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Who's he telling to fuck themselves in the face there...?

My last TCR was No 7

Curious which generations you've had, and which are your faves?

Or possibly also a tweak of the barrel adjuster. And maybe have the alignment checked? Hangers have been known to be off out of the box. I suppose that's a whole other alignment tool for direct mount, or is there an adapter...?

that scenario

Shimano designs a set of splines clearly meant for steel or at least titanium, and every joker with a CNC mill be like, 'Hey, I can sell you a lighter hub than Shimano, and what's more, it has a super loud freewheel, which is good, for mysterious reasons' and folks thought that was a great deal.

Come 7800, Shimano briefly had a go at abandoning their brilliant freehub design to try everyone else's half-arsed fully floating style with the DS axle bearing close to the centre of the hub, with an aluminium cassette body, they doubled the height of the splines - kind of necessary for using such a soft metal in that spot.

It was a terrible idea, and Shimano realised it. Breaking compatibility like that wasn't necessary, as a few mobs doing ally HG splines with steel strips have shown, and folks who like to have their bearings where they belong were relieved to see the FH-7800 was the lone departure from Shimano's stressed member cassette body design.

If you have any wheels with the chewable splines, you don't need to reach for the chewable antacid - a simple workaround is to use a billet cassette. A somewhat spendy workaround, but you can find Chinese ones relatively cheap.

I have a wheelset with an ally cassette body... I even went and bought a used pair of WH-9000 carbon tubulars just for the 21h hub, which I was going to swap out, until I saw how much worse the flange spacing was (is there a better term when your straight-pull hubs have no flanges?)...

Spoke to the bloke who designed the hubs (they are bloody lovely for cartridge bearing), and he was like, the splines should last better than most ally ones because the cassette body is 3D-forged. So maybe it's possible to make ally almost hard enough for the job... but I wouldn't know, because I threw a billet cassette on there before long.

Means I can abuse my parts for longer.

Try a numbing cream

Cross-training for TT, maybe...?

What does cruising to an easy election win on a small target strategy, against an unprecedentedly terrible incumbent mind you, have to say about whether Starmer is an Establishment man?

Once in a generation chance to kick the shit out of the Overton window, and he's playing as if his opposition is credible.

Yeah, I know Sturgeon's law, which I find handy to remember when it comes to sifting through what passes for culture within capitalism, but obviously it's not a law of nature or anything...

Speaking of which, that's what my definition of a bad idea is in relation to: imagine, before we start manufacturing any new substance in commercial quantities, we put a team of scientists on the case to determine not so much whether, but more like how many, nasty unforseen consequences lay in wait for us, given that chemistry and the planet weren't designed for our convenience, before making guinea pigs out of everyone for the ten millionth time... That sort of shit.

How do you know it's not making you more happy?

I have this handy rule of thumb: 98% of everything the humans do is a terrible idea. Go figure, the odds of random contamination of our brains, being a good thing

How'd you go?

Mainly to try and disguise the branding to deter thieves (as it'll be her everyday commuter), but also I think she'd prefer a bit of colour to the raw ti finish. Rather than powder coating I was thinking of getting some sort of coloured adhesive vinyl(?) to go around the three main tubes of the frame.

That won't fool a trained eye for a second; any ti showing will give the game away in a heartbeat.

Hm, I dunno... Could be nifty when you get to the top of a hill, maybe?

Trying to figure out the gubbins hanging off the back and drawing a blank though... Preset?

You won't exceed the shear strength of an M3 there... It would almost certainly hold up doing that job for a front brake.

you will understand

There was no lack of understanding; just mild surprise that the old backwards fork affliction struck that far above the BSO ranks.

Will I kill myself or my derailleur with the Rollerboys?

You'll struggle to notice. Ever since SIS became a thing, Shimano has rocked the Centeron-G jockey wheel (only the top one is called a jockey wheel BTW, the other is the tension pulley). This has taken the form of a slightly wider bushing than the pulley which has a metal insert for its own bushing in the cheap seats, the same deal in ceramic for 600/Ultegra, and a super fancy little ball bearing cartridge in Dura-Ace with built-in lateral slop (I guess it must be a pair of races of tiny balls for it to work).

Aftermarket replacements have made that all look silly by just having thinner teeth on the top pulley, or made it look even sillier still by not even bothering with a difference. I think Shimano must have decided back in the day it's an important component of SIS, helps the HyperGlide do its thing, and maybe it really did in the 6s days, but I've mucked around with eliminating it on 7s and up, and never noticed much change. I guess maybe it's a little more tolerant of bad adjustment, but I can't see how it won't inescapably make the chain less responsive to the RD.

I'm actually rocking narrow/wide 12/14t in my 11s Di2, and it's totally fine, probably a bit snappier than stock even (at the cost of a smaller correct adjustment window).

this idiot was semi feral at one point

Awww

It's the plastic in my brain I'm least happy about

Oh snap

the plastic in most teabags leeches hormone disruptors when heated

Because of fucking course it fucking does

Fuck me, that's a rough forty. He looks ten years older than me, but I'm ten years older than him.

Holy fuck, this thing is next level. Steel! Doing that! PMSL.

Is that horrific gusset thing missing some weld along the bottom? And it looks like there's a hole in the weld on the BB so big, you can see it in the first photo.

That thing has no business being in a bike shop

Someone decided to prove there is such a thing as too much seatpost showing. Good for him!

And gee, the Yeti is a bit flash for that business

That's a fuckload of grease for those splines (and yeah, I noticed it's the Shimano stuff, fancy) - did you smoosh it in and bugger off the excess before fitting the crank, or are you riding around with most of that between the crank and BB?

so so far away from accepting anything that even slightly deviates from their norms.

I hate that they’re so hateful, I hate that there’s a world view which is so hateful, so reductive, so insular. The obsession and identity with, and of, categorical black and white thinking. The dismissal of any idea, fact, or reason for nuance.

The idea that others are simply play things for their strict worldview.

Just fuck that, and fuck them

Amen, brother

many pages of wank chat

Huh, missed that... Gotta be way more interesting than credit card chat