Any question answered...

Will regular 80's Campagnolo Super Record levers work effectively on Mavic bullhorn pursuit bars?

For example this comes top of the search and includes bb... Cheaper than square taper option.

http://www.planet-x-bikes.co.uk/i/q/CSOOTC/on_one_external_bearing_track_crankset

Current price is great too.

Or perhaps it's best not to "upgrade" that crankset on your beater in the first place amey?

The more you spend on a beater, the more it less a beater, but an expensive bicycle you'll still worry about when locking up.

I didn't get this memo (translation: I don't know anything). What BB standard should one be using these days... for general purpose used to use a square taper type applications?

I have one bike which is being built Octalink (it's what the guy had at a jumble, but that is old, right?), I have a SS 29er with ISIS Drive, but that is just not very good, and I have a square taper on my roady. But if I was building something and could choose, what is the default now?

^ That does look good. Is it for standard 68mm shells?

Worth pointing out that its always been for sale at >£100 so take the £149 RRP with a pinch of salt.
Well worth it IMO, very nice cranks, a lot less hassle that square taper, the only worry is that the stock BB is made of Swiss cheese, so you'll need to replace that soonish, but as its a Shimano one its easy to find replacements.
Love mine

Yeah hollotech bb's are even cheaper than un54 or what ever number is the tester approved one...

I forgot Amey was looking for beater cranks,there's a triple on eBay for £56 inc bb, sell the spare chain rings and bolts... You are probably looking at a ss set for £40 odd quid.

(I think it's the 2011/12 model, but that doesn't matter for a beater does it?)

I am keen to update cranks on the pub/rat biek look at these cranks and this bb what bb axle length do I need?

Actually why is that better than the one you have on?

Anybody live near Hackney Central that has a guitar amp? I need to quickly test to see if my pickup is working. Cheers.

Did someone here wanted to buy huge Nutella?

I forgot Amey was looking for beater cranks,there's a triple on eBay for £56 inc bb, sell the spare chain rings and bolts... You are probably looking at a ss set for £40 odd quid.

Brand new Alfine (FC-S500) complete with chainguard and BB is £48.52 at Rosebikes, hard to beat for a beater/shopper/pub bike I'd have thought. Silver or black, 39t or 45t, 42.7mm chainline to suit fixengers but with a skinny ring so you can run 1×9 if you need gears.

Is there any point training when your legs are shagged a couple of days after a long hard ride. Does it gain anything or is it over training and to be avoided?

any more info on this system? what, why etc?

found when googling "forward facing horizontal dropouts" but not much info on the host site...

On this day of days, may I ask.....

When will Blair die ?

Maybe we are on a roll ?

what, why etc?

It's an eccentric (for chain tensioning), of a design which was quite popular on custom/aftermarket (Harris, Spondon, Metmachex etc) sports motorcycle swing arms back in the day, before stock ones were good.

The advantage over a slot fork end and tugs is better control of the axle position under loads which twist the wheel about the vertical axis, which is a big problem on bikes which are being flicked from 45°R to 45°L lean angle in a fraction of a second while their 10kg wheel/tyre/sprocket assembly is rotating at >1500rpm. On a bicycle, not so much.

The disadvantage is the short range of adjustment, so you can't change your gearing much before you have to cut the chain.

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When will Blair die?

Only 110 picks at http://deadpool.rotten.com/popular.html, Thatch was on 2240 before being removed from the pool.

^^thanks!
^ha!

Is there any point training when your legs are shagged a couple of days after a long hard ride. Does it gain anything or is it over training and to be avoided?

Some people believe in 'recovery rides', modest levels of effort, keep the cadence up (not high, just don't mash up hills, pootle up in your lowest gear if you have to), apparently the increased blood flow is supposed to accelerate the repair of muscle micro-damage and flushing of metabolites which is what's causing your legs to feel dead, meaning you can get back to proper training sooner.

Some people believe in 'recovery rides', modest levels of effort, keep the cadence up (not high, just don't mash up hills, pootle up in your lowest gear if you have to), apparently the increased blood flow is supposed to accelerate the repair of muscle micro-damage and flushing of metabolites which is what's causing your legs to feel dead, meaning you can get back to proper training sooner.

Although my last coach used to advise us to rest completely, and to be honest, it suited me better. I guess recovery rides can work, but for most people, we go too hard on the easy days, and too easy on the hard days, and end up being mediocre. The temptation is always to ride too hard.

If I had my time again, and I was a full time bike rider in France for two years in the 1980s, I would take more days off the bike, and do less pointless recovery rides.

Feet up on the sofa would have been better than slow rides out to a bakery, eating cakes and drinking coffee and then riding home. Thats how the pros do it, but I suspect its because they don't know any better. Thats how we did it too. A walk to buy the cakes would have been better.

Does anyone know which font this is?

anyone know of a good coffee-table type book on clay sculptures like this?

http://www.paradoxx.com.au/files/2012/09/bronze-01-original-clay-sculpture.jpg

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-F-zmgwXJkfQ/TW7jf_amf3I/AAAAAAAAAGE/tEhqz8hAy84/s1600/Seated+Figure+Clay+copy.jpg

If I cancel my SKY can I still watch the free channels through the Sky box? Will all the menus and interface be the same??? I won't have to get a free view box?

Ta.

Lots of Celts here?

Anybody else want to take their shoes of right now to check their toes?

I'm somewhere between Roman and Egyptian.. I's can be emperor naow?

Greek

walk like an egyptian

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