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https://www.cjperformancecycles.com/components/gears-drivetrain/kmc-e11-ept-11-speed-50m-chain-w40-link-in-silver__62100

Very glad you pointed this out. Would’ve doomed my relationship without even realising it.

I made this mistake 3 years ago in a carpeted living room. Have had it professionally cleaned, we vacuum regularly, and we still find bastard wires stabbing us from time to time.

That cable didn’t look too frayed. A gentle touch with one hand turning near the pinch bolt and the other hand gently pinching the ends between twists would minimise the chance of transdermal eventualities.

18 years in a federal pen because you tried to keep donald effing trump, of all people, in power. Ironic that his own lawyers said, in his defence, that trump was really the one to blame.

I hope they both get a happy reunion and a long term stay behind bars.

You mean because they left out the bike pedals and bike chain?

Thanks for sharing an interesting source material.

After the update, the topmost homepage picture was a slightly out of focus lady covering half her smiling face with her hand. Weeks later, it showed another image of the slightly out of focus lady accompanied by an out of focus man, who is either laughing heartily or trying to catch raindrops in his open mouth.

Presumably a whole team thought the pics were sufficiently related to the idea of ‘online (non-mountaineering) sports retailer’ to make them the first thing customers see on the new website. If I’d been asked to guess, a cycling or triathlon retailer never would have occurred to me.

Maybe the two first happy folks pictured were meant to make the company seem more relatable, but then their over the top mega-pumped blurb is ridiculous, not just corporate cringey.

I noticed today they’ve gone back to images of kit, Lycra-clad cycling men and determined running women. It all just seems like they’ve rushed something out to address real or imagined urgent issues, and their choice of new presentation is confused and confusing. To top it off, they’ve made their functionality worse, pleasing no one.

Has anyone else found the new wiggle off-putting? The search is missing filters, my discount has vanished, the new palette and logo kinda suck?, etc.

I don’t understand what’s happened. They had a good brand and working website before, what are they trying to achieve?

Guy’s trying to make a sale, don’t hate on his hustle. ;)

Don’t loosen the pinch bolt. Twist it with your fingers in the direction of the original twist. The wires will eventually settle as close as they can to their original positions. Add super glue, steel putty, or cable crimp.

Only issue I see with that explanation (which I’ve also seen happen) is that the shifting would’ve been problematic from the start, whereas Stoo61’s m was shifting well initially and deteriorated.

Yep that’s the shifter you’d want. If you’d like a second pair of eyes/hands to work on that first shifter, drop me a line.

I’ve worked on a bike with this issue. Cables and housing are perfect, shifter works fine.

It all worked perfectly until the bike was used on long gravel rides, then it needed two hands to shift. Copious wd40 in the front derailleur corrected it the first time; the second time I only had a chance to add a few squirts of wd40, which improved it but didn’t get back to 100%. I think it’s grit built up in the front derailleur hinges, and possibly in the exposed housing hole near the rear wheel.

Things are getting tricky for Sino-Russian relations.

https://www.reuters.com/world/russian-hypersonic-scientist-accused-betraying-secrets-china-sources-2023-05-24/

FWIW the park tool set comes with a QR skewer for pressing the smaller bearing sizes.

A hub service is around £20, so it would pay for itself relatively quickly,especially if you’re buying the bearings online, providing the drifts are correctly machined and the press doesn’t break. It’s not difficult to turn aluminium blanks into drifts with 1mm increments, so a Chinese factory could probably make a reasonable product without fancy finishes for that price.

Dialling the non-emergency line makes sense, since most folks would have no way of knowing if, e.g., that Brompton left unlocked in an industrial estate is stolen, forgotten, abandoned, or other.

Accurately machined drifts are what you really want. Mind sharing the link? (Have just seen your message above)

£19+£19 postage to London, still not a bad deal. Has a good spread of drift sizes, would need to have a closer look to see exactly what’s included.

Park Tool’s offering for comparison. Based on their weight, I’m nearly certain PT drifts are not steel.

If it were used I’d gladly offer a lower price, but trade price plus vat is about that.

A QR skewer, a washer, the old bearings, and some grease are all you need really. Don’t have one to sell though. ;)

Ok. So in broad terms, is there a jeopardy-free way of taking seemingly lost or potentially stolen property to a police station?

Not meaning to catch you or anyone out, genuinely want to understand.

If I'm going to buy one it's going to be the full set of sizes, not some DIY threaded rod with washer etc on it.

Lol, this reads strangely pointedly 😂. For clarity’s sake, I’ve never attempted to sell user Hippy a DIY or homemade tool.

I have a BNIB park tool hub bearing kit you can have for £260 shipped.

No apology necessary. 👍

I’m a licensed attorney in a non-US and non-UK jurisdiction (and also a bike mech in the UK, to most people’s surprise :) ). I’m aware of statutory defences against theft that include taking temporary possession of an absent party’s physical property without their express consent for the sole purpose of protecting said property from reasonably foreseeable, immediate harm. I understand that some US states may include the above under their Good Samaritan laws, but I don’t know if there’s anything like that in the UK. It would seem silly to get done for possession of stolen goods when one was acting exactly to prevent their theft, but weirder legal incidents happen all the time.

That’s why you’ve got to shoot or stab them first.

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Any news on casualties or impact? Russia’s claiming ‘scores of saboteurs’ killed, but there’s not much clarity.

I have one you can have for ££.

Cheers for that.