.

The mental part is the biggest obstacle (for me at least). I don't like touching my bar wrap once it's on there nice and good.

How much are Evans offering for the bike?

It works on a you buy a bike of X value and we will give you y value off when you give us your old bike.

The value of the bike I'm buying is giving me £100 off.

Grease center lock splines?

If you google DDG Axis XC and investigate it then you'd find that you could probably make more selling the individual parts. The chances are if you tried to ebay your complete bike wouldn't make £100 but you have fees, packaging, time and hassle to take into account. I'd let Evans have it.

Actually turns out I have the clip+ non-sport version (I hate name stacking when they add models). Capacity is capacity - 16gb gets you a ton of mp3 files at 320kbps, not so many at full cd quality...
Ease of use? No problem, everything is tactile, so not so necessary to be looking at it to make changes once you're familiar with the controls.
Since it's not exactly the same model I can't really comment on run time, though mine can go all day (rated 15 hours).

I already have two of those ones :)

I sweated on one and half killed it. It still works as mp3 storage so it just lives plugged into the car stereo.

Nice one on the truvativ elita! That's exactly the sort of thing i was looking for!