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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 25,775
    edited April 2022
    How do we feel about New Order - True Faith?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfI1S0PKJR8
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,391
    So I'm young enough to need to be told if that's the real video...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 25,775
    ddraver said:

    So I'm young enough to need to be told if that's the real video...

    It is. I knew to search from memory of it.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • webboo
    webboo Posts: 6,087
    35 years ago. I’ve got parts and tools in my tool box older than that, just in case they might be needed.
    Any body used the tools for a square taper BB lately.
  • morstar
    morstar Posts: 6,190
    webboo said:

    35 years ago. I’ve got parts and tools in my tool box older than that, just in case they might be needed.
    Any body used the tools for a square taper BB lately.

    Much as square taper BB’s were incredibly annoying, I almost long for the days when you could just buy a bottom bracket and add cranks to it.
    All that without needing to download the spec sheet for your bike and work out what parts are compatible.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,347
    webboo said:

    35 years ago. I’ve got parts and tools in my tool box older than that, just in case they might be needed.
    Any body used the tools for a square taper BB lately.

    Yep. For the first time in... 15 years. But not for me.
    I used to have the lockring tool - you know, the one with a hinge and due to lack of use, removed the pin and added 15cm of 10 speed chain converting it into a chain whip.
    Still have the headset spanners and combo cone spanners + crankset extractor.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • MattFalle
    MattFalle Posts: 11,644
    webboo said:

    35 years ago. I’ve got parts and tools in my tool box older than that, just in case they might be needed.
    Any body used the tools for a square taper BB lately.

    yup

    and Octalink.
    .
    The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    Octalink was a pain. Square taper is perfect for everything.
  • MattFalle
    MattFalle Posts: 11,644
    shirley_basso said:

    Octalink was a pain. Square taper is perfect for everything.

    never had an issue with it tbh. its square taper with a funny end to suit an Octalink crank.
    .
    The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 20,621
    Problem with Octalink (road version) is that it was around so briefly it became really hard to get parts for it. Otherwise, it was fine.
  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 14,630
    Octalink is basically the same as a lot of the splined fittings we have now. Only it was not sooooper big diameter and didnt put the bearings in the way of all the shit from the road, so a laser measurement sensor might be able to detect some flex, and it would last too long.
  • webboo
    webboo Posts: 6,087
    webboo said:

    35 years ago. I’ve got parts and tools in my tool box older than that, just in case they might be needed.
    Any body used the tools for a square taper BB lately.

    Well I do use the the BB tool with the pins I have fixed a piece of chain attached to a bolt through the pin hole. Home made chain whip.
    I do keep my Joy Division CDs ( remember them) in there as well.
  • twotoebenny
    twotoebenny Posts: 1,435
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  • MattFalle
    MattFalle Posts: 11,644
    TheBigBean said:

    Problem with Octalink (road version) is that it was around so briefly it became really hard to get parts for it. Otherwise, it was fine.

    CRC are selling Octalink b/bs at a fiver each at the mo' if you need any.
    .
    The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,347
    Never did have the 'pleasure' of Octalink.
    Jumped straight from old school BB to cartridge to overboard cups.
    I did have an FAG BB fitted to my Columbus Battaglin because Campag BB's at the time were out of my price range. Although heavy, it lasted years. It was a pig to remove.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,347
    Censored - F.A.G.

    Ha ha!
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 7,202
    Clearing the daft draft.
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 27,667
    pinno said:

    webboo said:

    35 years ago. I’ve got parts and tools in my tool box older than that, just in case they might be needed.
    Any body used the tools for a square taper BB lately.

    Yep. For the first time in... 15 years. But not for me.
    I used to have the lockring tool - you know, the one with a hinge and due to lack of use, removed the pin and added 15cm of 10 speed chain converting it into a chain whip.
    Still have the headset spanners and combo cone spanners + crankset extractor.
    I mean what kind of monster throws away tools?
    1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
    Pinnacle Monzonite

    Part of the anti-growth coalition
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,324
    shirley_basso said:

    Octalink was a pain. Square taper is perfect for everything.

    Isn't your old Octalink crankset on my son's road bike? Still works a treat, not that it gets ridden much 🙄
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