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If it could be outside that would be dreamy. I imagine the fact it comes up from a concreted floor will make it tricky!

Thanks very much for explaining. I guess I'll have to live with it (or box it in a bit)

Anyone seen any neat solutions to hiding away this hideous problem?

Looking for some advice pls.

Am I allowed to chase into the wall the cables between these 2 boxes? Should I buy some sort of protective metal channel rather than rely on the plastic pipe they're currently in?

They're all wonky round here! (It's common for upstairs fireplaces)

Have a look at St Jude's! Just across the m32. Same basic house stock as St Werbs but a good bit cheaper and closer to the town centre too.

I bought a year ago a 3 bed in much better condition than that one for 226k. (but still total refit reqd)

Edit. Actually looking at the ad again I'd say that one is only a bit worse :)

Thanks for the offers everyone. Ive gone for Matts TRPs :D

Thanks for the offer but I like the look of Matts Eurox set!

Hi everyone.

Looking for some fancy narrow stance cantilever brakes. Something like Paul touring (the dream), TRP Revox, Avid shorty ultimate etc Something a bit boujie

Failing that, a cheap and cheerful pair will also go down well as a stop gap

I reeeeeally want one.

That was the one I was thinking of! Many thanks

Can anyone point me to a website I know I've seen before but cannot find on Google...

Its simple webpage that lists the overall dimensions of all tyre/rim combinations from biggest to smallest.

Very useful to see what size 650b tyres you'd need to match the overall diameter of a 700c wheel!

Have pmd!

Please ignore the chainring bolts. Have a full matching set somewhere if you need them

I have an original SRAM force carbon crankset.

Gxp. 175mm. 53/39 chainrings and all in great condition. Will find some photos in a sec

I want to do all these mods to my vagabond frame too so I'd be very interested in the total cost plus paint

If also recommend changing the rear derailleur cable guides to fully sheathed if you can. Mine often bungs up under the bb

That crank and chainring is 🔥

https://www.falriverdistillery.com/home

Can vouch for this! incredibly tasty and super smooth Cornish rum

A few things but not much.

1. I would use normal drybags on the forks rather than those slightly odd alpkit toliero things that didn't fit the cages very well.

2. I would have water bottle cage mounts added to the seat stays. It was a pain sometimes to carry extra water in a foldaway rucksack.

3. I would use a carradice saddlebag for food storage. The nature of cycling for multiple days between food stops means your food bags fluctuate in size a lot and a drybag is not well suited to this as they go very floppy when they're half empty.

But other than that, nothing! I had no punctures or mechanicals of any kind and it only rained on the final day to antelope wells :)

I didn't get eaten by a bear (though I did see a few 🐻)

Some photos and brief write ups can be found here
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bm6EeisHXAd/?igshid=1h2qf9yxkxmr
https://www.instagram.com/p/BnQ_GMXn9se/?igshid=19ss70tssfn6z
https://www.instagram.com/p/BngrbglH9C3/?igshid=1begaj7l92t5d
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn4zhKIni2B/?igshid=1slkub5b79vb6
https://www.instagram.com/p/BoGJZrkHnvn/?igshid=1xxnrp54x4olh
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bob7M0vH6fj/?igshid=y4d4jranso8d
https://www.instagram.com/p/BozDkaYHB5X/?igshid=17u02gzwqyc8a
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bo7BsnSHJ-L/?igshid=1ju5zxe8175bc

(I had an epic time)

Yeah I've used zipties and it's worked fine. Actually it's the planet X steel cages that have broken. Beer bottles are wider than water bottles!

At the same time I can recommend adding a braze on to the seat stay as well to mount extra bottle cages! The rack eyelet works well as the bottom bottle mount. Comes in very handy for the 3 for £5 beer offers. Wine bottles also just clear the heal 👌

Actually I'd also remove the exposed gear shifter cable stopouts and replace with full length housing mounts. A few times I've had to upend the bike and de-clog the cable under the bottom bracket of mud so I could change gear

It was an experiment as I already had the thorn forks. They have a shorter a-c so lower the front end and lower the trail. I played around with the geometry a bit on one of the online calculators and now it has a trail of about 40mm I think. Handles really well with low riders/basket (proper hands off through turns on descents!). Increased toe overlap a minor inconvenience.

I still have the original forks with Blackburn anything cages strapped to them and use them if I want to do bike packing/off roading. I wish they had put 3 bolts instead of 1 - one day I'll have them added.

Thorn fork and 43mm tyres for road touring/commuting.
Original fork and 2.2" tyres for bike packing.

Jekyll and Hyde!

Those are panaracer gravelling sk 43mm and pdw 45mm guards. Tight but fits! Will probably go with 38 or 40mm tyres next time.

Not that easy to fit as the bridges are still quite far from the tyre. ended up using p-clips and bodging. Fit is perfect in the front with the thorn touring fork though!

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Ahem coughs

Thanks. I like that I can reasonably quickly change out the wheels for fat rubber and put the original fork back on and head off into the hills. Although now it has mudguards that's a little more faffy.