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Are there any handlebar bags designed specifically to hang off TT bars apart from the Apidura Racing bag?

Newer / higher end chains are actually better made than older 5-8 speed stuff. They last longer and could well be stronger.

beware that some are a full 3/32" wide and won't fit 9+ speed chains which are only 11/128" wide

I've not noticed this running 11 speed chain (SRAM PC-1130) on various 3/32nd chainrings and cogs.

A big fragile rectangle is an ideal job for a ... [looks around, whispers] pannier.

My 11" MacBook Air does fit it my saddle pack but it pretty much becomes a structural member, so I've never tried riding with it (except in a you-know-what).

Well, thousands of people happily use them every day, so they can't be that awful. If you're lucky you'll have no issues, or intermittent issues that clear themselves. If you're unlucky you'll have keys that become unusable requiring multiple full top case replacements. It's a bit of a lottery. All of them very short key travel though. Try one in a shop before buying.

The second one also has 512 vs 128 GB SSD. If you’re planning to store a lot of photos locally.

All current MacBooks bar the new 16 inch have questionable keyboards (google “butterfly keyboard”). Although it’s going to be a year or two before you can get a refurb MBA with anything different.

You need two pairs of pliers.

Use the adjuster to shorten the cable to get first gear.

(bike shops that tighten the indicator chain with anything other than fingers should be picketed and/or razed)

I've done a Dutch 400. The scenery can be reasonably varied, although athletically the lack of ups and downs makes the pedalling quite monotonous.

The cycle paths have the problem of often going around the edge of towns and not having facilities directly on them. Whereas a British audax route will naturally go past village shops and garages etc, it's quite easy to plot a route all the way across NL on cycle paths that goes past nothing.

The cycle path along their is surprisingly decent, if you can ignore the lorries 12 inches from your shoulder. There's not a lot of good alternative routes out west.

You are kind of on your own at slip roads, and there's no path on the last section from Northolt to Uxbridge, even though it's before it becomes a motorway. There's a big "cycling not recommended" sign on the slip road leading to that bit.

It does say last year they'll be posting them worldwide. Hopefully they'll still do them for local pickup.

At a total guess, they could make the free hub wider inwards to take a fourth sprocket, which they can’t do with the IGH models. Would probably need a more elaborate shifting mechanism though.

Can't recommend anything specific, but the 16-inch is almost exactly the same size as the 2012-2015 15-inch retina model, so anything designed for that will fit.

(I use a jiffy bag as a slip case, because cheapskatery)

Decathlon do this odd trolley bag pannier thing. No way to use it as a backpack though.

That whole rear cable routing/lengths is ghastly! Also:

• Dynamo cable from headlight to rear light isn’t meant to go through the front hinge frame loop. Also the routing past the fork looks questionable.
  
• Shouldn’t a new bike have curved brake pads?
  
  

I don’t know if it’s “wrong”, but the exposed red wire going to the rear light looks super shonky.

The bricks at A look like thingies that go into tool-free wire crimp connectors on the rear light. Basically you shove the bare wires through the hole, then shove the plastic bit into a hole on the rear light. Rear lights that use this system usually also have standard spade connectors too. You can use either.

If your rear light cable already has plugs on the other end, you can probably reverse it and use the plugs to connect to the head light and use the tool-free connectors on the rear light for the bare ends. That would save messing about with crimps and heat shrink.

Can it see any wifi networks? If you set up a personal hotspot on your phone, can it see that?

You’re much less likely to need the warranty with the SON though.

Is there a front mech on that bike? Big ring 1x JOGLE is pretty epic.

(Will 11 speed Dura ace one move my 10 speed 105 mech? Probably right)

No - an 11 speed shifter expects a 1.4 pull ratio rear mech. A 105 10 speed mech has a 1.7 pull ratio. It'll move too far.

The ugly RS505 hydro STIs are selling for buttons on eBay these days. If you're used to proper hydro you'll hate anything less.

No news on that front yet. They'd be daft not to, but as it needs a redesigned chassis to accommodate the extra thickness, it might not be quick.

Reviews suggest the battery isn't quite big enough to support the "always on" feature, and if you switch that off, you basically have a Series 4, because they barely changed the hardware this year.

That graffiti style graphics is 1990-ish, so very likely to be English BB.

(the model names aren't very meaningful - they used lots of different names for the same frames)

If anyone wants a matching 700c rim for their Arkose dynamo wheel, I've just dismantled mine to stick the hub in something else.

You definitely changed the setting before you imported the CD?

And you get an m4a if you right/alt click the file in iTunes and choose "Show In Finder"?

I don't know if MTBs are different, but they switched to English in the mid 1980s on road frames. Mine from 1985-ish is English.

(there are plenty of old Peugeot catalogues floating around on Google - you can figure out the year by matching the decals)