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Bump with a price drop to £120

Fancy looking like an extremely well turned out Norfolk field-hand? Course you do.

This here is a startlingly high-quality waxed cotton / wool-lined jerkin made by Carrier Company (basically the pre-eminent makers of this kind of archaic fashion/workwear stuff). Perfect if you're into Old Town, Labour & Wait, Nigel Cabourn, Breton smocks and all that jazz.

The quality is amazing but it's simply a bit too big for me. It's a medium, but these things are quite boxy as you're meant to be able to layer jumpers/jackets underneath.

The colour is olive green (very similar to your standard 'Barbour green') and the pure new wool lining is a natty brown/green mix.

New, it cost £178. I've worn it maybe twice since buying a couple of years ago (and it's been hung up in a wardrobe the whole time), so i'm after £130 (plus postage, or collection from southeast London. I'm happy to deliver in the area when the weather's not shite).

This is it new: https://www.carriercompany.co.uk/collections/mens/products/norfolk-jerkin

southeast london (but work around west hampstead). yup, can post

For the record, this smells better than Lynx Africa, but nothing near as good as Lynx Apollo.

Given that, how about a bump down to, say £75?

you and me both!

Well ain't that fortuitous! 'Cuz all it's doing is cluttering my desk

Got gifted a 100ml bottle of Tom Ford 'Fucking Fabulous' eau de parfum after a shoot at the magazine I work at.

Alas, i'm an Aesop guy, so any takers? The wrapping's been taken off (as it was for a product shoot) but it's otherwise completely new and unused.

100ml retails at £315 (!) on Selfridges. So £200 for this one?

https://www.selfridges.com/GB/en/cat/tom-ford-fabulous-eau-de-parfum-100ml_453-3001058-T7MK010000/

pm'd, thanks

I'm thinking about cycling the entire TransAmerica Cycle trail from Oregon to Virginia in the Spring. This one: https://www.adventurecycling.org/routes-and-maps/adventure-cycling-route-network/transamerica-trail/

Anyone on here done it? It's around 4500 miles, which i'd be looking to do in around 2.5 months (given tourist visa restrictions – though i believe it's pretty easy to get an extension?).

Any advice/tips/anecdotes welcome.

what colour the archetypes? ta

gone? i presume so

ah, quite right james. and as i feared all round, thanks all. new frame it is!

Morning comrades
My girlfriend had a head-on with the back of a car and managed to bend the Swinnerton's downtube (and thus, i suspect, the top tube to a lesser extent) to the point where the wheel now presses against the downtube and wont spin.

does anyone know if a) the frame is likely to be a write-off? and b) any recommended london shops of framebuilders who'd be a good go-to for a quote on a fix? frame has sentimental value etc.

weirdly enough, the wheel itself is still true and spins fine. Pics below.

DM sent

i trust i'm still on 2nd dibs for the PDW if it hasn't? ta!

gah, too slow!
2nd dibs on the PDW rack please.

the samson is so nice! how tall are you?