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I'm finding it a little hard to find 6 speed indexed shifters for my mates crappy road bike project

Yeah i have a crappy raliegh with six speed and luckily one of the forumites had a used spare.

I'm finding it a little hard to find 6 speed indexed shifters for my mates crappy road bike project

Shimano, presumably? I almost certainly have some in the parts bin.

yep shimano 6 speed, they are currently braze on friction, mdcc if you wouldn't mind taking a look at some point (i'm in no real rush) that would be very generous of you

forum helpfulness strikes again.

I do love this place and mdcc is a real gem of a chap, like our own little forum based sheldon brown

i did mine free??

not sure why there are asking for money

or this

http://www.jailbreakme.com

suck it and see

Will try now. Cheers!

I do love this place and mdcc is a real gem of a chap, like our own little forum based sheldon brown

He is a really top bloke.

Anyone know where I can get live info on German train services, i.e. of any disruptions?

Anyone know where I can get live info on German train services, i.e. of any disruptions?

Sarky answer would be germany.

Real answer would be do you speak/read german?

yep shimano 6 speed, they are currently braze on friction, mdcc if you wouldn't mind taking a look at some point (i'm in no real rush) that would be very generous of you

It's bad news I'm afraid. The levers turned out to be 7-speed. Don't know what happened to the 6-speed ones when I upgraded, but then I don't even remember doing the upgrade. Old age creeping up on me...

no problem at all, forum sponsers have come up trumps with two sets of shimano's on sale, but what would you say would be ideal for my friend; he has never ridden a road bike before and the position will be entirely different to what he is used to, so, should i get him the down tube mounted shifters or stem mounted?

Of course, if I were Sheldon Brown, I'd have spotted that the original question implied indexing, which therefore implied normal spacing. But I'd also be dead, so it's swings and roundabouts.

Down tube mounted; it's not hard to get used to, and stem mounted will forever mark him out as a Fred.

he is already a well known fred, but i shan't fuel the fire. thanks for the advice and for not being dead

Right, stupid one here.

I can't for the life of me get a little inner-tube valve screw off.

I've not had to change the tyre on this wheel yet, and now I come to do it, who-ever last put the valve screw on has done it with such force that I can't for the life of me undo it. I've inflated to wheel to see if that'd push it away from the rim but to no avail.

Any smart ideas?

Also misplaced my tool roll, so I'm without pliers or grips til I find that fucking thing again.

Probably left it somewhere fucking stupid like the post office.

Urgh.

Inflating the tube will pull the valve into the rim. Fully deflate and push on the valve through the tyre. You may be able to get some more leverage on the screw when there's more exposed.

Any one know of a foolproof method of unlocking an iPhone 3GS? I have been googling but theres so many options and thing I have no clue about. WTF does yellowsn0w have to do with anything?

Anyway, what I have is a 2nd hand 3Gs bought off here and it's locked to O2. It is running iOS 4.1 (8B117) and has cydia already intalled, but as far as I can tell it does not have the packages installed.

It's a B'day gift for the girl and I am failing hard at unlocking it. So as I said, anybody got an easy way OR who wants free beers for the duration of un lockage? I have a feeling I have to go to one of the doge little shops on stokey high st ad pay them to do it.

Fun on a sat night eh?

Forggedit. Just been round this loop all this week - all the progs (£19.99 FFS) and a bunch of blokes in town, plus the pukka shops. There is no unlock for 4.1 yet, despite what they will tell you to get yer money on line. You can only roll it back to 4.0 and go from there. You can jailbreak 4.1 (done that - great), but not unlock.

Inflating the tube will pull the valve into the rim. Fully deflate and push on the valve through the tyre. You may be able to get some more leverage on the screw when there's more exposed.

Wrong way round. Inflating pushes the valve out. Harder the tyre, less pressure on the nut. Pump it up hard, then give it a twist with the pliers.

hit it with a hammer

hit it with a hammer

Was this the iPhone, or the valve, or both?

It is the universal answer.

werd!

It is the universal answer.

true dat, also one of the most satisfying solutions to all mechanical failures.

Forggedit. Just been round this loop all this week - all the progs (£19.99 FFS) and a bunch of blokes in town, plus the pukka shops. There is no unlock for 4.1 yet, despite what they will tell you to get yer money on line. You can only roll it back to 4.0 and go from there. You can jailbreak 4.1 (done that - great), but not unlock.

Have you saved your SSH blobs? If yes, downgrade.