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funnily enough i was hoping you might say open pro ! details please

I should check back more often!

Two NOS pairs. One grey (well, CD) and 32h, need to check the other but think they're silver and probably 32h too. I might have a couple of other new Open Pros but they're buried, definitely got a few s/h ones that are fine as rims, just not ones you'd want to brake very much on.

Deal

Splendid!

what else you got up in that loft !

More wheels and frames than exist in my wife's worst nightmares ... (NOS Open Pros? A pair of, um, well-patina'd Record hubs built onto some quite nice Weinmann Concave rims? Some s/h FIRs? Three or four Witcombs? A tandem that was built for giants but has lovely kit on it?)

We have a cellar too. Parts are mostly down there.

Just been up to check, and there are 8 up there, all silver, all 36h. NOS, not in cellophane but clearly unused - they've even got the schraeder/presta conversion grommets installed.

Would prefer to move them on as pairs: they look to be about £27-£32 each from most retailers, so £30 a pair collected in SE7? Postage at cost(ish) always possible.

Several NOS A319s in the loft ...

Turn it on and off again as quickly as you can a couple of dozen times. That should see you right for another couple of years.

They were in office rather than in power, and they enabled the rhetoric and the decisions of austerity.

A confidence and supply agreement would have given them greater power to act as a moderating force on Cameron, Osborne and IDS, and it would have saved them (IMO) from a lot of the deserved opprobrium they now get.

But it wouldn't have given them seats in Cabinet.

Yeah, I've given a washing machine a new lease of life by replacing (on separate occasions) the heating element and the motor brushes.

I'd have thought a compatible element (rather than manufacturer branded part) would be about £15-£20, then probably half a dozen screws in total (four to get the back off, then another couple for the element). Should be pretty easy, and cheap enough that if it's a more fundamental fault you've lost little except a bit of time and effort.

rear wheel needs to be able to take a 9spd sprocket

Yeah, shimano-compatible freehub, will take a 9-speed cassette

The more the merrier ...

Working tomorrow night and going to Birmingham on Tuesday night then to Edinburgh, so London collection or postage would either have to be arranged quickly (for Monday morning) or left till next week, but I could take them with me.

Rim brakes, stainless spokes, QR.

I'll dig them out and get a (crappy, probably) picture tomorrow, at which point I'll be able to say whether hubs and rims are black or silver.

Aye, fixed or geared? If geared I've got an unused set, shimano-compatible with Rigida/Ryde rims. Project that never happened etc etc - I guess £45 collected from SE7, or could post

Ad Astra last night. It could have been a really, really good 18 minute short.

Where in London is it?

I'm not sure, but something seems to tell me that there's a chance it might be in Sunbury-on-Thames ...

If that^^ falls through I'd be happy to take them ...

I'd speak to Pedalcover - good, personal service at quotation and renewal, realistic approach to bikes and possessions outside the home, and £200 cheaper than our previous insurer. No claims experience, mind.
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Aye, steerer length would help. Have one in black (700c) that might suit providing you don't want it for too big a frame.

SE7 any use (it's quite a heavy one ...)?

Might be better asking in the Open Toolbox thread in Mechanics and Fixing

Mine take a cassette - think they're for 8/9 speed, so work fine with 7 speed, but you need a spacer. I'll need to fish them out of the cellar to take pics but as I say they're new and unused.

Hubs are no-name and probably fairly basic, take a QR, and seem reasonable: as I say, rims are Rigida Flyer - some more details at https://www.freemanscycles.co.uk/ryde-rigida-flyer-racer-aluminium-700c-road-rim.html. Can't remember whether they're black or silver until I dig them out ...

Got a pair in SE7, bought ages ago for a project that never happened - Rigida Flyer rims, no-name hubs, stainless spokes, never used. £45?

Aye, arrived fine this morning, so props to @Albb, a gent to do business with.

Jacket is a good snug fit around the chest and shoulders, but shows off my aerobelly a little too much. Perhaps I'll reconsider that half stone I've been meaning to lose, and up it to a stone ...

Just paid, but there is still hope for other dibsers ...

I'm definitely at the upper margins for fit, and if it's too tight, I'll stick it back in this thread. (For a handsome profit, natch ...)

Don't get your hopes up too high, mind, as I'm a Med in all my other Gore kit, and it sounds like @Albb is only a little slimmer than me.

Replied asking about size as I think I'm on the margins, but I do like 'em snug ...

Go on then ...

my spot in team 1 is now available.

Could be interested in that

Not sure that repainting will add value, but it'll probably make it easier and quicker to sell.

You'll be forced to tidy the place, it'll look fresher and more cared for, and light, neutral colours (well, white or magnolia) make the place look more spacious and make it easier for buyers to imagine their stuff in there.

Might make the difference between selling in three days and three months.

(Quite seriously, a friend put in a couple of weeks of effort with his place, and then invited the estate agent in at the beginning of a week. Went on the market on the Thursday: he had three offers by close of business on the Monday.)

Can I borrow the Royce bb tool and would you be willing to post it?

Sure I can manage that