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Thanks, and thank @umop3pisdn for the cheaper option.

How come new nuts/bolts are necessary?

Will be interesting to see how 46-34, rather than the more normal (I think), 46-36 works.

I have a Tiagra 4700 Chainset and I'd quite like to swap out the 50 tooth ring with a 46 tooth one - is there a compatible one? I'm confusing myself with arm/bolt numbers.

Currently £23 in Tesco atm as well if you can't be bothered with postage - not sure how long for.

Anyone interest in a crate of 330ml swingtops? Might be the odd 500ml swingtop as well. Brown glass, actual homebrew bottles as opposed to delabelled commercial bottles. Inc free Crate - I think its Warsteiner branded.

Free to anyone who can collect from SE13 - Halesworth Road. Or swap us for a bottle of your finest!

How are you getting on with the Wilfa? Thinking of one as an upgrade on my Krups GVX231 which appears to be on the way out...

Thanks for this tipoff - hadn't heard of them. 4 days later and I've £60 of Xmas booze en route!

Crate of 24 Rodenbach's for about £27 is solid value.

I have this very brewer. It's great!

Like the little switch that allows you to slow the flow through the coffee when only brewing half a pot or less.

Assuming you're talking about the mystical jiffy bag, it was being delivered for after, not before, the last stage of the Dauphine.

As to the contents, either Fluimucil, triamcinolone, or "dunno", depending on who you believe.

Very nice!

What's the frame?

hah - thanks, the potential shineyness was what was making me wary. I guess I'll just go try some on!

Any Randonee Trouser reviews? Tried the Loopback ones but found them a bit warm.

Sold to Yokes - thanks all.

Thanks all - will be in touch if it doesn't work out with yokes.

Hello all,

I have two King Cage Iris Cages* for sale – both in good condition (I’ll stick up a photo this evening).

BOTH SOLD - thanks all.

Ooh! I got one!

Last Friday coming back on the superhighway over Vauxhall Bridge (southbound), roadie (I think he was doing L'etape the next day judging by the numbers on the bike) rear ended another rider who was less willing to gamble the amber as you cross all the lanes next to the Vauxhall Tavern.

Disappointingly / Pleasingly all was resolved very amicably.

I have one of these on mine - no problem with drilling or subsequent issue with the light: https://ridepdw.com/products/fenderbot

All available for pre-order on the aldi website now, for those who don't wish to risk missing out.

Thanks!

I got some balsam so will start with that. They had a bit of wet weather in Newcastle over the weekend without dying, so did the trick.

I have some shiny new Dr Martens 1461s in Waxed Leather - these chaps*

Want to take care of them in the wet and Dr Marten's do both a dubbin and a wonder balsam and I'm not sure of the difference - any ideas?

When I used to work in Jones the Bootmaker as a teen I'm pretty sure we just sold "wax" for waxed leather and so am unused to the variations!

*they come up super big btw - I am usually an 8, sometime a 7 - downsized to 6.5 for these.

Any interest in a couple of saddlebags I have?

I have one of these: Topeak Backloader 10 Litres

Is new/unused - fitted to my bike once and not for the first time have discovered my tiny frame doesn't have the clearance for it. I bought it as the cheapo option but actually quite impressed with the quality of it - seems fairly rugged and well designed. Yours for £40.

I also have a Wildcat Tiger. It's the bigger of the two harness ones they do. I have a tapered Alpkit drybag for it - this one. This one is used but well in one piece - undamaged. Harness and drybag yours for £50

Speaking of saddlebags - seen this on the Evans website - quite an interesting idea to stop saddlebags swaying: Specialized Burra Burra

Yep - I had my fit done there, with Simon*, who I thought was very good. It's a Retul system fit.

Did quite a radical change in my position and all my problems have basically gone away, so I recommend it! My partner also had hers there.

Simon's been very good on follow up stuff (he fitted my new cleats in the same place as the old when I got new shoes) and my partner went back a couple of times soon after for some fine tuning - that stuff was free.

They also have a £50 follow up fit service, if you want it changing further down the line. I, probably slightly cheekily, used that to get him to set up my bike again when I changed pretty much every component a couple of years after the fit and he checked all was fine with the fit since it'd been a while since I'd had it. Impressively, I was even less flexible this time.

*I'm sure the others are fine too, but have only dealt with Simon (you can choose when booking who to have). I think he's the slightly more senior of the fitters, and therefore potentially more willing to help you out for free afterwards (as opposed to just saying "book a follow up fit). That's just the impression I got - could be nonsense!

not yet. They said "soon" last night...

It was rideable if you were going fast! That looks like the bunching on lap one.

I was the #6 hanging ever further off the back, in a blue jersey - subject to some definite sympathy claps on way around.

Race highlight definitely the moment I got confused about where I was and thought I was on the off camber bit when I was actually at the bit just before it so rode sideways along a very unsuitable bit of one of the mounds and fell off in a inglorious heap.

Spent the rest of the race vainly chasing back on, getting near to the back of the field just in time for the leaders to lap me and end up stopping completely to let them through and having to start the chase again.

On the plus side, I had a bit of cake, three beers and a pack of quorn sausages on the DLR home.

Also, @Ecunard is the politest overtaker I've encountered, and I've been overtaken by a lot of people.

Perfect - I won't be bothering the scorers so not crucial but good not to hinder myself anymore than my lack of fitness does already.