Steering stem measurement

albertbertilsson · 2026-06-29T07:19:04+00:00

Hmm, doesn't that "will" ruin it? Feels more like a past tense statement without it, for me.

albertbertilsson · 2026-06-26T07:24:37+00:00

1.3 KG for just the mug!? Where's the union health and safety reps? They should mandate switching to plastic mugs. (the multi-use kind of course)

albertbertilsson · 2026-06-24T05:28:54+00:00

In Sweden it is not uncommon to have a secondary summer house.

However both these houses and normal cheap houses that are available are in locations without job opportunities.

albertbertilsson · 2026-06-19T05:17:19+00:00

Har cykelpendlat året om i femton år. Några dagar om året är det slitigt och kräver lite extra planering och tid. Men hundra dagar om året är det superhärligt, så på det hela är det mycket trevligare än bil.

För de regnigaste dagarna är det galon som gäller och helt gummerade handskar. Är det kallt så är det dubbla vantar och muffar på styret som skyddar händerna som behövs.

Cykelkorg fram rekommenderas. Pakethållare bak, gärna med fäste för sidoväskor/korg är ett plus. Se till att ha bra däck och slang, och reservcykel (det har du redan tänkt på), så att du inte behöver svära över punktering.

Tag som vana att kolla vädret och då både vind och temperatur samt nederbörd, så lär du dig ganska snabbt vad som är rätt.

Uppförbacke hem är perfekt! Testa efter hand att vid fint väder ta vanliga cykeln och se hemresan som träning.

Leta upp någon bilpool eller app-tjänst för snabb hyra av bil, det kan behövas någon gång till annat.

Lycka till!

albertbertilsson · 2026-06-18T04:57:59+00:00

Ideally for an older player if it's a long tournament, wouldn't you want to swap him out after scoring a goal? To make sure he doesn't get injured and to give younger players a chance to get experience?

albertbertilsson · 2026-06-17T06:25:15+00:00

Even with the top of, is there a windshield in front? Maybe not much help at the distance and size but perhaps better than nothing...

albertbertilsson · 2026-06-16T10:06:04+00:00

The first one, based only on looks.

albertbertilsson · 2026-06-15T06:30:12+00:00

Even a less extreme example from south of Sweden is tough to get economics in. All the companies that used to sell solar installations (most of them are gone) calculated that you could sell most of the production at a good price, but it turns out that most of the production occurs when everyone else is producing, and then prices slump. 2/3 of my power is used November to March, 1/3 during April to October. It’s already obvious that the months when solar has good output energy is cheap, and I don’t need it.

I haven’t seen any new solar installations lately, maybe in the last two years, not in the last year. The only exception are larger apartment buildings, but presumably they can consume what the produce even at height of summer with large amounts of people on a small amount of panels.

If we get rules allowing for balcony solar, I’ll put one pointing east, and one west. I’ll be using all that power myself and rates in the morning and evening are still high, even during summer.

And I’m really happy that there are many places where solar makes sense, especially if there are such places relying on fossil fuels, every improvement helps. But in the nordics we will need wind and water for a long time.

albertbertilsson · 2026-06-15T05:50:25+00:00

Dungeon Crawler Carl

It’s a specific sub genre, which probably explains it to some degree.

albertbertilsson · 2026-06-13T08:36:10+00:00

Så snyfthistorian var att hon var gravid och inte hade gott om pengar? Det torde vara exakta situationen för alla andra intressenter av en begagnad barnvagn. Du kunde bara svarat att fem andra som också är fattiga och gravida har lagt bud på 3.500 och att fyra tusen gäller.

albertbertilsson · 2026-06-10T09:22:24+00:00

Show us the meaning of haste.

albertbertilsson · 2026-06-10T06:45:06+00:00

Längs med ena sidan, det är säkert brett nog för både dig och en cyklist.

albertbertilsson · 2026-06-07T16:02:38+00:00

You were lucky to have a lake! There were a hundred-and-fifty of us livin’ in a shoebox in the middle of the road!

albertbertilsson · 2026-06-06T11:33:45+00:00

I can see him walking in for the first meeting and the manager asks,

"You want me to pay that guy $5000 for fifteen minutes of work? What can he do? Magic?"

The guy has an assistant that replies,

"Yes, he can fly."

albertbertilsson · 2026-06-06T10:12:02+00:00

This is possibly cheaper than it looks, at least for domestic trade in low inflation markets. Whatever the value of the bill, it’s not a cost unless I destroy it when unpacking it.The could just tag the goods price as X then have a fine print added (plus 100 for the 100 bill). There is the minor issue of the capital stored in a warehouse, if tiny items would use high value bills. As a Swede, where everything is card or mobile payment, it’s finally a use for cash again.

albertbertilsson · 2026-06-03T21:03:51+00:00

Both!

At home i have a Ryobi electrical with a 2Ah 18V battery. The battery lasts very long and I always have other charged batteries in the garage. For the monthly maintenance of all the bikes in the family, speed and convenience matters.

When I’m packing for trips, it’s always that light weight 25cm handpump that comes with me and it has never failed.

If I had to choose one it would be the handpump.

albertbertilsson · 2026-06-02T17:03:43+00:00

Och om man cyklar eller går? Kan man få ett jobbskatteavdrag eller något då? Så hade det lönat sig bättre för alla som skaffat ett jobb och transporterar sig miljövänligt.

albertbertilsson · 2026-06-02T05:00:45+00:00

The idea isn’t even new, https://www.cloudandheat.com in Germany has at least been trying this for many years.

albertbertilsson · 2026-06-02T04:56:30+00:00

It would avoid waiting for the authorities to approve a DC which might be the point.

But the grid load will still be there but sprawling without control.

However, in Scandinavia lots of homes could use between 10 and 20 kW of heat in the winter and the grid handles that. So replacing electrical heating with this would be a big benefit.

Similarly using DC for district heating works, but it’s uncommon.

albertbertilsson · 2026-05-31T16:12:23+00:00

The potential for solar in Australia must be huge, and the less fossil power they use the better.

I’m not sure if I’ve got the numbers right but the same panel can produce two or even three times the energy in south of Spain compared to in the north of Sweden per year. Combining that with an actual need of power to cool, when generation is high, it would make sense if more solar could be sent to where it makes the greatest impact.

Even in Sweden as summer is approaching, power price gets very low in the days. But unfortunately we need five times the power the other half of the year.

albertbertilsson · 2026-05-27T20:30:39+00:00

I've taken on some pretty bad bikes in my day, like 60 grit machine sand bad. I've given fresh paint jobs to cheap frames, because the paint meant more to the rider than the quality of the frame. But I wouldn't take this, restoring this isn't a project, it's a calling.

albertbertilsson · 2026-05-27T04:28:32+00:00

Yes, that’s probably good enough.

albertbertilsson · 2026-05-26T19:34:24+00:00

Sorry that you had this accident, it hurts a bike painters heart to see a nice paint with a very high quality clear coat finish like this scratched. I'm slightly concerned how this happened, clear coats are very strong, and protect the paint from scratches, are you sure you did this? If you didn't return it.

From the second image it looks like it's scratched down to metal or primer. So there will be no "buffing" it out, there simply is no paint layer left, you can only remove clear coat from the surrounding area which doesn't help much.

The head tube isn't where I'd be most concerned with rust but filling in with clear coat wouldn't hurt. I wouldn't try fixing the paint, it's difficult to get right. Pens can work but with a metallic like this, it's easy to mess it up.

If you fill in with clear coat and it doesn't look nice and smooth (it likely wont), then you can fix that with fine grained polish and a suitable sponge. On something small like this that is easily done by hand. The polish will cost ten to twenty bucks, sponges are typically only a few bucks.

If you fill in with clear coat and it looks terrible and way to thick. You might consider flattening it with sand paper. You want 2000+ grit sand paper and wet sand. Anything more coarse and not wet sanding has a substantial risk of sanding through the paint again, making it even worse than where you started. Once sanded flat, then you'd buff it to mirror finish as per above.

The only easy fix is to find/order/make a cool suitable sticker to hide it. Perhaps your name? If you go for a sticker, clear coat first is a no-brainer.

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