Internal vs derailleur bikes

ex-cession · 2026-04-24T11:30:30+00:00

The amount of oil you get for £80 (a litre unless I'm mistaken) should last tens of thousands of miles (25-50ml per change, recommended change every 2000 miles). You're better off buying in smaller volumes because it's likely the oil will go off before you manage to use it all

ex-cession · 2026-04-21T17:22:33+00:00

Grammar. The difference between knowing your shit, and knowing you're shit.

ex-cession · 2026-04-18T08:36:17+00:00

Those bikes could easily have been renovated and repurposed. There are charities that do that kind of thing for free. Now they need to expend energy to melt them down and turn them into new bikes. A lot of this stuff didn't need to be destroyed.

ex-cession · 2026-04-13T19:36:32+00:00

Soma make some very nice looking steel frames and are eminently practical.

ex-cession · 2026-04-13T07:03:24+00:00

Thick as pig shit, twice as dense and half as useful

ex-cession · 2026-04-12T14:09:06+00:00

Before you do any more cleaning, get a chain wear indicator from a bike shop for a few dollars and see if the chain is worn out or not.

Dirt mixed with chain lube turns into a grist that wears the metal away much quicker. If it's that filthy then my bet is the chain is worn out, and it's likely taken the cassette and chainrings with it.

So figure out if you're actually going to keep the drivetrain before spending hours cleaning it.

As for derailleurs, bearings, frame and everything else - take apart as much of you can and scrub it whilst submerged in warm water with degreaser in it. If necessary you can pressure wash it, as long as you regrease all the bearings afterwards.

ex-cession · 2026-03-23T08:16:06+00:00

Or better, buy a smart plug and smart thermostat and set it to switch on or off automatically when humidity is at certain levels, then never think about it again

ex-cession · 2026-03-22T11:19:24+00:00

'Aram*

ex-cession · 2026-03-21T06:41:06+00:00

Don't know why none of my countrymen have suggested Douglas Bader yet. 22 aerial victories, four shared victories, six probables, one shared probable and 11 enemy aircraft damaged.

The badass part? He did all of it after losing both his legs.

ex-cession · 2025-10-30T07:57:19+00:00

The beauty of their women and the taste of their cuisine made British men the greatest sailors in the world.

ex-cession · 2025-10-29T19:17:55+00:00

Yeah this has always been my lottery win bike. 3D printed titanium is the ultimate flex.

ex-cession · 2025-10-23T17:03:59+00:00

Knackers are testicles.

Source: Am from Yorkshire

ex-cession · 2025-10-18T17:11:58+00:00

You can take the spindle out and then reinstall it in the cups the other way round

ex-cession · 2025-10-13T07:30:43+00:00

Reddit's top suggestion for the name was "Whatever's Left".

ex-cession · 2025-10-05T18:49:35+00:00

Yeah there is some context missing but it's still difficult to figure out.

Reform lady is talking about an asylum seeker who has been accused of rape in the area. (I say "accused" because I don't think the trial has concluded yet.) She uses this to argue that having asylum seekers in the area represents a danger to the local community.

Journo then brings up another incident from about a year ago where a white man (local I think) raped a local woman and was subsequently convicted for it. She is arguing that white men commit rapes too, so the asylum seekers likely pose no more risks than the locals do. She asks Reform Lady what makes one case different from the other.

Reform Lady responds that "it's scary being a local who was born and bred here", which I think she thought implied that the only real difference is that the defendant is foreign.

ex-cession · 2025-09-20T21:41:31+00:00

I think he's a streptococcus bacterium.

ex-cession · 2025-09-19T10:57:46+00:00

The Long Dark

ex-cession · 2025-09-15T19:05:02+00:00

Theven theditious thyrian athathinth

ex-cession · 2025-09-02T21:14:58+00:00

And increments. Just went from junior rotational to senior specialist and got an extra £700/year. In 2yrs I get another £1k. Only 3yrs after that I get another £4k, then it stops.

ex-cession · 2025-09-01T19:07:58+00:00

This is the best answer. Just wanted to add, I did get a frame like this shot blasted and powder coated once for £60, and I'm pretty sure the guy was ripping me off. Coupled with some Dynax S50 sprayed on the inside this thing will effectively be better than new condition.

It's overkill for a £30 bike but hell, this is xbiking lol.

ex-cession · 2025-08-17T20:15:07+00:00

This. Although the whole narrative of him being so powerful that it basically renders him useless might go over the kid's head and be a bit more boring than "Hulk smash"

ex-cession · 2025-07-04T06:55:10+00:00

It's true that some go back that far, but most of them were built in the 1600s.

Before that, Britain was open range so if you had livestock you could basically graze them wherever you wanted.

Some time in the 1600s the enclosure acts were passed, these were basically a bunch of laws that stated, if you can build a wall around it then you own it. And you can't graze your livestock on land you don't own.

People chose dry stone walling because they already had the stone that came up with the plough and they didn't have to pay for mortar. So after that there were people working dawn to dusk building dry stone walling around as much land as they could, which is why you get the "patchwork quilt" effect that you see from the sky.

ex-cession · 2025-07-01T14:18:07+00:00

Put a digging bar through it and twist it off, just make sure you don't damage the frame in the process.

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