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“Villain” - Flower hat, eco friendly mode of transport, single wardrobe, increasingly negative kid count.

“Heroe” - massively energy inefficient industrialists (all those machines to cook an egg?!), drive or fly literally everywhere, fast fashion, net positive kid count.

Seems there’s a clear Natural World vs Rapacious Industrialism theme I hadn’t picked up on. All this time I’d naively believed the winner’s story...

Well. There's another piece of my childhood ruined.

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Lump of rubber in the guide rail.

I'm looking for an affordable taxi service in Jalandhar - does anyone have any tips?

Yes, Might have to be something like that glued in place

What's that cheese? English, orange, not red Leicester?

A length of wood or tube that you can drop in the runner bearing on the frame and the door. Then it can be lifted out to enable closing when necessary.

“Heroes” - massively energy inefficient industrialists (all those machines to cook an egg?!), drive or fly literally everywhere, fast fashion, net positive kid count...

...cynical addition of playability to unhealthy snacks to market them directly to children, fuelling the obesity crisis; obviously fake pseudonyms perpetuating (i) stereotype of mad scientists fuelling Gove-like distrust in experts, (ii) objectification of women valued only for their physical appearance. Also, noise polluters.

Thinking of an indoor exercise bike as I’d rather have it ready to go then mess about with setting up a turbo. Looking at a couple and the one available now has a 13kg flywheel but the other available early December has an 18kg flywheel. Am I better off waiting or not much difference? Aware you can get 20kg+ but they’re a tad outside budget. Thanks.

Also any recommendations welcome around the £300 mark.

I need to put a stop on a sliding door (pvc porch door) to stop it closing completely. I think crimping something onto the runner may be best, drilling looks very fiddly., any suggestions for something to use as a stop?

Find someone who has one of these unnecessary offspring and just place them in the way to stop the sliding door from closing.

Double Gloucester?

Yes! thats the one. Love a bit of Double G. Very underrated

Cheestrings

Buy a smart turbo and use your own bike on it

Get away with your cheese filth stick

Need something the wife can use also to ensure she accepts the request

Thomson X4 stem, top of steerer 5mm below top of stem, approx level with centre of top stem clamp bolt.

Am I going to be dieded?

What’s the steerer made of?

Alu.

The top of steerer sits level with the top edge of the upper stem clamp bolt.

Am I going to be dieded?

Not from any immediate cause related to your steerer/stem interface, although a Thomson on its own might kill you, and you might weary of constantly having to adjust your headset.

I asked for exactly this advice and haven't dieded yet with a steerer that ends just above the centreline of the top stem bolt. @gbj_tester passed on a tip, which is that after your headset is adjusted and your stem clamp bolts are tightened properly, you can tighten the headset preload bolt quite a bit tighter for extra security. Because the stem bolts are already tight it shouldn't have any effect on the headset operation.

Thanks. My X4 is the 50mm chunkier 'block'-style, and I'm far from a gnarr-shredder so I'll take my chances for the sake of it being a cheap impulse buy and being a sucker for dat CNC flava.

@ffm Tip top, I'll nip the cap bolt down. I have noticed that the gap between stem clamp halves is narrower at the top, so may just get a 2mm shorter spacer stack under the stem & be done with it.

you can tighten the headset preload bolt quite a bit tighter for extra security

I didn't realise this was a thing. At what torque does it start destroying the star nut though..?

I had a questionable headset cap which i managed to destroy by tightening the preload bolt too much. It looked like a carbon weave but based on how easily it disintegrated it was more likely plastic!

At what torque does it start destroying the star nut though..?

Star nuts are really hard to break. 5Nm is sufficient to make the adjuster screw almost impervious to self loosening, whereas the 1-2Nm required to set the bearing preload isn't.

I use 5Nm on glued-in nuts,which are nowhere near as resistant to pull out as star nuts. Expanding bungs can also easily resist this much bolt tension.

Obviously Tester Top Caps can take it too.