Any question answered...

All my research suggests that the Gazelle Champion Mondial tarck frame requires a seatpost of 27.0 diameter. My frame only accepts a 26.8, could it be crimped?

Photo below for evidencing your answer. Please to be noting the "bubble" at the base of the aperture. Que significa? Anything at all?

When my seattube was to narrow from being overtightened, it wasn't properly round.

Maybe check it with calipers. If left to right (as in your picture) it's narrower than back to front, then it sounds like it's over tightening.

Who makes black drop bar brake levers? I had it in my head that r600s were but it appears not.

Basically this but cheaper.

edit, found some.

patches,

are all the same?
the expensive ones, are worthy the money?
IYHO, what are the best ones?

rema tip top

hippy, myself and buffalobill got a huge load a couple of years ago, worked out really cheap

I get 89p puncture repair kits from wilkinsons (cheapo chain shop), never had any problems with them.

patches,

are all the same?
the expensive ones, are worthy the money?
IYHO, what are the best ones?

Park patches are the best I've found. So convenient and £2 here. My LBS charges £6!

When my seattube was to narrow from being overtightened, it wasn't properly round.

Maybe check it with calipers. If left to right (as in your picture) it's narrower than back to front, then it sounds like it's over tightening.

Thanks, good idea. Now I need calipers. And no, Dammit, I am not riding up your hill with a bike on my bike. ; )

Park patches are the best I've found. So convenient and £2 here. My LBS charges £6!

at what PSI do you pump your tires??

I have always though that this patches doesn't work well with high pressures, but I have never try them, so....

On the road bike: 95/100psi
On the fixed gear: 90/90psi
On/offroad on the 29er: anything from 20-80psi

I've had a couple of occasions where patches have failed. Just as glued patches have.

Unlike glued patches you can patch a tube by the side of the road in 3 mins. You don't even need the take the wheel off.

I keep a lighter with be to melt the edges of the patch onto the tube.

Have a look at the following photograph and tell me what you see:

i see a man who should be out on his bike.

underside of a router, cutting bit, tri square, workmate, edge of a radiator

and some kind of shavings, moog. don't forget the shavings.

i see a man who should be out on his bike.

Not allowed, got to put in a door-frame

also looks like a plug block, plugged into an extension cable, which looks a bit dodgey

underside of a router, cutting bit, tri square, workmate, edge of a radiator

I noticed that I cut a different angle depending on which way the router is presented to the wood. It's very slight, and I may be going mad, but it looks to me like the foot plate is not flat?

Can you not tell by putting the edge of the tri square along the foot plate at various positions?

Handles get in the way.

Try this photo:

Flip the tri square the other way round so the wood bit is pointing away from the handles, you'll be able to determine if the plate is flat or not just using a straight edge.

If you want to find if the foot plate is perpendicular to the cutting tool maybe clamp the router in your work mate and then use a level.

More importantly, are the slight variations in cutting angle negatively affecting the work piece? Nothing will ever be perfect, as long as you're with in tolerance it's all good. Trying to achieve perfection with everything will just drive you mad.

It the foot plate meeting the body on all 4 legs? I would assume not but if it does then it may be the motor assembly that's been knocked out of line inside.

Not sure what you can do about it, personally I would take it to my local dealer/servicing shop and check with them

patches,

are all the same?
the expensive ones, are worthy the money?
IYHO, what are the best ones?

https://www.lfgss.com/thread9050.html

and this one to...

http://www.lfgss.com/thread28505.html

Flip the tri square the other way round so the wood bit is pointing away from the handles, you'll be able to determine if the plate is flat or not just using a straight edge.

If you want to find if the foot plate is perpendicular to the cutting tool maybe clamp the router in your work mate and then use a level.

More importantly, are the slight variations in cutting angle negatively affecting the work piece? Nothing will ever be perfect, as long as you're with in tolerance it's all good. Trying to achieve perfection with everything will just drive you mad.

The foot plate is warped, as if you took a tray, held it at either side, then rotated your hands one toward and the other away from you.

Now the question is- is the warp within tolerance/accepted, and I'm just being silly?

I'll cut the rebates in this door lining and see.