Wanted to Borrow: Cable cutters

Yeah.. err.. things that cleanly cut brake/gear cables. Catford attendees?

Finally picked up the GT from Whitcomb.. tried to put it back together.. failed.. fscking cables are too frayed to fit through outers and derailers, etc.

go to local £1 shop

Be easier to chew through them.

Get a proper pair in case you have to replace another cable one day.

I've got some cheap ones, but they work.

I'll only be at the Bec climb, not the catford one.

In my admittedly dated experience,(I just got a bike after 10 years afoot),proper cable cutters are a must.Otherwise you end up with frayed ends that make it impossible to get the cable through the plastic casing.I'm going to buy some this week and will happily lend them to anyone in London.

Mike Dyason £16 best value you'll find on t'internet!

http://www.mikedyason.com/productDesc.asp?session_id=95644f7eab951b263464b02cc84f3403&text_product_id=CC

dogsballs go to local £1 shop

For the benefit of the tightarses in the building (:P) I mean PROPER cable cutters that have "Park Tools" on the handle. :P

AlexB Mike Dyason £16 best value you'll find on t'internet!
http://www.mikedyason.com/productDesc.asp?session_id=95644f7eab951b263464b02cc84f3403&text_product_id=CC

Not bad.. and I've got plans to ride to Nottingham soon.. could pick them up with some pork pies on the way! :)

jackcade In my admittedly dated experience,(I just got a bike after 10 years afoot),proper cable cutters are a must.Otherwise you end up with frayed ends that make it impossible to get the cable through the plastic casing.I'm going to buy some this week and will happily lend them to anyone in London.

Nice. Where abouts are you in London? You gonna be at Catford Hillclimb?

I live in Whitechapel.I'm planning to buy the cutters on Monday.If the polo happens every Sunday,then the next Sunday after this would probably be best,unless your're in a hellacious rush,in which case I could meet you in,say,that little park almost opposite the top end of Brick Lane,(where it comes out into Whitechapel rd.)whenevr suits.I'm planning on going to the polo tomorrow,if you're going,and we could arrange something then.I'll be on a Bianchi,sort of dark brown colour with white and yellow flashes and Ambrosiio rims.

Use plyers, hippy.

Use pliars only if you want to be driven insane wih rage and frustration.The trouble is that pliars will cut the cable but in doing so they have to exert lots of pressure because they aren't proper hardened steel and they're not sharp enough.You end up with a cable end that looks ok,ie unfrayed,but the pressure exerted has fucked the integrity of the cable and when you try to thread it strands start to come loose.Cue,rage and frustration.really,there's no substitute for a pair of proper Park cable cutters.

On second thought,you were being sardonic,weren't you?

he does that a lot. :)

It's so distressingly easy to get the wrong end of the stick on-line.There was a cartoon in the New Yorker years ago when the Web was the new thing.It showed two dogs sitting in front of a computer and one dog's saying to the other,"On the internet,nobody knows you're a dog".
They,and me,still don't.

I use a (cheap) dremel, takes about 10 seconds of no effort at all..

Really?What's a dremel?

Google is your friend.

I've got a (decent) pair. Undecided about the Catford CC thing. If I'm there I'll bring them otherwise I'll bring them to work on Monday and you can meet me? I'm only 2 mins from your office.

Or you can pop by my flat...I'm a west cnut remember!

Remember.. rememeber.. what's the word mean again? I forget. Will whisper where west? :)

Chiswick Park...not far from West Ealing!

Google IS my friend,but as Dremel wasn't capitalized,I thought it was some kind of 'in-crowd' slang.In English,you see,proper names are capitalized.It's Campagnolo not campagnolo and Dremel not dremel.Here endeth the lesson.The congregation will now sing 'What A Friend We Have In Jesus'.

JimmyP Chiswick Park...not far from West Ealing!

Okay, we'll see what happens then :)
How come you don't come out to the Richmond park loops.. it's not like there's any riding done.. maybe that's the issue? :)

They've always been on nights when I've had stuff on. I'm all for drinking but I do like to ride first ;-)