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"A bit squint" is all it needs. Bike shops have a tool to check and adjust any misalignment of the hanger.

If the chain is jumping on many sprockets and particularly on the small one then it is very likely to be a stiff link. Best way to check is to run the chain backwards while eyeing the cassette as you do so. After checking this it's essential to view from the rear that the pulley on the rear Der...

Indeed it is bad...but appears even worse for us Scots given that we voted against leaving and doing so will devastate our economy and rob our country of the young immigrants needed to boost our population.

To those who are sceptical regarding dowsing (and who can blame you)....it might be helpful to google the man I referenced above "Bruce MacManaway" who ran the Westbank Healing Centre in Strathmiglow. Now deceased his story is a fascinating one and he was very well-regarded. Oddly enough a large...

As someone has said "dowsing" has its uses beyond water. Someone well known for having this ability but using the pendulum method lived very near to me. He had a reputation as a "Healer" having gained this as an Army Officer in the Korean war and I consulted him regarding some injuries I had...

Just popped back for a moment......in a rapidly changing world it's comforting to see that here at least nothing has changed.

You take the front wheel out of your folder and lean it on the rear bumper while you load the Folder into the Estate...close the lid...hop in the driving seat and reverse over the wheel. What's even worse that the bike isn't mine I was just repairing it for a friend....sigh...£80 for a new one.

I'm having difficulty in understanding this. Given that your Rohloff uses a single chain-ring and that the alignment of this with the centre of the cassette can be adjusted by means of the length of the Square taper Bottom bracket, what increased accuracy could be required? It might be just me...

The Police consists of a cross-section of our society and is to be expected that it will contain many brave officers and many who carry out their duties in a fair and competent manner and will also contain some who are corrupt, who are racist and who fail in their duty. Proof ...if proof were...

Now I know that this is an open invitation to tell one of these Irish jokes but I'm going to resist. :)

What a filthy thing to say. :eek: "The Grenfell inquiry will be a stitch-up. Here’s why" "A public inquiry where the government chooses charges, judge and jury puts the bonfire of regulations outside the frame. An independent commission is needed."...

The wheel may run true but this does not mean that it's a good job. Perhaps I'm cynical but I ran a workshop in a Bike Charity and have had to make good many bikes from Halfords which were dangerous....including one where the front forks had been reversed.

It's true that practise does make perfect..............last one I did was from across the other side of the room using only thought control.

Then you are in a very select company as the majority of cycle shops these days lack the skills or choose not to spend time on doing this. It's understandable given that it's a time-consuming process and certainly it's not a job that I'd entrust to Halfords.

The machines used to build wheels today are now more sophisticated than they once were, but they have yet to make a machine that can de-stress the spokes once the wheel has been built. The wheel when finished may be perfectly true but the in-built tensions in time may cause certain spokes to...

You are seriously comparing the risk of a fire in a Tower block with that of it being hit by a meteor strike.....................good heavens. Perhaps a wee lie-down in a darkened room is called for.

If this was hindsight then it was apparently shared by over 60% of the Scottish electorate. One look at those leading the Brexit leave movement was enough to convince me that it was brazen opportunism. May I digress.......would you be interested in buying a bridge?

I've just finished this poem for my writers'group but thought it apposite for this thread. Waiting Evil may not come with dripping fangs striding on stage in some repulsive form no…..it may sidle on in a wrinkled business suit with promises on its lips of lower taxes of cutting useless red...

Better late than never suppose....but many of us knew that long before the negotiations ever started. The problem was that those who wanted to leave were only too eager to believe anything the proven liars who led the leave campaign said. All that bluster and bragging about how the UK would...

Shades of Tony Hancock here it seems.