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Re: I'm running 11-42 on the back and 30 up front. I should probably move to 32 or even 34, 30 is way too low even for the hills around here.

Re: Nah, you want something like stub (that's 100c6 steel, much harder than nails, rectified to within 1.5 microns of nominal Ø iirc) is cheap and easy to get hold of in various diameters. Really, that's gonna be easily hard enough. I can get, for example, 2mm stub at 2,5€/metre. If it's a...

Thanks for all the help, chaps. Swapped out a nipple from my for sale wheels in order to keep riding, and have today rebuilt with new (blingy red) nipples. Sorted.

Yeah, but it only measures in farthings :)

Cool, thanks.

So it is just a quick spoke diameter measurement thing, then?

I have available... Vernier calipers, accurate to 0.05mm. Shitty chinese digital calipers, register to 0.01mm, probably no more accurate than 0.1mm, I could probably borrow the mitutoyos from work, but I also have micrometers (hundredths and micron). While I'm at it, I've got a ruler :) No...

OK, quickie. Blew out a spoke nipple this morning, need to get a handful of new nipples. Prolly going to change the lot, but *embarassed* I don't know what gauge my spokes are. How do I find out?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00OlG5E8vLk

If you can't drift (or better, press) 'em out from behind, and you can't use the soggy bread trick, a slide hammer would be the way to go, IMO. If they're loctited, you may (will) want to apply heat first, ~250°C for Loctite 648. As for not using slide hammers on bikes, I can't see any reason...

Re: Re: Not twenty cyclists, though. Hunters shouldn't be let outside with peashooters, let alone guns.

Mine have an RST (steel) steerer fitted, You will need to very slightly reduce the diameter to make it fit, this can be done with wet & dry, although I did mine on the lathe (removed 2/10 mm diametrically)

If it's rusted, electrolytic cleaning is the best way to go, as it doesn't remove any of the good metal, only reconverting the bad stuff.

My guess would be that the bike itself doesn't exist, at least not in the "sellers" hands. The wording screams "scam! run away!".

Re: So, anyway, after a good while off the bike due to a buggered back (again), I managed to get some riding in on this setup. My bodged prototype longer-than-goatlink works a treat, and allows the M786 shifter to clear an 11-46 cassette. It'd probably clear an 11-55, I went a bit overboard...

What may well happen, given how easy it is to derestrict an ebike (much like a 50cc 30 mph moped, or a 125cc / 11kW L-plated motorbike) is the potential for roadside checks, the result of which, given that a "stealth" derestricted ebike is an uninsured, unregistered, non-type-approved electrical...

Re: Re: Nah, Trible are actually a GPS/GNSS manufacturer. He was probably being nice. The Trimble actually looks like it was made by someone who'd read a description of a bicycle in a foreign language dictionary.

Say what, you say? You and your popular beat combos.

Aaaaand - scratch that plan. The M786 travel stop falls outside of the M510 cage. Bugger. Looks like I'm waiting for the boy to get back with the car, so I can buy some aluminium.