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I recommend it on another thread, but I think tortoise media is really very good for in-depth articles on things.

If you run Paul moto brakes on a 26” frame with either 700c or 650b wheels you can run normal brifters without any cable adjusters, as the movement of the brake pads makes up for the change in cable pull.

I’ve done it for years on an old Indy Fab frame and it works brilliantly.

It depends if they have a centre near you (although I’ve heard they are doing some stuff on line) but this is exactly what Maggies Centres are there for.

I have two pairs of Sabahs. http://www.sabah.am/

I love them, comfy, not too hot. Especially like the pair that I bought I slightly dodgy zebra fur pattern. They run run slightly large, so have sized down.

I’ve got a could quality Chinese one in my shed that I haven’t used in a year or so. Can’t remember what the brand was, but it wasn’t cheap cheap. Right length for you, through axle, tapered. Dm me if you’re interested.

Hummm, seems that Wahoo no longer have the parts and have offered me a refurbished 2018 Kickr for £850… looks like I’ll be trying bomberbikeworks.

So would I. It’s also averaged about 5000km per year, so I’ve not done badly by it.

Thanks. Thought it might be. Any idea how insistent wahoo are on having a receipt. I’ve moved twice since I bought it and It’ll be a miracle if I still have it!

According to my Whoop, I was getting about 30 minutes of deep sleep a night, but about 2 hours of REM. I’ve recently started taking a magnesium supplement and that’s pushed the Deep to about an hour and reduced the REM a bit. Made me feel much better too.

Tortoise Media

Set up by James Harding who was booted out from being editor of The Times by Murdock. Theyve got a good number of excellent journalists working for them and they specialise in slow news. Well considered articles, when they’re ready, not chasing the news cycle.
Also if you’re up for some stuff on the left, But up for an American perspective, I really enjoy a lot of what current affairs put out too.

I don’t post much, but I read an awful lot, both the forum and magazine and I second this.

I think the most important and positive change in engaging with the first baby that came into my life was understanding the difference between caring and minding. It’s a bit of a personal philosophical thought and I’m not always the most eloquent of people, so please excuse me if this is a bit jumbled.

I think a lot of the way that we are engaged with getting things done in the modern world is by being taught to mind about it. Once you mind about something you create goals and strategies to achieve those goals. You make put yourself in a critical mindset that motivates and can push you forward and people can achieve incredible things when they mind about something. The trouble is it’s not a strategy that works for all situations, and in my experience it particularly doesn’t work for babies because there are no goals or agenda, you have to give yourself over to them and the only way to do that is to put yourself in a mindset of caring.

Caring is about being present and attentive outside of your own needs, whilst still acknowledging that you have to look after yourself. Caring is how you learn to change a nappy in the middle of the night without being really sure if you are awake or not. Caring is laughing at the baby sick on your clothes in an important meeting.

I think reading all the books you can find is no bad thing, they can really help on some specifics, but I think the overall underlying mind set is the most important thing.

Reading that back it sounds awful preachy, sorry, didn’t mean it to be, hopefully someone else has something more specific to help.

Good point big John, I will. I had a bike with a speed wobble that was caused by a bad headset.

Thanks all, yes it’s a big bike, but I am 194cms.
I wanted a road bike for South West Scotland where the roads can get suddenly quite off-roady, especially if you’re out exploring. So essentially I am trying to make the bike more road friendly. Sliding the saddle forward and maybe dropping the bars a bit do sound like a good ideas. I think I’ll see how I go with 32mm tires, as opposed to the 40s that are on there at the moment.

Hummmm… looks like I’m going to have trouble finding an angleset that’ll work on a 200mm headtube. Most only go up to 140mm or so. Can’t find any specs on the Cane Creek, does that work in a different way?

I had a venison steak last night and, as a joke to myself, my veggies were a vegan steak from Tesco. The vegan steak was disgusting, the venison delicious.

I decided to only eat meat that was from ‘wild animals we’ve got too many of”, so wild venison is about the only red meat I do eat. Pretty sure that’s not a scalable philosophy, especially at the amount of meat we seem to want to eat as a population, but for the moment I’m ok with the ethics of it.

Hi Peter, I’m sorry to hear about your loss, I carry a similar weight. I hope the film was not to distressing and thank you for your thoughts and time, especially when things are so tough.

I feel like the Trust fork might actually come into its own with a bike like that.

This thread has sent me on a mega mission to work out the title of a book I read in the late 90s, a really twisted piece of very British science fiction called Vurt by Jeff Noon. It won the Arthur C Clarke Award when it was first published, but I don’t know how it has aged on the page, but the story, characters and world still rears its head in my imagination.

I don’t know where they sit with most people, but I think David Mitchell’s novels (no, not the comedian) are wonderful. Especially Cloud Atlas, Bone Clocks and the Thousand winters.

I have very little to add other than to reiterate the suggestion to visit a Maggie’s Centre. I’m rather closely linked to them and I’ve seen up close the profound help that they have been able to provide for people in your and similar situations.

Friday beer o’clock, yes it’s damned good.

I have the 9point8 fall line on two bikes and the my have been great, albeit after a few set up issues, which were my fault.

The Coors

Thanks everyone. Think we’ll go down the complete bike route. Anyone with experience of the Urban Arrow or others?

Thanks Kevs, not sure about the practicality of test riding at the moment, but in an ideal situation I would.
What cargo bike did you adapt?

I have a set of 130mm st Swiss opm forks with a reverse arch that I used to run with a Dirt Wizard on a rabbit hole rim. There was pretty good clearance. They’re sitting on the shelf atm so if you want to make me an offer pop me a dm.

I’ve done it both ways. (fnaaar) Had a Stanton Sherpa that I put a 27.5 rear wheel and a 2.8″ tyre on and have a BFe that I run with a Jones fork and a big 3″ tyre.

Never really got on with the Sherpa and the fat tyre didn’t save it. I’ve always loved the BFe and the mullet makes it even better.

“The “United States of Europe” is simply tabloid scaremongering (it’s a shame there isn’t a catchy name for this, we could call it “project fear” or something maybe?).”

I call that snidetracking: deliberately saying something false to alter the direction of debate to your own advantage. There’s a lot of it that goes on.

Nina Simone doing George Harrison’s My Sweet Lord (albeit as a part of a meddaly) is possibly my favourite bit of music:

youtube.com/watch?v=9NFfOB7a-Ak

Then there’s also this, Pipoliti Rist covering Wicked Game, which is deliciously weird:

youtube.com/watch?v=ELy0ulAosAA

Bifurcate: a woman who would, for the Duchess of Cambridge.

Better to ask then assume, but I’m sure I can guess the answer, boost?

Thanks everyone, I think seasuckers look like the go to option.

I’ve been looking at them too, as I was always a fan of their previous forks. Like the pitch of them being (somewhat) set and forget, but want to hear what others think. Miss the backwards arch, it’s an idea that always made sense to me, both from a stiffness, but also a tyre clearance point of view.

Find a nice 26” hard tail with disc brakes, get a rigid fork and some 27.5 wheels and you’re off. I’ve done it with an old Indy Fab frame I had made in the 90s, albeit with some finagling with Paul Components v-brakes. But it works brilliantly. Obviously mine isn’t a cheapo build, but that doesn’t mean it couldn’t be done.

Never told this story, but why not… My mum died when I was 16 and for my 18th birthday i got a bit of money from her will. I bought myself a Ti Merlin frame with one of the first Judy forks, some Paul’s mechs and Spinergy wheels. It was undeniably beautiful, but everything other than the frame was utter rubbish.

It’s a riddler out back 2.5 I think. Tried it with a pair of dirt wizards, but the 29er up front was too tight and the rear made it too slow.

The only reason I’ve managed to do this is because I cracked my Jones, although I had that for nearly 10 years and didn’t baby it.

I did the weird bars thing. Don’t feel they really worked with the longer reach. Like this it works brilliantly.

Can’t you just get a spacer kit?

Personally:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=76wSk1j02_4