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IIRC The shape of the Lowriders is canted downwards, so you can’t fit normal 31.8mm levers across the top.

Deda Lowrider bar

You need 22mm bar end brakes.

-I have a right hand Tektro RX 4.1 that you can have for £5 if you want. It’s had a bad scrape against a wall but no falls and it works perfectly.

Lol’d!

No advice on replacing the pads I’m afraid, but you’ll improve the current performance a lot by giving the rim and pads a good scrub with a clean cloth and water, or ideally pink Muc Off. As said above, the pads still have lots of meat on them, so you might’ve built up grit or contamination on one of the braking surfaces.

@PhilDAS Sure, very civilised of you to ask first.

(To those whom I’ve PM’d without invitation, I regret nothing)

The threats that the workers’ unions later claimed were made up? We heard those news.

Bought some brakes in November off an eBay business account with hundreds of items for sale, and they never turned up. Mid-Jan. the seller issued my refund, asking that I let them know if it arrived. This weekend I found the exact same listing posted again, so I bid on it, and 24 hours later the listing was cancelled. What gives?

Yet it appears that McConnell and his cohort are experiencing zero cognitive dissonance, it all makes perfect sense and is a totally reasonable stance in their warped world.

I wonder if there’s an actual medical condition where someone’s capacity to feel cognitive dissonance is lower than the norm.

They’re Machiavellian. Any amount of lies and criminality are justified if it helps them achieve their end goals: retain and increase their power. They’ll readily play with the hellfire that is a politically active trump as long as they judge it ultimately benefits them.

I do understand the difference between gaming a system and deliberately defrauding it and guess what - yes they are the same to me in that I would find doing either unconscionable during a global pandemic.

I’m not keen on getting involved, but I did want to say that I think this statement is a bit unfair (for lack of a better word). My understanding of Lynx’s reasoning for his vaccine suggestion is that there are doses potentially going to waste because of various reasons but mainly administrative ones that need sorting out. Your centre has found uses for the surplus, but he found a centre that was content to apply the vaccine to a walk-in. Is it more morally questionable to allow a life-saving medicine to be lost, or to try and find a use for it even on one’s self? He’s not exactly cutting the queue, and his reasoning was sound enough that the centre staff agreed with it.

I’m not saying one moral choice is preferable to the other, I’m just saying that there’s a valid argument to be made for both, and his reasoning isn’t necessarily stupid or fraudulent. His suggestion may be misguided in that we should all be locked down, but it’s in response to an actual moral and administrative insufficiency.

Do the centres have a list of less-at-risk people who are 100% committed to dropping whatever they’re doing at 4pm and going to get vaccinated from the surplus doses? It’s a job for the GPs, but perhaps that’s a way to minimise spoilage.

Adding: I wouldn’t recommend following Lynx’ suggestion, please register your interest with your GP instead.

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Many thanks to Chak for the parts. Dropped.Bars, sent you a PM re your cassette.

I don’t drink energy drinks so I don’t keep tabs on where they’re sold. Can anyone specify an actual business that offers that energy drink? I had never heard of it prior to moving to the UK a few years ago/through their F1 Haas deal.

Their wiki page is pretty funny, as is the ESPN write up on them. I’d be damn nervous if I were invested in Williams’ performance; ‘CEO’ seems like the type of guy who can be counted on to fuck things up needlessly.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Energy

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.espn.com/f1/story/_/id/27221746/the-bizarre-haas-rich-energy-saga-explained%3fplatform=amp

Apparently they were sued successfully by Whyte bikes for ripping off their antler logo, but they haven’t paid. I thought their previous logo looked familiar.

Ha!’d out loud.

Fully operational is a funny way of referring to a human being. Good he’s alright.

Sell the house, switch schools, fire the driver and live-in maids. Can’t take any chances.

Might want to remove your email now.

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+1 to what Enda nicely laid out above, only they’re more generous than I would be: where they say ‘rationalise’ I would substitute ‘excuse’. Even if they were committed to teaching kids work skills, which their advert clarified was not guaranteed, offering unpaid ‘internships’ for children to do manual labour is shameful.

Look, all I'm saying is that yeah it's cool they apologised and all but I guess they've got a bit more to do before they win back people's trust. Think that's not totally unfair given the fact that the apology still tried to rationalise what they were doing, and given that a day beforehand they were deleting comments on the original post pretty much making the same complaint as us in the hope that nobody would kick off about it. Am I saying that they are therefore unforgivable or fundamentally bad? No, of course not, give them the chance to make it up. But also saying 'we fucked up' is kinda the bare minimum. Like reputation is more of a track record thing than it is admitting what you did was bad when enough people call it out. Other people seem to have good examples on this thread suggesting that it's part of a pattern rather than an isolated mistake. That information seems relevant. I genuinely do hope that they turn it around and make the effort to be a good business/employer and not just do the bare minimum they can get away with. But then again that's their business and not mine...

I'm hoping that footage of Mitch McConnell with badly stained trousers emerges

He wears a diaper. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

At least it was a cheap fix. Thx for not leaving us hanging.

Ffs, just get a jab when you are called.

I don’t think they were saying they wouldn’t get the other vaccines, but that they would prefer the Pfizer one. Maybe they own Pfizer stock?

Seems to think Brit have an inalienable right to ....

Flashback to lockdown 1 when the previously undercover village idiots would rant against a mask mandate being against their ‘rights’, although they never specified which rights specifically. It’s sovereign citizen levels of ignorance.

We (...) wanted to share some of the wealth of experience...

This annoys me because it’s more bs.
They wanted someone’s time and labour in exchange for vague empty promises, and they are only sorry they were dumb enough to word it so poorly that it backfired.

If they had asked for a volunteer because they were struggling to keep the doors open, then they might have found a sympathetic ear. I’m glad they showed their true colours though.

-sincerely, guy who helped run a shop once and didn’t prey on students for free labour.

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ill be getting the jab

Well done, everyone, we’ve convinced him 👏