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Birthday ride today, had spent a while plotting a good 100 mile route and then proceeded to have the most disturbed sleep of all time. Still felt good enough for a decent effort but not the century sadly. Set off 6:30AM; expected it to be cold so wrapped up with balaclava, gloves, shoe covers...

@novocaine your size?

I remember you having a struggle to get them on last year, the icetools levers had mine on in a minute! Well worth a fiver.

GP5000s haven't let me down yet (bar riding into an ice patch earlier in the year), no qualms going out when it's wet and the roadside is full of foliage etc. Just had a short spin out to break in a fresh set for the season. 19.5 miles, hair over an hour, 13c and a bit of a breeze. Could've got...

not a patch on trigger..

Bought off marketplace a couple weeks back but previous ankle injury means I can’t really get away with them and prefer the touring/platform spd pedal. No play, spin nicely, tension adjusters fine etc, could’ve been new or atleast passed for new when I got them. Will take better pics of...

Second longer shakedown ride actually in daylight this time which allowed for some better pictures of the completed build. Building in the back is Ryhope Engine Museum, pumping station built in the 1860s. Shut in 67 but everything kept working by volunteers, listed building etc. Had seen the...

Worth mentioning the geometry/measurements/etc for said top end frames is likely to be floating around online so should easily be able to compare measurements from a fit to those of the frame and see if it's workable, but as above it doesn't always give you the right answer as fit is obviously...

Short shakedown at sunset. Small early birthday gift to myself, the Felt frameset seemed a little on the small side so picked up a 55 Vitus frameset along with a new front mech as frame is braze on mount. Very short 8 miles but feels nice to be back on carbon 🚀 No major flaws from the...

Are you looking to get something custom made or asking in regards to building up a specific frame? Both carbon framesets I've had (2014/2015) used tapered steerers. UDH is afaik thru axle/boost spacing. Front mech clamps still use common sizes, newest top spec di2 stuff offers clamp mount...

In a similar mindset; had my 2013 Bianchi wrote off and without going into massive detail a new for old replacement is approx 3.4k which either the group representing me can supply a new bike or I can accept the 3.4k later alongside personal injury. At first I was excited at the thought of a...

Decided to go give Crawleyside a crack again, seemed a good way to judge how much fitness I've gained back (or lost) as that was one of the last big rides I'd done prior to accident and it's a good measure of fitness at around a 70 mile trip with 5000ft of elevation! Didn't take a massive amount...

No big miles today, saw it was meant to piss it down thjis aft so I thought yeah quick 25/30 miles or so. Set off, five mins later: Nothing gets the heartrate up like swapping a tube at the side of a 50 road! Got it done relatively quick (for gp5000 standards anyway) but wanted to avoid the...

Spinning round Durham outskirts again, kinda bordering on the north pennines. Not massively quick, trying to keep the hr down. Just after climbing to the aptly named area Hill Top. Tower in the back is the one from my last post, good distance away. Just before climbing back up to the...

Pink saddle would set it off! Do you find those elite bottles leak much? Mines 750, hadn't noticed it much when just water but since doing carb mixes I've noticed the frame rapidly becoming a sticky mess. Or if you feel like dropping a grand on some limited edition corsas...

44 mile Sunday, 42 yesterday, 47 today - safe to say the road legs are definitely coming back. Mostly been doing loops starting on the coast, through Durham and some of the towns on the outskirts of it; Brancepeth, Esh Winning, Cornsay, Lanchester etc then back home. Once past Durham it's all...

yep, all on imgur. There goes every image I've posted, no doubt numerous build logs just got wiped. Imageshack, Tinypic, Photobucket and now Imgur. Here's some reupped.

Tried to go for one of those long slow zone2 rides since every other ride lately has been around 1 hour of absolutely ragging myself about (hit a new max heartrate the other day), ofcourse that didnt last long as met another chap 10 miles in and took turns drafting/leading. Very fun but the...

Quick spin into town with a friend for coffee and to pick up some bar tape, inspired by @wynne ofcourse. I weened myself off caffeine around January time and usually just grab decaf as I do enjoy the taste of it but alas we got our drinks mixed up and didn't notice till about half way...

anxiously awaiting the start of todays peanut butter thread