Your rants here.

asprilla

I've never had an issue with it before but previously the brakes have always been mounted on the seats stays. It's only because the brakes are behind the bb and you have three cables running through there that it gets congested.

condorman

Dinyull wrote:

BT. Being b*stards.

Signed up for TV and broadband back in Nov. Last month they hiked their prices up after paying £1b for the Champions League rights. Because they broke the contract they offered us a free opt out, which we took as had been disappointed with their TV box and don't watch the Champions League.

They have since made moving to another phone/internet provider as difficult as possible. They dragged their feet to start the switch, since switching we've gone a week without internet and have to wait another week for a BT engineer to come out and fix a fault on the line.

I did the same without any issues as just signed up with new provider (VM) and next had an e-mail from BT saying sorry we were leaving and did we realise all that we'd miss, blah, blah, blah, followed by the misleading correspondence asking for their kit back. Part of their green recycling responsibility my foot, more like refurbish it and flog it to the next customer.

chris_bass

rjsterry wrote:

So in summary: internal cabling is all very well until you need to replace one. Noted.

it is fine as long as you dont take the old cable out before you attach the new cable and pull it through!

rower63

Chris Bass wrote:

rjsterry wrote:

So in summary: internal cabling is all very well until you need to replace one. Noted.

it is fine as long as you dont take the old cable out before you attach the new cable and pull it through!

yes yes yes yes yes

but only (mostly) ever learned the hard way

redvee

Chris Bass wrote:

it is fine as long as you dont take the old cable out before you attach the new cable and pull it through!

Sounds a bit like an ex work colleague who change the HT leads on his car by removing them all first.

MrSweary

Rhodrich wrote:

Internal cable routing - vacuum cleaner trick often does the job. Feed in some cotton thread into one hole, and stick a vacuum cleaner on the hole you want it to come out of. Feed the cotton in slowly, and watch as the thread is magically sucked out of the other hole. Then attach the cable to the thread, and pull it through.

This is what I do with the Kinesis. Still a pain in the butt and easily the most time consuming part of building it...

jgsi

Fuffin' DIYers polluting Saturday and Sundays with their noise and shoddy workmanship

asprilla

rjsterry wrote:

So in summary: internal cabling is all very well until you need to replace one. Noted.

Endescopes are great.



That's the cable outer caught on some rough carbon fibre on the inside of the downtube. Shifted it with a magnet and moved onto the next obstacle.

rjsterry

Impressive! But an endoscope just to run brake cables? Next thing you know you'll be cleaning your chain using ultrasound.

veronese68

This is why I think my next bike should have exfernal cables and not infernal. I would also be looking at a threaded BB. So my current bike is just fine. But I shouldn't have washed it the other day, I discovered the paint is bubbling quite badly at the bottom of the down tube.

wolfsbane2k

Asprilla wrote:

rjsterry wrote:

So in summary: internal cabling is all very well until you need to replace one. Noted.

Endescopes are great.



That's the cable outer caught on some rough carbon fibre on the inside of the downtube. Shifted it with a magnet and moved onto the next obstacle.

Intriguing.
Which model endoscope is that? I've got an oldish one from a few years ago, but it's quite a large camera lens.

mattsaw

rjsterry wrote:

Impressive! But an endoscope just to run brake cables? Next thing you know you'll be cleaning your chain using ultrasound.

Is there not someone on here that does that already?

wolfsbane2k

Mattsaw wrote:

rjsterry wrote:

Impressive! But an endoscope just to run brake cables? Next thing you know you'll be cleaning your chain using ultrasound.

Is there not someone on here that does that already?

cough <me> cough
Purely because it then only takes me a few seconds to unclip the chain, drop it in, press the button, walk away& get on with something else.
Although I might be changing my mind, rethinking my cleaning routine.

asprilla

Wolfsbane2k wrote:

Asprilla wrote:

rjsterry wrote:

So in summary: internal cabling is all very well until you need to replace one. Noted.

Endescopes are great.



That's the cable outer caught on some rough carbon fibre on the inside of the downtube. Shifted it with a magnet and moved onto the next obstacle.

Intriguing.
Which model endoscope is that? I've got an oldish one from a few years ago, but it's quite a large camera lens.

This one: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01 ... UTF8&psc=1

I was looking for a combination of cheap, worked with android and windows and smallest camera size to it would fit where I needed it to.

It's useful, but keeping track of the camera orientation is a mare.

mattsaw

Wolfsbane2k wrote:

Mattsaw wrote:

rjsterry wrote:

Impressive! But an endoscope just to run brake cables? Next thing you know you'll be cleaning your chain using ultrasound.

Is there not someone on here that does that already?

cough <me> cough
Purely because it then only takes me a few seconds to unclip the chain, drop it in, press the button, walk away& get on with something else.
Although I might be changing my mind, rethinking my cleaning routine.

I remember reading your post, it definitely sounded like an excellent idea

dinyull

condorman wrote:

Dinyull wrote:

BT. Being b*stards.

Signed up for TV and broadband back in Nov. Last month they hiked their prices up after paying £1b for the Champions League rights. Because they broke the contract they offered us a free opt out, which we took as had been disappointed with their TV box and don't watch the Champions League.

They have since made moving to another phone/internet provider as difficult as possible. They dragged their feet to start the switch, since switching we've gone a week without internet and have to wait another week for a BT engineer to come out and fix a fault on the line.

I did the same without any issues as just signed up with new provider (VM) and next had an e-mail from BT saying sorry we were leaving and did we realise all that we'd miss, blah, blah, blah, followed by the misleading correspondence asking for their kit back. Part of their green recycling responsibility my foot, more like refurbish it and flog it to the next customer.

Got all that shoot too.

I think it's because we haven't moved to another fibre provider (like Virgin) as a BT Engineer has to switch us back.

We're still waiting for them to get their ar$es into gear.

rower63

Wolfsbane2k wrote:

Mattsaw wrote:

rjsterry wrote:

Impressive! But an endoscope just to run brake cables? Next thing you know you'll be cleaning your chain using ultrasound.

Is there not someone on here that does that already?

cough <me> cough
Purely because it then only takes me a few seconds to unclip the chain, drop it in, press the button, walk away& get on with something else....

me too

cruff

rower63 wrote:

Wolfsbane2k wrote:

Mattsaw wrote:

rjsterry wrote:

Impressive! But an endoscope just to run brake cables? Next thing you know you'll be cleaning your chain using ultrasound.

Is there not someone on here that does that already?

cough <me> cough
Purely because it then only takes me a few seconds to unclip the chain, drop it in, press the button, walk away& get on with something else....

me too

I just read that and I think it's changed my life. I used to sit there for an hour pulling baby wipes dipped in white spirit through individual links in the chain - I was familiar with the need to clean the inside of the links rather than polishing the outside, but it's time-consuming, filthy and boring - when you throw in cleaning the cassette as well, it's a major ballache. Do you have a recommendation for an ultrasonic cleaner that won't break the bank?

rower63

Cruff wrote:

rower63 wrote:

Wolfsbane2k wrote:

Mattsaw wrote:

rjsterry wrote:

Impressive! But an endoscope just to run brake cables? Next thing you know you'll be cleaning your chain using ultrasound.

Is there not someone on here that does that already?

cough <me> cough
Purely because it then only takes me a few seconds to unclip the chain, drop it in, press the button, walk away& get on with something else....

me too

I just read that and I think it's changed my life. I used to sit there for an hour pulling baby wipes dipped in white spirit through individual links in the chain - I was familiar with the need to clean the inside of the links rather than polishing the outside, but it's time-consuming, filthy and boring - when you throw in cleaning the cassette as well, it's a major ballache. Do you have a recommendation for an ultrasonic cleaner that won't break the bank?

This is the one I use, around £100.
My folks have a history in the jewellery industry, so I've always been aware of and around these things. I started off with a "small-jewellery cleaner" but at 50W it wasn't powerful enough. The one in the Maplin link is 170W and it works well. It's also paid for itself as I've been able to clean up old vintage components from my parts bin to "as new" cleanliness and sell them on a popular auction site.

wolfsbane2k

Cruff wrote:

rower63 wrote:

Wolfsbane2k wrote:

Mattsaw wrote:

rjsterry wrote:

Impressive! But an endoscope just to run brake cables? Next thing you know you'll be cleaning your chain using ultrasound.

Is there not someone on here that does that already?

cough <me> cough
Purely because it then only takes me a few seconds to unclip the chain, drop it in, press the button, walk away& get on with something else....

me too

I just read that and I think it's changed my life. I used to sit there for an hour pulling baby wipes dipped in white spirit through individual links in the chain - I was familiar with the need to clean the inside of the links rather than polishing the outside, but it's time-consuming, filthy and boring - when you throw in cleaning the cassette as well, it's a major ballache. Do you have a recommendation for an ultrasonic cleaner that won't break the bank?

I use the lidl one, but of course you have to wait until that's back on offer.
Only a litre unit, not two, but can take a 10 spd cassette when broken down.

I do have to change my cleaning approach from "bio degreasers" to white spirit though, such a difference when pre-cleaning.

wolfsbane2k

Asprilla wrote:

This one: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01 ... UTF8&psc=1

I was looking for a combination of cheap, worked with android and windows and smallest camera size to it would fit where I needed it to.

It's useful, but keeping track of the camera orientation is a mare.

Cheers, ordered. Hadn't realised they'd moved to 720p in 5.5 mm heads yet, and image quality looks good from your shot.
Checked the size of my current unit - 13mm, which was originally bought to inspect a pump on a boiler.

itboffin

makes me think i really dont change my chain and cassettes often enough

cruff

itboffin wrote:

makes me think i really dont change my chain and cassettes often enough

What made me think that was binning it on a cobbled bridge a few weeks back with a chain that only had 200 miles on it. Cassette looked fine but was obviously fubared as when I replaced it I had no problems since. Teach me to change me chain more often - last one had more than 2000 winter miles on it and not only did the tool measure 1.0% stretch, it would have been closer to 1.25% :shock: - meant I only got two chains out the cassette when it should have been at least three (always was previously when I replaced more diligently)

itboffin

i just swapped tyres over wheelsets and noticed my cassette cleaned only last weekend is filthy, its only done 150 miles

grrrr why does cycling have to be so dirty, just once i'd like to go out and come back with a still clean bike

perfectmark

Asprilla wrote:

rjsterry wrote:

So in summary: internal cabling is all very well until you need to replace one. Noted.

Endescopes are great.



That's the cable outer caught on some rough carbon fibre on the inside of the downtube. Shifted it with a magnet and moved onto the next obstacle.

Old Hard Disks are also a great source of strong magnets, should anyone need some and have some old computers lying around. You just need a hex screwdriver to get them out.

tangled_metal

Radio dj: "I'm a cyclist too so i know about both sides!"

Grrrr! So you've just brought up a story about cyclists doing things wrong and you're justifying a one sided rant by admitting that you one rode a bike.

Truth is he'll be the sort who sees every motorist as doing things wrong when he's riding a bike and every cyclist is doing things wrong when he's in a car. Tool! Spanner!

Why do local, commercial radio djs believe it's good radio to talk about one class of road user doing things wrong?

PS I'm highly biased because one of their employees in a branded Nissan juke likes to close pass and cut me up.

rick_chasey

Tangled Metal wrote:

Why do local, commercial radio djs believe it's good radio to talk about one class of road user doing things wrong?

.

Because in the car is about the only time people ever listen to the radio.

tangled_metal

perfectmark wrote:

Asprilla wrote:

rjsterry wrote:

So in summary: internal cabling is all very well until you need to replace one. Noted.

Endescopes are great.



That's the cable outer caught on some rough carbon fibre on the inside of the downtube. Shifted it with a magnet and moved onto the next obstacle.

Old Hard Disks are also a great source of strong magnets, should anyone need some and have some old computers lying around. You just need a hex screwdriver to get them out.

There's a lot of kit with strong magnets in them. As a kid I went through a phase of collecting magnets. My young son found a few that I'd forgotten about. They were stuck to metal boxes when I was a kid. He's been going around looking for things to stick them to. My partner was letting him until I let her know that strong magnets and certain data storage don't mix well. Funny how people still don't know that magnets can damage things in this modern age.

mosheehan

Strava auto paused on a day where I'm sure I PR'd at least two segments. Easter holidays in full flow, and I missed them!!!

imatfaal

This is the "rants" thread - not the "mention interesting gadgets that I just have to buy now" thread. Thanks - endoscope and cleaner puchased.

And whilst ranting - changing both your user name and user photo within weeks is just confusing. you know who you are - but no one else does!