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- 9 Sep 2010, 7:16am
- Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
- Topic: Help save Royal Mail bikes
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3237
- 3 Jul 2010, 8:35pm
- Forum: The Tea Shop
- Topic: Toy Train Thread
- Replies: 111
- Views: 9926
Re: Toy Train Thread
Scratch. 1" dia. copper tube boiler, wheel castings from Walsall Model Industries, machined to fine standards by me, everything else sheet rod or pipe as appropriate.
- 3 Jul 2010, 11:48am
- Forum: The Tea Shop
- Topic: Toy Train Thread
- Replies: 111
- Views: 9926
Re: Toy Train Thread
A Sharp Stewart 2-4-0 in 0 gauge, 8mm twin cylinders, slide valves, meths fired, nearly complete now.
- 10 Apr 2010, 10:28pm
- Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
- Topic: Help save Royal Mail bikes
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3237
Re: Help save Royal Mail bikes
mw3230 wrote:... Promoting safe cycling is one thing, campaigning about the way in which a company runs it's business is another.
Well said, what next? Tree fellers to use axes instead of chainsaws? Turners going back to treadle lathes?
- 6 Apr 2010, 10:20am
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: Freddie Grubb restoration
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1138
Re: Freddie Grubb restoration
http://www.hlloydcycles.com/ for transfers.
- 4 Apr 2010, 12:29pm
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: Towing a Caravan.
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2343
Re: Towing a Caravan.
rmware wrote:chris667 wrote:Oh no, a hill!
I imagine it would be OK. What are you trying to do?
Does Lands End to John O'Groats have many hills? I'm thinking of doing it in July provided I get a caravan company to sponsor me, it's looking positive at the moment though.
Google "Shap"
- 4 Apr 2010, 12:23pm
- Forum: The Tea Shop
- Topic: cotter pins
- Replies: 56
- Views: 4489
Re: cotter pins
If I was making cotterpins, price no object, I would use aluminium bronze.
- 22 Mar 2010, 11:20am
- Forum: Does anyone know … ?
- Topic: La Petite Reine
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1290
- 9 Feb 2010, 1:34am
- Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
- Topic: Badgering for a badge
- Replies: 73
- Views: 15519
Re: Badgering for a badge
Just out of interest I used to have some waterslide transfers for work. Set-up charge for a 3-colour A4 sized sheet was £600+, after that each A4 sheet cost about £10.
- 7 Apr 2009, 1:37pm
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: 1/8th Chain
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1157
Re: 1/8th Chain
I've got a drawer full of unused Renold 3/32" chains, most still have the joining link in its little plastic bag.
- 23 Jun 2008, 10:01am
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: Transmission life
- Replies: 38
- Views: 4503
Khornight wrote:What about for fixies?
Wider chain, not changes... should I still worry about changing my chain before my (albeit it single) gear?!
Hmmm, does trying to break by pushing backwards change the way it wears? Better or worse?
3/32" bushed i.e "old fashioned" 5/6 speed chains are stronger than 1/8" other things being equal, so the sprocket lasts a bit longer but the chain less.
I wouldn't worry about the limited effects of leg braking, compared to the time you are propelling forward the time you spend pushing back is minute.
- 23 Jun 2008, 9:53am
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: Transmission life
- Replies: 38
- Views: 4503
I use NOS Renold chains (Just got two 3/32" chains for £4.50) and they do last for years. I fitted one to my fixed in 2004 and it is still on it. The one on my Rohloff is still going strong after 3 years and 20 000+ miles. During the brief time I was using 8 sprockets the Sram chains needed changing twice a year. Apparently modern chains break sometimes, almost unheard of with Renold chains. On the other hand you cannot match your cadence to the optimum without at least 20 gears preferably 30.
- 2 Sep 2007, 6:29am
- Forum: Touring & Expedition
- Topic: Stands on touring bikes (and pumps)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4105
nobby wrote:Something I've wondered about: why have the derailleur on the right when you get off the bike on the left? It is natural to lean it against the gear side at risk of damaging it.
It is better to get off a bike on the left, then you have less chance of rubbing your leg or trousers against the oily chain. Just as leaning the bicycle with the chain towards the wall means you (and passers-by) have less chance of rubbing against the chain.
- 31 Aug 2007, 12:30am
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: HARDEN HUBS
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1709
Just a little snippet my father told me.
The bearings Harden fitted weren't known for being long lasting especially in the front, and just after the war the replacements were difficult to come by. A member of his club found that exactly the same size bearing was used in the bus ticket machines where he worked as a fitter. So when he had one of these machines to repair he turned up a couple of bronze bushes for the machine and the bearings he should have fitted were passed on to any cyclist who needed them.
The bearings Harden fitted weren't known for being long lasting especially in the front, and just after the war the replacements were difficult to come by. A member of his club found that exactly the same size bearing was used in the bus ticket machines where he worked as a fitter. So when he had one of these machines to repair he turned up a couple of bronze bushes for the machine and the bearings he should have fitted were passed on to any cyclist who needed them.
- 31 Aug 2007, 12:22am
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: Chrome/Nickel plating
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2317