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Definitely not going for yellow caliper, happy with the black

I have coilovers thank you very much!!

Wheels will be refurbished soon, decided to sell all 3 sets and buy Enkeis RPF1-RS wheels as I've recently discovered that they're nearly a kilo a wheel lighter than my ATS DTCs, which are already crazy light at 5kg for a 15x8 wheel.

Finally fitted those hi-spec brakes but the standard braided lines are too short to turn the wheel more then 1 turn of lock in each direction.

Fitted them anyway and then spent about 30 mins getting it back in the garage not turning the steering wheel beyond what the lines would allow.

Ordered extended MX5 lines from HEL, will fit and bleed when they turn up.

Look nice under the wheel even if they don't perform any better than stock brakes 😂

I love the rocket one

I quite like it

This is radical!! Nice choice

https://angliacarauctions.co.uk/auctions/2671-02-Nov-2024/7726~1-1989-ford-transit-county-4x4

How rad is this!!

This looks cool, do the Japanese BMWs come with better spec or was it just easier to find lower mileage and good condition cars as imports?

Also I hate being that guy who throws out petty comments, but this would look so much better with silver wheels in my opinion

Any pics/link?

ACG Mountain Fly GTX changed my life. My nerdy hiking/climbing mates ripped the piss out of them when we did a scramble up Tryfan but they were perfect and equally grippy as approach shoes I've previously owned.

Brake levers are great, he loves ripping skids on it

I haven't had it long enough to have tried with lots of coffees, but I can get down to 2 on a 450ml CD

Sorry for delay

We've got the older Seeker with 3sp hub gear and big mechanical discs. Good bike, hub gear works beautifully, but previous owner had it serviced just before he sold it. Smaller hands might struggle with the grip shift but Ezekiel's been great with it aged 6 onwards.

Want me to go look at it?

DMd on the merino

I'm really happy to put my hand up and call out my own lack of knowledge in the hope that my own ignorance can help anyone going through the same thing.

A while back I mentioned how I was struggling to get similar tasting coffee out of my SPB as I get from the Clever Dripper and I couldn't understand why and I think I asked a couple of questions about grind size in batch brew at the time.

Well at the time I put it down to the Wilfa Svart grinding inconsistenly, which to be fair to me was a real issue, as sometimes I'd get loads of fines and sometimes not.

Recently bought the Fellow Ode on here and while I noticed a marked improvement in consistency I wasn't getting the taste I wanted and was getting a bit disappointed.

Here's where the error I've been making comes in, I just assumed that if I'm brewing 400ml in a Clever Dripper then I should use the same grind level for 900ml in the SPB.

Since that wasn't working, I did some reading on batch brew grind size and ratios and I started learning about 3-6cm bed depth, when I should be switching to flat bottomed filter rather than the cone, and the fact that because the bed depth is bigger I should be grinding coarser because there's more time for extraction.

As a bonus I also read more about when to change grind size and when to increase ratio depending on what I'm tasting - which now seems obvious, but prior to that I don't think I really understood the fundamentals of why to vary one over the other.

So what did I get after reading and learning all that, well I turned the Fellow up to 5 (coarser, much coarser), and returned the ratio to 60g/litre and low and behold, the coffee out the SPB tastes much better and much closer to what I think the optimum taste for that coffee (Guji Flip Flops from Dark Arts) should be.

This was a few days ago and this was a long post but I'm just really pleased that I solved a long standing source of frustration for me that was as easy as, you need to grind coarser for larger volumes of coffee.

These stories make me realise I'm a terrible car buyer because I'd still be there trying to get it running so I can drive it home and just assume I can sort it later for a reasonable amount of money.

Couple of mates are big BMW diesel nerds so I'd have been straight onto the phone with them trying to work out if it's a common issue and what we can do to rectify it 😂

For inauthentic tacos and not fancy in terms of small plates and natural wine, you could catch a bus up to stoke Newington high street and go to the place called TA-KO. It used to be called Victory Mansion and was a prohibition style cocktail bar, I think they kept the decor but prioritised the food over the bar setup.

Corrochios is banging, mexican chef with proper menu. Haven't been posted in golf club for a while so I'll drop that I know the owner and he's a good guy so give him your money 😂

If anyone's looking for a Wilfa Svart in black (even though I've spent the last year complaining about mine), then mine is for sale. The top burr has been replaced about 8kg of coffee ago and it's cleaned up ready to go.

I didn't keep the original box unfortunately.

If they can't be cleaned then you could dye them back to the original colour.

Carbon Collective do a really good leather interior deep clean/protect kit for about £40.

The only thing a detailer is going to have that you won't have lying around the house is a steam cleaner.

Hell yeah brother

I got the part thanks mate but it's not on the car yet 😂 it hasn't needed it. Whatever codes the garage cleared with their grown up commercial grade code reader seemed to have kicked the can down the round long enough

I have a 6 year old thanks, hence why I have a machine that makes coffee automatically in the morning and a car with a boot that's unnecessarily large so I can take all of his bullshit as well as all my bullshit