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Could be? I don’t know? But?¿? I was told it was ‘made’ in Italy when I bought it.

Just across the street where our frames are built by hand they also get painted by hand

They do use the word frames not bikes. TBH as long as the person building them knows what they’re doing I couldn’t care less ;)

I’m going with Italy. For 2 reasons
1, https://standert.de/blogs/journal/handmade-in-italy#:~:text=While%20we%20develope%20all%20our,samples%20to%20the%20finished%20production.
2, the box my frame set came in had Nero, Nero Opaco and Nero Lucido Standert 3T written on the inside of it in marker pen. And it is indeed Matt black with gloss black lettering.

Mr Gammon Fist

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Although what you say is true, if it was mine I’d just break out the grinder and the mig, weld it up and put a rib along the top and when it breaks again next to the weld look at getting it done properly ;)

I’d just get it tig welded, it’s not a big job any fabrication, engineering place should be able to sort it out. Shouldn’t cost too much and what’s the worst that’ll happen? It’ll crack again…

I was tubeless a phobic until I tired them for myself. Shhh, but I used to set them up in the shop all the time yet never rode them. Now I love them, but only on higher volume tyres. For the easiest set up go with Teravail, they work so well it’s crazy. They really are the gateway drug.
Oh and yes, yes to more light lilac!!

It’s that plastic nob, but they do have a habit of snapping if they are old.I’m guess it’s not clearing or you wouldn’t be looking at the water level. Sometimes they stick and don’t fully fill no matter how the valve is adjusted, squirting a bit of limescale remover about may work.

:D
Do you like the way Liz just did a cut and paste of my ad? It least she told me or it would be in both places :O

And true :/

I hear you about builders not looking at plans properly. They blocked up the wrong window at first on the kitchen, family room extension at our last place and I was only at work for 6 hours :( It all came good in the end though.
Love what you’re doing with your place 👍

In todays news I nearly cut the top of my finger off cleaning the Chain on Liz’s Planet X getting it ready to sell. I went for a road ride on the Midnight Special and got called a “poof” because it’s light lilac (pink) and I was wearing pink socks and a black jersey with pink skulls and crossbones on it. Still I managed a solo 50 mile ride at an ok 17mph + average, (not to bad on 650x47 horizons at 35psi) so not a totally shit day.

Moved

Liz has decided that road riding isn’t for her, so her Planet X RT58 is for sale.
Medium 6061 frame, with carbon/alloy fork.
SRAM Apex 10 speed double tap shifters, brakes and rear mech, ultegra front mech.
FSA Omega cranks and external BB.
Formula hubbed wheels with shimano skewers.
30km old vittoria 25mm Zaffiro pro 2.0 tyres.
Ritchey was set back seat post.
Prologo pro Ti Scratch saddle.
Zoom clamp.
Planet X 3df80 stem, Deda 440mm bars, Deda tape.
A snazzy VEL bottle cage.
Specialized plastic flats
£200 it’s in Norwich so ideally for collection.
I’ve never posted a bike before, but if you want to Walk me through it, I’m sure I can find a box.
Thanks for looking.

Here goes;
650c wheels in a 26er v brake frame, doable? I think there’s only a 6mm difference in wheel radius? Will a ‘normal’ (read cheapy shimano that’s already on there) work?
Genuinely asking for a friend.
Ta

I have a Keissäge and an Umlaufbahn and I don’t regret buying them, but are they any better than lots of other cheaper frames? Sure I get more comments about them than an I’ve ever had on my spesh or Trek or anything other than the Surly, but that’s not enough for the extra £.
Well they are better finished, look better (imo) and ride much much better (imo again). Would I buy again? If the money was there then yes yes I would. The difference in price isn’t a lot really. When you go from ‘yeah’ to ‘YES’

When I did ours on the old CMax I use one of the headlight restoration kits off evilbay and didn’t clearcote them. I just used the finest polish on them every time a washed the car (couple of times a year) it took about 2 minutes a side and they always looked like new. Right up until it got written off 4 years later.

NICE!

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How did you squash Gavin in the front like that?
Old; Goodwood Steps Sainsbury’s Centre

The quality of infrastructure is reliant imo, most shouldn’t be shared and a path with a picture of a bike/ped isn’t infrastructure. It’s a problem/incident waiting to happen. If there are no other options, it’s narrow etc and there are peds around riders should walk imo.
‘Buzzing’
I’ll disagree on this one, people are spooked yes, but they also know that they are unlikely to come to any real harm. My choice of words may have been poor with ‘we’re in their space’ as they are not expecting a cyclist on the path, no matter signage etc and think you are in the wrong so react to that shock and the law breaking they perceive.
‘Not a road’
Whilst this is true in good shared use areas peds should expect to encounter cyclists. On a footpath next to a road most peds don’t react to a car passing at 45kph with maybe 1m of space, because of the way it is designed.
‘Stepping out’
I’ll concede that it’s not a deliberate act. In fact I think in some ways it’s good, because it shows at a deeper level people know that people on bikes aren’t going to hit them, unless there is no possibility of avoiding them. We are after all people on bikes, people on foot can see that.

As @amey said it’s really about cunts.

99.9% of people, riders, walker, dog owners and even rollerbladers are chill and this is not an issue.

Love, Peas X

My 2p
Most shared space is awful.
As cyclists we should leave space, we should slow down around people, however;
Pedestrians know they are not in any real danger, the shock is not for fear of harm it is because you are in their space and they don’t like it.
If they had any sense that they could really get hurt they wouldn’t behave the way they do. People don’t walk on share paths as they do on the side of the road or in a car park because they know that cars maim/kill you, but bikes bruise you in the vast majority of the time. You only have to see the way people look at you, actually see you and yet still decide to step out in front of you to see they know that the consequences are bearable.
Having said that, if you want to smash that segment along that old railway line get up super early before others are about, but still be prepared to slow down or stop for that chap with his spaniel on a black extendable lead, 20m behind him in the bushes on the other side of the track to him…

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Welcome aboard!
I know this one!!
Old; sovereign house(?)

As someone who has a set of each, I second that motion.