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I’ve got most of the parts together for this now.

The fork is a Surly ECR and the axle to crown is 447mm. While the geometry looks alright to me, I’ve never built an MTB before. Is it ok?

Yeah, it’s Small. It looks alright in the photo, but there’s a lot of chipping and scuffs. Gonna make it nice for her. Also, I don’t think she’d be mad keen on a bike with the word “inbred” on it.

That Stridsland you posted above looks great, I think a set of Surly Sunrise bars might be on the cards.

Frame only, so far. It’s scruffy, but straight - I think I’m going to strip it and respray it. Rigid fork of some description.

Thanks for posting that link! I’ve picked up a 26er frame to build up for my wife, and this helps massively.

Interesting. Presumably the MPs know how popular KB is with the membership, and unpopular with the electorate (and them). Not sure who’d win out of Jenrick vs Cleverly/Tommy Tuggers.

I'm all for making the wealthy (of all ages) pay more, so increase CGT and inheritance tax, bring in a wealth tax, increase council tax bands or bring in a land value tax. Any of these will raise many billions from the wealthier in society.

Same, and I’d guess at least some of those measures, along with a reduction on higher rate tax relief on pension contributions, are on their way in the budget since they aren’t amongst the specific tax raises that were ruled out before the election.

Some spending has been cut, but so far it’s been things like departmental reductions in use of consultants, the social care cap (which protected pensioners’ wealth) and some Tory infrastructure pet projects. Can’t get too worked up about that, tbh.

Labour were elected to restore public services, I don’t think we’re looking at another round of Osborne-style austerity.

£300 a year to pensioners is ~£1.5 billion in savings. It's peanuts really.

It’s 7% of the missing £22bn, definitely not peanuts.

After 14 years of coddling by the Tories, it’s high time the portion of the retired that can afford it started repaying some of the damage that was done to the economy during the pandemic in order to keep them safe - the young and working age of the country have already paid a lot more. I hope the triple-lock is scrapped in the budget, it’s wrong that pensions go up by more than average wages.

A black immigrant woman

Kemi Badenoch isn’t an immigrant, she was born in England.

At least one of those albums is a Lambchop record that he persuaded them to let him sing on. It’s not bad!

Those are the available options. I didn’t say they’d be any good, but they’d be better than Jenrick or Badenoch.

Honestly, Tugendhat, Stride or even Cleverly would be better, if you’re interested in having a functioning opposition.

Fuck me, if the Tories really thing Jenrick is the answer to their problems, then they're in a worse state than I thought.

I like the way Stephen Collins draws ol’ Liz, the way he captures her absence of gorm.

There’s a video. True to form, she had a complete sense of humour failure and stormed off the stage.

Tim Walz is Harris’ VP pick. I think he’s a great choice.

With everyone celebrating the Turkish pistol shooter and how he doesn’t need all the fancy kit to win silver at the Olympics, what if fancy kit is what makes the difference between silver and gold? Marginal gains and all that jazz.

Lol. A340s can’t climb for shit

add a nickel cover to the humbucker

Careful, the cut-out in the pickguard might not be sufficiently long/wide to accommodate a metal cover

Edit: in fact, I can pretty much guarantee it won’t fit that hole without modification

Apparently I can read Dutch!

Got to laugh at the Americans on Twixtter saying ‘We don’t do this here’. Yes you do. Several times already, in fact.

Can’t see that - Trump is a physical coward.

Someone just shot Trump’s ear off. Huh.

The chat about Labour’s supposed lack of a mandate to govern really amuses me.

Ok, let’s suppose they don’t have a mandate. Who does, then? Because it’s got to be someone.

What a weird thing to happen.

My guess is that they mixed your guitar up with someone else’s that was in for a level, crown and polish… and they were ham-fisted with the fret end file.

This kind of work takes a lot of time and effort, definitely not the sort of thing they’d throw in as a freebie during a setup job.

I get the logic, but I wouldn’t be able to look at myself in the mirror.