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4 months ago.

Haha, mate, if you think I’m the one being touchy and sensitive then you need to self-reflect more. Everyone who’s posted is doing you a favour, act a bit grateful at least.

I remember your handle. I and a couple others here helped you patiently several months ago with another bike issue. I figured you were having a tough time last time, but I’m less inclined to put up with you now.

Learn to use Google.

I’m not sure if you realise that writing with all caps comes across as aggressive.

I understand your point, my point is that £7-19 is low range, £20-35 is mid range, £36-50 is high range, and above that it’s expensive and/or specialty tyres. Finding a tyre that is middle of the range in quality for bottom range price is not the norm.

In any case, if I’m understanding correctly, the shop charged you £45 for a Schwalbe Black Jack? That’s madness.

Any boxes in se24? Herne Hill, Camberwell, Loughborough Junction, Brockwell park?

know whenabouts the poor marking down shop assistant will appear

Nearest Tesco Local guards that info like they’re defending against foreign spies: unpredictable timing, marking down a handful of items for the afternoon rush and adding more in the evening, changing up who does the markdowns…

If you’ve cracked the code, keep it close to your chest.

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Editing out because I’ve been sharing too much personal stuff online.

Notice one end of the circlip is cut so you can fit a tool under it. You’ll need a pick, the park tool ones work fine, and if not a thin screwdriver or knife will work.

Dit the tool under the end of the circlip, lift the edge, and when you’ve lifted it 3-5mm (poss. More) pull it towards you. That should lift part of the circlip out of the slot. If you got enough of the circlip out of the slot, you can fit the pick under the edge and continue lifting it out. What you don’t want to do is use two tools, one to lift the end and another to run along the edge lifting the rest of it.

Hopefully that makes sense. It’s not a difficult task once you get the knack of it. I have no idea how you’d remove the circlip pictured in that stock photo.

If those cutting tools are in good shape then that’s a heck of a find for a job lot sale.

In good or better condition please. Just need the cross shaped part, really.

If I can share a true story from my childhood: Dad and I are driving home along a US highway, and a black camaro comes screaming up behind him, flashing his high-beams. My dad changes lanes not even turning to look as the dbag overtakes, and he says to me ‘In life you’ll come across idiots like that, and it’s always best to let them go crash somewhere else’. 15 minutes later, we pass the camaro is on the hard shoulder literally flipped upside down, with other cars stopped to help the driver.

Best thing to do with this idiot is to get him out of your life, IMO.

Just because he’s a pro ebayer doesn’t mean he’s not also a fraudster.

I’d tell him to fuck off and ask eBay to remove the unfounded comment. The bright side is that you’re not down a watch or your money from this asshole pulling a fast one.

In general, you’re not normally going to get a mid range tyre for an adult bike for £15. £45 would get you a good tyre, although it’s on the high side of what you should expect to pay.

I can understand you’d be upset, but there is the possibility that the shop that charges you £45 actually sold you what they thought was best for whatever circumstances you described.

Did you get a receipt? If not, you can post a pic of the entire tyre from both sides here, we might be able to ID it.

Check the side wall of your tyre and post here what you see. The brand, model and size all can point us to what sort of price you would expect to pay.

Whereabouts in central? I was made redundant this week so am trying to force myself to ride, can bring your stuff as far as vauxhall

Can I dibs the leg and arm warmers? Want to see what else you’ve got.

I realise we've not seen any actual laps from Saudi Arabia, but a narrow, high-speed track lined with barriers is likely just going to be a longer Monaco.

Yeah it’s a strange looking track for modern F1 cars. No doubt they had the best brains money can buy designing it, so we’ll see.

Wait, belay the above. My gf just pointed out it’s a street race and they’ll probably build a track in the future.

And it’s more like likely that a megacorp will buy a fleet of electric vehicles and keep them in good repair, than it is for all those families to do the same.

Nice one. Hope you post a pic of the finished bike!

A couple ideas you can try:

1) Heat. Ideally a heat gun (shield the paint) but a hairdryer or boiling water will do. Then apply torque or…

2) Percussion. Lightly tap the nut with a hammer (or a rubber mallet so you don’t mar it and can send it back) around the sides. The idea is to break the bonds a bit, so you can then wrench it off. It’s worked once for me, no idea if it was a fluke.

3) Tighten bottom nut/cup. Depending on the headset design, you might be able to budge the lower cup (of the top half of the headset). Tightening it into the headtube might give some release on the top nut.

4) Your breaker bar idea could work, just be careful of bending the forks. If you have a strong mate, they could brace the legs with their hands while you torque the nut.

You could try dremeling it off, but there’s no telling what condition the threads will be in. They might be rusted or they might be mauled.

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Mexico

Thank you for your service.

Got it 👍