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OK so how many of you have come back to your bike to find you left the key in the lock?

Alternatively cut your polymer bands from different size tubes, 20, 25, 32, 40, 50 mm and then old motorcycle or car tubes if you want bigger ones I find the post office bands degrade over a few years and just fall apart, cycle tyres don't seem to do that. I too found that cutting longer bands by go...

Looks like you have a tubular tyre at the front of the bike not a clincher.
Some people do use these for day to day riding but typically used for proper racing.

Not really practical these days, so that would be anew set of rims or wheels

It depends on your attitude towards risk. Personally I'm happy to do all sorts of minor repairs for friends, people I meet on the road and pupils and adults on my Bikeability courses. (Yes I know we're not supposed to) If you can't be 100% sure that the cycle leaves you safer than when it came to yo...

How about this frame? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Trekking-hybrid-commuter-cyclocross-700c-frame-alloy-44-48-52-56-60cm-Available/252919185734?hash=item3ae3288146:g:3eQAAOSww9xZCvjf&var=551933696854 But swapping all your bits over can be a nightmare - will the seat post be same diameter, is the f...

In my experience SA 3 speed hubs don't go wrong, just get a second hand one from your local tip/cycle recycling hub or local cycle hoarder, clean it up and build into the wheel of your choice.
I'm running a 50 year old hub which I very much doubt has ever been disassembled

Masks are required by the government to encourage people to go out and shop and boost the economy. I've seen all manner of incorrect mask use (even whilst being unlucky enough to accompany somebody in and out of hospital last week) I'll carry a buff as a face covering for use when required. Just lik...

I agree. Our four-fold classification of non-highway rights of way: footpaths, bridleways, restricted byways and byways open to all traffic -- is frequently not fit for purpose. It needs simplification and in many cases reclassification. First off - all those things are examples of highways. And th...

I'm not very surprised to see this headline today https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/latest-news/hundreds-of-miles-of-roads-removed-from-national-cycle-network-because-theyre-just-not-safe-enough-460180 I tend to plan my own routes because only I know what I like, where I have followed Sustrans rout...

Since lockdown I've been cycling along a lot of public footpaths, private drives, private tracks, bridleways and river banks and I've discovered miles of peaceful byways (in the non-legal sense) I've never explored before. Without fail the people I've met (and chatted to as everyone seemed to want t...

roubaixtuesday wrote: Good grief. Nobody's called you anything, least of all a racist.

But he clearly is a racist

My big mile years have always been due to commuting mileage, some years I had 30 odd miles to work and 30 odd miles home, do it two or three times a week and you have 120 or 180 before you start thinking about evening and weekend rides. Similarly when I had 15 miles to work and did it every day it w...

Worth a try Having broken my frame and riding on a bodged repair I wonder if anyone has a non-suspension 29er frame with disc mount going spare?? Condition unimportant Size - large, 20" at least Material - any alloy of iron, aluminium, titanium or carbon............ Headset size, tube diameters...

You spread the fork to pop the wheel in. Nobody should be 'spreading a fork' to pop a wheel in. The cone nuts should be spaced to match the inner fork width. I've only got one bike with through axles, they provide a much more positive location for the axle in the frame than QR and are a good engine...

simonineaston wrote:I would call that a sweeping generalisation

Drat, there was I thinking social media is all about sweeping generalisations