Any question answered...

Yeah, various options if your search for randonneur handlebars.

Don't rule out Middelburg, beautiful small city. And go see the "Deltawerken Neeltje Jans". The big waterworks built after the flooding in the 50s. They also have a museum where you go inside the dam and see the inner workings. Maybe a bit too overwhelming for a 2 and 3 year old though

Yeah found some in the end using that search, exclty what I was after.

I've got a 109.5mm Dura Ace 7700 Octalink v1 bottom bracket, which fits a 68mm shell. I also have a carbon crankset that fits the v1.

Can I mix the cups with a longer XTR spindle (designed for a 73mm shell)?

Can I use a kalloy sp248 with a carbon rail saddle?

Should work with 7×9 or 7×10 rails, the stock bolt projects at least 3mm with 7mm Ø steel/Ti rails.

Who are these people on their ant chariot?

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Splendid, thanks.

ant chariot

Maybe Eos? Not sure what the Myrmidons are doing there, she’s supposed to have two horses, no wonder they haven’t achieved lift-off

Ant chariot seems terribly inefficient. I suppose there could be way more out of shot.

Is that Demeter with a cornucopia

I reckon it’s Persephone—“ the young and beautiful daughter of Demeter, with cornucopia, ears of corn […]”. Still no idea about the ants, or Neil from the Young Ones

Is it Ceres the Romans added a Wheat crown.
How many legs have the ants got?

I reckon you might be onto something with Ceres

Generic V-brake pads, are they all roughly the same?

(I have a Pinnacle Neon 1 from Nov 2018 and the brake pads finally need replacing.)

I've always found the Aztec ones to be fine when fitting to other people's bikes, better than most stuff I take off. I'd recommend getting some shoes with replaceable inserts though, and those inserts should be koolstop salmon.

I want to put some kind of barcode or equivalent on some equipment I'm intending to rent out. I'd like to invest in some kind of sticker system so I know what's in/out etc.
Any personal recommendations?
Ideally it would feed into a google sheets doc as that's where I'm cataloguing things at the moment. But in the long term I'd like to feed it directly onto the website which is currently built with wordpress. I don't want to spend 20k (or even 2k tbh) on a new website yet. So is there something which will work for now and also later?

• reading up more on this - is it possible to scan things in from a phone? '2D' barcodes appear to include things like QR codes. Could I get a load of QR labels printed and just use my phone to scan them in/out? Does it need a fancy attachment on it? Again, any personal reccs?
  

London Picture Centre on Hackney Road used to be my go to. Couple nice old guys running the place, haggle down a bit for cash, good quality work at good prices.

During lockdown there were queues outside this place every time I went past, was sure it was a front for something

Have you looked at itemit?

Is there anyway to delete all of my planned routes on Komoot? I've got about 800 of the fuckers on there and it seems to make the process of updating available routes on my Wahoo slower. Komoot themselves say no but I was wondering if anyone had a clever work around, I can't be arsed manually deleting all of them.


Any idea what this instrument is called?

It's a Tongue drum

Nice, thanks.

Any advice on getting from London to Dublin efficiently without flying?

National Express don't seem to be running it, no other coaches. Seems a bit unbelievable, maybe I just don't know how to search.

Train-train-(train)-ferry is an option but really slow and no easy overnight option, all the times seem to involve some 2 hour 4am changeover. Basically trying to work out of I can get a day there without spending the entire working day either side travelling.

Ok the train line has given me 8-9h train-ferry options but only if I leave London before 11am.