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If I make a complaint to the council would that be a logical escalation?

With those tyre tracks evidencing a lengthy illegal drive on the footway, I'd probably go straight to the police. The pub isn't to blame, the GXO driver needs a call from the plod.

if it’s just for bikes or something occasional and not super critical to be dead accurate

Yeah, I wouldn't place much faith in the second decimal place on the chinesium ones, but there aren't many places on a bike where you need to

Mitutoyo any good ?

Yes, but probably overkill for home gamers. By all means get Mitutoyo if, like me, you love fine things which will last a lifetime, but I got away with £20 chinesium digital calipers for a decade before splashing out on the coolant-proof absolute digimatic #tartmode ones

how are you rounding torx?

To be fair, it is a button head

If you're putting stainless steel screws into aluminium alloy threads, make sure you have Copaslip or similar thoroughly coating the threads.

flat mount brakes with a flat handel bars

The official line is Shimano BL-RS600 levers with BR-RS405 calipers. If you shop around hard and DIY you might get levers, calipers and hoses for £100. £200 fitted at a shop seems OK for those components, but not for something worse.

A few people (including Xav) have suggested the Conti GP5000 has low RR and equally important low aero drag

Epic dredge, but due to earlier citation the correct name for "Superman" is actually "Flying Fish"

how was there not an infringement law suit?

It's possible to purchase elements of a design, from basic drawings to a full technical package. Shimano are usually reluctant to do that, but not insurmountably so. On the other hand, it could just be convergent design, there's nothing there that wasn't already common on moto brakes before either Shimano or Grimeca got into bicycle dick breaks

rumour was that they were actually made by Nissin

May have had help from Nissin with manufacturing, Japanese industry works like that. The other rumour is that the designers may have seen the Grimeca System 8 before sitting down at the drawing board 🙂

why not?

Because they're built like a tank. Shimano started by making a scale model of a motorcycle brake, and everything since has had robustness compromised by the marketing department who saw that lighter and sleeker would sell and fragility was a problem people would tolerate.

can I be a bit of a dick...

... and say that if you'd all bought M755/M756 XT brakes 20 years ago, you wouldn't be having all these problems

Yes, I got all that from Snopes

Will any old bike grease do

Yes. The generic grease pot they use at the garage might have something a little thicker than common bike grease, but not enough to worry about. If your car is post-war, the door hinges shouldn't see much weather.

my target power is 20% higher, and I am a lot smaller

That should make your split more even, so even narrower range. Obviously you need the chainring to match your expected speed and preferred cadence, but the point is that you're going to spend most of the time on only 4 or 5 sprockets, so try to put those evenly spaced either side of the neutral chainline.

When I were a lad, most people used 1×6 and the 6 were 13-18🙂

39km/h average out, 30.5km/h average back

That's only 4:3, for me 50/15 out and 50/20 back. That's the middle 4 out of 11 with 12-27 nearly all the time, hardly cross-chaining.

Lord of the Rings

Well, lard of the rings would be haram 🙂

Wasted 5 minutes trying to work out what that script was before doing the sensible thing and going to snopes to discover that it's Orcish.

down tube and tyre

Seat tube. Yes, they're tight there, with the FD band clamp not helping it's the limiting factor on tyre section.

Tester Look top cap thingy

I have exactly two of the "monochrome mondrian" ones left

This is how it starts, isn't it?

Well, some people don't need as much as that 🙂

Wolseley

If it's a 15/60, then the engine would be a B-series

Lad has a point

Nah, he's talking shit. Pushrods and carbs are trad, it's all these OHC injected engines which have ruined everything.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=FeF1XtlXmqA

Tax Avoidance

Pensions are more tax deferment than avoidance, and the cost of deferment to the treasury is compensated by the greater liability on the way out due to capital growth of the fund.