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And @stelfox,
Don't forget the beers. That's why I have a bottle cage on my city bikes anyway.

Haha, LFGSS Berlin Chapter. Does anybody have the LFGSS CC kit?
Will make a thread this weekend to garner interest. Looking fwd to again explain to my girlfriend I will meet some guys from the internet.
Ive met @Jay75 once or twice too, he has/had a café in Prenzlberg.

I'll chip in, would be nice to meet some familiar forum names IRL.
We ride from Hermannplatz?;)

Some pictures from the web of the fork and the adapter system.
Really looking fwd to tinker time!

In the end after some weird comms with Marino abandoned and life got in the way until by chance I stumbled on some trials forks: inspire arcade.
405a-c, disc, trick style with 27mm offset which is very close to the og 410 a-c, 30mm offset all city forks.
Just got them delivered and they look very promising. 30mm, 700c fits and they have a nifty adapter trough axle system for 9/10mm axles.
Their British outlet on eBay is selling some shopsoiled still for reasonable prices, can only recommend if in the same predicament.
Will need to drill the crown for mudguard and rack, and might have a smart (possibly stupidly suicidal) for mounting the rack.
More on that at the weekend, but very chuffed!

Of course, Gesetz FOUR LETTERS ABBREVATION MAINLY in CAPS, Paragraph X, Absatz Üpsilon.

It's funny how stereotypical the Germans are (Dutchman in Berlin).

I like the phrase "Paragraphenreiter" (informal) / "-wichser" (obscen) for the typ of person that derives pleasure in mentioning and quoting them.

I was asked if I am liable last time on the construction site (architect) by a construction manager, which I still don't know to have taken as a threat (you're fucked because we are gonna sue you) or a compliment to ask if I'm a partner in a roundabout way.
Luckily for me I am not.

Germans even put that in emails (i.A. Name: "im Auftrag") to note specifically that they're not liable.

Talking about the aforementioned I think I should as a precaution..;)

Hmmmpf.
Doesn't a drill generate more torque i.e. tried unscrewing the back with a flat drill bit?
Just stabs in the dark, we're trying to 'elp 'ere.

Sir Isaac, sir Bradley, sir Chris etc.

Once you are a sir/lady, you are sir first name, not last.

One of those screw extractor thingies also didn't work?

I think I found that rack bombtrack deck on kleinanzeigen but snoozed and likely lost. But I'll keep a notification on.

The bike in its sorry state:
I could try the ordnungsamt route

I really like the look of that ti 26er.
Still have my eye on an abandoned ti 26er that's been there ever since we moved office 2,5 years ago. Just don't have the guts to go at it with assorted tools to set it freeeeee.
What's the rack btw? I noticed you don't have it on the latest iteration. If you want rid, give us a whisper. Will come pick it up and say hi!:)

excellent shopping sled

Not advice, just a superfluous comment because you probably already had figured out the solution..;)
Happy you escaped unscathed, and the bike relatively.

Connectors are death
After by chance finding out the connecter loosening on my first fixed bike I have resorted to always connecting chains the old fashioned way.
On fixed mind, I understand the standard double "L" links could be forced to separate when backpedaling due to the resistance.
Geared no qualms.

i have had quick success with the same problem in the past with a drill.
as i understood from tester a normal bit with normal drill direction already does something "physics/engineering" that the screw unscrews by itself. *
failing that a screwunscrewdrillbit.
i´m a bit lost for words it seems.
*no guarantee from internet stranger

Zeroing.
Have them on my watchlist, they also do combos with directmount rings.
What is your verdict @Carabo?

HHSRatB

Holy moly spacer stack

Yeah, looks legit. Pantos, full chrome etc.
Also nobody would go to those lengths with the elaborate respray if a lesser quality frame.

What you got to replace them?

Interesting! I reckon de volkskrant is easiest to get in the UK. But have a look on their websites to get an idea of their reporting.

I'ld say trouw, parool or volkskrant. Why?

And the black ones:

Zoom enhance on the white fxckers: