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I have been using a 130mm hub in the back of my Holdsworth with 126mm spacing since I had it. I just pull the dropouts apart a little and in or out it comes.
I have dished my wheels to suit the frame so I dont know if the alignment of the dropouts is good or bad.
I use an 8 speed shimano rear hub Sora and Tiagras so I can still use the old size chains. However almost all the changers and chainrings that you buy nowadays are 9 or 10 speed compatable.
My Holdsworth was originally fitted with a SR Sakae 118bcd front double chainset.
Does the frame have a lug for the rear deraileur?

You got me for a second

However be careful they take their knitting as seriously as we do our cycling. Always wear a thimble.

The question posed in this topic is an old one which I first heard when I did teacher training for Design and Technology. Well 16 years later there is still no answer and still no change.
It works both ways very few male primary school teachers and only one male nursery teacher under 25 years of age in England or UK not sure which.
Regardless of the morals, nurture or nature, right or wrong, the fact is that even fewer women are INTERESTED in cycling than men are.
Now you could see this as a problem if you have a view that equality is homogeneosity or you could say "viva le difference!"

Every week I take my daughter to the village coffee morning, I am the only man there. Over the past few months it has turned into a knitting club anyone who could not knit was given help and teaching by the others. The only person who has not bothered to learn is me, the man. Why, because I am just not interested by knitting, I fully appreciate the value and benefits of knitting but I am just not inspired to do it. The group have done all they should, it is not their "fault". Any man who wanted to would have learnt and be knitting with the best of them.

Peyote,

That is a nifty bit of editing that the BBC would be proud of and a quote so subtly almost out of context that Mandelsohn himself could have done it.

I dont know as I have never seen the latex ones, I only ask because most inner tubes are butyl as the latex ones leak air pressure much quicker.
If you had chosen to use latex you could have improved your situation by switching to butyl.
It is unlikely that you have latex without knowing about it.

To refuse to call England by the name England and insist it is not anything but Europe would annoy many English, yet be correct.
To refuse to call England by the name England and insist it is not anything but Germany would also annoy many English and show utter stupidity, wouldnt it?
If someone continued this stupidity (even after having it pointed out to them) and in the process bellitling the English, it would be considered offensive (by the English.)
Offensive behaviour is sometimes countered by a return of offensive behaviour in order to stop it.
Sometimes the innocent are the victims of the retaliation instead of the guilty.

JQ666,

As a parent I am guilty of all your crimes except number 4. Admitedly I dont do number 7 often as we do not have a TV of our own. Our kids are universally praised for their behaviour.

Your list seems more about conformity to a fashion than concern for nurturing children.

Who did Bronski beat? and by how much?

No it is not a translation thing. My wife has always described her bike as a 28" wheel which annoys me because it is nearer 27". She says that is what they are called in Germany.

You generally expect to see Prestas on 700C wheels because the rims are frequently drilled to that size.
On the other hand 26" rims tend to be wider and drilled to accept car type valves unless you buy an adaptor.
I suspect that if it was not for the difference in valve diameters we would have nothing but car valves on bikes. On the other hand I can not see narrow rims ever being unpopular so prestas will remain.

I have not done any sums but intuition tells me that the centrifugal effect of the gas molecules will be pretty insignificant compared to the 100psi or more pressure already in the inner tube.

I pump my tyres back up to pressure almost every week. It is also necesary for the motorbikes (though not as much pressure loss) but not for the car. The car of course has tubeless tyres unlike the others.

Mick you didnt say if you were using latex or butyl inner tubes.

Have you considered that Mrs F. may be doing this to your tyres when you are sat at the computer?

I would never wear anything sleevless in winter, I prefer to have more clothing on the bits furthest from my torso. Plenty of other people prefer to insulate their core more.
Are you a sleevless vest and gillet rider?
or a long sleeve plus arm warmers and the zip open type?

I dont like the way that many windproof fronted jackets do not include the windproofing on the arms.

The legs are a different matter as they keep themselves warm.

For me it is hands and feet that suffer the most.
So good winter boots without cleats or neoprene overboots with cleats.
Mittens are hard to find but the seperate fingers on gloves give your fingers little chance of staying warm.
If you have a bar bag and drop bars you can hide your fingers behind it, some of the time.
A balaclava and if severe I put up my hood and draw the cords to leave only a tiny bit of face. (this is a very adjustable hood which is built to attach to your head like a cap so it turns with your face and you can always see everything you need to while wearing it.)

I tried on a Helly Hansen base layer last night it was delicously warm for very little weight.
Various fleece lined winter shirts like the Polaris Hi-viz are very nice
or the one from Aldi at £6.99 is a bargain and not more expensive than any other clothing.

For not sub-zero weather a cycling jacket with a windproof front is excellent as you suffer most from the windchill going down the hills and these help prevent that while you can still lose excess heat while you cycle up it.

Anything which lets wind through (when you dont want it to) will not do much good.
Dont wear anything which is over-tight.

Ask a Cabbie

Sorry as an ex-despatch rider I find that as difficult as George W Bush asking Osama bin Laden for a loan to get out of the financial crisis

If that is the only option I may have to live with being .1% out.

I have the opposite experience.
Most of our bikes are fitted with Halford's own speedos all set to the mm. 1932, 1880, 2115 and 2125mm. In fact they can take 2 settings each for different tyre sizes!!
Arent Halfords fantastic
I also have a Blackburn Delphi so I could enter the world of cadence, which is also set in mms.
So we are talking of a precision (not accuracy) of .05%
I do have one I bought in Germany for 3DMs some time ago that is on a motorbike and I set that in inches, yes whole inches and you enter the diameter not the circumference on it.
So 1" on a 25" diameter tyre gives you a maximum precision of 4% which is pathetic by our standards but better than average for a motorvehicle.

Quick reminder that car speedos are only allowed to read up to 10% too fast they are not allowed to read too slow.

Sorry for hijacking your thread Mike but I hope you dont mind as your question has been answered.

You really are ASKING for it