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I miss Ford Manor Farm!

Certainly is!

Nice. That is my kind of bike. I could definitely squeeze onto it, but my missus would absolutely kill me 😂😂

mine after 1 weeks worth of winter commuting

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Finished with plenty of time to spare 😬

Congrats!

Your route plan literally goes past it. It's set back from the main road in a courtyard, plenty of room for bike parking.

at the bottom of easy side up galibier? I think I may have had the same!

That's the one. It was amazing. The additional weight helped me to average 35mph for 19 minutes back down to La Salle-les-Alpes. Great fun!

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I'm guessing that's what they'll have to do this year. Strict notes I guess to make sure everyone climbs on the right hand side of the road.

I've not entered. I was considering it, along with a mate, but the logistics are/were too muddled to justify making a decision to enter. So we didn't.

We did consider driving to Bourg d'Oisan the day before, parking up and riding back up the Lautaret for a 'Marmotte Omelette' (best omelette I've ever had was at the restaurant up there a few years ago!), but looking around on Google Maps there was hardly any parking, plus the whole world and his dog would probably also think of the same thing.

One thing I can’t fathom about next years event. Once up Alpe D’Huez, how do you get back down off it again?

Can thoroughly recommend The Tulip Tree in Chiddingstone.

Sorry to piss on your chips, but you bought it for £920 2 1/2 weeks ago and want to make an instant £130 profit?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/255143692724?hash=item3b67bfc9b4:g:sUIAAOSw8PRhSKjO

I don't think he'll be able to do it, seeing as Campenaerts also set it at Aguascalientes. But @umop3pisdn will be the person to confirm this.

Altho, in all seriousness, looks like something in the Orion constellation.

edit ; shows you what I know!

Space: the final frontier

Yeah. Pretty sure all SRAM cranksets need to have the pedal washer installed.

I can answer my own question ^^

The hub shell had separated from the outer casing on the drive side. Basically the only things holding it together were the axle and spoke tension.

Could possibly glue it, I’d have to line it up bang on due to the spoke holes, but I’d forever be constantly worried of it coming apart again.

Picked up a damaged rear wheel off eBay and rebuilt my rim and spokes onto the new hub.

Have a vid. Ignore the movement at the rim, it’s hard to try to keep the bike steady when pushing and pulling, so at times the movement is exaggerated.

Toward the end you can see the movement between hub and sprockets. Sprockets remain steady, hub moves.

After some help. Now, I'm no expert, but I've done plenty of bike maintenance, including rear hub/freehub disassembly/reassembly.

I picked up a second hand set of Shamal Ultras a few months. Hardly any wear to brake track, span smoothly etc. Couple of weeks ago I had some instances of where the pawls go 'bang', when they don't quite bite first time. Opened up the freehub to find a broken spring.

At the same time, I took the axle out to clean everything up. Put it all back together, and now I have a very annoying bit of play. Not the sort of play where you can feel it knocking at the rim and just tighten down the adjustable cone, but between the hub and freehub. There's no knocking, but if you pull and push hard enough at the rim you can create the play I mention. Tightening the cone down as far as I can makes no difference, other than a rough running wheel.

I even removed the whole axle/bearings/freehub from an older Zonda that had no play in the wheel at all, and get exactly the same result. So the issue must be something in the hub. Could it be a worn out cup?

The real annoying thing is I'm not certain whether I had this play before I took it apart. If you gently waggle the rim you get no play whatsoever.

Thanks in advance for any input!

Flipping hell Veddy, you haven’t bought another one have you?

Gurd Muller. Fantastic striker. RIP.

Bad luck mate. Next year! 💪🏼

Sold!

Taken off recently bought bike, worked absolutely perfectly. Hoods still in decent shape, some scratches to brake levers.

£20 posted.