Nice badges! Where did you get those?

https://patchers.co.uk/

The first one made me think of this
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gTcVprNH3ns

Large Alpkit fuel pod from BB classifieds.



My first bit of proper luggage!

Cheers slobike!

Tyres arrived to go with new wheels

An 18mm cone spanner.

That means I can service my XTR hubs. Assuming they're OK then I don't need to buy new hubs for my road-plus wheels and I don't get caught in the horrible choice of blue, black or silver.

Adidas Terrex Protect shoes. Look great for summer riding on flats. Pedals that is, not trails. We hate flats trails...

Bearbonesnorm wrote:

Nice badges! Where did you get those?

https://patchers.co.uk/

Glad to see you avoided some of the truly cringeworthy product on there Stu.

A pair of WTB Riddler 37c tyres.

A customer sent us beer. Made our week that did and saved them 10% on all future quotations.

A monkii cage from Wales

firestarter wrote:Tyres arrived to go with new wheels

I've never really felt it before but I am liking staring at steel jones spaceframes lately.

That looks very nice.

FLV wrote: I've never really felt it before but I am liking staring at steel jones spaceframes lately.

Maybe it's one of these things you start to appreciate when you get older...





... as your eyesight fails.

A pair of WTB KOM i-25 rims. One is building some standard-ish sized 29er wheels for one's OO Fatty.

I collected from the warehouse to save a few quid... but it was a parcel! Sale bargains from Polaris. Waterproof shorts, gloves for my dad (sadly a bit small for me), lovely knee warmers, merino stripy socks and some foot oil. The oil was free with the socks but is great.

Some ergon grips recommended by ton ,try them out tomorrow and hopefully it will stop me spending on alt bars

Some crampons. Very much not for bike use but for a trip to Aviemore in a couple of months

middleagedmadness wrote:Some ergon grips recommended by ton ,try them out tomorrow and hopefully it will stop me spending on alt bars

They are good but.....I used to get numb hands after about 5 miles, tried jones bars, answer 20/20 bars, high rise stems ect. Salsa woodchippers did it for me.

He came on Thursday and delivered an alpkit bheesty, like this:


To do this:


It worked well on a 40 miler at the weekend

BigdummySteve wrote:

middleagedmadness wrote:Some ergon grips recommended by ton ,try them out tomorrow and hopefully it will stop me spending on alt bars

They are good but.....I used to get numb hands after about 5 miles, tried jones bars, answer 20/20 bars, high rise stems ect. Salsa woodchippers did it for me.

Don't think the wood chippers would work on my longitude ,and I don't think sore hands will pass with the wife as a excuse for another bike, although I have been perving over a genesis vagabond just means the bouncy bike will have to go

middleagedmadness wrote:

BigdummySteve wrote:

middleagedmadness wrote:Some ergon grips recommended by ton ,try them out tomorrow and hopefully it will stop me spending on alt bars

They are good but.....I used to get numb hands after about 5 miles, tried jones bars, answer 20/20 bars, high rise stems ect. Salsa woodchippers did it for me.

Don't think the wood chippers would work on my longitude ,and I don't think sore hands will pass with the wife as a excuse for another bike, although I have been perving over a genesis vagabond just means the bouncy bike will have to go

Carbon bars also helped, although they don’t appear to flex much when you lean on them it’s enough to take some of the sting out.

for a trip to Aviemore in a couple of months

It'll be summer by then

Today I went shopping and I bought,
Some aluminium ergotec mooncruiser handlebars.
A pair of ritchey wcs grips.
From rose bikes for my rejuvenated marin bear valley.

I've gone a bit fatter. Sad to say goodbye to my Lynskey which funded this.

I have the same bike, as you know with a couple of changes. Enjoy.

Bearbonesnorm wrote:

for a trip to Aviemore in a couple of months

It'll be summer by then

It's Scotland, it's winter for 9 months of the year and rain/midges for the remainder...

(I really do hope there's still snow at the end of March, it's the last weekend available for winter skills courses)