Oh brilliant, thanks.

I’ve got a bunch of tabs open on iso and post mount, I think I just didn’t actually sit down to read them properly and got a bit confused.

Sorry for the derail @cokie, looking forward to seeing this build progress.

@mick_r I’m intrigued/encouraged by that plate fix. I’m wanting to do something similar. I’m just commenting as a place holder should I ever get around to it and have questions

Popcorn time. Has pinkbike seen this yet?

I’ve had the peeling thing on Oakley lenses (polarised). I put it down to sun cream not sweat. But also thought if I did a better job of cleaning them regularly (at all) they would have taken longer to fail.

I’ve not learnt my lesson because I’m not cleaning the new lenses any more than the previous ones.

On the destination side (Spain/menorca) we always hire a Berlingo type thing

Given we fit two evoc bike bags and suitcase in our fabia estate (2011) I’d assume there would be no issue with an Octavia

Why not use these rather than risk damaging the frame

https://www.sjscycles.co.uk/cables/jagwire-stainless-steel-adjustable-cable-grips-silver-per-pair/

We’ve never taken them off transporting in evoc bags ( one pro one normal) with no issues

If looking for a smaller platform Mrs unique has some nylon sdg pedals that seem pretty small to me. I’m not at home to gather more info on them though. They are blue, which was her deciding factor rather than size or grip ?

Well signed no need for gps. Two foot high wooden posts with wine red plaques on regularly along the route and normal sign posts at junctions. Where it follows the roads keep an eye out for red and white striped markings painted on to lamp posts and the like too.

Here is what the guide book thinks of the gradient and rideability

Or not. Apparently not letting me add a photo.

Where abouts west.

We’ve done 90% of the cami de cavalles now. Think we are only missing the bits in and out of the two cities.

The stuff south of cuitadella around cap dartrutx and along son xorigeur is hard going volcanic? Moon rock stuff. North of cuitadella around to cala morell looks to be a bit we haven’t done. Book shows it to be hilly and tricky.

We stay in cala galdana so have done either side of there most. Galdana to sant Tomas would be my favourite pick. Galdana xorigeur is bit more hard going and rocky with the aforementioned moon rock at the xorigeur end but still fun.

I do like the ride from son bou to cala en porter, but as kayak said it’s a bit of a mission to start getting out of son bou.

Many of the sections require a bit of carrying.

The south side seems generally more ridable to me and has more vegetation for shade. The north is more rocky and exposed in the north west, some sections are just riding on melon sized rocks. North east is quite ridable and has some of the flatter sections.

Or at least that’s how I (mis?) remember it.

I was under the impression that brand x droppers were tranzx posts. That initially tranzx were just OEM manufacturers and eventually decided to sell under their own name. So shouldn’t a trawl of the tranzx site find the correct parts

I have the version in the first post. Wasn’t first hand to me not sure who I inherited it from. The dogs section is the only bit I remember. I think two fold, I don’t like dogs, and my god it’s so extreme that would never be publishable now (now stretching back 30 odd years)

@slackboy I was just about to say similar 😂 my Amazon was a 21″ I believe. An era when I would have appreciated a dropper, albeit there not being much room to drop.

Is have plural

I has no idea

@harry the spider

Did you ever live in Stoke Newington?

There was a sell fridges there.

Dirt Jump bike

I have 3 I can recall.

One of those floor to ceiling aco prop style bike racks strapped along the top tube. A snowboard bag, Wheely multi board one, strapped to my courier bag. Was folded on half first, thought it would be easy, but it resulted in zero ability to look over my shoulders, was a scary commute home from central London. And also strapped to the courier bag, a bin, one of the standard black plastic outdoor sized one before Wheely bins made them extinct. That was home along the canal so no scaryness there, but a few comments.

All on either a hybridised stump jumper or on one inbred fixie. Fun times. I have a car now.

I quite like the nukeproof electron/neutron? Composites. Thinner than the burgtecs and cheaper. I do run the burgtecs on one bike.

Nukeproof Neutron EVO (Electron EVO) Flat Pedals

Given only one pedal, and bb cup? has a backwards thread is it much of a problem?

@jeffl
SPD on one side, flat on the other. All bases covered

https://flowmountainbike.com/features/bike-check-hans-reys-custom-gt-force-e-force-mountain-bikes/

Yes, that is a flat pedal on the drive side, and a clip pedal on the non-drive side. Hans calls it the ‘HalfWayRey’ setup

There are a bunch of YouTube videos where he talks about it too

Can you do any scripting with python or whatever?
Pull the first GPS location from the file and do a lookup of the location. It was a good while ago but I did some googly stuff feeding their maps API a GPS and it returned a closest address, pick the right level, like town or county, and the date from the GPS and rename the file.

Bloke in Halfords explained to not think of it as a 21 gear bike, but think of it as 7 hill climing gears, 7 cruising around gears and 7 going fast on the road gears.

The horror! You don’t cross the block like that. It was 3 climbing, 3 cruising and 3 fast.

<Spoilsport mode>

Rubber buccaneer just knows to look at the URL because that doesn’t change when you edit your post title

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I’m in the not really more than a vague idea and it doesn’t matter camp. Have always just glanced down at the cassette if I feel I need to know, I think even when I had indicators I still looked at the cassette.

Can think of two instances I look. I’m grinding up a climb and want to know if I have any bail out capacity (or if I’m thinking ahead just as I start a draggy climb making sure I don’t shift too low to start). And as I slowing at the bottom of the hill from home I check I’m in a good gear for pulling off to cross the busy road. That is probably any junction on the road but I don’t do or care for road riding.

I know you are sorted now, but just for extra ref, when we went to the lakes I got gpx’s form lakesmtb.co.uk

In that regard would a longer travel dropper that is never at full extension mean more overlap better support?

If you think a blind cyclist on a tandem with a sighted pilot is scary then I don’t know how you would find a blind cyclist piloting his own downhill bike.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Dy8YGDTagWrE&ved=2ahUKEwjwioj0tqKAAxWYnP0HHaYHCYcQjjh6BAgXEAI&usg=AOvVaw3huJRPZ1L5aYhqae5DdNcV

Maybe the other 2 pots are out of view, the deck looks bigger than pictured

Didn’t know you could buy the pro frame separate (oh that isn’t the same frame as in the pro bag and fgf chant “how much”), might (not) do that. For replacing the bock, maybe a cheep yoga block from sports direct/tkmax/Amazon. When we had cheaper bike bags I used those to make dropout/corner protection.

Always gloves,always long finger. In the cold I need polar levels of insulation. I think I have not great circulation in my hands.

Nice. Maybe I’ll contribute to a weekend ride thread one day now. Even though I’m neither a expert photographer or high value target, I’ve never been happy giving my images away to some poopbox free image hosting site for them to monetise however they wish.

Still have the issue of not riding enough and forgetting to take photos.

Remembered what I did back when we had the cheap brandx bags. Both as a crush protection and a corner drop protection. Got a cheap yoga block, some threaded bar, nuts and big washers. Yoga block in half, piece of threaded rod through each, big washers on and a few nuts to get the correct spacing. Of course that was qr style dropouts.

The fancy evoc bag my wife has comes with plastic tubes to prevent crush damage no padding on the ends just a bit rounded. Your hub has non rounded metal ends, I don’t think you are going to get damage from the plastic.
I don’t have the fancy evoc, I purchased a cheap hub as a spacer for my forks.

Has tj been hacked? I didn’t think you did helmets.

All very interesting thanks for the responses. Based on that school experiment where you fill a container with steam then close the lid and as it cools it crushes the container. My simple brain is now thinking but if it actually boils surely the expansion into gas, all be it compressible, would push the pads out and lock the brakes.
Sorry massive derail for the OP. I’ll go Google later.

Out of curiosity, but not enough to Google it, what about the liquid being hot makes it all if a sudden compressible?

I’ve taken specific bike cover for travelling before, and even then I thought there was a clause saying while in the airlines hands there was zero cover. On the other hand I also recall reading get a receipt of damage before you leave the airport. I still took the cover but thought any claim would be unlikely to succeed. Such is insurance,I’m sure it’s 99% a scam in their favour.

Budget!!! I guess they’ve upped the spec if the components from 4 years ago. I paid £1800 ish for a fluid FS 1 then, now it’s over £4000.