grand daughters came off her balance bike at the start of the year straight onto a decathlon kids bike with no stabilisers , she bloody loves 2 wheels and is always on her bike if she gets the chance :) …. looking for another bike for her as shes grown so much this year, she’ll need a new one for next year

No idea but what a cracking series :)

Interesting reading , as we’ve just bought a house in yorkshire with an oil tank etc , first for us so happy to read this advise :)
Our tanks from 2006 when the house was built so should be ok for a few more years

Which garmin?

AS above , Wahoo Elemnt, bolt or roam , either version , far more reliable than a garmin especially after the last update ! ….. they just work :) …
I have both garmin and wahoos and the wahoo is the choice every time

As a HGV driver in Birmingham and A38 etc , i see this all the time , the standard of driving in brum is shocking. The amount of times ive stood on the brakes cus some f***wit has decided to turn left across all the lanes or just wanted to brake test my truck … Think its just the way society is going , everyone’s in a rush and needs to be there 5 mins ago !.
Its one of the reasons we have sold our house ad heading to east Yorkshire to live for hopefully a quieter life and less hustle and bustle !
And yes about dash cam footage, most trucks/wagons have them now, our fleet has them pointing forward, one rear and then one down each side of the truck to protect us as much as the numpties on the road

The tifosi cavazzo disk, Looks very much identical to the PX Holdsworth Mystique frame ! .. lumps , bumps and all the other details

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Cheers. What bike was it? Do you have sales order number.

PM sent , cheers Brant

Cheers Brant, will contact them after work monday, nothing serious , just a few bits id like sorting if possible without sending the whole bike back !

Yep , currently working my notice, both of us finish end of the month with no jobs to go too! , have sold our house in Birmingham and bought a Bigger? house in a small village in Yorkshire . We’ve made some good money on our house and the small amount we still have left on our mortgage will be cleared easily and a good chunk of money will go in the bank for any work on the house and maybe a bit to live on while we look for work which wont be until after Christmas, Im a hgv driver and the wife was/is nhs so shouldn’t be too hard to find work ?
Both our jobs paid ok but with being mortgage free, all we want is maybe a few days a weeks and less stress hopefully spend time on the beach (5 miles) and a lot more biking for me.
Gonna miss the kids and grand daughter like mad, who we are leaving in Birmingham , but its only 3.5 hours away so not end of the country….
scary as shit but both just getting to 50-ish , kids left home and only the 2 of us to worry about … its shit or bust time :) ….. Good luck to all that try it

I have a gpx of a 103 mile loop around Birmingham , just using the canals … yet to ride it all !

avdave2

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Ramin 3+ / SS rigid – no current plans for a return sorry

Most bike for the money in my time buying bikes, love mine.

Still have and use mine for its intended use, awesome for the money ….. starting to look a bit tired now in places and thought about getting it powder coated but cant source any replacement decals otherwise i would

Have 2 sets , one set on the good road bike and another set of 650b on the gravel , both sets excellent and recommended

Have just bought a house with a garage …. Bikes live in shed normally , so excited to see this thread and all the ideas , cant wait till we move in and i start the garage :)

Congrats …. I became a Granddad at 47 , and I’ve loved every second of it … Enjoy it they are awesome :) and you get to give them back after a busy day !

After waiting 12 days to port my number to plusnet and then not being able to enter a competition via a short txt number isnt the best start of a phone relationship ! … their days are numbered already

Really sorry to hear of your loss :( … In time it will get better and remember the good times ….. I lost both my parents in 2008 , only 8 weeks apart !!! …. never really finished grieving for my dad before my mom died :( … Still miss them like mad

Don’t know about Plusnet’s customer service but transferring a number with a PAC would normally be a day’s interruption of service at most.

Could you confirm what you mean when you say they turned your old number off though? If your EE mobile contract was cancelled before the porting took place it’s going to make things difficult.

What should happen is you’ll have 2 SIMs and 2 mobile numbers with the contracts running side by side until the porting date. When the port takes place the old service will end without further input from you.

Sent Pac request on friday 2nd , My original number with EE went dead on wednesday 7th afternoon , had to put new plusnet sim in etc , so got another number, I contatced them the next morning as it hadnt ported overnight and all they keep saying is , its been passed onto their operation dept to sort out why the porting hasnt gone through and all i keep getting now is , it will take another 2-5 days to get them to at least give me a porting date !! … all i keep getting is apologies and sorry we cant help you until the OPS team have sorted it , so basically im fubarbed until then …. My biggest concern is losing my original number as i use it for so much

As far as the biking goes now , its mostly road,gravel when i can and a bit of bikepacking , so not looking for full blown off roady stuff :) … some good ideas though , keep em coming as im still looking at properties :)

ton

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stay away from west Yorkshire, basically because it is a **** toilet.

where we are looking is borders of east yorkshire and north youkshire if the map is right?

Added to the pot, was in Reeth only a few weeks back on the bike and stopped for some lunch !! … horrible to see the place like this , Good luck to the OP and daughter

ours came out last week !

should be pretty much bang on, i use other wheels as well as my hunt 650b and just swap and change, quick pull on the lever and all seems fine :)

My lad got it me in April for my birthday, ive not even installed it yet ! … what am i missing ?

Dont know , dont care , ive doubled my money in the last few weeks,tempted to take the lot out and buy a new bike :)

I have that bike, and all i can say is , its 142 x 12 mm … sorry cant help anymore , cracking frame though

Get yourself over here , for all your info

https://bearbonesbikepacking.co.uk/

convert

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Had she stopped wriggling when you put the slabs down? I live one can do that.

:)

Had a similar thing last year someone hacked my xbox /Microsoft account, they bought 2 £50 xbox live vouchers etc through paypal , only flagged up when i checked my account, paypal refused to refund saying the correct password etc had been used so they believed it was me … which it wasnt !, they had also set up a recurring £50 a month xbox live account , which i managed to cancel before they took any money, still got taken for £100 in the end , which paypal or microsoft refused to refund ?

brant

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Front centre is listed as 599mm on the small. So you can measure/compare?
https://www.planetx.co.uk/c/q/bikes/gravel-adventure-bikes/tempest

Cheers Brant, measures same as my Arkose then, according to tinterweb :)

Anyone got pictures of a small build ? … any issues with toe overlap on the small frames ?

In pen Red 3 with most of our club, cannon Hill cc, look out for a fat lad on a grey cube with the word stumpy on his number … say hi as you pass me :) … wouldnt worry about the hills , nothing too serious out this way

Working straight through , no bank hols off time for us, one of our busiest times of the year ! .. gutted as loads are out riding and im stuck in my truck at work !

Yep still have it, drop me a message and email or email me and ill send it over

If i remember right, it was rocketdogs route, me and a mate followed it , well most of it , some of it was ok , some not so ! .. ill go have a look to see if i still have the route

not ridden in the last 2 weeks , but have the honc tomorrow :) … been doing plenty of miles , hopefully be ok for my second 100 miler in 10 years !

Really fancy one of these,but looking at sizes, the head tubes seem quite short in comparison to other similar frames ?… Compared to my Arkose the tempest is 30mm shorter in head tube for same size frame ?

Ive entered but cant ride it as didnt check the dates properly and id already paid to ride the Birmingham velo which is on my doorstep, gutted really , great entry price as well … ill keep any eye out for next years event … Good luck with the event , it looks ace

scotroutes

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Do the frame and forks have drillings for mudguards? If so then I’m finding my SKS Bluemels to be fine on 650 x 47 tyres.

yes mate it does … which model of Bluemels are you using ?

Hello Geely … 🙂

Your Volvo XC70 … that’s theirs. 😀

Geely bought london taxis international (Black Cab) in 2010 when i was there and then shut press shop and body in white down and imported shell from china from then on …. Bye bye job :(

Loving the new frameset color, just disappointed to see no extra mounts on the forks for maybe some bikepacking duties :(