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Complimentary T-shirts for the punters or getting rich quick in Manilla? :-)

Well done, Bike Destroyer! Well done!

("Mars football" is code for "EuroMillions", I expect. This whole thread is a test to see who deserves a slice of the jackpot. Quick, compliment him on his good fortune before the cash is gone.)

I wear a st pauli hoody all the time.

Well, not all the time.

How about "never"? Let's not fib just cos it's the interweb. :-)

I think I shall start a paypal dispute, I don't see that because he's been fucked over that gives him the right to fuck me over. Probably haven't got a leg to stand on.

Too right you should start a PayPal dispute. Make a nuisance of yourself, even if it's just to cause the seller some well-deserved grief.

A no refunds policy is fine where it applies to folk who buy on a whim and then decide they want their money back. But it doesn't wash here. He let you think the cranks were useable when, in fact, they're not. That's an item which is significantly not as described. I mean, I couldn't sell you a television on the basis that it's in good used condition and then refuse you a refund when you discover it doesn't work.

Fight the good fight! He's a chancer who deserves to be vanquished.

Not very gentlemanly, upstaging Farrah Fawcett like that.

Old 1970's Dawes Windsor road bike, don't know frame size, BB height 250, 170mm cranks, on 700c x 25 tyres :(

The bottom bracket on my conversion's barely 24cm from the floor. I've been riding it with 170mm cranks for two years and I'm still in one piece.

Do a wee experiment for me, eh? Put one of your pedals in the 6 o'clock position and grab the bike by the saddle. Now lean it over till the pedal touches the floor. I bet the bike's at an alarming angle at the point of contact - much further than you'd be able to comfortably cope with while pedalling.

Hippy's right, keep the heid on corners and it'll be fine.

Hubs, rims and spokes must be silver-coloured metal. Rear spacing 120mm; front spacing 110mm (in an ideal world.) Other than that, open to offers. Have you got anything that would interest me?

I'll wait a couple of days to see if anything's forthcoming, then I'm hitting the Bay.

Ta much.

You'll do more damage to your ears than the bike. Grinding off braze-ons makes a horrible, horrible noise - far worse than fingernails on a blackboard or a dentist's drill. Well, I think so anyway. But then, I am a big girl's blouse. :-)

No offers for my Parker pen yet?!

I never get saddle sores. But if I did, I'd make sure that I put clean shorts on every day - on pain of death - and that I washed thoroughly after every ride. A new saddle will likely solve the problem. Probably a narrower one.

In the meantime, you might want to dab some Manuka honey on the boil. Get the sort that's been tested for anti-bacterial activity. Not cheap, but it works...I imagine. :-)

I fell out of love with my Blackburn Air Stik when the postman brought this:

It's a 16cm-long Air Stik SL, also made by Blackburn. The whole pump fits inside a jersey pocket, so there's no chance of it jumping out when you go over a bump. 15 quid from eBay, 20 from most shops. You can inflate a tyre from empty to rideable in jig time - maybe no' up to 120psi, right enough, but certainly hard enough that it doesn't feel spongy. Presta only. Also available in white.

I'll have the SR LAPRADE 27.0, please. PM on its way.

. Jublees were cool as, I saw a 'push up' the other day it made me all nostalgic, it had a whistle in the stick too :-)

They were boggin'! Your mind's been clouded by childhood nostalgia. Good for the motorbike noise and nothing else. I used look for empty cartons on the street so I didn't have to buy one. :-)

What's her angry line to camera in that insurance ad? "Take me seriously"?

Not in that get-up. Footwear fail.

I'll plump for wiping the rims down with alcohol too, seeing as the screeching started overnight.

Chasing is using a tap to clean existing threads. For some applications (and certain bits of a bike) you can buy special taps that are designed just to chase - they remove unwanted debris and optimise the threads without cutting away lots of metal. I'm not sure that a specific chasing-only tool exists for bottom bracket shells. That's neither here nor there, though. Your LBS will be able to clean them out with a tap.

@ Rocker... Yeah, I did. The paintjob is immaculate and there's lots of nice parts on the frame. Unfortunately, some of them don't want to be separated from it. The stem is frozen and the seatpost was murder to shift. Grease didn't feature in the original build. There's something rattling about inside one of the tubes too. Other than that, no probs. I'm happy.

That is fucking ugly! (paint job)

think of this, take the mudguards off, then re tape the bars and voila, *fucking *nice

Rocker was right. It is fucking nice without the red bartape and mudguards. ;-)

ftw

You couldn't buy these when I was wee. Kids jammed empty Jubilee cartons under their back wheel for a motorbike noise. Jubilees were brightly-coloured, iced drinks, btw. Just like a no-frills ice lolly, only in a corrugated plastic cup. Children today are spoiled by technology. :-)

You can get back to arguing about spokecards now...

Just say no to hammers (unless you're installing a headset. :-P )

Look inside the bottom bracket shell with a torch. Check for obvious damage to the threads. If you can't see anything suspcious, chasing is the way to go, imo. It'll cost you a tenner at most.

Yeah, I've had this problem. Are you absolutely sure that the bottom bracket threading is compatible with the frame? If so, I'd be prepared to bet that chasing the threads of the bottom bracket shell will solve the problem, even if they don't look that dirty just now. Those horrible plastic retainer rings aren't very forgiving. The shell threads need to be just so.

Btw, make sure you don't stuff up the threading on the plastic ring cos it's bloody hard to get a new one as a spare part without ordering online.

It's muscle!

you sad fucks, talking about this....

The more drunk I am, the more I want to post in threads that have got sod all to do with bikes.

So, courtesy of six bottles of cider, Nina Williams. Those throwing/grappling combos do loads of damage. Grab them once and decimate their energy bar.

@ Mikeymerk

Well, it looks like you did your best, and even though that turned out not to be enough, it was far better than leaving the wee bird to be tormented to death by some cat.

The frame is kind of gun metal colour, was thinking white cables, good idea ? what you think

Sounds good to me. Stick up a photo when your done so everyone can slag your bike off.
:-P