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I’ve asked my LBS for a
I’ve asked my LBS for a repair and supplied my own parts and they were more than happy to help. In my case I was intending to do the work myself but hit a problem, so I already had the spare part. However if a bike shop can’t compete with internet prices then they are at least making money with the labour side of it and are building a relationship with the customer.
Is The Expanse any good? Reading the books at the moment.Altered Carbon was worth watching and of course Stranger Things is great fun. One of my favourite lesser known shows is the very funny Santa Clarita Diet (not really sci-fi though). Also, don’t forget that Rick & Morty available too.
Currently working through the first season of The Expanse that I’ve heard a lot of superlatives about.
I haven’t read the books but the show is getting better (only seen 6 episodes so far) as I’ve heard the first few aren’t that great. One friend who’s seen it really recommends it and I’ve seen more than one mention on ArsTechnica about it being the best sci-fi show: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/07/expanse-fans-no-need-to-worry-amazon-orders-season-5-of-its-new-sci-fi-show/
Incidentally, the same friend that recommends The Expanse is also a fan of Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (haven’t watched it myself).
The Expanse is on Amazon Prime isn’t it? Not Netflix? I read the first two or three books: I liked the first one, but it all seemed to get a bit Out There (TM). My favourite recent sci-fi novels have been Mike Brooks’s “Keiko” series and Becky Chambers “The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet”.
(I got nagged into Netflix because my kids were desperate to watch Stranger Things because their friends all watched it and they were missing the references).
Has anyone watched The Umbrella Academy? Any good?
The first two seasons look to be on Netflix (tbh I just pirate them so I don’t always register which platform it’s on). https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/80029822
I’ve heard good things about The Umbrella Academy and also Russian Doll, but haven’t got around to watching them yet.
Rich_cb wrote:
Is The Expanse any good? Reading the books at the moment.Altered Carbon was worth watching and of course Stranger Things is great fun. One of my favourite lesser known shows is the very funny Santa Clarita Diet (not really sci-fi though). Also, don’t forget that Rick & Morty available too.
Currently working through the first season of The Expanse that I’ve heard a lot of superlatives about.
I haven’t read the books but the show is getting better (only seen 6 episodes so far) as I’ve heard the first few aren’t that great. One friend who’s seen it really recommends it and I’ve seen more than one mention on ArsTechnica about it being the best sci-fi show: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/07/expanse-fans-no-need-to-worry-amazon-orders-season-5-of-its-new-sci-fi-show/
Incidentally, the same friend that recommends The Expanse is also a fan of Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (haven’t watched it myself).
Thanks for the replies, much appreciate it. I’m 60kg so it may not flex at all for me… it is going into an aluminium frame so tightening shouldn’t be an issue.hawkinspeter – yes I’d love to take you up in that offer. How can we chat privately re payment and address etc?
Thanks again.
Send me your email address to ndsipa _dot_ pomu _at_ googlemail _dot_ com and probably the easiest way is for you to email a pre-paid postage label to your address. I’ll package it up tomorrow (it’s currently at work) and let you know the weight and dimensions.
Rick_Rude wrote:
Don’t worry, you’ll get bored stupid by it after 3 months max. If you’re into sci fi you’ll also find that Netflix are all about quantity over quality. It’s just well made rubbish rather than badly made.Altered Carbon was worth watching and of course Stranger Things is great fun. One of my favourite lesser known shows is the very funny Santa Clarita Diet (not really sci-fi though). Also, don’t forget that Rick & Morty available too.
Currently working through the first season of The Expanse that I’ve heard a lot of superlatives about.
I aree with @cant do wheelies
I aree with @cant do wheelies – I fitted it and the saddle position kept slipping and as I’ve got a carbon frame I didn’t want to muck around with over-tightening it. After a couple of weeks, I swapped over to a standard style (chinese) carbon seatpost.
@benc – I can send you my one if you’re willing to cover the postage and understand that I don’t take any responsibility for if it shatters etc.
SamShaw wrote:
TBH, it was the kind of thing I was thinking of – but… 35 quid?!
Now that is a beautiful piece of kit. I am conflicted with hoping not to have to use it with wanting to use it.If you’re in the mood to “waste” lots of money, then I can recommend the Dynaplug Racer tubeless kit – works really well and is in a conveniently small package: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07MH9K4NRI also have a topeak mini morph g which is a little too big for a jersey, but you could attached it to the frame. It does inflate well.
I’ve only had to use the Dynaplug Racer kit once and it worked very pleasantly. Unscrew it, ram it into the tyre (preferably where the existing hole is) and pull it out with the anchovy staying in place. A quick blast of CO₂ and I was cycling again with the whole job taking less than two minutes.
It might seem a bit of a rip-off when you can get an Innovations kit for a fiver: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Genuine-Innovations-Unisexs-Tubeless-Multi-Coloured/dp/B00B139BA0
Now that is a beautiful piece of kit. I am conflicted with hoping not to have to use it with wanting to use it.If you’re in the mood to “waste” lots of money, then I can recommend the Dynaplug Racer tubeless kit – works really well and is in a conveniently small package: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07MH9K4NRI also have a topeak mini morph g which is a little too big for a jersey, but you could attached it to the frame. It does inflate well.
I’ve only had to use the Dynaplug Racer kit once and it worked very pleasantly. Unscrew it, ram it into the tyre (preferably where the existing hole is) and pull it out with the anchovy staying in place. A quick blast of CO₂ and I was cycling again with the whole job taking less than two minutes.
I’ve heard about issues with
I’ve heard about issues with CO₂ causing the sealant to polymerise (i.e. set into little rubber balls) and from what I can tell it looks like it’s a problem with the cold temperature of the CO₂ as it expands. To minimise the issue, put the valve at the top of the wheel so that the sealant pools at the bottom and hopefully the CO₂ isn’t as cold when it reaches the sealant.
I’ve had issues with CO₂ when I’ve had a large cut and the sealant takes a while to seal or doesn’t fully seal, so I always like to have a mini pump as a backup.
I’ve got the iPump Twist which is stupidly expensive and light: https://ipump.jp/#iPumpTwistClass
What I like about it is that you have a tube connecting the pump body to the valve, so you’re less likely to break the valve whilst pumping (I wish more mini-pumps had that kind of thing) and I was intrigued by the over-the-top carbon-fibreness of it.
If you’re in the mood to “waste” lots of money, then I can recommend the Dynaplug Racer tubeless kit – works really well and is in a conveniently small package: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07MH9K4NR
You can get other tubeless kits for less money and as far as I know they all work in more or less the same way.
Personally, I carry a spare inner tube as well for those times when your tyre gets a bigger (>5mm) cut in it and won’t seal. However, that does mean that you end up carrying the same amount of stuff.
It shouldn’t wobble at all.
It shouldn’t wobble at all.
My guess would be either the cassette lockring isn’t tight enough (usually around 40Nm torque) or that there’s a missing spacer so the lockring isn’t quite clamping the cassette in place.
Why are you guys quoting your body weight when talking about chains? It is the power you generate which is important, not your lardyness. I bet that little Columbian chap who won the tour weighs about the same as one of my bingo wings and chews up chains a whole lot faster than I do. He probably generates the same power output from his left eyelid as I do from both of my legs combined so forget your weight, BMI is not an indicator of power and so chain wear rate.It is also a stupid idea that 3 chains being rotated will reduce wear rate of your transmission, it wont. Assuming you change your chain every 1000 miles, by the time you put your third chain back on for it’s second outing your cassette will have done 5000 miles so you are trying to match one component with 1000 miles on it with another with 5000 on it. It’s a bit silly to expect that combination to run smoothly isn’t it.
In answer to the OP, I wouldn’t go for an expensive chain, buy a KMC or SRAM for a couple of pounds, ride it for a winter, bin it and put a new one on for the summer. Next year change our cassette and chain at the same time.
I thought this was some kind of weight-watchers thread.
I probably average around two
I probably average around two chains a year and I usually get more pricey KMC chains (over 30 squid) though they are 11 speed ones. I’m around 90kg (should weigh myself as I’m probably heavier at the moment) and use fancy dry lubrication which keeps the chain pretty clean. I’m with ktache in aiming to change chains early to prevent too much wear on the cassette.
I doubt you’ll notice much difference in wear with a more expensive chain so go with the cheaper chains unless you really love your bike.
I’m intrigued by Xena’s use of yban self-lubricating chains – I’ll probably give one a go the next time I’m due for a new chain.
Expanding on the theme, I’d say it also divides by class. there’s a difference between the potty-mouthed and angry but obviously stressed-out-by-circumstances counci-estate-dwelling mum (who constantly disproves the claim of middle-class-American feminists that ‘women don’t use the c-word’), and the hyper-bourgie weilder of what I have come to think of as ‘Dulwich chariots’ (when did push chairs start being built like Panzers?)And both are just one of many groups of less-than-perfectly-behaved throughfare-users.
See also the joggers who seem to think if there were to ever break step or deviate one inch to left or right they’d have to go back to the beginning and start their run all over again. And the scroffulous youth who cycle at speed along pavements. Or their more dangerous older brethen who ride mopeds on footpaths. Both of whom will stop and aggressively ask what you are looking at if you dare to so much as scowl at their anti-social behaviour. Being terribly brave for people who are scared of the roads.
Oh, and the mobility-scooter riders who seem to be practicing for a career as Formula One race car drivers.
Not to mention the mobile-phone zombie pedestrians (I’ve doubtless been a member of that tribe myself on many occasions), and of course the little kiddies on scooters who follow the rule book issued to young children everywhere that starts with ‘under no circumstances should you ever look where you are going’.
Main point is that none of these tribees (except maybe the moped riders) are worthy of a response any stronger than an eye-roll. As long as they aren’t in a car they are just part of life’s rich pagaent.
Dulwich Chariots are not in the same KSI league as Chelsea Tractors.
You’ve left out the worst ones – nut shufflers
A lot of very depressing comments on this post. Hadn’t realised that so many of you were closet Daily Mail readers just looking for a chance to feel oppressed by the nasty feminists out there.It stems from a profound insecurity – no halfway successful, confident man is ever going to be threatened by female equality; if you read the posts of those who are then the desire for attention and recognition online that they so obviously lack in real life is palpable. It’s sad really.
Look, can you stop making this about the gender of the buggy pushers and instead focus on the real problems?
hawkinspeter – why on earth is this a stock photo? Who commissioned it? I have two theories. Either (a) you own alamy and can bend it to your squirrelly will; or (b) your squirrel photo searches are driving trends in stock photo companies. “Right team, we’re seeing unprecedented demand for pictures of squirrels right now. Squirrels in berets, squirrels in the maillot jaune, squirrels who look like Alaphilippe or Pinot. Just bring me squirrels! You, the one who normally does tedious shots of office stationery and co-workers deep in discussion – you’re reassigned to squirrels!”The only reasonable explanation is that there’s a community of wealthy squirrels that wish to provide employment for their attractive partners.