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Why? It's not as close to the chainstay as the photo appears to show. I never found a lockring tool so I'm not going to bother putting the chain on until I know it will fly.

My mate was talking about this. He's based in Portugal (favourable property tax) and may already be running a company from Estonia (favourable corp tax). I should have a closer look but anything that could obfuscate the owners and/or remove UK residency legal impacts could be useful.

Ok, so, deffo worth looking ahead a bit to see if there's actual crossings/vacancies.

Well, the 36T clears and the cranks look like they fit properly without any spacers (fck you and your new standards, world)

So, any reason I shouldn't install a new chain, ride to the LBS and get this lockring tightened?

Neither shop had the tool. #sadface

I've ordered a Shimano one. Figure I'll try and test fit these 12s cranks and if it looks like it will work, I'll get the LBS to tighten the lockring and then I'm good to go.

What about BB spacers? It's a 73mm shell and a 73mm BB so I assume I don't need any of their spacers? ASS u ME.

Hmm, anyone got a "Park Tool LRT-4 - Shimano Direct Mount Chainring Lockring Tool" in west London? My BB tool ain't gonna engage enough to tighten the 12s chainring on.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/LRT-4-Shimano-Direct-Mount-Lockring/dp/B083WMQP91

This article mentions a plastic spacer that goes between crank and chainring, which obviously isn't on the fucking cranks I bought. How important is it? Something an LBS might have?

https://mountainbikevibes.com/how-to-replace-a-shimano-direct-mount-chainring/

Yeah, they're not cheap but I've done AMR, L'esperit, El Piri, Gran Vertical, Maestrazgo and probably hundreds/thousands more miles of offroad shit with them and they've not let me down (other than smashing my shins while spending so much time walking :D)

Now I'm spoiled for choice... which set to I start with? How much are we betting that none of them work?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0daa3LUi0A

The vocals are fucked but the tune is actually pretty bangin :)

I watched that Pirate Bay film but I forget which countries don't have extradition laws...

:D

Why does it have to be a real person? If the whole admin tier was just pushed to anonymous/bullshit contact info and run like Critical Mass with "no organiser"?

Pay the hosting bills with brown paper envelopes of cash :)

Wow, that's fucking grim.

I have three pairs of Large Stamp 7. They're something like 110mm wide. I have also rebuilt two of them with their spares kit. One of the pairs is Stamp 1 which is kinda serviceable but doesn't use the same kit so I've not done any work to it.

Yeah, I installed that the other day. Why did you think it wouldn't be available? I've no idea what their support terms are these days but if a device runs it, makes sense to push it.

waves

I did this at work to point out how shit MS groups are. You know you can create any private group and it creates an email address that appears in O365 lists.

So I create a helpdesk group or a support group or a finance group or ceoname group and all of a sudden I'm harvesting emails that were intended for someone else. It hasn't been fixed in x years.

(except that one time @hippy appeared after I was punched in the face)

I have no recollection of this. But I have no recollection of a lot of things.

people don't 'hate' cyclists

They definitely do.

I might do this after xmas with the missus. What's the verdict on the OG route versus @youramericanlover version? Did you fix the blocked bits? Is YAL's more off-road or less? (I have 50mm slicks but could go bigger and knobbier and the grrl can go road or gravel wheels) Why do both routes avoid the Margate corner?

I have more time off than her so was also thinking about riding over to France from Dover and doing @frank9755 Calais to Dieppe route along the coast. What are my odds of just rocking up and getting on the ferries versus booking ahead?

Alesmith Speedway Stout (more difficult to find in the UK lately)

Brewdog (yeah yeah boo hiss) have it on draught at a few of their bars.

Yeah, I can get 2.6" MTB tyres in the Ogre. That explains why they went with a larger BB shell I guess.

If the fucking bike industry stopped being dickheads for 5mins this never would've happened.

This is why I always try to buy bikes with the same boring things - 68mm BBs, 27.2 seatpost, etc are a more important consideration to me than most other factors. I'm trying to fight "standards" propagation one silly purchase at a time. Used bikes are tickier though.

It does fit 2.6" tyres.

With half the UK's mountain bike cranksets being delivered to my place in the next few days... slim.