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/remindme 6 weeks.

One for the conspiracy thread: the worldwide aluminium shortage, for eg bike parts, is being caused not just by covid issues but by military industry buying it all up. I wonder if the internet conceivably has the info available to anticipate a military attack by identifying certain product shortages.

Luckily they didn’t ask me to open the box of Christmas crackers I smuggled into the country…

Move in boys we have a confession!!

Huh, maybe I dreamt it, but you’re right it doesn’t make sense now that I’m trying to picture it in my head. Don’t have a Shimano handy to check.

Unsure if it was posted here (had a quick check but don’t chew me out if it was), a group of Trumpettes started booing trump and an odious tv personality (whose name rhymes with will o’smiley) onstage when they both admitted to being vaxxed and boosted.

Repubs have fed an ugly American monster, and now it’s growing too big for them to control.

Wash one down with dish soap and warm water, and ask a neighbour to use one of their walls while it dries.

It’s because people pull the dual brifter lever inward while changing gears, eventually shredding enough wires to make the cable snap and leave the cable head firmly lodged in the newly stuck ratchet.

If you’ve been here already then you know the score. If you’ve just arrived, buckle up sunshine.

(because it’s proven to reduce your chances of being injured in an accident, and it’s a dumb way of losing points off your license, and one one is going to think you’re cool for it)

Vax clinic in kings college hospital taking walk ins. Best entrance is via coldharbour. Queue extends for about 15 people inside the building + however many outside. Don’t believe the nhs website and have your nhs number handy, they won’t let you queue otherwise.

custom-painted exhaust tips.

“Custom-painted”? It’s an exclusive, limited edition personally offered for them to purchase by the CEO of (brand), I suppose as a small thank you for the extraordinary amounts of money they’ve spent with them over the years. And let’s not mention the golf club visibility, really (brand) should be paying them to associate with their cars, hah hah hah.

Coworker mentioned that some restaurants in the U.K. use tops to pay their staff salary. If the amount of tips doesn’t reach the minimum wage or contracted hourly rate, they’ll shore up the rest.

Tis fucked.

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‘Twas a joke, I saw your post.

Tipping flies, tipping cows, tipping binmen, tipping Amey….

Where does it end?!

I didn't know that octopuses ate chicken.

It’s not meant to be taken literally. They’re saying that octopus eat tuna, which is the chicken of the sea and is sometimes served Fryed.

I didn’t know octopi ate tuna though.

Indeed, I did catch that, but it isn’t quite as funny to caveat (at least while the UK finishes updating its own scale).

So as tech improves to keep up with the EU scale, it will look even better on an outdated UK scale? Brilliant!

Does death alter moral standpoints?

Many people and cultures believe in not speaking ill of the dead. Then we’re left with vomitous odes to shitty people whose greatest contribution to the world was dying and leaving it without them.

There should be a ‘don’t speak overly well of the dead’ rule too.

Want to register my interest in some crazy patterned ones, if you ever decide make any. GLWS!

Is that 2 feet tall by 1 foot wide?

No need for high flange front and rear 7600 hubs? BNIB

Additional to the T, he crushed a vertebra on a massive squat. You’ll have seen it in the film, vertebras don’t normally go pop like that. Should’ve stopped training and gone to a doc that night, but instead decided to do +1,000lbs leg presses.

GOAT but pretty bad at taking care of himself. Ironic on several levels. (ugh just noticed the pun…)

Thanks to everyone who’s replied (late, thanks guys….. 😎 )

No but seriously, these grips were godawful to remove. Hard rubber made even harder by the cold, and before the hairdryer we couldn’t jam a 1.5mm Allen key under it (without marring the grip), let alone a lolly stick or wd40 pipette.

To fit it, we ran out of hairspray so had to use citrus degreaser in a pinch with the customer waiting, and despite absolutely bathing it and the bar, one side got stuck 1” out.

They were the last pair so couldn’t even cut the damned thing off. It made an audible crack when it finally released, with 3 Allen keys under it, heat, half a can of aerosol and two guys twisting. Didn’t think of using hot water, although I probably wouldn’t have out of fear of melting the hellish things. Thanks all

Lol, thought you were suggesting I shoot the bike (or something much darker…).

Thanks Hoefla (and Jontea and Tester who replied as I wrote this). After a solid 45 minutes (likely more) of grunting, swearing and bleeding, between 2 grown men we managed to remove the effing thing. Used a hairdryer, multiple thin metal tools, and so much degreaser aerosol that I’m pretty concerned about my fertility levels going forward.

Fuck. Those. Grips.

Urgent SOS:

How to remove really stiff rubber grips without damaging grip or bars (visibly)?

Don’t have a compressor or a heat gun.

Possibly, but it’s not a risk I’m willing to take. It’s like a dog that attacks a child, can’t take that chance.