Any question answered...

No idea. But I've got a spare one of these

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/cane-creek-sc-1-1-inch-black/rp-prod94965

extra nebulous with the cleaving off of Aheadset from Cane Creek/Dia Compe

I mean this, but also played on the old product name. Anything 1" and threadless would be good.

If you're wanting to update it frequently the easiest method is to set up a quick Wordpress site. If you go down that route it's best to buy a domain and use something like Mediatemple to host it and install wordpress on the server, rather than using wordpress.com to create one from scratch as it's very hard to get the damn wordpress off later to put a proper website on.

I have a cheap, unused, generic one in silver you can have for postage.

Thanks, I think @hugo7 has me covered.

How much should I be paying to get a potentially seized BB removed?
My LBS said ~£15-20 if it comes straight out, potentially up to £50 if its a pain

@Jeez

It'll only take 5 minutes, should cost you £1.47.

Pipe wrench and penetrating oil, £10?

(that's a half-joke before @mdcc_tester or someone lynches me!)

How much should I be paying to get a potentially seized BB removed?

Whatever you think it's worth. We can't make that judgement for you. If it were mine and I couldn't do it myself, I'd see £50 as a bargain.

Has anybody used the JustGiving site? Any caveats or tips?

I have decided (at terribly short notice) that I should raise money for charity when I do this Swindon-Berlin trip. Mum's disabled and Nuffield Orthopaedic have given decades of support, so deserve something back.

Is a month too short notice for this kinda thing? I've never had to do fundraising in this way before...

My wife was doing a marathon and decided to bung up a justgiving page for MacMillan, and tugged at the heartstrings a bit saying that they'd helped my mum out before her death (which is true).

Even though we have lots of marathon-running friends, so marathons aren't such an incredible feat for them, she still raised nearly £1k in a few weeks.

Thanks, I've set up the page now, anything you'd recommend changing (or fluffing up) ?

https://www.justgiving.com/swindonberlin

possibly a really dense question. My handlebars broke on the way home the other night. Popped along to the nearest bike shop to see if they had replacements in stock, they didn't but ordered one in. My question is this. The original bars were 25mm and it appears (I've just noticed) they ordered 26mm. How flexible are stems? Can one that previously held a 25mm bar take a 26 mm one?

Original bars are 25.something, or 25?

If it's half a millimeter, say 25.4/25.6 then you'll definitely be okay, but if it's going from 25 to 26, or 25.4 to 26.4 you might struggle.

I had a 24.5 stem and 25.4 bars, and the whole millimeter was too much to stretch. You may be okay though, or you may have scratchy insertion marks.

You could always fetch a shim from a coke can if it doesn't work

Looks good. Justgiving is really just the payments page. You need to promote it a bit on FB or your preferred social network (incl. LFGSS!) to get people to donate. Have a tenner.

Thanks, @Pdlouche - good to know. @Heldring - that sounds like we may be getting into inverse shim territory.

Hopefully the mechanic at the shop - who kindly said they'd fit them for free - knows what they are doing. I think they were pleased I hadn’t killed myself when my sheer power ripped the handlebars in two. Nothing to do with metal fatigue.

I hope you ordered stronger bars!! I was afraid of doing that with the cheap track bars off ebay, but I sheered the spindle of the bb before that.

@fizzy.bleach thanks!! Little afraid of spamming the forum and taking nuisance to the next level.

That was slightly tongue in cheek - I think it was metal fatigue (and possibly over tightening at some point). They were probably 7 or 8 yrs old. Daily use etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZyT1qqjD_Q

strings at the end of this.
I KNOW THEM. BUT I CAN'T PLACE THEM. What are they playing and where from?

inverse shim?!

anyone know the name of the website you can offer your services and set a price for doing domestic things? Heard it on Radio 4 a while back and have totally forgotten - there was a guy interviewed on it assembling flat pack Ikea for 'busy execs'

Grinder?