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• Tax Returns

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 day, 14 hours

  

  I can't remember

  Possibly because there isn't a single answer. Some part of some union subscriptions can be claimed as a deduction from income from employment. Start here and follow the links. It's usually handled via your employer, you tell them about your union membership and they adjust your PAYE code accordingly if permitted.

• Lance Armstrong... greatest doper there was or ever will be

  in Rides & Races • 2 days, 18 hours

  

  Agreed, they kind of deserve one another. Anybody who knows anything about Armstrong would know that's exactly how he would behave in a lap dance club without needing her to lower herself to his level.

• Electronic & Hydraulic Shifting (Di2, Ui2, customisations)

  in Bikes & Bits • 3 days, 17 hours

  

  Is there one component in that mix that's likely impacting this option?

  Yes, cunto-capitalism.

• Bike porn

  in Bikes & Bits • 3 days, 20 hours

  

  on page 4141

  Or page 4106 if you have about three trolls on ignore

• Bike porn

  in Bikes & Bits • 3 days, 20 hours

  

  "Look-at-me" hubs and headset make it anti. Change them to silver and it's still more meh than porn at any price.

• Wheelbuilding / Wheel Building / Wheel build help

  in Mechanics & Fixin' • 3 days, 20 hours

  

  I don’t know how others using the other method can avoid having spokes which are too long

  By allowing for strain at some other point in the calculation. ERD is, for my money, properly defined as the diameter to the spoke ends at full tension. Where you want the spoke ends to be depends on the nipple geometry, and where they end up depends on the strain, so somewhere along the line you need to account for those things, whether by rule of thumb or rigorous calculation.

• For Sale: Slam that stem - low stack headset cover

  in Components and clothing • 4 days, 8 hours

  

  it has lasted seven years

  It's all that extra carbon 🙂

  I should probably add another tenth to the bore to allow for Chinesium tolerancing, the spacers and top caps are already 28.8 but the covers are 28.7 (1⅛"=28.575)

• For Sale: Slam that stem - low stack headset cover

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• For Sale: Slam that stem - low stack headset cover

  in Components and clothing • 4 days, 8 hours

  

  nearly lost a finger when I was pulling it off

  It shouldn't be tight unless your steerer is oversized 😁

• Tax Returns

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 4 days, 10 hours

  

  I’ve still not been able to get hold of someone

  Yeah, last week of January is not the time to be calling HMRC, and they've been even more shit than usual since most of them are WFH. Just pay what they're asking for and sort it out later. If you don't have the cash and it's a relatively small sum, you can arrange payment by instalments over a period without having to get actual human intervention.