MAJs gay bikes [she’s in her fitness era]

they're the chisel toe blundestones , 063's i believe. really rate them and tend to get a few comments as they look far more expensive than they are relatively, the toe box on them is lovely

worn rain or shine for about 18 months and not done anything to do them, scuff up and clean up real nice.

strong rec

Blundstones are GOAT tbf.

Would be interested in your experience of Butternut as I have not used them and wanna know how they do (Clever Mike is a short hop over the hill too, but you probably already know that?).

clever mike closed last year/ earlier this year? :(

did they?!? OH NO (was just around the corner and salvaged a couple of my all-thumbs works…)

(looking forward to reading about the thing going on at Mafeking. Also when will those corn laws get repealed &c &c)

Hey @Maj. I’m in tuffnel park and have a diy headset press that you can have if you want.
I used it to install a CC40 in what appears to be your old Pompino :)

Butternut bikes will look after you, they will make sure it’s done right and safe.

It's a bearing in the end of a tube, it's either fitted or it's not. It's not unsafe to fit it with a drift, the way people have been installing bearings in professional workshops for decades.

To be clear a rubber mallet will work and not dent frame…

If the job doesn’t spark joy and you can spare the cash bringing it to a shop is healthy behaviour. I wish I could do it.

it's defo going to the shoppe, king headsets are my kryptonite as long time readers will know.

there will still be plenty of the bike to tell me to hit with a hammer, or mallet, of any material when it returns an i inevitably get annoyed by that too

maybe the brake alignment will be annoying
maybe they wont stop rubbing?
maybe the rim tape keeps puncturing tubes!
ofcourse there is still fitting and aligning the mech of a bike which has had a mech hanger handled by stansteads finest.
there are at least 6 thomson bolts to do up which will surely strip
then finally, when we all think it's done? the bb i put in will surely start squeeking

so rest assured girls, there is a lot of whining still to come!

really it's hopes fault for making theirs look so ugly, it works so well, easiest headsets i've ever installed, nothing went wrong

perfect product

only downside?

looks like it was designed by a guy from lancashire

Genuine question - what's so ugly about Hope headsets?! Is it the slightly square edges vs. the roundness of the Kings? In an anodised colour with their etched logos they look much the same to me. I don't really have much of an aesthetic eye though.

Although I do appreciate your new frame and pretty much all of Hulsroy's fine work

the thick rubber seal ruined the silver one I had for me. CK is much much prettier

looks like it was designed by a guy from lancashire

An opinion I didn’t know I had.

colour and finish mainly, the high contrast etched logos and saturated primary colours just look a bit tired

I could get behind the design of the cups which are a bit agricultural, I was a fan of the old Birmingham library after all, but the colours and finish really stop the train dead.

I send them an email every few months (from a variety of email addresses) begging them to make a wider selection of annodisation or a more subtle etching but they keep telling my “lanky southern arse” to piss off

What about a Cane Creek one with the words HELLBENDER70 etched on it

hell bender sounds like a slur

Oh god that didnt cross my mind, I was thinking more like me as a lame 15yr old metal head naming a headset

hopes fault for making theirs look so ugly

I am 100% behind this statement. Same goes for their seatpost clamp imo

…which also doesn’t work.

You do not want to know how I got these in

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it does now beg the question, does anyone have a decent crown race setter in n15

Cut it, easy peasy