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2nd loaf trying a no knead recipe just out of the oven.
Dough felt much wetter than the previous loaf, but this one looks likes it’s had more oven rise.
Might need to do a couple of folds in the beginning, when the dough is in its long overnight ferment, to give it a bit more strength. Hopefully that makes it easier to shape before proving in the morning.

Any smaller controllers that will work with the ps5?
6yr old is about the right age to start playing in the next year or so. Thanks

yeah, as it empties out, find time to skate a bit further, able to skate for a bit longer as there are fewer people to wait for, skate between. Swapped out the bushings on my skateboard again for some stiffer 94a ones, so will have them equipped next time we head to Brixton.

You are correct they had much more fun at Brixton, more time skating and generally getting used to being around more skaters doing skate things.
Interesting to see the range of ages and ability there, and the ebb and flow of busy times, emptyish times. Really good day for it today. And they already want to go back.
Have mentioned going in the mornings of the summer holidays, but not everyday.
I even got a chance to skate round and see what I need to practice and improve, and the new pads (elbow and wrist) weren’t too annoying either..

Have forwarded onto friend, will let you know

Is it any good?

Anyone seen this before?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/186500553292?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=L-I5gqC4RkK&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=eTz5XuWuTKa&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Think he is looking for a working bike, but will forward on.

Hey,

Friend is looking for a bike to electrify, so not worried about looks or fancy bits. Roadworthy, solid, and in good condition, are the main bits.
53/54cm, single speed, working condition.
South london.

Thanks

Hey,

Friend is looking for a bike to electrify, so not worried about looks or fancy bits. Roadworthy, solid, and in good condition, are the main bits.
53/54cm, single speed, working condition.
South london.

Thanks

Last on this here. Tightened my chain yesterday to take the track slack out of it. Now I feels too tight. Fixed gear problems!

I’m about but I’m well fucking out of sync with the bike tagging!

Been on the summer bike for the last couple of weeks! The fun I’m having blasting (relatively) around town makes me wonder why I didn’t break it out of storage for the last couple of years.
Takes years off me..

You could try cadence down in Crystal Palace. If you’ve got the time, head into condor on grays inn road as they gave a range of saddles in stock, but they also have the kit to work out how wide your missus’ sit bones are and from there you can figure out the width of saddle that will be best for her.
Specialized have a wide range of female specific saddles you can choose from once you’ve worked out sit bone width.

Yeah saw that, but njs track goodness does not seem to be its forte..

Where can I ask on here, or does anyone know how I can work out the geometry of a frame?
Summer bike is a vivalo and I’d like to get the geometry so I can (at some point in the future when I’ve got some money/any money) have a titanium version of it built.
Are there apps which will do it automatically, or do I need to measure everything myself and work it out on a sheet of paper?
Thanks in advance.

Yeah speaking to them this morning on the skate to school, they mentioned wanting to go back to Clapham next weekend and I said maybe we could do Brixton instead and then they were like can we do Clapham after as they already knew they liked it there.
So fingers crossed they like Brixton as much.
They’ll definitely need pads, the transition from just seeing what it’s about, to trying things after seeing what other kids with more experience were doing was frighteningly fast.

And though they bounce back from the odd fall off their bike or trip over in the playground, they do tend to produce screams and big tears when it happens and I’d rather they had a bit of padding so each session isn’t punctuated with massive tears and cajoling to get back at it.

Wish I’d seen this yesterday just pulled the trigger on a 6pad set of the 187s. Rollersnakea has a deal on..

Question are 187 killer pads that much better that I should contemplate the extra 30 quid over some rekd ones?
Let me know..

Yeah been looking on eBay for some, but they don’t seem that pricey new, so may just head to a shop and get some.

Took jnr back to Clapham skate park today, after ice cream and some skating in a private residential place round the corner from Clapham old town which has some weird angled paving, eventually got told there was no skating there after we’d been skating around for 10-15mins. Assume the concierge/security allowed it as it was a middle aged man and their child rather than some teens looking to (insert colloquial words for skating hard here) …
Anyway took them over to skate park which wasn’t as busy as I expected, some skate teachers and their kids practicing, some older men and a couple of older teens/early 20s.
Jnr took to it really quickly, but fuck me the fear I got from rolling down some of the smaller ramps/banks, was immense, and jnr was off wanting to skate down steeper and steeper inclines. Hadn’t brought any pads with us as I didn’t think they would get as into it as they did.
Finally had to drag them out after about 45mins of them wanting to try more lines/ramps, which I was unsure they’d have the skills/balance to do.
Anyways got home tried on the pads they’ve had for a while and the knee ones are too small whilst the arm ones still fit, ( they are tall but relatively skinny), and just brought the next size up for a cheap price off eBay.

As you mentioned clapham park when it starts to fill up becomes a bit difficult to navigate as everyone bombshell the same couple of lines. So when pads arrive I think we’ll make an early morning trip to Brixton and try those bowls there.
And I’m definitely going to have to get myself some pads if I’m going to keep up with them..

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Back in the game!

@ad441, okay cool, I see what you mean now, we usually view from the wall by the crossing that leads you down to the academy, so have never really looked at/ viewed that section, will pop along tomorrow and have a better view.

See what you mean re: clapham layout, gonna head down there with a skater mate end of this week and check it out for myself, and see. Got a month or two before summer holidays so plenty of time to make a decision.

Can you explain how Stockwell is better for learning? Looks steeper with more banks and bowls, whereas Clapham is flatter couple of ups and downs, and some rails.
Jnr is confident standing on a moving board, getting better at pushing on it, can tack randomly, and stops by jumping off. Not sure I’d be comfortable with them swooping through some of those bowl sections at Stockwell..