I’d sat Bonty’s they always feel quick in the 29er flavour and Rangers considerably quicker than Coronado’s which are the druggist horror show’s I’ve ever ridden in 29 plus.

I think it’s too much to hope for any actual active conflict especially with the change in the laws against protest, but can’t help think it might be quite thrilling to see England tear itself apart when finally enough people don’t have anything any more, although it’s going to be tough for it to happen because of “look statues”…

Wondering what it will actually take for it to happen, actively offing pensioners doesn’t seem to have caused much of a response!

The question is what will it take?

Yes had been looking at Fermzilla that helps a lot thanks that’s basically exactly what I’m looking to do.

Yeah I’ve bottled before…

BR at the end was super lean and organised it had to be, spot on.

With current funding levels it’d potentially been amazing, there’s faults with both public and private sector organisations, but classing one as better than the other is lazy.

Maybe a UK wide model like TFL would work, with a minister being responsible political and it having a distinct management team, that was left to do the work set by the elected leadership.

I guess the crux is guaranteeing funding

Was going to start agin I’m just caught in a loop of getting going or waiting and buying a pressurised fermenter, any thoughts?

I’m not really sure I can be bothered with bottles and racking straight into a keg seems to be a super convenient idea?

I’ve only ever brewed non pressurised and top pitching previously.

Electable in Hartlepool, I’d say white middle class male from a working class background who’s been decorated in the forces! Ideally born and bred in the town.

Maybe the problem is actually insurmountable whilst there’s this vast gap between towns and cities, maybe we’re at the point where actually Towns have way to much electoral power.

Cities are actually just doing there think.

You could almost say that actually moving BBC/Gov Departments out of London is a way of enforcing this, if cities don’t get more electoral power, unlikely with the boundary review then Town power becomes even more pronounced?

If you live in a really down at heel town and you see a city close by thriving the politics of resentment are easy to stoke. It’s taking that and saying “look at that, you’re not far, you can be part of that and live where you are and it’ll be great”

No idea how that is done at all, with Hartlepool it’s super tough there’s nowhere with the exception of Newcastle that close by that’s actually thriving, and getting there is tough…

There’s a vast drain of talent to cities London being a case in point and also there very much a push in the poorest wards for advancement often from the very poorest who have come to the city from overseas, yes I know there’s pupil premium at work, there’s a drive in London in the poorer wards from new arrivals to make something for themselves in the city.

It seems that there’s a massive culture gap between say Poplar and Peterlee in terms of the view of educational attainment certainly this seems to be very much a post industrial thing, all of the very heavy industries had huge self improvement organisations that were always hugely popular.

I wonder if at the point of perhaps nearly 40 years that the imagination to do more has somehow died culturally. I do wonder if the job for life/big employer tradition has a lot to answer for particularly in say somewhere like County Durham.

Certainly from a purely anecdotal level I think statistics do back it up the level of drive by students in deprived wards in Newham is substantially greater than places I visit in the North.

Nationalisation is great on many levels…

It led to the large scale decline in the Railway, the nice thing about the franchising model was that actually there was an element of having to think about how to make money and a guarantee of a set amount of state funding.

One of the real risks of Nationalisation of service provision again is that this level of funding compulsion disappears and we’re back to the bad old days of the Railways being the easiest thing to cut funding from.

The obvious answer to that would be arms length control of the Railway with profits being returned into the system and a long term agreed level of government funding. Which I guess would be the ideal apart from it’s essentially not democratic. Then the argument gets to be well al services should be run that way and you’re into well what does government do.

An at arms length expenditure organisation with long term set goals would be great because it would allow tweaking round the edges and investment over a minimum. Something I think Annalise Dodds has discussed.

It’s not a simple thing to make sure we see the positive changes and growth of railway use we need and ensuring that growth remains where it is.

I think this is the constant battle of infrastructure and public services is to make sure that there’s accountability, arms length government intervention, but still public control.

There’s literally always loads on eBay…

Mine go under the bar tape and exit before the bend to the drops

If there’s a 50/50 split of the Tice voters it’s still a Labour win, it’ll be interesting to see the actual result, there’s a lot of talk about change not happening quickly enough.

Essentially it’s likely to be 18 months into a government that won’t have changed anything for the average punter in Hartlepool…

There’s a pretty hard left chunk of the town the Council make up shows!

Has Tice decided not to stand?

This will very much be a Bellwether of Brexit now it’s done would people vote for Tice if he stands will they vote Tory now Brexit is done?

Suspect it’ll be on an incredibly low turnout and a good candidate on either side could probably have a massive effect?

The Council looks like an utter bag of mess, probably too close to call I’d have thought at this point

Knocking is a bar width thing I think, no problems here with wide gravel bars at all.

Super easy to use they work great for me and allow emergency dumping of gears just like that.

Currently running TRP shifters and Dura-Ace barons with an Ultegra RX rear mech and 11-42 cassette with a 36t chainring and it all works impeccably…

Having the lever flicked by “a friend” as you struggle up a climb is a known issue though!

Loads of fun trails round Durham all pretty much joined up by the old Railway lines used to comfortably be able to put together a fun 25 mile xc loop super easily when I lived in Spenny, heading towards Durham! Quite a lot of cheek involved but that’s half the fun!

Ingrid I think are limited or are based around FSA bearings? It wasn’t something I felt I could live with?

I also know of once set that’s snapped on riding round Town so not aggressive usage by any stretch of the imagination.

The White Industries I could be tempted by, I would love a pair of the EE wings I’m debating a pair of them on my next build with a custom set of Ti bars, I’m just deciding how strong the Need actually is…

Paul Brakes are ace whatever you get would work like a charm on a Cross Check, managed to comfortably haul up my 15 stone with commuting stuff!

Paul also do a mount that lets you fit either a bar end shifter as a thumbie on the tops or a SRAM shifter on the tops but under the bar both work really quite nicely although I’m pretty much happy with bar end shifters right now.

Enve available in Boost or non Boost will take a 3inch tyre Ritchey…

Or

https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=carbon+MTB+forks+for+29+plus&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

It’s not rocket science

Currently running an 11-42 11spd cassette with an Ultegra RX rear mech and a Dura Ace bar con it works perfectly!

Thanks Qwerty I suspect a period of adjustment will be in order, Waltham Forest is beer and Coffee central right now…

I’ll be honest my biggest concern is beer is there anything locally?

I’ve had Stroud Beer a few times when I’ve been down and can’t see that much of it in my life…

There’s Deya in Cheltenham anything else?

Bread is easy it seems.

Is there anywhere good for light roasted coffee, or just order from Town?

Thanks Qwerty just had a look at your Instagram we seem to both have Bespoked Show Bikes ;0)

Thanks everyone this sounds like it’ll be ace when it dry’s up!

I’m currently in E11 so ride the lower bits of Epping and the woods over to Chigwell in the dry.

Moving to the Top of Town apparently the climbing will be a shock most of my riding has been flat so I expect a few months of abject misery before I get any form of fitness back.

Great thanks I’m guessing that’s probably up with Epping Forest clay for just not going anywhere near in the winter.

Road till it it’s drier then!

I’d happily run BB7’s again if I needed to at the moment I’m running Klampers which are just lovely but $$$, TRP Spyre’s just haven’t bee great for me.

Saying that the GRX levers and Hope RX callipers are great, but can’t tell the difference from the Klampers with TRP levers both running the same size rotors!

Probably similar set up to you in terms of steroid use and age, I get vaccinated when I get vaccinated…

I’ve worked from home all year but ridden a lot and I the summer was out for beer a lot in a socially distanced way.

To be fair I’m more bothered about paying for prescriptions that keep me alive that diabetics get for free…

I’ve got one for xc MTB/Road/Gravel it’s great would recommend probably the most comfortable helmet I’ve had having tried, Bell/Giro/Specialized…

I’d happily buy another one without even thinking about it

Suspect they might need to review sizing if they want to sell much of it ;0)

Long time Time pedal user here no complaints at all they’ve always been entirely faultless for me the cleats do seem to wear reasonably quickly though.

I typically run the cleats the wrong way round for a bit more play.

I’ve got a mixture of versions including the expensive aluminium things that look like big platforms and they all just feel the same underfoot as far as I can tell.

Have had one delivery in a week the tracking on the parcels I have due seems to completely not work, I’m a four minute walk fro. a sorting office in East London.

I rather suspect the Royal Mail may have bigger problems than the weather right now…

Dishoom Black Dahl and the Broccoli Salad

Have a flick through the Guardian as well, Rachel Roddy has excellent Italian dishes and I’ve not had a duff one that’s vegetarian.

Sonia Sodha as well in the Guardian has great dishes Vegan well worth a look.

Just look for flavours styles that interest you. It’s obviously a lot more fun in the summer as there’s amazing fresh in season stuff available that needs very little work to make it super exciting!

Thankfully Weightweenies still exists

https://weightweenies.starbike.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=163462

I certainly don’t have the capability to deal with riding a bike with loads of travel super fast so I don’t so I’m still riding a fully rigid MTB, bigger tyres and bigger bars certainly do make it more capable than something I’d have ridden 10 years ago. It’s broadly still the same ;0)

Just ordered more camper shoes price was the same with free delivery by DHL from Spain…

Yeah did Bike Discount last week came in four days ;0)

Doesn’t the Frontier have an integrated headset in that case it should just drop into the frame?

Oooh will have a look at this once I get ensconced in Stroud!

These are all questions your Framebuilder can answer ask them!

Just throwing this out there if you want something in Ti like a Moots Baxter why not just buy one?

If you’re using a cheaper Ti builder who’s not answering the questions you have maybe think twice?

I’ve had custom frames built around some random parts I’ve had in my experience that’s how they start “ooh what should I do with this” but I know exactly what I want out of them.

You need to know exactly that and you need to find a builder who you know will make what you want and who’s work you like.

I’m currently sweating what’s a nice single speed solution if I want to do it on a new frame but have a Paul Melvin in the basement so I’ll not be working about that too much…

Some questions

What’s the bike for
Do you plan to carry luggage
What do yo imagine doing with the bike

Has the builder not asked these?

Is this not what you’re discussing with the frame builder? If you don’t know the answers there’s something wrong with the process…