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Damn I left Glasgow too soon...

I suspect a saddle might not end up being as big of a comfort gain on a fixed bike since you're spending a ton of time out of it? If you're chunky enough with the tyres, I guess the biggest thing are the gear ratio and bar position.
I run 65 gear inches which is great for commuting but after a 200 audax (not in a rush to repeat that) I'm thinking a bigger gear might be wiser. Hills will be hard either way, but would be nice making the descents easier.

Wow those lines

Speaking of false bottoms, I forgot cumulus now has some:
https://cumulus.equipment/eu_en/down-sleeping-bag-aerial-180.html

I'm curious about the idea, kinda feel like it would be easy to get cold spots. I think it's easier to realise you've tossed and turned enough to get a gap with a quilt, but with a false bottom, it's fabric all over so might not be as obvious. Then again it's performance innit

Nice, the straps are what I was thinking of, it would be a shame to only be able to use it with certain pads.

Seems cool, maybe a bit overengineered. I've seen a few false bottom bags from Rab on ebay, 150g ish fill weight, was kinda curious about them.

I see I see, so the tax is contingent on whether they think you're selling or not. Claro.

This is exactly the type of information I was hoping to find, thank you. I'll drop a message to Vucko.
Does flying with BA come out cheaper than Ryanair? Sorry might be tired and daft but what do you mean by not telling them I'm leaving it for whom?

I always shill thorn, I think there should be more effort in rescuing them from the actual company and building them up into cool and handsome bikes. Mercury is just a Club Tour for a hub gear, and I really like my club tour.

Is there a tall and long fork crown mount that might help the upside-down Edelux sit over the tyre? No front rack, handlebars are busy with a bag, only two mid-fork mounts and the crown. I don't like the mid-fork mounts because the bumpy road forces would seem to unwind the bolt, and I'd be getting a lot of tyre in front of the beam.

Make this an inverse version and I'll let you draft behind me

Nice, so I need to make sure I got a pointy antenna to get some free accommodation on a tour?

Travel adjacent, more like. I'm likely moving back to Europe, Croatia specifically. I have two bikes that I need to figure out how to send.

Does anyone have experience, first- or second-hand, of shipping bikes with couriers like DHL or Parcelforce? It seems like shipping is less faff than flying with a bike, but is this true?

If flying, there seem to be two schools of thought -- cardboard it up to get some extra padding, or make it more obvious that it's a bike, I've even seen transparent covers used. Any wisdom?

Oh that's pretty cool, maybe running linux would help it further? Battery life any good?

Form factor of the vaio is so on point tho, but I understand the fear of the trackpoint.

pics

£25 posted: Carradice overlander old panniers - I'd guesstimate 20-25l capacity each?
£35 posted: Specialized pizza rack, no fork leg mounts; Would swap for nitto m18 or similar front rack
£15 posted: Topeak mini bike stand thing: it fits under the bb and raises the rear wheel a bit, good enough for simple maintenance

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All work last time I tried them.

Also free if you buy above and want it: NOT FULLY WORKING x230/t430 keyboard. Model numbers in the back, if those mean much to you, I got into speculative IDing of makers by serial numbers a while ago but can't say much. The arrow keys are not working I think the rest of the keys are fine. I was missing a screw under the arrow keys for a while, so the keyboard had a bit of wiggle on press, which is likely how I broke it. I cleaned the connectors a few times, no luck.

I used this on my x230, I'm pretty sure it can fit the x220, t420, and t430, but do check. I know there are some poorer quality keybaords selling as spares (I had one), but this one is not a dud.

few more pics. Ram is ddr3; usb are 2.0 (there's a mod to use the expresscard slot to upgrade to usb 3.0); full displayport. Keyboard slightly worn but feels proper.

I got this on a wave of inspiration, intending to coreboot it and whatnot, but time and circumstances etc.

I put two new crucial 8GB RAM sticks in, but never got around to fitting an ssd. Boots to BIOS. Don't know about the battery, but I guess don't assume much. i5 2nd gen CPU.

Might seem tatty and hobbyist (and it is), but I used a x230 and a x201 (slightly newer and older gens, respectively) as my mains throughout all of my (non computing heavy) PhD, these things punch above their weight.

I'm a bit into small form computers, the vaios aren't reputed as the most capable? Surface Go with 8gb ram (either generation) is a proper computer and should fit in many medium bags. I haven't seen a more compact, reasonably capable option, other than some tablet or phone setup. They go for 100 quid on ebay, too.

One of those Thorn 26in forks, 56mm offset IIRC, a lot of steerer

How about AC 37?

YES MATE

I like this, kinda cool to know that those tektros can end up looking nice.