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Hiya guys I wanna sell my Fixie but not sure how much to sell for can u help?

Hiya guys I wanna sell my Fixie but not sure how much to sell for can u help?

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Hiya guys I wanna sell my Fixie but not sure how much to sell for can u help?

Post a pic and a description in this thread.

Quite a while ago there was a discussion about evening courses. Someone had been on a woodwork / carpentry type of evening course at a london college. I'd quite like to do the same. Does anyone remember the discussion / can you point me to it? I've utfs'ed and am drawing a blank.

Alternatively, have you been on a course like this? Got a recommendation?

I'm going to be sailing across to Dublin in a week or two, and I really don't want to spend megabucks on kit - I have a decent jacket, can anyone recommend a good pair of salopettes or something similar for cheap?

What's the best way to treat road rash?

Good article here http://velonews.competitor.com/2003/05/coaches-panel/ask-the-doctor-with-dawn-richardson_3909

I ended up buying some huge Hydrocolloid plasters but they are pricey.

You can buy the smaller ones from boots and it's possible to assemble a larger plaster from small ones if you are careful & patient.

From painful experience;

1. Make sure it is as clean as you can get it. This may involve you having to scrub it with a nail brush or similar to get all the road bits out*.
   
2. Buy some hydrocollid dressings and use those.
   
   

*you'll weep with pain but it's worth it in the long run as anything that stays in can become infected and then you've a whole heap of issues to deal with.

Canal boat leaking oil opposite our flat - other than trying to contact the owner and BW is there anything we can do?

Thanks guys :((

I removed a section of skin from my ankle to my knee at a race last year - awful. I share your pain.

I failed to clear out the grit from roadrash on my face. I had a feint grey shadow when the scab came off. Each bit of grain had to be squeezed out like a blackhead.

Charmed

does anybody know anything about strangulation? physilogically speaking.

Depends if you mean choking or strangling as they are two different things.

Good article here http://velonews.competitor.com/2003/05/coaches-panel/ask-the-doctor-with-dawn-richardson_3909

I ended up buying some huge Hydrocolloid plasters but they are pricey.

You can buy the smaller ones from boots and it's possible to assemble a larger plaster from small ones if you are careful & patient.

Damn, I wish I'd heard about this a few months ago!

Canal boat leaking oil opposite our flat - other than trying to contact the owner and BW is there anything we can do?

Talk to other boaters nearby?

A few boaters read Jacqui's thread:

https://www.lfgss.com/thread74433.html

You could post there.

But would the same apply for latex tubes?

I had several 18/20 latex tubes fail at the join when installed in 23c tyres, so I avoid it now

Hiya guys I wanna sell my Fixie but not sure how much to sell for can u help?

After all this time, you now want to sell it?

Talk to other boaters nearby?

A few boaters read Jacqui's thread:

http://www.lfgss.com/thread74433.html

You could post there.

The boat is occupied so am going to try to catch them today. If not I'll stick a note on their boat. BW office is just down the road so will pop in there too.

Some of the local waterfowl are getting gummed up with oil - very distressing :(

I have mounted this Look Ergopost seatpost :

using this :

on this frame (Look KX Light) :

at 7 Nm.

After a few rides and adjusting the heigth it looks like this:

Question 1 : Is the damage so bad that I have to get rid of it?
Question 2 : what did I do wrong?
Question 3 : can I fit any replacement seatpost with this frame cluster arrangement?

Same problem with my Peugeot frame and carbon seatposts. Apply enough torque to keep it from slipping and you dent/crack the seatpost, apply the right amount and it just slips and rotates regardless of how much assembly paste.

How does that seatpost mechanism work with the wedge expander? (excuse my terminology)

Much like a quill stem.

The wedges tighten together expanding the circumference of the clamp and this exerting a force on the seat post to hold it in place in the seat tube.

Is the wedge at the end of the seat post, or inside it? Either way, it sounds like a terrible idea for a carbon frame/seat post.

It goes into that hole perpendicular and behind the seat tube. A hole in the seat tube then places the curved surface of the wedge flush with the seat post.