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How many more of these do you figure we get before civilisation collapses?

I'm going with fifteen

I liked the way Fran enjoyed the shipping forecast in Black Books

Dude! Anyone who tried to talk me out of a four-day week would get an extemporised crash course in the slacker ethos and the utter folly of 'economic' activity.

Not that I've had a chance to secure such a situation in my whole working life... If it were to come along, I'd be sorted. Retirement would consist of going to three days a week.

That shit's pretty tight

Huh. I thought there were a lot of users though?

if he were still around he'd be a MAGA hat

Hm, it's been like thirty-five years, but I wouldn't have guessed that from Stranger in a Strange Land

BA have been getting worse for years

Bet they've got nothing on Qantas. Suffice to say, AVOID. Been cruising on the fumes of their pre-neoliberalism reputation for more than a decade.

SRAM shift feels like shit next to Shimano. Easily forgiven when you compare the shift mechanisms though - Shimano's is bafflingly complex and barely serviceable, while SRAM's genius simplicity isn't likely to ever need servicing.

Also, no fucking around with FD trim positions when you have Yaw, at least after you've fucked around setting it up.

Dafuq? I had the old 10s Red and I've got the later 10s Red, and never noticed the difference. Pretty sure I've had both shifters apart too.

To anyone with half a clue, surely 'wildly inappropriate' would appear to be absolutely appropriate for a Trump administration?

Oh wow, so she walked right up and poked him in the chest to start with! Hilarious.

Speaking of hilarious, how cute is this?!

Yeah WTF. Imagine he had another term instead of fucking Reagan, and how much better the world would be for it. He cared about the greenhouse effect in 1980, IIRC.

Oh wow, and she has to be stupid enough to step up to Musk, right? Might have to make some popcorn and tune in

You realise this was almost 20yrs ago, right?

Yeah I caught the date...

I'm guessing you've presumed a whole other angle than the one I'm coming from... Not much of a concern troll myself, although of course I can appreciate why some terms may bother folks from an historically oppressed background or whatever.

Nah, I'm like, is this the origin of 'HHS'?

Huh.

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?