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If it helps decide, I’m v local to Mason and can confirm they’re all really lovely people

I borrowed a surly troll for a bit, put 27 x 2.1 g-one bites on it, which was just fantastic and when I had to give it back I built the Stache like that ^. I loved it as a kind of genre-less bike that did everything just fine

That can kind of be ridden like a rigid mtb, is definitely functional, could be SS, all the mounts… Bridge Club is basically the same but without the rohloff/trailer bits on the dropouts.

My Trek Stache is sort-of built to that brief, the only failing is the mudguards. I could fit one to the Krampus fork, but would need some sort of clip-on type for the back. I've considered the Ortlieb Quick Rack as they do a mudguard that attaches, I've heard there's a new one on the way with through-axle fitting.

Anyway, I use it as a winter gravel bike/pub bike. Schwalbe Johnny Watts are silent and quick on the road, reflective sidewall, puncture-protected (not tubeless but i set them up tubeless and theyve been fine), big footprint is fine off road except on wet roots or really sloppy mud.

The Stache can be run SS, it has a bit of sliding dropout. I'm toying with the idea of putting a belt on it, as it has the raised chainstay

I don't know actually... a lot of the artists I know who've historically had long waiting lists haven't really ended up back there since covid.

I've not had anything from Nick but my OH has, really nice work

Quite stylized, but IMO would go nicely with the bearing: Nick whybrow

Nice! I think our blueberries are at least two weeks away from edible

our postie just dropped off a few more along with the normal mail, "sorry about the crap". Im going to assume they meant the anti-abortion one

I dunno, I've seen plenty of (twist and go, tbf) riders operating a kind of 'wedge-it-in-the-hand-muff' method

saw this fuzzy one drop out of next door's ivy-swamped pear tree into my garden earlier. pretty sizeable...garden tiger moth?

We had both of those arrive at once, by Royal Mail

Just found this in the lawn. It’s not the soakaway rubble cage thing is it?

I sort of did, last month. It’s clearly getting around

Ah, didnt know laser welding was a thing! Also this tool was like, handheld and you didn’t have to wear a helmet or anything so I didn’t equate it with welding at the time

i don't know if its still used, but around the time I was leaving Brompton, they started using some kind of laser tool to zap cut cables without fraying. was actually pretty cool

my OH used to work for Trusted Housesitters, and we've used it a bunch as sitters. Genuinely really good, excellent mitigation of any potential issues

I use geometrygeeks for comparisons, the data varies depending on what the manufacturer published at the time, but usually you can get all the headline numbers

I only have the most recent version, which have Fuck Cancer down the achilles on both sides

The sainsburys ones have a red light that goes green when you're clear to take stuff off the bagging area. Sadly as a colourblind person I cannot particularly tell when that happens, and yet my OH generally puts me on bagging duty

I have a bunch of those fingerscrossed socks that say stuff on the back: hell yeah, and see you. Can be mix and matched for alternatives like "yeah, you!" and "see: hell"

There’s a surprising lack of sound packs for decent bicycle equipment. I did sound design for a gumball 3000 docuseries a few years back and we had to record the studio owner’s kids bike to get some freewheel noise for a BMX sequence. At the time I only had fixed bikes so couldn’t assist

Based on the probably-AI dubbing, I imagine they didn’t spend much on post for Unchained

If you have nothing plugged into the Sinewave Revolution (or cable connected to it) the light runs at full power. I just attached and detach a battery pack

Yeah the piggyback spade connectors are a lot cheaper

The new paint will soon dull down, just make sure everyone runs their grubby hands over it when they walk past

I use citraclean degreaser from eBay. Used it way back when I was a mechanic, it seems to last forever and you just dilute to taste. Super thick out of the bottle

ok not even heatshrink really. the cabling splits above the fork, and the sinewave is in my framebag on banana connectors so i can switch it between bikes