Any question answered...

Ah, yes that sounds better than my sister's suggestion of shopping bag hook.😁

Siverfish.
How the fuck do you kill them all?

Napalm

Yeah. I had reached that conclusion.

Get rid of their food source. They like carbs and some proteins, so books, clothes, food scraps. Give the Tories another year and it should be sorted for you.

Also "You can make a homemade cleaner using equal parts of vinegar and water, plus a squirt of washing up liquid, then add 10 drops of peppermint oil and eucalyptus oil.“

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/terrifying-flesh-eating-silverfish-invading-15534485.amp

Between the Tories and the siverfish it’s difficult to choose though.

Is there any evidence the latter isn't a larval stage of the former?

Very luckily would be an understatement.

I have/had two bikes that I was considering amalgamating:

1. Road bike - Chinese carbon, 10-speed Sram Force
   
2. CX/Commuter bike - Focus Mares AX, Sram Rival hydraulic discs, 1x setup
   
   

I started to use the former more for commuting and the latter just for wet weather commuting. Rarely ride cross or gravel, as much as I like the latter.

I was thinking of a good disc road bike that I also used for commuting, as security is fine at work.

Then on Saturday, I got a call from the bike shop I'd taken the cross bike to, to say that it didn't just need a rear brake service, but instead new rotors, chain, cassette and chainring.

Later on Saturday, I wrote off my road bike in a freak wheelie-suitcase related incident that has cracked the seatstay.

I don't really have any money for an upgrade that doesn't come from selling what I've got.

What would you do?

What would you do?

Strip the road bike and sell the bits, then take the bikeshop advice with a pinch of salt, replace the chain and carry on riding it.

Second set of wheels for the CX bike, summer wheelset, winter wheelset

Sell off road bike stuff

new rotors, chain, cassette and chainring.

If you’re not doing any hard riding on the commuter, it might be worth replacing the rotors and leaving the drivetrain as is, depending on if the drivetrain is already very worn.

You’d have to monitor the chain since you don’t want it snapping on you; I’ve seen chains worn beyond 1.5% that still function. You might be able to save up for replacements in the meanwhile.

That was my thought too, and I also thought that if I were to sell it it's better to say "it works but the drivetrain is on its way out" than "the brakes are fucked so it's not really rideable".

@tbc
I'm in a similar situation. I sold my CAAD 10 because I was only using it on the turbo and it was at the point of a major overhaul (new groupset, and if you're there you may as well get a disc groupset and a new bike with guards was my thought).

I now only have my cross bike, which I like as it's one of those cheap planet x XLA things. I have three wheelsets: bongo wheels (which are supposed to get some cross tyres on soon), a set of cross wheels, a set of "all road" wheels (they're just cross tubeless with road tyres on). And a turbo wheel.

If I were you : I'd sell the road stuff. Buy a second wheelset on the cross bike. Get it set up so you can do as much as possible (whether that's a set for commuting and a set for road or any permutation of the combinations) .

I think part of the reason I started commuting more on the road bike is that it feels a lot faster than the cross bike. I suspect a lot of that is fixable with lighter wheels and a lower front end, but that was my thinking behind going to a road bike to do it all, rather than sticking with the cross bike.

I also have a self-inflicted problem involving trying to make three bikes one bike. I want a bike for everything, and that includes sort of fast road rides, gravel as far as that exists here and bikepacking/touring. Two bikes is a bit too much for the space I have. Right now I have a Battaglin Speed roadbike which feels a bit too small, and a Specialized Sequoia from 1993, which is a few sizes too big. Plus, canti's suck.

My current thinking:

• Buy a Brother Mehteh frame, sell both the Battaglin and Specialized. Get two sets of wheels and do everything.
  
• Buy Surly straggler, keep the Battaglin.
  
  

Thoughts?

It is perfectly possible to ride one of those bikes in all of the ways you want. But it won't be good at them all. Which is your most often type of riding? You'll never get a fat clearance gravel bike to feel fast on the road

I ride "gravel" the most. In the north of the Netherlands that means sand, grass and mud, and sometimes we have proper gravel roads. No hills around. I use the road bike primarily to join my mates, who prefer their carbon roadmachines to go fast. I never do any riding for power results or anything. Lately, I have been enjoying longer rides, as in 150km+.

It doesn't have to feel fast, if I can keep up with the group that should be fine.

Buy a brother stroma. Write a review. Help shape my decision on new all road or stick with cx and buy a more modern CX bike

Not enough tire clearance, pity

Fairlight Faran?

32 and guards?

not enough for when I have to keep up with girlfriend on 2.2 speedkings

@PhilDAS too spendy but deep down what I want, probably.

Can someone work out how to get to / share a link to the my cart on this site:

https://shop.westerndigital.com/en-gb/

Cheers

Apparently you have to add something to the cart first.

Adding something to the cart does not seem to work.

After changing the region to Germany it did work though..

🤷