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Yeah I read that in Hacker News before too & took a peek - bonkers. Author does have a Patreon these days.

https://ciechanow.ski/bicycle/

On the NHS I just had an empty room with a picture of the Dales on the wall. Stimulation enough in Yorkshire.

Was a fantastic descent - next to no wind, perfect road surfaces & didn't meet a single car. We're heading north east down Col de la Colombière, so I don't think it is Mont Blanc in the background, but not far - proper high alps.

Looks fab! As a recent convert to Exposure lights, this setup is great.

Agree on the Hope 20Fives, two friends had theirs crack (lengthways in the rim bed) & they were always behind the times re width.

Been a bit absent here lately - life has been getting in the way of riding for a number of reasons I won't shoulder you with. The forum has been great in its support, & I am very appreciative.

In terms of actual updates, a few things.

Spent three weeks around France in September in the van with bikes. It was unseasonably cold & wet for the entire time, across the Vosges, Jura, Savoie, Provence & Tarn. Highlights include riding the Trouée d'Arenberg, closed roads on Grand Colombier, revisiting Sallanches (where my partner's insurance flew me out to visit her in hospital when she broke her collarbone after hitting some gravel); camping on top of Ventoux &

Bought a new bike. A friend noticed a pretty bonkers sale of accoustic full sus MTBs so I took advantage & got myself an XC one. Seems everyone wants an electric one these days. It's a Rocky Mountain A50 Element. It's about 500% more bike than I need, & it's utterly bonkers how capable it is. Having never had an MTB before, let alone any bike with suspension, I am finding it a lot of fun - makes trails I'd always avoided in the CX very doable. I'm very much enjoying learning a new type of riding, had it for about six weeks now & still need to take it to a proper bike park.

Additionally, got a bit eBay excited on Sunday & bought a Chorus groupset for the Land Shark. I felt a bit sad about it languishing unbuilt in our bike room (having donated its Potenza groupset to my partner's Woodrup back in May), so looking forward to building it back up.

It was highly wishful thinking that this could be my size when I saw the link (not picture), when I need a 58cm top tube. Would fit my partner though.

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/AluminumBikeProject.html

Hank from GCN apparently quite rahhh.

Agreed, fit is bonkers (Reddit, what do you expect, eh?), but an example of the matter at hand nonetheless.

Ha! Probably that. Wouldn't be surprised if there was a Louis Vuitton emblazoned microwave out there.

From Reddit.

I have to believe that the copy writer who wrote 'with an attractive entry-level price' as a summary of the £700 microwave did so with a wry smile. Guess Miele consumer electronics will remain as an aspiration.

Free delivery though.

Current one doesn't have a clock so didn't even consider that! The idea of inputting Wi-Fi credentials via a microwaves UI seems painful, & another app is the last thing I need.

Well at least I'm making progress with my criteria.

The microwave is on its way out, so after a replacement. Has stuff moved on much in microwaves in the last ten years? Any useful new features available these days? Had a cursory look but they all seem to be much of a muchness. FWIW it's pretty much only used for reheating food.

Finally got that tile at the top of Kex Gill, taking my square up to 37x37. Think it's going to be pretty hard expanding much further north or south at the west as my square is butting up against the Pennines in both the Peak District & the Dales, with big hills & private estates on both. Going east is pretty boring flat riding too.

99.9% of the squares I've got are from riding from my front door so quite chuffed with that. There's been plenty of somewhat boring commuting miles in getting to distant tiles though.

Edit: fun fact, my tile is 2.7% of the size of England.

It's a meaningless milestone, but last week I hit 10,000 miles on both my Ritchey Swiss Cross & Genesis Volare. Crossed that threshold with three bikes this year (Cinelli Mash Bolt too).

If I buy disc brake pads from eBay, what's the likelihood that they're fake & going to kill me? Stuff like this is making me suspicious, two pairs for less than the cost of one set, but it is quite hard to ignore pricewise.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bum_Farto

It's back to tempt me again, gah! The geo does scare me a bit though.

Impulse purchase on a friend's stag do, rather pleased with it (& the fact it isn't another Seiko).

Edit: not a slight on Seiko - love them - but I could end up only Seikos if I didn't try & cast my net a bit wider.

Was thinking about wider tyre sizes these days on a ride where I was getting bounced around still on 30mm one (70PSI).Think the road surfaces around here have got worse over the last few years at a rate which has negated the benefits of the them.

Edit: oops, roadposting in the gravel thread. As an aside, my grav bike takes 38mm max so I'm stuck in the dark ages.

Quite enjoyed this little project, so completely rewrote it over the last few days & improved the flow of things a little.

Also worked a bit more on the map plotting & released that. It could do with some improvements still, but it's a decent start so good enough for publishing. I apologise that the colour palettes for routes & their parts is pretty horrendous as it's currently just using an RNG for RGB. I'm colourblind so even my example image here is quite difficult for me to see.

Would like to support a way of fine tuning the length of each segment, since the main reason for building this tool was to be able to split big tours down into multiple days. Been mulling over a few ideas for UX for that & not arrived at anything which feels quite right yet, so will continue to have a think.

Not much to update on recently. Got some larger chainrings for my road bike as I've been enjoying riding a bit harder lately, & I quite like the way bigger gears make me ride (got to throw yourself at a climb more).

Did a little twenty-four hour adventure last weekend, from Leeds to the Hope valley & back again. Was assured the route would be 'all road', which is quite ambiguous really, & resulted in riding a lot of gravel & walking some MTB trails. Thankfully I'm not prissy about this sort of thing (quite enjoy underbiking) so had a good laugh.

https://www.slowspinsociety.com/blog/bike-check-clements-look-296