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Earplugs: I use Happy Ears. Love them, around £11 a pair I think. Some pro musician friends use them too.

Hello @BobbyBriggs! My apologies. You can reach me here still. I log in less these days but I've not vanished. Tandem available for viewing and collection still in Tottenham. I've PMed you.

If we're enjoying a bit of labelling.
The cutting board hack can be, taxonomically, a "very neat bodge".

Price drop to £270, as this now has a rusty chain (9 speed, i.e. £10 to replace). I foolishly cleaned the bike and then didn't oil the chain before storing.
Collection Tottenham N15.

Are these two bolts below the exact same dimensions?
For a Cannondale Lefty Hub - and yes they are both normal Lefty 50 rather than Lefty SuperMax 60.

£35 option, original Cannondale
https://www.cannondalespares.com/Cannondale-Lefty-50-Hub-Self-Extractor-Cap-and-Bolt-QC117/product_detail/3-39838

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£10 option, DT Swiss for 240 Lefty hub
https://www.freewheel.co.uk/dt-swiss-hcdxxx00s2387s-hub-bolt-for-240-lefty-hbdts2387s

Try with fairy liquid applied direct to the bar. Just a little.

In case you've not tried already, you can also normally remove the sti clamp from the lever. It's then fiddly to screw the sti bolt back into it again, but it's doable.

I been thinking about this. I would say go for 13" hi hats because they sound better than 12".

A 12"or 13" snare might be a shout because maybe a 14" drum shell is perhaps a big thing to straddle fire an 8 year old. I've no idea.

Nope I can't remember finding a jacket with long arms. But I can recommend using a neck buffs to plug the gaps between sleeve and glove. Twist and coil the buff twice around the wrist.

I sold my kit to drumshack, they sell second hand stuff.

eBay will be cheaper if you can handle more faff. Catalina club kits / jazz club kits are your friend. 18" bass drum is a great shout also, I love mine.

I have found that le coq sportif jerseys are not a terrible length. For any other lanky types, like.

203cm is another level, quite literally.

I think we need Rapha to announce the Pro Team Cummerbund.

I agree and issue is that I'm 194cm tall with a long torso - I can still fit 32" inseam trousers like a normal human but I can see over everyone's heads at a concert. So I'm all torso, baby. It is a challenge. No formal shirts will ever stay tucked in so I have to go tailor made (overseas, don't golf thread me). All cycling jerseys are cut quite high for me but Rapha jerseys are just too too high. Like there's a patch of belly skin showing when standing. Don't nobody need to see that.

Were the original Rapha jerseys longer in the torso than the later jerseys? I've always found rapha jerseys stop at my belly button.

Yikes! I felt that as I read it.

Rest up. Faces heal fast. :)

I can't think of anything besides a bent derailleur hanger, unless someone has been messing with your limit screws. Or some very specific failure in your shifter.

To check the hanger:

• Shift into a larger sprocket on the cassette.
  
• Stand behind the bike and look at the cage from the rear.
  
• Does it hang straight down or does it point in towards the spokes?
  
  

If you don't have a derailleur alignment gauge then then you can use a long 5mm allen key in the derailleur bolt (where it clamps to the hanger).

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Ooooof that's tidy. What does the rest of the build look like?

I held the brake lever tight with a strap for like 3-4 hours but tbh I had already got the brake to quite a good state by religiously following the park tool process and then doing the @chiroshi trick where you remove wheel, then squeeze twice, then replace wheel.

Brake felt good but nowhere near as crisp as a GRX lever. Customer happy anyways, so party on.

What do you mean by

leave the reservoir screwed into the lever

There's just too much lever movement before braking force starts. Seemingly not enough fluid in the system? Thanks for the advice on the piston pushing trick.

I should add that I have already repaired a leaky reservoir in the lever, and am pretty happy that there are no remaining leaks.

I am having issues with a 105 hydraulic brake (front). I have bled the brake twice. I get braking force just before the lever hits the handlebars, and then lever hits bars when I squeeze. It feels like it needs a bleed, i.e. it's not a hard stop.

I haven't yet found a way to attach a syringe/hose to suck bubbles out of the brake lines. Is there a way to do this?

What else am I probably missing?

Brake lever: ST-R7020
Brake caliper: BR-R7070

I might need to put this into storage if no-one bites.

Two months ago I quit my corporate job as a project manager for an engineering consultancy in London. It was making me miserable.

I flew back out for a second stint in Rwanda, this time not in engineering but as workshop manager for a new bike shop café in the capital. I'm enjoying it and we're doing reasonably well - hopefully we can be profitable by next year.

Positives are fun/tangible work, no zoom calls and enjoyable conversations with customers.

Negatives are low pay, long tiring days, and the isolation created by the lower level of spoken English among my colleagues.

I'm confident I made the correct choice.

Can't go too wrong but make sure the stem matches the clamp diameter. There's 25.4, 26.0 and 26.4 mm.

I have had success with Deda Piega bars and the similar Bontrager SSR VR-C and a variety of nice 26.0 mm stems, i.e. Nitto, cinelli.

A fun design brief you have set yourself.

Will you keep these bars or switch to drop bars?

A 10/11s groupset will work with 130 mm spacing, if that's the spacing you have. If you have 126 then spreading stays by 2 mm each side is not a crime.

I don't think you need any particular Campagnolo tools except for the cassette tool. And if you go Ultra Torque then you can just use any 10mm Allen key and a seatpost for leverage 😅. Don't go power torque unless you want to fight to remove cranks.

Consider shiny silver 10s Athena if you want ergo shifters, or maybe an 8s group if you want to use downtube levers / thumbies. Beware that 8s Campagnolo has a freehub pattern that only fits 8s Campagnolo. Doable but specific!
There are plenty of nice Campagnolo square taper cranks in 8/9/10s with rings that will go to 11s.