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Has anyone received wine or packages circa 2-3kg from Australia? What carrier was used?

Need an economical way to send 2x bottles of wine from the land of convicts to London.

Delivery boy for Planet Express.

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iPhone 5 SE on chrome, logged in fine. Will update if any worries.

Work group buy on CRC to save on postage:
My toes are getting cold: http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/au/en/castelli-toe-thingy-toe-cover-ss16/rp-prod88525
Mate is impressed with this grease gun and grease: http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/au/en/exus-systemex-grease-gun-pro/rp-prod35286
http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/au/en/shimano-workshop-grease/rp-prod24446
And I recommended him the excellent Park tools cutter: http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/au/en/park-tool-cable-cutters-cn10/rp-prod7202
And he wants this CM5:
http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/au/en/park-tool-cyclone-chain-scrubber-cm5-2/rp-prod8207

I always wonder how people ride silliness like this.

Big price indeed. Big weight savings for the XC'ers too.

My vote is on a system 6. The RD junction area and the front cable routing is different to a normal mod super six.

Edit: not reading full thread fail.

^would rep

also brilliant that the bog roll holder is empty.

Fox 32 stepcast 100mm fork...half pound weight reduction over 2015 model. So weight weenie.

The kennedy guy...wearing a ring in a shop with machining equipment...clearly wants to be de-gloved.

Piggybacking here- does any shop anywhere do replacement springs for the XC type atac series?

I found my salmon pads weren't as effective in the dry (Australian summer dry) - koolstop black compound seemed to work better for me.
Feels like the salmon pads like a little bit of water to work better.

Just like all Saeco Road is porn...Saeco TT is anti.

spok
23c x 3000 tyre for hipster points
Riser + TT bars
such wow

^would ride

Make sure you buy a 26mm socket and grind it flat if you're tackling damper removal/swap out. For a general service you don't need to remove it though.

Edit: I did a service on mine, bath oil is super easy. I also did a full clean, float oil change (using gear oil).

For 100 quid I'd expect a full strip and clean with new seals everywhere. Except for damper service, the newer 32s generally don't need much interaction on the damper side apart from a pull out and clean. If you've ruptured seals and diaphragms in the damper unit then your repair gets costly.

So after doing some reading on the new Terminator 8000 groupset Shimano have made some interesting choices:

1. 10 speed cassette
   
2. No clutch
   
3. QR + centrelock dynamo...with no TA option
   
4. Updated crank arm with old triple spider
   
5. Longer brake lever
   
6. No drop bar options...means people have to stick with MicroShift
   
   

Looks like it's more suited to flat bar road/gravel bikes rather than full blown bikepacking/expedition bikes.

This would be a crazy groupset to spec for something like riding from London to China via Indonesia or something. This is built for bulletproof parts interchangeability.

Take M8000, go back to 78x symettrical crank spider
Add plastic trouser guard
Add OTP Dynamo with an XT sticker
Remove clutch from RD
Call it T8000

Hollowgram SL tandem set...

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/191931178376?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

Edit, more importantly:

I'm visiting London for about 8ish days. Is there a cheap bike hire company I can grab a bike from for about 3 days to tourist around without resorting to Santander bikes or these?

Tester approved chainring bolt spacers/shims? I need to bring my outer mtb chainring 2mm inboard to compensate for the silly 2mm of meat on a FCM970 inner chainring that I didn't realise was specific to 970 XTR only.

What is the go-to Orient manufacturer for CX frames these days??

Edit: or even monstercross??

Yup. I'll stay on the bay looking for XTR cranks!

Also, in addition to Scoble's advice - take your old ultegra spacers and lockring (provided it's the same small cog) and use them in the 105 cassette.

All of a sudden you have a 105 cassette that is very close to ultegra weight.

The other difference is the finish, 105 looks shiny and ultegs has a shot finish.

Almost...I'm actually spitballing the idea of fitting a SiSL crankset to a MTB with a shimano pressfit, hence the 92mm.

The crankset I'm eyeing off comes with both a 104mm and a 109mm spindle. @Howard - would a longer spindle work? Say jumping to a 122mm or a 137mm F-Si spindle?

The other side of the argument is the concern of bearing wear - squeezing tiny bearings into a PF shell using a 30mm shell would mean I'd need to double up the bearings on each side if I go with a custom solution.

In all likelihood this sort of setup seems too much to faff with, but thanks in advance for humouring me guys.

Edit: oops, just read the next page of replies - @Dammit suggested what just wrote.