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I'd really appreciate the black rapha oversocks, could I please come collect from you in EC1V in the new year? I'll donate to a charity or something!

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I'll put this in the main thread too but yeah please dm your number and ill create a group just in case

Where am I going to go to find out people don't really want to ride fixed anymore?!?!?!?

Seriously though I am a bit cut up about this, my riding life has mostly been filtered through LFGSS. I have made some very good and very weird friends through LFGSS

My albion bottles have worn out (after much use it must be said). Are they recycleable do we think? My guess is propbably not right, as the plastic is probably some mad composite type thing but thought I'd check.

@hippy I like my travese, the extra pockets are handy and the fabric is great

Route looks good, good riders heading out tomorrow, c'mon people get your shit together and get out there!

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the commentor who eats themselves?

It brought a fleeting smile to my face thinking about you explaining a pic of a parts bin, heavily-customised and overly expensive retro MTB with 'in Hayley's opinion clearly not enby enough'.

She's hugely missed here.

I think only sold out. Albion seem to make a batch of stuff for a season and then when it's sold they leave it until the next release, they don't seem to take the approach of maintaining high levels of stock and doing a firesale at lots of different retailers (ahem)

colnago and pinarello into the top left please

This is so sad, Hayley was so wonderful, and really funny. Loved reading her thoughts.

I'm very close to Konditor - what is the consensus on them? Or is it like every mince pie, zero consensus

Really well done, 300 is a seriously big ride!

Without getting to numbers-y like hippy said even a wee bit faster on the road will help, jumping from 19 km/h to 21km/h you'll be back a fair bit earlier and that's not that big of a speed jump. also numbers-y is making the most of the good times while taking it easy. Is there a tailwind or is a flat and easy going? then use it and up your speed without going into the red. It can be tempting to cruise with a tailwind or when it's a easy section, but if you put in similar effort as if it was rolling or whatever there you're really getting a speed benefit without putting in "extra" work. It'll bump up the avg speed and lower your total time without penalty. It's also a bit lame but a HR monitor helps me to keep my heart rate out of the red but keeps me honest when it's time to work, eg if I'm crusing at 100 bpm then I could prob give a bit more. This is all in an effort to finish in good time. But again hippy is right, if you want to properly get around quickly being savage and organised at checkpoints will reduce it big time. if you stop 5 times for 30 mins that's 2 and half hours. you stop for 30 mins twice but 10 mins three times that's another hour off your total ride time and you've probably just gazed out the cafe window a little less and decided your saddlebag was fine as-is, and put your helmet back on and kept going.

So I've saved you energy with tailwind and two hours off your total ride time and you haven't done anything :)

@Oliver Schick wednesday evening on Grays Inn Road?! I didn't get a chance to wave but pretty sure I recognised the inconic ponytail

They don't add any bulk and are very light. Mine 'disappears' under my jersey. IMO it's a straightforward idea but they execute it perfectly

I have not been convinced about any benefits from either forward or rear opening ends, well at least not for my year round fixed. If I do a half decent job with the track nuts I'm simply not a big enough rider to bother moving the axle. And the clearance for the mudguards is tight (as is the fashion) so I would have to deflate the tyre to remove the wheel regardless of whether it was forward or rear removal. And the only time I really want to remove the rear wheel is when there is puncture so the tyre is pre-deflated for removal hahaha. I think there's only been one ride where I wish I'd swapped the wheel around, but I'd only have to knock out 40 psi or so to do it. Most of the fixed frames I've seen either way have similarly lengthen ends, bar the odd pure track frame which can have some really long ends but are useless for the road (or Extremely Rad I guess)

Sounds like to me it's one benefit is for the secondary rear brake, but I don't run a rear brake....

Let's all remember there are audaxers, roadies, gravel-grinders and gulp time-triallists behind all these usernames. You know, people

The USA withdrew from Vietnam, we didn't lose it. We're 14-0 thanks very much

Same as the others, I really like the insight. One thing I'm interested in but have zero knowledge about is the materials. I had the insulated jacket which was really lightweight but I think with sleeves generally too warm for general riding. My guess is that you took similar material and turned it into the insulated gilet? Insulated gilet is now my essential winter riding layer.

But both those seem to be made of different stuff from the Zoa jacket. Zoa is effectively my off the bike winter jacket / tooling around at 4mph. I'm very interested (probably on a tactile level because I'm not a materials guy) to feel the difference between the insulated range and old and new zoa to see how the combination of warm breathable lightweight works in the same shape and weight but reconstructed

we're all allowed to nerd out once and while right?

Soulmate but culturally miles apart. There is a wonderful essay to be written about how different the US "left" is from the UK "left"

An unpalatable candidate on the receiving end of a hatch job from within their own party? Wouldn't happen over here.

Mild weather, wild times! Looks to be a good one, wish I could be there. Good riding all

My father is left and liberal. Taught art for 30 years, fought for better education and against illiberal school boards, supported all kinds of students life styles, votes Democrat hopelessly in Idaho. He has been a hunter and fisher all his life, we had guns in the house but he always preferred to hunt with a traditional longbow instead of a rifle. I've just got back from 10 days in a railroad town in SE Idaho, and it was a stark refresher of what right and left mean.

tl;dr sometimes being left in american is buying normal rounds instead of hollowpoint copyright amey

bernie is a 3-speed sturmey! they are coasting, slow, and hot af

Let's remember that (unless you're a troll) we're all angry and upset this bullshit result. So for example I'm happy to apologise for posting my favourite crack smoking pic in mistaken response to a niche meme :)