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Clutch will save your chainstay though.

Oddly, it doesn't on the Cervélo RS, which has an Ultegra clutched rear mech and conventional 50/34T compact. Possibly the chain is a couple of links too long. It was a devil of a job fitting it with the Shimano so-called 'quicklink' — last time I'll bother with that. One is better off joining the chain in the trad way imo.

One is better off joining the chain with the KMC MissingLink or Wippermann ConnexLink

FTFY.
I would not, under any circumstances, join modern narrow dérailleur chain the "traditional" way, it's asking for fiery death.

used to ride a single chainring on the road...it used to come off quite regularly when cross-chaining.

Technically, you can't cross-chain on a single ring. Cross-chaining by definition means the chain centreline crosses the centreline between the outermost and innermost chainrings, a mathematical impossibility in the case of a single chainring.

How are you defining narrow? 11-13sp? 10-13sp?

-clarifying words

I'd not try with anything over 8 speed unless it's a get home bodge, and even some of those are made more like the kind that is worse to try.

How are you defining narrow?

Anything less than ⅛" 😐
Seriously, anything with flush rivets is risky, and since joining links are cheap and easy to use, it's not a risk that's worth taking.

Is allspice gluten free? I assume it is but nothing I can find online.

Allspice is a spice, just a dried berry.

I've ended up doing various traditional chain splicing with 11 speed chains. You have to be careful to get it centred and not stiff but otherwise I have not encountered a fiery death.

Carry appropriate equipment for if it breaks, obviously, but you should be doing that anyway.

Cheers, I assumed that was the case but didn't know if it was mixed with something.

Doubt it’d be mixed with gluten, though you can get them whole and toast n grind yourself. Always best
They’re a bit bigger than peppercorns

get them whole

Do this with all the spices

Am I right in thinking there is a best weekday for online purchases? I am thinking of bog standard stores like Asos, B&Q, Argos etc.

I don't even know what the question means. In what way would the day of the week make any difference?

In what way would the day of the week make any difference?

If there is a weekly cyclic variation in demand and the retailer uses demand-responsive pricing, it would generally be best to shop at times of low demand if getting the lowest price was the objective.

For plane tickets the day of the week definitely matters. Airlines bump up the prices on Sundays, and research show that Tuesdays usually are the cheapest.

I wouldn't surprise me if retailers do the same, throw in free shipping for example, on a slow weekday. Just trying to figure out when that would be.

wouldn't surprise me if retailers do the same

It would surprise me a bit, in the case of online sales of durable goods. It would appear to rely on several propositions being both true and detectable above the noise:

1. Weekly cyclic variability of demand
   
2. Material cost savings in fulfilment from the achievable smoothing of demand
   
3. Sufficiently strong price responsiveness of demand to make the savings from 2 exceed the cost of price reductions
   

They do this by offering multi-day shipping for free and charging extra for next day. On a slow day they send out the “free shipping” stuff same day.

Or alternatively they use zero hours staff and on a slow day they send people home at no cost to the company.

I'd be amazed if a store which also has real stores did that as they don't tend to offer different prices online and in-store.

they don't tend to offer different prices online and in-store.

On the contrary, it's quite common. Promotional pricing often says either "Online only" or "In store only"

I've no idea about Asos but I've shopped at B&Q a bit and never seen that and I can't imagine to understand how Argos would do it with their business model.

I was speaking generally, not about those specific stores. Of course, it only took a minute to find something on B&Q which was in selected stores only, not online 😀

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I picked those stores because they were in the question...

But kudos, in-store cheaper. Still not sure shopping online in those stores will vary by day of week.

Does anyone know where to buy one of these cord hooks? I’m altering a rando bag.

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