Any question answered...

The answer is no, I feel much worse.

They weren't even real hills either, just little nubbins in Cheshire.

I've learned from bitter experience to keep the fuck away from my bike when a wild cold appears. It's like a D&D stacking spell or something, you put on your Gloves Of Sickening +2, your shoes of Throat Agony +3, your Base Layer of Snot +12, then wield your Bicycle Of Fatigue +5 and 30 mins later you want to crawl into a ditch and die, and it doesn't get any better when you wise up and go home for a sulk in front of the telly either.

Batch processing question in Photoshop (and an old version, 5.5!!)
I have tried to make an action for this, but for every file, the resizing / dpi properties pops up, which defeat the point of batching.
I googled this and find no answers that could help me.
Please help, I have a lot of files to convert!!
Thanks!
L

Any clues? I'm a bit desperate...
Thanks!
L

It's like a D&D stacking spell or something, you

Geek alert.

Any clues? I'm a bit desperate...
Thanks!
L

are you using a mac? If so you could use automator first for sizing then 'shop them.

How much can I get away with in spoke lengths? I already have some spokes 248mm long, I need spokes that are 248.9mm long

If the calc says 248.9, then 248 will be fine. 251 will definitely be wrong.

Can anyone recommend me a cheap, but solid and comfortable office chair?

I'm still happy with my Ikea Markus after 2½ years

are you using a mac? If so you could use automator first for sizing then 'shop them.

No, on pc...
Arghhhhhhhhhhh

^^^ Hmm, ok. Any particular reason why it would be wrong?

^^^ Hmm, ok. Any particular reason why it would be wrong?

If the correct length is 248.9, 251 will almost certainly bottom out in the nipple before the wheel is properly tensioned.

Thought so. I'm a little worried about the nipple not being properly supported by the spoke. Under standard bike use I wouldn't be but these wheels are for polo and the nipple is going to be where the ball is most likely to hit giving it a shearing force rather than the designed linear force.

I could be talking bollocks here.

I am talking bollocks here.

ftfy

Using 248mm spokes where the correct length is 248.9mm, they will still be threaded into the nipples at least 3 diameters, i.e. plenty. More thread engagement than that is for adjustment, not increased pull out strength - the shank snaps before the threads shear.

The ball can't hit the nipple, because the spoke and rim get in the way. Since the spoke is quite flexible and will be struck approximately 1 ball radius away from the nipple, most of the ball impact load becomes a tensile load on the spoke anyway, the only way to transfer shear load to the nipple is through the beam stiffness of the spoke.

What was the thread about the forums best/porniest bikes that was made for the book...?

Can someone point me to a good online spoke length calculator? My pea sized intellect has become frazzled by the dark art of wheel building...

I like this one - http://www.kstoerz.com/freespoke/fullcalc

As a skint person needing a crank, should I bother with the nameless steel cranks that go for around £18 on ebay, or should I stick with the cottered 70s Raleigh crank that I've already got?

If it ain't broke... ?

Depends, are you riding fixed? If yes, steer clear of cottered cranks. Otherwise, what OJAW said

Fixed with brakes would be ok, no?

I use the DT calculator unless I'm using Mavic rims in which case I use as many calculators as possible to achieve a consensus.

Depends, are you riding fixed? If yes, steer clear of cottered cranks. Otherwise, what OJAW said

Why?

People think cotter pin crank/axle interface is uniquely weak under the load reversal experienced on fixie skidders.

Why do Dutch people put chocolate sprinkles on everything?

northseashitstorms

A mate is after a single speed so I'm having a think and look about. He's got an amazing dave Yates built joe weigh racer, but doesn't really want to put it through winter.

It's for commuting short distances so he wants something fast feelling and aggressive like his road bike, BUT he'd like room for full mud guards most prob on 25/23mm tyres.

Its working out what there is that has both. He likes the look of he felt track on sale at Evans at the mo...

... any bikes / frames spring to mind that do both - sort of thinking of the ss/track equivalent of a kinesis racelite.

the ss/track equivalent of a kinesis racelite.

http://www.kinesisdecade.co.uk/product.php?id=3