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Who made these forks? Undrilled track forks with a Bob Griffin Cycles sticker on the steerer if that helps.

Cheers

Frank

Best option for mobile data in Andorra? Load a sim up with credit or get a portable WiFi device?

Recommendations for a replacement 11 speed chain and cassette? (Shimano 5800 groupset)

Measured the chain wear at 12, 1/8inches.

Does cycling to the doctors before getting blood pressure checked have an effect on the results?

Does cycling to the doctors before getting blood pressure checked have an effect on the results?

I read an answer to this just the other day. Not really, unless you get your blood pressure measured within a minute or two of stopping cycling hard.

I think I read the same answer @Greenbank did, if it was in the readers' queries slot in the CTC mag. The doc's answer was no, but they also said that blood pressure measurements in a medical setting were prone to being affected by stress, and that taking them yourself at home was usually a better way to get a reading.

Thanks both. Certainly wasn't critically high, just wondered if it might've been more normal at rest.

So I think I just got "phished". Got a call to my work phone via switchdesk, guy knew my full name and said he worked for a courier company and he had a parcel for me, just needed to verify my mobile number. I was expecting a parcel so stupidly gave it. They then hung up and called my mobile, asked if it was me and then hung up.

Aside from my error in judgement, what should I watch out for now? Is Mr Robot coming for me?

He’s probably contacting your bank changing your contact phone number to his mobile so he gets any queries over spends and about to go mad ass on your account or he’s got a parcel for you

I think I read the same answer @Greenbank did, if it was in the readers' queries slot in the CTC mag.

Ah, that was it.

blood pressure measurements in a medical setting were prone to being affected by stress

White Coat Hypertension is one of the names for it. I get it a bit, last checkup I mentioned it and they just prodded the machine to do it 3 or 4 times during the 10 minutes and got a more sensible reading.

A friend of mine has the white coat syndrome something awful. He once fainted when having a gym induction.

I am currently cycling Camberwell to Homerton Hospital on and off for medical things and always mention it in case they thing I've got a problem. Maybe I do have a problem.

I think white coat syndrome is super normal, everybody and their mother is just in a different state when at the doctors /especially in a hospital.
@Brun I think it's good practice to wait at least 5 minutes after getting off the bike, then take a reading, wait five minutes and then take another. Sit and chill during that time, don't run around, just relax.

Last time I was visiting my dad I saw him using one of those little (quite inaccurate) wrist blood pressure monitors; he had just gotten up from his bed and, looking at the display, he mumbled "ah, pretty ok" with a fag in his mouth.
Don't do this.

http://prepaid-data-sim-card.wikia.com/wiki/Andorra

Looks like a portable wifi dongle might be better

Anyone here wear Duckboots (the Danish ones)?

Hello everyone,
My Pinarello pista fork is laying dead (dropouts cracked in several spots) for almost half a year now and it breaks my heart. I would buy a new fork and move on but the problem is I cannot find one that would fit. As far as I know, those forks have to have a sort of a spacer at the bottom of the steerer (It cannot be removed). I took a picture of it in case you do not know what I am talking about. If anyone stumbled across this kind of problem and knows at least something about it, where to look for, or maybe even has a fork like this laying around, I would be more than glad for any info.
pics: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1HYqkJ4emYhlRwhsve0A20YuGmNbpUcRC

its the crown race, it should be removable with the appropriate tool and transferred to the new fork

Not easy to find one that'll work there. Andorra is excluded from all the EU rates and anywhere that'll let me add worldwide usage is on a monthly contract.

its the crown race

I don't think it is. The lower bearing seems to sit on the shelf above the fillet which connects the steerer to the crown.

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Whats the go to 22.2mm cross top levers and flat bar levers?

I noticed the other day when freewheeling without being clipped into the pedals that the drivetrain is turning of its own accord, like a fixed gear. Is that likely to be the freehub causing that? Or something else?

Is that likely to be the freehub causing that?

Yes, but it's normal. It's only too much freehub drag if the top run of the chain is drooping visibly when you freewheel while holding the cranks stationary.

It has done that a couple of times now that you mention it

Anyone know sites that sell brake levers in a variety of colours?