Colonel_of_Truth

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• Any question answered...

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 year, 10 months

  

  It does but it's still too big.

  @eskay Oh yeah of course. I was trying to think of something I could jam in there that wouldn't crush or deform, a nut would do the job.

• Any question answered...

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 year, 10 months

  

  Feels like I'm being super dumb but I haven't tinkered with old bikes for about 4 years and I feel like I've forgotten everything:

  Removing a Campag Veloce square taper crank. I have this crank puller, black bit screws into the crank then I tighten the silver bit and the black cap should bear on the spindle to pull the crank right? The black cap should fit into the hole in the middle of the crank shouldn't it? The cap seems to be too big for the hole and it would bear on the larger silver bit at the base of the bore in the first pic which I assume would just end up with me stripping the threads and trapping the crank forever.

  I googled crank pullers and they all look like they have the same size pusher. Someone please tell me what I'm missing.

• Coffee Appreciation

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 3 years, 6 months

  

  For some reason my latest beans take up way more volume for the same weight. I usually drink YB espresso blend and get 18g comfortably in the portafilter but with the beans I got from my local place, I struggle to fit the portafilter in the machine with 16g in.

• Coffee Appreciation

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 3 years, 9 months

  

  I’ve recently gone through a bag of old government Java that is really low acidity. Bought mine from Guntons of Colchester but it looks like a few different roasters do it. Really nice and quite earthy/spicy so a bit different to regular light roast espresso stuff but I enjoyed it.

• Post All (of the) Citys!!

  in Bikes & Bits • 3 years, 10 months

  

  I think all their logos are done in paint rather than decals, that’s how they are on my space horse. You’d have to get someone with a vinyl cutter to make you one.

• Tubeless Tyres -"saying the same things about tubeless tyres over and over again" Hippy read the first f**king post

  in Mechanics & Fixin' • 4 years, 1 month

  

  Is that a gravelking? Mine did the same thing, the bubble got sealant inside it and made fart noises as I rode.

• Coffee Appreciation

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 4 years, 3 months

  

  It dissolves coffee oils. Good for cleaning portafilters and things that get coffee running over them, doesn’t do anything for scale buildup though.

• Build a bike around a saddle?

  in Current Projects • 4 years, 6 months

  

  

• Coffee Appreciation

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 4 years, 6 months

  

  Do you have a pressurised portafilter or regular? With a regular one there's really no way around grinding your own beans with a grinder you can fine-tune. A small change in grind can have a big effect on extraction time.

• Tell us about your weekend ride

  in Rides & Races • 4 years, 6 months

  

  Ordnance survey maps are the best way to tell. Dotted red line is footpath, dashed red is bridleway.