Shut up Disney cartoon features.
Made 100x better with a Stourbridge (Black Country) accent, features being ‘‘faychures’’, and between two friends on a train, so possibly doesn’t count.
I don’t think I’ve ever been verbally abused by a stranger let alone multiple times and with style. What are you doing you fat skinny dark coat bright Lycra wearing human walking cycling ****.

sine qua non
Sorry I don’t speak Geordie, is this good or bad?

I love my mk 2 parachute, really light and breathable. Also good when you smash your head into stuff.

Edit
Like this one:
https://winstanleysbikes.co.uk/met-parachute-2018-helmet?gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAAD_ilfINLKwh0w7dx7vqXZZIYcjJ5&gclid=Cj0KCQjwgrO4BhC2ARIsAKQ7zUkgfdw8JxcWVfhCfch1fi73Zo_gA35EJ8YV3Nuhyt2zJiOt7yyNdrkaAsTTEALw_wcB#172=4755&173=10885

Gore windstopper is fantastic, not insulated but very warm, very windstoppy.

Seriously, have you had a sight test with an Optician and talked it through. Everyone who is short sighted has this problem from 45 or so. Options:
Varifocal/ progressive lenses- only about 5% reject them, the earlier you start wearing (the lower the reading add) the easier they are to get on with.
Contact lenses- mono vision or multi focal.
Bifocal- the ones with the line- I would try as a last resort, but they are simple and work.

Whatever you choose you need to wear them a lot in normal life before you only wear them for riding.
I wouldn’t be ordering them on line, the measurements needed are mm precise. Most high street opticians will guarantee them.
Most Independent opticians will be more expensive but you’ll have a choice of the best lenses and be seen by a Dispensing Optician rather than a trained assistant.

I love the look of them, the fella who designed the Maclaren F1 road car had one, loved it. Gordon someone?
Perfect fun to drive sports car without being stupid fast.

As far as the digging of lines, how does it compare to a golf course, grouse moor or ski resort. It’s pretty insignificant I’d have thought. Nature will reclaim it within a year.

I remember a news article on telly, saying the iPod was dead. Nokia had introduced the MP3 player into their phones. I thought, **** that it looks rubbish, but if apple make iPods that are phones Nokia are super ****. I was triumphant.

With your connections OP I’d get someone to have a quiet word with a baseball bat.

598 is fine- don’t clamp It up too tight and wrap Velcro thing round the tube and clamp- it won’t move.

My son is there now walking- about to do whatever the big one is. I’ll ask him to look out, I’d certainly love to go.

Quick Look
Lightning deals are hilariously shit

But:
Garmin 530 £181
https://amzn.eu/d/2P9DRxR

Garmin heart rate strap £36
https://amzn.eu/d/0zsogvR

There’s Anker deals as usual

Shokz openrun £90
https://amzn.eu/d/4EnPyej

Nothing I need thankfully

I would also be doing as much as possible to publicise the strong opposition against any developing. Get the papers involved, get it brought up in council meeting, contact MP, put a sign up highlighting the strong opposition.
If any prospective buyer googles your street name, it would give them some concerns, and let them know the previous plan had been rejected.

Sorry Speeder, if I see a fancy paint job on a mountain bike I wince inside thinking how badly I would ruin it.
Saying that I’m crashing on all my bikes.
Edit- I’m also talking about seeing a bike in the flesh- and in this case in the sun after a couple of Guinness after a ride, feeling pretty happy.
I’ve never seen a ‘Bespoked’ type hand sprayed custom frame in the flesh before, road or mountain bike.

Llandudno very close to Chester if you want to see some seaside. There’s a big hill with a nice train that goes up it. Could combine with some Snowdonia and slate mine action.

Anker multi charger thing and some short cables

For an off the shelf steel road bike the Mason Resolution looks pretty good. Wide tyre clearance, hidden mud guard mounts and still light at 1600g (according to a review)so assuming frame set at 2kg or so.

Seems to be belugabob, TBF though I’ve not been to bespoked or anything, so to see a bike like this is not an everyday occurrence.

I love a metal road bike, don’t know why really. The sculpted lines of a carbon fibre frame are just so boring, I suppose because they are everywhere (including my bikes). Stem looks fine in the flesh, and the whole build looks perfect up close.
It’s not heavy, weighs about the same as my carbon fibre bike with the same groupo, and similar wheels. The roads round here are so shit though, I imagine it will be a great ride.

I’m no Jean Paul Gaultiezlsl but I’d be putting warm stuff under, waterproof over.

Yes. A couple of times.

10spd Tiagra can’t be expensive and it’s good.

Hope ones worked better on hope caliprers for me. They also look ace. Got a deal on them cos they spendy.

They probably have a policy cos someone wheeled a bike covered in mud in.
The correct response by the staff would be ‘I’m really sorry bikes not allowed in, but if you tell me what your after I’ll grab it so you can be on your way’.
Or ‘come on in I’ll watch your bike’
Or ‘I’ll pop it out the back’.
It’s really not hard, but if they haven’t got that sort of brain for customer service I wouldn’t argue about it, asking to see the policy is a bit of a dick move. I’d just leave and push a couple of displays over on the way out.

I had spare wheels on my plug. Quick wheels and tyres feel quicker, so it’s worth it. It also
Means your gravel tyres can be more gravelly.
I went back to GPS5000 and latex from cheaper tyres and tubes and the difference was massive. Get good tyres.

Recumbents scare me. Looks like no chance of lifting the front or bunny hopping.

The problem with the fizzy chemical ear drops (Otex and bicarbonate) is that they can turn the wax into a kind of expanding foam that covers the ear drum. Not always, but when it does it’s very hard to remove.

It’s AI generated, im not stupid.

I bought an auto Passat estate, 2010 90k for £5k.
I recon a manual saloon would be close to £3k.
It’s a fine car, very boring, but fine.

Sorry but I’m still trying to think of the joke that has ‘an a bollick’ as the punchline. That’s all I have to offer.

This is the first bit of maintenance you do as a kid. Don’t spoil it with ‘tools’.

I’d have thought Di2 linked to a Garmin with gradient, cadence, speed and so on is a software update from being fully automatic. Boring as hell but maybe for delivery guys out all the time in all weathers it would be good.

They look great.

Bloody hell what a tragedy. RIP

It’s not just you, gravel bikes are frankly terrifying on downhill sections where quick changes of line, bunny hops and a bit of air are required. I use one in Greece and it’s great in the road and then riding down a dusty sandy gravelly bit to the beach, but going up the mountain, across the mountain and down the mountain I wish I was on a hardtail.
Race kings on a 29er would be very quick on road as well.

I’ve seen a crane in Oxford city centre.

I got a park tool refillable one like that one above, and a tube of the fancy Mobil grease, enough for about 50 years.

Chakaping- yeah no problem at all.

Just tried the Spada again (L) definitely too tight around the arse and gentleman’s area.
No way even thin undershorts would fit.
I’ll see if they’re any good for my kids or they’re going back.
Shame they seem nicely made.

36 in jeans and straight cut.