Any question answered...

Can you use something like Affinity instead?

asian, bearded, clearly-muslim policeman

How are you determining "clearly-muslim"? I can see how you would eliminate some Sikh officers from your enquiries, as many of them wear a uniform turban, but I'd find it hard to tell a Moslem from a Hindu, a Zoroastrian or even a hipster of any faith or none if they were all in the same uniform.

I have a question I'd like answering. Why so much packaging? With everything I ever buy, just so much stuff that goes directly in the bin (either recycling or normal rubbish).

You should reconsider posting.

I knew this twat when he was a probationer at Reading but I don't think I ever considered his religion but you're right he was well dodge as you put it.

That was for the veg, no?

Oh yes, I do apologise in reply to @Butternut-Squash. Tired and emotional....

Why so much packaging?

Capitalism. Companies don't add packaging for fun, they are constantly trying to reduce the amount they use consistent with maximising profit. If you want to "be the change you want to see", select products which use less packaging, or the kind of packaging which fits your prejudice about what's "right"

I have a frame whose seatpost's OD is 36mm (31.6mm seatpost) but pitlock's seat post collars are wither too big or too small. This is the reply I got:

"Thanks for your inquiry.
The sizes of the seatpost collars we produce are the following:

28.6 mm (for seat tubes with a diameter of 27.0 - 28.6 mm)

31.8 mm (for seat tubes with a diameter of 30.2 - 31.8 mm)

34.9 mm (for seat tubes with a diameter of 33.3 - 34.9 mm)

34.9 mm -> 30.00 mm (clamp 34.9 mm with inner spacer / adapter)

40 mm (clamp 40.0 mm with a diameter of 38.5 - 40.0 mm)

As you can see, none of these will perfectly fit a 36mm diameter frame.
You could either use a 35mm collar and try to extend it to your seat post or put on a 40mm collar with an adapter ring. Unfortunately with both options we cannot guarantee neither a perfect fit nor the durability of the installation."

Which one would you suggest?

If it's this one, it looks more than burly enough to have 1.1mm bored out of the ID without becoming too weak, which would look neater than a 40mm one with a shim

Clicking/clunking noise emanating from BB area under moderate/high power when pedalling.. Is it time to start shopping for a new BB or is it something that can be serviced? It's a Pre-Cursa, about 1.75 years from new with Sugino cranks if that's any use.

noise emanating from BB area

Could be literally any part of the bicycle :)
http://www.sheldonbrown.com/creaks.html#bottom

Option 1: Could someone bore this out for me?

Option 2: Does anyone know of any other (generic or otherwise) brand of collar that has a similar broad and more importantly parallel surface area as the one pictured? (I'm dreading that trawl through eBay where I have to select view 250 option per page...)

Time for a service, well, overdue for one.

I half heartedly looked for the same and gave up. Would also be keen to know.

Could someone bore this out for me?

I know a man who could, but it's a simple job which anybody with a milling machine equipped with a boring head (or a lathe with a 4-jay chuck and a boring bar) can do.

Anyone suggest an RFID wallet. Tried and tested.

Mixed reviews online about them not working and reviews saying best in the world.

Secretary in work uses her husbands card, with consent, while he's away (Pilot) and neither of them had really been checking the statements. As the card is contactless and in her handbag, she's been tapped 7 times in the last 2 months for £20/per hit.

"tapped 7 times in the last 2 months for £20/per hit"

That's what I told my wife. Bank check determined it was all spent on crisp at the shop over the road from my work. What a coincidence?! (seriously though I didn't realise this sort of thing happened - is it mainly to people with wallets/purses in bags?)

What's the Best/lightest rim brake road wheelset sub £400?

What does 'best' mean to you?

Probably overall quality, the main prerequisite is weight.

I'm surprised this can happen. Is she suggesting someone with an illicit card reader is tapping her card without her say-so to nick money? If so, that's pretty much the easiest thing ever for her bank to get the money back and get the reader and whoever has the account for the reader blacklisted/nicked.

Police have said that the person carrying out the scam has a card reader in their bag and they simply just brush against you or stand close enough in a line. I assume they can locate when the hits happened via the bank.

I'm in London during the summer and I know how tight it can be on the trains. Hoping a good protective wallet could stop this from happening to myself.

More than one contactless card in your wallet would probably stop it.

This guy on Ebay is worth a watch. I got a pair of DT Swiss 240s hubs / R460 rims with Aerolite spoke and KCNC titanium QRs for just under £300 last year. 1470g without QRs.

Slightly after Brexit vote too I think.

R460s are very good value by the way - light, fashionable width and shape, pinned not welded but that makes little difference.