Nice work. I built my own guitar a few years ago as I couldn’t get what I was after for a sensible amount of money at all. I really enjoyed the process and there is a great feeling in playing something you built yourself. It’s also really cool seeing people’s faces when they ask where you got it and you say you built it.

There’s a build diary here: https://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/63903/now-complete-first-guitar-build-project-underway-project-diary/p1

and the finished product thread is here: https://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/83655/ngd-custom-build-jaguar-strat-hybrid-inspired-by-john-squires-original/p1

Have fun finishing yours off

Mint, thank you.

Just found one on ebay. Cheers

Thanks everyone.

Countrybumpking; that’s great cheers. Sound like a worthwhile way to go about it. What router did you go for?

I’m a big fan of my Fox 36 Grip 2s

If it the thread of the actual valve rather than the core then you’ll need a new top cap. Give 18 Bikes a bell and I’m sure they’ll sort you out. They’ve got various X-Fusion spares in stock and can get the ones they’ve not got.

https://www.shepherdofsweden.dk/sheepskin-slippers/men

Absolutely the best ime

Bananarama

Madonna

Duran Duran

By far and away the coolest car I’ve owned and the one I miss most. It was written off in the Sheffield floods of 2007. This one is not mine but it looks identical, is the same age and even has the same Recaro seats as I fitted to mine

Worth having a look for the DMR Axe cranks. I’ve got a pair in 165mm and they seem very good. I came from XTR and there is nothing I can tell that is different between the DMR and the XTR. Well priced too

I’ve got a Late 2011 MBP so probably the same as yours and about this time last year I fitted a Solid State Hard Drive and it made a huge difference. It’s made the whole thing perform better and speed is now spot on. I’d definitely recommend doing the same.

It boots up super fast now and no longer has issues with playing youtube videos and browsing or photo editing etc. It’s surprised me just how much of an improvement it has made and to just how many bits of using the laptop.

Oh, I’ve got 8gb of RAM installed and the SSD made much more difference than increasing the RAM from 4 to 8 gb

It’s kinda made me think about having a go at the BIRC next year.

About a decade since I did a proper 2k test but might give me some motivation to get the times down

I’m more shocked that there is a facebook mtb group with 35k members

Literally cannot remember the last time I needed to use tyre levers…

Swoon!

Pedros here too

Was that the year we ended up drinking shots in the pub on the Friday night?
I barely made it round practice the next day!

Indeed it was

I’m in for the main Enduro. First time back since 2014.

Should be fun

I watched it expecting to not really like it and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

I can remember Lord Mountbatten’s funeral being shown on the television and I was 4 and a half so that must rank as one of the earliest.

For the impact:

Straight outta Compton, crazy motherf**ker named Ice Cube

Continuing on from thestabiliser’s Mancunian post:

“Son, I’m thirty, I only went with your mother cos she’s dirty”

“I don’t have to sell my soul, he’s already in me”

Main ones are a pair of Linn Tukans that I bought new in 94. Additionally, I have a pair of JPW Mini Monitors that are probably even older in the dining room.

The Pacenti Forza is a great rim that does everything you’ve asked for.

He’s got them in the palm of his hand though

Seen a comex sub the other day….looked nice. That’s a rolex that has appreciated. yikes

I was in a meeting a few years ago with a guy who was wearing a Comex Sub. When I asked him about it he explained that his brother, who was a diver, had given him it as a present but he didn’t like the Comex on the dial and wanted to change it to get rid.

When I explained, he changed his mind

Welcome to Fit4 Physio

Rich is most definitely a mountain bike ride amongst other things and absolutely knows his stuff

There’s some flex in those seat stays then? They’re not braced anywhere…

Looks like there is a brace coming off the very top of the non-drive side seatstay down to the chainstay.

You’ll be fine with the normal 15mm caps. The torque caps just make fitting the wheel a bit easier as they centre the hub in the dropout better

Gin with Lemon Hooch as a mixer – blimey, that ended badly

Mine was when I was at school:

Messing about on the old PE wooden benches and I got a splinter in my arse cheek. Went to see if I could get it out in the loos but failed so had to pluck up the courage to go and see the school nurse. She had a poke about with a needle etc but couldn’t get it out either so went and got one of the other nurses. She also failed. I think I ended up with a couple of nurses, a secretary and the head of 6th form all peering at my arse bent over the nurse’s sink but all to no avail.

Had to spend the rest of the day sitting on the unaffected cheek before heading to A+E and having to explain the whole affair all over again. Eventually, I had a local anaesthetic and offending article cut out. Turned out to be 1.5 inches long and broken into two pieces so no wonder the school nurse struggled.

An awful lot of people saw my bare bum that day which as a 13 year old boy (not at a private school) was pretty embarrassing.

there’s also a posh lady on the Go Daddy adverts that clearly doesn’t design websites on the cheap for people. She’s far minxier than that.

The blonde one? She’s the girl from the Poo-Pourri advert too. Bethany Woodruff

I had exactly the same issue and it ruined some of my best t-shirts. I tried letting it dry before getting dressed, tried applying the night before and different brands but it still happened.

I now use DriClor which has solved the issue completely. I apply it before bed and it lasts for ages. You need to build it up early days so every night but soon you only need apply every few weeks.

I then just use a deodorant to smell nice and they don’t leave the crusty white stuff

Looking at that pic, it appears that you’ve not got the mech mounted properly. The link between the mech and the hanger should be more horizontal than it appears to be in the photo.

Might just be the pic but I’d look at that first.

Bittersweet Symphony by The Verve

Not their debut album though. Related though, Star Sail from A Storm in Heaven is a heck of an opener.

I’d vote for I Wanna Be Adored. What a fantastic way to open an album

After trying various other types, I now use one of these and it is definitely the best one I have had.

https://www.shavers.co.uk/panasonic-er-gb40-a511-milano-blue-beard-trimmer.html?utm_source=google_shopping&145=27&gclid=CP6-u-Kx_NICFU8o0wodwuoNqQ

You can use a combo of the pin and the spacers to get where you want

X-Fusion slant is 34mm, I was interested but IIRC they only go up/down travel wise in 20mm jumps.

If you use the internal roll pin then that is true but you can use 10mm (or less if you trim them) spacers to get smaller travel changes.

I’ve got a 140mm travel Trace that’s dropped to 120mm but could do 130mm if a spacer is used. It’s a 34mm chassis fork

I saw a free gig there in Sept 93 where Blur and Radiohead played. Stood at the bar watching and realised I was stood next to Annie Nightingale. Had a great chat and drink with her.

Two weeks later I was back there to see Verve support the Smashing Pumpkins. Another amazing gig.

Fell asleep at a Ride gig in about 94 after far too much booze

I can recommend not bothering with “One Good Earbud”; I bought them and they were utter shite

I’ve had some bad luck with this:

1982 Mini sold for £2700 in 2002, probably worth £10k + now
Series 1 106 Rallye crushed by the DVLA after a mixup – heaven knows how much now
E30 M3 written off in Sheffield’s floods in 2007, £7.5k on insurance – worth circa £45k now maybe

Ah well

Long time ago
Can’t really remember
Should ride again

I’ve got an XL Tallboy 2 Carbon CC that I have been thinking about moving on. White frame and would come with Chris King headset and possibly some other bits. Will have all new bearings in the linkages. Also have some wheels to go with it.

Let me know if that is of any interest: jaffamatt@gmail.com