Search results for:

Thanks for the heads up, there seems very little about it written anywhere.

Spotter where did you get your soma portuer rack from? I want/need one for a tour I'm going on in a month. My back up option is a minoura portuer rack, but noone in the uk seems to have either.

Does anyone konw where I can get hold of a soma porteur rack or a mioura porteur rack in the next month? Everywhere in the uk seems to be out of stock.

To carry 4 kids and stuff should Mrs Hefty get :

http://shop.johnny-loco.com/cargo-dutch-delight-1.html

Or

http://www.nihola.com/products/letvaegtsladcykeltilboernefamilier.html

They work out about the same dorrah once specced up.

I've got a christiania and have a bit of experience with triking around and my wives experiences. Get the ones with the lowest gears or the one which weighs the least. The top one one you link I believe is stupidly heavy, and even though you're filling it with stuff that extra weight will make a big difference. Especially if you're going anywhere up a slope. My wife finds it very tough getting ours up a hill, the power weight ratio of a smaller person really tells when you're moving a heavy bike. This can be balanced if you have very low gears. I've not tried the nihola, but basically all trikes handle like poo because you can't lean. Road camber is really annoying, as are mini roundabouts which camber outwards and make turning at anything other than a crawl a nightmare. But it is ace to ferry round four kids at a go!

Can anyone tell what the front rack is on the above bike? I bet it's custom, the racks i want are always custom....

Thanks for the camera advice, think the rx100 looks a good shout. Was eyeing one up already and the usb charging is a great bonus.

My brother is looking for a little camera to take touring. He's no camera geek so a point and shoot will work fine.

A request of his which is a little trickier is that he doesn't want to take a battery charger and would like to charge the camera like it's a phone off his solar charger.

Any ideas about this? I can't seem to find anything that can do this? Bit tricky to search for.

This is awesome. So jealous that you have the set up to do this.

If I'm not mistaken, the jig you're building only alows for frames which have the same head tube and seat tube angle, as in the head and seat tubes are parallel. Is this not a bit of a limitation? Or am I being silly and this actually true of all bike (I think not) or is the jig more sophisticated than I thought.

This looks like a serious thread. Good luck to you, those machined bits look lurvly

So who on this tread actually makes mince pies?

Can we have a meet up to have a mince pie off at a pub somewhere? losers who don't have the skills can bring some from Greggs but they will have to sit at a separate table.

anyone ever done/ seen a big mince pie or tart in the same vein of apple pies/tarts. I mean we have little apple pies and bigger apple pies/tarts, shouldn't it work with mince too? shouldn't it be incredible?! gf is going to try concoct one but just wanted to see if anyones ever seen it done before.

i'm becoming a fat fuck thanks to these bastard confections. must ride more.

Yes, make a massive mince pie. My mum used to make this when she was sick of making mince pies, or the speed at which we used to eat them, and just used a big tart tin, same pastry, same mincemeat, maybe a bit lattice work on the top if you're feeling fancy. Less work but will fill up lots more people.

It's a bit far I think. I've at least discovered that it has a RH thread so I know which way to attack it from. I've got it off before, but this time it is being stubborn.

does anyone have a stormy archer ball race spanner? One of these

Do do this with

I'm using a normal lock ring spanner at the moment but it's not the right size and I'm struggling for purchase.

Can I have some sturmey archer help here please?

Does anyone know which direction the thread is on the ball ring on a sturmey archer speed hub? this is the newer rd5 hub.

This one http://www.sturmey-archer.com/products/hubs/cid/4/id/33.html

And this is the part http://www.sjscycles.co.uk/sturmey-archer-ball-ring-nig-hsa437-prod19160/

I can't make out which direction the htread is in this picture.

Also does anyone have a C spanner for removing one of these? I'm currently try the hammer and lockring spanner/punch but it's not budging. I used this technique before and it worked fine. I can't remember the thread direction and it's being very stubborn.

I'm only think of really expensive ones at the moment, celinder, overwater, sei, sadowsky, having a look on the bass chat lists…

This is pretty awesome if you want to try a graphite neck

http://basschat.co.uk/uploads/monthly_10_2013/post-16956-0-00770100-1382628429.jpg

And this is only £300

http://basschat.co.uk/topic/221865-fender-american-special-bitsa-jazz/

It seems my job on this thread is to search bass chat classifieds for others. Maybe I need to find a reason to buy more guitars.

Cheers for the trade tips, don't mind spending £7 if it means a decent sale or swap.

Last question; I know the whole thing is excessive anyway as the pedal goes for silly money on ebay (between 500-650) - I for that price I should be asking for a US jazz right? Or would a MX be more suitable?

Good luck for the gig dooks - I can't come as I'm practicing tonight. And I live miles away. Genre sounds interesting though...

Do you definitely want a fender? There are loads of very decent fender copies out there which might be better quality, and can be a better deal second hand. I'm talking about hand built, small companies, not mass produced stuff. I'm sure if you put an add on bass chat many will be offered to you.

Pretty sure that it'll work fine.

The issue is when you're using normal caliper/cantilever levers with v-brakes. V-brakes require more pull so caliper/cantilever levers don't pull enough which then gives you almost no braking until it locks up the brakes.

With a v-brake lever you're going to be pulling too much cable. Which just means your brakes are a bit more sensitive which you can adapt to.

What type of bike is it? If you're not willing to pay for a different lever then I assume it's not a performance issue so I'd just live with it.

I'm trying to get more brake power on m bodged together trike. The lever is a modified dual v brake lever, the calipers are dual pivots, I can't change this set up with out new wheels and disc brakes. I'm hoping to get some more lever pull as the moment it only moves about a cm. THis should give a bit more leverage to help squeeze the brakes against the rims. At the moment you really have to pull hard to stop due to the trike being so heavy.

Internet was too slow so I bought the angled ones, will report back when fitted.

Who sells that in the uk? can't find anyone.

ok definitely getting marzipan for the next batch. Need to up stakes as I'm using bought mince meat due to forgetting to make it again. To bling up bought mincemeat, and some extra apple and booze as the mas produced stuff always scrimps on this to make it last longer.

Oh and clotted cream loses to brandy butter, or rum butter, or whiskey butter, or apple brandy butter, booze + butter + sugar.....

Not if you put it the other way round, it will make it less. Or so I think, just wandering it everything will fit properly.

Oh I can't get new brakes as these are the only ones that fit. I hoping that this will give a bit better modulation and braking power.

Does anyone know if I can use a problem solvers travel adaptor the wrong way round, as in to use caliper brakes with a v brake lever?

One of these, but at the lever end rather than the brake end.

Oh and before some tells me to get a new lever, it's a custom double lever so no.

Ha the festive pie hundred! We've already been on it, not yet december, the shame!

My 4yo daughter enjoys doing pastry and we've made 96 so far, in normal and mini size.

Good for you getting decent amps. I can remember hearing so many bands that were let down by cheap amps. Never heard a band that were let down by cheap guitars.

Cheap guitar plus decent amp, never the other way round.