Bearbonesnorm wrote:Some 26" wheels delivered by the petite blonde UPS girl who insits on wearing next to nowt

Pictures needed and not of the wheels please

A couple of rotors, some tyres for the road bike (with free inner tubes!), a digital weighing scale ( ) and some 650B+ tyres. The latter might have to go back as I'm pretty sure they are too wide and won't fit my forks.

A footprint for my Terra Nova Solar Photon 2. 230 odd grams, a little bit more bulk to carry but gives me more piece of mind the floor of the inner will last longer.

DEC VT510 Terminal allowing me to round off geeky Wednesday with some COBOL

Monday: Ibera frame bag (large). Not the most prestigious make, and may attract some pointing and laughing in these parts, but for £14 it seems well made. It'll fit my hardtail leaving space for a bottle cage on the down tube, and I may add an attachment point to attach it to the cage and stabilise it a bit, since there are no other points on the bottom of the bag.
Also, a quick release cup handlebar cupholder from the same brand, because I absolutely don't need one, but it got me "free" postage so it was effectively (not quite) free (...is how I justified it to myself).



Yesterday: 5 yards of 20mm webbing and 10 ladder locks for various strap-making and attaching purposes.



Today: A pair of 26" Schwalbe CX Pros for gravel duties, filling in between the City Jets on my road-going bike and the large collection of "proper" 26" MTB tyres gathering dust in the garage.

Had to go and collect the frame last night and build it today but Olly came good in time for Tuscany.

Untitled by flatfishrufus, on Flickr

Some On one bsc type 1 tires for my surly, which will be becoming my divide training bike and summer touring bike.
Anyone know if they'll go up tubeless?

Nothing wrong with the ibera bags, I use one everyday. The zip has the tab broken off but a bit of string does the job. Entirely my fault for cramming so much in it.

To go with the budget frame bag theme, a cheap and cheerful (£6) top tube bag arrived today to fit the batteries etc I need for the Tuscany Trail. The dimensions given are the external ones - with the padding the inside is tiny, so the knife is coming out!

johnnystorm wrote:The zip has the tab broken off but a bit of string does the job.

Good weight saving tip

20 fence panels, 21 posts, 20 gravel boards... and the hire man delivers the petrol powered hydraulic auger tomorrow.

Thats my long weekend sorted! Wish me luck...

Don't forget the postcrete

Oil, filter and sump to service my bike

Spent ages last night trying to get a bolt out, bloody useless rubber shrouded nut embedded in a mount means I couldn't get the lower fairing off last night though. Swearing at it seems to make no difference

Thankfully managed to remove enough and move the rest to get to the filter and sump plug to change the oil

Roll on the motorbike trip this weekend!

Not so much the post man's been but more "man been to the post" Returned the 650b+ tyres from whence they came.

Returned the 650b+ tyres from whence they came.

Not enough room Bob?

2.4" X Kings come up nicely on wide rims. Obviously not as big as a 2.8 or 3" tyre but surprisingly voluptuous.

A packet of Alpkit Y Beams to go with the silshelter I blagged off my son...

May have to invest in some fine BB poles soon

Si

3.0" Rocket Ron in the rear of a Solaris would probably push it in terms of clearance - I should have ordered the 2.8" version. Was going to post more here but it's better in the B+ thread ...

Zippy wrote:Don't forget the postcrete

Oh yes, 30 bags of postcrete arrived too!

Thought i'd come out of my lurking hole, no where near as interesting as some of you lot.

2 schwalbe durano plus 700 x 25
1 road inner tube
1 mtb inner tube
An FSA 34t inner ring to replace the one a few teeth snapped off.
1.5mm allen key

I've had some 26" tyres ... rather sadly, not delivered by the petite blonde UPS girl who insists on wearing next to nothing.

Dave Barter wrote:DEC VT510 Terminal...

Watch out Dave...you'll become a gear hoarder :) Next thing you know you'll have a 1/2" tape running your backups.
Only thing that lets your terminal down (IMHO) is it's green and not toffee. Other than that, big thumbs up for the retro gear.

Greetz

S.

26" ain't dead
Summer shoes fitted, with new 4.8" Jumbo Jim's

JohnClimber wrote:26" ain't dead

It may not be dead but someone got the tyre size wrong when buying for his wife's bike today

He also forgot that he'd already got a spare front tyre for his own bike!

A swap is in order methinks.

A large shipment of carbon delivered by the petite, blonde UPS girl who insists on wearing very little .... I love summer me

Still no pictures. >:(

Taylor wrote:Untitled by flatfishrufus, on Flickr

That's lovely, fair play.