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An engineer friend of mine has raised concerns about the joint tho. He thinks it is a very narrow point where it attaches to the seat tube. That tab is 6mm thick flat bar but fillet brazed for more stiffness. We will see how it holds up, but my gut feeling tells me its gonna be fine.

As an alternative, could you make the seatstays end in a single tube which gets clamped between two plates, one on either side of the seattube/toptube cluster? It wouldn't look as elegant, I'd admit.

Very. If you want to fuck up the frame there are safer ways of doing it.

No way you'd feel the difference in 3mm all else equal

It's a 25% increase in air volume. That's a significant increase.

I did both at the weekend, in the summer, albeit as part of an organised event (the Engadin Radmarathon) and the traffic was fine in terms of volume. OK, there was one twat in an Italian registered Fiat Coupe convertible who managed to hit my hand with his wing mirror in a particularly ill-advised overtake, even by Italian standards, but that was very much an outlier. Generally the traffic was fine.

Any recommendations for near Davos?

Albulapass and Fluellapass are definitely worth doing.

Gothard base tunnel, nice. Still haven't done it myself.

If it's one could per cylinder, the fact it's reading faults on both 1 and 2 at the same time sounds like a wiring fault to me.

If you want the stickers in vinyl I could do that for you. Haz vinyl cutter, will cut vinyl.

Not strictly relevant, but is there any country/language where asphalt is actually spelt 'ashfelt'?

If we're being picky, he meant 'perspective' and not 'prospective', but as has already been pointed out, Adam Hansen freely admits that the written word is not his forté.

Shrub rose or a climber/rambling rose? Another vote for David Austin from me, but shrub or climber is the first big choice.

Originally I had just one in the right hand shifter, but I've now got one in each shifter, right hand side has both buttons set up to change up a gear, left hand side has them set up to change down a gear.

Similar to my 1x cross bike setup. R875 levers, but both buttons on the right hand shifter go up a gear, both buttons on the LHS go down a gear.

You need the levers. There may be a hack workaround.

SW-R610 Sprinter switches need the levers. The SW-R600 is a fully fledged shifter in its own right and doesn't need levers. I believe the SW-R9150 levers can also be used as standalone levers, but I've never tried using them myself.

Can you run a 1X set up with just climbing (or whatever they’re called) buttons?

Yes. My P5 is run solely off a single hacked SW-R600 with flying leads soldered to the contact patches.

I left London Fields a lot later than I'd planned, thanks to little sister and her surprise trip to watch the new Indiana Jones film with Niece #2. As a result, I didn't leave London Fields until nearly 10pm, so the early part of the ride was a bit lonely. However, since that's the grim part leaving London and heading through Epping, that wasn't such a bad thing as I could press on. Rest of the ride was excellent. A pint and a bag of peanuts at 2:30am definitely helped moral.

I got to Dunwich at 6:30, had a couple of hours' sleep on the beach, and then rode back home to Ely. 120km of a strong gusty headwind wasn't quite what I wanted, and I was quite broken by the time I made it home. The DD itself was great though.

@Brommers Notsureifpisstake.gif Surely that's like 1.5m of visual span? I'm not even gonna bother asking why so much. Invest in a Physio.

Not a piss take. They're arranged in an arc around the corner of my home office. Never found it to be a problem. Maybe I'm part human, part owl.

The right hand side portrait monitor isn't one I use a lot, but it's handy being able to have two pdf documents open on the two portrait mode monitors so I can compare and contrast them, particularly when reviewing document revisions where the author hasn't used tracked changes.

The fuuuuuuuuuck you do that requires that much real estate?

My current home office setup involves, from left to right, a 27" monitor in landscape format, a 32" in landscape, and 2 27" monitors in portrait. I do occasionally fire up my laptop to provide a 5th screen as well. Can't have too much monitorage.

unless you fancy all three in a row of course in which case, good luck.

Worth doing. It's a long day, but a good day.

I can't help but read this as an age related concern

I don't think I've done enough ketamine for that to be an issue yet.

What are the symptoms of a burst bladder? I've got a new 8020 shifter here with a fluid leak, which I may have damaged while trying to force fluid up from the caliper having forgotten to take the bung out of the bleed pot attached to the lever...

Does the 1030 Plus use the same mounts as the 800?

It does, but because it's a lot bigger it may not fit on some on front mounts which will work with an 800. For example, it won't work on the standard K-Edge front mount - you need the XL version for the 1030/1030+.

Another vote for a Niwaki hori hori or Okatsune secateurs. They're both trees hipster but deeply satisfying to use. The secateurs in particular. Deadheading has never been so ever so slightly less soul destroying.

I feel cockblocked. Damn, she could've been the one. And now I'll never know.

Yep, 7.2kWh battery. I'm with Octopus already as I'm an ex Bulb customer so I will probably go with them. I exported 27kWh today - panels face SSW. Pity I'm not getting paid for those sweet, sweet kWhs yet.

Is it a bad idea to run a saddle tool roll with a dropper post?

Can't see why as long as it doesn't hit anything when you drop the post. The weight is going to be insignificant compared to the loads it's designed for.

It's actually 2x8 - there's 16 400W panels up there. Slight overkill arguably, given that at the moment it appears my house generally rocks along at a steady 300-400w consumption rate.