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fuck yeeeeeeeeeeee.
can't wait to see this in person.

Interested in rear flip flop wheel and can collect. How is the braking surface? Noticeable wear?

I'm hoping - should the stars align (paligap stock levels and my bank balance) to have a mountain bike for this and to come on it and do the bike riding and whatnot.
If not I may brave the dry trails with 32c gravel Kings...

Actual yes.

Has anyone tried a 400km perm? Ideally one i can do out and back from London. Perhaps a DIY? How much faff is that likely to be? I'm doing a 200, 300 and 600 before the end of the year so would be nice to do a full SR.

Aero off road = Jones loop bars with gnarwal

Hey! I do work at lbk, we don't have the chasing/tapping/threading tools that you wanna use at the moment, they'll be coming with the new space we're working on hopefully.
Try Micycle Islington out :)

The more I wild/stealth camp the more ballsy I get with it. With a bivvy it's so easy to be inconspicuous.
Slept on a beach of a p populated town in France last night - rocked up after dark, left at sunrise. Perfect. (Well, perfect apart from waking up shivvering cause I was right next to the sea, it was cold as ballz, and my sleeping Matt had punctured so was laying straight on the rocmy beach)

Just chatted to yer man @hippy at the start. Excited to watch how the race unfolds after seeing all the racers today.

The little bottles of soy sauce that come with sushi from Wasabi (or whatever) work well. The little fish sou sauce things are perfect for one lube application.

700x23 is about the same as 650bx42 iirc so I assume around 650bx54 tyresfor 700x35, tho a lil BB drop is probs okay, depending where it's at in the first place.

Yeah I was super surprised when I saw Mike Hall ran 24 spoke (or something) wheels on the tour divide.
But then I broke a spoke on my 32 spoke wheel on TAW and had to replace it cause I couldn't get it true enough without a new spoke. Spurred me to get an on the road cassette remover and carry spare spokes.

46/30 at the front and 11-34 at the rear. Will get me over absolutely anything.

No, it's the standard version. When panaracer launched the 650b version they confirmed all of the tyres were tubeless compatible up to a maximum of 60psi

Anyone have a good route from London to Dover? I will be riding it over night next Wednesday as the first bit into Belgium and havent planned a route yet...

I've only used s-ones (30c) and panaracer gravel kings (32c) but both have been amazing for that kind of use. I rode dry-ish trails in epping on s-ones and they were fine too. Think GKs are a little less spendy? Gravel kings only go up to 60psi but that's plenty high.

They're little wider but I ran 60psi rear, 40psi front on 30c s-ones, so around 70 for the rear sounds sensible, you can drop the pressure at the front a bit if you want to though, I find I like the feel cornering fast with lower pressure at the front.
But really, whatever feels good.

Sebastien Klein's Randonneuse. Winner of best rookie at Concours De Machines 2016.

More lists!

bit late but anyone up for 7:30am laps tomorrow? I'll be on gears.

I mean it's true, I have ventured to the epping on it, but swapping to knobblies for non-slipping fun times when tubeless is sooooooo much faff.

need to sort an off-road bike in time for this...

i had no idea which ones to get and ended up going for the profile t5+ alu ones and have found them to be pretty great with a bit of fiddling (my focus was on relieving the hands on long distance with aero gainz being secondary). A lot of people seem to go for some with curve up more towards the end but I think probably the best thing is just see what you can get cheap, try it, and go on from there.
I think I'll probably leave them off for anything up to a 600, but above that I think they're p useful. May put them on for flatlands 600 later in the year tho. Many headwind...

This was the problem I had when using the spacer, rotor came too close to forks. Stupid plastic/stupid everything.

Apart from the map thing, alpkit stem cells or a top tube bag seem to fit the bill quite well.
I think you'll be hard pressed to find something that doesn't use a decaleur/klickfix which has easy access and map viewing panel thing.