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7) Occasionally offer some support to the work that the CTC is doing with disadvantaged and disabled groups. Gulp, You think that making that a requirement of forum posters is going to encourage more members. 1) Don't choose a forum name that identifies you as old. Does that mean we only want to at...

You have missed the joke.

I have to opine that if the Cracknell incident demonstrates anything it's the benefit of a rear view mirror...

Now that is being cruel.

Yes, diversity of interest is to be frowned on. Getting out on the bike each day and doing 200k should enable us to all achieve 70,000kms a year. So less slacking, wasting time on wheelbuilding folks and ride, ride, ride until you are sick of it. It could be worse, some folk waste time on t'internet...

I havent visited the forum for a while but I noticed when I entered that it now has a Google tracking cookie on it, that wasnt here last time I visited.

I like to watch this forum and many others but seldom bother posting. My sense of mischief means that I can not resist drawing your attention to this thread on another forum. http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=48012.0 where the local experts suggest that Pizzaman should use double butted spokes...

You got me there!

I made a couple of "road" wheels for the bike a couple of years ago to have thin tyres and used thin tubes with Presta valves. The narrower Sputnik rims came drilled out for car type valves and I had to get some adaptors! Now I go to replace a fat rim for fat tyres and fat tubes, it comes ...

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The other wheel on the bike is Shraeder and I already have a lot of inner tubes.
Too much invested to change now.

I have just bought a 21mm Exal Rim and to my surprise it is only drilled to 6.5mm for a Presta valve. I had assumed that a MTB style rim would take a car type valve. I guess that I can just put a drill through the hole with my hand drill and make it out to 8mm. Anyone know any reason why not? and is...