Any question answered...

1x drivetrain question. I think this should work...but checking with the hive mind:

12 speed rear mech (Force AXS)
11 speed NW chainring
12 speed chain (not the flat top)
11 speed cassette

Then when fund allow, switch to 12 speed cassette on new wheels.

Vaz?

I need some t shirts (20 max) printing by Wednesday.
I have used hustlebucks previously, but no one seems to be responding and they're in some dead zone of Herne hill now.

Any recommendations, pref south /south east would be good.

Can anybody lend me a 27.4MM seatpost so I can confirm a tube size?

:D

anywhere in London I could get 1" to 1 1/8th steerer shim today?

Or whats the best material to make one? coke can?

Brixton Cycles have them.

Just bought some nice Lezyne pumps. Has anyone used the ABS2 chuck? Is it worth trying to get a hold of one? I have a few non-threaded valve stems that presumably the ABS1 Pro chuck won't work on, and it seems a nicer design than the slip-on one

I'm spending three hours driving to Detroit airport today. I want to listen to the USA v France women's football whilst I'm doing it.

5 live has it on but it's location blocked so you can't get the commentary if you're out of the UK. VPN doesn't seem to be an option as US phone networks appear to cripple the speed if you're using a VPN.

My car has Sirius satellite radio but I couldn't spot a channel that had it on (but there are a lot of channels so there could be one) and FM/AM.

Basically, any suggestions on how to get BBC 5 live content in the US without it being geoblocked or a radio station that will have the football on?

Tunein? https://tunein.com/radio/BBC-Radio-5-live-909-s24943/

Cheers. I'll give it a try but I have a feeling that it has the same location lock.

The seat lug I bought for the frame I’m about to build has a 6mm through hole with 10mm recesses for the heads for the seat binder bolt.

All the binder bolts I can find have an 8mm shaft.

None supply the head diameter.

So I have 2 questions,

1. If you have an 8mm shaft seat binder, could you measure the head diameter for me?

2. Is my best option to drill the lug out to accept an 8mm shaft?

I could turn the heads of an 8mm shafted binder bolt down a bit if they are over 10mm but I guess then I’d be reducing the prominence of the shoulder.

Other option would be to use a standard bolt on one side and turn something on the lathe to go on the other side but I don’t have any way to broach an Allen key fitment into it so it’d have to be either be oversized, sticking out the recess in the lug in order to have spanner flats I could grip or I’d have to braze it into the lug.

Feel bad for tagging you in this @mdcc_tester because I think I do so in most of the things I post in this thread but figure you’re the most likely to be able to suggest a solution.

Feel bad for tagging you in this tester because I think I do so in most of the things I post

You should feel bad for tagging anybody in a thread which they obviously already follow, since it needlessly clutters their time line. The only thing worse is replying to a comment and tagging the poster (e.g. @M_V ) in a thread they already follow, since that gives them three separate notifications 😀

@mdcc_tester should I feel bad?

The only thing worse is replying to a comment and tagging the poster and embedding a huge ass image in the reply

ftfy @mdcc_tester

Sorry.

@mdcc_tester

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I’m looking to sell my Dolan track bike, the frame is older but the components are new and barely used.... better to split (more hassle) or sell as a whole? Was thinking 5-600

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Split

Although you may end up stuck with the finishing kit

That’s the risk/hassle

What’s the name for the ball clamp cup thing I’m missing? Is it available separately?

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you may end up stuck with the finishing kit

Not if you insist that whoever takes the frame has to take the bars/stem/seat post 🙂
In practice, making the offer a 'fuselage' rather than just a bare frame will probably get it off your hands a bit quicker

In practice, making the offer a 'fuselage'...

‘Fuselage’ has got to be up there with calling bikes, ‘she’, ‘weapon’ and ‘whip’ though innit.

You need a new vice.

Nah