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All the usual caveats - lockable, unlovable, looks a bit rubbish

How has this gone?

Pretty sure they're velo orange hammered noir.

How does it ride?

If what YOU are riding is giving no issues with tubes, then moving to TL seems pointless

This is wise I think. Big bike industry clearly want me to go tubeless but I shall resist

Not exactly a ringing endorsement is it.

I've not had particular trouble with thorns. Are tyres like the Byways less puncture resistant than older equivalent/similar non-tubeless tires, because they are expecting most people to run them tubeless?

Not one single puncture yet on my aged Clement USH, plenty of commuting as well as 'gravel'.

Just picked up a pair of WTB Byways for £20 each, so I now have officially tubeless compatible tyres and rims, both WTB TCS system. All I would need to go tubeless properly is valves, tape and sealant.

And yet, this thread is putting me off. However many years after becoming mainstream in cycling, tubeless still seems messy, awkward, and prone to weird failures. Are the squish/feel/vibes really worth it?

https://www.wiggle.co.uk/wtb-byway-tcs-gravel-tyre

WTB Byways of various sizes for v cheap.

Grabbed a pair of tanwall 650b x 47 for £20 each

Nice one, I'm sold on Carradice but just need to decide if I need super C or super C audax will be enough.

Just need to join CAMRA now...

Nothing like so strong as Shimano external cam.

If you try to crank the Allen key extra hard, the skewer snaps and fires out like a crossbow bolt. Ask me how I know

I have made the same assumption. Have a GX 10 speed derailleur which works great with an 11 speed SRAM bar end, so hoping the Force shifters won't be any different

I like this suggestion a lot, Junior looks good too but I cba with fiddly leather belt buckles

Looking at your photo I wonder if even the big boi Super C might fit. Wide flared drop bars. Obvs only the middle would be supported by the rando rack, but given its supposed to be hung off a saddle with no support at all, hoping that wouldn't be an issue?

Not quite bikepacking but I have a front rando rack and want a decent quite big bag to go on, but without spending £200 for the velo orange one. Anything good below £100, the less the better? Best idea so far is a repurposed Carradice saddlebag

There’s still 14 months to go.

Isn't it Jan 2025 latest?

Post!

Stonking deal on the shifters, thank you for sharing!

Anyone seen any good deals on mechanical (eg. BB7) or quasi-hydro (eg. juin tech) calipers?

Yeah the red bits are the stalks coming through. Mine looked like that a week ago and has leaves now.

You are not meant to pick any in its first year though, let it grow strong instead

Yeah we didn't need any drawings for building control beyond what the online calculator did. Would have felt shafted if I'd paid for an engineer to produce this.

Feel like cupcakes and I are possibly talking at cross purposes. Surely the vast majority of people knocking through don't get an architect in, that would be extreme overkill.

If it's a standard job, you can just use an online calculator. All the engineer will do is put the measurements into a similar calculator, they don't actually break out their pencilcase.

We did it online and it was accepted by building control, and the house didn't fall down. Builder was happy to double check measurements etc for free.

We used this one:
https://www.beamcalculation.co.uk/

Minus 3 predicted tonight in Bristol, dunno where you are but winter is not over yet.

I am cutting back dead deciduous stuff but leaving evergreens for now

Andy seems to have gone quiet, I've been messaging him hoping to buy but with no response

For more examples of terrible communication, see here where the cabinet member for transport is expressly making the link between 15 minute cities and the traffic filters:

https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/23073992.traffic-filters-will-divide-city-15-minute-neighbourhoods/

The (good) FAQ, at a guess produced after they hired some new comms people, then tries desperately to row back from this link. But of course then they look like they're lying.

I have lots of sympathy for overworked underpaid local authority staff, having been one until quite recently.

I still think they have made enormous errors in how they have communicated about this, and while they couldn't have known they would become the epicenter of a bizarre conspiracy theory, they absolutely should have expected a tonne of pushback including lies and disinformation.

As others said at the beginning of this thread, the way to do this would have been a much simpler scheme, one road at a time, with a minimum of fuss, not trying to sell it as a grand urbanist plan.

It is astonishing how badly the council have managed to screw up the comms on this. That BBC article is specifically meant as a countering-disinformation thing, and yet clearly they briefed the BBC that it was £70, no mention of the £35.

Widely reported, for example

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-63901938.amp

https://airqualitynews.com/2022/12/09/oxford-councils-faces-abuse-due-to-misinformation-on-traffic-filters/

I probably agree with you, all I'm saying is that, if people are wondering why weirdoes think 15 minute cities means your movements will be tracked and you won't be allowed to leave your neighbourhood, that is because in Oxford this is (sort-of, at a big stretch, ignoring the caveats and fine-print) actually happening.

And yes that assumes that you literally only travel anywhere by car but for a huge chunk of the population that is true

Am I right in thinking that a key step in between 15 minute cities being a harmless academic concept about getting to the shops easily, and it being the subject of tonne of weird conspiracism, is the particular example of traffic control being promoted recently in Oxford?

As I understand it (and I probably don't) Oxford actually is proposing something that, while not quite what the conspiracies are imagining, is sort of in the same ballpark. Well not really, but you can see the link.

They are dividing the city into neighbourhoods and charging £70 to drive between the filters that divide them. They are also branding it as a '15 minute city' concept, which is a silly thing to do because councils should communicate in normal English, not use policy wonk terms when the general public won't understand them.

There are a tonne of caveats that make it less bad than it sounds (you won't be charged for driving between neighbourhoods if you use the ring-road instead of local filtered roads, residents get 100 days free filter-crossing-passes per year, businesses & blue badge & blue light get to pass for free, etc).

But you can see where the conspiracists get the idea from. They see this as the slippery slope to some Orwell/Stalinist/Blade Runner world where Oxford City Council's eye of Sauron laser beam will evaporate you if you step outside of your allocated sector.

They then read up and hear that council transport teams all over the country have been making appreciative noises about 15 minute cities, and that makes it even worse.