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Been a hot day here at Hagley, ended my dry November in the sun. If this goes to 5 days, my liver’s fucked. Currently in a poorly constructed Mexican wave.

I have a few that I use, and I have repaired and moved on a few more.
1994 Bear Valley SE with upgraded but similar period group. Now has a front rack and Wald basket.
1995 Team Marin with mainly original group and parts. Use on forest trails.
2 x 1990 Palisades Trails - one orange, one neon. To be fixed up. Orange one will be donated to local bike co-op, neon one fitted with some modern parts and used.
1995 Muirwoods -sold on
1995 Eldridge Grade - sold
Also have a 1986 Madrone Trail frameset, which is far too small for me but might make a nice pub bike for my wife.

Mid 90's Marin, cider and sunshine. What's not to love?

Christchurch, NZ the other evening.
Photo does not do it justice.

The timing of this test for watching in New Zealand is ideal - 5pm to midnight. Can get a full day's work/chores/weekend fun in, then settle down to 7 hours of cricket.

50th Birthday present

1988 Catalogue image from Retrobike.
Lots of 80's and some early 90's MTBs had chainstay-mounted U brakes as the cantilevers of the time were wide profile and you could catch your heels on the rear ones, especially in smaller frame sizes. Low profile XT and DX brakes came out in 1991 and the rest of the models over the next couple years. But they do collect crap down there!

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@ltc I have had 2 Paddywagons, both fitted 28c Gatorskins with full, SKS-style guards. Quite tight all round, especially under the rear brake but if the guards are snugged up into the brake well, I have had no issues. Commute all year round in bad weather. More height than width restrictions, so taller tyres could be an issue. Also true wheels, straight guards and placement in the rear dropout helps. Once I spent the time to get it correct, it was fine.

"I hardly ever puncture with these"
Well, that put the mockers on didn't it? Rear wheel puncture on way home (nighttime, cold, wet, it's winter here in NZ). Replaced tube on side of road, pumped up, forgot mudguard doesn't allow for inflated tyre when putting the wheel back on, undo mudguard, fit wheel, oil and grime everywhere, ride 2km, tyre goes down again as I obviously had not checked the tyre well enough. Phone wife, wife in club playing pool, walk 5km home.

I've had/have 2 Paddy Wagons, both set up as functional all weather commuters. The first (2007 model?) was brand new as an insurance replacement but I didn't really start commuting on it until 2011 and it lasted until 2017 when it was run over by a truck. The 2nd (2009 model?), I bought the frame in 2017 and the parts are a bit flashier. Both fit 28C and mudguards with deep(er) drop brakes, though the clearance is quite tight - it does depend on the trueness of the wheel, where the wheel is on the dropout and tyre choice, but the only really tight part is under the brake. Excuse the Gatorskins but 28c fit with guards, I hardly ever puncture with these and don't seem to notice poor wet weather grip.

The rest of the Ashes are on terrestrial TV or free to view streaming here in New Zealand. But it's overnight, 10pm to 6am, so not really affecting other stuff. But all the Back Caps and White Ferns home stuff next summer will also be free, so pretty cool.

Nice! That is from 1993 if you hadn't determined yet. And yes, I think it has a nickel plating with a clear coat that gives it the goldy hue. 1993 catalogue (in German) attached.

And be Eclipso...

I recently did this one, it was quite tricky.

Been a great day so far, Mitchell’s ton then some tonk from Henry and Wagner. And a one handed crowd catch right in front of us. It’s so good to sit/sprawl on a grass bank, bit of a breeze. Will be back tomorrow as well, the chores can wait.

Sun, beers and cricket. On the grassy banks of Hagley Oval, NZ v SL.

What a match. I did NO work at all this afternoon in NZ. Shut the office door, pretended I was in a meeting and watched every ball!

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We had one small indoor plant with one chrysalis that my wife brought back from school last year; now the plant is outside and is covered with 15+ caterpillars.

Monarch butterfly caterpillars on our swan plant (in New Zealand).

Watching in New Zealand, the time difference works out pretty good as the days play is 6pm to latest 2am so Friday night pizza, beers and cricket is on the cards.

Do you mean this guy and his collection in Auckland? Quite a few nice bikes there.
https://www.forzabikes.co.nz/

My wife and I took our first steps to motorbike life here in New Zealand last weekend; basic handling skills test and learner licence theory test. Passed both easily, but the scary thing is now we are both allowed to ride an approved bike up to 660 cc on the road with an L plate; only restrictions are not at night and no passengers. The basic handling skills was about 1.5h training and then a test, all in a car park and all at <20kph in 2nd gear. Being older, we are likely to be sensible but it's a scary thought of how many others could be on the road with that little training, doing 100kph on shitty, NZ roads. There's no compulsory insurance here either, so it's not like there is the cost of that to put people off getting a bigger bike.

There is another "restricted licence" level here before a full licence though. You have to have the learner licence for 6 months and then take a 60min practical test to get the restricted. Apparently, this is a decent test of your skills. You are still restricted to no passengers and an approved bike and have to have this for 12 months before sitting another test for the full licence.

Anyway, I'm off to peruse bikes for sale...

Thurs eve here in NZ with a local public holiday tomorrow, so I’m halfway through a bottle of red hoping England get this. Been a great tournament for evening/night time cricket viewing here.