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Anti-clockwise porn
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Iohan Gueorguiev is riding from Alaska to Argentina. He's been going since April 2014, taking detours to ride interesting places. The hour long 'see the world' videos are a great watch.
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Yeah I think any kebab shop will do it. Some places advertise it on the menu and others will know what you're asking for if they don't.
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I ordered one this morning. It's in a race with two bottle cages I ordered from Winstanley's and I'm honestly not sure which will win.
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I missed out on the touristy stuff in Utrecht. After two nights in a row on less than 4 hours sleep, and a heavy night out in Rotterdam with some people I met at the hostel I pretty much passed out as soon as I arrived. Woke up in the early evening and went for food, a couple of guys I met doing a similar tour from London told me about Kapsalon which is amazing for getting the calories in after a day on the bike + a pretty great hangover cure. Most of the decent shwarma places do it if you ask.
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Did 4 days cycling there in March. I went Hook -> Rotterdam -> Utrecht -> Amsterdam -> The Hague -> Hook. I stayed in hostels and a B&B in Amsterdam so I don't know much about the camping but there's a lot of campsites over there.
I stopped in Gouda for lunch and it's a really pretty little town: very traditional looking place with windy cobbled streets, canals and a big market in the central square around the town hall. The ride between Haarlem and The hague is a great one if you follow the coast. Most of it is through national park land and is well away from the roads. Just cycle paths through sand dunes and woods with the occasional place to stop on the beach to get food. I planned routes before I left but ended up not really using them as everything is well signed, just follow the green signs.
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Porteur style ones don't tend to attach to canti mounts or low-rider braze-ons. For ones that attach by the axle there's Minoura gamoh king, Soma deluxe or Soma echo and Pelago Commuter. Surly 8-pack and 12-pack will mount to low rider bosses but seem to need another set of bosses at the fork crown, dunno if you can bodge your way around that.
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Did the Nitto top go in the end?
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Looks like Pasela's
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Nice ride out to Walton-on-the-Naze via as many small lanes as possible, then followed the coast down through Frinton and Clacton, avoided Jaywick and then did the Wivenhoe trail. 85km total with around 25-30km on gravel tracks.
Got charged 20p by the woman in the beachfront cafe to refill my bidons because "we can't just give water away", and then got a puncture from broken glass 5km from home by a shard of glass. Realised I'd already used my spare tube and cracked open the brand new repair kit, popped the seal on the tube of glue to find it only contained air. I'm not even sure how that happens, it didn't leak out and it felt full when it was sealed but it was completely empty. Walk of shamed the last 5km home, a nice MTBer offered help but I said not to worry as I was basically home by that point.
Despite that it was still a 10/10 ride. Perfect weather, sea air, nice trails and I remembered sun cream so I didn't lobster up like last Sunday.
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Cool, I'm still interested if the other guy isn't. I'm in darkest Essex though so i'd need it posted.
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always late for these things but I'll get in line for the Nitto jersey on the off-chance the others don't want it.
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Fished the only pair of medium casual shorts out of the pile of XL's. Quality seems pretty good, they feel like they'll last a lot longer than the lycra jerseys and bib shorts which are very thin and look naff. Medium are still on the large side for me though, don't understand why they'd make 33" the smallest waist size.
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No worries and thanks. Nice looking mini racks in black just don't seem to exist so I had to ask. I'll stick to my original plan then.
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Asked in the current projects thread but it got buried, what's the rack on the Geekhouse? I'm about to buy a Velo Orange pass hunter and plastikote it black. Yours looks pretty similar and would save the hassle of spraying it. Seems hard to find black racks in that style, they're all polished metal.
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What's the front rack on this? Was planning to get a VO pass hunter rack myself and plastikote it black but your one looks like a similar design. Seems to be very few black racks in that style.
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I bought some mud butlers from America recently and they're really similar to the VO ones. They're a slightly more matte finish and the hammering is more subtle but I think everything else is the same. Got them from the manufacturers ebay shop and they worked out roughly the same price as the Velo orange ones, postage took about 2 weeks.
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https://vimeo.com/164005775
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Maybe I'm misreading you but you don't drag the cursor along the road. You create a start point and then a waypoint and it automatically creates a route between those two points. shortest distance by default, or most popular route if popularity is turned on. If it's going a funny way then just add more waypoints along the route you want and it'll sort itself out.
There has been problems with some UK roads where the builder doesn't want to route down it, but again, spamming more waypoints fixes it in my experience.
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I'm sure someone on here can hook him up with the tools
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Changed the skinny 23c vittorias out for some nice Clement Strada's in 28 and managed to snag a brooks swallow titanium fairly cheap off ebay. Payday on Friday means I'll be ordering some of these mudguards: http://handsomecycles.com/products/black-fenders they're a bit like the velo orange ones but with a more matte finish. Probably going to replace that horrible Tiagra chainring with something a bit more elegant.. black or silver though? I'm leaning towards silver. Pedals, bottle cages, some kind of front rack and bag setup still to buy too.
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Spent most of the day spraying my pass hunter rack black and swearing a lot while I tried to set up the brakes and mudguard around it while keeping it as level as possible. Doesn't look like I'll be able to level it without sticking it in a vice and doing some serious bending but it's usable for now.
Unfortunately the paint's immediately chipping off, I was hoping to get away with just scuffing up the metal. What's the best primer to use on stainless steel? I'll probably strip it down and do a proper job of it next week.
