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my toolchest drawers float in and out on lakes of mercury -
(try getting steel document filing drawers from old office clearance-mine are from local council offices in cool shades of grey and sickly coffee brown)
thedrawers are about 1" deep and you get 24 drawers to each cabinet -I was lucky enough to permanently borrow them from my b*stard ex employers

spoonfull of superglue per foot FTW

looks good fun but plenty toverlap?(blinds pullcord tied to door handle fail);)

good drinker that.they used to have a coin slot machine ride (blue fibreglass bear type thing) coin operation was broken and bypassed so you just sat kid on it plugged it in and it would drone on and on while you supped on and on-would have been bliss if i'd only got one sprog

sunshine, fresh air, and salty seawater.I remember when my boy was little-he had bad excema on back of legs (behind knees)when he went in the sea he bawled his eyes out for a minute or two with the stinging but at the end of a day on the beach excema was massively reduced.Not easy to do in Ol' Blighty in Autumn/Winter.

how do you do all that with granulated sugar, a wood chisel and a shopping trolley tyre?

off now,Wd40+chainwhip+gimpmask+strength+ jerk off-thread a bit damaged

Kludge-thanks Sheldon Brown-(means a bodge I think)

I'd first try cutting a piece from a steel allen bolt head to drop in where the missing piece is,pack it in tight with coke can shim against socket in stem ,with allen key already in place,(maybe araldite in allen socket/allen key interface) and try to gently undo bolt.Probably won't work but I'd try it

I am-could be dry rot in joist end-investigate quick-couple of forumengers fit new ends for a reasonable price

overtight chain can wreck bearings-too late once you can detect it.you could fit new/different BB if problem goes there's the answer if it does'nt, change BB back and put new 'un into "stock"

land lines-envelopes and stamps;your life will not come to an end-pimp the Thorn

So, I was out in the garage tinkering with my Thorn, and I dropped my iPhone from about 6 inches off the floor. It's smashed.

I have no insurance, and I've just been told that Apple do on-the-spot repairs for £180. Has anyone tried this, is it true?

So angry. I was going to spend that money on the bike. Now I have to waste it on a bloody phone.

you NEED bicycles-you happen to own iPhones...no contest

do it as you describe-just takes time.bosses should be brazed on (golden/yellowish metal in joint)

that Cotic is geared is it not(look at the jungle of cables/hoses.my advice is save up buy
white ind eno eccentric-build wheel ,then you can singlespeed different bikes till the cows come home

Sorry, I should have added - I want to buy at least 100, and not at ridiculous prices.

you expecting plod to start using stingers?

this has come up before;i had same thing and think spacers are engineering wise a bit dodgy.get a small cheap file and"relieve" the bit of ally from brake which is gonna rub if like mine it was obviously not going to compromise the strength of caliper

To the OP do you put your tyre back on valve side first os start from the opposite side?

hey Diable,was'nt it you that said we should all wind our necks in on this one?none of you'd have to worry about tyre levers ifzzzzzzzz
bores self to sleep

That's the one - best pub in the world...

agreed or should i say +1

Square and Compass in Somerset?

or Worth Matravers Dorset?

I don't know, murtle, I think the brickwork could do with a bit of cleaning, really.

common old flettons too,tsk tsk

i know i'm a cnut,i've always been a cnut and always will be a cnut but it's good to know i'm not alone.it's pathetically cnutish but i was genuinely shocked to learn that i had been (and would continue to)replace tyre and tube wrongly after a puncture so whilst browsing in whs i came across bikeradar publication total bike maintenance and repair and on page 98 discovered that they suggest refitting tyre and tube exactly as wrongly as i do.i also saw that some fairly well revered people in the cycling world are contributors to this overpriced misleading piece of propaganda including a certain Mr Stone!Ah well

Yes.

And it's always valve first.

"happily,successfully,effectively not bowing to convention since 1970(or thereabouts)"

I think that we've all learned how to fix punctures, and we all have slightly different ways of doing it, and they all work.

Am I right?

fixed

"trying to pop the last bit of tyre there is a royal pain in the arse"
no....
absolutely not.
at all.
period

I expect you will think me a cnut and carry on doing so if it pleases you but I bet I'm one of the oldest f*uckers here and I've always used this method without trouble or levers or pinches or unexpected explosions.(all you have to do is push the valve up into the void to ensure the reinforcing rubber is inside the tyre and not pinched by it.I'm right ,just like I'm right there's no f*cking god up there and will be proven right one day-won't live to see it mind.Oh and I used to race round the garden with my kids in a wheelbarrow so put that in yer pipe an' smoke it :)