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Warner Edwards distilled in a village on one of my favourite routes. Lots of cardamom, citrus zest and coriander seed.

Hmmm.... My Gaggia Classic has stopped working. The pump is very quite and no water comes out, it still heats up.

Is it a blockage or is the pump buggered?

I descaled it recently, wondering if that blocked it.

Could have - might be worth descaling it again before undertaking any invasive procedures.

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Looks good that. Had a little chuckle at the saddle height.

Gone off mine. So flexy, wish I could afford a proper racing frame right now

Yep, cheap one will do fine. A Bialetti will last longer.

Morning. Do you mean an actual percolator:

Or are you saying percolator as a generic term for coffee brewer?

Actual percolators make a filter-type long coffee as opposed to the short heavy brew from espresso or stovetop (aka moka pot), and they do so by circulating boiling water repeatedly through the coffee. This isn't great for the flavour of good quality beans which is part of the reason why percolators have become pretty outdated, you'd struggle to find one other than online I would guess.

If you want an espresso type brew go for either a stovetop brewer or an actual espresso machine, though you say affordable and getting into home espresso is a bit of a money pit if you want to do it well.

My recommendation: Buy a good hand grinder (£30 - £40) and then take your pick from filter cones, aeropress, cafetierre, whatever. In my experience it doesnt matter how cheap your brewer is, just make sure you put high quality fresh beans in it. You can get something approaching espresso from an aeropress if thats what you're after.

Got a pair now. Ta.

I love that bike mr kiss.

I think it's the best bike I've seen out of all the bikes I've seen.

Yeah sorry about that, aero positioning seems to be aesthetically challenging.

I'm the new owner of this bike, Jantrit built a faithful 90s TT bike and I bought it to use it for its original purpose.

It soon became apparent that there were some advantages to be had by making some simple alterations. First off, the gearing; My legs were burning after a couple of miles with the original 12-18 block, and the 36t ring was redundant. Hello big llittle ring.

Next was the position. I love those Nitto bullhorns but my position was just about the same as the drops on my road bike. That's fine, but this thing weighs a chunk more than my roadie so it wasnt realy earning its keep. In came the Angel bars and bar ends.

Then a bunch of position adjustments. Thats a work in progress.

A bloke from the club offered me a freehub disc for £80 so we went 9 speed and now it looks like this.

My donations stopped when I changed my card and PayPal needed some code from my statement to link my card which I've never needed to do for any other transaction. It's balls, you should have a word with them. It'll never work for financial record-phones like me.

Cinelli angel (prefer 1" quill in silver but others considered ) wanted.

Also ITM alloy aero bar or similar considered.

Cheers
Steve

Haha, thanks Tester :) on that subject is it possible to get something like a 48t inner ring for that 600 chainset? It's such a big jump between rings that it's useless for the local terrain.

Scilly, there seems to be an overwhelming consensus in favour of aero bars, but as I said on the club's FB, I spend a lot of time gawping at that bike in the garage, often with my mouth loosely ajar, so it seems a shame to uglify it. I'm going to give it a go though because I'm starting to get hooked by this tt carry-on. I may get in touch about those shifter mounts. Cheers

Yeah, maybe soon, feel wobbly enough on it already. Want to finish a few TTs feeling like I didnt balls it up before I go in search of equipment gains :)

Got some love for the bike from the old boys. One of them pointed out the DT shifters to his grandson saying "thats how Grandad used to change gear" Blimey, its not that old-tech is it?

Bought mine a few weeks ago from Jantrit on here. Love it. Went testing on it last week, found it very comfortable but the gearing feels just big or bigger (12-18 7sp screw-on). I'll get used to it I'm sure, I've upped my fixed gear to get some strength in the legs. Looking to improve on the 25'15" 10 next week.

Heat gun roasting works really well. Keep the beans moving, roast them until 2nd crack starts, try to leave them a couple of days before drinking (yeah, right).

Once you have a feel for what the coffee does, aim for 1st crackle about 12 mins, 2nd crackle 14 mins. With a normal heatgun 200g green is a good charge weight. You can alter this to adjust roasting times.

After roasting cool the coffee quickly. Tip the beans between 2 sieves, this will blow all the chaff away too.

Have fun :)

Ok, think it worked this time, you've probably got 2 the same. One has a typo in the phone number, the second bit should be 197746.

Cheers

Hello, not sure whether my pm got to you.

Could you let me know?

Ta.

Nice one, cheers. It does look like just the softer outer compound thinking about it.

Cheers Andy, I think your positive comments are what led me to these tyres so that's reassuring :)

Your advice please; this is a michelin pro4 service course which has covered only 50 miles. I don't like the look of the cracking in the picture, it's the same all round and the rear tyre is the same. The bike is always stored hanging up and it has never been left with deflated tyres.

Is this a defect? Should I be worried about it? Is this normal for performance orientated tyres?

I'm riding in the Peak District tomorrow and I'm likely to encounter the fastest descents I've experienced so far and these tyres are making me nervous. What does anyone reckon?

Did my first ever race on it today, Northamptonshire's 45 Road Club Whiston hilly 10, eligible only for road bikes.

I'm almost embarrassed to admit that I got the fastest time of the day, despite having to dismount to put the chain back on after it was thrown changing into the small ring on the first climb. 10.8 miles and 400ft climbing in 30' 28". The bike felt great, very light compared to my steel bike.

The fruit of a day off work to look after my poorly boy

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Period carbon cages

^thanks JB, that's the reassurance I was after.

Has anyone washed their hard shell jacket? Mine has a sweaty tide mark round the bottom from a 4 hour ride which had been forecast to piss down but turned out to be dry all morning.

I've washed waterproof jackets before and it's knackered them, even following the instructions to the letter.

Me please.

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