Mark W

That's Hope's default position on everything related to their products. Think the only exception in recent memory was the Evo crankset where they changed the first generation design up and tacitly acknowledged they had issues. I think you're going to struggle with it, they're just not that open to accepting any form of issues with their products, especially these hubs. The closest they got was saying that there'd been a bad batch of pawls early on when the Pro 4 Trials hubs were released which "affected a very small, limited number of hubs", but that didn't really tally up with the number of failures going on.

It looks like you may be able to get a link out of that. The tensioner will be up in line with the chainstay more, like so: It does make popping the chain on and off a little trickier because the chain itself is just tighter in the system, but it should feel a bit better overall.

Yeah, when we were chatting to our mortgage broker he mentioned that PurpleBricks consistently over-value, and that he's had customers have issues in the past with paying around the PurpleBricks valuation but then their mortgage valuation coming in much below it. I guess if they charge their fee up front then it's not really their problem if/when the house sells?

I suspect it may not have been that much. I think the new (well, not really 'new' new any more) owners actually understand how social media and audiences work, rather than being some senile twat like Bernie who just wants to add some zeroes to his latest Rolex contract rather than expanding the reach of F1. It sounds like they've had an appreciable difference in audience numbers that they're attributing to the Netflix boom, so it may be that they've given them access in exchange for drumming up those new viewers. It doesn't really cost F1 anything to have the Netflix guys cruising around at the end of the day. Think the teams have realised that it's good PR for them too, unless you're Williams where they'll film you for the season then use about 3 clips of Claire Williams before she left...

It's worth bearing in mind which Hex everyone's talking about too. The older generations used to be pretty tight on clearance whereas the more recent ones (since they switched to tapered head tubes) have been better. That kind of double spider setup will get you less clearance than the new school integrated mount style setups, but as before it should be more workable than it was on the older frames.

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Haha, no judgement, I know what it has been/is like getting parts at the moment! The pre-DUB setups didn't need that spacer, but the DUB setups do, conveniently. That list you made is spot on though The only thing to note is that as before, it probably won't get you any extra clearance. It's just a function of the stays on the Ozonys being dead straight. Most modern frames have more of an S-shaped stay to give that extra clearance. If you really need to you can buzz a little off the backs of the crank arms with a grinder. I know plenty of people on Arcades who did that with the original Descendants which were a little flexier and had a little less offset.

You'd need a 2.5mm spacer each side. The only 7.5mm spacer they refer to in the manual is the 'Wide' version of the spacer that goes between your chainring and BB, not the BB spacers themselves. The standard spacer (which you'll need) will be 4.5mm. The one supplied with the Inspired integrated bash looks like this - I assume that Extention would do a similar one with theirs: As before though, in terms of the cups it's a 2.5mm each side of the frame on the BB itself. It will be close just because of the stays on that frame.

More than made up for by the use of a Mercedes double stop pit stop on the intro to the Bottas episode. Such a clever little touch. Before watching the first season when it came out I assumed it'd be balls, but I think they did really well with it. I learned a lot from watching it, which I wasn't really expecting (assumed it'd just be a fairly light review of events, rather than showing Horner and Cyril giving each other some savage digs in the paddock around the time Ricciardo made the switch). They did drag out the Grosjean crash in that second-to-last episode but I can kind of see why they did in terms of how they put that edit together.

They use bushings too (albeit bronze ones, weirdly). As before, almost all thin pedals do. The 'plastic bearings' on the Crank Brothers pedals look like a weird design, but the IGUS-style bushings in almost all other pedals are fine for that particular job.

I'd say the images were better in this one. Without going too Poirot, from the URL # I assume that's yours?

Congrats Mike! @Joe Aston - is it on for the same price as yours?

You ideally need 1-3mm larger than your steerer tube ID, so somewhere in that 23-25mm range would be best.

I remember them too. Seem to remember the consensus was that they worked well in one direction, but not very well in the other direction? Couldn't say for sure though...

Once you go to thin pedals it's pretty hard to go back! I've not really had any issues with bushings on the pedals I've had, it's typically been the bearings that have died if anything. It's a pretty good time to buy flat pedals - plenty of options to go at, and most of them are decent.

Is the "plastic bearing" you're talking about a bushing? If so, you won't find many/any pedals out there that have a similar platform thickness without them in there at least on either the inboard or outboard side of the pedal. The size constraints mean that a bushing is going to be a better solution than cartridge bearing. Not all are created equally though, obviously. For larger pedals, I think the large sized Stamps are a bit of an outlier really. The DMR Vaults fall between the Stamps and the Hopes, and I think HT Components might do some slightly larger platforms but I couldn't say for sure what they are, sorry. EDIT: Actually, the Unite Instinct pedals are 113mm x 102mm x 18mm. A few of the riders down here use them and really rate them: They use 1 x sealed bearing and 2 x IGUS bushings per side, so should hold up well. They're also fully serviceable - Unite have all the spare parts of the pedals available individually.

Yeah, our sister had the same thing - their estate agents were playing her off against the elderly couple who were selling their house to move in to care (during a pandemic). Such a dick move. We heard from her that it had helped a lot, and had that backed up by similar stories from people, so we decided to do the same. The house doesn't have a letter box on the front door, so we wrote a little card saying who we were, and saying we were just giving them our number in case they wanted to speak to us directly. I knocked on the door, apologised for interrupting her (she works from home), said that we just wanted to give them our details in case they wanted to get in touch, handed her the card, said our goodbyes and left. We then got an email from the estate agents saying that the sellers had requested we didn't go there in future without requesting it via our solicitors... EDIT: Forgot to say, this was after about 2 weeks of not hearing anything from anybody. We were both taken aback when we got the email. The sellers had been super chatty on the viewing, we'd played with their dog, they couldn't do enough for us, everything was cool. Now it's all underway that seems to have completely gone by the wayside.

Yep, that kind of system makes way more sense. In "f**k estate agents, absolutely" news - got an email through yesterday from our agents, forwarding a message from the seller saying they were unhappy we'd unnecessarily delayed our survey (which we hadn't), meaning that it was delaying the purchase of their new house in an 'ideal time frame' (absolutely news to us). We've requested info about their situation from the get-go and had nothing from our solicitors or estate agents. Despite that we've done everything as soon as we could (the day our offer got accepted we booked our mortgage advisor for a final appointment, the day our mortgage was approved we got the survey booked in - we didn't do it sooner as we wanted to make sure mortgage was all good and there was no valuation issue, seeing as by that point we've already paid £800+. The house was also still listed on the market as being available by another estate agent, so we didn't want to end up being over a grand committed to a house that they hadn't even removed from the market, despite accepting our offer), so it's a piss take to now be portrayed as being the f**kers here. Just for context as well, reading between the lines from the messages, they were essentially hoping that we'd have completed on their house within 7 weeks of our first viewing. Obviously that kind of turn-around time is possible, but with lead times for everything at the moment being longer than normal because of the level of demand and without us being provided the info that they wanted it turned around as soon as possible, it's a little on the ambitious side.

The Hope F20s aren't particularly big, if that's what you're looking for. I wasn't really blown away by the set I had in general - they didn't feel particularly grippy and the shape didn't really seem to work too well for me (they seem to be really flat). I believe I may have had the first gen version with the slightly different pin style, but I don't think that was the root cause of the grip/feel issues IMO.

Totally. I think we only really ended up looking on Rightmove because it's just easy - we knew the area we wanted and the price, so you can just get it done without f**king about. The agent who took it over just after we did our viewing did exactly what you said. Clearly went in and said they could sell it for more, so put it up on RM for an extra £10k with worse photos and no video walk-through (which was what piqued our interest in the house in the first place on the original listing). Had a friend who ended up finding the buyer for his house before the agents had even listed it on RM, but they still claimed a fee because he'd told the potential buyer to go through them as they were supposed to be handling the sale (which he now regrets doing as the agents made it pure faff). They ended up not even doing anything, but still claimed their commission. The house we're going for is relatively new and looked in really good condition from our viewings, but even then we still wanted to get one done just to know for sure. Can't imagine taking a punt without one.

That roll down. My my. Myyyy my. Awesome riding - glad to see you having fun with it all again (aside from the social media part obvz)

The seller having to cover the survey makes so much more sense! My wife ended up losing one of the three houses that fell through after she paid for a full survey to be done, only to find that there was rising damp in the house. The sellers removed it from the market as soon as they heard. It meant that at that point she was over £1k deep in terms of fees and so on already paid - all to basically let a stranger know their house was screwed. Not a huge fan of the closed bid system though necessarily, Ali's experience with it didn't sound great... Funnily enough, my sister just bought a house that was in a similar situation to you Gav! My sister was getting out of her car just down the road from her house when something hit her on the back. It turned out that it was the freshly installed 'For Sale' sign on a house 4 doors down from her which had fallen over... She had a look into the house and liked it, dropped a card round saying who she was and where she was from, and went from there. They were an elderly couple going into a home, and their son was managing the sale. She ended up being lucky to have made that contact as it ended up being done through an estate agent who ended up being mega pushy, playing them off against each other and all the usual shenanigans, but because they were speaking to each other directly they knew that everything was fine. Would have been way smoother sailing had the agents not been involved in any way, but hey ho.

So, McLaren...

Full Rusebot mode: - Verstappen quickest in FP1: is the season over already for Mercedes? - Yuki Tsunoda hit rage mode and dropped an F-bomb for being slightly held up: is he feeling the pressure from Red Bull and when is Kvyat taking his seat back? - Nicolas Marzipan was last: is the extra weight from all the baggage of being a sexually assaulting, racist, homophobic piece of shit slowing him down? - Sprint races in lieu of qualifying for 3 events this year (British, Italian and Brazilian Grands Prix): are all the engines going to explode, and is there enough carbon fibre to make all those spare front wings?