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all is well! my phone died before I got to the tea hut so couldn't message, had a great time though, v hot, but I mostly rode through not-trails (quasi bushes) and rode the wellington hill bit a few times and had a few goes at the bomb hole. really excited for the honey badger rides now!

Going out to Epping today, if anyone has any tips for singletrack bits pls lemme know! Can only really remember the bomb hole and the Wellington hill bit.

I entered but can't make it because life. Am jealous! Enjoy.

my knowledge of low end OTP hubs is limited, so I defer to your knowledge! Will probs replace wheelset as soon as I'm not broke cause I want dynamo anyway.

I bought one of the 2017 Pine Mountains last week. Should be putting it together and going out on it tomorrow and I'm very excited. Never thought I'd buy an off the peg complete again but it's such a good price. Only downside on the 2017 is the joytech hubs really, and the 2016 one has formulas.
Do it!

Tubeless 26in slick, any ideas?

It's a subjective thing that can't really be viewed in terms of how fast people go, it's about effort, and intention, I think it was on the south downs double website that I read a thing that sums it up:

"the idea of this is to ride the route as fast as you can"

If as fast as you can is 31 days for whatever reason, 100% good on you, and well done, but, if you do it in 31 days cause you're chilling, partying whatever, treating it like a cycle tour, then you've done a bit of a disservice to the race, as that spot could have been taken by someone who treated it as a race.

jones double triangle rather than space frame almost looks weird. still super swoon worthy.

finally actually entered flatlands and GMC.
How are people getting to Flatlands? Ride out? Adds a decent amount of distance to a 600...
EDIT: wow, only just looked at the stats of the flatlands, aroun 1200m of climb over 600km? woooow. I'll have no excuses for being slow.

20in. I could have opted for 22in, but because I'm so short of torso I figure better to go a lil smaller with more seatpost. Planned upgrades are 1. Jones bars 2. Nicer, dynamo wheelset 3. dropper post.
And will hopefully make myself a full frame bag for it soon enough too.

I've ordered a mountain bike (marin pine mountain 2017, shit hubs, pretty much everything else #notbad for the price, and 27.5+ for all the trend points) so as long as work give me these dates off I am theeeeeere.

I'm never incorporated a saw into romance before... congrats?

For a second I was confused as fuck why you'd service a seatpost.

are you in london? I have a set of the levers @BareNecessities just posted you can have cheap.

Exact cable pull differs between different cable discs differs slightly, but as long as you're using a road caliper with road levers you should be more or less fine. What callipers are you using?
Ed is right though, compression less housing should help, the goodridge stuff is cheap on chain reaction or TRP do a kit.
Also I've never heard of disc specific levers for cable discs on drop bars...

I'm planning on it but haven't booked in yet. Am really hoping to get away with no sleep/possibly a 1hr nap, but I have no idea how I'll fare.

Funnily enough official results for this year and next year's date has just gone up for Transatlantic Way. http://www.transatlanticway.com/results-2016/ (really happy to come away with 10th)
Date for next year is 8th June.

Yep it'll be running next year! Official dates not out yet.
It was hard, I kind of want to do it again as I think I can put down a much better time with the experience, and I don't think I'll be able to afford TCR next year. We'll see.

Spring on my xc8s busted whilst cycle touring. Snapped a spring on a pair of old atacs on my track bike a while back and bent an axle on my cross bike a while ago. Now that I'm not brklzzzz I'm thinking of just going back to shimano...

Been thinking of doing the double but after reading your ride reports I think I'll attempt it one way first...

i mean rack top packs are full ugly/audaxy type of ting. But the carradice ones are okay.
You could always use a carradice saddlebag with a bagman, easy to access, quick to remove/fit and can fit lots if you want to, especially the nelson longflap. Or front rack with ILE porteur bag would be nice too. There's a lotta options! I have a pelago commuter front rack and it's pretty sweet. Stainless and all.
But yeah for a bike you lock up traditional bikepacking saddlebags are pretty faffy.

The guy who came second in the first trans am did it on a liquid diet using Spiz (similar to huel I think). It's in the inspired to ride film if you're interested. I don't think it's a tactic which will catch on.

For commuting large saddle bags can be kind of annoying IMO. A faff to pack/unpack and to remove and refit when locking up etc. I don't like panniers cause of the non-central weight, perhaps you could go for a rack top bag?

Second dibs for if it falls through!

I'm working on it...
currently coveting something mildly chubby.