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Hi guys anyone selling a threadless headset for 1 inch (black and sealed bearings preferably) for a decent price?

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Hi guys, any decent , cheap track crankset anyone?

some really cool bikes there!

You can always do like Farage and marry a EU national?

A lot of places doing walk ins atm (at least in Manchester/Salford) usually for +40s all day or any age after the last appointment if they had drops during the day and not enough +40s walk ins (what happens regularly).

So, got the pfizer on sunday, and beside some medium to strong pain in the arm, all good.

Very interested! Would be ok to join at starting point as I would probably be driving from the north?

Wasn't criticising, just curious... If it let you through, should be fine? I know places that have been doing sporadic walk ins for over 30s

Where did you book it from? NHS website? Did you just ignored first page 'you're aged 40 or over' notice?

France, being part of the EU are not allowed to make any unilateral deals with UK or anyone. After 5 years of this mess and UK didn't even grasp that simple detail yet?

Agreed, but I thought one of the goals of Brexit was allowing UK to have free trading with the all world! Now as soon as we leave we start enforcing VAT charges on imports from China!? Oh... the irony...

Any decent combi boiler these days (and last 10 years or so) will be above 90% efficiency, some are even in very high 90s%

Wasn't aware of that, but anyway I thought one of the main Brexit motivations was free trading with everyone (where possible) so why charge vat on imports from China?

If that was the case removing the computer from the outlet and running it on battery would sort the problem?

On a guitar I guess even the person holding it can work as a 'ground loop'? specially if bare foot... :D

Removing ground from something isn't advisable but doesn't mean something bad will definitely happen. Ground is there more as a safety measure. Removing ground to check if that is the source of an issue, if done carefully, can be hardly labelled as dangerous.
If by removing the ground the hum is gone, that solves the issue and kind of proves there was a ground loop. Btw when you break a ground loop everything is still grounded!

Exactly this!

The phono cable is already 'carrying' ground from the amp. If then you connect that phono cable to something connected to ground, you are creating a ground loop!

Yep! That should do it!

Only relevant aftermath from Brexit is an extra 20%+ mandatory tax charged on aliexpress...

Clearly the other stuff you trying to connect is creating a ground loop, when you connect to the laptop ground loop is lifted.

I had similar... when listening to radio or play acoustic guitar (all connected to same amp) perfect clean sound, as soon as I connect the turntable I would get massive hum sound - that was a very good indication the turntable was creating a ground loop. Turntable was creating a ground loop cause the amp was grounded and phono connector was 'carrying' that ground to turntable. Turntable used a 3 pin plug and was also grounding the phono stage to the plug internally. Solution just removed the internal ground connection from the turntable plug (to the phono stage) and now it's crystal clear sound.

I see what you mean... I made a quick search and it doesn't seem that easy to find Italian thread bbs specially above 115mm

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Square-Taper-Bottom-Bracket-Bicycle-Bottom-Bracket-Set-68mm-Mountain-Bike-Axis-/174720156507?_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286

Or a bit more reliable Shimano:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Shimano-ES25-ES300-UN26-Bottom-Bracket-BB-Octalink-Square-Taper-Sealed-Cartridge-/393288615765?_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286

Pretty sure you can find even cheaper second hand. Got a really cool carbon BB for 25£ second hand awhile ago

Not sure you are looking at some fancy, specific BB but decent shimano square BB can be found on eBay in many lengths for 10/20£. Another idea, maybe someone could start a thread just to change BBs?Guys adapting road bikes to ss are always looking for short bb.

Just to add... Those spacers someone mention before were designed to adapt a 73 mm BB to a 68mm frame and not to increase/decrease axle length.

If you already have any basic knowledge and you are ok around tools, you can learn anything on youtube, or you can look for bike hubs near you they usually have basic/intermediary bike mechanics classes for free or silly money, just dunno any in the London area and how are things since covid...

Plus this bike hubs usually let you use their tools to make your own repairs and they are usually high quality tools, at least here in the north :D

I'm not sure I get what the problem is... if you have a square bottom bracket, just get a new one! They come in all type of lengths! Some other types of bottom brackets also have different lengths but probably not as many as square!

If you have a 114mm, just get a 120mm! Bum! You got 3mm extra clearance...

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Hi,

Im looking for a nice road frame to convert to a fixie. The condition of the frame (paint) is not important.

I'm looking for something affordable but good quality (reynolds 531 or similar).

Thanks.