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Kenyan dancehall, a new genre to me but enjoying this:
Listen to Waggles-Kenyan Dancehall (Sounds of the Gen Z) by Pascal Waggles on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/xUZYs84LRy3rZEfJA

I'll see how things go and keep you posted. Looks like the weather generally is not too horrendous the next week or so, so should be able to get the ride in.
Don't think we need to move to WhatsApp just yet, I'm still going keep believing that the end times don't transpire and lfgss lives forever more on the Internet and not just in our hearts 🙏

I was gifted this frame and chainring so scavenged and dug out parts to put this together. I've only ever had ratty bikes so this is quite fancy for me

Looks so sunny, sorry to have missed this. Something was going on with me that I needed to not be too far away from London unfortunately. Like November, I'll try ride this when I can as it looks like a good route.

Sensible. Maybe another chance before January, otherwise, looking forward to it already

Looking moderate++ for tomorrow. I'm still up for it, but what are sensible people thinking?

Messaged you for the Northwave boots

Some acab solidarity spotted outside the Westbourne Grove Waitrose last night

My tip for cheap Newhaven-Dieppe overnight ferry - you can sleep in the children's soft play area. Have to climb over the fence, but easy enough and no one bats an eyelid

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Back to the West London recommendations, Portabello Health Foods (formerly The Grain Store) is a really good, lots of options and can pile it up if you ask for an open takeaway.

Haven't done any audax since pbp, this defo makes me want to ride through a night again. Heal up soon @WhitleyJay hope it's not serious

Sorry, don't know how to fix that. It might involve editing OpenStreetMap? There's plenty of chat about this kind of thing in the Wandrer strava club. I can't be bothered with the faff of perfection. I just try ride everything possible. Lots of my "off road" stuff doesn't register because it's not on OSM, but those can be some of the most fun.
Good luck getting to No. 1, it sounds like it's an achievable goal. Looks like I'll always be No. 2 in London!

Since I started this there have been a number of advancements in aids for planning, tracking etc this kind of thing. As I don't plan any rides, I find strava maps is excellent for quick checks when out and about. I saw you can set heat maps by date so looked what mine is for the past 4 years, which is mostly after having completed inside north/South circular. Can see how much on the western half outside the circular, but also nodes around Elizabeth line out NE and SE which I started using the past few months. On track to get up to 55% of all of Greater London this year.

Saw The Substance - wow!
Hilariously, a bunch of teenagers gate crashed our screening for the final 20min. Reckon they got more than they bargained for!

Can confirm, that stem appears to work really well, even at the end of a long day's ride up hard climbs.

Surfed an evening barrel session in the pool at Bristol this weekend, was really good

No idea, no branding. Had them lying around for years. Thought I'd try as I've developed golfers elbow recently. If I was marketing these I'd call them Smug bars

Oops, I booked a surf trip (what I'd always rather be doing tbh) but be assured I'll be there at the very least in Jan.
Otherwise, in very joyous (non hdij) news:

Unique brickwork seen in Woolwich last night

Dibs!

Cycleway along the A13 a few nights ago

Your rides are boring, not the bike

So my PBP plan was to sleep when I really really needed to and eat all the time, but then the San Francisco guys were handing out these stickers at registration which was extremely useful as I ended up referring to all the time so that I could do a bit of actual planning on the way.

Update: finally received a cheque from TW for £300 which is just fine. I'm not one to haggle and given it was basically just my garmin mount and light that were completely written off (other stuff I can still use fine albeit in a slightly more tatty state) I'm happy. Took a lot of chaser emails, but persistence paid off. Thanks @mespilus for the email contact which did seem to at least get the initial response.