Any question answered...

best out-front garmin mount. go.
k-edge, sram, garmin, raceware? barfly?

I've got K-Edge, SRAM and RaceWare, and I'd pick SRAM next time I need one.

excellent. my exposure joystick came with a nice narrow (c. 5mm from memory) plastic shim for use on 26.0 bars - I plan to use this with the out-front mount, can you foresee any issues? or suggest a source of more of them, because they're quite handy and I have a few other things I'd like on the bars...

I'm happy with my barfly 2.0. It hasn't broken my Garmin yet.

suggest a source of more of them, because they're quite handy and I have a few other things I'd like on the bars...

I'd be inclined to use cut up bits of old inner tube for shimming light and computer mounts to skinny bars, you get a bit of vibration isolation and plenty of grip without resorting to high clamping forces.

I've the possibility of a free Etape entry.

My longest ride this year has been about 120km with 1400m climbing. I wanted to be euthanised afterwards.

Should I take it?

Yes, riding the Etape is always worth it, especially if it's free.

What stage is it this year? The Hautacam one?

yep, Pau-Hautacam via the Tourmalet...

I've been atrophying in Sweden all winter, haven't touched the turbo, am happy if I average 200 watts at a 25kph average on my normal 'hilly' rides, and would have just over a month to flog myself into shape, but what could go wrong?

You die.

But apart from that, not much.

I managed to scrabble up the Colle de Fenestrelle last year without much prep on a steel tourer with bar bag and not enough food or water so i'm hoping that combined with much evil wheel sucking I'd manage without death, but who knows.

I'll probably not be drinking for a month if I get given it though, so that's a bit shit. Hum.

M10 x 12mm x 0.5mm shim - where to find such a thing?

hackney marsh, am running a half-marathon there on sunday morning, apparently there's bike locking in the southern part near the start.

how safe is it to lock up round there? i don't mind bringing two locks but is it a known hotspot for parts strippers?

Hackney? No, safe as houses. No criminals there at all. Not one.

Anyone who suggests that it's a seething den of criminals and bewildered hipsters is fibbing.

Sarcasm?

i'm looking for more localised intel than that dammit. there will be a shitload of people about but not sure if this is a massive never ever ever leave your bike here there's a crack den under the bike rack type scenario.

Well, check if it's supervised parking. There's obviously a possibility that people may target the event and attempt thefts if it's not. Normally I'd be perfectly happy to leave my bike at Hackney Marshes.

lock up at westfield

M10 x 12mm x 0.5mm shim - where to find such a thing?

If you mean 12 mm od x 10 mm id, almost any 12mm tubing with 1mm wall thickness and then a bit of judicious filing, emery paper etc. Or if you know someone with a lathe get them to part of a slice.

Anyone know a good type of hook to hang wheels up with? I want to store some spares above our picture rails.

These are available at any hardware store. They also come with padding, but you could also cover them with some electrical tape.

If just wheels you couls also hang a pole horizontal on the sealing and hang the wheels on it.

If just wheels you couls also hang a pole horizontal on the sealing and hang the wheels on it.

Planning to put up 2x "bike lifts" along with a hook+plate type thing I have a bike on atm. Will have an aimless wonder in bnq I think.

I use the ones machine pointed out to hang spare wheels on. They do the job and don't look ugly.

If you mean 12 mm od x 10 mm id, almost any 12mm tubing with 1mm wall thickness and then a bit of judicious filing, emery paper etc. Or if you know someone with a lathe get them to part of a slice.

i would prefer stainless, which is why I thought a washer or shim.

Shims are not really a stock item. Who made the thing you're trying to shim? Do they have spares? How critical are the dimensions? You can get 0.6mm aluminium shims for chainring spacing, would one of those do? This tube is enough for about 100 off if parting off on a lathe, or you could get somebody with a laser to cut them from sheet.

Situation is as follows:

• Paragon Machineworks dropout
  
• 11 speed wheel (Tested with both HED Stinger 4 and a FLO30 running a Chorus cassette)
  
• 9070 rear mech
  
  

The dropout is 4.5mm thick - which precisely meets the Shimano tech requirements.

The way in which one adjusts a Di2 rear mech is to shift to the fifth sprocket from the largest, then use the micro-adjust to shift toward the 4th until the chain starts to chatter.

You then back off four stops which puts the mech in the correct place.

But I can't- I can back off by 1, so the chain doesn't chatter, and I get decent shifting, but it's not "to spec", and it's driving me nuts.

So I want to space the rear mech out by 0.5mm just to get that adjustment, and a shim washer with an ID of 10mm and OD of 12mm seems the thing to use.

The dropout is in the right place, and is commonly used for Di2 bikes, so I don't know what's going on here -maybe my mech is a duffer?

Planning to put up 2x "bike lifts" along with a hook+plate type thing I have a bike on atm. Will have an aimless wonder in bnq I think.

Might be my lack of understanding of English, but I don't get what you are trying to say at all.