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This guy uses bent tubes on almost all of his built.
http://salamandrecycles.canalblog.com/archives/2020/09/04/38515818.html
He uses a powder that goes in the tubes ,
it liquifies at 70°C,
once cooled down,
it,s almost solid,
he then proceed to bend the tubes.
Heat up again,
it poors out;
and keep the stuff for future use.

I can 't imagine how difficult it must be in the morning once your gear is wet.
It's already difficult to dry shoes with a heat source.
I'm struggling beetween 0°C to 6°C in the wet,
below O°C is fine.

Ideal to bring a medium sized dog along!

Yes,
Link and code on first page
https://microcosm.app/out/eDRji
Code LFGSS2020

Warning.
Corsican trains don't allow bikes onboard.
As they are TER,
usually bike friendly,
it never crossed my mind to check !

There's a guy who had a thread on a south east Asia tour,
on a tandem,
who seemed to rate them.

Turkish
All the nipple twisting is now done sadly,
with 4 sets to deal with,
I didn't bother taking the tyres off.
I 'll do lit now,
my daugher had a look at wheel mending,
she needs practise on taking tyres off.
Withred_preacher
I twisted a lot of them at more than 90 degrees,
no apparent hurt.

I have massaged a whole household of beater wheels to a healthy state of tension and trueness.
On a new wheelset I am used to apply linseed oil on threads,
is it recommended to use it on old wheels?
I doubt it will find it's way in the treads now.
Maybe light thread lock or nail varnish?

I rescued a 70's tandem from a reputable builder with a rear drum brake.
At least 3 mm gauge spokes ,
and rim holes so large that no modern spoke would fit.
There are some monsters out there.
Spokes kept braking ,even riding it solo.

I tried to source some spokes,
or washers that would allow me to fit modern spokes.

Thanks all for the clues.

My ex companion has bought an electic horse,
the motor is in the rear hub.

The rear wheel is going out of true regularly,
I recommended the most professional outfit to sort it out.
The tension were all over the place on the trouble free front wheel,
I hope the rear was treated the same way .
Evening out tensions at the rear magically brought back the wheel almost perfectly true.

I brought my tension metre on holiday,
but forgot my spoke gauge,
they look beefy maybe 3mm.

Would DT Alpine be the go to spoke like on a tandem?
2 cross 3 cross patern?

Go to solution for wheelbuilders is modifying the Park Tool fourth hand BT2 cable holder,(50£?)
filing the little notch.

One of the lock nuts is not symmetrical on Simplex,
try to turn it around.

https://www.wadouxcuir.fr/SANDALES.e/s32774c/sandales

Made in Languedoc,
very durable,
vegetable tanned leather
they start their 3d summer.
No smell on sweaty feets.
I wear them constantly.
Cycling round there is bliss.

I run 700x35 tyres on 19mm internals rim(Aksium) .
I'm less than 70kg all wrapped up in winter,
light touring,
the Aksium held up really well to all the mtb I have thrown at them.

I have some 32 holes Hope hubs I'd like to use.

I 'm looking at wtb i23 kom and kinlin TL 23 rims,
both 23m internal width.

Would love some feathery U shaped 35mm deep marvels from afar,
but costs are sobering.

Anything else I should consider?

The small sticker on mine says aksium one disc,
they are tubeless.

Schwalbe all round tle 700x35 ,
snow comes monthly here in winter,
I treat them very badly off road,
and cycle up to the snow limit on days off to go hiking.
I was dubious about the utility of the little knobs on roads,
I quickly forgot about them last summer.
Now that the third row of knobs is desappearing at the back,
I came to realise they are surprisingly effective helping you up slippery stuff.

The front one still have knobs,
there is a small rock embeddded at the back since last automn.
No visits at all.
I can't figure out what is their exact replacement in Schwalbe's range.
I'm 70kg.

A bit late,
but old school touring bar bags used to hang from the stem like this.

They came with bunjee cords that you fitted to the bottom of the bag and to the fork ends eyelets.

Once sufficiently loaded,
using the flex of the rack,
they would free themselves going forward.

It's refreshing, to see it finally on the move, with so many things around us collapsing.
There seem to be very little space beetween the tyre and the seat tube?

Feed the threads with light oil or some freeing agent for a few days.
Try again.
If you manage to get a tool in there again, getting it stuck in a vice ,
and using the frame for leverage is very efficient.

We're still in lock down in France, this thread gives me hope.

The popo had a field day out of this, extensive use of drones to patrol beauty spots,
helicopters as well,
they still need bikes on the ground to collar people.
Copter only around on the week end in my parts.

Some police helplines were overwhelmed by good citizens grassing walkers and other criminals.

General trafic speed went up,
speed traps registering unsual numbers of very excessive speeds,
road deaths were expected to fall dramatically in line with drastically reduced traffic,
it sadly didn't happen.

I have no more use for this,
but being able to communicate with your kid onboard is so nice,
I used to have my kids collapse asleep on my back regularly, while riding.

You may have rasta Khris King sitting around?
Are the forks On One?

Water your patch first,
it'll make things easier.
If you don't want to,
and your clay is keeping pickaxes at bay;
a long metal pike,
chest high,
the sort used to dig in rock.
Slam it downwards,
release your grip went it hits,
repeat.
If your're lucky,
you can then edge backwards using the type of spade utilities workers use in the UK,
they are heavily reinforced with a handle.
Stand on it,
if it went down,
start pushing first,
use the handle for leverage,
repeat.
The argile is so strong and generaly dry round here ,
that for more extensive work ,
and using a demolition hammer it was hard work .

Lovely bike,
thanks for sharing.
I was wondering why Egg doesn 't seem to carry spare tubs like the others?
Maybe hidden somewhere in the picture, or beeing a team leader he wouldn 't have to bother?
If you' re still trying to source a jersey,
these have got front and back pockets, merino,
but you' ll have to order 10 to get your team colors!
https://www.magliamo.be/fr/shop/velo/maillots-vintage/margnatpaloma-1964-merino-maillot-cycliste/

I d rather see normal people tinker,
and see what I could expect if I ever had a go at building a frame.

You're way ahead, keep going sir.