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thekickingmule
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Mehning Losers!
Back to work for me today and I really, really cba
I'm trying a new routine this year, as I think catching the train is soul destorying. I'm going to try driving in. I think it'll cost me an extra £50 a month to do, but I should save about 30 minutes of time in the morning and evening, so an hour a day, 5 hours a week, 235 hours a year... almost 10 days! I think that's worth £50 a month.
Anywho, there'll be sod all going on at work, it'll be like Christmas Eve all over again. Kind of a good thing, as it means I can have a snooze I suppose.
Laters!
Back to work for me today and I really, really cba
I'm trying a new routine this year, as I think catching the train is soul destorying. I'm going to try driving in. I think it'll cost me an extra £50 a month to do, but I should save about 30 minutes of time in the morning and evening, so an hour a day, 5 hours a week, 235 hours a year... almost 10 days! I think that's worth £50 a month.
Anywho, there'll be sod all going on at work, it'll be like Christmas Eve all over again. Kind of a good thing, as it means I can have a snooze I suppose.
Laters!
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Woke up at 5, couldnt get back to sleep, which sucks anytime, but today proper sucks as i'm not going into work until late as i gotta drop No1 off at nannys!
Grrrr
Should have all those drunken purchases turn up today though, Which is nice.
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Back to work train has another passenger here
Now also looks like a tutorial tonight - which is going to drive the will to live right out of my body0 -
Morning,
Managed to oversleep so didn't get into work til 6.30am. Draymen waiting outside a tad miffed. Should be out of here by 9, day off tomorrow, work Sat then a week off. Missus is at work all week so get true freedom (will most like put myself into a wank-induced-coma)
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Mornin' window lickers,
Back to work after the festive break and I can't say I'm unhappy to be back. The place will be a ghost town until next week, though (I'm wathcing the tumbleweed roll through the office as I type). Still, it'll soon be the weekend, which promises wet wind and some minor partying - could be worse!
Onwards! To caffiene! And industrial espionage!How would I write my own epitaph? With a crayon - I'm not allowed anything I can sharpen to a sustainable point.
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morning all,
back to work for me too. at least the roads were quiet this morning, but I seem to have woken up with a cold :x
not many other people in until Monday so I can plod around and actually get some work done.
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I just got an email (i was CC'd) from the big cheese to my boss, I think there maybe more fireworks. well only if he can find my boss as he's been AWOL pretty much all december!0
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Morning losers :P
Not back at work yet here
First off to the bike shop to get the stearer cut down on my forks then off riding using one of my bro's bikes.
After that probably shite tv/films and leftover Christmas snacks 8)"Arran, you are like the Tony Benn of smut. You have never diluted your depravity and always stand by your beliefs. You have my respect sir and your wife my pity"
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Whats wrong with your own hacksaw?arran77 wrote:First off to the bike shop to get the stearer cut down on my forks0 -
VWsurfbum wrote:
Whats wrong with your own hacksaw?arran77 wrote:First off to the bike shop to get the stearer cut down on my forks
I haven't got one, so either buy one or pay the shop a fiver to do it
"Arran, you are like the Tony Benn of smut. You have never diluted your depravity and always stand by your beliefs. You have my respect sir and your wife my pity"
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VWsurfbum wrote:Whats wrong with your own hacksaw?
How do yo get it straight? Plus do you install the star nut aswell?0 -
thekickingmule wrote:Mehning Losers!
Back to work for me today and I really, really cba
I'm trying a new routine this year, as I think catching the train is soul destorying. I'm going to try driving in. I think it'll cost me an extra £50 a month to do, but I should save about 30 minutes of time in the morning and evening, so an hour a day, 5 hours a week, 235 hours a year... almost 10 days! I think that's worth £50 a month.
Anywho, there'll be sod all going on at work, it'll be like Christmas Eve all over again. Kind of a good thing, as it means I can have a snooze I suppose.
Laters!
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You saw in a straight linePesky Jones wrote:VWsurfbum wrote:Whats wrong with your own hacksaw?
How do yo get it straight? Plus do you install the star nut aswell?
Shocking isn't it! And yes, it's surprisingly easy to do
27 miles across the M62? Think I'll pass on thatCat With No Tail wrote:You should ride in you massive homo. It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
Join us on UK-MTB we won't bite, but bring cake!
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Have you done it before then? You didn't mark it, or come up with a method, you just picked up a hacksaw in one hand - steerer in other - and got a level cut first time?thekickingmule wrote:
You saw in a straight linePesky Jones wrote:How do yo get it straight? Plus do you install the star nut aswell? Shocking isn't it! And yes, it's surprisingly easy to do0 -
Pesky Jones wrote:
Have you done it before then? You didn't mark it, or come up with a method, you just picked up a hacksaw in one hand - steerer in other - and got a level cut first time?thekickingmule wrote:
You saw in a straight linePesky Jones wrote:How do yo get it straight? Plus do you install the star nut aswell? Shocking isn't it! And yes, it's surprisingly easy to do
Yes, I've done that before on my old sektors. It wasn't exact, but near enough it caused no problems. Fitting the starnut is a piece of wee wee also0 -
Fair enough, I would of thought the steerer had to be pretty much bang on level or the top cap would pull in a wierd way. Suppose its only a couple mm if you get it wrong..0
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Pesky Jones wrote:Fair enough, I would have thought the steerer had to be pretty much bang on level or the top cap would pull in a wierd way. Suppose its only a couple mm if you get it wrong..
it was nowhere near a couple of mm out. it was less than a mm.0 -
Morning chaps, I'm contemplating a late start to dryathlon, failed yesterday with 2 pints in the pub at lunch and a few wines in the evening.
It was all negated by a 6 mile mountain bike ride so good times!Advocate of disc brakes.0 -
You must be excellent at hanging paintingswelshkev wrote:Pesky Jones wrote:Fair enough, I would have thought the steerer had to be pretty much bang on level or the top cap would pull in a wierd way. Suppose its only a couple mm if you get it wrong..
it was nowhere near a couple of mm out. it was less than a mm.0 -
Pesky Jones wrote:Fair enough, I would have thought the steerer had to be pretty much bang on level or the top cap would pull in a wierd way. Suppose its only a couple mm if you get it wrong..
If you cut the steerer just shy of the length required then the top of the stem/spacer will be dead level for the cap to fit bang on, if that makes sense?Paracyclist
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Pesky Jones wrote:
You must be excellent at hanging paintingswelshkev wrote:Pesky Jones wrote:Fair enough, I would have thought the steerer had to be pretty much bang on level or the top cap would pull in a wierd way. Suppose its only a couple mm if you get it wrong..
it was nowhere near a couple of mm out. it was less than a mm.
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thekickingmule wrote:
27 miles across the M62? Think I'll pass on thatCat With No Tail wrote:You should ride in you massive homo.
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Holiday, where, what did I miss?!
Man that went fast, back to work and it feels like we haven’t been off (the only indicator is that the weather is nice today where it was shite when off work :roll: ).
on a side note, if your top cap is pulling/contacting the top of your fork steerer then you can’t preload you headset correctly, there should be a gap (the top cap should pull against the stem). So cutting on the wonk is not really an issue (well, up to a point, a little bit of accuracy is required :oops: ).MTB's, SC Blur LTc & Cotic Soul (26" definitely aint dead!).
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I'm hanging out my arse, me and the uncle managed to polish off a couple of bottles of wine and a bottle of whiskey last night.
I'm supposed looking after the little cousin in return for cash today. At the moment he's entertaining himself, this is good as it's letting me get some work done. In other news the student loan arrived, I've just spent a chunk of it on some new tyres and wheels for the roadie gay bike thing as I've killed my crap weather wheels, the front one no longer has a brake surface 0 -
As others have said, it doesn't have to be exact as the topcap doesn't need to touch the top of the stem. My method was masking tape around the stem, place on desk and saw. Then a bit of filing to get rid of sharp bits and voila. Took about 10 minutes from getting tools out to fitting to bike.Pesky Jones wrote:
Have you done it before then? You didn't mark it, or come up with a method, you just picked up a hacksaw in one hand - steerer in other - and got a level cut first time?thekickingmule wrote:
You saw in a straight linePesky Jones wrote:How do yo get it straight? Plus do you install the star nut aswell? Shocking isn't it! And yes, it's surprisingly easy to do
I would have said down, or maybe up the M62, however it goes left to right across the country, hence the 'across' the M62. :Pmatthew h wrote:thekickingmule wrote:
27 miles across the M62? Think I'll pass on thatCat With No Tail wrote:You should ride in you massive homo.
That's a wide motorwayIt takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
Join us on UK-MTB we won't bite, but bring cake!
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Pesky Jones wrote:
You must be excellent at hanging paintingswelshkev wrote:Pesky Jones wrote:Fair enough, I would have thought the steerer had to be pretty much bang on level or the top cap would pull in a wierd way. Suppose its only a couple mm if you get it wrong..
it was nowhere near a couple of mm out. it was less than a mm.
Who'd of thought that my simple comment would cause a mass debate "Arran, you are like the Tony Benn of smut. You have never diluted your depravity and always stand by your beliefs. You have my respect sir and your wife my pity"
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arran77 wrote:Pesky Jones wrote:
You must be excellent at hanging paintingswelshkev wrote:Pesky Jones wrote:Fair enough, I would have thought the steerer had to be pretty much bang on level or the top cap would pull in a wierd way. Suppose its only a couple mm if you get it wrong..
it was nowhere near a couple of mm out. it was less than a mm.
Who'd of thought that my simple comment would cause a mass debate
That's the magic of the CC. But from it, we now know that welshkev can hang a mean painting...0 -
Work. In charge. Sucks. Sleep and eat patterns are all messed up. Have a massive bar of chocolate on the desk though and working through that today to try and stay awake. According to the scales I have added 9lbs to my bodyweight over the last couple of weeks. Argh!!!! However my jeans still fit at the moment...Sarcasm: Because punching someone in the face is illegal.0
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Pesky Jones wrote:arran77 wrote:Pesky Jones wrote:
You must be excellent at hanging paintingswelshkev wrote:Pesky Jones wrote:Fair enough, I would have thought the steerer had to be pretty much bang on level or the top cap would pull in a wierd way. Suppose its only a couple mm if you get it wrong..
it was nowhere near a couple of mm out. it was less than a mm.
Who'd of thought that my simple comment would cause a mass debate
That's the magic of the CC. But from it, we now know that welshkev can hang a mean painting...
A useful skill indeed."Arran, you are like the Tony Benn of smut. You have never diluted your depravity and always stand by your beliefs. You have my respect sir and your wife my pity"
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arran77 wrote:Pesky Jones wrote:arran77 wrote:Pesky Jones wrote:
You must be excellent at hanging paintingswelshkev wrote:Pesky Jones wrote:Fair enough, I would have thought the steerer had to be pretty much bang on level or the top cap would pull in a wierd way. Suppose its only a couple mm if you get it wrong..
it was nowhere near a couple of mm out. it was less than a mm.
Who'd of thought that my simple comment would cause a mass debate
That's the magic of the CC. But from it, we now know that welshkev can hang a mean painting...
A useful skill indeed.
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