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I've joined the solar panel club today. I think it's fair to say that they've made the most of the available roof space.

Tapered roller bearings.

TRP RRL, or RRL SL for the extra drillium bling.

The weight benefits for titanium are less for butted tubes than they are for steel. There are undoubtedly plain gauge titanium frames out there, but most use butted tubes.

ooh, so it's integrated headset?

We, no. Ignore that. I was getting confused with another gravel bike. 44mm headtube, so it'll need the headset cups pressing into place

I finished building mine up just before Christmas 2022. I've done 750km on it. I still like it.

My first carbon bike and I'm not sure about how good carbon is to being abused.

Very good, in my experience. I've killed steel and Ali frames before. Never carbon. Well, not yet.

As for Ti, welding that stuff is very difficult and never sure that it is done properly.

It's really not. You have to back purge it, but that's about having the correct fixtures. Welding Aluminium is far, far harder.

Is the pipework still aviation fuel line?

Never was, as far as I know. Most decent Ti frames use butted tubing, and I can't imagine that aviation fuel lines ever used butted tubing.

I have a day off work with my bike in Switzerland coming up. I’m based in Basel but willing to travel. Where should I head to? Last year I went to Andermatt and did 3 mountains there.

The Vosges mountains or the Black Forest have loads of good riding. Planche des Belles Filles is a good climb. For something a little more left-field, head over to Davos, embrace your inner oligarch, and do a loop through Zernez with the Fluellapass and the Albulapass.

I haven't, no. Frankly, it's such an insignificant problem that I haven't looked for a solution to it.

Nope, didn't bother with the OLED screen on the X1. My current Carbon X1 (9th gen) has a 1920x1200 IPS screen. The M14 has a 1920x1080 screen, so a little shallower. The difference is only mildly annoying, as I tend to keep the same windows in the two screens - email and word processor (WordPerfect, cos I be Old Skool) on the laptop, web browser and pdf reader on the M14. Switching between the two requires the minimize/maximize shuffle, but it's no great hardship.

If I order frameset from PX and add headset in customization, would they install it or just throw in the box?

They'll just throw it in the box. But the headset bearings just drop into place, so that's not really an issue.

Any thoughts on why one (me) shouldn't get Tempest?

I've got a Tempest gravel with an Ultegra/GRX mix. I really like it. One day it might crack, but it shows no signs of doing so to date, and it rides really nicely. I like it.

Fuck me, it's all kicking off. I'm not convinced that Peugeot won't win this. And that is a shocker.

I think you'll like it. It's mildly annoying that it's not the same resolution as my laptop, but it is pleasingly slim and light. And, being Lenovo, It Just Works. Which is nice.

Well, have some retrospective external validation.

What helmet? I've just fitted a Sense ACS-10 to my Arai Quantic. The level of integration is quite impressive, even if the installation instructions are sheeeeeiiite.

Bit of a slow response, but I've got a Lenovo M14 screen I use with my X1 Carbon. I like it.

I resemble that cover. My artisanal trug is lovely, I've just got a pair of Hunter mid-calf boots for mowing the lawn, and my Niwaki hori hori is my second favourite gardening implement, beaten only by my Okatsune secateurs.

Well, it certainly hasn't been a dull race so far. All kinds of craziness.

I'm assuming the Porsche 963s have titanium wheel nuts. Not sure I've ever seen sparks from a wheel gun before.

Ooops. You can't win the race on the first lap, but you can lose it...

This safety car process is a bit weird. Safety car periods are going to take forever.

Trying to make Discovery TV and Radio Le Mans commentary synchronize is proving tricky. I'm guessing the TV has a delay and Radio LeMans doesn't. Nearly there...

Interesting that the Toyotas are already having regen issues. Doesn't bode well.

Yeah, I like it. Adds a bit of random interest. Was the 311 Cadillac punted off the track or did it spear the barriers all by itself? It looked like contact on the in-board footage, but it wasn't clear.

Yep. Watching the first hour at least on Discovery. The Chevy NASCAR looks so incongruous. I rather like it.

Yes.