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36mm Everest page now up on the TF site; at £320 I hope they last long enough for me to pick one up Tuesday. Otherwise will have to wait until Eddie reopens in January...

Apart from the rotor noise, is there much difference? I'm not a movement connoisseur, but I thought both the Mitoya and the ETA were time-tested workhorses that were much of a muchness.

Yeah, but it's 95% as nice, at 1/20th - 1/30th the price...

Ooh, where's that picture from - tz-uk? I've been keeping an eye out for updated pictures, but haven't spotted that one.

Yeah, Eddie's teaser photos often don't show his watches off to best effect, but I'm not at all sure about this one. Still, the other recent designs have all been bangers - I think I'm going to go for a 36mm Everest.

Yeah, I feel like Tony Naylor would fit right in on this thread; he does a nice turn of phrase too.

https://amp.theguardian.com/food/2018/dec/07/how-to-eat-mince-pies

Ha, I didn't think they were a particularly weird lot by beer festival standards, but then as a card-carrying CAMRA member of long standing maybe I've just become immune to it! Helped that it wasn't too busy, but I really enjoyed it.

Guessing your Dawes/Mercian only take 35mm without guards? A trad UK tourer would typically have had 32mm (1¼") tyres, so finding something with bigger clearances is tricky. My old Eclipse can just about squeeze 35mm tyres and guards in there, but it's pretty tight; if not set up for cantis, finding suitable deep-drop brakes is tricky (the Eclipse has Weinmann centrepulls). I'm not sure there is much available OTP - what are the most important Riv-a-like qualities for you, apart from wide clearances? I'm guessing rim brakes, slackish angles, threaded headset, lugged frame? My immediate thought for a rim-braked tourer with wide clearances is the Surly LHT, but it's not lugged and has a threadless headset. the Stanforths are nice but not massively cheap - once you're at that level you might as well be looking at a custom builder IMO.

Had a very pleasant catch up and a natter with some mates at the Pig's Ear beer festival in Hackney. Drank various dark things, starting with a couple of milds and working my way up through the stouts and porters. I wholly approve of the thirds thing; means you get to taste lots of different things without falling over. I had to dash for my train so didn't get round to trying the O'Hanlons vintage, for which I'm slightly kicking myself, but did pick up a Tynt Meadow from the bottle bar to try later.

Phwoar.

^Nothing like a landlord tapping a barrel of something good for regulars near Christmas. Back when I was a student we were fairly regular drinkers at the Star; come late December it wasn't unknown for a jug of 1845 or even Golden Pride to suddenly appear at our table; Fuller's apparently provided barrels to favoured publicans. #csb

Another?! Lucky so-and-so...

(Very nice.)

Functional-tastic! I meant the bag rather than the bike - looks like a Barley rather than a Nelson.

Top bodgery. Is that a Nelson?

Interested to hear this as well; the consensus elsewhere seemed to be that they'd be fine for about-town/commuter use, but would be unlikely to give full brightness for higher-powered lights (60+ lux).

Ach, nowt wrong with puff pastry other than the crumbs. I've been offered the Heston/Waitrose offerings this week - had a lemon one and a cherry blackforest one. Perfectly nice, but not really mincers IMO.

Couple of photos of my setup below. The major problem with the big bags is that they were designed in an age of slacker seat angles, when the saddle was likely to be pushed forward on the rails (or at least not all the way back); with a saddle all the way back the bags rotate so they're nearly horizontal, as shown in the first couple of pics - note how the straps and buckles have disappeared under the bag. The QR clamp exacerbates this, because it puts the support point a couple of inches below the saddle loops.

I find that with the bag fully loaded with shopping or touring gear it stays in place pretty happily on the rack and doesn't sway, so I usually just let it hang; if going over really rough stuff I just toestrap it to the rack. If I were going custom I'd probably try and get some kind of minimalist saddlebag support rack, a bit like the Nitto ones, but I'm not 100% sure what the best mounting solution for it would be. I agree that the bagman support puts the bag at a slightly funny-looking angle, but as mashton says it prevents thigh rub.

Is that any different to the standard Hummingbird? A FOAF works for a cycling mag and had one on test - he loved it, but it's ££££. For a utility/commuter (and what else do you need a small-wheeled folder for?) I don't really see the point.

That's a great-looking loaf; what flour/method?

For the past few weeks time/can't-be-arsedness have meant I've caning the bread machine with timed overnight bakes rather than anything else, albeit with a slug of sourdough starter in the mix. Hoping to get back to hand baking again soonish.

Nodder fluro for connoisseurs! (FWIW I'm trying to justify replacing my old wind jacket with one of these...)

@plasticniki just in case you've not seen it, women's visibility jacket appears to be in the sale.

Wind jacket stuffs into a jersey pocket fine; the pack jacket, which is a similar material (but comes with a little bag) is about the size of an essentials case when packed away. Mind you, as a beard-and-Carradice type rather than a roadie I mostly shove stuff in the saddlebag - I dislike the sweaty back I get with loaded jersey pockets.

Great stuff!