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which cheap (android) smartphone should I buy for my sister? The best phone possible PAYG phone for less than £150.

Thank you

Managed to get rid of the brake judder from the v-brakes on the polo bike but now there's no bite to them. Can anyone instruct me point me in the direction of some instructions please

I need a bottom bracket cable guide for a colnago c96. I got a campag one and the screws too big. Tried all sorts of sizes before reading that's it's probably a press fit cable guide. Both the shimano and campag cable guides that are everywhere have screws.

Anyone know where I can get a press in one?

Managed to get rid of the brake judder from the v-brakes on the polo bike but now there's no bite to them. Can anyone instruct me point me in the direction of some instructions please

I usually get decent bite (with modulation) if I use the washers which put the arms parallel with the rim at the point at which the pads touch. Loosen bolts, squeeze brakes so that pads sit correctly in the middle of the braking surface, semi-tighten bolts, wiggle them a little to get some toe in* (or stick a bit of card at the rear of each pad when clamping them against the rim), then hold pads tight in your hand whilst torquing up the bolts. Roughening pads with emery board/sandpaper helps too, which you probably know.

If your levers have an adjustable setting for modulation, I always had best results with the least spongy setting, and relied on deftness of touch instead.

*not too much

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PS. If the pads are worn, make sure you cut off any lip (from braking surface overhang) with a knife.

Take it to a metal worker/engineer type person and have it tapped.

^^ I got everything right apart from the toe-in. The pads are worn but I cleaned them up before getting rid of the judder.

Thanks

My wife is thinking about getting a Charge Mixer 11 (I think, possibly 8). It has a Shimano Alfine hub gears, from photos it looks like the cable doesn't enter the hub at the end of the axle as I've seen on Sturmey Archer hubs.

She wants to be able to use the bike on the turbo trainer, would this be a problem with the hub gears, assuming I can mount it properly?

Putting milk in the cup before tea.. what's with that? It's like russian roulette

Best metaphor simile analogy I've heard for this crime, ever. It's wrong and should never be attempted not even by a professional.

The only time I can see it being right is when you're properly ocd. Weighing the tea, timing the brew etc. My brother-in-law does this with his coffee

wiggle them a little to get some toe in* (or stick a bit of card at the rear of each pad when clamping them against the rim)

*not too much

i run out of hands trying to hold bits of card in place, pull brake lever and wiggle the brake pad into alignment

so use a rubber band around the brake pad to set the toe in, (a big flat one, tie a loop in it and the put it on the rear of the pad)

Best metaphor simile analogy I've heard for this crime, ever. It's wrong and should never be attempted not even by a professional.

Putting milk in before the tea originated back when mugs weren't your shatter resistant kiln blasted types and cracked under rapid heat changes. An initial drop of milk prevented it.

So I heard.

I've been told it's more about the milk heating up slower and not not curdling as you drop cold milt into boiling water.

my understanding is

its that if you pour milk into a cup of hot water it is likely to get scalded

but if you pour tea from a pot into a cup containing the milk the temperature of the milk is more gently elevated, saving it from being scalded

fuck, its an evening for everyone else to be posting what I thought, 5 seconds before I post

Drinking tea with milk and/or sugar is an act of barbarism.

I bet hipsters put milk first.

Tea in milk?!
What fucking next - garlic bread?

Oh, snap!

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I wonder if I showed him my Meat Cake.

(Not a euph^ :D)

Why have my fingertips gone numb and my left wrist and elbow started to ache? Within the last 10 minutes?

You need to take the tourniquet off after you inject.

Ooooh speedy wit! I probably just need to go to bed.

Sleep on it.

Oh wait, wrong advice. Could be vitamin B12 deficiency - I get that when I am anemic.