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older than caad maybe - this looks like late 80s with that seatpost clamp and straight downtube? If I google a 1988 SR500 I get similar-looking things.

I have two pairs of trainers to move on, unfortunately I have a dodgy toe and am having to size up / aim for wider shoes. They are used but have life left. Before I put them on ebay would anyone be interested here? I'd just be after postage, main motivation is to find a new home for them to get a bit more use out of what's left in them. Should be £3-4ish with Evri.

La Sportiva Cyklon, size 47. Bought on ebay. Orig owner said he was injured and had hardly used them, I think that was fair as the lugs were not worn at all. I've added ~200km. Front lugs are now a bit worn, heel ones still nearly new. They are the ridiculous floro-yellow colour. I thought the Boa dial was great. Small tear in some of the vents on one side.

Inov8 TrailFly Ultra G300, size 47. Blue. I've done ~400km running and a bit more walking. Normally you'd think that would be nearly it for an off-road shoe but Inov8's hype about the durability of these might be justified? The TPU boomerang insoles have no obvious packing. The midsole to me always seemed quite heavy and rubbery so I thought not great for faster running, but comfy for walking and slow running which I suppose is the goal of this shoe - it does not seem to have changed 400km later. The uppers are in good condition. The front lugs are worn, perhaps 2-3mm left of the orig 4mm. Heel ones are good.

Shand Stoater Rohloff?

Was browsing thru the classifieds last night and spotted these, tho I guess you have probably seen them already:

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/397301/#comment17429926

QR vs TA - but google suggests the hubs can be converted but that was just a quick check

I have a pair of the RS505 ones if that's any use?

If I look back to eg a 2010 race the results list is incomplete but it has my result attached to my profile. Which makes me think ... Did you try adding the result to your profile via the 'add performance' link? Unconfirmed what might happen but it might prompt it to find it in the archives.

EDIT: catch is I think you need to know your time to add a performance? which creates a circular problem!

RunBritainRankings holds a lot of data. I just had a look and they have the oldest on your list so probably have the others. However they don't necessarily have all results: they store just the faster end of the field but sometimes this seems to go quite deep. Here's the 2011/09/11 Bristol Half: https://www.runbritainrankings.com/results/results.aspx?meetingid=43881 For this one they've archived the top 1500 back to 1hr 42. (You'll need to sign up to see these pages I think)

haha, righto! Whereabouts did you pass by that tank?

mm nice, I like the idea of the bungee around the bag - will give that a go. It would solve a problem with the one pulling it down, which is that I attached it around the hook, which is then trying to pull the hook down out of the groove it slides in, so I'm a bit worried it'll ping out one day - I did lose one once even without the bungee - the screw must have rattled loose. However Vaude do sell spare hooks so I hope Ortleib would too! A ziptie for this job sounds more static/better than a bungee. I'll have a look and see if I can find something more robust than the hook to attach to.

Yes, I think exactly this - I've been clipping the panniers on to the rail with nothing else bar the hook, which fits quite loosely. The abrasion lines up with the plastic back (Vaude aqualite panniers). I've tried some wraps of inner tube on one side on the wear spots and this turned out to brace the plastic back and pads the hook so the bag seems more stable, but I've not tested this over longre distance yet apart from commuting. I found a tip on the web to get some PVC pipe with an ID of 10mm, which sounds a bit easier to fit than a wrap of tube. On my last tour (before adding the inner tube) I tried a bungee pulling the hook down to the dropout, which helped. Any other tips for stopping panniers bouncing?

Here's a couple of the worst abrasion. While I was there I measured it - the OD is 10.6mm but 10.1mm at the worn point. I can't get at the ID to work out the wall thickness. But half a mil going missing must be quite a lot of it.

Thanks for thoughts, I will replace it. Do you think steel is worth it? otherwise I'd get the same one, but just work on stopping it happening again (more next).

I've got a Tortec Ultralite rear rack and the panniers have started to wear the metal in the struts. I've added some wraps of inner tube to stop it getting worse. But how much wear is acceptable - does it risk cracking - anyone got any insights or experience? I'm heading off at the end of May for a month so it would be nice to know it was reliable, and plenty of time to replace it before then.

I have some Clement Strada USH 32 off a Genesis Datum, which I replaced with GK SS in 38. I'd say they're pretty similar. They are worn - the center tread should have chevrons and you can see these on the old front one, but not the old back one. But the side tread is pretty good still. I'd be happy to freecycle these if you covered postage? however, they don't fold and I'm up near Manchester so not sure how postable they are. They might go with Hermes though:

"Add together the 2 shortest sides and multiply it by 2. Add the length. If the total is less than 245cm, you’re good to go!"

If a tyre is 70cm and two together cannot be thicker than 5cm then this would be (70 + 5) * 2 + 70 = 220

Pleasantly surprised! The only AF beer I'd tried before was Nanny State, which I thought was a bit thin and astringent. The Erdinger seemed much more like the real thing.

Well done both, rhb so close, Jimm great PR. I was hanging on at the end but scraped home 39seconds faster than Chester in 03:30:19 so the flat course did its job. Support was epic. And shortcut in to start worked fine, waves were indeed all over the place but the start area on that enormous road was so vast it seemed not to matter and overall feeling was one of well organised. I got my erdinger at the end!

good to know, thanks, will deff look out for possible shortcuts on the way in.

@rhb thank you very much, what a handy spot for your allotment! Yep, exactly that with the purple route and possible convoluted result arising. That sounds good advice, I will arrive at the Chester Road / Warwick Road junction just after my wave is open and if I can go straight to start then that's a good result, if not I will have time to join the official loop. I think that chat snippet about the marshals makes sense, I am assuming the emphasis on Talbot Road is just to keep the instructions simple and if you can find your own way then why not, but I also heard the GNR has person-height fencing to manage the funnel so who knows! I am in the bronze wave and aiming for 3hr 25 but that might be a bit ambitious.I'd like to beat 03:30 at Chester last year, I am assuming the complete lack of hills will do that for me :-)

Thanks @Well_is_it !

Hope it goes well for all Manc runners, I am there too. rhb, with your local knowledge, do you know what extent you can shortcut the start process? I am coming in from the Quays past IWM tram stop heading for Warwick Road, which the official map says in the way in to the start process. It then suggests you go down Warwick Road, to Talbot Road, then back up past Tesco and just end up back at Chester Road again... so I was wondering if when I first get to Chester Road can I just turn left to go directly to the start (if I get there at the right time for my wave)? I don't need bag drop - is there any other reason to go to the event village?

righto thanks! My failure to buy one may yet go on :-) GLWS

I keep meaning to get around to buying a quickrack and have not yet done so. Does all the mounting points mean you've got the optional seat stay adapters for it - is that's what's in the plastic bag or are those just the bits that fit to the eyelets? Would you post it? - I am up near Manchester.

thanks, that's a helpful insight, I was not sure how you'd definitely identify a crown race and was wondering if the fillet was enough. Can confirm no chamfer in real life too.

Talking of integrated races - I just got some Carbonda CFO606 forks delivered (speedy delivery, helpful communication throughout). Does anyone know if the crown race is integrated on those?

If I take the forks out to get it in a smaller box then the many small washers/seals/etc of the Hope headset could end up going everywhere so I'd rather post it assembled as-is... therefore will take the hit on the postage and effectively drop price to £250 including PayPal fees and postage to UK mainland with ParcelForce 48

If it comes to splitting and the headset can be removed, then a smaller box can be revisited.

Brakeset - SOLD Alivio M447 hydraulic flat bar brakes. No brake pads. Brakes and hoses are drained. Hose lengths are generous - they are sized for the Vagabond with drop bars, so plenty of length to trim to size for flat bars. Front is 82cm, rear is 150cm. Hoses are currently disconnected so easy to trim to size and I have some inserts to reconnect (BH59 hose and inserts). Or I can trim and reconnect if you know what length hoses you want. £30 including postage & PayPal.

More pics at https://photos.app.goo.gl/ZqkMoMeV5phHvE­qSA

Cranks - these are M622/625 which are listed as 'non series' here - https://si.shimano.com/en/pdfs/dm/FC0002/DM-FC0002-16-ENG.pdf ... Doesn't seem to be much info about them online.

• 175mm
  
• Outer BCD is 96mm
  
• Inner BCD 64mm
  
• Originally released as 2 x 10 I think, but I am currently running single ring by placing it inside the outer spider (see pics)
  
• No crank bolts for NDS crank... the cranks I replaced these with came without bolts so I moved them over.
  
• I've put a temporary bolt in there to secure the crank retainer pin
  
• No bolts for the chainring - I've moved them on to another build
  
  

Chainring - new in Summer 2023. Steel SunRace 36T 96BCD, cheap, heavy

More pics here - https://photos.app.goo.gl/ZqkMoMeV5phHvE­qSA

These are well used and are missing all the bolts so howabout £20 including fees and post?