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The problem is “56cm in common parlance” is pretty ambiguous. Can mean C-T, can mean real or virtual top tube, can be just a nominal value that doesn’t relate to an actual measurement on the frame.

I’d expect “square” to mean A1 and B are equal, but likewise it can just mean a traditional frame with a high-ish horizontal top tube.

Hydrangea?

Viburnum.

Any chance something like a MiniMoto would clear your tyre?

Could get a disc fork and canti on the rear if you're really desperate for brifters.

my chain is slack, no horizontal dropouts, how do i adjust? do i have an eccentric bottom bracket?

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do i have an eccentric bottom bracket?

Yes

so, i rotate that and it will tighten the chain, wont that marginally adjust the pedal position? not that i am a marginal gains kind of cyclist

Any chance something like a MiniMoto would clear your tyre?

53mm tyres with fenders; not a chance.

Could get a disc fork and canti on the rear if you're really desperate for brifters.

Too costly, and too much hassle I'm afraid. Would rather be stubborn and try Travel Agents. I can start with only that and just see how they feel. Then upgrade to STIs if I don't dislike them.

i rotate that and it will tighten the chain, wont that marginally adjust the pedal position?

Yes, but unless you're super fussy you won't notice. I'm always amused by people who obsess over the odd one or two mm for either biomechanical or aero reasons, since they don't seem to bother to make adjustments during the day to allow for their spines changing in length by a greater amount from morning to evening 🙂

FWIW, I find it easier to grab the BB cups with the HT2 tool rather than trying to get a spanner wrench to work on the eccentric, just make sure you're always turning in the tightening direction i.e. backpedalling, regardless of which side you hold.

I think it might not be far off actually:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k6droVDLMXM

Maybe one of the forum's resident Paul fans has some in the parts bin you could borrow/test fit

81mm to the cable on the Pauls, my tyre and mudguard combo is at least 95mm.

Is John Farnham's 1986 You're The Voice the most recent UK Top 10 to feature a bagpipe solo?

https://youtu.be/tbkOZTSvrHs

Does this (peaked at No3 in the UK in 1991)count as a solo? The piper gets about 2 bars in the intro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmljreTAgYI

Had hoped Stuart Adamsons' distinctive bagpipe-mimicing guitar sound featured in a UK hit later than 1983:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=657TZDHZqj4

I've just been gifted a couple of 29er wheels. The rear looks OK but the front appears to have been bodged/broken or incomplete around the hub/axle area.

It is a no name / unbranded hub

Q: is it broken and if so is it an easy fix?

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Someone been at it with an angle grinder??

is it broken and if so is it an easy fix?

Yes and no

ok cheers, will bin it then

Not sure. Maybe.

@mespilus that definitely doesn't count.

I think the most significant use of bagpipes since Farnham's and Stewart's was the intro from House of Pain's 1992 Jump Around, but that doesn't count either, as it was sampled wholesale from Harlem Shuffle.

If that doesn't count how about:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht-m4vMWRqA

I'm pretty certain there was an extended radio edit that had bagpipes right at the end
as a signal to DJs to fade/run back from the toilet/stop shouting at the Producer.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Is there a way to go from BSA threads to BB30 cranks?

Measure the length of the axle - if it’s 120mm * or so then you can fit external cups with a 30mm ID bearing, providing the axle has a non tapered surface to accept the bearing.

* can’t remember the exact length of the ‘long’ 30mm axle but the short and true bb30 axles were 100mm or so before the arms are bolted on.

Roughly as @Howard intimates, some "BB30" crank sets are really BB386 with padding to take up the space when used with a true BB30 shell. 30mm cups in a 68mm wide BSC threaded shell will have a width over the outside of the bearing races of 86mm, so you need that much between the inside faces of the crank bosses on your assembled crank set.

I would like to use a 34.9mm front mech on a 31.8mm seat tube - therefore I need a shim of some description. I'm not having much joy in locating said shim (apart from eBay sellers in China, and that'll take too long), anyone have a lead that I can follow up?