Today I have learnt that titanium lefty forks exist. Thank you.

redefined_cycles wrote: ↑Sun Jul 14, 2024 12:22 pm How about a Moulton XTB. I can't recall the Moulton I had briefly being extra heavy.

https://www.traditionalcycleshop.co.uk/cart

Lots of tubes = not light. Plus Moulton owners rip you a new one if you enquire about their folding bike. Moulton's separate for travel, not fold.

.....you wouldn't have thought there was that much demand for an SS-able gravel frame. 100% of the last 2 replies is quite a demand :grin: https://www.lyonequipment.com/bikes/bikes-frames/salsa-stormchaser-frameset__3194 Tempting.... Difficult to get excited about an alloy frame when you could have...

With a bit of fettling that will make a great car boot bike as it will fold in half and ride pretty well. You can usually retrofit 650b gravel width wheels/tyres to 26" bikes if that's your thing. For suitcase packing I've tried a 26" wheeled Ibis T26 (formally called something less pleasa...

PaulB2 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 09, 2024 5:33 pm Not gravel enough?
https://www.bananaindustries.co.uk/prod ... ab03&_ss=r

My size but not cheap enough for an impulse buy. Phew.

Lazarus wrote: ↑Tue Jul 09, 2024 2:36 pm Relieved or annoyed there is no OLSEN gravel frame ...not sure which i am

Ditto. Relieved I think.

Dyffers wrote: ↑Sun Jun 30, 2024 8:45 pm Not necessarily a bargain yet, but a Moloko bars cockpit setup on eBay (nothing to do with me):
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/126551823875

Flipping heck! Not a bargain at all.

...£50 500gr Highlander summer bag... No experience or advice about the bags you're looking at other than to say I have one of these Highlander bags, for which I paid about £25. I removed about 50g off the weight by chopping off all extraneous covers and fittings and I doubt I have spent more than ...

https://theradavist.com/2024-bespoked-uk-handmade-bicycle-show-part-01/ https://theradavist.com/2024-bespoked-uk-handmade-bicycle-show-part-02/ Hadn't realised it was at Victoria Baths! My mates had a flat directly opposite that in about 1997 when I was at Uni in Manchester and the Baths were just a...

Nah, I have a search for Revelate stuff hence why I spotted it but I already have enough Jones bars, don't need Molokos as well.

Not necessarily a bargain yet, but a Moloko bars cockpit setup on eBay (nothing to do with me):
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/126551823875

Yes please. PM incoming.

Forecast is improving :-bd I'm tempted to embrace my inner Reg and ride in (fairly closed in ) sandals ... I'd be taking them with me anyway and it's save carrying a pair of cycling shoe/ boots .. I ride with flats now so Sandals with optional waterproof socks should be fine. I'm all of a quandary ...

I've got a 530 and a couple of Garmin remotes on bikes after I saw Luke mention them a few years ago on here. They work great, I especially like that you can set a button to bring you back to the map screen with one press from any other screen / menu. If you're not in a hurry they come up on eBay fo...

I thought I'd post a reply as I am a roadie by nature but decided in about 2010 I fancied this mountain biking thing. I went all trails and drops for a few years, entirely on hardtails, never owned a full suss. After about two or three years of just riding stuff until I got better I was a reasonably...

Yes, chainring will have to give the right chainline. This (what type of chainring) depends on your frame and crank (at least with my frames, cranks and rings). I don't know how often you need to back pedal or pedal kick, but if you do it (regularly) you want to make sure the chainline is spot on. ...

thenorthwind wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 7:51 am Worth pointing out that not all Bike Fridays are 451 though - mine's 406.

Indeed. I think in general if a Bike Friday has V brakes it'll be a New World Tourist and 406 wheels, if road calipers probably a Pocket Rocket and 451.

1000008595-01.jpeg Here's my current suitcase bike, a custom-beyond-recognition Dahon, singlespeed in this pic but I also have mech hanger for it and run 8 sprockets of an 11spd cassette and a Di2 barend shifter; Di2 is brilliant for travel bikes because you can just unplug it and remove the mech. ...

My Core Hoodies are half the weight and volume of classic fleeces offering comparable warmth. So always need an outer layer or wind blows the heat away so I'm not quite sure of the point? Obv happy to hear of realworld experience :smile: . No real world experience, but this just sounds like a super...

If I am following a single day pre-designated route but carrying my sleeping kit is it bikepacking? If I'm following a multi-day pre-designated route but intend riding through the night(s) so have no sleeping kit, am I bikepacking? If I'm making it up as I go along but stay in a hotel every couple o...

I've been using free site gpx.studio for two or three years for tarmac-related routes. You can choose 'motorbike' for do-not-leave-tarmac options, or 'MTB' for bridleways and 'run/hike' to include footpaths. And it has an undo button.

voodoo_simon wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 11:57 am Ermmm, don’t want to be that guy but I’m not great with faces nor names…

Sean Yates

I went a couple of times when it was at Bristol Temple Meads and it was great. At one point someone local who we used to ride with (read try and keep up with) who started building frames was exhibiting, which was a bonus. Well worth an afternoon if you're into the details of bike building. Usually s...

Loads of options on the route during more social hours after your dawn ferry: corfe castle probably has a bakery, supermarket and bakery in Wareham, lots of options in Blandford and pubs in most villages (I'd avoid the one in Tollard Royal though as it's a bit posh ).

Hi I have looked and it's a 20t if that's any good https://photos.app.goo.gl/ntPwdbXsbjGxkjNe8 😄🚲🚲👍 I'm running a 19T already and wanted to go twiddly so I reckon I'm going to buy an Andel 21T one from velosolo, but if your 20T is cheap I might take it off your hands as well. PM me a price. :-bd