I was thinking of pairing it up with a set of Hunt carbon wheels.

Might need to sell my Highball as well as the Six though…..

Ideally…..I’d like the Resolution but £1500 for a steel frame is hard for me to cope with! 😯

Saw that. But it is only baby sized! :o)

Think more like 60cm.

OK thanks, that’s been very helpful.

This is it you see….the Super Six is very much a race oriented frame but I no longer race, unless you count trying to thrash the pants off each other on not so social ‘social’ rides.

I am addicted to the acceleration and handling of the Six but it seems a little soul less to me. I assume, with a nice pair of carbon wheels (just my little indulgence) it would be as snappy and fast as you need in a non race environment.

I also did an out and back up Ruabon/Worlds End and beyond i think, and fell victim to the ford! Properly slippery that one!!

That was a helluva climb for a flat lander. I only turned back as the weather was so foul on the top and I was dressed for Suffolk in the summer i.e. no waterproof and only a windproof gilet for ’emergencies’.

Can I get to Llandegla cafe from there, avoiding busy roads?

To schnoor……did the suggested loop. Only went wrong once and ended up at the bridge in Llan as opposed to higher up then road. The descent off the top by Ponderosa was brilliant…..gravel bike heaven! Not sure I liked the climb up Horseshoe Pass though, 30psi isn’t really enough for the road.

Tower Hill wasn’t so bad after all.

Anyway, thanks for your help….that is down in the memory banks as one I’ll ride again.

Cool…thanks for that! :o)

203 miles according to Google.

Interesting comment from CountZero regarding the dispersal (or lack of) his family from a central point over the last 300 years.

We have what I call the ‘family wonks’ on both my father’s and mother’s side of the family. They spend a lot of time working on the genealogy thing. I asked for copies of their research recently and was surprised to see one branch of my father’s family traced back to the early 1500s (give or take a decent margin of error) and my mother’s to the early 1700s.

Until very recently, the nucleus of my father’s lot all lived within a 20 mile radius of Oxford while my mother’s were by comparison, a restless bunch. Orginally based in Glastonbury, they moved to Bath in the late 19th Century.

I had just not appreciated how recent a recent phenomenon mobility actually is.

Sony MDP-JB940 that’s what I had. Two of them.

😳

Must say, I like the look of kiwijohn’s bike. Very nice.

I had a couple of Sony units. Really good quality etc, but just a PITA having millions of discs floating about. In the last week I threw both out along with a few hundred mini discs.

Couldn’t give them away and believe me, I tried.

It is a 1960s “Zender”. Nice and tidy, hardly a mark on it. It needs tuning but the piano chap said it isn’t far out.

He reckoned it would be a nice buy for a beginner and would last them most of the way though any grade work they wanted to do. He also said it was an ‘OK’ brand of piano, though not a great one.

I’ll see what my nephew has to say.

I hated mine in the end. Never really gelled with it. It promised a lot but failed to deliver and as alluded to above…the BB was too low. Boing, boing, bash, boing.

Changed the forks from the original Bombers to Rebas, plugged an RP23 in the back, upgraded the wheels, messed about with the bars, brakes, shifters etc. No matter what I did, it always felt like someone else’s bike.

Got shot of it in the end. Hopefully the new owner liked it more than I did.

Having said that, I have never really got on with full suss bikes and have yet to sling my leg over one that really works for me. It may be telling that my favourite bike is rigid!

I had a 705 for years and ultimately just fancied a change and got the 810.
As above, the bluetooth function is pretty cool but otherwise, it basically does what the 705 did albeit via a nicer gui.

I liked the 705, I like the 810.

Have a look at Scarletfire for extra reading, it helped me make up my mind which to buy.

ScarletFire: Cycling gear reviews, Garmin tutorials, Strava tips and more.

Kalas

http://www.kalas.co.uk/

Love mine, fast rolling on and off road and grippy when required on most surfaces.

Tubeless setup on Hunt 4 Seasons Disc wheels.

A mate has them on a 2015 Arkose – they are tight, but not fag paper tolerances – but seem not to cause him any problems.

How was their new roof constructed/raised?
Is the concrete just holding tiles over yours?
Or have they removed tiles from your ‘side’?
Or is the concrete providing a weather seal?
Where did the membrane underneath end?

Both properties are quite old…probably early Victorian or a smidge earlier. They have pantiles which replaced earlier thatch – this must have been done a long, long time ago.

The neighbours stripped their roof off, battened over the existing structure and raised the roof line by 4 inches or so. New pantiles were used so they look quite different…though that isn’t the end of the world. Tey will mellow in the next hundred years or so :o)

Their tiles have been concreted over mine, probably covering 2/3 of the tile.

It isn’t a weather seal, bits of it started falling out on day one and there is a large void (that they know about) where some of it has dropped away. Other parts are cracking significantly.

No idea where the membrane ends. I have to assume there is some overlap.

The thing is, if I have to work on my roof, I will have to disturb their tiles, and my tiles may even break. They are very old, triple roll, pantiles. You can’t replace them, I tried several years ago when I was trying to replace a couple of broken ones.

The lead flashing idea was agreed because it would allow either of us to undertake running repairs without anything else being damaged.

ATEOTD, they had no right to go ahead and do what they did. They obv thought they could do it and get away with it.

It appears I do have Legal exes on my home policy. Will pursue that for now.

Did they not need planning approval to raise the roof line?

I checked that and the council said no!

Buildings insurance…..good thought, there may be legal cover of some sort included in the policy. The thing is though, I still have to live next door to them so I don’t want to sour relations completely.

It isn’t as if they don’t have the money either, they are constantly doing new projects on their house….they have just started one today.

Maybe I ought to re-roof my house out and concrete my tiles to theirs!

Thought of that but it will leave me with a hole in the roof and zero chance of getting him to do the remedial work.

If it were that simple, I’d be up the ladder chucking his tiles about with abandon.

OK thanks. :o)

I had one of these

Didn’t have Pace forks though. It had a really nice pair of uber light straight bladed forks that came as spec. I took it into my then LBS for a new drive train. They took the forks off and sold them to some guy (USAF – going home, saw my forks, shop sold them to him) and plugged in a pair of crap bouncers. When I picked it up they said ‘we put your new forks in…..’ Long story, didn’t get my forks back….

Anyway, I built the bike up for my Dad a few years ago. He has it in his garage but is too old to ride it any more. I guess it will wend its way back home in the end.

I still have the stem – crazy long and the bars were secured by one bolt! The thing is, the bars were so narrow there was no leverage on them!

Did it ride like a Ti bike? No. Ti gas pipe I reckon, heavy, stiff as hell and handled like a dog. Other than that…..

Manufacturer says normal course is 4 to 6 weeks not 10 years!

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With more on the way?

More drugs!

I like that!

Do you use them as a pair then, or match them with something else on the front?

Clydesdale….14 stone plus then? I’m 14 stone +/- a pound or two so I assume that’ll be fine.

We splashed out, I think we paid £5 for four.

I’m getting into enough grief with room for CDs. I’m not sure what would happen if I pulled my old vinyl and turntable out.

What I’d like to hear again? First Utterance by Comus. The original vinyl is as rare as hen’s teeth but I have got one tucked away safely!

@shermer75 I am taking readings twice daily with a gizmo the surgery lent me.

I am sort of 155 to 160 over 85ish so nowhere near as bad as you were.

Doesn’t it depend on what type you have?

Don’t know!

I had one on a carbon Flash 29er. Didn’t get on with either in the end. Sold both within a year.

The fork was stiff and direct and while I loved it for a bit but there were too many things I didn’t like about the whole package. Maybe, with a different frame, I’d have stuck with it but it was such a faff….

My sister in law lives just down the road (one of the last houses in Pen Y Gaer Road) but I haven’t ridden an MTB there for years. I keep thinking about taking a trip on that loop but either ‘days out’ take precedence or I just grab my road bike instead.

Note to self – next time, take mtb and book a day out of family duties!

Some year ago, a guy from on here showed me round a loop that lasted 50 odd miles iirc. We popped out near the canal and then faced the climb from the Australia Arms (as was) up to Pen Y Gaer Road. Suffice to say, we were knackered and only made it as far as the war memorial and took to walking and riding. The rise by the school did me in though, granny gear or no granny gear!

Good point APF

Poison….hmm.

We had a roof full of the little blighters. They used to start playing football, or tap dancing every night, just when we had gone to sleep. I put down industrial amounts of poison. The footy and dancing soon stopped…but it has got awfully whiffy!

No error messages.
No mail queued.
Have just spoken to my service provider who checked the server while I was on the phone. No errors. He checked with another of their customers who also uses POP3 with them, they have no problems either.
He did mention that they will be phasing out use of their email server as it is not their core business (it is a local firm that I have known for years – they are customers of mine)and though it has yet to be announced, he suggested it might be a good idea to start looking for alternatives.
BT are my internet provider, is there any reason why I shouldn’t just transfer everything to them at some stage? The thing is though, it doesn’t help me solve the immediate problem.

Thanks….I’ll give that a try

Sat here on my own (as normal) contemplating the world. I have one, massive, report to do then I am finished. The thing is, I am struggling to get my ar$e in gear.

It isn’t that the report is tough or mentally challenging, about 50% of it is (almost) cut and paste.

Daydreaming about tomorrow – forecast is good and if I have finished this report, I’ll go out for a good long ride.

Love the video.

Tyres….I just chuck them but have a curious, subliminal urge to hang onto handlebars!