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I've been to meetings in the Houses of Parliament twice before

Went out nice and early this morning to vote. Sun's out. It's my birthday. Lovely day to give the Tories a kick right up the ballbags.

Second thoughts - might hold off for now. But these look spot on - will keep them in mind.

I'm after a reasonably-priced second set of wheels for my road bike. Don't need to be anything special, not fussed about carbon or anything. Budget of around £100.

Specs of my current set are:

Material Aluminium
Size 700c
Axle 12x142mm Rear, 100x12mm Front
Freehub Shimano/Sram 11 Speed
Internal Rim Width 19mm
Would need to be thru-axle and ideally 6-bolt disc fitment.

Otherwise - open to whatever, what have you got? Would prefer if you're willing to ship since I'm not London based but will work that out if necessary.

Thanks!

I've got a couple of 986 Boxsters

I'm not mad about the fixing of potholes, though...

If the Brooks hasn't been taken by payday then I'm definitely interested.

Some FB Marketplace madness.

God yes, have had one of those on my moderate lottery win wishlist for a while now.

I've got a really nice one by Varia Instruments which wasn't cheap, but it's made just down the road from where my mother-in-law lives in Switzerland so I couldn't resist.
It's really heavy so does a great job at flattening slightly warped older records - and just looks fucking cool too. I could live without it but I don't want to. Hope that helps!

Something else which didn't really warrant it's own post - basic but solid Bikehut pannier bag. Bit grubby but does the job and has a waterproof cover that tucks in to a zipped compartment at the bottom. £5 or £8.50 posted.

Just want to throw a bit of positivey to the Explore short sleeve shirt too. Horrible colour, but the fit and feel is lovely to ride in.

Is that the button-up one that was in the sale? I was tempted but yeah, wasn't sure about that colour...

Just heard this on the news. Quite the haul...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/articles/clmm90lgx13o#:~:text=The%20Lifeplus%2DWahoo%20cycling%20team,stolen%20from%20their%20mechanic's%20van.

Who's Franc?

Decided that I'm not filled with confidence by the small amount of clearance that I get with these so going to size down - and already have too many tyres that I'm keeping 'just in case'.

Probably done about 150 miles max on them, I reckon. Practically new. They're still on the bike at the moment but will be taking them off as soon as the new ones arrive.

£50 shipped or £45 collected from Southsea - ONO.

Went to see Furiosa last night. Didn't blow me away quite like Fury Road did, but I think that's mostly because that was such a unique and incredible film that it's almost like I was more prepared for this one.
The sound was incredible - the engine notes of some of those bikes did special things to my insides.
The only fuck up is that I didn't realise I'd bought a ticket to a subtitled screening - so that was a bit distracting in places but actually not awful at picking out the little details in the dialogue in places.

Moody sky from yesterday's ride.

I've gotten away with it so far this year until yesterday and now it feels like I've got 3 months of it all in one go. Absolutely rotten.

https://rapha.mention-me.com/m/ol/it5od-149febfaac

15%, if it helps?

Because of the changeable weather, I wasn't optimistic, but just wanted to try and match or improve on my time from last year.
First 50 miles I was absolutely smashing it - would have knocked over an hour off my time if I'd kept it up. But the headwinds coming back into central London were brutal - ended up taking away anything I'd built up in the first half and I ended up finishing pretty much exactly the same as last year. Ah well, I'll take it.
Found it to be generally well organised as before - only stopped at one of the official welfare points and felt it a bit lacking in provisions, but filled up my bottles, grabbed a banana and a snack and carried on, no drama.
I did think there was lots of groups of riders who were maybe taking it a bit seriously to a dangerous level at times - I understand you want to pass slower riders but when you've got 2 (sometimes 3) empty lanes of traffic, what's the need to pass within a foot of others? I just don't understand that at all.
In general though, a bloody great time. Even managed to catch a bit of the women's Classique back in town at the end as well.

Whatever's going on here, I'm strangely invested in it.

Yes, love this one. Between that and the new Nas/Premier track that R6 keep playing, feels like a strong time for returning hip-hop heavyweights.

I've got one of those locks but the little pink rubber Rapha bit split and is long gone - if you don't have anyone more local who wants it for any reason, I'd like it. Maybe I'll wait and see if you've got anything else of interest to save pissing about posting a little bit of plastic.

Seems like everyone has one of these... this was our school wrongun, not as bad as some of these but he was still the one that everyone called 'pedo', and apparently for good reason as we found out a few years later.

https://www.thefreelibrary.com/TEACHER%2C42%2C+FILMED+SEX+WITH+PUPIL+ON+MOBILE%3B+Shamed+husband+escapes...-a0157018812

This is the premium silicon-enhanced version - I've used the basic one before and I'd agree. I almost always wear gloves anyway, and this one has plenty of grip compared to the other one.