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I noticed the same thing about stock. I'm wondering if Coloral have gone out of business.

Wilfa Svart Coffee Grinder - £45 posted

Switched to a Fellow Grinder so have this extra grinder going spare. Had for about 8 years but still works great.

Hario 600ml Goose Neck Kettle - £20 posted
Can do for £15 if taken with grinder

I'm building up an 80 TOEI Campeur / Randonneur and was hoping to run it with a silver Campagnolo triple setup with 8/9 or 10 speed.

Does anyone have

• 8/9/10 Downtube shifters
  
• Long Cage Derailleur
  
• Front Derailleur can be a double or triple design.
  

Next up at the paint shop is my TOEI touring frameset.

Really just to tidy up some localised bad damage around the BB / crankset and the bottom of the chainstays.

These are before photos of the paint. General idea is to replicate colors. But do a better job on logos. Some small mistakes in font thickness.

After 6-7 years and maybe 30,000 km later its a feature.

Frame 4 is BSA and threaded BB is in correct orientation.

Talk at the time was how T47 and rear thru-axle was unnecessary and only lead to heal clearance issues. My bigger issue is that the rear end is closer to 132mm than 135 so a pain to squeeze wheel in and out.

And finished.

Yep. Already done.

Just awaiting final polish of clearcoat.

Some before and after pictures of my rather scratched and tired Talbot after a respray here in Vietnam.

Amazing talent from OK Paint. Much better than OK as their name would suggest.

Still to have clearcoat applied.

For 200 seems a nice set of wheels if you're after rim-brake wheels.

Positive: Made with CX-ray spokes, tubeless valves & brake pads included, 21mm internal
Negative: At 1440g for a 35mm rim brake wheel it isn't the lightest...

Unsure on the brake track, which is key to braking performance with rim-brake.

Had anyone tried one of those mini portable electric pumps off Aliexpress? I'm intrigued by them but definitely can't stomach the cost of the £70 Cycplus one off Amazon.

It is interesting as here in Vietnam, the cycplus ones reatail for around 35 pounds. I really rate them though. Basically just carry a daysaver, dynaplug racer and this in my rapha essentials wallet thing.

I'd say Mille GTO is best shout.

The cap is 90 quid!

Indeed. Unfortunately when I asked Fairbairn isn't manufacturing anymore

For others who have been log struggling with dynamo mounting on forks without a mount on the front, I've just had this designed and 3D print prototyped here at a local machine shop in Vietnam. The plan is to have one CNC machined for me to use on my Isen's columbus gravel fork where the only threading is on the rear of the fork crown.

Anyone interested in one if I did a batch?

204 starters.

I just opened 200 spots yesterday for the 300km and it filled up in 12 hours!

Clearly the beardy Audax stereotype is global

This Saturday we organised the first BRM event in Vietnam. A 200km ride up through the orange plantations north of Saigon.

Overall a great success, with more time people will learn the skills and understand the self sufficiency a bit better. We had one club who didn't register but took part and had a motorcycle alongside them the whole way with spare wheels!

People are still getting used to the rules and maybe in more AUK fashion (advisory route) rather that ACP (mandatory route), managed to find shortcuts where possible. We'll need to make sure in the future we have secret controls. Navigation was a challenge for most people despite them having Garmin 1030 in some cases , knowing how to use it is a different matter.

Some complaints about how hot it was, but as organiser I can only control so much!

Some youtube videos from local riders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJBsv4DppJQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUP7XyxkreE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkNkHqmHXds

While I love my Isen and Talbot bikes and have had good comms with the team. I am disappointed to hear that they bury their head in the sand on things like this.
Makes me a less proud to ride their bikes.

I've been running it simply as my fast geared road bike for club rides.

The WORD fixed wheel sits forlorn in the spare room as a project unmaterialised. I'd love to be able to go back and forth, but can't figure how to properly manage the shift cables when disconnecting the derailleur.

worth checking bolt diameter for the august ones.

I'd half agree.

For me with audax it is all about finishing within the time limit and maximising enjoyment.

So for example PBP 2019 I was having a blast and did it in less than 80 hours, much faster than I planned. For 2023, I plan to slow down and enjoy the experience and villages a bit more.

For LRM events over 1200 I also try to work with the time limits to maximise sleep. Of course fast riding and minimising faff during the day also helps with this.

Actually they do have a 34kmph max

Overall time limits vary for each brevet according to the distance.
These are: (in hours and minutes, HH:MM) 13:30 for 200 KM, 20:00 for
300 KM, 27:00 for 400 KM, 40:00 for 600 KM, and 75:00 for 1000 KM.

Additionally, riders must arrive at each checkpoint between the
opening and closing time for the checkpoint and calculated as follows:
Opening: 34 km / h (km 1 to 200); 32 km / h (km 201 to 400); 30 km / h
(km 401 to 600); 28 km / h (km 601 to 1000); commercial rounded by the
minute. Closing: 1 hour + 20 km / h (km 1 to 60); 15 km / h (km 61 to
600); 11.428 km / h (km 601 to 1000); commercial rounded by the
minute.

When I was in the Phillipines they went out as a team for the record with the peloton a stream of lead out men. The flat 200 was done in 5:56! Like ACP, Audax PH don't have a max speed rule.

https://audax.ph/content/files/uploads/978e8ab9-9753-4755-afd1-ce5da286a055.pdf

I'm not a huge fan of organisers publicising and celebrating course records or publishing result times, it makes it more like a sportif, but each culture develops its own and our view of audax doesn't necessarily need to be universal.

Saying it isn't a race, but then publishing results in order of finish time is a bit contradictory...

So only plus to say for the Auld Alliance is that it is good practice for PBP in that it is a evening start. If you're doing the 90hr PBP ride you'll start the Sunday evening.

The qualifying windows are specific to each country/region, we are fortunate here that we don't have any.

And to make it three posts in a row...

Just spent the weekend in Subic Bay, Philippines doing my qualifying BRM 300 and 200 rides Saturday and Sunday. What a weekend! They had 1800 riders over the two days! Next planned ride is BRM 600 called "Big Hill 600" in Malaysia in early Feb. This will complete my PBP qualifying.

Times are published, and the culture is a bit more sportify there with people going for course record times as teams with support cars. Nominally these support cars are for secruity as emergency response times can be slow and can only be used at controls only as per ACP rules, but seems there is a lot of shenanigans happening.