Any question answered...

Check out the field studies council sites. They do large group accommodation at some locations.
https://www.field-studies-council.org/centres/castlehead/about/group-accommodation.aspx

don't know where to stay but recommend eating here... https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g187147-d714966-Reviews-Chez_Janou-Paris_Ile_de_France.html

These guys might have something that fits the bill https://www.landmarktrust.org.uk/

Posting a frameset to Belgium... anyone have rough idea of cost for the most basic service?

Recommended age for reading The Great Gatsby?

@pastry_bot @Colonel_of_Truth @Gregory
thanks for the great suggestions, should have asked here ages ago!
YHA has potential, definitely.
field studies is a bit too big, min numbers seem to be around 40, aimed for 70+
landmark trust I'd heard of - I just assumed they'd be very expensive, like the Living Architecture houses but they're pretty good. looks like they only go up to 16 people apart from the campsite. the Palladian villa would be amazing...

YHA Port Eynon. Whole hostel hire, fantastic location ( used to work there ).

I read it when I was 19 for fun. I was a precocious reader, but thought it was shit. So too early. Probably early 20s if you don’t actually have to read it for studies.

Right. So not 8 then :)

Canti revival when?

parcel 2 go

Doing my first single speed conversion. I bought a single speed wheelset off one forum member and another donated me a sprocket + spacer set when I bought a frame off him. I'm trying to put the two together and fairly certain this won't work.

Do I need a lockring to go inside my sprocket? The sprocket diameter is too small for the threaded section on the hub even if I had one. Here's a pic so you can all share your laughter at my folly, any advice much appreciated. https://imgur.com/a/wepCOYr

That's a SS cog for a cassette hub.

You need a screw on fix cog or a freewheel.

Cheers. Is there any way of adapting my threaded hub to make it a freewheel or is it easier/cheaper just to buy a threaded sprocket?

Pick up a cheap bmx freewheel to start, see if you like it. You have front and rear brakes yeah?

No brakes sorted out yet, figured I'd sort out after getting the wheels spinning

As long as they go on before the chain.

Why's that?

Why start moving if you can't stop?

yep

Well I wasn't planning on moving until the bike is built, including the brakes. Isn't not riding a bike until the brakes are on childishly obvious?

Isn't not riding a bike until the brakes are on childishly obvious?

You would have thought, but look at all the bell ends who ride brakeless on the road.

Threaded freewheel cogs can be as cheap as you like.
https://www.charliethebikemonger.com/freewheels-screw-on-224-c.asp

Btw, are you sure you don't want to make it a fixed gear conversion instead of a single speed conversion?

Thanks, I bought a super cheap one from sjscycles just now. Have every part but a brake, a shim for my bars and my grips now.

I'm 98% certain I want to make it a single speed rather than fixed, yes. Why do you ask?

Need to buy a decent 17t cog + chain.

Last cog I got from lmnh is so hillariously out of round it out me off them

Where in London even sells fixed gear stuff now? Don't really want to go to BLB.