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• Post #4101343

  @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org Before you start bending frames, don't assume you have a straight wheel. It's also quite possible to have both a bent frame and a wheel that's out of dish and misaligned rear dropouts at the same time. I would not even call that rare. Better to measure the rear triangle alignment and check the dropout alignment before you make changes, because you don't want to be repeatedly making changes.

• Post #2183005

  37 years ago I flew to London with a work visa arranged through the British Universities North America Club, walked into a temp agency in Vic station to do a typing test and was immediately employed as a typist. They were overjoyed that I knew how to use a Mac and various other computers. "You know Macintosh!" I became their guy to dispatch to the places with strange or ancient computers, like the DECwriter with 8" floppy drives that was already a dinosaur. Anyway, I n...