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Probably an RP, but meh.

Sod it, let's all move to that kid's Disney Club Penguin thing my wee cousin spends hours on!

New lo-fi lights solution spotted in Ipswich, Suffolk...

For all you Christmas shopping sufferers

Can haz source? Several family members of mine need this in their life...

After watching that, I am confident that a crabon fibre wheel won't take my weight.... Fancy shinyfangled technowizardry...

Fixed my mechanic/al fail! After repacking my pedals, I put the spindles in the wrong way round - hence they wouldn't go back on. Threads on the cranks are fine. Schoolboy error!

Still in Ipswich though, don't think I can make up the time at this point.... :-D

Undibbed. Realised I had the pedal spindles back to front and hadn't stripped the threads on the cranks... #mechanicfail

Dibs. You've got PM/mail.

Afraid I'm not going to be in attendance now guys, mechanical failure, no pedals :-(

http://www.lfgss.com/thread1561.html?

:-)

FIXED!

After some telephone triage by @ScillySuffolk, had the top of the headset to bits.

Turns out there was some solidified gunk in the top cap there, hence the movement in the ball-bearings. Scooped it out and suddenly no more jiggling!

For the want of a nail and all that...

Subscribed. Loving your work!

Weather Proof gloves have been boss so far!

+1 for this. Pretty breathable too, my hands don't feel like the Florida Everglades...

As long as they wear a stick-on audax beard

Just to check, what Gear Inch of beard would be most suitable? Is a geared beard acceptable?

1. Ludd (nil seven 940 eight hundred 8 too seven)
   
2. Husy
   
3. Hoke
   
4. apollo
   
5. dbr - no lunch stop
   
6. cnkr - if no lunch stop (at least 1 gear)
   
7. Horro
   
8. keanulooser (geared)
   
9. Jurek
   
10. Indra: 07 double eight 9 73 eight 03 eight
    
11. Hesa
    
12. Hairnetnic
    
13. JohnDoe (geared) oh78668ohoh679
    
14. Elra
    
15. xsvcx
    
16. Clockwork_killa
    
17. ncjlee
    
18. Bernie
    
19. Allysse
    
20. sinan90
    
21. vunugu
    
22. chrisbytheway
    
23. Vanneau (geared)
    
24. Toastyoneuk
    
25. Merlar
    
26. Seraphinx
    
27. Distinctive Rob
    
28. Hefty
    
29. alfie - 07909093052
    
30. Seven04 (fixed)
    
31. Hugo
    
32. Big H
    
33. John Andre
    
34. Glen Husbands-Alex
    
35. Mehmet (geared)
    
36. Cafewanda (SS)
    
37. Woah Cats
    
38. Marlene (geared bike)
    
39. Ian (geared bike)
    
40. LHL
    
41. shinkuu kiss
    
42. amey (geared +1 maybe a 'friend') Digits: zero 7 5 88 zero 9 two 0 1 two
    
43. arnolo
    
44. Eagle Glenn[/QUOTE]
    

I'd say the forks have been changed and now the steerer's too long.

Instead of cutting it shorter, that thick spacer's been added...but it's not quite thick enough, hence the nut bottoms out when done up, leaving too much play in the bearings.

Cut the steerer and loose that thick spacer.

So in other words, the top of the steerer is poking out of the top of the headtube, covered by those spacers?

don't blindly cut the steerer as you need to make sure there's enough threading remaining..

Duly noted sir - need to take the entire assembly to bits methinks, but not confident doing it before this Saturday's London-Cambridge run...

Pics below - thanks guys! Not sure what it is exactly, I know it's a Raleigh, and judging by the Sachs-Huret Eco derailleur, it's somewhere from mid to late 80s. It's been repainted before I got it, so not hints there... If anyone can shine any light, then please do.

Very minor OS moment earlier - was riding along to work in the dark (yet to get electric light in Ipswich), some guy drives past and yells "Something something something LIGHT, ya moron".

Realise I've not turned on my back light. Caught up to them at the traffic lights, with light now on, got a thumbs up and we went our separate ways. Fail.

Having an issue w/the headest on my 80s Raleigh.

The headset itself is properly tightened, however there's still a bit of play, feels a bit sketchy over bumps.

Between the top of the headset and the securing nut, there's what look like two metal spacers/large washers. These seem to be able to skip over one another on application of force on braking, leading to a bit of forwards/backwards fork movement.

I can't do the headset securing nut any further, I think it might be a replacement job.

If so, what can I actually replace it with? I've been told it's one of those old proprietry thread Raleigh jobbies. Can I replace the lot with some kind of modern alternative, or am I rather screwed for options?

Apologies for the unexpert description - Headsets are slightly voodoo to me, despite having a read of Sheldon's bits on them!

My Raleigh has japanese script on it. Nothing classy or bike related though, just highly geeky.

I'm game, can someone add me?

whispers will be riding geared if that's okay?

I'm sure someone's mentioned it somewhere already, but what time are we departing?

I've got some Endura Luminite overshoes that I never use (since moving down from the frozen North I don't need them). They're XL, but fit round my size 10 Shimanos a little snugly. Been used on a couple of long rides, but they're as new.

Yours for £15 posted? Or make me an offer, whatever works :-)

I'm a Del Monte man myself dicki... got the panama hat and everything.

There are two kinds of people-

1) Those who refuse to have pizza without the delightfully tropical yellow cubes upon it

2) Those who think people who mentioned in 1) should be exterminated.

+1 for the former, incidentally.