Disc brakes are dead

This is very true ! Still kinda confused tbh, i dont want to 'feel' the weight on one side over other, dont want a bar bag .. do have a Tubus Titanium rack ready.

Credit card touring / buyer fail!

Send parcels to various hotels with change of clothes etc and pre book return shipping.

Money gun option - mail order new sets of clothes to each hotel

I'm totally not judging you for adopting the 'faux-ultra' look

A dad-ultra

Send parcels to various hotels with change of clothes etc and pre book return shipping.

I tried that at Durness. Didn't work - for some reason they kept the parcel at the Post Office rather than delivering it to the hotel just round the corner. Happily one of the friends I was riding with had a dicky knee, so drove up in the rental can with all our luggage so I didn't have to eat dinner in a Castelli speed suit.

A week in the Alps was great.
This was the most unfit I have been on a trip like this.
Physio issue kept coming up every now n then, had to rest for a day and ibuprofen when riding on some.

Still exceptional.

Bike held up fine, no niggles, 42x42 was just enough lowest gear. Switching to GP5000 was a good idea, cinturato although great were 'slow'.

France is boss level western civilisation, there is nothing beyond, UK deserves to be nuked, it adds no value.

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no niggles

bb creak says otherwise

i forgot about that!! Yes, horrible creak, bearing should have been replaced before the trip

Another one of @amey cast offs gets a new lease of life.

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amazing

Pfft. More like @JB castoff. That’s cool though.

Sorry for the oversight. You are the true originator.

Whichever one of you put the dint in the top tube, that’s been ironed out as well.

Trickle down economics for buyers.

Who did the paint?

Not me! Its MAX. It'll be fine.

Dredge but I do have one if you want it

I thought I’d send it back to its spiritual home, so paint by ISEN, which meant the very talented Caren came up with what you see.

Yes! Amazing paintjob. Can't wait to see it built up. :-)

OK so there's 181 pages of this crap, what's this thread about anyway? Direct mount brakes or whatever they're called?

Anything that rescued it from that handlebar set up deserves credit

It's "about" amey's addiction to buying, with a sub-plot about all the people who've contributed knowingly or otherwise to the project

Maybe I should put the thread back on ignore

i am actually riding a rim brake bike today!

Ready to let the set back one go?