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Now there's a freaky album cover. WTF²

Damn, condolences

Those shifter boss adaptors are definitely the go, IMO - without the barrel adjusters they're fairly minimal (and if you're keen, you can pare them down further); they're a proper part you expect to find in that spot; and if you drill out the right one and put a slot in it, you can jam the inline plug/socket into it, inline. Should look about as neat as it can, short of getting fancy with copper-traced sticky tape. You might consider black plastic Campy DT adaptors for a more stealth look and easier modification.

By "sleeve" do you mean super thin tubing that just encases the cable?

Yeah, it's definitely the go for anything with internal cables. If it doesn't come with sleeving, you should only have to fart around the once -then whenever you need to remove a cable, pop a length of sleeve on the end and push the sleeve through the frame or bars before removing the cable. Or if the end of the cable keeps getting stuck in the sleeve, you can carefully push the cable out with the sleeve.

Not really - it doesn't have to be filed absolutely perfectly; you just have to do what you'd do whenever you fit a new hanger, and check its alignment.

First thing I'd do is make sure that wheel is properly dished.

Bar tape is sad. I always use the extra bit behind Ergos, because the lever body is fairly tall where it meets the bars.

Since the internal routing of that brake cable was an arse, I am not minded to redo it!

You just need a length of sleeve - slip it over the end of the cable, pull the cable out with the sleeve on it, bam.

I'd guess it's quite a mission, although much easier than sanding the paint off a frame... Not that that's saying much

I was going to suggest running a tap through the large hole and using a couple of grub screws, from front and back, then I saw this.

The little grub screw from the side is an absolutely awful and rather sketchy way to clamp a brake cable.

if it is accurate then less than half of the Don't Know go green it'll be open the champagne time.

Hell yeah, good luck! 🤞

Readers added context, lol

Without spoke head washers the heads sit all pissed in the larger holes which introduces movement/fatigue.

The tension, and stress relieving step, will pull the heads to a position they won't move from. From there, the only reason a head can move is if the spoke loses tension. Unless it's a steel flange, washers probably do more to protect the flange than the spoke, once you've employed a sufficiently tensioned and stress relieved butted spoke.

Hey, cool

I do wonder if it needs a bit of calibration work, because i'm not really that radical. Or is that what they all say? Fuck.

If you ask me, the actual centre (as in, what it should be) is -10,0 - the only argument should be about how authoritarian or libertarian we want society to be.

IMO the reason there's even an argument about right vs left economics is that we've inherited the world from a brutal hierarchy of domination, and that whole spectrum is just varying degrees of how much people have shaken off that normalisation of bootlicking.

Speaking of watches, the ridiculous nicheness of a slim enough form factor to not catch on your sleeve.

Butted spokes are probably all you need; the extra elasticity should prevent the fatigue failures.

99% of spoke breakage is caused by the loosest spokes losing all tension as they pass by the road.

$85 for a 2mm stem spacer, lol

Is there a nice bit between the cable end and the pinch bolt you can trim back to?

Any half-decent wire cutters should do the job. I can even get a perfectly fine result with a good pair of sidecutters.

‘humans are a pest on the planet’, and 2 billion are enough people

I reckon he might be right about that part, though

What a lert!

Brilliant

Holy crap, the condition of that old thing!

Incredible.

That's a pretty special combination

Someone who was trying to make a point about energy consumption in the most offensively stupid way possible, presumably.

Or perhaps the point is that some fraction of that seventy are like, near enough to actual slaves, and that the brutality of colonialism never really went away; it's just shifted form to something vastly more insidious.

It's not just energy consumption, it's the goods the corporations provide to us.

If you, a well-off westerner, find offense in the suggestion that you're benefiting from the subjugation of many others, then perhaps I can interest you in a subscription to one of Rupert Murdoch's 'news'papers

I did notice that, and it made me think of the difference between say, Christian and Christianist... Haven't seen driveist before. (Shouldn't that be the spelling?)

And it put me in mind of that driver/rider distinction which struck me about ten years ago. Seemed so damn obvious once I'd thought of it - I was immediately taken with the political dimension of what a rhetorical shafting and con-job that cyclists have copped for a century, being on the wrong side of that coin; it's enough to provoke militant fury. Particularly in the light of increasing sustainability pressures... Someone worked out the average westerner effectively has about seventy slaves, but if you drive rather than ride most of your way, it has to be fewer than that.

What I can't understand is that as far as I've seen, nobody else seems to have noticed it and made an issue out of the misnomer.

Go, the French left!

https://jacobin.com/2024/06/france-popular-front-macron-le-pen

Lots of envy for their electoral options.