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Still reading through all 19-something-pages right now so maybe already asked - serious but not serious question - could the forum not just be geo-blocked to deny access to those accessing from the UK?

At least I could still access it here in EUland, and everyone else who's abandoned ship :)

Or anyone with a VPN..

That does look nice, and agree they do look good with silver parts.

Found this one from Instagram with black parts too that doesn't look too shabby

I think I've checked their site every year for 10 or more years trying to decide what to get & eventually not ordering anything.

The geometries on the OTP framesets are kinda funky for the large sizes so I've never been able to commit to buying one & for some reason I didn't really want to settle on a track frame - not entirely sure why, but maybe 10 years ago they just seemed too expensive.

However since then the price of everything else in the world has gone up but the Panasonic frame prices (particularly with the JPY exchange rate) don't seem have changed at all.

Via Alex's Cycles but yeah the order goes straight to Panasonic to double-check and get to work on.

Here we go

Up north (of France).

It was supposed to arrive around April/May - ready to cruise around all summer on - but production delays unfortunately mean that didn't quite happen.

It might end up with mudguards.. not sure yet.

I put together a single-speed.

I've been commuting on the heavy 'dad' bike for many years and it's been a long time since I've had something fun to just hop onto when not delivering a sprog somewhere.

I snapped last summer when I saw two 3Renshos within a week and I wondered why I didn't have anything fun to commute on. Considered something cheap but in the end ordered a Panasonic as I've always been a fan of the team colours - and the JPY was crashing.

https://bikerumor.com/what-happened-to-kona-bikes-sea-otter/

A supposed disgruntled employee also has things to say down in the comments too.

No idea what the geometry is going to be yet so that's quite hard to say and the Strael does look nice.

But for me personally I already have a Secan so don't really fancy having another Fairlight that would be visually so similar :)

New rando-bike coming from Ritchey:

https://theradavist.com/ritchey-montebello-randonneuring-bike-outback-p-29er-frames-and-more/

I've been going down a rain-jacket rabbit hole the last few days and feel like I'm now going around in circles.

The jackets I've been checking out all seem to be made of Paclite, Infinium, Pertex Shield Air, Neoshell, or unspecified 3 or 2.5 layer fabrics.

My temptation is towards the breathable end - e.g. Neoshell or Infinium rather than Paclite.

I guess where I'm kind of blocked at this point is on the whole breathability vs waterproofyness spectrum. How much of it is a bunch of bollocks - is even the best jacket out there just a tiny bit better than the worst.

Are they all ultimately just like riding in a bin bag?

The context would be general off and on-road riding, every winter I end up wondering why I don't have a proper rain jacket for MTBing but what's recently spurred me on is some notional autumn cycle touring in the mountains that could end up sodden.

Been there and didn't care for them at all unfortunately. I do still have that barely used set around I could always use in a fit of frustration though.

Not old at all, less than 1000km perhaps. It's possibly just a string of bad luck but I seem to get more frequent punctures than with other tyres I've used. Maybe I was just expecting more from them.

Corsa Controls - wondering if I'm just having a run of bad luck with them or if they're really puncture prone for others too.

I'm having more frequent punctures with them then many more racey tyres. Even the smallest little bits of glass seem to happily cut right through them.

Anything else I should be looking at for a non-tubeless 4 season tyre or is there nothing much between them? Was having a quick look around this AM and came across the Michelin Pro 4 Endurance (quite old now), newer Power All Season, Pirelli 4S.

TBH I also just had better luck with standard GP 5K... again, could just come down to luck or lack of it.

You can get sim cards at the airport without doing anything in advance. Maybe gonna be a bit more expensive but they'll also help get it set up for you. I've done the pocket wifi thing in the past too and found it far too clumsy in comparison to just getting a sim.

I did attempt to contact them but I only received an automated reply shortly after - I think my mistake was having 'return' somewhere in my message and it prompted a response that didn't answer any of my questions. I waited a further 24 hours for anything better before giving up and simply returning them.

Maybe we'll see again next time there's a sale.

New wheels courtesy of @Elpolo,

Hope hubs to DT Oxic rims

Ordered two sets of technical trousers in the current sale and just received them both in the wrong size ... Is this par for the course these days with Rapha? Been a while since I last ordered from them. Feels like the material and fit too is maybe a little different too and possibly not for the better.

It seems all RS threads bring up some strong opinions but this thread is incredibly tame compared to the one that sprung up on the paceline (where RS himself posts regularly) discussing this years open order book.

Not gone into too much detail yet. In fact, haven't had 100% confirmation that I've got a build slot.

Any further along here?

Yep, and to keep it slightly on-topic - I-spy a bit of Sachs in there:

So the rear hub on our Yuba Kombi appears to be somewhat fooked right now - play in freehub, possibly a bent axle to boot. I'm not coming up with much searching for "cargo bike rear hub" - is there anything specific, any good hub to look for?

To be more specific, this is a 135mm (I believe.. I should check that), bolt-on, HG, 6-bolt disc hub, and the freehub is 10-speed (MTB) so that's basically what I'm looking for, a direct swap. Oh, and not a hub with a motor in it.

If there's nothing out there but cheap-tat like this Yuba hub appears to be then are there other options like a solid-axle swap on a cup-n-cone (e.g. Deore) hub? Unfortunately needs to be able to take the brunt of two small kids on the back and a mid-drive motor + parent up front.

Maybe you can gets some straps to wrangle together the bags and throw them over a shoulder when moving through stations / to the train?

The montbell bag is a good buy.

I've had funny looks leaving my bike in the entry like that but everyone is too polite to say anything. There's often a spot within the main cabin behind the rear seat where you can just about fit a bike in. But there's quite a bit of train variation and/or lack of space so you'll be fine anyway.

Hope you've felt good enough to get a walk around Nikko, see the main temples. Its a lovely place.

It's taking them two days to fix a puncture or you had already scheduled two further days in Tokyo :o ?

Maybe I missed it up-thread but did you fix on a route you're taking? a nice way out of Tokyo at least?

Seems at least in the US/Canada there's finally a partial recall on certain bonded Shimano cranksets today:

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2023/Shimano-Recalls-Cranksets-for-Bicycles-Due-to-Crash-Hazard

Wonder if we'll see that in other countries, or if that's happened but the info hasn't circulated yet.