Haha yes sorry - Life of Kai .. Kai Lemmy the surfer

A quick google and I see.. Kae Tempest docu will be worth watching. Personal and artistic change since I was aware of their work last. Thanks!

Verena wrote: ↑Fri Dec 01, 2023 9:15 am It was one of you on here (who are you?) who brought Kae Tempest to my attention a couple of years ago.

"Being Kae Tempest" is on BBC iPlayer now, have just started watching it.

I saw that on Red Bull TV a while back, incredible surfing footage. The wave at Nazare is jaw-dropping.

Even the Cannondale CAAD 12 and beyond (lightes alloy frame on the market I think) frames are probably on the higher probability stakes of failure due to the ultra thin walls of the alloy used. Just a reminder to keep em checked over. 1 thing worth remembering generally is how metal bike parts tend...

It is, despite my typo in the title!

To be fair to Planet X they source from suppliers who make frames and forks for a lot of brands. But yeah, inspect stuff from time to time. The topic came up on STW and there's people saying essentially 'anything can break' and it reminded me that in the summer I found a 2″ crack on the bend of an A...

On BBC iPlayer now. Think it's quite an old documentary but I'd not seen it, enjoying it.

*insert another facepalm gif*

the discount was only taken off the bar bag

Ah well, thanks for the psa anyway. It didn't work on the bar bag either when I tried it at first.

Ah well.. saves me buying something I don't really need. I wanted the Roadrunner Jammer bag that they seem to have based the bar pack on but that's £160.

Hmm. Not working here - tried on a couple of barbags at checkout. Anyone else?

Instructions say use grease unless there is a possibility of creaking, then use a Loctite bearing compound.

What bike, out of interest?

PaulB2 wrote: ↑Sat Nov 18, 2023 2:59 pm Sigma sports have them for 97 in olive. I’m waiting for a black one to go on sale

Thanks Paul. Likewise, I'm after the black one ideally.

I must admit I quite like a touch of artistic embellishment to enhance the pleasure, maybe a bit of scrolling or something.

Ooh yes. Nice lug work or shaping, Rivendell style, always works for me.

That's the quote. True. I stopped owning suspension not because of the service needs, they were generally easy to work on - I just didn't like seeing exposed stanchions covered in crap and water, just seemed like a system designed to be needy and guaranteed to deteriorate and get looser through wear...

Relatively yes, but though I think not shying away from some work/effort is a good thing, working efficiently is also good. Certainly when it comes to riding I'm fairly low tech. I've never used Strava or anything like that but I love mapping and route creation maps on the laptop. I like my GPS bit ...

Hoping Restrap have a bar bag offer coming up - quite keen to try the bar pack

the core principle behind modern capitalism - "You need to persuade people that their wants are really needs". And the core principle of advertising - make people feel inadequate then offer them a solution :roll: Choice is great if you know what you want, +/- a bit. And there's 'opportuni...

https://www.certini.co.uk/components/tyres-tubes/specialized-purgatory-grid-2bliss-ready-tyre--black__65747? or https://www.specialized.com/gb/en/purgatory-grid-2bliss-ready-t7/p/173593? ~£20 each? Great tyres imo. OK in the mud for a big tyre, good mixed conditions all-rounders that roll pretty wel...

https://www.spacycles.co.uk/m21b0s29p49 ... arbon-Fork

£265 Spa carbon MTB bikepacking fork? Found while browsing for steel road forks. Seems pretty good for a fork like that, no idea who makes it though.

That's an e-bike?

But... ..nah forget it

You dont need a cache bank as you can just plug your garmin straight into a sinewave* even if the light is on, that said everyone is carrying a battery bank** anyway so its not additional weight Maybe it's my older Garmin Edge, but if there's no cache battery it powers down when the current stops. ...

I think the power out charge cable connection is shown on a display bar, I assumed it was their OE version of the magnetic connections available on ebay. Not replacing the dropout connection. But now you mention it.. a bike with the contact dropout connectors and this system would be so good. Those ...

I don't think it'll be cheap. Sinewave did look good but doesn't have the StVZO beam pattern which is the main drawback for me, I want it for long road rides at least as much as off-road. It lacks the the cache battery the SON will have also, so charging a Garmin needs an additional battery and in t...

https://nabendynamo.de/en/new-edelux-headlight-with-high-beam-function-2/ New SON light with power out and a high/low bean (edit/ beam, perhaps)? Sold :-bd (when it comes out in 2024) Magnetic connection is really smart. Just need a suitable connector for the Garmin and this would tidy up my SON dyn...

I've been meaning to memory-map our GR5 ride so I'll try to get as much of that as I can down and I'll post it up here if anyone's interested. A winter rainy Sunday project, I still have the tattered IGN maps we used on the shelf here.