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    Cycling club enamel badge - CCW or WCC - which club is it?

    Just need a long beard, studded leather jacket tassles may help, pass the initiation and swear allegiance, no cops : )
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    Cycling club enamel badge - CCW or WCC - which club is it?

    Willesden Cycle Club https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/145555097642?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357
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    Freeing seized piston: Hope Mono Mini

    Just a ref for future eyes. Have run into this a couple of times with purchased Moto an Tech V2 used calipers off Ebay, the time and mess setting up hose and lever etc as an alternanative, you can use a shock pump, the hose end connector to the lever will screw into the caliper bleed hole and...
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    Rattle can respray

    Had some thoughts on parts, then changed mind and after a couple of build ups was not happy, so its now in bits awaiting its turn to be built up again just as soon as I can decide on what.
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    Rattle can respray

    Stripped and rawed, primed, painted, clear gloss, BB chased and faced.
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    Rattle can respray

    Local sales ad had this 2013 Trek 4300 as a used frameset with some parts on, £20 local pickup, sprog in the bug and off we went. Some salvageble parts but the frame has potential.
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    Do you do Voodoo!?!

    My voodoo is made in Taiwan, distibuted by Halfords though that was around 12yrs ago for my frame, if Halfords now own it I imagine there wont be much change in the processes of bike manufacture, just mean Halfords have the controlling stake in the Voodoo brand, therefore classing them as...
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    my logic with cable disc brakes and why they don't work well on drop bar levers, am i right?

    Not a fan of cable disc either, though running these with no nonsense for just over a year on my gravel, shopper, work, commute, general get there bike, closed oil system cable actuated and I get to use my beloved DX V levers : )
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    Last chain reaction cycle orders?

    Remember that this new chainreaction is name only, the behind running and operation is completey different, its controlled by a whole new entity, you wont be dealing with the same people, customer care etc so dont expect it to be the old chainreaction.
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    Wanted 26 or 27.5 sus fork, 1 1/8 straight steerer, thru axle

    You can get 1.5 tapered forks and have the steerer removed and replaced with a new uncut approx 256mm 1 1/8th straight steerer fitted, a shim spacer is used to take up the difference. On some Fox forks in 26" wheel you can switch the lowers in there respective stanchion size to 27.5 lowers with...
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    Colour match for xtr m970 grey

    Assuming there aluminium. Acid etch primer, or 2K epoxy primer, mix an match paint touch up pens to match colour then 2K clearcoat, would do it and be good durability but far from cost effective with 2K stuff. Or Acid etch primer, couple touch up pens in grahite grey with a touch of blue mixed...
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    Suggestions for kids bike lock?

    My kids have a crappy BMX they take to the shops or lock up at school etc and for days out, ride with mates or out on the trails, they have there proper bike. Some kids get there locked bikes at school trashed, wheels stamped sideways through arseholes kicking and stamping them. My partners...
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    Cmon guys… I need those brakes

    Its not the PO staffs place to determine, as last year I tried to send a legal carry folding slip joint pocket knife, on answering there Q whats in the parcel, I responded with its a uk legal carry pocket knife, the look on the PO staff members face was utter terror, she declined to accept and...
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    Cmon guys… I need those brakes

    I might have some but your not avin em, I cant be trusted or be bothered with the hassle of packing let alone dealing with export post nonsense, I just get into arguments with post office staff when they ask whats in it, I often tell em its none of there business or I dont know, they reply with...
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    Yorkshire man rushed to hospital after mountain bike trail assault

    Way to go idiots. https://uk.yahoo.com/news/yorkshire-man-rushed-hospital-mountain-085946961.html
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    Show us your vape. Here's mine.

    Popcorn Lung sounds nice : )
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    Kona news…..

    Ive said in another post on this, and theres a wealth of forum sites eager to be first on this, no love lost in fact I dont care theres plenty of great bike frames out there, we are spoilt for choice, move on.
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    The end is no longer nigh: Kona Bikes

    No love lost on these bike brands, many are no longer the way they were, there names were long sold to new entities and now run with no faithfulness or passion as the folk before them. Cannondale, Raleigh for eg are just names used to carry the brand in the hope you still associate it with how...
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    Cycle2Work

    Some folk have switched transfered there cycle to work scheme to other bike shops for a better choice of bike other than what Halfords offer, incase you were limited.
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    Show us your vape. Here's mine.

    I'd be more interested if it had the option to show us your lungs : )
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