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- 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.
- 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: 4630
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…
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…
- 21 Jul 2023, 12:07pm
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: Fitting full mudguards to On One Inbred wishbone seat stays
- Replies: 10
- Views: 780
Re: Fitting full mudguards to On One Inbred wishbone seat stays
A longstaff that didn’t have mudguard bosses? A rare beast.
- 22 May 2023, 6:58am
- Forum: The Tea Shop
- Topic: Food Hygiene ratings.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 762
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.
- 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?
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.slowster wrote: ↑7 Jan 2023, 8:35pmI 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.fossala wrote: ↑7 Jan 2023, 8:11pm Yeah, trust Ukraine…
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2022/ ... nd-ukraine
Are you going to answer the questions put to you in response to the assertions that you have made?
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.
- 7 Jan 2023, 8:11pm
- Forum: The Tea Shop
- Topic: Why is Russia like it is?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 3217
Re: Why is Russia like it is?
Yeah, trust Ukraine…
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2022/ ... nd-ukraine
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2022/ ... nd-ukraine
- 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 }…
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 }…
- 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.
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.
- 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.
- 2 Jan 2023, 5:16pm
- Forum: Does anyone know … ?
- Topic: Dawes Sardar spec and year?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 4741
Re: Dawes Sardar spec and year?
Maybe ask on retrobike?oaklec wrote: ↑2 Jan 2023, 5:12pmThank you Fossala - delving a little deeper into the internet leads me to believe that I have the 2003 model.fossala wrote: ↑2 Jan 2023, 8:39amAnd a quick search fails you…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/
2002 model was 631 Reynolds steel roughstuff bike, quite desirable to the right person. Think working man’s thorn.
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#
- 2 Jan 2023, 5:13pm
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: Truing rotor on disk brake
- Replies: 13
- Views: 635
Re: Truing rotor on disk brake
Best bet for me has always been using the pads as a truing stand.
- 2 Jan 2023, 12:17pm
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: Truing rotor on disk brake
- Replies: 13
- Views: 635
Re: Truing rotor on disk brake
Adjustable spanner works, little goes a long way. You can ruin a rotor being ham fisted.
- 2 Jan 2023, 8:39am
- Forum: Does anyone know … ?
- Topic: Dawes Sardar spec and year?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 4741
Re: Dawes Sardar spec and year?
And a quick search fails you…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/
2002 model was 631 Reynolds steel roughstuff bike, quite desirable to the right person. Think working man’s thorn.
- 1 Jan 2023, 6:57pm
- Forum: Touring & Expedition
- Topic: Are touring bikes old fashioned?
- Replies: 312
- Views: 27000
Re: Are touring bikes old fashioned?
Roberts roughstuff?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.
- 1 Jan 2023, 5:00pm
- Forum: Touring & Expedition
- Topic: Are touring bikes old fashioned?
- Replies: 312
- Views: 27000
Re: Are touring bikes old fashioned?
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.rareposter wrote: ↑1 Jan 2023, 11:37amYes, 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.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.
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...