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I've owned my sst since '21 and have been happy with it. However, the changes from the tsr that prompted the rebranding to sst are not ones that I've appreciated with the exception of the disk brake on the back. The several changes - some half dozen - were supposed to narrow the gap between the cheaper tsr (which, we recall, were originally made by Pashley and with the best will in the world, could have some qc issues...) and the posher, more expensive BoA models.
Tbh, if I was doing it all again, I might well just buy a tired old tsr cheap & build it up just how I wanted. However, the changes do result in a slightly lighter, stronger frame than the tsr and the stainless drop outs look much nicer than the tsr's plain rusty ones ever did.
But overall, the ability to buy a tsr-like Moulton ready fitted with the A11 and a back disk brake is what sold it for me. I'd decided that I did not want nor could justify the cost of a real BoA Moulton. Ironically, a few months after buying the sst, I came across a very sad and tired old AM7 at an attractive price, so have ended up with both!

Allypally wrote: ↑2 Feb 2025, 7:30pm
My chain is enclosed but I guess that can just come off.

...and go back on again?

PDQ Mobile wrote: ↑31 Jan 2025, 9:29am Turned longways surely?
(i.e. Up and down the post.)

Aha! I see. A picture is indeed worth a thousand words. Nice - and can do that, too as have just such a channel lying about on the workshop. Cheers, all

Paulatic wrote: ↑30 Jan 2025, 7:25pm I’d knock that pice off and put parallel strips either side leaving a channel for the bolt to fit in. This way as the gate drops over time it’s still easy to bolt up without any lifting.
On my own gates I affix a piece of channel iron to the post for the same purpose.

If you can cope with the crude representation, are you talking of strips as sketched below?

OK, so I've drilled a hole for the gate (using a bit-brace, too) but have decided that the fit is too close. The bolt goes in very snug and I think it should be an easier fit. How would you, dear woodworking reader, increase the diameter of the hole? I have only auger & spade bits available in the right size.

Just to temper my usual acerbic pessimism slightly, I love this idea from back during WW2...

All this desperate search for ways to justify our continuing production of 'greenhouse' gases is pathetic... as if the physics of the biosphere cares where they come from or how they are generated. Up they go - and up goes the temperature with all the consequent extra energy. It's all very, very straightforward.
Meanwhile the level of humans' disingenuous hypocrisy sky rockets as well!

popped up in my fb feed just now - they must of been listening...

I use fb as sparingly as I can, but it has a few groups that I like one obvious example being those that focus on Moultons. But a recent discovery has been the source of much chuckling. There's a Wallace & Gromit fan group, who specialise in spotting Aardman's characters humorous props. Both the human & the pooch are often shown reading books, all with amusing titles. Wallace usually reads something with a cheese-based pun, Gromit's are dog-based. Half the fun is spotting them, as they're often visible for a split second only.

I've recently enjoyed making a walking staff... although to be honest, making is perhaps over-egging the pudding as in truth, nature made it! But I finished a suitable length of sapling by drying it, smoothing it down and adding a brass ferrule. Great fun! But the point is, I think from what people have been saying about using a walking staff, that they can add a great deal of stability in slippery conditions and add to one's confidence too.

Blimey, they're having another go! Third time lucky?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... estigation?

Nobody's mentioned how hawthorn might reproduce. I've been reading (or at least, trying to read - truth to tell, it's a bit tedious...) Oliver Rackham's Trees & Woodland in the British Landscape. I read that many trees have different ways of starting life. Do we think that hawthorns have to be planted as opposed to self-setting somehow?

deeferdonk wrote: ↑27 Jan 2025, 7:35am I can't comprehend.

It's the same with spaniels... they will cheerfully hurl themselves into the coldest, wettest, most stagnant puddle on the walk - and yet refuse a nice warm & restorative shower once back home.

Bruce, I think you'd of got on with that Doc Moulton... between you, you could of revolutionised the cycle industry!

hmmm... just fixed a flat on the back wheel of my 13 year old Brompton, during which palaver I mused on the subject of whether I could detect any remnants of the rim wear track - or not. I think the writing is on the wall after reading this post!