Horray!

all my bits arrived

only took 100 years

(rounding up)

@alex Yay!

rear hub rebuilt, new BB, pedals soaking in penetrating oil so I can rebuild them, bought a washing up bowl so I can start on my forks

coming along

pedals done, they were disgusting, forks half way there

@alex fun fun!

its always a surprise when someone accepts an old answer of yours

clean up?

hm?

Someone was having a clean up of their old questions.

oh. i dont think so. it was this question: bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/42127/…

im not big on keeping authenticity

I'm big on understatement. I don't like big brandnames and slogans

plain coloured things are more appealing than fancy patterned things

The rear mech has a job to do, and if it works then all is good.

authenticity is only important in a showboat, leroica rides, and museums

@Batman But a nice surprise. It's not that old really. I think it means he actually did what you suggested and was happy with it. IMO it's better to have a considered acceptance like that then when someone accepts the first halfway reasonable answer within hours. Deters others from making the effort to answer.

@Batman yeah, I kinda of appreciate it. It's better when they say "I did this and it worked", but accepted late does suggest that that was the case.

that was accepted recently, which is kinda odd because it's IMO a kludge even though it's also very likely the correct approach. I mean, the tool is sold for the purpose. It's that that IME it's very easy to bent those tools to uselessness if the BB is even a little bit stuck. The solid-metal version is better, albeit 5x the price.

@andy256 today is a negative LOC day - I'm chopping out half the work I've done in the last two-three months because we have changed our approach. It's a good decision, but it's still not a great feeling.

@andy256 - true. I don't normally see it though.