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Since a while I thought to give my bike a new paint, but on the other hand I bought the frame for the paint it has... but got bored a little bit with it. Basically these colors, a gradient from yellow / orange / purple to dark blue, but a really deep blue, like the sky on the top when the sun went down while ago, and the logo letters in yellow or orange or even better an orange to magenta gradient:

Now I have an aluminium frame, with a really nice blue color and vintage style, but stickers and a typo ('HAND MADE IN ITALY'). Damn, I hate that type – or isn't it a typo and OK? Like UK and US English differences? Argh.

As I saw it isn't that easy to find some frame painters here, so should I go the DIY route, let it sandblast, and buy a mediocre airbrush gun, a compressor, etc. and paint it for myself? I only used rattle cans in the past for ah um ... bicycle frames. Or find a painter to send it to? Or I leave that idea as it is.

Ho Tho! Didn't saw your reply... Yep, now I rode that Panaracer Gravelking tyre also on some longer routes, in winter times and now spring. Actually I have no technical measurements compared to the compass I had, but I do feel slower with them – but that can also be the missing fitness. They are much louder, maybe because of the profile or mini nobs the Panaracer have. The Compass has these straight lines in the middle. But I got them for riding in all kind of situations, snowy, tarmac, gravel, etc.

Hmm, ratio of fork fatness vs tubes and especially that top tube

SFW BTW

Then

Argh, I was fighting with myself the last days not to order these cargo shorts to enrich those Walmart guys, but in the end I was sold on the pockets from the very first pic I saw and ordered today.

Erm okay

Cargo bib shorts? Get?

Analog?

Great, real world usage pictures of exactly the models I am interested in! The Carradry looks that it can put lots of stuff in it, big, and the Super C looks much smaller. Hm, one of these I'll order, but tending more to the Super C. Also using these later coming from the bike a shoulder bag sounds good.

I have the CarraDry in the shopping cart since a while, should I get it? Can I put a bigger DSLR in it? How can I attach it to my fancy Selle Italia saddle?

Sold!

Stainless steel, nice, sounds good.

Good news everyone, new price: £200 (£255 at Brick Lane Bikes). Shipping included to your UK island! Sell low, buy high is my slogan. BTW, you shouldn't have left us in the EU. Would it have been cheaper for me to send back then? Has there changed something already? Come on, discuss in my thread to keep it up!

My previous citybike, maybe too much blue here and there... Sold the frame about 3 years ago:

We have that on our family van in 26x2" since years, a nice and smooth tyre – but not available in between 1,35 and 2?

Yeah! As soon as I saw them available I sent them my Euros. I bought from a German store, had to wait about a week – https://www.bike-components.de/en/Panaracer/GravelKing-TR-28-Faltreifen-Modell-2018-p61146/ – In stock!

Yep, reason to change was more like #whatpressureyouarerunning, getting some more millimeters in width, and a tubeless setup – my first one. Went without a problem, cleaning that old adhesive residues was a hard job. That took about 2 hours.

Wow sounds like a great deal! Even with the fancy handmade letters in the back!

This was the one! I sell this one here, reserved now until next week.

Fyxation Sparta? Is that a lowrider mount?

Can I use such thing with my 11-46 cassette and a 42T oval front ring?

Got the Peaked Merino hat in the sale. Fits nicely under the helmet, warm enough, first I thought THAT little thin thing is it?

Yes, the front (left) one is looking pretty new! The rear tyre (not tire, okok) has some scratches and wholes.

After riding for little bit more than 2 years or approx. 4800km in the city and about 600km in the woods with weak-willed 80 to 90 psi without changing front to back these Compass tires with 4 or 5 flats in total (always on the rear) ...

... I ordered now these new 700x38c Panaracer Gravelkings TLC - in black color, since I am a bit bored now of gumwall colored ones. They are always dirty! That and reading about pressure and tire size made me ordering new tires.