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Crypto.com putting the cashback rate back up to 1% for ruby high rollers and 2% if you restake for another 6 months before the end of May...
I did a spreadsheet for anyone else wondering whether to pull out or stay in. Given I spend probably £4-500 a month roughly it looks like I can take a hit of 40% on the stake and still break even. My stake period has just ended so leaning towards pulling it out I think
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WtAUNt-qkhkkcfW_IgqO8_6IzMy7xowpSocM-KLyxj0/edit?usp=sharing (take a copy if you want to mess with it)
Chase have a 1% spending card so no point sticking around if you aren't getting more than that
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Also I'm pretty sure that's Nosferatu not David Bowie so that's another error
Wouldn't have recognised any of the others
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Maybe the Guardian's unpaid media intern is below the age of 60 and therefore doesn't immediately recognise half of Roberta Flack's face
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Is anyone able to recommend a garage in Edinburgh for a service + MOT?
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Just caught up with my emails after a holiday. 0.5% is pretty pathetic.
The 2% always seemed too good to go on forever... guess I'll move onto the 1% Chase card for regular spending, until that is also inevitably cut. Spotify is seemingly the only reason to stay with Crypto.com now
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9s MTB/10s road and earlier work together. Not sure if 9s Sora is the same pull as old 9s stuff, e.g. they fucked around with the modern 10s Tiagra to make it incompatible with old 10s stuff
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That story reminds me of another CEO in the world of cycling with a penchant for fabrication and some kind of obsession with the military 🤔
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"Let the market decide"
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It actually started on the first try just now. There was a fair bit of smoke but went for a 15 minute drive and the smoke cleared up eventually. Now I suspect that it was flooded, as on Thursday evening I was loading the car in the car park and started it twice for a minute each just to roll forward and back into the space so must have happened then.
Seems like it's running absolutely fine now, same power as normal, no misfiring, stops and starts okay. Probably need a new battery and I'll have to investigate the leak and try to figure out why/how it flooded as there was nothing particularly unusual happening the last time I ran it.
Probably will just leave it here in the car park until after my holiday and get the train instead, don't fancy breaking down at the services today!
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Had a check - looks like the belt runs the opposite direction so the fluid is probably not from there. The spray had dried up this morning so I suspect it was most likely water but possibly some other volatile fluid. No noticeable dripping or leaking.
It must have come from somewhere obviously... so I guess I'll need to investigate at a later date
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I posted a couple of weeks ago about my lights dimming when I roll up the windows - suspected battery problem.
Today I go to start the car before a big journey and it doesn't start. Shite. Probably a battery problem I think, so I go and buy one of those lithium jump starters so I can get it going to make it to a garage for a new battery.
I charged the thing up and tried to start the car and it doesn't work. It seemed like it struggled to turn over and it almost started going but not quite. After maybe 10 gos with the jump starter it eventually starts, but it's running pretty shittily and after a minute I notice that there's some really horrible burning-smoky-smelling fumes building up. Jumped out of the car and had a look at the back and there's a bit (not a lot) of smoke coming out the exhaust. Last time it started, I did note that the exhaust was smelling particularly petrol-y, but didn't really think much of it. This time it's a nastier smoky metallic smell.
Had a look under the bonnet and noticed this peculiar spray/leak looking thing on the engine cover.
Guess I'm going to sign up for AA or whoever tomorrow but what am I likely to be in for here?
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Hardman Steve already said Boris should go if he broke the law
He said the Prime Minister “must go” if it is found he broke the law or lied to Parliament, but said “we are all waiting” for senior civil servant Sue Gray to publish her inquiry’s findings.
20 Jan
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Hang on, what's the point of 4 pots anyway? They dissipate more heat or deal with water better or what? They move smoother?
You're just applying the same force over double the area so power's the same shirley (for a given lever)
I have 4 pots and I don't know why
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Thanks for an easy sale!
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DA shifters, one set of Tektros, KMC chain, X7 bits, Rival cranks, Deore cranks all gone. SRAM TT500 shifters (and everything else) still available
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Would this do you? Could use an inline barrel adjuster maybe?
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Is it not just that you're up 8-15% on the money that's been there over a year and down 2% on the money that's been there after a month? See the price chart.
What are you expecting?
(chart is LS80)
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What are the dimensions of the bag?
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3 more things I found:
22: SRAM alu chainring bolts for a double - save a few grams you weenies, £10 posted?
23: Gusset 29.8mm seat clamp - £7 posted. I thought this was a 30mm and had it on my 30mm ST bike, so YMMV.
24: Roll of 20mm tubeless tape - not the easiest to work with - £4 posted or something. This is not official tubeless tape - it's "Kapton Tape Heat Resistant High Temperature Polyimide 100ft" but it does the job, you can google it
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I'll let you know if they don't go. But shocking coincidence - looks like you wanted some parts from an S500 left? I've got a bashed up one here for you!
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Moving flat and I can no longer justify the existence of all these spare parts as sadly I don't really need to build cheap shitbikes any more. My username will simply serve as a reminder that I have betrayed my roots.
I'll post stuff or you can collect it in Edinburgh. Will be on holiday for a week from next weekend though so catch me before then or wait until after.
If things don't sell within 28 days I'll be taking it all to a local bike charity. So I'll accept literally any offer at that point, as long as it's worth my time to pack it up and walk to the Post Office. The more you take the happier I will be.
1: Miche Primato Syntasi hubs - 28h/rim brake/QR, but the rear bearings need replacing. Not even sure if they're 10 or 11 speed - £20 posted2: Dura Ace SL-7402 downtube shifters - £18 posted3: SRAM 10 speed TT500 bar end shifters - these will work with any SRAM road 10/11 speed or MTB 10 speed derailleur (obviously only with a 10 speed cassette though). Beater condition - one is missing the spring bit around the expander plug thing, but the electrical tape works surprisingly well - £19 posted
4: SRAM TT500 aero brake levers - for TT base bar or bullhorns or whatever - £19 posted
5: 3T Zero25 seatpost. You can flip the clamp around to give either 25mm or 0mm of layback - however, I'm 85kg with clothes and the seat clamp slips for me. So needs a lighter rider (or less clothing) - £15 posted
6: SRAM X7 shifter and derailleur. 10 speed, decent length cage but no clutch. Good for a 1×10 flat bar town bike or something - £26 posted7: Tektro brake levers - I think one pair of RL-340,
another pair of something else- £12 posted each pair8: Nice Rival cranks, 170mm, with a (I think) 40t NW ring - £37.50 posted9: Deore cranks, 175mm with a 30t NW ring. I sanded the ano off these by hand but it took bloody ages so I got lazy and didn't do the back side of the drive side crank. No one will see if you take all your bike pics from the DS as you should. - £33 posted10: Post mount Hayes CX5 cable disk brakes - single sided like a BB5. Better than you think they're going to be - £20 posted
11: Great condition SRAM Rival Yaw FD, braze on fitting - someone lost its washer for the bolt though. Looks like PlanetX have one for £1 - £16 posted
12: Beater condition 35.0mm band on Rival FD - £8 posted or something
13: BNIB 10 speed KMC chain - £10 posted or something?
Free with other stuff
14: 31.8mm band on Sora FD
15: 31.8mm band on Battaglin FD clamp, 34.9mm band on SRAM FD clamp
16: Cansucc interrupter/CX levers - yes, that's the brand name
17: Big bag o' black headset spacers. Couple of carbon ones but you aren't going to find a many matching ones
18: Big pile of rotors. I bought these off @Howard and then never used them. 2 × 180mm, 7 × 160mm, 3 × 140mm, all 6 bolt. Take some or all of them
19: Some old school pedals, missing the straps
20: Assorted SRAM brake levers - 10 speed era - 2 × Rival right with carbon lever blades + hoods, 1 × S500 alu left with no hood. No shifter internals. Only have 1 clamp for the bars so you either need to source one of those yourself or use for parts. Also a hood for left hand SRAM 11 speed non-hydro.21: A star nut and top cap thing that allows you to run your front brake down the steerer, so you can do barspins - who was I kidding with this?
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I don't think most people give a shit what happens to them either way
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I think that's probably the geometrical limit. 10mm for the guard and some clearance, >10mm for the bolt and crown, and a bead seat of 311mm leaves you 36mm to get the tyre in on a 367mm fork. Guess you could shave a couple of mm off if you bolt it in from underneath with some kind of countersunk bolt.
@PhilDAS I though 380mm was road A2C! Seems like all the endurance bikes have gone to 397mm nowadays
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Yeah.
Looks like you have to restake to retain the 2% and given my stake is already down a few percent I'm not really enthused about putting more money in after this debacle. Think I'll pull out after Spotify bills me this month