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Maybe it was. I read the wiki on him when looking for info, but I was sure the story I remember was of someone being 'rescued' for want of a better word from a life of poverty and academic waste and being brought over, as a child, to the west where he stayed.

Reading through the wiki list of child prodigies just blows my (tiny, pathetic) mind.

Did you ever figure this out? I read the story too, but can't remember the details or find it on the internet and now it's bugging me.

That's the real world benefit. Or you can get into the debate of what's better...oil moving and not drying out with a watch on a winder or the benefit of less mechanical wear having your watches stopped in a drawer. But that's never a discussion that ends well.

Personally, the only time I'd ever get a winder is if I had a non-quickset perpetual calendar. Then it's pretty important.

Which World Tour Team wears Assos bibs....?

When given the leeway to choose...

Degenkolb was running an extra in-line quick release to get around the tyres.

Haven't seen them before and wouldn't mind some to get around the crap QR on mt WW Ciamillos.

Done one winter on mine and they're halfway gone, I reckon...maybe more. Granted, ridden in awful weather/conditions, barely washed and never once picked out metal/grit from the pads.

Ah, I forgot about the freehub malarky. I was thinking they were just symmetrical fixed bolt on jobs.

Don't they use standard Hope bearings and aren't the cogs just standard ISO 6-bolt? If so, then even if Hope dropped the hubs, you'd still have more than enough parts available from elsewhere to last you a lifetime.

Karl Ove Knausgård - yay or nay?

Fancy something new.

Whenever I've done them, there hasn't been a nut. The bolt has just screwed straight into the fork, which would make the length about right.

Was seroiously temped, but put off by the $1499 -> £1499 thing. Seems very steep.

That's Max, not Bernie.

Been looking for an XL Peregrine forever* :(

*When I say forever, I mean since last Novemeber, about a week after Singular stopped selling them.

If we're venturing into Sinn GMTs, or dual time zones, then although a dressier than the stuff posted so far, I really quite like the 6090.

https://www.sinnwatches.com.au/content/6090

Much obliged, that's much cheaper than any of the alternatives I've managed to find. Now struggling to find the shell dia. I had it the other day, but struggling now. 58mm rings a bell, which would be a shame.

I'd have never thought it, but I have a major boner for the new black/rose gold Yachtmaster.

I honestly think my interest in watches brings me more frustration than pleasure. It's weird, I have lots of expensive interests - bikes, cars, motorbikes, guitars, hi-fi, cameras. All of those have gear and stuff that's just as desirable and just as out of reach as expensive watches, but not being able to buy them doesn't nearly bug me like it does with watches.

Tester approved solution for knackered EBBs?

I have a frame with EBB secured with two bolts through the bottom of the shell (Haro Mary) which has a siezed/drilled out/knackered bolt hole and creaks and works loose with only the one remaining bolt being used.

Wedge or other type EBB, new frame, somewhere easy to find (no frame builders near me) that could tap the knackered threads (I've tried, but as always when I try and tap something, the material seems stronger than my taps and I get half a thread in and then rather than cut further it just rips out the new thread). With a cromo frame, could I grind off the bolt tube thing, drill a hole and MIG weld on a nut and use a regular bolt?

The new one has just come out at the same price (maybe £50 more). Virtually the same, but many more lines of text on the dial, slightly different date window/3 marker and is also available in blue, but most importantly has an in-house movement rather than the ETA.

If you like the new one, hang on and buy that. If you prefer the 2-line of text one, then you should be able to get discounts on the old model or good deals on second hand as people will soon all be after the in-house one. Either way, don't be paying current dealer prices for the outgoing model.

Not a good photo, but and unexpected coming together of two of my interests.

As in I'd have bought it.

But I just had 90 minutes of mind bending too-ing and fro-ing and in the end decided that I really have no need for it at all and as much as a bargain as a £300 Swiss Cross frame is, I'd still have to build it up nicely and £1500 for a Swiss Cross to hang unridden in the garage isn't such a bargain.

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They don't, it's mine!

Shit the bed!

I think the most ingenious thing about this video is zip-equipped duvet covers!

I have 14 foot long arms so can faux-ghost method a cover without having to get inside and it takes me probably less time than she spent using the roll method, but then I usually spend as much time again fannying on with press studs, buttons or god fobid, buttons on a turned back flap thing that hides the buttons, but means you need to do them up back to front.

It's even worse in real photos! Looks like an Aldi £3.99 Thursday Specialbuy.