Cycling UK Forum

A above. I wouldn't be worrying about tyres too much for that. The short cut home from my club TT is worse than that and I ride my TT bike with fag paper clearances and 23mm tubs on it.
It is easier with bigger tyres of course but it is easy to forget how robust tyres are.

Almost every trading estate I know has a fasteners emporium. My local one will sell you just one.

Give your choice of bivvi bag some thought. Some are little more than glorified sleeping bag covers. Great under shelter but not much cop in bad weather. The Alpkit Hunka springs to mind here. At the other end the "traditional" Goretex bag with a zip near the top envelope style will stay a...

To be honest the whole the whole thing is likely to be unimportant or even irrelevant.

Of course we may benefit in some ways from reduced standards.
Many mass produced steel cycles are over engineered "jut in case" . There may be scope for reducing this .

Small Scottish village yes. Anywhere else I wouldn't be relying on any built in lock. They are for snatch thefts only. BIG cables and chains to something solid may wrok. The roof bars are not solid. Why not just pop them in the car. a minute too drop the wheels and one across the front seat and anot...

If you can squeeze some 25mm + tyres in why not use the gravel railway lines that run through the Peak District? I did. Also some quite lanes in the Manifold valley

I used brown and brown on my Ti bike. Not a very good look . A bit dull. Bight works well I reckon.

I have seen quite a few. None at the side of the road in bits. No idea if it is worth while.

Sadly, it's an electronic device that's a few years old. To expect anything else is naive. It make my weewee boil but it is so. Think yourself lucky they offer the service they do. Does your phone or washing machine maker offer that? The choice is either part exchange it, mend it or bin it.

Nothing major really done wrong apart from a lack of communication. Sadly Indicating standards are so low nowadays as to be non existent and thus whilt he may have been wrong it wasn't unexpected, and did you give him let time to let you know? As for the conditions. Irrelevant.

2. Points. If you can't see the Garmin t is pointless and all the wonderful features in the world won't solve that. Surely that can decide for you unless you want to compromise with glasses of some thing. Other point is, have you tried it with a non Garmin cable? Mine work happily with one of those ...

Does the OP's desired combination create a clash with compatibility with the brakes? I guess a look at a Shimano chart might help but I don't know which one. Re the cable issue. That is so personal. I can't comment precisely on Shimano as I was always a Campag man but unless the Shimano cable qualit...

Just wait until you try those pretty alloy combined Garmin/light mounts from China. 6 bolts arrived. 4 had incomplete threads. 4, not all the same, had off centre sockets. 2 out of 4 internal threads were useless and one out of 2 plastic Garmin inserts snapped the first time it was used. As I hadn't...

Frame sizing is like clothing sizing or even more closelybshoe sizing. All the sizes do is point you to roughly the right place in the rack.
No one manufactureres will match another's for size. Check the charts then try it on. If you doubt threvshop assistants advice tr the same item elsewhere.