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What solution have they offered? Will the parcel eventually come back to you?

I suspect distance selling regs/sale of goods act might be a useful stick to beat them with; otherwise frozen sausages by courier not RM?

I've been happy with their organic white; think all the loaves I've posted in this thread have been made with that.

Did SJS not get their 50 bikes then, or have you sold them all already? Wonder if Brompton will try and ramp up capacity - IIRC they built the new factory with a fair bit of room for expansion.

Is the fact that they didn't feel compelled to offer you a biscuit a sign that some of the pain was borne by them as well as you?

Vague and spectral though that clue was, it was enough for me to find the tag. (I will confess to not having heard of the erstwhile owner before, and presume that's not the original building?)

Yeah, I might get a kilo of each and do some testing...

Is Caputo blue worth it over other (Shipton Mill, in my case) 00? The local wholesaler has it back in stock at £1.75 a kilo bag or about £21 for a 25kg sack. Am wondering if it's worth the storage faff of the latter, but as they do Napoli chip mozzarella, San Marzano tomatoes, etc. will probably get some bags either way to try out.
(Edit: they also have Polselli and Dallagiovanna; not sure I'm obsessive/consistent enough to see if there's any difference between them...)

Yes, this was taken shortly after I got it, so was an opportunity for an Old Brompton/new Brompton photo.

(NDS fail, I know...)

I went all black, but either could work.

The main UK cycle mechanic qualifications are City and Guilds or Cytech; I don't know about coaching. No idea what the Euro equivalents are.

That is absolutely lovely.

Huh - SJS/Spa/etc. all have the lower weights. Wonder if this is a with/without fixings thing?

I mean, my main bike is a tourer with a pannier rack, so I just use the QR clamp and rest the bottom of the bag on the rack. But this is LFGSS - where's the enthusiasm for spendy over-engineered custom solutions?!

Look amazing.

I mostly use the classic rack for my Barley, but that's for ease of removal more that for the support itself. When loaded for touring I suppose I've got 10-15 kg in the saddlebag, which feels like a bit much to be hanging off the saddle rails. While a Carradice isn't a weight-weenie option, I suppose I'm just intrigued as to how minimal a support you could make. Both the bagman QR and the classic rack are IIRC ~350g, which is comparable with a lightweight pannier rack like the Tubus Fly. The titanium Airy pannier rack is ~230g, and the René Herse front rack is ~190g; I'd assume that you could get a custom support at that kind of weight.

This is a question for my fantasy future bespoke fast tourer/audax bike - could you have an (ideally easily removable) support for a Nelson/Camper-sized saddlebag (so for 15kg max?) that would be lighter-weight than a bagman/classic rack/Tubus airy/fly. I feel like this should be possible if suitably triangulated, but am always slightly dubious as to whether putting bending loads into the seatstays is the best of ideas.

WTF is going on with the front forks/wheel - looks like a bizarre disc rotor, but is it a dynamo/cycle computer track of some kind?

Something like a padlock alarm or an alarmed cafe lock? E.g. http://www.personalalarms.com/cgi-bin/sh000002.pl?WD=lock%20alarm&PN=copy_of_Minder_Padlock_Alarm_%2d_Ideal_to_Prevent_Oil_Diesel_Theft%2ehtml#SID=259?a548

http://www.personalalarms.com/cgi-bin/sh000002.pl?WD=lock%20alarm&PN=Cable_Lock_Alarm__2%2e4_metres_%2ehtml#SID=505?a1191

Have seen people recommend things like the latter on the CTC forums as a touring lock.

Monitoring a system of tubes, near the HQ for London's Tubes?

TBH it's pretty hard to kill starters completely - I've resurrected some pretty manky-looking ones by scraping off all the mould and crap off the top, and using a teaspoon or two of the clean sludge at the bottom as a base to refresh stuff. I'd just feed it and stick it in a cool bag.

Made pizza in the Karu Saturday, firing on hardwood alone, and as a windy day it was possibly getting too hot - pizzas cooking in under 60 seconds, and burning a bit too easily. Possibly worth getting an IR thermometer after all, and maybe fiddling with the chimney vent to see what effect it has on temperature?

How old was the original saddle? Possibly worth the repair if it was broken in to be comfortable, but I know CTC/Audax types are of the opinion that the leather on modern Brooks isn't as long-lasting as on vintage ones. Either way, you might be able to sell the old one for spare or repair?

I wonder whether going full triangular truss space frame might help? Would help give more strength at a similar weight at the cost of being (potentially much) more of a ball-ache to mitre and braze...

Carradice are pretty good at customer support; if you emailed them they might sell you an expedition loop so you could convert your bagman?

If you're just taking tools and a tube, lunch, and a jacket, a Barley/Super C Audax is great, and would be ideal for a century ride. I use mine on a Carradice Classic Rack (needs a saddle with bag loops) but have found it's ok without a support, especially if you put some correx or similar inside the bag to stiffen it up. If you don't travel particularly light/want to take a picnic blanket/might want to use it to pick up shopping/want to use it for credit card touring, get a Nelson or Nelson Longflap; marginally heavier, but much more useable volume.