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I have these on one of my bikes. They measure 8.5cm from the center of the fixing holes to the top of the clip: 27601859561_940e59e9a3_n.jpg They clear the ground when the pedal is inverted: 27575572752_2a5abacae4_b.jpg But drag on the ground when the pedal hangs down: 27676528575_3cfcde075a_n.jpg S...

I also have a Fourth hand tool gathering dust (but I like the suggestion of using it to tighten zip ties). My method of adjusting the rear mech cable is with the shifter in top gear to pull the cable hand tight then clamp. Next shift down 2 gears (this usually takes 4 or 5 clicks as the cable is ini...

I've wondered if ceramic ball bearings might wear a cup or cone smooth if slightly pitted. I have seen it suggested in another forum that one way of treating pitted cones is to fill the hub with copaslip instead of grease, ride it for a few miles and that might wear the cones smooth again. Does any...

Garmin publish their own free desktop software called BaseCamp. It reads GPX files and you can use it to create routes and customise routes created on other applications. It also makes it easy to transfer those routes to your GPS device. No doubt other applications are just as good but the learning ...

I have one of these, or something very much like it. Although it works fine I have to be honest and say that after the first use I have never bothered to use it again and I seem to manage OK without it.

Or this:

http://www.evanscycles.com/products/tern/tool-ec043673

I have a set of these on my Ford Focus. They are the first set of bars that I have owned so nothing much to compare them to but they attach easily to the fixing points on the roof and I have used them with a roof box and with a bike carrier without problems. They do not make much wind noise. I bough...

Thanks folks for all the sensible advice. I took the tyre off and I am now pretty sure it was a problem at the mould join as suggested. The carcass threads all looked to be intact. However it was a real struggle to get the tyre off (much harder than the Schwalbe Marathons I recently fitted to Mrs Cs...

I am building up a Jack Taylor frame for the L'Eroica. I bought some period wheels that came with rather nice whitewall tyres. There is a split in the sidewall on the rear tyre, Is this OK to ride?

Grateful for any advice.

Steve

Hi Did they just suddenly stop working or were you working on them at the time? If the latter my experience is that it was really easy to loose the indexing position and the instructions supplied with them did not tell you how to restore it. A Google search led me to these instructions: "Remove...