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Yep they are free after you’ve paid at the desk iirc

Want food, wine, light walking, pool, where should I go?

Yeah Tuscany. Rent a villa with a pool. See Florence and Sienna.

The lakes are great, got married there, it's mountainous though so the walking is rarely 'light' unless pottering around a small town. It's touristic, too, but in a fairly good way.

Personally I like Naples and the coast there is amaze, but it's all a bit full on.

Is there a pool in Ostuni? I didn't find one.

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Anyone tried to use a Park Tool BB bearing press to pressfit new freehub bearings? Is the threaded axle on the BB press too big for a DT Swiss freehub body? I want to swap my DT Swiss 350 freehub bearings but don't want to spend another £50+ on a smaller bearing press.

Good one, just booked a couple of days in Nesso just around the corner. We'll stay in Milan for 2 nights before we go to Nesso, any ideas which neighbourhood to pick in Milan?

We usually look up the AllSaints store and find something closeby, but the Milan AllSaints is in a big mall rather than the trendy, up-and-coming, semi-gentrified neighbourhoods we're aiming for.

Assuming you're cycling or driving

Start in Florence for a day or two then head down towards Siena, stop in Greve in Chianti or Radda in Chianti for a few days then a day in Siena and back to Florence.

Lol.

Generally I'd recommend wandering around the downtown and looking at all the ridiculously expensive shops, go to the Galleria for sure. I liked the http://www.gam-milano.com/it/home/ a lot.
I had a bad experience at the Lancaster Hotel (bed bugs!).

On Lago di Como take the slow boat if you have the time, it's just beautiful and relaxing to putter along between the villages.

Sorry, my info is dated (2010) and can't really say which hoods are desirable places to see and be seen in.

Have a good time!

I'd recommend the north rather than Tuscany/Umbria as the latter is still swamped with tourists in September. You can rarely go wrong for food and wine anywhere in Italy. An interesting itinerary could be a few days in Verona (good food and wine, lots of interesting places to see), a few days on Lake Garda (use the boat to get around, have lunch in places like Salo) and then a few days in Bologna which claims (like a lot of Italian towns and cities) to be the food capital of Italy (it has a better claim than most).

There are loads of places to choose from in that area too - Treviso, Vicenza, Padua, Mantua, Bergamo, you can't really go wrong.

We'll stay in Milan for 2 nights before we go to Nesso, any ideas which neighbourhood to pick in Milan?

Milan is weird. It's like it's all up and arrived and gone. Enjoyed the food and getting tipsy on the Ripa di Porta Ticenese (Naviglio neighbourhood apparently) but wouldn't spend more than 2 days in town.

Padua was great when I went there for polo, Venice was shit but I had a 6 day wine box hangover and spent my whole day there trying not to puke in canals as my body shut down, then some old guy shouted at me in Italian for a while.

can anyone point me in the right place - i seem to remember a kickstarter or something about carbon bike rack for frames that cannot take bike racks?

https://www.tailfin.cc ?

whats the smallest chainring that will fit on 5 arm 110bcd?

BINGO!

thanks!

(next question - anyone used it!???? lol!)

34 tooth.

thanks!

33 tooth.

Controversial!

32 tooth.

TA Specialties (and maybe some other boutiquey mobs) do 33T

EDIT: Guess they might be hard to find... http://forums.mtbr.com/singlespeed/110mm-33t-chainring-they-exist-now-where-they-265218.html

No one likes odd though, right?

34T is the lowest you'd get from most/normal manufacturers. To go lower you have to get into triples, MTB cranks and some of the newer CX type cranksets with proprietary bolt patterns

they have some 33t at SJS. I think 34 should be fine. thanks!

Francis Cade who is a vlogger/ instagrammer is using one while cycling across america, looks like it's doing well.