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Nope def with you on this. Compared two bottles of bunnahabhain 12 recently. One black label, 1 red, both opened by myself recently. One notably more astringent with a bitter woody finish, the other felt it had a higher sherry influence. Both same abv, non chill filtered, non coloured etc. I like both, but no doubt they taste different.

Good to hear, seemed like a steal at £35. Trying to hunt down a bottle of the local barley springbank 10 cask strength but I think I might have missed the boat unfortunately

Anybody tried the kilkerran 12? Picked up a bottle yesterday, and will crack into once I get through a couple of others. Any comparisons to other springbank whiskies?

Ah great, cheers all!

forum recommended sausage? given this thread i was expecting more recommendations for silicone plugs.

So finally had a chance to properly examine my frameset today, after picking it up. It's amazing, and the tubing seems super duper thin. Considering the abuse it'll probably be a good idea to coat it with some sort of anti-corrosive, anybody got any tips/recommendations what to use and how to do it? Also what should be used to plug the di2 ports on the downtube near the headtube?

Radial avert pro maybe? Hard to argue with £19 if they have any stock left.

Thought I'd post for anybody who is in a similar position to me. I was after a niceish knife, after getting a bit fed up of using an old battered robert welch chefs. I decided on a Japanese knife and thought I might enjoy learning all the maintenance that comes with it.

In the end I settled on a tojiro vg10 9' chefs off knivesforchefs.co.uk which seemed like the best value I could find and got a ice bear/king combo whetstone off axeminster. For a beginner like me both were great, the knife came out the box super duper slicey and the stones have been perfect for what I need.

Learning to sharpen was a bit daunting at first but there's a shed load of advice out there so wasn't as much of a problem as I thought. Friends and family have kitchen loads of blunt knives too which is ideal ground to practice on. All in all, both have made cooking much more fun, so if you're not sure have a go. Not a huge investment and really worth it.

Sounds good, yeah ill take them for sure if you're based in london. Will pm.

So been looking at nice wide tyres for my incoming isen. Was hoping to fit strada bianca race but it looks like ill struggle to fit them and mudguards. Has anybody used the Paris roubaix race in 120tpi? Anybody know how wide they actually come out on a 17-18mm internal rim?

If I remember correctly I think those stays were something that Dave Kirk, previously of serotta, started working on when he was still there. Idea is they are supposed to improve compliance over rougher surfaces I think

Does anybody know if the oem dt swiss wheels that they make for specialized and focus, which has a native 142x12mm thru axle can be converted into 135x5mm qr using the kits for the r24 etc wheels?

True. But dentistry can be expensive if things go wrong - plenty of other real estate on your bike to doodle on which might not have such catastrophic results if they failed?

17 for me!

Considered throwing said money at Scherrit?

Confusingly schwalbe have now launched a new lower spec g-one, without the onestar compound I think and a thicker sidewall. Not sure if they're tubeless ready either.

He was breathing but looked worrying..

I've got the 240mm gyuto, which it appears they sold out of - was £70. It's excellent, really nicely balanced and scary sharp. One thing though is that they don't come with a warranty if you're worried about that sort of thing, but I spoke to James at knivesforchefs and he said they've had no issues with them.

There's a nice Ron copper 853 bike on eBay for £500 bin.

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Good point, I don't know if tommasini were tig welding their frames then (late 90s I guess). This 262813196201 on the other hand does look really good.

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Nice looking tommasini frame (and not great rest of build) for the very long of limb. BIN £199

Opposite I thought. Thought he was in demand due to his world tour points which would have helped lower ranking teams get world tour license, however he picked the wrong team in the end and Merida weren't granted one. Which sucks for him and is a shame.

Maybe ratting his bike by cunningly disguising it as a cardboard box/deciduous forest?

Etxeondo shorts are smp friendly, no 'tenting' into intimate regions, and are fab in general - Orhi ones are my favourite. Giordana work well too.

think he's in red