morning

night!

:)

/me grumps at insurance companies.

lying bastards.

I'm transcribing a phone call from 3 years ago

hoping to hear them say "4wd off road is covered"

cos they say they've never covered it ever

@Criggie yeah, different parts of London are very different too. I worked in The City, which was very industrious, and then in St James', which is full of art dealers etc. A very different pace to life. You got the feeling that in The City, people actually worked for a living while in St. James', their cash was largely inherited. Probably a bad assumption, of course ;-)

@Criggie yep, bastards the world over!

We only insure what we have to these days - car and house

@Criggie your comment on that silly answer was very tolerant btw - I'm afraid I saw it and just downvoted. I mean I can hopefully appreciate English not being the guy's first language, but even so that answer sounded dumb

thanks - its hard to not respond in kind, sometimes.

So - in New Zealand, a beach is legally defined as a road.

its unusual. But the insurar says "only recognised roads, no off-roading covered"

we've got a communist government in our city since two years ago. They immediately allowed same sex marriages and started issuing very cheap bicycle insurance, which works pretty much in any situation with bicycle involved, even if a bicycle hits you. Never thought I would say a good word about communists, but these two things made the city nicer.

Gosh, I answered a question a couple of hours ago, but this guy sounds like a walking disaster zone.

Well, I assume he can walk...

car, health.

i dont have house insurance

should probably get it

here, one is obliged to insure a mortgaged property

yeah

well, i rent an apartment

so i could get renters insurance

it is a condition imposed by the lender. #obviously, if the house isn't mortgaged, you can do what you want.

yeah, I just had contents insurance back when I rented

For several years I had the dubious honour of living in the most-exppensive-to-insure place in the UK. That was in Oxford, believe it or not

its okay though i guess. not sure i'll ever really be able to afford a house.

here, it is a great opportunity to make money. But as everywhere, prohibitively expensive to get one in the first place.

And, of course, the money means nothing unless you sell up

But our next-door neighbours have always rented. I dread how much more they pay in monthly rent than I pay in mortgage.

Although, of course, I am responsible for upkeep while they are not

a lot of jobs are in california for engineers. and a lot of the housing is either been owned by people for a long time and rented, or the chinese have bought the housing

yeah, I can't possibly complain there since on my foray into the USA, I was put up in a Chase appartment in NYC!

for free

I'm somewhat confused by this question: bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/40843/… but i think the guy has gone quite wrong before getting to this part.

batman: how so? Should he simply fit a new bottom bracket which has the spider and crank fitted ?

I've never seen a BB like that, it looks flash and modern

@Criggie - I havent worked with GXP, but I'm pretty sure you're supposed to use a hex key to remove the non drive side, then push out the drive side by hand.

I'm not sure what he's talking about with pressfit mumbo jumbo

Also, @PeteH, not a good day to be British

left and right sides of the BB pipe/axle are in two separate pieces ?

what's wrong with being a Pom today ?

so the bottom bracket installs with one piece on the drive side and the other piece on the nondrive side.

the guy's removed the non drive side arm and the piece on the non drive side

and pulled out the bottom bracket piece on the drive side with the bottom bracket

which i'm not sure how you do.

perhaps it was loose ? Contributing to the overall creakiness

you're supposed to install the drive side, then the non drive side of the bottom bracket, push the crankset drive side (by hand) attach the non drive side with a hex key or something

i don't think so. it's got a ton of threading -- if you remove the non drive side , you should be able to easily push the crankset out.

even if it is loose somehow, it'd need to be essentially out of the frame for that to happen I think.

as for whats wrong with being british, england lost to iceland in euro cup

iceland!

a team where the goalie's side job is playing for the national team!

that's cold man - kicking them while they're down

its pathetic!

I remember when at rugby matches, and they'd commentate stuff like "And thats a goal by Bruce, who is a plumber for Fred Brown Pluimbers."

its like in-line product placement

payback for the boss for being flexible

Now they're full time rugby players as a job, that's a whole new world.

He had to take off the chainrings to do it. Then probably used an open ended bottom bracket wrench to just barely get it around the drive side cup.

Most of my cranksets are that style and the fit between the spindle and cups is often very tight, add grease and some abuse and I always use a rubber mallet out of hand on such a setup. Sometimes I have rubber malleted a reassembly as well.

You can imagine with Company X Bottom bracket and Company Y crankset the tolerances are likely to be fairly variable.

yeah - bring back the days where everyone used the same fitment sizes, and distinguished their products on price and performance and weight rather than unique compatibility issues.

then again "buy everything from apple and it all just works" but as soon as you want to do something different, it gets much harder

@SuspendedUser - the logical thing to do would have just been hammering the thing out though!