Any question answered...

I don't think so because the month they finish is not related to how long they take. And for live reporting the data output changes this month if for instance next month a very long project finishes.

Finish date for each completed project (or start date, or even midpoint date - up to you), not month on the x-axis.

Split your projects into cohorts based on when they started. Then figure out for each cohort after 1, 2 .. N months, what proportion were completed. Plot those cumulative distributions and compare. If you want to assess significance then you do a chi-squared test.

what epoxy glue is ideal to bond rubber to carbon fibre? A bit on my MTB shoe has come off and the manufacturer suggested to use epoxy glue.

This still means that if a project is finished in the future, that trend in the past would change. Which I think means that it would work if all of your projects were finished. Could something like a mann kendall test be sensible?

It's brake pad insert replacement day. God I dread this day. Has anyone got a technique for getting these bastards in easily without any specialist tools?

I've found the old pads flip out super easy if you get a flat head screw driver under an edge and just twist, but I've yet to figure out an easy way of getting the new ones in. The instructions imply they simply slide in. Lying bastards, they do not. I now know how old people feel looking at that shiny new un-openable jar of jam.

I know I've got the right Kool Step inserts for the Campag holders, but it feels like I need more than the force of a hyenas bite to slide the damn things in. I've wrestled for over 5 minutes just to get as far as in the pic above, my fingers hurt already and I'm more knackered and red in the face than if I'd climbed an actual hill. And I've still got 3 pads to go after this one.

I have tried in the past to aid the sliding in by using a flat head screw driver in the groove on the insert and push down hard to try and slide it in, but without a vice and just holding in your hands one slip leads to a gouge in the hand, as I know from painful experience.

Looking back now makes me wonder if the great brakeless craze started simply by someone deciding it was less effort and less pain to just crash into stuff, rather than endure the pain, suffering and exhaustion of brake pad replacement day.

If you've figured a easy way to do this, please share.

It might be the light, but is that pad upside down in the shoe? The curve of the pad looks opposite to the curve of the shoe.

-Most pads and shoes I’ve come across do slide in relatively easily. I’ll have a think about what the issue is.

Getting them out sometimes requires setting the pad against a bench edge and pushing the shoe off.

I've never had any issues with it, as I find just leaning on it hard does the trick, but I wonder if the hairspray trick that works for grips might be the ticket. I have heard people advocate a very thin wipe of grease on the back of the block, presumably as long as you're careful and give the face of the block a wipe with some alcohol afterwards that would be fine.

Washing up liquid.

Campagnolo holders are brutal. I've use a dab of chain lube.

OK thanks all, wrestling for over 20 mins to get the first one in, I tried a spot of washing up liquid on the second pad and it slid in, still with some effort but fully fitted in under a minute using just my fingers.

As I have multiple sets of these this top tip has really changed my life for the better, thanks very much, awesome!

This still means that if a project is finished in the future, that trend in the past would change

It's simpler than that. You just compare completion rate at start + N periods between different start period cohorts.

e.g.

3T endcaps. Where can I buy NOW at a REASONABLE price?

Removing/installing a Hope 24mm threaded bottom bracket. Hope say I need tool HTT179, this isn’t in stock anywhere. Anything else that will work?

It's a standard HTII BB tool.

Thanks!

Thanks Andy - just got an email from Reilly who are sending some specific ones out...I wasn't expecting them to respond..thanks anyway.

Somebody asked me what the best place is to get an njs 27.0 seat post in the UK.

eBay you can but need to get lucky, I don't see any on here ATM.

Any recommendations?

BiL has MF-TZ500-7 Shimano cassette, wants to change 14t to smaller, probably happy with 13t.
Can this be done? I don't have it in hand.

MF-TZ500-7

that seems to be a freewheel and not a cassette

https://www.spacycles.co.uk/m8b0s112p342/SUNRACE-7-Speed-Freewheel

Can this be done?

In general, yes, 7-speed multiple freewheels still come in 13-up configurations (they used to come in 12-up too when I was a boy). On the cheap end, 13-28 for £7.99, at the high end 13-various for eight times as much.

New wheel?

Freewheel wheels are prone to snapped or bent axles, get a cassette wheel and 11-32.

It's what I figured, just wanted to know if it's possible, plausible actually, to just change the smallest cog to a 13. He's famously cheap.

Yeah, he just wants to change the smallest cog.

No, Chinese e-bike, one of these.
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001566294831.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.0.0.5e883270SgguVX&algo_pvid=81fae456-3cb7-4dd8-8752-ae87f0931503&algo_expid=81fae456-3cb7-4dd8-8752-ae87f0931503-3&btsid=0bb0624116156713203505310e4b12&ws_ab_test=searchweb00,searchweb201602,searchweb201603_