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The URL provided for voting online was indeed incorrect. Therefore the CUK establishment has effectiveley disenfranchised those who would prefer to vote online. I think the whole thing should be re run. A session of excessive drinking in a brewery anyone!

I wasnt enamoured with the accountancy wheeze of becoming a charity in the first place.
I am even less pleased about the CTC logo etc being accompanied with the proclomation about being the National Cycling Charity.
Exactly what is this proclomation supposed to convey?
It is also a bit demaeaning for charities that operate for welfare and health purposes, having an organisation primarily operating for leisure purposes having themselves parade as an equal.
OK the accountants have succeeded in getting the CTC a tax break etc, but dont flaunt it in such a banal way.

I have now got hold of some campag 8 speed ergo levers and got a nice indexed system working on a shimano 7 speed cassette.
I had to fit a much longer bottom gear limit screw on the mech to prevent over enthusiastic geaar changes going into the spokes.

Usually removing the right hand bottom bracket cup can be problematic. Most have flats, so grip the cup in the vice and turn the frame, remembering that it is a left hand thread.

I have one bike with rigida chrina rims. I run 23mm tyres on that bike and at one stage fitted schwalbe Luganos (now discontinued) and the beads wouldnt sit in the rims at all. I did though have a problem with a michelin folding tyre popping off after it had seated OK in fitting.
In view of the latter, I wonder if as mentioned upthread it is a rim problem and not the tyres.

Since I confidently testified to the puncture resistance qualities of pasellas on this thread, I have been smitten by a number of punctures.
Mind you the local roads are either mud soup containing goodness knows what, or are littered by the evidence left by the hedge bashers.

Never had any sidewall problems though------------------yet.

I run the Pasellas at the reccomended 105psi, I should think I do about 4Kmiles on that bike, though I am not a mile recording zealot. They are 700X28s and for two years running have had a good pounding on some of the Belgian off road cobbled tracks.
85 psi on the hack, I would be suprised if I exceed 1Kmiles on that machine.

Just wondering if a Garmin GPS is usable when being charged,
This Summer I saw in a German bike Mag a gizmo which gave a USB outlet socket in the top plate of an ahead set. I expect it gets its power from a dyno hub.
Should be OK for riding in the dry, but very iffy in the wet. The weather seal on the Garmin USB socket isn't all that brilliant anyway.

That settles it, Sheldon Brown on the bit about checking if a deraileur is bent mentions the Campag curve http://sheldonbrown.com/derailer-adjustment.html .

Yup. you are right. I have just looked at the Veloce 9 speed mech I have on another bike, and it too is "bent". Though not as markedly as the 8 speed mech I was querying originally.
I have just screwed the 8 speed mech on a frame and the top pulley does seem to be as near as poss right angles to the hub axis, so it should work OK.

Have used Paselas for years with few punctures and no sidewall problems. Have Schwalbe Marathons on a hacking bike and they seem to invite punctures.

Thanks for that. I wonder if Ernst Campagnolo had been on the Vino before he sat down at the drawing board to design the early long cage mechs.

I have just purchased one of these on Ebay with the intention of using it on a 5mm spaced shimano 7 cassette, plus campag 8 speed ergos. I recieved the mech and although it is NOS, felt like sending it back as the cage appeared to be bent, or at least curved.
I contacted the seller in Germany, and he replyed that he was originally confused when he saw the cage on another Campag 8 mech. He did find though it was a design feature and sent me a photograph of 3 other Campag mechs with the same curved cage.

Has anyone else found this?

Sorry about confusion. I was looking at two options. Either a bush to make a neat job of fitting nutted brakes to an allen key type frame. Or something similiar to the Sheldon nuts for fixing mudguards to an allen fitted brake.

Did a bit of googling and found the sheldon nuts are availiable in the UK from SJS and Triton Cycles.

Sorry for above, it is triton cycles dot co .uk and also SJS cycles stock them.