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we would have a sub too wouldn't we?

Don't go getting any smart ideas you...

Surely Brown is meaner? After all, Bad Bad Leeroy Brown was the baddest man in the whole damn town.

I've got some old Raleigh drops. 37cm wide (c-c). Yours for a pint of ale.
Couldn't honestly say what diameter they are.

^ Not I (to my amazement).
I was stone cold sober when I rode into the front of a Range Rover...

thing about bicycle is that the component can be swapped easily.

As long as it's not one of those Pugs with the weird-ass French threadings for the BB etc. etc...

prettty sure the cups on a bmx headset are wider in diameter than iso jis or italian, so it won't fit the frame

Most modern BMXs now take a-headsets and have 1"1/8 headtubes, however older threaded BMX headsets will be 1", so the cups of the threaded headset linked to will fit the headtube of your road frame.
A note of caution however, there is often some variation in the diameter of the crown race, and some degree of shimming or filing may be needed.

Whilst no-one wants to be sat in a traffic jam for hours, you'd have thought that they might have reflected on the injured party a bit more, rather than threatening to go whining to Boris. WTF are they going to say?

"Mayor Johnson, it is an absolute disgrace that I was late for work. Tell these good-for-nothings not to get themselves seriously injured in my path. A good rogering from the house master, that's what they need. I don't know, in my day we had a bit more moral fibre, what what?"

WA(bunch of)Cs.

Buy some forks with a long enough steerer tube, or if you're only just short of length, buy a headset with a lower stack height.

I thought facing was making sure that the faces (hence the assumption on my part) of both sides of the bottom bracket shell were parallel?

Likewise I had assumed that passing a tap through the threads of the bottom bracket to make sure they were cut correctly/empty of corroded on crap was to tap the bottom bracket?

What is re-tapping a bottom bracket?

Yup, that's facing, and tapping is (re-)cutting threads.
If the frame's any good, then it's probably worth getting the threads tapped when the current BB dies. A good shop or framebuilder will be able to do this.
If the threads are completely knackered, then there may not be enough metal left to cut new threads into. However, all is not lost - on steel frames (might work with ally too), a framebuilder can cut a slot in the BB shell, crush the edges of the cut, and braze it up again. This effectively reduces the internal diameter of the BB shell enough that the framebuilder can then re-cut new BB threads.

My mate's got a sarcastic washing machine.
It takes the piss out of his underpants.

If there's enough material left on the splines, you could try bolting the extractor into the cup.

Dibs on t'other. PM to follow...

See this article for mixing and matching Campy and Shimano.

Yes please if it's available.
Happy to meet in central London Tue/Wed/Thu

Range Rovers - big, loud, easily noticed...
I failed to notice it (SMIDSY!!!), pulled out of a t-junction in front of it, resultant closing speed was probably 25-40mph. My right leg and beloved Bob Jackson took thhe initial impact, before I exacted my revenge by cracking their windscreen with my head.
It wasn't entirely bad planning on my part though - I regained consciousness to discover I'd performed this spectacular wipeout in front of a student nurse and an occupational therapist.

cough free pints ride? cough

Got my ticket...

Groovy. It'll probably be Tuesdays, I'll keep an eye on the thread to see if you're playing.

Hi. Do you guys mind spectators? I'll bring my own beer...

Loads of memories for me reading this thread.
Imbalance were awesome, best thing (only good thing?) ever to come out of Grimsby.
Avail were always a favourite, punk **rock. **I recently saw Shot Baker, who've got the same sort of vibe going on.
Assert? Oh dear. I'm pretty sure they're still hiding in my CD collection...