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Stripped down bike look - flashing a bit of cable and exposing your innards with pride. It's clearly what people demanded on a £1500 mountain bike in 2006 ;). There's little logic in fashion !

OK ... I understand that - thanks. Presumably achieved by simply tightening the spokes slightly more on one side than the other. Cheapest dishing tool I can find on e-bay is a portable Park Tools one for about £28 (:() .. is that likely to be good enough / worthwhile to buy ... Park Tool WAG5 -...

Excellent news ... bag plan just got a whole lot easier :). The cables are housed from the shifters up to the cable guide mouldings on that tube, then exposed between them, housed again up to more moulings on front seatpost tube (for front derailleur) and hardtail (for rear), yet another...

Been working with bike-bags.co.uk this afternoon at triangle bag design for my frame. One thing which we are both agreed on is that if possible it would be best to use a single long velcro flap to secure the bag along the tube running horizontally from seat post to front stem. Slight...

Great - will get my head round how to true the wheel and work on some stress relief too ;) I'm slightly confused about the disc brake and whether this means the wheel has to be 'dished' ... haven't quite got round to understanding that yet. Is this something I can find out by mounting the brake...

Courtesy of photobucket .... valve hole lowermost. Any preferred techniques, Alan ? Using spare spoke a good idea ! Managed the first 2 sets with just fingers for the initial lacing, but the 3rd and 4th sets a screwdriver was definitely needed. I just used a regular hand-held one in the...

... and 5 hours later (:o) my first wheel is laced :D I'd put up a picture but it's 2.04mb and Pedelecs won't let me.... will have to try to fiddle around editing the size down tomorrow. Got lazy and tried the video but it actually sent me off on the wrong tack. So disassembled everything and...

About to get started. Just done a weight check of the BMS 26" rim for future reference, as I don't remember seeing details online when ordering. 26" rim - 472g 36 x 13G spokes - 249g roll of rim tape - 17g Expected contribution to finished wheel weight - 738g

It's easy to get it right when you are so awash with bounty relative to your native population that there is more than enough for all. Those same countries do not have a good record of a fair and reasonable attitude to migrant workers ! Most people are well under 12 months away from being...

I check Lidl 3 times a week for these bargain tools (it's next to gym so a great incentive for me to at least get my bum in the vicinity of latter) ... but sadly they have a tiny tool section and have never found any of the stuff put on here. May be it's too small an outlet. A great shame ! Big...

... having gone out with one for several months, I'll qualify my "like" with requiring the addition of a Swiss bank account and the stamina of a Somali marathon runner :rolleyes: ;)

I had similar when doing some work for a London client as part of a consortium a few years back. I was charging about £250/hr at the time (sadly most of which was going to an intermediary covering the liability policy (!)) .. but it was felt that a minimum hourly rate of £350 was needed in order...

Well, I for one am. If work is in abundance and people buying my time are making lots of money with the help I give them, then I can charge a great deal more than when times are tough and there is not the surplus to throw around. If I wound my prices up to sustain what I perceive as a "decent...

It does happen - and quite a lot with bikes. Always look at the bid histories during the auction - some sellers set up bogus profiles to make it look like an item is in demand and stimulate bidding. They effectively bid against you to encourage a price hike. If all fails they claim a timewaster...

Just wish the darned things came in a 2 x front option .... having to buy a single unique pitlock for your front wheel on each bike is a bit of a pain ... chances of remembering to take the right key with you for the right bike is dubious for some of us (!) ... so most likely all will wind up...

I was told in no uncertain terms to fully charge and run my Kalkhoff battery to flat twice before starting the topping up maintenance approach.... which I did faithfully. Presumably this was to maximize battery life ? :confused:

... and it's the knock-on of all these highly taxed inputs to business operations consumers are fed up having built in to every flipping thing they go out and buy. It took years for the penny to finally drop that aside from 17.5 - 20% VAT, more than 50% of what remained of what I was paying for...

Clever idea. Not sure those cable locks would last 5 minutes most places tho' ! ... The InterLock

I agree with GaRRy .. I am told the Impulse cuts out at 15.5mph. However, you can squeeze a bit more out if you work the gears properly. My usual speed on that is about 18.5mph on slight uphills or bad road surfaces, easily topping 20 - 21mph with a gentle downhill, using the higher gears and a...

It may be a chicken and egg scenario, but surely the onus is not on the consumer to buy more at high prices to drive up sales volumes. If suppliers can keep selling at those prices they have no incentive to lower them. Suppliers need to bring market asymmetries which make them uncompetitive to...