Any question answered...

= do it at a neighbours

Or forget about poisons and use a snooker ball in a sock.

Unless I've got the wrong end of the stick and you are just planning on getting into gilding rather than commiting a murder.

How?

Buy a kids chemistry set from ~40 yrs ago, those things had all kinds of crazy shit... My dad's family all had to evacuate their house because he filled it with chlorine. (He loved them really)

I managed to give myself one hell of a sore throat by releasing too much chlorine during an electrolysis "experiment" when I was a kid. It was not cool.

I currently have brakes like these:

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Images/Models/Original/34580.jpg

On my Thorn, with drops, and levers like these:

http://www.cyclesportsuk.co.uk/images/Avid_Levers/main/bldc-287.jpg

But I want to change to bars like these that I have laying around, although mine have a fair bit less kink in them:

http://www.vintagebicyclerebuilds.com.au/stock/handlebars501z.jpg

My question is this - can I use those same levers? Will they be accessible? If not, what should I go for that's decent-but-cheap. This is not a bling bike...

where in the UK can I get a mission workshop orion jacket?

I've bought this frame from Tel

and I have some scuffed Cinelli bars and and stem

What sort of gear would it have had on it in its day?

I want to build it up a single speed but wouldn't mind using the sort of bits and pieces it had before.

Sorry for spamming this thread but I have many questions. If I lock up a carbon road bike on the street overnight in Newquay and don't secure both wheels, is one of them likely to get nicked?

I wouldn't risk it, especially if I'd ridden there and was planning on riding from there the next morning.

Where are you staying? Can you not keep it in your room?

gah.

I don't know yet.

Take the wheels to your room with you and lock the frame up.

Or just smashed.

It's super-low season at the moment though, so it's just locals, which suggests less general unpleasantness.

Stay up the coast in a nicer village in any case.

I'm really skint, I need cheap. All the villagey places are expensive.

Take the wheels to your room with you and lock the frame up.

Ah! Good idea. I should've thought of that. Thank you.

In my experience, most hotels and B&Bs are happy to find somewhere secure to store your bike. It always helps to be as charming as possible when you arrive though.

oh god, are you saying I have to learn manners as well as plan the route and figure out what kit I need and mend my broken bike by tomorrow?

weeps

Sounds like you've got a busy day ahead of you then!

You'll be fine Rosie. They'll be so flabbergasted that a woman has turned up on a bike, and she's ridden from London's famous London, that they'll be putty in your hands.

Has anyone got a 42t 144bcd chainring that is going to manchester minidrome this weekend? Beers/good karma in return? I'm on 46/15 at the moment and I feel thats gonna be a little too high ratio wise. Cheers

Or would they have any spares at the drome?

would someone be able to recommend a small, cheap heater to heat a medium sized bedroom?

ideally it would be safe and cheap enough to run to leave on overnight..

thanks

In my experience, most hotels and B&Bs are happy to find somewhere secure to store your bike. It always helps to be as charming as possible when you arrive though.

I've never had a B&B, hostel, etc not find somewhere for my bike.

But sometimes that somewhere isn't secure enough. I've snuck my bike into my hotel room on a few occasions.

But sometimes that somewhere isn't secure enough. I've snuck my bike into my hotel room on a few occasions.

True, this was for a cheap, loaded steel mtb.
I've always wheeled my carbon toys into the room if there was no locked garage.

would someone be able to recommend a small, cheap heater to heat a medium sized bedroom?

ideally it would be safe and cheap enough to run to leave on overnight..

thanks

An oil filled radiator will probably be your best bet as a heater although not the cheapest option. Avoid anything with a fan particularly in a bedroom.

Chainline question.

I want to get a miche crank that needs a 107mm ISO bb. Can I buy a 111mm ISO bb, which theoretically will put the crank out 2mm, and then respace the rear hub with a 2mm spacer to offset it and then redish the wheel. Will that work and will there be any problems with running an offset hub like that?

The rear hub already has spacers in it to make it fit my 126mm frame so the overall width wouldnt change.

Cheers

^ No, that's fine. If you were redishing the wheel a lot you might want to think about different spoke lengths, but for 2mm it's no problem.

Gear Cable Question

I'm builiding a bike with Decore XT front and rear mech, but using bar end shifters.

Is there a difference between mtb and road gear cable, and will it make any difference if I buy a Decore gear cable set or a DA one?

Cheers.