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You mean the rack or the bag? I've got a first edition carbon rack

Spam away! Really nailed the retro there. Let 2023 be the year helmet covers make a return.

This is especially nice. I'm hoping to expand my arsenal to include something a bit more rugged like this.

These are all great! When you see them when you make it home and can see what kind of ride it was. Keep em coming! Would be great to see all sorts of different bikes.

A ripping yarn and solid rhyme to boot! Love how both tyres are conspicuously flaccid. Taking pictures of the bike pre-wash is for me the last thing I feel like doing but really is essential to this whole concept. If you're prepared to take your best steed out in conditions that would be much better suited to an all-weather bike then please post the results here (in the best image quality you can).

A few more lines:

I could not contemplate the wheels without a woeful groan,
Each element did now present a problem of its own;
The rims of yore were caked with gore and scarce displayed their brand,
With brimming eyes and heavy heart I tended them by hand;

Post-Roubaix

Obviously cross bikes are supposed to take a beating and road bikes would be better.

For those wondering whether we really need another thread that panders to the purists among us who would look down on hapless novices with bars and hoods off-kilter, allow me this preamble to justify what might seem superfluous at first sight.

Though we have several much-loved lists of pristine machines ready to be rolled into a gallery, there's something thrilling about capturing these marvels of two-wheeled innovation after a beating; think post-Roubaix where just the mud-spattered bike conjures visions of the battle on treacherous cobbles.

For a few years I've been chipping away at a mock epic poem of sorts in the style of Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark. The tale here is the pedant's process of cleaning their bike with rhyming couplets taking us through the steps. I think that I have about three-quarters of it done but have never managed to complete the whole piece. Which is why I'm hoping a little bit of external engagement would motivate me to wrap it up.

The end goal would be to get a selection of photos to accompany the text that might even be worthy of printing, with proceeds going to the forum and other causes tba (I'm quite expecting this to flop). In the event that this gains traction, this would be a photo series of the kind of bikes that would get a nod of approval from forum heads but after they've been given a beating. Think summer bikes exposed to winter. Each picture could have one or two couplets (so 2 or 4 lines) depending on how many images I could get. Obviously the image quality is key to capture the full gory glory. To give a sense of the style, here's how it starts:

My bike did need a cleaning and a cleaning it did get,
With bucket and a sponge it was indubitably wet;

then later with stuff like this:

I then observed the chain-stays whose sad state called for the brush
And excess elbow grease to loose the stubborn steadfast crust;
But oh! what joy attended when at last my work prevailed,
And once again their streamlined engineering was unveiled;
My exultation, though sincere, did not remain unchecked,
As looking fore from aft I saw a part not to forget:
The fork! that two-pronged aerofoil that first confronts the wind,
To leave it so besmirched with dirt was sacrilegious sin;

With Festive 500 in full swing, now might be a moment when some of us are braving the elements and maybe not just on gravel bikes. Basically if you come back with a bike that's in need of a good clean, it would be great to get a (good quality) image of the bike before it's power-hosed and polished.

Below are a couple of examples to give an idea of what I'm thinking. Firstly @ghostface 's stunning Look after a tough one:

If 9/8 is your thing ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBgbjuMmT58&ab_channel=FerencNemeth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwzwfg_5QuE&ab_channel=JazzyNorbi

Heading to Amsterdam on Friday for Christmas and Rush Hour is top of my list. Been digging more 90s electronica this year but also getting back to more jazz roots.

Some of my faves of the year (discoveries, not released this year):

Hiromasa Suzuki – Skip Step Colgen
Jack DeJohnette – Parallel Realities and
Arturo Sandoval – No Problem (live at Ronnie's)
Snarky Puppy – Empire State
Nubiyan Twist – Freedom Fables
Daniel Maunick –Persistence (jazzyish)
Finally seeing Bill Frisell live with Brussels Philharmonic

There are many acronyms that I'd be happy to apply to my bikes but this has the makings of a particularly tasty THISISNOTAMGOOFS

Pmed on 1. and 7.

Wicked

1 LeMesjeu
2 nogk
3 mcflute
4 pacef8
5 Glws
6 DayTripper_Mk2
7 Brookly_Bay
8 gillies
9 jps2904
10 King_Saxlingham
11 jmg412
12 CalAmor
13 6pt
14 slothy
15 LeBlaireau
16 Eejit
17 user6370
18 ltc
19 Kilauea13
20 Microdosed
21 Photoben
22 tb55
23 GrimpeurG
24 Tenners
25 gav
26 Big Ted
27 ILb
28 gdkhgd

This is nice though I do prefer the silver face and non-black case. Then again, I see no indication that it is limited and from what you say it's not something I could expect to make much back on if I ever chose to sell... I guess it will come down to how much I like it (more than my Discogs wishlist).

Very tempted by this. Worth €370?

Pulled this out of the Barry Chick thread (that I'd never heard of). Deserves a lot more attention, what a beaut

^ They're made of carbon and vulcanised rubber so yeh, gonna take pretty much anything you can throw at it. Comfy as well

Great comms and quick post. Big thanks dude, GLWS

Awesome, I'll check it

Shame they're not 28s but great tyres (obvs). Had mine on a year and punctured once. glws

Probably known to many of us but this version still kicks hard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP85Uc6H79U&ab_channel=davekirkland

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Gorgeous but surely not hhsrb with that rabbit snare RD cable...

Images of the full set will no doubt be requested in due course. You'll probably speed up proceedings with some pics. Rear looks good though.

Bill Frisell and Pat Metheny on the same album. What a treat. Seeing Bill in October, can't freakin wait.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx3Xtn8pmnk&ab_channel=MarcJohnson-Topic