Any question answered...

I'd probably have left a couple of days ago, it's at least a 2 day hike.
You could go from Paddington or Marylebone if you fancy the train though.

Just came back to edit my post, people here don’t miss a beat.

If I decide to take the Oxford Tube rather than walk, would it normally take an hour, two?

My mum says I always have something clever to say

It tells you how long it takes when you book tickets?

Would it ordinarily take an hour, two hours, more from Victoria?

Depends where in Oxford. The coach from Victoria is scheduled to take about 1.5 hours but you may have to get a local bus to your final destination.

If I decide to take the Oxford Tube rather than walk

Check how far you need to walk to get the OXtube, Victoria is a bit fucked at the moment. In theory, if you're leaving London before 0800 you should be OK, but check before travelling as you may be better off getting the actual tube to Marble Arch

Haven’t met her but I’m sure she’s a lovely lady.

I read it takes between 50 and 115 mins, thought I’d ask, especially given delays/works at Victoria.

Thanks 👍 Heading to nearby Oxford bus and train stations, so I’m factoring in 10-15 min walk.

Much obliged cheers.

The Oxford Tube will probably take a couple of hours that time of day, they run every 15 mins from all the London stops. It’ll take you all the way to Gloucester green bus station and the train station is about a 5/10 minute walk from there.

Thought I'd open this up to the hive mind.

I am converting my spoked motorcycle wheels to tubeless. The process I'm going with is:

• Loctite 290 Threadlocker (Wicking Grade) dripped into the spoke/nipples
  
• 3M Extreme Sealing Tape over the nipples in the rim bed
  
  

I have some slight rusting, more crazing, around some of the spokes. Unfortunately it's quite hard to photo because of the shiny chrome vs the black rim.

My questions are these:

1. Do we think these small areas of rust need to be dealt with before applying the 3M tape?
   
2. What rust product / process would you use? (bearing in mind we need an oil free surface and any possible risk of some of the product being left in the nipple thread)
   
   

Cheers!

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Is anyone familiar with 'Why?Bikes'? Local bike charity has one of their frames in, I've never heard of them before and I'm struggling to find any info online, but the interesting geometry and half fillet brazed/lugged construction caught my eye and now I'm curious.
I'm assuming they're a small scale frame builder, probably from the 90's given the bits on it (Pace forks, 3x8 XT drivetrain, 26" rim brakes)? Apologies for the terrible photo.

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Have you searched in retrobike?

Holy headtube

Yep, nothing that I can find there unfortunately.

@Mukashibanashi it's pretty wild, very short and high at the front.

Tried to search for the answer to this with no joy.
My partner runs a very small drop in kids play session. As part of a written description of the session she advertises she uses two words.
She received a fairly snooty message from a company a few towns away claiming to have trademarked those two words and asking her to change the description. They are common words used in describing a kids drop in class.
I've checked the IPO and they have TMd a sentence which includes those two words. There are 9 other trademarks with those words in.

As they have trademarked as specific sentence as their company title is this person wrong on asking my partner to remove a descriptive paragraph about the nature of her business that includes those two words. My partner hasn't used the sentence they have trademarked or even the two words in her business title.

Are you both in the same industry?
I don't think you can TM a paragraph but you can a slogan.

Ignore the letter.
Wait for a cease and desist.
It probably won't come.

IANAL but it sounds weak

There are 9 other trademarks with those words in

I feel like this shows more than anything else that they have zero grounds for their claim. As above, ignore and wait to hear from their solicitor

Does anyone make a base layer which is just thin material with no cellular construction, like the old rapha pro team ones?

All seem to be that waffled stuff that I can find and I'm not keen

Thanks for the replies.

If I decide to take the Oxford Tube rather than walk, would it normally take an hour, two?

For info: London Victoria to Oxford Tube terminal leaving at around 0720 took approx 90minutes, with few stops and 7 people on a double decker bus.

Decathlon merino ?

Virtually all merino?