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Hear fucking hear.

Buy a dehumidifier

Would I be thrown out the room for suggesting hub brakes? That would solve the brake mount issues and means for example you could get hold of an old frame designed for 27” wheels and have plenty of clearance for big tyres on 650b rims. This is something I plan to do at some point.

Before I’m laughed at all the way to the door… Back in the day in the late 70s/early 80s the first British efforts at mountain bikes had hub brakes (i forget the name of the guy but there’s a v interesting video on YouTube somewhere about it all).

Ok they weigh a bit more but they’re super reliable and won’t get clogged with mud etc., and you never have to worry about brake reach again.

At £49 what’s not to like? (Apart from one pissy review from ten years ago…)
https://www.sjscycles.co.uk/hubs-internal-hub-gear-brake/sturmey-archer-xrdc-aluminium-drum-brake-hub-for-cassette-freewheel-36-hole/

Whoever fitted the brake levers at that horrendous angle needs to go back to finishing school. Tips level with the drops please.

Other than that GLWS!

Cycling up to the lakes tomorrow. A few days of blissful cycling on my own followed by a testing week camping with the extended family in the rain….
Will definitely need to do the odd day ride while there.
My approx route up (obvs am not using google to route plan- I used the wonderful cycle.travel).

It always does, especially so when it’s been raining

“Elevate your urban riding better”.

Where’s the propeller David

Best thread I’ve read in ages. Splendid work all round.

Can you not just fit a cage under and around the letterbox?

Thanks for the info. Yeah it seems pretty chilled out. Just leaving it be for now. I guess it likes being under the roof away from prying eyes of airborne predators. Wont help guard against the local cats mind you!

I have a temporary visitor amongst my saddlebags in the lean-to, what I assume is a resting racing pigeon. Left it some water and raisins and dried rice as per a website I found. If it’s still here tomoz I might try reading the code on the ring.

No

Marina Hyde on top form this morning: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/07/humiliation-hartlepool-smalltown-detective-di-starmer

Indeed. This line in particular resonates: "Labour does not endear itself to voters by treating the ballot paper as an exam and tutting when people give the wrong answer. A strategy based on telling voters to look again, look harder, because they missed the point last time is doomed..."

It’s always been a problem on the left side of politics - it’s just human nature to a certain extent I think. As you say it’s not logical and totally fails to see the bigger picture, but it’s the whole ideological purity thing- satirised so wonderfully in the Life of Brian with the judean people’s front / pfj / popular front etc.

Underlay between carpet and hardboard only I’d say.

I covered my uneven floorboards with hardboard and with the carpet down it’s pretty unnoticeable how messed up the boards were. Would be even more so if I hadn’t been so tight to not splash out on posher thicker carpet underlay. Get some “dream walk” or “cloud 9” and you’re sorted

You do. Get some hardboard sheets from builder depot and a load of ring shanked nails delivered and it’s all done in an hour.

https://www.builderdepot.co.uk/3mm-standard-hardboard-2440mm-x-1220mm-8ft-x-4ft

There is certainly an approx £10k premium on an E17 postcode north of the LBR, for essentially the same building. Further north in Walthamstow near Lloyd park the premium is probably closer to £30k. Kirsty and Phil LLL innit.

I’m in a Warner on Perth Road E10 and if you don’t mind living next to a massive building site for the next few years, there’s one at the far end of my road that’s been just put up for sale again (no doubt the sale fell through due to the prospective buyer discovering the building works due to begin imminently on the old gasworks adjacent). https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/53537603/?search_identifier=c49f7d296938b978d0b131d4d5dd4d81

You’re welcome to pop round for a cuppa and chat about all things Warner/bikes if you like. I get a bit grumpy sometimes due to the upstairs flat having solid wood floors, but they’re not that bad I guess overall. I just think they’re overpriced for what they are, and people like Stow Brothers make a mint bigging them up to entice the Hackney folk relocating.

Not quite. You should still be able to find a Warner that requires a lot of work for that price or below, and/or a low lease.

Not sure why you want one though - it's fairly miserable living in one if you value your privacy or any kind of occasional peace and quiet. You're at the whim of five separate households and their associated noise.

Double post soz

At the front of my old Grubb tandem I’ve got two levers controlled by my left hand- ones the drum brake and the other the rear rim brake. Works ok.
However I think perhaps this is only possible due to the smaller brake levers you get on prewar machines- which are basically a bit like modern flat bar levers I guess. Wouldn’t work with modern drop levers.

Indeed. As should Labour's failure to get fully behind the Yes vote in 2011 - no doubt partly due to the arrogance that they will always be a potential party of majority government, and so AV was not needed for them (yes I know AV was a shit option, but it was the best that could've been expected at the time).

I am hopeful that ten years in the wilderness for Labour, at least for their more rational MPs, may have helped to amend that attitude of being the sole possible alternative to the Tories, and hence more open to the idea of a fairer voting system, but we shall see.

It makes me a bit sad to say so, but I think Labour won't win a majority ever again - no matter who is leader.

There is now far too much tension between the metropolitan and red wall wings for either side to coalesce around any leader sufficiently enough to win a majority under FPTP - in a landscape where Scotland is lost and not coming back, and where the ruling Conservative party are - economically at least - pretty much Brownite.

It will be painful but Labour needs to split - properly - not in the half arsed Change UK way - and allow the radical wing to do its own thing, but remain on friendly enough terms with the other wing for an electoral pact in such constituencies as necessary in order to get a majority.

haha, yes not so 'secret' now. proper gross there on nice days, absolutely rammed with people, you can smell the stench of the sewage in the river from quite away away, and the litter they leave afterwards and the erosion to the bank (and disturbance of wildlife) is very sad.

Ha, you're right of course, but I'll know it's scratched...

Once I get over myself I'll order some of that emery cloth!