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Thanks! presumably the fine grade won't leave unsightly scratches?

I have a rechromed seatpost on my old tandem (it's one of those old style 1930s "7" shaped posts, so it's not easy to simply replace it with another one, plus the diameter is weird).

The trouble is, following the chroming process, the diameter of the bottom few cm of the post is about 0.4mm thicker than that further up (reason being that obviously this part hadn't corroded so required less polishing during the rechroming process), with the result that it is now slightly too thick for the seat tube.

Any suggestions as to what to use to bring this thickness down - hold it in a vice and use one of those leather straps for knives for example? I'm not going to take it back to the chromers as they're miles away and its just a little job (which they're likely to fuck up).

Nice machine, but if anyone’s interested in it and looking for a 100% original paint job, beware that this does not fit that particular bill: the Freddie Grubb decals and badge are most definitely not of the period.

All Grubbs were simply “F H GRUBB” prior to about 1950 when “Freddie Grubb” began to seep in after the great man himself had died.

One day I hope someone prominent like KS, or whoever, will have the guts to just say “I couldn’t care less what someone said on Twitter to their 20 followers ten years ago, and neither should you”.

Will never happen obvs, and this PPC really should’ve just deleted his old Twitter as soon as he put himself forward. What a world

I sent a flyer back after it sagged after only 500 miles, and got a replacement direct from brooks... which was promptly nicked from right outside my flat. Foolish me

Yeah silicon, or just bog standard decorators caulk would do it. Lay masking tape on the floor if you’re not a super expert at caulking, as it save a lot of faff after.

Yes they do come up- I had an old pair of bluemels I found on eBay before I fitted the GBs. They finally disintegrated though so I decided I needed something more robust for a daily.

Btw Often they’re not listed as 26”- might just be called “vintage mudguard” or the like

Are you talking about getting some old mudguards or new ones? If new ones, then GB 650B guards in 40mm width fit an old style 26x 1 1/4 (597) wheel nicely (if snugly), as per my runabout Raleigh Lenton in the pic here.

If youve got 1 3/8” width tyres then the 50mm in 650b are the better bet.

27” guards will probably be somewhat gappy and indeed the frame may not accommodate them without some squishing.

Amazing, congrats on a job well done. Can I ask where the garage is, and what the arrangement was that you had with them (as another old Citroen-needing-some-love owner)...?

Ha- I doubt the local scallies are interested in ancient wing nuts

Blimey- I’ve got a pair of them on the front wheel of my runabout which is chained in my front garden, had no idea they were so sought after

Endless love for this project, keeps me cheery!

I think Dry Cleaning are going to get similarly dull very quickly as well, unless she starts singing on the second album (if they make one). The spoken word deadpan is fun and novel for a while and the music is groovy (man) and interesting, but I think one album will be enough of the current format.

shudder

looks neat. does it capture it alive or dead? I don't fancy finishing one off after I've caught it!(and releasing them again doesn't seem to make sense). I had a rat trying to get in through my catflap yesterday.. fortunately it has a guard on it but it wasn't a pleasant interruption to my day.

Yeah, I also know I don’t crap on my toothbrush 👍

I expect there are far more “poo particles” ingested in any kind of oral sex, which I’m sure we all enjoy (given the chance) without a care in the world so all things considered I’ll take my chances with a toothbrush sitting on the shelf near the loo.

Is this ‘poo particles near the toothbrush’ an actual thing? Have I been brushing my teeth with poo for years because my sink is near the loo?

I feel fine by the way💩

I have the same one. Got it in an office secret santa. Cool idea i guess, but I tried it once - useless. It just sits on the shelf.

Floating can be fine as long as you make sure the brackets are well packed in the shelves (often they arrive a bit sloppy) and use proper long screws into the wall- perhaps even with some resin as the brick is so crumbly. I just used IKEA Lack in my kitchen and they’re holding up well three years later

In addition, High Speed Rail competes with short haul flights, which are far worse for CO2 emissions as we all know. Just as the London-Paris short haul flight market nosedived (if you'll pardon the expression) when the CTRL was opened, so will the market for flights on the London-Manchester/Leeds/Newcastle routes once HS2 is opened.

In the early days of 6music I used to be in semi regular email contact with one of the daytime DJs who would always email me directly to apologise each time she was forced by the playlist to play Hard Fi.

I jokingly told her once that listening to Harvey Cook read the news was like watching a man with no arms slowly drown. She replied ‘no comment’.

She lost/left her job shortly afterwards but hopefully it was unrelated..!

Indeed! Mumbling Harvey Cook, the newsreader who has now finally just about managed to learn how to speak properly after 17 years of reading the news on 6music (why they didn’t ensure he could do this before appointing him to read the news is beyond me, but I guess back in 2003 it was only 1 man and his dog and me tuning in so perhaps it didn’t matter) is now graduating into other bbc radio stations news services as well. So I guess in time honoured fashion they’ve had to get some other mumblers in to replace him...

My solution which has no flaws whatsoever:

United Ireland, and an independent Scotland forced to take back all the Scottish-origin protestant colonisers (England doesn't have a monopoly on being a 'coloniser') from Ulster who don't want to be part of a united Ireland.

Nothing could possibly go wrong.

Exactly. This is all that numbskull Lord Adonis’ (and others) fault back when HS2 was in its early stages.

Everyone who knows anything about rail knew it was always about capacity, but the Lab govt at the time felt like they had to sell it as a bells and whistles super speed upgrade. Unfortunately those soundbites then stuck.

And all this uppityness about it being focused on London is ludicrous. If you have capacity constraints you build bypasses on the most congested bit in order to enable better journeys all round. Hence why the first complete motorway was the M1 because the A5 / A41 routes to the west mids were the worst for congestion. It’s the same with rail: the WCML cannot ever hope to cope into the future as both a freight, intercity, and local rail route. HS2 not only bypasses this, but two (arguably three) other main line railways into the bargain!

Every time I see or hear of another idiot hs2 protestor banging on about “20mins time saving” “London centric” or “sort out local lines” blah blah I curse the PR people behind HS2 back in 2008/9- and then forgive the protesters (but only slightly mind you) cos they are still focusing on the false PR of HS2 from years back.