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thanks for the v quick response both!

Edit; @Jackytwoshoes I missed it the first time, very good! :D

Got to see and pickup a T-line last week. Like a modern race bike, the stockier build of the frameset completely belies the featherlight weight. Apart from the Turbolito tubes, seriously impressed on first look.

hi all,

sorry for delay, this week has been full-on,

dimensions of wardrobe 118cm x 204cm,
https://en.ikea-club.org/item/40308776.html

will work through interest on first-come-first-served. Am now taking some time off, and will be about today, the weekend, then Monday all day (not evening), and probably Tuesday too.

@Jackytwoshoes let me know if you have cooled on the idea of fridge and freezer separates,

@ad441 > @mervan46 a Sliding Doors situation to decide the future of the wardrobe

with everyone's favourite monotreme @platypus poised to paddle in and collect all-or-nothing

and @Julian_Stock I'll shout if the Freezer is left for any reason :)

Heya, sorry I missed this off description

SE22, Overhill Road :)

*contents not included

Ikea sliding door wardrobe with x4 drawers. Good condition, one small ding in corner of one of the doors. Now flat packed, would fit into an estate car with front seat down

Beko fridge, maybe 18 months old

Hotpoint freezer, top drawer has cracked

And REI eliminating PFOAS/PFC's in a relatively short space of time;

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/money/shopping/2023/02/22/rei-stores-forever-chemicals-products/11321761002/

"Notably, all cookware and many textile products – including clothes, backpacks and footwear – sold at REI must be PFAS-free by fall 2024. All textile products must be PFAS-free by fall 2026, the company said Tuesday."

Big feature series in the Guardian this morning on PFOA/PFCs and accumulation in the environment.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/pfas

open source carbon frames are awesome.

Agree - although perhaps ‘some open source carbon frames are awesome’ might be better.

Platinum 💍👌

Torm …who ordered a full size-set of a jersey style, copied them, added an extra armband, and returned the lot for full refund. Then had the naivety to come on here and complain that Rapha were the bad guys. Ok.

In my time at Rapha I worked hard designing, developing, and perfecting products, sourcing, wear-testing, and selecting materials, with an amazing team. It boiled my head when I’d hear comments about cheapo brands saying ‘it’s the same factory and fabric as Rapha, just without the markup’ or ‘Rapha is all outsourced to a remote service and they hoover up the profit’. Having visited factories, seen the extent of testing, attention to detail, and customer support (good luck getting your £11 trews repaired after a crash!) and you honestly think Primark and Rapha are the comparable, I have a lovely frameset from the same mould Pinarello use to sell you…

Sorry!! Been on my list for too long, absolutely, love to get this out to folks to use

The hesitation had been because I need to put down plastic before rolling out and cutting, to avoid getting the oily/wax coating onto surfaces in the studio.

…but @moocher you picked ripples in the cosmos. I’m in studio this afternoon cutting new timber shelving & sanding, so perfect to get the dust sheet out for this. Can sort today for you & anyone else.

….We have a new rain jacket coming with a feature, working title triple zip …

(Inserts cat/pigeons gif and runs away)

Good points @exteroceptive - yes to the ‘lip’(?) to stop stuff falling out, and double-zippers are as polarising as ever. I think it’d be possible to remove out the lower slider with snips, close any open coil teeth, and use it as a single slider (plus you’d lower that lip by 10mm).

Some people are into it, but looks like they will revert to single on next gen…

F*ck. I’d forgotten about those.

:) new lightweight jersey coming 👀

Sorry, didn't mean to write as much as that - but have been stoked to finally see this out in the world, and been flattered with the interest, really appreciate it :)

...and am planning on posting a gallery of the development/protos on the Burner account when I get time. It's quite remarkable.

Zoa hat, we couldn't find anywhere/anyone to manufacture* that would translate to a reasonable price on the shelf. We did get some costings, but retail would have been sky-high, so I ended up cutting and sewing them all myself (20 I think) in Deptford**. I can honestly say at that price they're a bargain. Obviously we're looking to scale now the style is setup, but even working with a technical hat manufacturer, they might have mq's and pricing terms which could be prohibitive.

*hats (and most accessories) have supply/costing idiosyncrasies due to the relatively small consumption, and sit on a spectrum between 'economic' through to technical make. Economic cycling caps (Apis) are £15-20 because they're die-stamped out, buzzed through an overlocker, and then finished with a twin-needle clear-thread around the brim, with scaled pricing for quantities. Technical make will involve more care and detail, with each step in the line adding more cost.

**With this being a slow-growth model for some future products. Design > develop/pattern perfection > proto > limited production run in Deptford > placed into a small volume factory > finally scaled to bigger factory if needed. I'd like us to have a designation for Made In London (like the blank grey reflective on the backpacks and musettes), ideas welcome.

@snoops yes, good reminder, thank you - been discussed a way back, a tear-off/tear-down would be useful. Duraflex have some nice discrete closures for this sort of thing, can't promise, but good prompt!

I had the Zoa in large which was a nice for for on/off the bike, same size? Or go a bit bigger?

If the Zoa is a 10 in warmth, what would the thiner one be? Looking for about a 4...

Sizing/fit will be consistent with the current Zoa - a balance between off bike and on, with arms/shoulders articulated slightly forward, and not as close fitting as On-bike Road jackets.

The spring-launch Lightweight Insulated wieighs 275grams, 40% less less than the regular Insulated Zoa (456g), with a lighter face/inner Pertex fabric, lighter Primaloft fill, minus hood, but same pockets (two side, one chest, one rear packaway) and features. ...so I'd have to say a 6? For comparison, Patagonia Nano-puff is 337g ....I could dig out the Primaloft fill weights if useful?

Edit; weights above for mens medium. Style also coming in womens fit, and both mens and womens in a bright orange, and a lovely rich dark olive. Pic below from IG; Molly Weaver in a sample on AMR earlier this week

hey, sorry for the delay, been a bit swamped @dancing james

....If I'm honest, I launder as little as possible. The mechanical agitation adds wear, and the addition of detergents does detract from the performance of waterproofing. There's a big faff-element to using technical washes (doing a service wash first, then the tech wash, then re-proofing + drying/activating) so it makes sense to do in batches, perhaps even share washing duties with friends

We are facing a huge drop-off in performance, with PFC's being (rightfully) phased out, some good chat here, and in the comments, and I'm looking forward to Performance Days in March focussing on this topic;

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7026894017778868226/

Both Grangers and Nikwax are both entirely PFC free, but the industry needs to acknowledge and address the difference in performance and manage expectations. I think a reset is needed, because the the PFC/Post-PFC worlds are not the same.

@stelfox thanks - just coming here to post; 11.00am tomorrow am UK time. I'm not sure if in the copy, but I think is best suited for M+L/XL head's; they look a bit mushroomy on small heads, so will be grading a smaller size for S/XS.

@joepud01 ....yes! Been saying this for a while, and think I'm only going one direction from here (more). I'm swamped atm, but I'd love to make a batch for LFGSS again, and do more variety in sizes/detail etc. I'll see if I can carve out sometime.

@ghostface not on the salesman pitch, but the neat detail about the packaway pocket in the Burner Musette, is it works as an internal pocket in the musette for phone/valuables. Keep your cash cosy.

@PhilDAS the ears do flip up, like a technical deerstalker(?). ....thinking of doing a beanie version... @skinny it's just the winter collar pulled up - considered integrating one for some riders on Fat Viking a few weeks back, but think versatility/modularity would be more useful. Some more good stuff in the pipe around layering head/neck/hoods etc.

@mcflute ....we did do a junior version for one of the teams newborn ;-)

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Just seen Ceo_of_year throwing his toys out the pram on Twitter and laying into one of his (now ex) customers.

Strange. Thought he’d be right behind a bunch of armband-wearers intent on global domination….

the tapes will be basically the same, just the laminate version has got a fine knit scrim on the outer surface, the PU will just be plain PU (flat, matt slightly rubbery looking) - meaning they look similar to the fabrics you're using them on. So I think you'll want the Laminate version, dead easy to iron on, just make sure what you're pressing onto is flat (most ironing boards these days are open mesh, and it doesn't get an even fix across the hot-melt film).

....sorry I missed HDIJ, looked cracking out here!