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a certain amount of twangy-ness and that reassuring plank-like feel remains, even if the thing has two EMGs in there. one of the guys in my band has/had (I can't keep track) the Jim Root one and it is enjoyably different to the les pauls and stuff we also have knocking around. It is definitely mainly in the playing sensation once you've got hardware like that in there though

what kind of wiring have you got? There are loads of latching switches on ebay that I imagine would work with lots of systems, but I don't know of SON coax cable would make that harder

I used to work in a bike workshop that had a bunch of those, nicknamed 'the lazy tool'. So good when switching stems or whatever, anything removing bolts with a fair amount of thread. I'm yet to give myself the luxury at home but it is mighty tempting

I've not noticed anything, but I have it mounted on the bars so it's pretty well ventilated. When it's charging a cache battery sat in my stem pack, the battery gets warm in the same way as if you're charging it off a computer

I'm using a Sinewave Revolution after switching bikes to one with a fork that doesn't suit The Plug III I was using previously. I've found the Sinewave to be reliable, though I've not really come up with a position for it that I'm really happy with aesthetically

The brand was acquired by the same company that owns Vango and a few other camping/outdoors brands, but I think the founders still run it from Devon, so it’s a fairly decent “shop local” box ticker as well (relatively)

I've heard good things about Firepot, though I haven't tried personally yet. I will be, though I have concerns about relatively low calorie count

Also pitching a pivoting straddle cable as if BMX brakes haven't done that for years

Ditto, mine went in the bin this weekend – admittedly they had 6000km on them, but the teeth were absolutely fine.

There's a vegan jerky in Asda that is awesome. Still pretty expensive, especially given how moreish it is, but I bought it a lot when I worked near an asda and going to shops was a thing

Plus you can end up with annoying cable routing situations like I have (X9 rear mech on Hook EXT-C), and I'm not totally convinced that my occasional front shift problems are not caused by the mega powerful spring in the rear mech. 10 speed sram mix n match is still the best though.

there should probably be a selection of choice phrases in the Troubleshooting section of Haynes manuals

Am I alone in actually quite wanting those shower gate things? Hosing down my mtb yesterday would have been a lot more comfortable in there

a mate of mine used to ride an old Enfield Bullet, which was kickstart only. He wired up a killswitch for it that lived on the inside of an ammo box attached to the side, so on brand. That, in combination with the fact that you had to be a sort of bike-whisperer to get it to start anyway, meant it was fairly secure.

Seconded – I've had a pretty good success rate with this.

Also seconding the ultrasonic assessment. One of our allotment neighbour has one, which is justified because the rodents have had all our pea seedlings, but also it is super annoying. I'm 31, 6' and have played in metal bands for 15 years so really shouldn't be able to hear those things but I massively can.

It turns you into 11 bees

Thanks all – definitely answers my question then! Probably a good time to get on board with a battery-type

Power tool advice: are oscillating multi-tools like have a rubbish version of all the separate tools, or are they really useful?

Basically I don't have tonnes of space right now, so the idea of one thing that does a few jobs is very appealing. However my next proper project will be sanding back and revarnishing 200 year old floorboards, so suspect I might just have to buy/borrow/hire a specific sander.

Powertool-wise I currently only have a jigsaw, drill, and dremel.

To be honest I can never remember which my preferred ones are, really should note it down 😂

I think Moving Mountains and Naked (barbecued) are my top two, with the Iceland No Bull my preferred non-extortionate option.

50p less for the meatless farm burgers than saino’s, good to know

I don’t really understand, I was replying to stickyfingers as it sounds like they’re going for 42x11/42, which on say 700x38 gives around 27 GI. I used to run a bottom gear of 27ish GI (50/36x11/36) so was describing my experiences there. I never disputed what you were saying, if anything I was backing it up.

And for the record, yes I’ve pushed a loaded bike up a steep hill off road. No I didn’t enjoy it.

I guess that’s going to a 1:1 ratio? In my experience that’s borderline unloaded, and when loaded off-road you will end up hiking, even if it’s not that technical.

We started beans and peas at home, beans are looking pretty strong but the peas were all had by mice over the last couple of weeks, even though they were in cut down bottles and fleece

The other day I made the call for my work to not ship road-route orders to Europe until this gets worked out. Put the message out, and then had a bunch of similar messages from DHL etc saying they wouldn’t take road-route packages. Nothing from RM officially but I took the decisions to store the orders ourselves since they’d be so likely to get lost in the courier/post systems

Oh that sounds good, will drop you a PM