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Old 07-04-25 | 02:56 PM
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i'll spare others from reading the entirety of that mess of an "article"...
here's a sample passage...
"Now rather bizarrely you have a big elephant specific swimming pool round the back of your house, (of course if you lived in Sheffield you would have at least one world class elephant highdiving training centre which you have to pay an enormous amount of council tax towards and never gets used, and the council would be planning a second) but for some reason your diving board is broken and just hangs limply over the pool. Just a hunch but it might be something to do with the frigging great elephant that keeps using it!

So whenever your elephant wants to go diving you have to hang upside-down from a helicopter and support the diving board. Now this wouldn’t be so bad if you could hold it at the end but obviously you would be completely in the way of the elephant diving off, so instead you have to hold it down near the attachment pivot."

the "article" boils down to this :The Chain is over-stressed by tiny tooth counts, so get away from tiny tooth counts, unless you think you need them to grind your bike better."

the wheel i mentioned in my previous reply was destroyed by a 10 year old kid that let his dad tighten the chain., "fix the wheel", then over-tighten the chain again, and again after i repaired the damaged hub's guts... several of the "Driver's" 1/8" balls were literally split in half.

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