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by fossala
25 Oct 2023, 5:33pm
Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
Topic: Carbon forks with mudguard clearance.
Replies: 9
Views: 1495

Re: Carbon forks with mudguard clearance.

I’ve replaced my fork on a ridgeback solo with a full carbon Columbus hiver. Still waiting on the post man but my fork will be going spare.
by fossala
18 Oct 2023, 2:23pm
Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
Topic: Wanting to buy a Croix de Fer 30 but unsure if it's a good choice
Replies: 27
Views: 4629

Re: Wanting to buy a Croix de Fer 30 but unsure if it's a good choice

What do you want the bike for? For loaded touring the croix de fer is good (I had a white 725 one). Day rides they are dull, I prefer something more responsive.

I think the best thing to do is tell us your budget and use case and someone will come along and tell you what spa cycles bike to buy…
by fossala
21 Jul 2023, 12:07pm
Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
Topic: Fitting full mudguards to On One Inbred wishbone seat stays
Replies: 10
Views: 779

Re: Fitting full mudguards to On One Inbred wishbone seat stays

A longstaff that didn’t have mudguard bosses? A rare beast.
by fossala
22 May 2023, 6:58am
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Food Hygiene ratings.
Replies: 15
Views: 756

Re: Food Hygiene ratings.

To answer OP’s questions. Even if you had a spotless kitchen with good stock management, colour boards, separate hand wash, food and dishes sink etc you’d still get 0 stars. This is because you lack documentation. Where is you daily opening and closing checks? Cleaning rota? Temp checks? Fridge temp checks? Audits? Completed and maintained sfbb? Proof of training? Without the basics in place you automatically fail.
by fossala
7 Jan 2023, 9:00pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Why is Russia like it is?
Replies: 63
Views: 3217

Re: Why is Russia like it is?

slowster wrote: 7 Jan 2023, 8:35pm
fossala wrote: 7 Jan 2023, 8:11pm Yeah, trust Ukraine…
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2022/ ... nd-ukraine
I think the incident of the S300 missile landing and killing 2 Poles is poor evidence for asserting Ukraine cannot be trusted. That was an unusual incident involving citizens of another country, moreover an ally country. When something like that occurs there is likely to be great uncertainty initially about what happened, so governments generally do not make categorical statements or admissions until they are fairly certain of what happened. I can also understand the Ukrainian goverment being afraid that the incident would undermine support from Poland, and they probably panicked. The fact remains that the S300 was fired to defend Ukraine from a russian missile. Ukraine was not responsible for the deaths of those two polish farmers. Russia was.

Are you going to answer the questions put to you in response to the assertions that you have made?
They lied. They knew it was there missiles but the wanted to manipulate optics yet again. Even with their pants down you’re making excuses for their lies.

I’ve been good friends with someone from Donetsk trying to build a people’s republic against the oppression of the Ukrainian fascist government. I’ll link to articles in the morning as it’s late and don’t want to track them down as I’m settling down with my family.

Once again, I’m not pro Russian. They’re a capitalist plutocracy, same as the west.
by fossala
7 Jan 2023, 7:21pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Why is Russia like it is?
Replies: 63
Views: 3217

Re: Why is Russia like it is?

I agree, I don’t support Russia, I also believe it’s good to have some skepticism when it comes to our involvement with military intervention.

People seem to be very black and white with this conflict. For instance, Russia asks for a ceasefire for Orthodox Christmas. Ukraine tells them to jog on. Our media reports that Russia broke the ceasefire as expected. {FFE - family-friendly edit }…
by fossala
7 Jan 2023, 6:43pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Why is Russia like it is?
Replies: 63
Views: 3217

Re: Why is Russia like it is?

If you read a lot of somewhat left leaning articles from when the coup happened it paints a different picture than what we have now.

https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... v-conflict

We were touting how dangerous Zelensky was until reaction from russia.

How would the us react if this was a Chinese or Russian backed coup of Mexico on their border? Also we should learn from history

Vietnam, Chinese aggression?
Iraq, 9/11 or oil?
Afghanistan, why?
Northern island, attempted genocide
Bombs for Saudi to use in Yemen
Attempted coup in Syria, not people led
Supporting genocide in Palestine
Continued aggressive military operations in most of Africa

We tout China and Russia as dangerous yet turn a blind eye to the terror we cause.
by fossala
7 Jan 2023, 3:43pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Why is Russia like it is?
Replies: 63
Views: 3217

Re: Why is Russia like it is?

I do find it interesting we weren’t having these debates when a pro western coup happened in Ukraine. How about the murders from Ukrainian forces to the people of Donestk? I dislike the capitalist Russian state as much as dislike the aggressive occupational forces of the west. But damn people seem to lap up whatever is fed to them.
by fossala
2 Jan 2023, 5:16pm
Forum: Does anyone know … ?
Topic: Dawes Sardar spec and year?
Replies: 35
Views: 4734

Re: Dawes Sardar spec and year?

oaklec wrote: 2 Jan 2023, 5:12pm
fossala wrote: 2 Jan 2023, 8:39am
mumbojumbo wrote: 2 Jan 2023, 6:39am Why do you need to fashion a bike thus-this model was hardly desirable .A quick search
https://www.bikeradar.com/reviews/bikes ... ar-review/
And a quick search fails you…
2002 model was 631 Reynolds steel roughstuff bike, quite desirable to the right person. Think working man’s thorn.
Thank you Fossala - delving a little deeper into the internet leads me to believe that I have the 2003 model.

It seems the 2001's and 2002's were brown, 2003 had tiagra sti, tiagra front mech and canti brakes (which my one has), the 2004 had bar end shifters and v brakes.

It's unfortunate that the pictures in the archived data do not load as that would let me match colour and decals and be 100% certain, however, the full specification tab does work to show the specs of the year.

https://web.archive.org/web/20030605124 ... ardar.html#
Maybe ask on retrobike?
by fossala
2 Jan 2023, 5:13pm
Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
Topic: Truing rotor on disk brake
Replies: 13
Views: 633

Re: Truing rotor on disk brake

Best bet for me has always been using the pads as a truing stand.
by fossala
2 Jan 2023, 12:17pm
Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
Topic: Truing rotor on disk brake
Replies: 13
Views: 633

Re: Truing rotor on disk brake

Adjustable spanner works, little goes a long way. You can ruin a rotor being ham fisted.
by fossala
2 Jan 2023, 8:39am
Forum: Does anyone know … ?
Topic: Dawes Sardar spec and year?
Replies: 35
Views: 4734

Re: Dawes Sardar spec and year?

mumbojumbo wrote: 2 Jan 2023, 6:39am Why do you need to fashion a bike thus-this model was hardly desirable .A quick search
https://www.bikeradar.com/reviews/bikes ... ar-review/
And a quick search fails you…
2002 model was 631 Reynolds steel roughstuff bike, quite desirable to the right person. Think working man’s thorn.
by fossala
1 Jan 2023, 6:57pm
Forum: Touring & Expedition
Topic: Are touring bikes old fashioned?
Replies: 312
Views: 26979

Re: Are touring bikes old fashioned?

GideonReade wrote: 1 Jan 2023, 6:27pm Plus, if you're stuck on a long trip, the other passing tourist will quite likely have an old fashioned spare gear* and even spare brake cable.

Especially if it's me on my Roughstuff as my BES & high set bars mean I just can't quite use a solo RD cable and so carry a tandem one. Aka a hen's tooth. Next overhaul that cable's getting rerouted.
Roberts roughstuff?
by fossala
1 Jan 2023, 5:00pm
Forum: Touring & Expedition
Topic: Are touring bikes old fashioned?
Replies: 312
Views: 26979

Re: Are touring bikes old fashioned?

rareposter wrote: 1 Jan 2023, 11:37am
fossala wrote: 31 Dec 2022, 7:57pm Have you ever worked on di2? It’s not for a forget, battery drain issues are more common than you think (component or junction not sleeping). That’s not to mention everything now goes through the headset so you need to replace one hose, re route both, and rebleed the system when you need a headset bearing change.
Yes, many times both in the workstand and out on the road - usual one on the road being that the system has gone into crash mode and the rider doesn't know the fix.
Cable routing - depends a lot on the frame. Some manufacturers have got things like split headset spacers or routing down the outside or integration at the bars, exposed routing then integration within the frame which negates the headset issues. Some solutions are certainly more practical than others but it depends on how much of your own maintenance you want to do, where you'll be travelling, costs, spare parts...
It’s not the spacers that are the problem, it’s removing the headset bearings. The biggest issue isn’t crash mode, most people have YouTube. What they don’t have is diagnostic software and proprietary hardware to match. Even then it can only track down issues 50% of the time and then it is just swap components for ones held in stock until you find what is causing the battery drain.