Jay75

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• Mechanics and Fixing Any Questions Answered

  in Mechanics & Fixin' • 4 days, 1 hour

  

  Thanks for the help guys, still seems a bit dodgy I think I might try and make a 1 1/8” adapter from an old quill stem, then shim the ahead stem

• Mechanics and Fixing Any Questions Answered

  in Mechanics & Fixin' • 4 days, 2 hours

  

  Thanks lad but I’m over in Germany. So I shim the 1 1/8” steerer tube to 1”? Sounds a tad dodgy

• Mechanics and Fixing Any Questions Answered

  in Mechanics & Fixin' • 4 days, 2 hours

  

  Does anyone make a 1 1/8” threaded to 1 1/8th threadless adapter? Found loads of 1” to 1 1/8”. Thanks in advance for any help

• Overheard at the LFGSS golf club bar

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 week, 5 days

  

  And finally back to the ‘back to the overheard at the golf club bar’….
  I’m not allowed to use the classic mk1 rangey at work anymore 😢

• Overheard at the LFGSS golf club bar

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 week, 5 days

  

  Don’t let it get you down Nef, the last few years I’ve been working for a firm that lists me as a ‘hand worker’ (living in Germany). In Berlin you get that ‘looked down upon attitude’ but outside of the city they love it! Had to get a visa because of Brexit and was shocked how impressed they were that I was a manual labour worker. Most of the clients I deal with are folk that have bought apartments ranging from 1m to 4m€ and the crap and attitudes I have to deal with is sometimes ridiculous (often a tad rude). I always wear an old hi viz jacket, dirty overalls etc so they take me seriously 😂. It’s that whole judging a book by its cover type thing until they notice I’m wearing a Rolex Batgirl and drive a Rangey Autobiography as the company car.

• SSMTBs

  in Bikes & Bits • 3 weeks

  

  @hippy damn I woke up thinking about this frame again!!!

• Winter bike / Snow bike thread

  in Bikes & Bits • 3 weeks, 1 day

  

  I used the schwalbe ice spikers for snowy forest riding and was really impressed, was worried at first if I hit any tarmac but after a few rides it seemed to bed in the spikes and made them less sketchy. They were a lot more durable than I expected. I’d definitely recommend spikes, in the 90’s I used conti 1.5 cross country which cut through the snow pretty well but were a tad sketchy on ice.

• SSMTBs

  in Bikes & Bits • 3 weeks, 2 days

  

  If you ever wanna let it go keep me in mind lad!

• SSMTBs

  in Bikes & Bits • 3 weeks, 3 days

  

  I used to have one in an awful colour, I thought it was in 2002 because the next year 2003 they came out with a full suspension SS called the A (remember thinking I shoulda waited).

• What time is it? Watches and horology

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 2 months

  

  Friday ol’faithful