Any question answered...

Great, here we go again.

Same question, same answer. This is the great thing about facts not changing.

Helmets? Do they save lives?

They certainly deflect shrapnel, that's why NATO uses them.

Jumping red lights? A menace or a life saver?

The lights are standing still. It's your vision jumping, possibly due to alcohol.

Hippy - fat or just morbidly obese?

I'm more curious to know how he can ride all the time, buy 1,000,000 watches on eBay, and still manage to post here approximately 1,000 times per day.

With or without vegan brakless riding?

What vegans do is a mystery to non-vegans. Someone should write a book.

A deformed carbon rim? What could possibly go wrong?

Nothing. Carbon has magical powers, that's why it costs so much.

Is it really trolling if it's in the "any questions asked" thread?

can someone recommend me a handheld cordless vacuum?

Have you developed the urge to suck your brain out through your ears? I know I have.

can someone recommend me a handheld cordless vacuum?

No, there are no good ones

Have you developed the urge to suck your brain out through your ears? I know I have.

if you know of one for under £50 that is capable of doing so then I would be intrigued

No, there are no good ones

not for the main clean (have a decent hoover for that), just for snagging dust bunnies and the like (2 cats) when I can't be arsed getting the main one out from under the stairs

under £50

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under £50

Not sure if I should be asking this here or in the mechanics thread but here it goes. I just bought this carbon wheel...

...What do you think it could be? No visible cracking or anything like that there, doesn't appear to be fragile. Could a tyre lever do this? Or a blow out? Should I be sending this back to the seller?

I was watching this wheel too. The earlier DT Swiss carbon clinchers were known to delaminate under the heat of prolonged heavy braking, which would manifest in a similar way to what you've described. Naughty seller, methinks.
I'm sure either Dammit or I (or me, Schick) would take the carbon specific pads off your hands if you wanted to offload them. Not all is lost, don't worry :)

My balls are itchy. Will speeding butter on them help. Would vegetable spread be better than butter?

As long as it is made from sustainably produced palm oil

my folks had one of these, I was obsessed with it as a nipper. not that i did any cleaning though, i usually just opened it up to see how it worked, spreading the contents over the living room.

won't go into the corners though and a bit more cumbersome

My balls are itchy. Will speeding butter on them help. Would vegetable spread be better than butter?

speeding butter on your balls

is this a very fast lubricated sex act, some kind of variation on the last tango in paris butter scene?

I was watching this wheel too. The earlier DT Swiss carbon clinchers were known to delaminate under the heat of prolonged heavy braking, which would manifest in a similar way to what you've described. Naughty seller, methinks.
I'm sure either Dammit or I (or me, Schick) would take the carbon specific pads off your hands if you wanted to offload them. Not all is lost, don't worry :)

Cheers Tom. Have messaged the seller now. Hopefully she wont be a biatch and will refund the monies. Im tempted by the planet x wheels now tbh instead of faffing around with 2nd hand stuff although I've heard stories about excessive heat build up on those too...

Perhaps I could get an orang-utan to rub it on for me, seeing as here are loads homeless these days.

Cheers Tom. Have messaged the seller now. Hopefully she wont be a biatch and will refund the monies. Im tempted by the planet x wheels now tbh instead of faffing around with 2nd hand stuff although I've heard stories about excessive heat build up on those too...

Over in the Orient Express thread we are looking at ordering another batch of new carbon rims- pricelist is there, pictures and so forth.

So...any ideas on how much a slightly out of true a Shimano E110 Coaster brake hub with 16t cog on Rigida Chrina rim should sell for?

I have a campag mirage 9 speed group - mad confused what rear hub/cassette i need.

any advice on a wheelset, would modern campag 9/10/11 speed be suitable?

Its difficult to get non compact bars to have flat top transition to drop levers sometimes. I always found that I had to compromise in one area to gain comfort in another. This page is worth looking:

http://ruedatropical.com/2009/03/road-drop-bar-geometry/

Thanks that link was helpful. I agree with what your saying regarding the happy medium. This is what I've ended up with from a little bit of tweeking;

Which means I have to reach a bit more than on the road bike for the brakes but It's not too bad.

The only was I can possibly improve on this is to move the levers down the bars just a tiny bit (as you can see from the picture).

Yes; the "anatomic" bend starts running away from the levers at a sharp angle. If you put a smooth curve from the front-most part of the bar to the flat bottom of the drops, it would be forward of the straight diagonal bit of the "anatomic" bend and therefore closer to the lever.

What bars & levers do you have on your geared bike?

Sorry I don't think I understand that!

On my road bike they are just no named alu bars.

I'm thinking of taking a subscription on the gym so i can join their spinning classes 2 or 3 times a week. I wanna do this since in the winterseason I cant go out as much as I want to... How do you guys survive the cold months?

winter bibs, ride my bike. turbo sessions when things get really bad.

Ride my fixed gear more, to keep the legs spinning and warm. Try running or something as well. Invest in a turbo.

Damn beaten to it!

Less than a true one.

Naturally. Well i'll go in the £15 £20 Range.