Spot gen 3.

Now have a Spot 2 for sale, coming soon to a classifieds near you!!

a lioness for the stooge from wildcat

The Great Escape, Ant Attack and Jet Set Willy Spectrum tapes

He's not here yet but he'll be here today with a box from wiggle so I can get my new(2nd hand) swift on the road. Excited!!

A pair of black Jones loop bars and some looong extra chunky esi grips for said bars..

My reward for spending 65 hours putting the fence up (I'd like to thank the house's previous occupant for leaving me 3ft cubes of concrete around the existing 2 inch square fence posts!!)

A pair of mid weight Merino socks from Sport Pursuit.
I wouldn’t say the delivery has been slow but what is the gestation time for sheep?

Mariner wrote:A pair of mid weight Merino socks from Sport Pursuit.
I wouldn’t say the delivery has been slow but what is the gestation time for sheep?

Five months was what we always worked around on the farm.

Been busy this month.....

Like Dr Nick, a set of black Jones loop bars, but not with the grips.
A Wildcat Tomcat bag to fit into said Jones bars
And finally a Synmat 7 mat to replace my venerable Thermarest which has gone onto Steve Large of these here parts.

A new dry bag for my Widcat bar harness (my ultralight one was a bit sub standard) and a shiny new side loading bottle cage.

A thermarest mat from Pickers - it's for the other half as she has promised to bivvy under a tarp when we walk some of the Cotswold Way in August - I need her to be warm and comfortable!

And some drybags from Beth and Alpkit to replace the taped up leaky ones I have tried to keep going for the past year.

Zippy wrote:

Zippy wrote:I got myself a cheap parts washer from machine mart at the weekend.

http://www.machinemart.co.uk/shop/produ ... rts+washer

Dirty filthy chains go in, clean chains come out. Makes life soooo much easier :)

At the risk of repeating myself, here's a photo demonstrating my excitement.


Parts Washer by zippyonline, on Flickr

I have a slightly blackened one of these to giveaway FOC now if anyone's interested, although tbh I think they're a waste of time and did it manually with degreaser and an old toothbrush anyway...

That's a post from 3 years ago.

I've upgraded to an ultrasonic cleaner now


Ultrasonic Cleaner by Chris Reeves, on Flickr

Dirty stuff goes in, press go, leave it alone, come back to spangly stuff

new pump holder for second bike (to save buying second pump)

oh and some coolmax socks for when the weather is warm enough to get any benefit (maybe next year)

"ultrasonic cleaner". With the added benefit that you can cook your chips in it for tea afterwards as well.....

"Reg"

My very own megaphone with in-built siren ... wonder where I might use that?

" in-built 'siren' " ? Sounds an amazing piece of kit!

That's ^ the one. Good job it's got a shoulder strap ... she's heavier than she looks

RIP wrote:" in-built 'siren' " ? Sounds an amazing piece of kit!

So that's what the UPS girl looks like...

Ian wrote: So that's what the UPS girl looks like...

That looks too dry to be Wales.

So that's what the UPS girl looks like...

Ooh you've just reminded me, she'll be coming tomorrow with a delivery of carbon ... sadly the forecast is for rain

Couple of things...

Firstly collected a really ugly watch from the post office. Going to see if the vibrating alarm is enough to wake me up, in which case I'll suck up the challenging aesthetics in order to catch some sleep in the village hall with my earplugs in on this weekend's audax. A summer weight jersey arrived too, just in time for things to cool off again...

Some goodies from Beth at Wildcat...



And this nice book from Chew...

Zippy wrote:

Zippy wrote:

Zippy wrote:I got myself a cheap parts washer from machine mart at the weekend.

http://www.machinemart.co.uk/shop/produ ... rts+washer

Dirty filthy chains go in, clean chains come out. Makes life soooo much easier :)

I've upgraded to an ultrasonic cleaner now


Ultrasonic Cleaner by Chris Reeves, on Flickr

Dirty stuff goes in, press go, leave it alone, come back to spangly stuff

What model is that? Looks like a very useful bit of kit for the garage

ZeroDarkBivi wrote:

Zippy wrote:

Zippy wrote:

Zippy wrote:I got myself a cheap parts washer from machine mart at the weekend.

http://www.machinemart.co.uk/shop/produ ... rts+washer

Dirty filthy chains go in, clean chains come out. Makes life soooo much easier :)

I've upgraded to an ultrasonic cleaner now


Ultrasonic Cleaner by Chris Reeves, on Flickr

Dirty stuff goes in, press go, leave it alone, come back to spangly stuff

What model is that? Looks like a very useful bit of kit for the garage

GT sonic, available here https://www.amazon.co.uk/GT-SONIC-Ultra ... B0187427CO

Pretty much, but not quite the same model. Mine's more akin to this one: http://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/ultrasoni ... s/8555915/ but not quite that expensive.

I chose the fancy model coz it had a couple of features I expect I shall use - including a reduced power mode which I'll use on PCB's and the like - I also wanted the digital control panel thingy. Mine tis a 6 litre GT Sonic, a certain founder member on here pointed me in their direction - but if you look at the cases and the digital control panel thingy, I wouldn't be surprised if they all came from the same factory...

I've found the trick is to get the balance of heating and chemical right - Clarke parts washer fluid is rubbish, but Bilt Hamber Surfex HD seems to be pretty good (this is all stuff I had kicking about).

Lauf Carbonara for my 29er+
SON 150 15 hub
Been built up ready for Bearstock as long as the spokes arrive in time