Any question answered...

bit of a random question, where can I sell some "2nd hand" timber? I have just finished my show and have meters long timers that have some holes drilled into them but other than that, they are good quality stuff... just want rid of them...

normally if you put an ad up on scumtree people will come and collect if its free.

Does throwing a banana skin into a hedge count as littering ?
Yes.

No.
No.

Straps and traditional shoe on the right?

Asking on behalf of my partners father who has leg issues. He needs a zero float clipless on his right leg, has stability issues with walking in road shoes on the road cleats. Ideally he'd like a to use the mountain bike sidis to walk around in off the bike, so are there a mountain bike cleats with no float?

Araldite Fusion is the easiest glue, but for the bung it's very much 'find a man with a lathe', since steerer internal diameters are all different and you need something which is a reasonably close fit. My bloke quoted £30 for doing one to my design (chamfered edges, Swiss cheese lightening), but you could probably get one for a bit less if you simplified it, it's really just a properly sized cylinder with an M6 thread through the middle.

What are the benefits of glueing?

For me it is the fact that the expander plug slips (and can loosen over time). Lighter too.

On this topic: expander plugs like this one: http://www.wiggle.co.uk/deda-expander-bung/

...in alu steerers

OK or terrible idea?

Argh, I'm all at sea. No tabs load in Chrome, my usual browser. All are unresponsive. IE works fine on the same laptop but I cannot use it with the same familiarity/speed - even the forum behaves differently. What can I do to make Chrome work, which it always has perfectly until today? Uninstall? The same tabs have been trying to load there for a while but show no signs of doing so.

On this topic: expander plugs like this one: http://www.wiggle.co.uk/deda-expander-bung/

...in alu steerers

OK or terrible idea?
I'd like to know this too plz: recommended expanders.

It'll work fine but it's heavier than a normal star-fangled nut. I've just finished gluing a home-made bung in the steerer tube of my TT bike. It's similar to tester's, but not anodised, and I've taken some more material off between the edge of the bung and the centre threaded section to save that vital 0.45g.

The reasons I glue in homemade bungs is because:

1. I've got a lathe so it's easy enough to make them
   
2. They can't come loose
   
3. It's the lightest way of doing it
   
   

In reality though there's probably no significant advantage over an expanding bung in a carbon steerer.

bit of a random question, where can I sell some "2nd hand" timber? I have just finished my show and have meters long timers that have some holes drilled into them but other than that, they are good quality stuff... just want rid of them...

Donate it/sell it cheap to the London open organisers for court building material?

Best way to remove those chainring bolts that have a knurled edges and stick in crank spiders?

why would you remove them?

To use on other cranks now that the cranks they're in aren't in use.

Argh, I'm all at sea. No tabs load in Chrome, my usual browser. All are unresponsive. IE works fine on the same laptop but I cannot use it with the same familiarity/speed - even the forum behaves differently. What can I do to make Chrome work, which it always has perfectly until today? Uninstall? The same tabs have been trying to load there for a while but show no signs of doing so.

Couple years old, but maybe some options that you haven't tried?
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/chrome/T1OhIM6PrGM/Pci6ggsTHykJ

Have I fucked this tyre? I don't like the reflective strips and started to peel one off, but quickly decided this was probably a bad idea, as it seems to have been an integral part of the tyre, rather than a surface finish.

I think the structural threads of the tyre are still intact though.

You're lucky it didn't explode and kill everyone within a 3 city block radius.

You need to put it in a steel barrel, fill it with concrete, then take it to your local pool, and drop it in the deep end.

Seems a bit of a half measure. Think I'll just set fire to all my bikes to make sure.

To use on other cranks now that the cranks they're in aren't in use.

If you haven't already, don't take them out. They are stuck in place for a reason.

In May my bike had new bottom bracket and rear hub service. I've done over a thousand miles on it since and have gradually started to hear over the last couple of days a clanking noise coming from it. I undid one side of the hub cone nuts thinking somehow it had snapped and noticed I'm missing a bearing. I check the other side and that is full.

I clean and repack the side I took apart and go for a spin and no it no longer makes the noise?

Did the LBS just stuff it with grease and hope for the best or have I disintegrated a Bearing?

If it needs new bearings should I just get all new gubbins?

ask jeez about using your lbs for bb replacement

Ha bb is fine removed it to have a look before I did the rear axel.

I just got them to do it when they were doing the headset.

Donate it/sell it cheap to the London open organisers for court building material?

I can't donate them as I am very skint after my masters show, but would be willing to sell them cheap. They have holes drills into them, so thinking about £1 / meter or sth... Which is less than half price... Who should I contact?

Yes.
No.

Serious question though.

Why?

Mid-ride banana, it's biodegradable and organic and all that.... it's going to the dirt...

I have dashed many a banana peel. Am I going to hell?

My calipers do measure internally as well as externally but the jaws run straight from the body to the tip so they don't reach past the undersized top section.

Are the jaws long enough to reach past the undersized shim?

Measure something internally that doesn't have an undersized top section. Record as a.
Add a load of padding to the end 5mm of each of the jaws. Remeasure known thing, record as b.
Stuff added to jaws will be a-b.
Measure inside thing with undersized top section (assuming stuff added to jaws long enough to go past undersized top section). Record as c.
Remeasure known thing. Check measurement is same as b.

If all goes well then bigger internal diameter of thing with undersized top bit is c+(a-b).

If jaws can't reach below the shim then tape shit to them to do so. Shit taped to the jaws must be done solidly so that it doesn't move when pushed against the sides of the things being measured. Hence checking that b doesn't change after other measuring.

^^ Not logical, but I feel it's less ok in an urban environment.
Smaller hedges, sooner seen et cetera.
Might not degrade as quickly in town too.