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I would guess that snail cams only move the axle by 0.75-1mm per notch. Continual adjustment by bolts is always better in my opinion.

I used to ride my Inspired on red route for the Hampshire series and didn't have any major problems. It's obviously not ideal but no reason you'll struggle.

You don't sound depressed to me... Depression seems to be one of those annoying 'catch all' phrases doctors use these days. There are no badly behaved kids or lower ability/lazy kids, they're all either diagnosed with ADD or dyslexia or whatever. Similarly with 'depression' it seems to me like doctors diagnose 50% of their cases as that and send them away with a bunch of pills. In your case I'd be googling potential other causes for your tiredness- obviously not diabetes but potentially dietary problems (lack of X, Y or Z) or something else?

Without meaning to be an arse and condescending (which I'm not that good at), how far for 3D design go? I have images in my head of being able to produce pretty looking 'things' on a computer but not necessarily being able to incorporate those into either animation for the likes of TV/film/adverts or able to produce mechanical components for engineering/real world applications. It just seems to me that the majority of people who went to uni and now don't have jobs did degrees that never really had job prospects in the first place (thinking psychology, art, lots of geography students etc.). Could be wrong of course and I know I probably see things from quite an odd perspective because everything's worked out surprisingly well for me (touch wood...)!

Yup, started about 15 years ago and have had a trials bike and ridden it regularly ever since. Less regularly these days of course but do still get out on it.

Drive side is left handed thread. It should go in straight and true otherwise you're cross threading it and will damage the frame. The driveside goes in first reasonably tight and then you put the non-driveside (right hand thread) in and nip it up to support the bearings.

Out of interest, all of the people with degrees on JSA and friends who went to uni and are on JSA, what sort of courses did they study? I did well at school but took a year out to get a bit of money and worked delivering furniture before going to uni- did me the world of good, I grew up and matured a lot in that year and picked up a good bit of common sense that I was probably lacking beforehand! Then did an MEng in Aerospace Engineering at the Uni of Southampton before carrying on to do an EngD in rallycar aerodynamics. Funding for that finished in July 2009 (although I didn't actually submit and finish until Feb last year) but started full time as a research engineer in the wind tunnels at Southampton in mid September. Now manage the wind tunnel operations and staff, dealing with all the student users, researchers and commercial customers while developing the systems and overseeing all the aspects of the tunnels from finance to marketing.

It keeps on going out doesn't it?...

Wow wow wow... back up a minute there. They do what now?

It's not an echo hub with a lockring is it? You never know... I've always used the vice then grab the tyre and twist method and it's never failed.

Or someone with a lathe...

The word you're looking for is 'f**ked' . For whatever the reason the bearings have found their way out so that the axle hasn't been supported centrally in the hub. That distorted, elongated hole should be circular but the axle has been able to move around and eat into the hub. SO yeah, basically it's dead as a very dead thing.

I only use Tesco's finest these days.

Fixied.

United is spelt wrong

"Audi has debuted an e-bike, complete with a smartphone-controlled immobilizer "bike lock" and a Segway-inspired "wheelie mode"." So,yes, automatic wheelies!

And you know that for sure?

They're not that bad for normal thread sizes bike bike specific type stuff is just plain weird and so there's little demand which results in expensiveness.

I guess in general engineering there's not much call for weird 9/16" helicoils in both left and right hand threads!

Pedal threads are 9/16".

I get the feeling that if it was Alonso who stopped to allow enough fuel to test the outcome would've been somewhat different...

Bull. Shit.

His gazzillion day ban says no.

Haha, not quite. I had middleburns with an uno 32T ring on the front, 5 working gears at the back and the worlds longest seatpost! lack of pannier mounts meant I had a tent strapped to a small seatpost mounted rack and a 55 litre rucksack

Used to ride 7 miles to Peterhead to ride then 7 miles back. That was back in the day when I rode a 16" GT Backwoods. I don't think you can count the bodged Orange Zero that I did John O' Groats to Lands End on... although I did have a bit of a bounce at Lands End so I guess you could say I kinda rode down to ride the rocks. So yeah ~897 miles to go for a play? Beat that!