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@billygoat28 I'll wait a bit longer to see if black or purple materialise out of the lfgss ether. thank you! Are you London-ish?

Hi @Chak, what colour is the brooks? got a picture?

looking for a second one of these (pictured) ideally this design, ideally purple, black second best.

thank you!

pretty close to done on a 90's cannondale with a thule yepp mini, I'll add pictures in a bit.

question: kickstands, which ones are good? i'm thinking central bipod?

thanks!

price drop to a fiver! desperation is setting in.

Hi @user86449,
Yes, still available, price drop to a tenner to get things moving.

Thanks for the reply. That's very sad indeed.

Hey @konastab01, sorry I missed this, notifications must be off or something.
have a price drop to a tenner to make it happen :)

Black Logo?
I couldn't spot any posts about commemorating anything, maybe I just missed it.
Tried a couple hard refreshes.
Could also be one of my firefox plugins although they never used to be a problem? (ublock origin, privacy badger, privacy possum, decentraleyes, facebook container)

Hello,

Looking to put a Shimano Deore LX M56X series front derailleur on a '94 dale M500.
I've measured the chainstay angle to 69.8 degrees using the catalogue photo.

Question is: will it take the M563 or M566 models which have a 66-69 degrees stated chainstay angle? the older M560 doesn't state an angle, is that cause they didn't bother or it is less fussy about angles?

edit: I haven't bought the FD yet, the photo is just from ebay, so I can't simply try it out.

edit2: I'm getting the idea there are only 2 sizes: 63-66 and 66-69 (or catch all 63-69 models) where road bikes tend to have a lower angle due to the bigger wheels and mtb's tend to need the higher angle model. So I'm probably splitting hairs worrying about 69.8 degrees vs. 69.

Price drop to £15

We have here the aftermath of madness:
15mm white clips bag of 50
15mm blue/red/yellow clips bag of 100 of each
22mm blue/red clips bag of 100 of each
side spacers, bag of 100
bottom spacers, bag of 50

I used maybe 5-10 of each, I haven't counted them, but as you can see the bags are pretty full. Total probably around £60 when I bought them? e.g. cost per bag https://www.toolstation.com/talon-hinged-clip/p99088

£20 £15 £10 £5 FREE

Collection SE6, or posted at cost

Prices drop, unlike cars when they're jacked up on these sturdy axle stands.
£20 -> £15
plus extra included bonuses, a home made brake bleeding tube and bottle + brake fluid contaminated turkey baster for draining or filling the brake fluid reservoir.

oh I just remembered, the heat from the weld is so close to some very accurately toleranced holes and they got deformed. I had to do a bit of reaming out of the holes so they would take the pins again. this was awkward and annoying. another reason this fix is not worth it.

Currently building a budget kid hauler, this is obviously better in every single way. way out of my budget of course 😭

have a bump GLWS

mudguards in the title, did they sell? I'm ready to bet they're not 26" anyway.

It helped thinking that it was broken anyway

If you follow the disassembly instructions on this page https://www.norvil.net/pedal/service/shimanosti/duraace9sti/strip.php
I think a problem like that would become obvious in the attached picture. Possibly damage to one of the teeth that hold the shifter in gear, or just crud buildup.

also I wouldn't try any of this without spraying a decent amount of wd40 down the cable hole and give it a couple days to break down crud, that could potentially fix it without dissassembly.

happy to lend my ground down spanner if it helps.

is it a flightdeck one?

but what is it for???? surely the taper wants to seat unhindered, right 🧐

definitely felt like reapiring a clock. the number of times i had to get on my knees to look for a spring...

Only the finest Lidl quality on offer here

The lot £20 £15 £10 SOLD

Collection only, SE6

EDIT: Gosh, nearly forgot to mention the half a bottle of bubble gum scented screenwash included to sweeten the deal.

EDIT2: Price drop and bonus brake bleeding turkey baster and bottle with a tube.

Looks like there's a thick washer pressed onto the square taper on this BB. Is that normal? should I try and remove it, how? If it's there on purpose, why?
The BB measures 108mm end to end

picture of the misaligned plastic part, it goes back to where it should be easily, but pops back out when shifted.

and better view of the spanner, it is an 8mm

Overdue update. I did a goodly amount of filing, rebuilding, checking, cursing and taking apart again.

In the end I have a working-ish brifter, in that it works, but all the assembly and dissassembly I did has done some damage to the plastic front cover part, and it all gets a bit wonky when I shift.

I think my main problem was that I trusted someone else to tell me what the problem was (I bought this as faulty). I never mounted it to a bike to test it before starting, so I don't know what my progress really is if any. Essentially it was faulty logic to try and fix what felt like bad shifting without it being mounted on handlebars and connected to a derailleur.

Would I do it again? No. definitely not worth the time and effort. The amount of interesting mechanical learning got very thin on the ground as the job progressed, and the fix relies on access to an expert welder (which I am not).

I've attached some pictures, which don't really explain the work done, but may be a useful reference especially the custom tool I made to take it apart in the first place.

TLDR: probably wasn't broken in the first place, so I just got it back to where it was, plus bonus wear and tear from all the manhandling.