Any question answered...

Thanks for all that, yes these are unbranded but the tektro one, there were indeed fancy colours available, purple included.

@Oliver perhaps. I really don’t care for the roller brakes and 7sp nexus hub, but if I’m having it converted, seems like discs is also an option.

Ahem @Oliver Schick sorry tagged another Oliver by mishtak.

The life insurance I took out paid off the decreasing value of the mortgage as time went on. Dirt cheap to do the job, was it called level term,?

That happens a lot. I'm sure Oliver doesn't mind, as he made one post and was last active in 2012, probably doesn't get notifications any more.

It's just an early 90s style 'low profile' MTB canti, isn't it? This is an Avid Tri-Align:

[edit: yours look more like Marins: ]

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Yep, that’s what’s dawning on me ... the caliper isn’t vertical like modern V, but like that^.

back in the late 80’s some kid in California came up with a brake called the Marinovative Decelerator which was way more upright, and as the straddle wire wasn’t anywhere near 90° it was probably more of a v-brake.

I think you have confused the Decelerator, which was a low-profile canti with a bizarre pulley system for the straddle cable, and the later Stop Lite, which was the original (and unpatented) direct-pull brake, which Shimano immediately copied as the V-brake.

Also that kid did OK: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-capron-a7b73736

I had a set of those a while back. Someone IDed them as Tektro. They're just a design of canti. My memory of 90s MTBs is that the first design that was on those lines was the Gravity Research Pipe Dreams.

I think the Decelerator was the first low-profile canti we’d ever seen, but yeah, I’d forgotten about the pulley system it had.

Ben Capron, that was him! He was about 18 when he did his first brake, I think. He did well...

My relatively recently installed SSD has failed (past warranty). A shop has given me three options for repairs: 1-install new drive 2-add back OS 3-also retrieve data. If I’ve recently backed up my computer there’s no reason to choose 2 or 3, correct?

You may want the OS installed if you don't have a copy. You can download an installer to a thumb drive but it will need to be activated with a license.

Although these^^ Tektro may not be the best mtb brake these days, think they’ll be fine for the genteel type of bike Oliver Schick rightly guessed they’re for. Want to fit canti mounts to the frame made for 700 hub brakes with close clearance, thinking I might put these on with posts around the 650b height, so I could use 700 and skinny tyres again without much fiddle.

But clearance around the rear brake is slightly tight. Do these cantis require very short straddles?

Saw a load of those Pedersen bikes in Christiania. Would like to have a go on one sometime!

Does anyone know where one can get ahold of something similar to this blue lug tapered 1 to 1 1/8 spacer? Preferably outside the US of A

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Connection to router via "mains" not working well, so switching to wireless. Suggestions for the best wireless network card for a SFF PC (Win10)?

Wouldn’t my backup include one? I’ve always done complete backups, not just music/pics et cetera. Keep in mind I know nothing.

Will a box thats 220cm X 170cm x 30cm fit in a VW transporter ZipVan size?

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I have done reinstalls a few times though, so I have a copy on my backup drive (mybook) right?

This says the loadbed is 2.57m x 1.2m. So maybe, at an angle?

good find thanks

I don't think so. My understanding is that a backup is just data and that any reinstall you've done was presumably already on a disk with windows there and just needing some TLC. A brand new disk will be empty and your backup will just be data, not OS. But I defer to better minds. Check out the PC tech thread for a more rigorous answer.

Ah thanks, headed that way now.

I’d go for a separate wireless access point in ‘station’ mode, attached to your PC via Ethernet cable.

Something like a Mikrotik wAP, cheap & powerful: https://www.wifi-stock.co.uk/details/mikrotik_rbwapg-5hact2hnd_wap-ac_white.html

Will work infinitely better than any USB/miniPCIe WiFi card.

Will work infinitesimally better than any USB/miniPCIe WiFi card

FTFY 🙂

Detectable difference in experience obviously depends on what you use the device for, but there’s a lot more thought in, and real estate/power budget for, the antenna array in something like the aforementioned Mikrotik box as opposed to the average afterthought-with-a-pigtail in a SFF PC or bit-of-string dipole poking out of a USB dongle.

If I was looking to buy a WLAN adapter for a stationary device with an Ethernet port, a discrete station is a no-brainer imo.