And dropped a nifty little pro bike tools mini ratchet

My only planned event is the WRT but I’ve got a vague plan of a leisurely 3 days in June on some route in either the lakes or wales

The blue route is a good start for a gravel loop and there's lots of ways to extend it. Note though that the chase is quite soggy this time of year so mudguards would be useful https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49096906437_c644bb0507_z.jpg Walking advertisement for mudguards by Paul Bravey , on Fl...

I'm not allowed to buy a bike until this time next year or I'd have been interested. Not that helps you

I still work in Brum, and I don't even want to go in during the week

I’ve not seen the Josh Ibbett / Hunt film popup on you tube yet, just a teaser snippet and a bike check video 4 months ago

What time were people thinking of meeting on the Saturday? SWMBO has informed me that she forgot that she's busy on Saturday afternoon so I need to work out if it's feasible for me to come.

Today’s ride was 3 very soggy hours of going nowhere fast. I need to invest in some mudguards!

What's in that one spot below the second E of Leeds that you don't have?

I used my little finger to block a poleaxe once, not something I recommend. That took about a year before it was completely usable albeit a bit mishapen.

This is why I take my bike to the train station and don't bother taking it on the train for the mile / mile and a half walk at the other end. The cross-country train that has theoretical room for 3 vertically hanging bikes that in reality either have luggage in, a person in or in the case of the com...

Thanks for all the options, there’s one more local shop to ask about doing a pedal tap and then a 34-24 sounds like a good choice. The only time I’ve used the top gear was two WRTs ago when stevemorg went for it on a main road and everyone else was cruising in his slipstream

Blackburn have a just announced some sidelights that sounded interesting for commuting:
https://www.blackburndesign.com/p/grid- ... -light-set

I finally got a bike back in action so went out for a pootle out to the chase for lunch just in time for it to start raining. I wasn’t wearing enough wet weather gear and the gravel bike probably wasn’t the best bike to take on a slippery root infested trail but it was good to be out of the house an...

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Thu Oct 24, 2019 4:42 pm

Could you not get the 38/28 crankset then replace the 28 with the 24 off the old one?

Duh, I was completely overthinking that

How stripped is it? Could you rescue the situation tapping it out - you can get pedal thread taps for non silly money. https://live.staticflickr.com/5581/29652955244_a116c502a8_b.jpg 283 (08-10-2016) by Chris Reeves , on Flickr That's one I did earlier. Failing that, you can helicoil it. See: https...

Lucky you lot up there :smile: . Got a linkypoo to some info? Will they have Dutch-style bike dangly hook thingies or horizontal as usual? I well remember proper guard's vans with room for millions of bikes, and mailbags to lounge around on. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-...

My pedal fell out of my crankset recently and stripped half the thread off. Not sure if I failed to tighten it up enough or what but it looks like I need a new crankset on the mtb since it was the drive side arm. The existing crankset is a 38-24 but my lbs wasn’t sure if it could source an exact rep...

The LHC is already a good option for introverts. Too many vegan introverts in one place might reach critical mass due to the reaction between a vegan’s innate need to tell everyone that they’re vegan and an introvert’s innate reticence to do so.

I actually did something vaguely mechanical on my bike without it going wrong - took the valves out and topped up with sealant. I also noticed that my fork was moving in the head tube after I’d flipped my stem up the other day - just as well I’d not had a chance to ride it since. Looked up how to fi...

#WRT and its variants is all over instagram for a few days either side of the event, just not in any official capacity.

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Borderer wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 17, 2019 1:08 pm

What's an LHC?

Lonely Hearts Club.

Ah. If this is some sort of lesbian dating thing then sign me up.
I haven't had a shag in ages.

The faster I go, the less I remember to eat and drink unfortunately. On a social ride I'll be pretty much munching continuously whereas if I'm trying to get somewhere in a time limit I've a tendency to forget to have anything until it's too late.

I've got some endura liner bibs that are pretty indecent if worn without baggies - the legs are pretty much just a translucent mesh with a modesty panel front and back. About the only time they've been even mildly uncomfortable was after 10 hours of rain last October but by that point everything was...

I find the rules and points system of Audax incredibly confusing. How is randonee different? Wikepedia has the answer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audax_(cycling) TL;DR: In most countries the terms are used interchangeably to mean Randonneuring. In some countries they differentiate between a grou...