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I only eat certain wild fungi: Giant puffballs Shaggy ink cap Oyster Chicken of the woods Field mushroom where I know they live. I didn't know dryads saddle was edible! Although iirc there aren't any toxic bracket fungi. Stats on poisoning hospital admissions are eye Opening for the amateur...

Griff outsized by fungi Dryad's saddle

https://ebay.us/m/kogJWL OK it's down to £200 plus ebay's cut. Might sell now...

Here's a double-broken chainstays i functionally fixed a while back - cinelli gazetta. Surprised it broke, it was only a few years old.

60 seconds will do 3 locks. The police know who the thieves are here though, so they can't "go equipped". Spot a bike, then go get the tools. but Angle-grinder man (Homo Molendi Angulare) is interested in the big money. Crappy retrobike e-stays ubrake in flouro livery is of little interest...

These would last around 5 or 20 seconds in Bristol Usually twisted until it bursts - bare hands only required. But a cable cutter will nibble through in about 25 seconds. This kind of lock is maybe ok where you don't have professional bike thieves.

FikkoForming from the 2020s😄

Cinelli gazette- first week of ownership! He don't do the dangle no more!

Are you a gambling man?😄

Country and Western🤠

"no schmoking"

Halfords bike means halfords owner? Servicing means emptying a can of gt85 on it once a year. Upgrading means making it a single speed because everything is worn out😉 No offence meant to all those decent hardworking halfords shoppers obvs😎

I'd suggest a 142x12 modern hub, with a 142long 12/10mm tubular sleeve, then a 10mm axle through that - bolt up or qr. As it's a steel frame, I'd also suggest brazing a disc mount on - cheaper and better than an arai drum brake, and as many have pointed out in this thread, better brakes...

https://ebay.us/m/hvFlyp Down again, £260 now.

Sadly it will struggle to sell at that price nowdays- but if you don't ask you won't get. I was discussing the collapse in the British lightweight market with TC-auctions - if i may quote: "British lightweight collectors are passing away at an accelerated rate and most had large...