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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

B&W cats man, what is it with their mad eyes?! 😝

My one is pretty chill

Three cats here, and no interest in the tree. Not like they're particularly well-behaved, either... One of them is especially primed for mayhem

chrome won't let you use adblockers and other privacy extensions.any more

Fucken scum.

I wonder what this means for Brave?

There's something like the Chandrasekhar limit which applies to money.

Ze goggles, zey do nussing!

I dunno, to my mind you've gotta be working pretty hard to consider that a bad thing. Omgios does a far less terrible job at PSAs than many...

I mean how about this brutal shit for triggering PTSD:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2mf8DtWWd8

I posted a link to his mechanical watch page on a watch repair forum, where of course it was a repost, and in one of the earlier threads someone mentioned Bartosz hand-codes those animations in WebGL without using any libraries.

Someone needs to get this guy and pay all his bills and do all his life admin so he can spend 100% of his time busting out what he does best.

"Contains Human Spunk" stickers

You can get those? What a time to be alive

Another thing Texas has going for it, is that it's not Arizona.

No sprocket distance dimension changes in the years between release ?

There was some funny business with 10s, IIRC... two versions, one with non-uniform spacing, was that it?

The arrival of 11s finally put a stop to worrying about anything beyond having the right number of cogs, didn't it? After all these years you can just throw in a Shimano wheel no problems.