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We have a LWB 14 plate sprinter that we converted to be the family camper van, it's now the daily and is proving to be an excellent bike race bus Go for a high van rather than a pop top and awning, been so many places with low roof campers and they need to spend ages setting up the roof, awning, outside kitchen etc. We rock up, put the handbrake on and can be cooking bacon within 5 minutes. Have pinged you a link on bookface to our van build photos. The sprinter drives really well, the engine is bombproof if kept ontop of services.

This, if you compare the amount of material at the point of most stress with the HSB ones it's obvious that they're not up to the task in any way I sold my HSB adaptors ages ago, still got my HSB green coust vee pads somewhere though.

I'm still on my 1% base rate trackers, I've had the lowest mortgage rates imaginable for the last 15 years (and completely failed to capitalise on it ) so now they've gone up it's taking the rough with the smooth. Fortunately my mortgage is relatively small so even though the interest rate is far higher the cost isn't too horrific.

For the girl who, at the start of this year, would let the other kids go first in races because it's polite.... 2nd place West Midlands regional championship. 2nd place West Midlands road race league. It went down to the last race today for the league but the commisaire screwed up and didn't ring the bell for last lap so she didn't know she was finishing. Had she known she would have caught the leader and sprinted. Ah well cyclo-cross season in September😁

That's f**king brilliant

Might grow some muscles shifting all that lot

I would put money on that being a bent derraileur cage, not rocket science at all

In other childrens bike related news, picked her up a new cross bike for the new season in september. 200 quid below market value and an absolute minter Needs half an inch extra in the legs but it's full 700c wheels and she's about to have a growth spurt; will do her till she's 12-13 or given up cross racing

We've managed to keep this one alive for eight years now! Got some dual air rebas for her Whyte 303 for her birthday, shortened them to 75mm travel and dropped the oil weights a little to account for her midget weight. Custom fork wraps from indiprint to mask the worst of the paint scars and it's an awesome sorted pair of lightweight forks for her🙂

In solidworks I would use a loft with multiple profiles and possibly guide curves if needed, I have no idea if fusion has such functionality though. I created two random shaped sketches on two planes and then lofted one to the other, add multiple layers of sketches to better control the shape. Can then use the shell command to remove the bottom and two end faces to make a tunnel.

I'll admit that I didn't model the grip itself, I was going to (to check clearances with the HS33 lever) then I found that one on thingiverse; everything else is me though That's only a tiny little model, we're up to 60k components at work at times

I made a cyclic trimmer mechanism to make my joystick behave more like a trimmed helicopter cyclic control - basically I took a 400 quid joystick and stopped it returning to centre until I pulled a lever (old spare HS33 blade was utilised - even had a working TPA!), integrated cam locks so I can set the stick to be free return to centre as normal if desired for flying fixed wing aircraft. Worked something like this VVVVV https://photos.app.goo.gl/8jwYzQ9qtAUx57faA

Solidworks > Fusion I got myself an Ender 2pro at christmas and it's awesome, don't need a big build volume and I've mostly been making flight sim peripherals/mods.

Likewise, it was good, we only did 4 team laps and got called in as there wasn't enough for a 5th; got 40 and 43 minutes respectively for my two and 5th overall from 11 starters in the mens dual Nice and consistent on your times as well you madman Did you see the times of the first place 6 hour solo? WTAF

Some very odd characters cycling around cannock chase today, @AdamR28 kept chasing me up and down hills!

Tanker drivers, paid too well

Free bike lights arrived and bugger me they're bright My old chinese headlight that I thought had a really bright centre spot? Can't see it when held side by side and shining on the same wall, not only that, the spread of the magicshine is about 12 foot wide at 8 foot distance compared to the 2 foot spotlight of the old one. Added bonus, the batteries can be used as USB powerbanks, 10Ah and 2.6Ah respectively

b*****d My mortgage payments are now up to 400 a month in total, still on 1% base rate tracker. Got to wait another year or so to finish paying off an existing debt before I can start doubling up the mortgage payments.

I picked up a Boardman CX team for 200 quid, it's the first curly bar bike I've had in about 35 years and it's actually really good for the work commute

No, it was one of the win it Wednesdays in November I think. I enter them as a matter of course but never expect to win and never tick the marketing spam box so it just proves that the are winners Persephone is going to have my old Chinese Amazon headlight (which actually has been brilliant) and I'll use the magicshines. I think I'll put them on the cross bike to start with for work commuting and as the weather gets a bit warmer switch them over the the intense for night rides over Cannock.

Won one of these in a pinkbike draw, and one of these, oh and one of these Going to have to ride more at night now I guess

How come the cat gets to be shitty but the fox gets away scott free? Could also have been rats Have you got a cable fish, make pulling a new one through easier. I would have though if the ends are terminated correctly you should be able to joint it, might need to put a junction box in though to keep it all clean and dry.

But only if he's allowed to dream first

Are we meant to be dreaming about @manuel Does he know about this?

Picked this up for 200 quid, needed a new gear cable 1x11, narrow wide with clutch mech, hydraulic disks and already set up tubeless. Using it for the work commute as it's much faster than the mountainbike, it's actually really fun to ride. Persephone is currently racing cyclocross and is badgering me to enter a race in the vets category