Any question answered...

Alcohol can be fun, or a substitute for it.

Substitutes are expensive

substitute

my coke for gin

Substitute

you for my mum
At least I'll get my washing done

At least I'll get my washing done

falsefax

The Who - Substitute - YouTube

I love how Roger Daltrey looks like a midget in that clip... Classic...
paging hippy

Should I open this second bottle of wine?

Yes

I'm way ahead of you...

Can anyone recommend a free dvd ripper? I want convert some to avi and don't know which free programmes are any good.

HandBrake. Best there is.
Or the transcoding section of VLC.

Super is also good for converting. Dunno if it can rip though.

what the hell are those Hope fixed thread protector covers called? the ones that screw onto the unused side of a fix/fix hub if you're only running one cog?

Lockrings...

found it!

Halo, not Hope...

Phil Wood do them as well I thinks.

I think I have a spare one on that trispoke I got.

Do cinelli crits have a clamp diameter of 26.4? And if so, why aren't they a standard size?

Some are 26.4 and later ones are 26.0... 26.4 was standard for Cinelli.

Damn. Ok, thanks.

Why damn?

If the bars are 26.4, then so is the stem. And I was hoping to get some bars with less reach/drop. But I didn't want to have to get another stem...

I sneaked spatr bars into a 26.4 alright... and to be on the safe side you could use a little shim.

I might try it. Any way that a stem can get damaged using a shim?

More likely to damage it without a shim.

A bit of a coke can will do it, or a bit of a soup can which is thicker... I use kitchen scissors like these innit...

Coke can shim