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is there some kind of splined coupler I’m missing?

You're missing the two ratchet rings if it's a DT hub, and obviously all the other freehub rotor parts.

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There an equivalent toothed insert in the freehub. Then there's an insert which goes into each which has teeth on the outside and a series of ramped teeth on the inside face, like this:

They're pressed together under load by two light pressure springs. When you start freewheeling, the ramps on the inside face of the inserts overcomes the spring pressure and pushes the two inserts apart, decoupling the freehub from the hub body.

Looks like this when assembled:

Paisley Freight.

Aaaah, so do the freehub bearings run on that hollow axle and I am missing the parts in 2? (edit: bit slow, answered above)

Or more importantly if I put a solid spline in there I could make a beater fixie skidder disc out of one of the worlds most expensive disc wheels...

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I'd say you're missing the parts in 1, 2 and 3. But yes, the freehub bearings run on the black axle.

Or more importantly if I put a solid spline in there I could make a beater fixie skidder disc out of one of the worlds most expensive disc wheels...

You'd need some way of constraining the DS of the axle, and preloading the bearings, and attaching the fixed cog to the axle. But yes, looks pretty doable with a bit of machining. If you were really keen you could machine a piece which fits in the splined section in the hub and allows you to attach a fixed cog through your locating system of choice, whether threads, bolts or magnets. I'd advise against magnets...

Or more importantly if I put a solid spline in there I could make a beater fixie skidder disc out of one of the worlds most expensive disc wheels...

the toothed ring is threaded into the hub body, so no.... unfortunately

You could always machine something with the same thread which replaces that piece and allows the attachment of a fixed cog. IIRC it's a right hand thread so it wouldn't undo under load. Skidding might require some Loctite though...

if I put a solid spline in there I could make a beater fixie skidder disc out of one of the worlds most expensive disc wheels.

As everybody else has already said, the drive goes through a thread which you can't lock in any practical way, so skids will just unwind everything. The easiest way to attach a fixed sprocket to it in order to make a suicide hub would be to take out the splined part and make the mounting thread on your fixie adapter to match the female thread in the hub shell. Loctite the adapter properly into the hub shell and use a threaded sprocket with no lock ring, so that if anything does unwind it's the sprocket off the adapter, not the adapter out of the hub shell.

Stinkyink has been fine for me

Best place(s) to buy replacement printer ink cartridges?

cartridgediscount.co.uk is where I bought my last lot for an HP OfficeJet 8610. Have had no problems with them, just as good as the standard overpriced HP ones.

Any Arabic speakers, how do you pronounce this? To my ears, duolingo’s pronunciation sounds more like ‘oui’ than ‘waa’, which is apparently the correct answer.

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A nice thought and somewhere I forget about too often, but the calls I take involve discussing sensitive financial information so public spaces are a no go

Can I, and if so how, use my Amazon Firestick abroad and access Prime/Netflix etc?

Cheers

@aggi thanks

Downs Link to Shoreham on a 25mm equipped road bike? Fine, right? Even if we've had a few days worth of rain beforehand..? Starting south of Guilford, if that makes a difference.

(google and some trawling here suggest so?)

Yeah that'll be fine mostly. There is a section just before partridge green that is a bit bumpy, and there is a section south of Cranfield that is a bit slippy when wet (I think they've resurfaced a lot due to the new houses. Rest you'll be fine, and once you're near Shoreham is smooth as.

Edit - would recommend a stop at Stans for a coffee as you pass.

Cheers.

Do wider rims put more stress on tyre sidewalls (assuming tyre size remains the same)?

Thanks for the tips!

Tl;Dr what ~£20 SD card should I buy for my phone?

Sorry, bit of a lazy question but the search is spiralling and I thought someone here may have bought one recently.

I need an SD Card for my phone. Apparently it supports up to 512GB. Which is a bit excessive / expensive but it looks like Lexar 128GB are around the £20 mark.

So what's the best SD card in the £20-30 range?

(best meaning the right combo of speed, reliable brand, and size)

Cheers.

So what's the best SD card in the £20-30 range?

I usually just buy Sandisk off of Amazon, because who has time to be nickel-and-diming memory cards? e.g. 200GB for £27.99 https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B073JY5T7T/

Those two brands are the go to.

Cheers. I'll go for that one.

It was more the variety of different models and speeds that was doing my head in.

I guess the next question is whether anyone has a recommendation for how to test if it's fake.