Was quite surprised alpkit didn’t want a deposit off of me either, fairlight did and was eventually returned to me as there was no delivery date in sight

Had the same very generous offer, I went for the new model, as the fork mounts looked handy, and I’ve already a cross bike.

Same, doesn’t recognise any BBC stations

Was going to use the cross bike, but made the fairly rash purchase of sonder Camino al this morning 🙂

Not done 200km before, so need to get pedalling

Schwalbe X One Bite available pretty cheaply at St Johns Street cycles at the moment

Just starting this journey with a 2010 stepwagon, should be very good value compared to going through a UK dealer or buying a UK car. Just a long wait now til it lands in Southampton.

Might be just as quick or quicker to just use Simpsons rule if you’re not familiar with CAD. Should give a fairly good estimate.

DC Cycleworks at Whimple has been good to me.

You can report to 101 using an online form, I did that for a incident on Devon and they were.right on it.

Expensive ones don’t seem to last longer in my experience, but tend to be stiffer / fancier closing (boa etc)

I’d be interested in this too, not much out there on these

Wattbike atom have a rubbish seat post design, which once its started slipping, keeps slipping. The ones I’ve used had all had multiple replacements, which might be an issue for your use.

Recently built up an 29″ one of these, only 30mm wide but dirt cheap. Seems like CRC only have it in 27.5 now tho

https://www.chainreactioncycles.com/mobile/octane-one-solar-trail-mtb-rim-2020/rp-prod155809

I wonder whether the general attitude is shifting? Not seen any road groups at all, but saw a big group on MTB on Dartmoor today.

Just got a planet X one, small but seems sturdy, they do a good sized top tube bag too

Go along to a club 10, give it a stab, if you enjoy it, keep at it

For thise asking, BC code on top worked for me. Mounting is to the side of the stem.

15 miles, flattish, long enough to make it worth getting changed for, not so long it’s a drag

On one? Decent looking ally bike on there at the mo for not much, although it’s cable discs

Currys have some deals on these two, just pickup up a starter kit and echo dot for £50

Can’t help feeling sustrans past endorsement of shit cycle paths is part of the problem, if these sections are so poor remove them from the maos and campaign for something better

I’d love to get in a european event this year, anyone done Tro Bro Leon?

I’ve pre-ordered the new see sense lights, some quite nice smart functions, UK manufactured and possible to send them back for service/repair.

British cycling have a calender, but as you say doesn’t include non BC registered events.

Sportive.com seems have a more all encompassing calender

Had an inbred, the old white one, pretty much the only people offering something of that ilk at he time and rather liked it

As people say, the range has gone a bit nuts since, and somehow lost a bit of that charm.

Personally I’ve always had a good experience with them.

Lezyne super GPS battery lasts an age

Ive had some dreadful looking “camo” dhb SPD shoes, which seem well made and are comfy. Think they are circa £35 at wiggle.

Just don’t look down.

Honda blackbird, mines like riding a fast sofa. Get circa 40mpg on the A road commute, more on motorways.

I’ve those urban camo efforts from dhb, not as offensive as I might of feared (mainly as I don’t look at my own feet much) and a good fit, and you can always hide them under overshoes

I’ve a super GPS on the bike and really rate it, really easy to setup and customise the data pages on my phone, syncs easily with Strava and battery lasts an age

They are just rebranded kinlin rims and novatech hubs aren’t they? You could get the same (quite good rims) with better hubs for same money I’d think, sans branding.

The hunts wheels use kinlin rims I think, so if you like the look of those, you could get some built up on a hub of your choice. Just done some rim braked ones on bitex hubs, which have bigger bearings than novatech but still relatively light/cheap but not sure what disc options they do.

Yeah spacer needed

A-cycles still have some Hutchinson tubeless in 23 at a good discount

Cycle service in sidmouth do weekly MTB rides I think, and are prob worth a chat with

Water companies estimates vary between an average of around 120 litres per head per day through 150-160ish. Yours is pretty good, there may well be a bit of water companies hiding leakage in those figures too.

Go to the states or middle east they’ll be up in the 300’s so not so bad here really.

I’ve always found them to be stupidly fast, ordering friday evening and packages unexpectedly turning up saturday am

I’ve got one of these with a 105 groupset and really rate it
http://www.merlincycles.com/sensa-romagna-custom-road-bike-58987.html

you can always sell the second property if it smarts so much?

ever bought bottles water? its the same stuff (literally the same borehole a lot of the time) but over 1000 times as expensive