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The argument is about the malevolent form of nimbyism involved in agitating for a switch from diesel to petrol cars. We can do the switch and improve our local air quality at the expense of dumping the problem of increased carbon emissions on everybody else. Does anyone have a moral justification fo...

The pollution in vehicle exhausts isn't a trivial matter. How they smell is. If anyone argued that we should ban all petrol engines 'cos we don't like the smell of Hydrogen Sulphide we'd all laugh at them. I live in a small village about 4 miles outside Tewkesbury. Our local air quality problem is t...

.......................The OP is arguing that populating the streets with millions and millions of diesel engines represented important work to tackle CO2 problem..................... Unfortunately you've made this up, maybe my post wasn't clear enough. My point was that the switch to diesel was an...

Unfortunately this thread is a 55 page squabble about the placement of deckchairs on the Titanic. Globally we have a problem with the pollution (in the widest sense - greenhouse gases, congestion, danger, social impact) from motor vehicles. All motor vehicles cause this including electric and hydrog...

Yes, real men don't adjust their gears anyway and even if they did they'd use a 7lb lump hammer.

..................I suspect that they used DT shifters, and they would have been to last that Campag produced. Campag produced 8 speed DT Synchro shifters, initially with an specific insert that would do 8 speeds and later just an insertless 8 speed version that worked (insofar as Synchro I or II e...

I used to have some 7 speed 126mm Campag cassette hubs. They were Athena and Xenon. They were of he same vintage (late 80's, early 90's ?) as Synchro DT shifters and there was a specific insert for the levers for them (as there was for different makes of freewheel originally, later versions of Synch...

david7591 wrote:.................But what about dogs? Are some animals more equal than others?

My reading of the act as posted by TC is that it would cover you riding the dog but not leading it. Is this what you had in mind

................... The cyclist was riding appropriately on the road within the speed limit. A lady stepped into his path. He shouted a warning, slowed down and attempted to swerve around her. Unfortunately, she stepped back into his revised path and their heads accidently collided....................

I once had a bike with a rear roller brakes. I used it mainly for city commuting and short runs. The roller brake was perfectly adequate and predictable (more so in the wet than a rim brake). I did maintain it and it got the occasional squirt of grease. I once took it on holiday and riding down a lo...

........................What I was looking for was some quantitative, or at least logical, way of trying to choose components that wasn't based on showroom appeal, marketing hype or other vanity justifictions................... There isn't one. In the vernacular - "yer pays yer money and yer t...

.....................At the moment I'm using Shimano levers on all my bikes - no STIs you'll notice! - I have Exage and RX100 at the moment. I've used Exage levers on DuraAce callipers, I've used Exage and RX100 on Weinmann 600 callipers, I've used Weinmann levers on Shimano DP callipers, I've used...

I'd be surprised if one of these didn't fit.

http://www.spacycles.co.uk/m2b0s105p171 ... ng-Barrels

Mick, more fat for the fire. A while ago I bought a Trek 1.2 to knock about on. It had unbranded calipers (I googled the part numbers on them and I think I know what they were - but they're not Tektro). They were rubbish. I put better cables on and better pads and they were still rubbish. I came to ...

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