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That doesn't look like the same spline as this

The apparent difference looks to be down to SRAM broaching the spline and your supplier milling it. The driving points will be the same, you'll just have gaps where they created Mickey Mouse ears (©NYCCNC) in the corners.

Sram 3 bolt spline is the same on 24 and 30mm axle, that's how I can run my power2max power meter on either.

So it will work, but with cool aero holes in my chainring......... Excellent.

Do you think that the chainring with "Mickey mouse holes" will affect the drive?

No. It's largely a myth that chainrings are driven by the splines/bolts anyway, if you do the maths the friction from being clamped to the spider is what really does most if not all of the driving. Think of it as a clutch, not a mechanically interlocked drive. If it were otherwise, you'd see a lot more ovalisation of chainring bolt holes. The splines/bolts are just for indexing and, in the case of the bolts, to provide the clamping force. If you're relying on them for drive, it's because the bolts have already come loose and you'll soon see your holes ovalled out if you don't soon fix the problem.

If anything, the Mickey Mouse corners avoid a potential stress raiser in what is a sharp corner on the broached ones, so your chainring should be less likely to crack 🙂

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Anyone been locked out of their myLambeth account and been successful in getting back in? Too many incorrect password attempts 🤦‍♂️

The pair of wheels that came with my CDF are Formula hubs laced to Alexrims XD elite. Unsurprisingly the rear hub is dead and needs replacing. Should I relace a new hub to the same rim or get new rims and new hubs ( a whole new wheelset). And if I get new rims and hubs, what should I do with the old wheelset?

At the moment I feel like I would like a whole new wheelset (something like hope 20five) and rebuild the old rear wheel onto an affordable but boring shimano 105 hub so that I'll have two wheelsets (will run tubeless so nice to have wheelsets to swap in)

You could probably get a matching hub and rebuild it yourself.

What's the issue? Bearing races gone or cassette body?

Much cheaper to just replace the rear wheel, as the Formula/Alex aren’t exactly special.

Needn’t be Hope, can be a Mavic or Shimano (latter is likely to be centerlock), or even a Raleigh one which does the jobs perfectly; https://bicyclechain.co.uk/product/30001/29-tru-build-rear-wheel/

Bikeman told me its the cassette body is what has gone but that the part is obscure. I suppose I could try and do it as a hobbyist side project.

In future I would like hubs that have easier to obtain parts and I already have two other wheelsets that are on Hope so it seemed prudent to standardise.

I could get the cheap wheel that @edscoble suggests, but then what to do with the old rim+spokes? recycling bin I guess. I liked the idea of rebuilding them onto a shimano 105 hub because I heard that's the cheapest qr disc hub that has serviceable parts but I suppose once you've factored in buying new spokes and the shimano hub, the value of reusing a bog standard rim becomes sort of moot. (I can get my friend to do the actual building at slave labour rates)

the part is obscure

It'll be on Ebay for like £25 assuming it's the freehub that's gone. Trickiest bit is identifying the right fit.

Exactly right. It’s better to offer new wheel as cannot guaranteed the part will be correct.

Plus if hubs is pitted, then not worth replacing.

Seem like the best solution is to get a new nicer wheelset and experiment finding out the freehub body on the old wheel by taking it off, if cannot find the correct one, the cheap Raleigh 29ers wheel does a good job of replacing it.

what to do with the old rim+spokes?

Find a bike recycling place where weirdos like me can buy them for a few pounds, or they have the appropriate scrap metal facilities. Makes me sad to see perfectly serviceable parts going to landfill or being melted down or whatever.

Plus if hubs is pitted, then not worth replacing.

All the el-cheapo hubs I've had have all been cartridge bearing. Well, the ones made after yr 2000 :)

But if you have to pay someone to do the work and find the parts, yes, it's going to cost you more than a new wheel. If the wheel owner is happy to do the research and work and has access to the tools then it's no biggy to fix it with a reasonably low chance of accidental destruction :)

I'm not saying that's the right thing to do, just that it can be done, and what the Bikeman was trying to tell @Belagerent was that it's not worth their time.

Seem like the best solution is to get a new nicer wheelset and experiment finding out the freehub body

Aye, sounds it.

Can anyone remember someone on twitter posting a fake essay being marked that was Karl Marx' Capital?

Can't find it in the memes thread.

It was kicked out for not being funny.

https://www.lfgss.com/comments/15112988/

Cheers.

I own two of these saddles and need to order a new one, but for the life of me I can’t work out the model. I know it’s SLR, but that’s it.

Anyone know how I can find out?

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It's an SLR Flow L2.

Edit. Hmm. Maybe not. Hole's too big. It's definitely a Flow saddle.

Edit 2. Flow S3?

https://www.swinnertoncycles.co.uk/components-c169/saddles-c262/selle-italia-saddle-slr-flow-ti316-saddle-p74832

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Feel like I ask this every year but I seem to try lots of products, not really get on with them and end up with dozens of accounts and more sprawlingly complicated admin.

I would like some kind of all in one subscription software that:

• generates attractive invoices easily from chrome and has an android and iOS app
  
• optionally but not essentially does expenses
  
• and crucially does CRM or some kind of similar function.
  
  

I've been using Zoho for about 6 years but don't love it and every renewal period I find myself wanting to shift. I once input a load of data into their CRM but never used it (come at me, GDPR). I just want a visually clear/appealing way to see a sales pipeline but I don't want to have to add another monthly subscription to the list just for that - needs invoicing at minimum.

I probably pay 150 a year for Zoho which although very reasonable feels like a waste of spend. I could definitely be more efficient about how I spend that 150.

I'm interested in Monday.com for CRM and general project management but not sure I can do invoices? Also it seems expensive for our needs. Prob don't want to pay more than 200-300 tops per year. For the actual features we'd want (time tracking, integration, calendar view, timeline view, automation, google authentication, etc), the Pro tier of monday.com seems most apt but it's 830 quid a year.

Re. some kind of crm I basically just use Sheets at the moment with columns for company, address, contact, role, email, phone, notes and then a series of columns to be filled in and colour graded based on progress of conversation. It's fine but it's very manual so I usually only get around to updating it when I'm in a lull. I'd like something that makes it easy on me to become habit forming. Maybe some sort of visual hook like showing me a tree of possible avenues that a conversation is taking (if this then that sort of thing).

I feel learning hubspot probably wouldn't be a bad idea for my career but also, without looking, it's probably stupidly expensive and over complicated for me. Someone mentioned Streak but I don't know that yet. Salesforce again mentioned a lot but seems overkill. Others?

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