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Spok and disc are going back on my bike for Monday and I don’t care if I fall on my arse as I crash through the security barrier at work whip skidding my rear tub down to the belts.

HEDs just used a standard screw-on freewheel cassette. There’s no separate freehub body. I thought you could only get them up to 8-speed, but it looks like Sunrace do a 9-speed! I think you’d just have to check the bottom gear clears your stays, because it’s a bit wider than the 7-speed the HED was designed for.

Cane Creek Crosstop levers for oversize bars. Very little use And live in my box unused £17.50 delivered. Reduced to £15 26/03/19 SOLD

Stem is sold

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MKS Sylvan quills: used, good bearings, small amount of curb rash, come with chrome Ale clips in ok condition and well used red straps. £Back in use, not currently for sale

MKS Sylvan track pedals: hardly used, pretty good condition. Pics in post 2. £20

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Ahhh, interesting. Just looked this up on YouTube. I now wonder if I can squeeze all 9 gears of a 9-speed cassette (or for that matter all 10 gears of a 10-speed cassette) on a 7-speed freehub with a bit of careful filing. I need to check my spreadsheet. It sounds a bit random, but it’s to preserve the 126mm spacing but gain a few more gears.

ApolZ for teh thread derail...

What modifications do you have to do to the freehub to make the 10-speed body fit an 11-speed cassette?

What are you all doing with your sloes? I pretty much only know sloe gin.

1kg of haunch of roadkill venison casserole going in for a slow roast today, since it’s a bit cooler and having the oven on doesn’t make the house hot! Beef stock, red wine and seasoning added to that before it went in.

I’ve done a few and this one is worth the extra effort:

Moley’s elderberry wine
3 lbs Elderberries
1 kg Sugar
200g Raisins
500ml Red Grape Juice
Juice of 1 Lemon
Boiled or bottled water to 6 pints
1 tsp Pectolase
Red Wine Yeast or GP Yeast Compound & Nutrient

Mince the raisins and boil everything together with about 2 litres of water. Mash the fruit up but don’t blender it. Add the yeast when cool and let it ferment on the fruit for 2 days to a week. Then pass it through a seive into a demijohn. Once the fermentation has calmed down, add the red grape juice and top up with water to the shoulder of the demijohn. This is a long term wine, so once fermentation has finished and you’ve racked it off the yeast, put it back in the demijohn with an airlock and leave it for a minimum of 6 months and it’ll start to get good after a year!

The recipe is from an old post by Moley on thehomebrewforum.

My HED disc is the same. Just an axle swap away from being a front.

Half a gallon of elderflower wine left and the gallon of elderberry I started last week. I really ought to take advantage of the glut of elderberries this year and put a second gallon on!

Ok, we should parking lot that question [gesturing at a list of questions on flip chart in the corner which couldn’t be answered]

How about you get me an answer to that or I’ll come down there and start throwing fucks around!

Big frame Vitus 979 with 28s and skinny wide risers is all the compliance, but soaks up the bumps like nothing else! I think it’s going to get some SRAM X0 with thumbies in place of the old Shimano dt setup.

Amazing!

I've read back through the last few pages looking for some advice on innersoles. The running shoes I wear are quite wedged on the inside, where my feet land on the outsides. My cycling shoes are flat, however, and I think I've narrowed this down to my foot and knee discomfort. I think I need some inner support. Some arch support would be a nice bonus too, since they are completely flat inside. Any recommendations for wedged insoles? Shoes are Giro Rumble with SPDs. Is it worth trying to wedge an SPD?

Would this one not be better on a solid axle? Get an extra long axle, long enough to fit your main axle nuts and an extra set of nuts on the ends to secure the trailer. I’d use nylocs as it sort of feels like the trailer hitch shouldn’t be rigidly mounted.

Ah, I see what you mean. The one I've been looking at is the same as in the video, so hopefully shouldn't have that problem.

making an 11-30 would be particularly taxing in this instance because 30 and 34 are riveted to the same spider.

Cheers for the EV tip. It would be to make an 11-30. The picture on CRC and ^ @hamrack's video makes it look like it is just riveted together. Hopefully riveted and not pins pressed in. I don't think it would be a problem to drill them out, except maybe for the fact that the 34 on the back looks like it's offset or recessed.

My ongoing gear quandries. I'm adding more gears to an older bike while maintaining the 126mm rear spacing and 7-speed Shimano freehub. I've worked out that you can fit 9 gears on the 7-speed body by using 9 of the gears off a 10-speed cassette. I just need a cassette which comes apart. Does anyone know if the 11-34 Shimano Tiagra HG500 10-speed cassette can be taken apart into separate cogs and spacers?

Edit: this one: http://www.wiggle.co.uk/shimano-tiagra-hg500-10-speed-cassette-11-3211-34/

Woah, Dukes and Zeus. What were those car stickers back in the day ‘I’ve had the Dukes experience’ or something? Ah, student apprentice days!

Can't you just zip tie the cans directly to the bars by the ring pull tabs? Ok, so when you hit a bump all the cans pop open, but you were going to drink them anyway weren't you?

@Stonehedge It tastes like venison, but at the stronger end of venison because it's completely wild.

@Kat_Balou it looks like it's going to be good for elderberries around here. I need to collect plenty for wine!

article that describes long cage 9-speed MTB derailleurs with front mechs and big cassettes

That's great stuff. You can probably tell I'm not well up on gear compatibility, especially mtb stuff, so cheers for that!

It’s 8 gears off a 9-speed cassette on a 7-speed Hyperglide freehub switched onto my 6-speed Uniglide hub. It's all a direct swap, gives me 8 gears in the same space as the original 6 and fits in the 126mm rear spacing. Indexing is still 9-speed spacing, so I’ll set the derailleur limit screws so it can only shift across the 8 gears. Hence using the 9-speed shifter and using dt because I want to keep the classic look. The Ultegra 6600 is polished alloy and has the look I wanted, so it’s a shame it won’t work.

Reading around I can see now what the problem is with the older 6600 - it’s the clearance over the first jockey wheel rather than the cage size.

@frankenbike @mdcc_tester bums, that’s annoying. Thought I’d check in case I’d done something wrong. What about a 9-speed medium cage Ultegra? I guess my next question is whether a medium cage derailleur can take a 40-tooth total difference from top to bottom [edit: sorry, it needs ~30 tooth total capacity], with an 11-30 cassette on the back (11-34 with the 34 taken off)