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If I'd known you were going to try out XMs, I'd have given you mine to try. Only done a couple of races with them tubeless, and I didn't get on with them so well at the HH mudfest last year, so swapped them out for XGs for a more generalist tyre. I realise I am almost certainly blaming the tyres for my own shortcomings, but the tiny tread just didn't inspire confidence.

You're still welcome to try them if you haven't got round to installing yours.

Masters thesis testing spoke patterns http://master.matsemann.com/

TLDR: stick with 3x

Edit: Link to Reddit discussion with the author

New phone!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/LG-inch-SIM-free-Android-Smartphone/dp/B00WHEQ43O/

I use them and really like having one on my desk at work and one on the sofa at home. Plop the phone down and it's charging. No unplugging if you get a call; less likely to forget to set it to charge, trickle charging all day, so it stays at full charge. Works for me.

However, the new N5X and N6P models don't have wireless charging and many of the current flagships have omitted it, so if you're planning on upgrading soon, I wouldn't bother

Party Cannon - metal badasses.

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Thought it might have been, but everyone looks different in civvies. Hi!

Saw someone carrying a brand new Pompetamine frame at Brixton train station this morning. Looked like he'd taken it to the shop for BB and headset fitting. Anyone from on here?

Bah. Duplicate orders due to website problem, and then when I spoke to them it turns out they don't have the softshell I ordered. Trousers only, I guess.

Ta! Got a softshell and summer trousers on the way.

Had a nice chat with @Digger at E&C roundabout. Here's that Bikeworks programme I told you about: https://youtu.be/DCNAV5MNDJk?t=9m51s
You're a telly natural, dude!

To the Sun bundle arrived today. Fuck me, the PTJ is cut small. I bought L as my old Cross Jersey in XL is way too big. I reckon 5 kg less fat and I'd be fine, but those fuckers fit tight!

And they're showing as out of stock, so an exchange isn't possible. Hmmm.

I think they are more for cold autumn mornings than middle of January.

Feeder Rides:

East: Meet Lincolns Inn Fields one hour before start. Happy to lead, but if anyone has Garmin route, please provide.

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I would love to, but I'm not right after a 2 week holiday in Vietnam that has let me with a cold and gut-rot. I still need to get the bike set up for CX duties, hopefully this weekend, so next week is a possibility. Good luck to you all. At least it's not a heatwave like last year.

Got hit by a scooter at Waterloo this morning. I was turning right out of Exton Street and the traffic lights on my left were red, so I went through the standing traffic, only to have my front wheel taken out by a scooter barreling down the middle of the road towards the lights. I should have looked better before poking my nose out, but that fucker was seriously motoring.

Front wheel pringled, possible fork damage and a bruised ego. British Cycling insurance FTW.

Interested if nankatsu drops out.

https://www.lfgss.com/comments/12288279/ Could be of interest to Northern little people.

90% certain that would be 135mm as it's a disc frame and most manufacturers have gone 135mm as it gives them a wider range of disc hubs to source from. All 3 of my disc compatible cross frames have been 135mm.

I like my CL25 as a cross rim, not sure I'd want a tubeless specific rim for a commuter though.

Road BB7 and Sram work fine for me, as do MTB BB7 with Tektro drop bar v-brake levers. Set up was a little fiddly for the first time, but once dialled in, it's been fine.

I noticed an officer standing on Sumner Rd yesterday and this mornings next to a cordoned off block of flats, so I guess this is related. Horrible news.

Stupid clipless moment on Blackfriars bridge. Fall/10, would bruise again.

Nice chat with fellow Pompetamine rider on Waterloo bridge this morning. First time I've seen another one on my commute.

Spent the last few commutes finding as flat and quiet a route as possible from Beckenham to Camden to incentivise a certain Little rider who hates hills to give this commuting lark a go. Found lots of parks and quiet routes north of the OKR, which despite adding a couple of miles makes it much more pleasant.

9/10, would discover again.

@Digger trackstanding like a baws on OKR last night. Awkwardness got the better of me, so no DAS.