This weekend.

The 135mm Surly on the back of my Pompino is fixed one side / freewheel the other.

Jeez, that's another loss to music.
What with Vic Chestnutt slipping away in December too …

+1 on the service side of things.

My LBS *always* has people coming in with slipping gears, punctures, brakes that don't work. 5 minute jobs, but jobs that someone needs to be do.

Choke down fitting work on the stuff that people buy online but have no idea how to fit … Inner tubes, tyres, pumps, puncture repair kits, mudguards, gloves, lights, locks, waterproof jackets, bags and helmets always seem to sell well.

Customer service is the killer, my LBS's are great – but there are other shops locally that I wouldn't even go in to use their doormat to get the dog shit off my boots.

Make sure that people ride out of your shop on a bike that fits them properly, so they can enjoy cycling, and talk to their friends about how great it is – "Where did you get your bike", "Oh, that nice chap up the road" et cetera.

It's going to add what, 15, or twenty minutes onto the sale of a bike to get someone set up properly, but how many people ride a bike a couple of times, find it hurts, so shove it back in the shed never to see the light of day again – when a couple of mm here and there of adjustment will transform their experience of riding a bike.

Right, this won't directly answer your question, but you might be able to get a start from it, comparing the large and small frame sizing.

That said, it might well turn out to be a load of irrelevant cack instead.

:wink:

I'm 6ft with an inside leg of close to 33inches.
I ride a large Peregrine – on 175mm cranks, and a 90mm/+5'stem (that is to say it's 'upwards'). The seatpost has a 25-30mm offset.

I don't have a television reciever, so missed this first hand, but I assume that this is the well trodden path of Homo Habilis et al being distinct from the Australopithecines, by virtue of having a larger brain capacity – and that this increase is linked rather too robustly to the easy availability of animal protein in the diet?

Is there not more to that tho'? – plenty of other animals have had access to meat protein over time – millions of years in the case of crocs, and shark species, but I'm not aware of any studies that link diet to brain capacity changes in those species? Nor that they have used it to exploit mutations in their DNA on the back of environmental changes – although I do coincide that they won't have had to make the jungle vs savanna choices.

Any mention of language also being considered as a factor in increased capacity, or how bipedalism affects the brain, both in terms of rewiring it, and in terms of providing cooling / altered bloodflow?

As far as I know this is still a developing theory, a bit chicken and egg, although that's a poor analogy, as it's clear that the egg came first, way back to when birds were reptiles.

Over the last 10-12k years or so, experimental data appears to show a general decrease in jaw/molar density of about 10% (as compared with early-modern humans living at the start of the Holocene)- pretty much coinciding with agriculture, and it's been downhill ever since.

Pretty much anything that's not 'processed', or off the back of an industrial food production line will be fine – whatever it is. Wholefoods are your friends, not that mixture of sugar/salt/palm oil/wheatflour mixture that seems to be the base for ~99% of most 'food' these days.

Toasted home made bread, made using organic spelt flour, with a no-salt, no-sugar, no additive organic peanut butter is a pretty fine start – add a decent, single estate oolong and you are away …

+1 on the warm/comfy thing (but then I am getting old).

This time of year, I find that decent 3/4 bibs (for my knees) then baggy'ish shorts is ideal. The baggies give you a bit more protection from the wet / wind, plus, more pockets.

Singular Peregrine?

Taken with my auto-everything W60, so I was stunned by this … (which won't have any significance, unless you own one). :roll:



Both E6 slide film cross-processed using C41 (machine) print processing.
Top one is a hand-held, guessed at multiple exposure.

I looked hard at this same question back along, and had the Sutra / Kaffenbak / Caseroll / Fargo / Double-Cross (et cetera) debate with myself, but then found, and bought a Peregrine, and I've never looked back.

Not in expedition mode here, granted, but here's a photo anyway.

I find them really comfortable.

Unsurprisingly I guess, given the backsweep, but I've found that I needed a slightly longer stem than I'd use with risers (which I've also found with Marys and Carnegies). You'll be out there anyway with a road stem, but you might need to reverse the stem (upwards) to give you a bit of lift on the bars tho'

Ignore the crap way I've taped mine – I can fix almost anything on a bike, but I still can't tape bars very neatly – this one is SS, so there's only brake levers on the bars …

The only thing I'm a tiny bit squeamish about – is that it feels like a crash will plant my brake hose/master cyclinder union into the ground before the lever would/could take some of the impact – (like it'd maybe do more readily given where the levers would sit if I was using 'standard' risers). No big deal (until I crash and make the repair 10x more annoying) …

:wink:

Wouldn't road STI's feel a bit too odd to use at that angle?
What about using bar-end shifters (instead)?

Not a picture for resolving much detail, I grant you, but this is a bike that gets ridden at least as much as everything else combined, if not more. This is the very last bike that I will ever get rid of.

It's 26" at both ends, but might not look it as the proportions in the shot are all to cock again as that's how my strange little camera sees the world.

Early 90's Kona frame, which has been SS for years, plus some other recent extras.

;-)

Can't see much of the bike, but this one caught the mood of the super-easy laid-back ride through the back-county lanes a treat …

@ Scienceofficer – That Genesis Altitude frame was the RRP – £400.00.

£500 gets you one of these[/url].

@slowrider -> 'Tis a Genesis Altitude in M (17.5), [over]built with stuff that came off my far-too-stiff-to-ride-for-very-long 4X HT frame.

Here's another shot from the same place, all a bit gloomen' tho' as it was getting on in the day.

[Mostly] Finished off this build-up last night, but I'm still sorting a bit of final fit and finish as I go along, so yeah, there is excess steerer for now…

Only 130mm tho'.

The proportions look a bit weird, as my camera has an oddly curious sense of perspective.

Maybe not quite what you'd expect, but this has been my most commonly used off-road HT for a while now…



This time of year he's usually on CX tyres tho' …

No question, it's http://www.chocolatefishmerino.co.uk[/url%5Dfor me everytime.