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This looks like the right place to ask,
Do we clad our extended 1950’s bungalow with vertical black stained Board and Bat or T1 11, or horizontally clad it with weatherboard or get over ourselves and live with the mismatched bricks? They are much worse irl. We live in the sticks and the local farm type builds and conversion are wooden clad and on in the main black. So it’s not exactly groundbreaking.

Well done for persevering.
Before you fit the sill don’t forget to cut in a drip groove, or the rain water will travel back into the cabin.

Looking fine!

In other news, I bent the front wheel on the Kish so I’ve popped an old roval in there to get to work in the morning. I changed over the marathon plus’ without tools again so that’s something I guess.
Oh and the CoMoot (langster) is back together, just in case I need to lock something up in the city.

I wish my head worked that way.

Once you get off the main roads it is pretty deserted in these parts, it’s well worth bringing a bike for sure.
The problem is I have the space, but stuff is bringing me down and working out what to lose is also a major stress.

It’ll be worth it!

TBH I needed it, I’m in a bit of a dark place at the moment and taking yourself out of things is good sometimes.
You should make the effort to get there, it’s a nice ride from the city, other than a little bit along the A12 it’s only short and is a 30/40mph section so not too bad.
Oh and I must find that book :)

A nice tidy site and it looks like you’ve got a system going on. Top work. Now where’s that cat?

Today I went out on the MS. I pumped the WTB Horizons up to 2.75bar and put Liz’s bar bag on, threw in a few bits of the MiLs awesome flapjacks and filled the drinks bottles with water and headed off. It was dry, but the roads were still wet from last nights storm. After 54km, 346m of climb and 1hr56mins I was at the beach at Dunwich and outside the cafe. Which is where I stayed as it had just shut. I ate some flapjack and headed back for home. I overtook a couple of roadie types going up a hill. I was overtaken by a chap on a TT bike on the bypass. I ate some more flapjack. I got home, I made dinner for us all. Chachouka with a nice soda bread loaf. In total I rode 110km, climbed 620m, was out for 4hrs3mins, ate 3 flapjacks, drank 1250ml of water and averaged 27.1km/h. I also got 45 medals on The Strava, but strangely this no longer excites me. The Surly didn’t miss a beat and I’m really starting to wonder if I need my road bike.

You could build up a nice folder, there’s always space for a custom Brompton and they sell really well if you want rid of it.

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Cheers, yeah I gave that a go. Track saw the groves and then ran an angled router down them, but it looked like crap. I’m not sure if it’s just I knew that’s what I’d done, but it didn’t look right :/ and also the cost!!! I’ll come up with something.
Oh and props on a rescue cat, but you know every job just got twice as complicated and will take three times as long now¿

Get a couple of big fuck off hooks and screw them into the facing sides of the posts, not quite at the top, hang a hammock between them, lay in hammock, thank me later.
As for the weird step? I’ve a feeling there’s an old pond or random concrete slab under there. Hope I’m wrong.

Good find, but it’s for the front elevation of our house and it can’t be OSB as that’s been vetoed by the higher powers. Where as I think I can swing ply T1 11 past them as it’s real wood. My first choice of galvanised corrugated roof sheets was shot down in flames as I started to sketch it up. The sheds definitely getting done in it though. I’m sure I’ll end up just using boring black barn weatherboard in the end though, but I’ll fight my corner as sheeting is so much easier to fit and I’ll be doing it.

Endo? I almost cleared the doubles!! (caught 3mm of air at least!)

I still can’t find T1 11 in the uk :(

I used the same roofing stuff when I built the wood store, about 18months ago and set the batten centres at 500mm. As you can see with the summer sun on it and then the autumn winter debris it’s bowed to all hell. Just a heads up.

Exciting

Sorry fella, cannondale offset the drive train 6mm to the right on some of their bikes Ai ( asymmetric integration) so the rim sits 6mm to the nds in a normal frame. (I think, we’ll it’s why I didn’t get a cheap pair of carbon wheels a while ago, so I hope I wasn’t told shit)
Must type faster, but yeah, that.

The wheel isn’t Ai dished for a ‘dale is it?

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If you want to run internal cables this looks like the way to do it IMO.
It’s a Surly, you could probably drill 1/2” holes in the frame and it would still be over built (this is not a derogatory comment) so a couple of tiny holes wouldn’t be an issue.

https://www.chapmancycles.com/2017/09/brian-m-s-randonneur/

Well it looked like gravel to me.

Could you sorry ‘they’ just fill some normal tyres with this?
https://www.mbfg.co.uk/foam-hard.html?gclid=Cj0KCQjwr82iBhCuARIsAO0EAZyOMCtf_P89dgjE3ojNu6HQsIlW0b3UkPIb_V4yhvG3IbbbpmjAPHsaAp2_EALw_wcB