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A lot of people have a second growth spurt, I did. I was 6'1 at from 16-19ish now im 6'4"

I was 6'1 at from 16-19ish now im 6'4"

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Speak up, can't hear you down there

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Why you little....

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If the mid blades are rated for luggage go for them - the shorter stays will make the basket less wobbly under load.

so fuck knows what the “we can’t see it until the courier attempts delivery” bollocks was about

Exactly what it says. Royal mail signed for is only tracked at the sending point and the delivery point. I've just been through exactly this with a customer who has been waiting a week for his slam cover. The same day, another one got delivered next day on the same 2nd class service. SJSC are absolutely correct in stating that Royal mail deliveries are all over the place, and everybody is in the same boat.

In other postage related news, I just took delivery of something I erroneously ordered from China at the end of April. Had been in the airmail system for at least eight weeks.

Is this a problem?

No, there's supposed to be a clearance under the bolt head so that the arm can pivot freely. A bit of axial float on the pivot bearing doesn't cause any issues, as the arm just slams up against one end once you apply the brake.

It wasn't signed for, and it's not true that everybody is in the same boat because for e.g. Wiggle delivers next day with tracking. The choices that SJS have made are defining the outcomes here, they're not a rudderless ship being driven before the wind.

If I'd chosen "free delivery, who knows when it will arrive" I'd be more tolerant, rather than "delivery that cost the same as the part".

Anyway, I have it now, so will fit it, hand the bike over, and buy stuff from SJS when I've exhausted absolutely every other possibility first.

The choices that SJS have made are defining the outcomes here

No, the choice that you made is defining the outcome. SJSC offer the option of express tracked delivery, £7.50 for small consignments.

Think of it this way: if the canti stud didn't protrude beyond the brass bushing in the brake itself then you'd end up clamping the brake solidly between the bolt head and the fork, so it wouldn't be able to turn.

That said, in one instance only I've filed about 1mm off the stud because the play was ridiculous, but what you've got there looks fine.

No, the choice that you made is defining the outcome. SJSC offer the option of express tracked delivery, £7.50 for small consignments.

Well, I've made my own choice now, and that's to vote with my feet.

Walking off in a huff?

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Do we think an XS is too small for a 5'5" girl?

Possibly a smidge? That's a 14" frame, which is quite tiny. I recently fitted a 15" frame to a 5' person and there was plenty of seatpost there.

How about this ex-demo Whyte Shoreditch 1x10?

Cheers.

I think you're right as the reach is a lot smaller than the S.

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How about this ex-demo Whyte Shoreditch 1x10?

That's pretty good actually.

Walking off in a huff?

In a virtual fashion, yes I suppose so.

Paying £7.50 for prompt delivery of a £3.50 part doesn't strike me as reasonable, using comparison to other bike mail order places to define reasonable. Therefore continuing to argue with someone who presents it as the right and proper course of action isn't going to go anywhere useful as our definition of "reasonable" is clearly so far adrift.

Paying £7.50 for prompt delivery of a £3.50 part doesn't strike me as reasonable

Would you rather they had charged you £11 for the part with free delivery? Why do you think the price of the part has any bearing on the cost of shipping? Who do you imagine is the fat cat in this "£7.50 postage scam"? Certainly not the guy who has been out there throughout lock down making less than minimum wage doing final deliveries. Not the sort hub staff on zero hours contracts. Not even the corporations running alternatives to Royal Mail. You are rapidly turning into that twat who went viral on here for moaning about being charged £15 labour for a BB swap.

I enquired a while back whether there was a thread specifically to collate non-urgent things that people wanted to buy from SJS, so they could all be bundled up together and then the person receiving them could do a round trip of London dropping stuff off (assuming you're in London). It's a pain that the one shop that carries some useful obscure parts charges £3.50 to post a bolt.

the one shop that carries some useful obscure parts

That's a costly business to be in, so it's churlish to complain that they charge postage separately rather than just doubling the item price on anything under a fiver.
Their p&p charge is a perfectly reasonable and accurate reflection of the cost of putting something in an envelope and posting it.

Thanks (also @mdcc_tester)

Makes sense. I thought it was the bushing that was supposed to be clamped by the bolt, to keep the brake flush with the interface bit on the frame, and then the brake would pivot on the bushing, rather than the stud itself. Cheers

I agree for the most part. I can only imagine what a "four-candles" their stockroom is. On the other hand some other retailers do have one step down from the £3-4 postage band and only charge £1-2 for something as small as a bolt, clip or quicklink. It's just slightly irritating for SJS not to have that extra band of postage. My guess is that a huge amount of their business in small obscure parts is by post, so it just feels quite clunky to have flat rate postage that covers everything from a single washer up to a set of brake levers.

'Find another one'

Wiggle=Tesco selling to masses
SJS= obscure deli

Which Salami costs more

Dude it's a pun based on voting with your feet.