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Halfway home I got a massive sugar crash due to consuming nothing but caffeine and m&s flapjacks all afternoon at work. Resulted in a horrible bonk. So because in embracing my new year fitness regime I stopped and had some chips, a battered sausage and a cup of tea by clissold park.

8/10 would stop for chips when it's fucking cold and wet again.

Bike ready for collection after both wheels have been trued. Can't collect until Sunday. A true test of customer service...

Just dropped my bike off at Bicycle Box, a new lbs on phillip lane. £20 to true both wheels. Full service is £45 and a reassemble and regrease etc at £80. No website but there is a fb page:

https://www.facebook.com/BicycleboxUK/

Sad to say it's me. With my guns well and truly hidden.

Twas crispy and fun - thanks @BareNecessities

I'm still in so will be at the station for 11.00

29th is perfect for me. Missed the ride in the summer, so looking forward to this. First time I get to put the knobbly tyres on the Ogre!

outland risers still free?

avid levers still available?

Will sturmey archer 9speed thumb shifters be a suitable replacement for Shimon 9 speed bar end shifters? 90% certain they will but prepurchase paranoia creeping in...

https://www.velovitality.co.uk/products/sturmey-archer-9-speed-thumb-shifter

Spent the ride home quietly muttering the word cunt under my breath at anyone who had a light I deemed as too bright/flashey/pulsey. Embankment superhighway is full of them. 7/10 would ride again.

My route here but now tempted to try the choices listed by everyone else
https://www.strava.com/activities/696494784/shareable_images/map_based?hl=en-US&v=1473884246

Will let you know!

Now can't do it due to a parental visit. Goddammit. Be grateful if anyone can post the ride route soon after. Enjoy it!

My first lfgss ride. Woo!

Batshit crazy.

I did reading to cheddar last week over two days with mix of trails, paths, roads and lanes. So you could swing down instead of heading west from Bradford on avon. See 3× strava routes a few posts up in reply to Brookly_Bay

I did spend a lot of time pushing the bike on day 2 because I'm crap at hills and they were steep. So you have been warned. Also there's a fallen tree on the path coming out of reading. Be prepared!

ooh - yes please. I'm currently using the RL340s so happy to try and swap them to see if it makes a noticeable difference. PM incoming.

Something like these? https://www.sjscycles.co.uk/brake-levers/black-cane-creek-drop-v-brake-levers/

@xkittyx that's what I thought re disc specific levers so good to know I'm not being a total noob (first bike with disc brakes I've owned). Calipers I think are bb7 mtbs so that could be why. Will check in the morning. Not long till payday...

Thanks ed. Took it to be serviced last week and the lbs told me off for not using disc specific levers and that was why the brakes are spongy and they couldn't get the right amount of bite. Will see if housing makes a difference.

Anyone recommend some good levers for drop bars? Using some old tektros at the moment but after a couple of steep descents this weekend I realise I need levers that are less spongy/actually stop the rear wheel for skids and that.

Here you go - mix of lanes, b roads, footpaths, bridle paths and gravel tracks including what looks like paths that turned out to be just rough fields. Descent off beacon batch is to be avoided as well, ended up walking the bike down. Loved nearly every minute of it and met an old guy named John on top of the beacon who was telling me about his 1950s custom track bike with a campag groupset he sold a few years ago as he was interested in my ogre and super motos.

https://www.strava.com/activities/684102861
https://www.strava.com/activities/684102877
https://www.strava.com/activities/684103006