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I like to embarrass myself by pronouncing the g in gnar when I converse with my young colleagues in the bike industry. They can't tell if I'm joking.

Just a tiny update from last night. You could feel the heat from about half a mile away.

I have a copy of it that I would sell. I paid £30 for it. £20? I could even deliver it in person to you!

It was a beautiful, still, mild, moonlit Autumn evening until about 10 miles from home when the wind got up and the heavens opened. Still, good to get out. I heard an owl too. Though I thought they didn't go out in the rain - it's too wet to woo. Oof. Sorry.

I am very cynical about the marketing, err ...sorry, cycling industry, but i reckon gravel bikes are pretty much the perfect bike for most UK riders. I always loved riding my cross bike everywhere, but now I can get a more stable version of my old bike that fits bigger tyres, has disc brakes and...

My wife is writing a short story about one of the Lewes martyrs. She'll love that article, thanks.

Went past one of the Lewes Bonfire society fire sites this morning. Absolute f***in' mayhem kicks off in Lewes big time tomorrow. This is just one of the eight fire sites around town. Each has its own massive fire, parade and firework display. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c751lgqgq4vo

Or get some of them stupid flexi-spokes. Living the dream.😬

Exactly that! Got covered in grease every time, and trying to push it onto the valve was a nightmare with the saddle in place. Added to that it had the inflating power of an asthmatic canary. I was 13. I mowed lots of lawns to buy it - and i really tried to like it, but it was total crap.

I rode through the Jura on my way from Lewes to Geneva (and back) this summer. I stayed in Prémonon for a night. Never ridden off road round there, but been through it on the road bike lots of times. I love it too.

Bright but chilly spin this afternoon, taking in a couple of East Sussex's famous hill climbs - Firle Beacon and Bo-peep. Great to get out.

Nice tubeset and great builder. Bet that's a lovely ride.

I've put lots of new bikes together with mechanical shifting routed through bar, stem etc. Companies are daft enough to design them. Awful.

My experience is that it gives worse shifting, especially in poorly designed frames with tight angles, and particularly on bikes where cables are routed through the bar, stem and headset. The latter is effectively moving you towards wireless shifting.

And titanium headsets. Why? Weighs more than alu, more likely to damage your frame, expensive. Just silly.

Interesting and bold, that's me. 😬

I rivnutted external hose guides onto my last (and by last I really do mean THE LAST) internally-routed frame. Much the best long term solution for me. Probably absolutely no help to you, however. 😁

Shimals, maybe? Or Sham-als?