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is there a cheaper/lighter alternative to the surly sunrise bar?

What's best to keep this steel pipe looking freshly cleaned up?

Butter.

Gotta send a 12kg lump to Russia. Parcelmonkey or Parcel2go?

Where can I buy replacement plastic sleeve for internal routed gear cable?

Expensive for what it is I suppose, but I've used this before for internal cabling:
https://www.wiggle.com/transfil-gear-cable-waterproof-kit/

Wipe with solvent then use a spray can of clear coat.

You’d be better off trying to find the song elsewhere (unless IDing it is the issue obviously).
The voiceover is probably mono so you could try inverting the polarity of either the left or right channel (any audio software can do this) but you might lose a lot of the song too.

Depending on what it is, and how quick it needs to get there I'd use http://alfaparcel.co.uk/

Actually cost about the same in the end, have already bought Parcelfarts through one of the other two. Thanks for the link, will save it for future reference!

I successfully sent a large parcel to maybe China pretty cheaply using Transglobal Express

Could someone give me some advice on 10 speed 105 compatible wheel set for around the 150 mark?

Someone suggested these - https://www.decathlon.co.uk/aksium-race-road-wheel-set-id_8331679.html
Are they any good? Thanks in advance!

Are they any good?

They're #tester_approved

Nice! Cheers

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Map says yes. But I cannot confirm this from personal observation.

This is quite some time wormhole in time you've sent me down! My pic is defo not Faraday Road — that's up the other end of Portobello Road. It was definitely south of Westbourne Park Road, in Westminster not Ken & Chelsea. I took a bunch of other pictures that evening which might help contextualize it. Finding those pix would likely give a date. That bike was stolen from outside the Garrick Club in 1989, so that must backstop it. But it must have been earlier, probably around 1980.

Cedric Clayson was a Leicester-based frame builder. For some reason it sticks in my mind that the frame was built to celebrate the Worlds track competition held at the velodrome there in 1970. (It had world championship bands, but was a road/path model because mudguard eyes.) I bought it for 50p in Portobello, rather rusty, and had it painted pink. I built it with Airlite hubs on Fiamme sprints with an Idéale leather saddle as shown in the pic.

I liked that bike a lot and was upset by its theft. Happily I had taken the measurements and had Tom Board, who had a workshop nearby, beneath Bicycle Workshop in All Saints Road, build me an exact replica in Reynolds 708 tubing, with Cinelli lugs and Columbus track fork blades. The shop proprietor, Ninon, urged me to go for a metallic pink finish. I still have that bike, still on fixed, and very fine it is too. It even still sports the same red Impero framefit pump. Bike for life? You bet!

Since you are so closely focused on the area's topography and history, you may find this blogsite helpful: https://rbkclocalstudies.wordpress.com/about/

If I have a threaded canti/v brake stud, can it be re-threaded? It's not a removable stud.

Is the only option to chop it off and have a new one brazed on?

You could try running brass down the inside of the threads and then drilling and re-tapping it, but it'd probably be easier just to chop it off and replace it, given that both will involve the use of the blue spanner.

Hmmm, thanks. I'm not really sure what the blue spanner is, but either way it sounds like the solutions are beyond my capabilities as a home mechanic/bodger.

Blue spanner is the oxy-acetalene torch. Shifts everything, eventually.

All our spanners are blue.

Got one of those PX pedal spanner/tyre lever/etc spanners last week. Actually used it for spannering and for tyre levering. Not blue though :(

Parklife!

Park

I don't think that was the blue spanner he was talking about

#parklyf #thatwasthejoke

Have you tried running a tap down it? I should have a metric set somewhere if you need to borrow one.

Not sure on the setup but a longer bolt and a nut on the back may work as well.