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• In the news

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 3 days, 9 hours

  

  Jamie-Lee Ross is a massive piece of shit. He got kicked out of the National Party after he was found out leaking dodgy expenses stuff to the media, claimed it was for 'mental health issues', was also found to be abusing and harassing his staff (including horrible sexual stuff), cheated on his wife, teamed up with a batshit conspiracy theory polical party, and now we'll finally see the back of him.
  Cunt.

• We are the music makers - producers?

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 6 days, 19 hours

  

  Just got a new Mac mini to get my proper 'studio' up and running after a 8 year space/kids hiatus. Logic 8 to X has changed a bit, but old tracks are mostly working. Gonna be fun trying to work out the best way to integrate my synthstrom deluge, and jonesing for the Behringer 808 thingy. I can't believe how much time I used to spend mousing around on the piano roll, there's no way I want to be doing that again. Logic will basically be a recorder now. One of my speakers has a fault, but my modular seems to be ok, but I've forgotten so much it's like being a beginner again!

• Shit fixie skidders say...

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 6 days, 20 hours

  

  20 minute video? Fuck that.

• Gravel / Gravé / Gnarmac / Groad / Not quite CX bikes/ - aka Just get an Arkose

  in Bikes & Bits • 6 days, 21 hours

  

  Cheap lager and hot sauce/ michelada

• Skateboarding

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 week

  

  Have fun! I lasted about 12 months into my 'start skating again after 20year break'. I scared myself silly and learnt a few new tricks, but falling like a sack of potatoes left me constantly bruised and sore. Falling on coping at 37 is a whole different thing than when you're 15. I was mostly bowl skating and little ledges. Now I just push around after kids. Ace trucks and oj keyframes give a lovely smooth feeling.

• Swapping shimano and campag freehubs

  in Mechanics & Fixin' • 1 week, 4 days

  

  Campy/fulcrum wheels are just a straight freehub swap.

• Sweet sweet Bottles / Bidons

  in Bikes & Bits • 1 week, 5 days

  

  My purist bottles ( only moflo I think) start leaking down your chin when drinking after a couple years. The classic tacx are still my favourite.

• Rapha, nice but a bit pricey?

  in Bikes & Bits • 1 week, 5 days

  

  Hah same. Everything sold out in 2 minutes.

• Dry lube: how often?

  in Mechanics & Fixin' • 2 weeks, 2 days

  

  Yeah the initial treatment of squirt and Smoove that's the trick. You need to use some proper nasty degreaser to clean it, then the double application. Then mine is good for about 150km before reapplication in the dry, less if it's wet. I still prefer it to wet lube as you don't get the black paste crap, and I'm very lazy with chain maintenance.

• Rapha, nice but a bit pricey?

  in Bikes & Bits • 2 weeks, 2 days

  

  I like the clobber but the forced limiting of supply to build hype can fuck right off.