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I bought some Stronglight cranks from @MVDoom and they are perfect, arrived quickly, great communications, so it was very nice to deal with him and I recommend him as a Good Trader :)

Dibs cranks, PM incoming

There's something very pleasing about this photo

Ta very much both!

I know the Oxford section of LFGSS is pretty quiet but since I am regularly cycling around Oxford, occasionally delivering things on various cargo bikes, I thought "Let's have an irregular gallery of interesting/unusual loads on bikes." Feel free to add, one and all :)

To kick things off, a bunch of very large cardboard boxes that used to contain extremely expensive scientific equipment, being carried off on an 8-Freight.

Your call fella, you do you... @|³|MA3K did just say "tempting" though . I'm always up for helping people do gigantic bike rides :)

Tis sadly entirely true what you say. But in the time it'd take to ride to where he could get a boat, things might have changed, and he'd definitely have had a better adventure than waiting in London.

Hi everyone,

A friend of mine is dating a guy who is both very tall and very heavy. She is a keen rider and likes touring, she wants to help him sort out his bike (an old steel tourer) so he can come on longer rides. I'm helping her with this; she's not on this forum.

The main thing seems to be that the chap's size has meant that he has experienced more than one wheel failure in the past.

I started thinking about building a wheelset using 40-spoke or even 48-spoke hubs/rims, but these seem rare/expensive/only-for-pre-1960s-track-bikes-or-BMX.

Then I started thinking that 36 spokes is fine as long as it's all very tough. Thinking something like Mavic A719 rims, DT Swiss Alpine 3 spokes, and something like Deore hubs.

I don't know much about tandem wheels, but presumably the rears in particular need to be very tough (two people's weight + two people's luggage)?

I thought I'd ask on here, in case anyone has relevant experience/advice/knows pitfalls to avoid/etc. I'd be grateful for any advice. Cheers!

If you really want to ride it I'll give you my nice mid-90's 531 Dawes Galaxy and a set of 40L Ortlieb waterproof panniers to do it with :)

Not in London, but this 531 Terry Dolan at 51 cm looks quite delicious, has Dura Ace components, and the seller says they'll help with delivery...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/184432798420

Excellent trader I just bought a Deore XT shifter from, very helpful and posted very quickly, great communications, I highly recommend @Gregory as a trader.

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Brilliant, thank you very much.

I'm building this 90's rave-tracksuit-colourscheme MTB and got some Deore XT kit in my local bike kitchen (brakes, levers, cranks).

Currently it's singlespeed on an 8-speed cassette using a Microshift mech as tensioner, I'm after an 8 or 9 speed Deore XT rear mech (ideally long cage) and shifter. If you have that and can post it please let me know your price, thank you :)

AARN Chainrings are donating $2,000 to The Black Artists and Designers Guild and The National Society of Black Engineers tomorrow and anything received from people via their donation page before tomorrow will be added to the donation: https://shop.44rn.com/product/10-donation-to-nsbe-and-badguild-split

Starting off, I don't work for AARN (a glance at my skuzzy Stronglight T2000 will tell you that), but I wanted to publicise this:

Tomorrow (Friday 14th August 2020) the guy who runs AARN will be donating $2,000 + anything that people have donated additionally via his site, split equally to two organisations: The National Society of Black Engineers, and The Black Artists and Designers Guild.

You can buy a/many $10 donations here: https://shop.44rn.com/product/10-donation-to-nsbe-and-badguild-split

(in addition to however many nice chainrings you are ordering...)

The following is a repost from that page:

I am Aaron Panone, Sole-Proprietor of AARN/AARN DIVERSIFIED ACTIVITY. This is my brand. These are my products. They are not for racists or bigots, and I will happily buy back products from people who are not aligned with me and my brand on that point. I support the Black Lives Matter movement, Black people, my BIPOC friends, family, colleagues, and community members. I also support and stand behind the LGBTQ+ community, women, and all individuals within and outside of the gender spectrum. I believe victims. I condemn the brutality against Black people that has been exhibited by police and other racist individuals and groups here and around the world. I have been donating, sharing information that I feel is relevant and important, and educating myself during the last couple of months, but I can and will do better to support the Black community inside and outside of cycling, eyewear, engineering, and design.

Today I am using the platform (because, let’s be honest, people only look at my feed when I have something to sell) that I have been afforded through opportunities directly connected to my privilege as a white cisgender male to announce that I am making a $2000 donation, split between two non-profit organizations. I have noted an under-representation of black engineers and designers at the schools I have attended, companies I have worked for, and industries in which I participate.

The National Society of Black Engineers’ mission is "to increase the number of culturally responsible Black Engineers who excel academically, succeed professionally and positively impact the community." Donations to NSBE will be focused on their scholarships fund which stimulate scholastic achievement and enthusiasm in the Black engineering community. @nsbe for more info.

The Black Artists and Designers Guild was created to build a more equitable and inclusive industry for independent Black artists, makers, and designers in creative industries. Donations to BADG will be focused on their education fund which provides scholarships, grants, and residencies for artists and designers at different stages in their careers and to support special pedagogical projects. @badguild for more info.

This donation will be made on Friday 8/14, regardless of sales, independent from any metrics, and if you would like to add to the donation that I am making (no purchase necessary) you can Venmo me at @44rn before Friday and/or use the $10 donation product in my online store and I’ll split your donation between the two groups. Naturally, 100% of the $10 product item will be donated, no service fees will be deducted on my end, bank charges may apply depending on the method of payment that you choose to use.

Thanks for this helpful first post & thread.

If I may make a suggestion for an addition to the OP, in the section about theft of components, it might be worth mentioning an old trick I was taught by one of the people who used to run the Reading Bike Kitchen.

Once you have your stem/bars/post/saddle/etc set up how you want it to be, get a ball bearing the right size to fit in the hex socket of the bolt that secures it, put some Araldite in the socket and push the ball in. Once the epoxy hardens it will be very very hard to release the bearing and it will not be possible for a thief with a hex key to undo the bolt.

For a slightly less "permanent" version, grease or wax can be used instead of Araldite/superglue.

I can confirm from my own experience that this is a very difficult (as in fiddly, time-consuming, non-standard-tool-requiring) thing to undo, and in my limited experience I have not suffered from opportunistic component theft from any of the bikes I've used the trick on.

From what you wrote above it seems that the reason they think they ought to be charging you is not clear. If I were in your position I would first ask them, in an email, for full details of what they think you have done leading them to charge you. Details should include whatever they allege you have done/not done, and dates (and, if available, times-of-day) that these actions/inactions on your part are supposed to have occurred.

Their current T&Cs are available online here: https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/terms-and-conditions/santander-cycles Scroll to the bottom for a bunch of PDFs including what might be most relevant here, the "Non-return and damage policy". Given as the event(s) are supposed to have happened five years ago, the T&Cs may have been different then, so you might also want to ask them to supply a copy of the T&Cs that applied then, and indeed when you signed up with them.

Personally, I would stick to email for this kind of thing as much as humanly possible, to keep a record and if necessary, evidence. After any non-avoidable phone conversation, you can just email them, stating the date and time of the conversation, name of the person you spoke with, and the details of what was said. It's extra work, but sometimes it is well worth the effort in cases of insurance claims, contract disputes, etc etc.

In the UK you can legally record phone calls under certain circumstances. In the same way that companies usually tell you "this call is being recorded and monitored for training and quality purposes", it's also a good idea to tell the people on the other end that you are recording it, and in some cases this is legally required (online search for details). If you wish to do so you can find how-to advice online, e.g., https://www.techradar.com/uk/how-to/how-to-record-a-phone-call-on-your-iphone-or-android-device

Future-proofing my arsenal in case any of the following happen:

1. Do laundry while cycling around with elaborate chain/pulley/trailer Heath Robinson
   
2. Two-sided drivetrain for shiz-n-gigguls
   
3. Left-side drivetrain for same reason
   
4. Coffee-grinder/smoothie-maker/salad-spinner/whatever mounted on pannier rack to complete rotary task while cycling around
   
5. Someone is offering gold bullion for emergency tandem repair
   
6. 2 Chainz tribute chopper bike special build
   

Hopefully not just me clicked on this all excited about "someone built a bike out of cardboard??" :)

SO fit

I'd like to buy a left-side crank with spider for a laundry-machine-bike project I'm doing. Condition is not important as long as it's usable, likewise length and BCD are not important either. Anyone?

It certainly makes me feel uncomfortable, it's only been used against me in the most hateful ways.

Yeah, this was my first thought. As a white man I have not had this slur thrown at me, obviously, but I have had homophobic abuse (both with and without physical violence accompanying) and I would emphatically not like to be watching a news report of a homophobic assault, sitting in my home eating dinner, and be transported back to those moments by hearing slur words used where really there is no actual need to use them to report on the event. It's a lack of respect for people's experiences, and their health even, it's very stressful to relive moments where you've been assaulted.

It's a massive privilege for someone (a) to not have any part of their selfhood for which they are denigrated, dehumanised, attacked, and abused by people with structural power on their side, and (b) to not be constantly reminded in unexpected and shitty ways of this. IMO it's not acceptable for journalist professionals to pretend not to understand this in 2020.

I'd be interested to know how many Caucasian people would feel comfortable quoting the word in face to face conversation with people?

I would not, but I cannot claim to represent anyone but myself of course. For me it is completely unacceptable for a white person to say that word under any circumstance, it is a word of hatred, historically loaded, and there is no conceivable need to use it.

IMO the reporter/editors should have been capable of making that call by themselves. If the family wanted it in there to stress the gravity and shocking nature of the assault, the reporter/producer/editor etc should have all understood that the use of that word can only be done by Black people and let the person and/or their family speak for themselves, instead of saying it from a position of racial privilege.

One thing that stands out in this for me is that it says in the reports that the family of the person who was abused (I'm deliberately not reducing them to the one-dimensional status of "victim") were consulted about this and agreed to it. I don't know if that is true or not, but their voices have been absent from the discussion since. I would like the person/their family to have a representation in this debate/discussion as apparently they made a decision, and their reasons why they did that are highly relevant, IMO.

Anyone selling a 26.2 mm diameter seatpost? Double-bolt micro-adjust type of saddle clamp preferred.