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95kg to 81kg in just over 3 months

Bloody good effort. Did you phase in or just go cold turkey

PNW loam lever to i-spec EV

Googling this gives several options including PNW themselves?

https://pnwcomponents.co.uk/products/loam-lever-adapter-clamp?variant=45924474814757

Or for slightly more than just the adaptor, buy the Shimano lever and adaptor, which (probably) won't break?
https://www.tredz.co.uk/.Shimano-SL-MT500-adjustable-seatpost-lever_227061.htm

I did have to chip some ice off the keyhole to get it open this morning though

On the other hand I've used OnGuard Pitbull (14mm) and Brute (16.8mm) locks for years and not had one seize up

Yeah we did, they are all much of a muchness though, none near to what we were paying previously

Interesting, will give that a try

Home insurance provider is quoting £507 for renewal, up from £273 last year. Other providers seem similar. Am I missing something or is it normal for this to have nearly doubled?

Yeah but it's got knob controls on the side

it's pretty much only used for reheating food

They can all do this fine, so feel free to pick the one that best reflects your self-image of social status. If you're a £700 microwave kind of guy, a £700 microwave that you got at a discount on Facebook marketplace is not gonna cut it.

Moles eat meat, voles eat veg

So, leave it alone?

I loved the video, the song not quite so much

Bit biased as it's filmed at my allotment, and others around Bristol, and features a few neighbours and other beloved community figures

Much less than that for new softwood (ie not genuine reclaimed)

I (average to weak mid 30s male) could carry the 200mm x 100mm x 2.4m ones through the house and up some stairs no problem on my own. Google suggests that type and size are around 30kg.

Advantage of new over reclaimed is that they aren't saturated with decades worth of diesel spills as well as whatever now-illegal chemicals they were originally treated with. Probably rot quicker as a result though

That's just Aldi Nord v Sud right

Trader Joe's which is a reasonable very popular non-shit mid-class fancy sort of hit the nail on the head grocery chain literally Aldi

These are good
https://tinkerandfix.co.uk/products/watson-gloves-flextime-leather-workshop-glove

For when you want thinner than that I just go for cheap builders gloves eg
https://www.jewson.co.uk/p/builders-latex-glove-black-xl-ZZB42BXL

This stuff's good

It's a thought. It did have a rear rack at first, but it seemed a bit unnecessary to have it fitted all the time when I only really use the panniers for the weekly shop, and they do fit on the pizza rack fine, if a little high

Our daily commute is more like 10 mins but she can and does enjoy much longer trips. Weather probably a factor if you're doing it every day over winter though.

Bumps are less of a factor with 2.25" tyres but she doesn't find them a problem - I think the footpegs and handlebars help with this as she can take weight off the saddle. She sometimes stands up a little as an adult would. It being up front means it's easy to warm them a bump is coming too

Just before 3rd birthday, we had a Yepp Nexxt Mini before that she outgrew. Could have transitioned younger I think, she was immediately comfortable with the active, sitting on a saddle, hands on bars type position instead of the car seat, strapped in style of the Yepp

Just under a year of smashing out nursery runs, commuting, big shops and recreational rides with - and very occasionally without - my kid, time for a bit of maintenance and fiddling on this.

Incoming:
New chain (gold) and cassette (silver)

New cables (purple) and hoses (silver braid). New hoses unfortunately necessary as since I changed bar position they're a bit short and have kinked.

New mudguards - these ones are a little too narrow and a lot too floppy

New headset (blue)

Low profile bolts for the I think 16 unused bosses

Tubeless setup - yet to puncture on this but we are going on longer and longer rides, and the idea of fiddling with tyre levers while my daughter is standing cold and wet on the side of the road does not appeal

Colour choices all vetted by the boss

Rear hub service also necessary

Possibly replace the pizza rack with a pelago commuter + lowrider kit - would be good to get the pannier weight a bit lower as the weekly shop + ever growing kid makes the steering a little ungainly

Still absolutely loving riding this, and looking forward to it running even smoother

Low stack saddle?

Good to know Robin Mather is (/was?) Bristol based but I can't see that ever happening for me

Argos is the one I am most actively keeping an eye out for, Overburys would come at some more distant point for me I think. The black and green colourway is particularly fun

Well, if the seller didn't have a way of verifying you were 18+ when you bought the knife and axe, they were unequivocally breaking the law - so I would have thought that wouldn't be cool with velocio as they've involved the forum in that.

On the slingshot, I obviously am not assuming either buyer or seller is going to use it to attack someone. I said that explicitly. The screenshot shows that the police will require you to have a reasonable excuse if you are carrying the slingshot and I'd be surprised if they consider 'its just a toy' to count, especially considering how this one looks. A friend of mine got taken to court because he had a penknife in his bag to cut cheese and apples with (he also had the cheese and apples), and got caught up in a protest he wasn't even attending. So I wouldn't recommend taking it on your next bike packing trip, but you do you.