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OK mobidog, I've just sent you a PM.
Suppose it'd be more useful if my location didn't come up as 'fuck', but there you go...

I'm after an 8-speed cassette hub, 36h, preferably Chorus or Record, and in presentable condition - if you've got one to sell, sell it to me please!
Must be 36h as I've got 36h rims and can't go about buying new ones.
Not really after a pair, but if that makes it a possibility, then I'll buy the pair.

Bogroll is for arseholes

Kill all the cunts

You can get through the tunnel, but not by bike. From the CTC website:

**Mont Blanc Tunnel **(recently reopened (March 2002) to cars only – lorries still banned) Local bus Chamonix - Courmayeur - Aoste will take cyclists and bikes through the tunnel (bikes travel for half adult fare).
Bus runs between Chamonix railway station and Aoste twice a day (except Sundays and fete days).
Further details from tourist offices. Otherwise, perhaps an obliging motorist will transport you and bicycle through.

I dunno about the Italy-France crossing but your route out of Geneva (to Les Rousses) is a good one, although it's been at least 15 years since I did that. Les Rousses had a lovely youth hostel then.
On the bit directly east of Paris there's loads of hemp fields which are good novelty value.

Although different studies appear to arrive at different conclusions, and although gormless fuckwits keep coming on here and telling other people what they should and should not do, the whole 'helmet debate' is a load of absolute bollocks.
All it achieves is further animosity towards cyclists, a minority road using groups who are relatively harmless, whilst completely ignoring the multitude of deaths caused by dangerous motor vehicle driving, especially because motor-vehicle drivers do not wear helmets.
Ignoring head injuries to cyclists may be folly, but the 'helmet debate' is simply another proxy method of diverting attention away from the main issue which ought to be discussed, which is the huge burden to society both in health and financial terms, of careless and dangerous motor-vehicle drivers.

Damn right he knows what he's doing. I think what shocks me is the knowledge that there's a very good chance someone will actually pay that for them.

I love that my new road frame has geometry identical to that of my track frame - i.e. a high BB and short wheelbase.
They are by the same manufacturer so it's not entirely surprising, but it's great, cos my track frame is perfect for me.
I'm not so in love with the vomit-inducing paint job, but can't have everything.

Should only take 10 minutes right?

I suppose someone with the know-how could make a database around quantitative not qualitative info - basically a chainline calculator.
You put in your BB dimensions, chainset type, gauge, hub type, rear spacing and cog type, and then you get either a big green tick or a big red cross as the output.
Or if you need to choose a component, you'd put in what you have got, and the database would tell you what choices you can make from there.

Fucked if I'd know how to do that.

errr... £450 BIN? Do they make you tea in the morning or something?

8mm for Campag and Shimano. A standard issue HSS twist drill bit will do.

....when you ask a company for a quote, politely giving them as much information as possible, and taking time to make sure that you've covered any points they have highlighted in their quotation requirements.
Then the stupid fuckwits quote you for none of the things you asked for, ignoring most of your details, just quoting you for something they're assuming you want, 'cos they think they know better.
If they can't even get that bit right, why would I think they're going to do the job properly? Fucking timewasters.

Spasming?

When I get a cat I'm going to call it Spasming

That means it has a Cinelli BB shell. You can almost make out the maker's mark on the rear brake bridge, but if the guy says it's a Cougar I'd see no obvious reason to think he's bullshitting.

i totally agree with horatio, after having loads of bb length strife.
IMO bb length is absolutley crucial, loads of people just put "shimano bb" etc. when shimano bb axle lengths range from 107 to 122.5! the same can be applied to campagnolo, phil wood or stronglight etc.

basically i think that bb length is the object of the the transmission database :-) and its a real shame its not included more often..

That's what I meant

Death is likely with a fall of just 18 inches onto your head. If you don't wear a lid, you do not deserve first aid or national health to pick up the pieces.

That's one of the dumbest things I've ever read

Oh shit, where's it going to stop?
I have visions of nosy fuckwits no longer yelling 'you should be wearing a helmet you know', but instead 'you should be wearing full body armour you know!!'

I wish people would include BB spindle length more often. Would have helped me out a bit today.

That is a bit daft really - kind of defeats the object of having a transmission database in the first place

That's a damned good idea - I saw your post in the thread and it immediately reminded me that I had to update my entry, so spent a while doing that and forgot to comment.
Good work!

How about the descents? The climbs are of course what it's all about, but what's a climb without a beautiful, fast, exhilarating descent?
Either way, good work!

Fuck Fallingwater.

Ha! I know it's probably from the GCSE book of architecture, but I'd love to live there. I think it'd need rebuilding properly though.

piece of piss to get there, you just have to cycle via redhill and horley, or catch the train to gatwick or crawley.

I quite like that one