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Shrunk my SC 1945 jacket and gave it a test fit. SC 1945, power wear, wom jeans, birks

I can make you an affordable bike frame to any spec you like @Broark or any other member

^ One of the big keys to enjoying riding is going somewhere without red lights

It was so hot in London earlier this week I forgot to snap my WoMs as I went sushi hunting down Southwark / Waterloo way... it was buzzing busy in the big smoke...

1900 pullover & 1922 jeans 1947 jeans wwii type 1 1947 jeans

1945 pocket flasher with For over 85 years ticket, so a circa 1957 501XX model. Courtesy of Fake Alpha.. Tried to zoom in a little

Freewheelers Tweakers Racing hat Freewheelers wwii type 1 Freewheelers 1947 jeans Nicks Palouse boots

Does FW do lycra? Asking for a friend

These will look great with some wear!

Don't listen to him @Broark .. i was out yesterday from 11.30am till 5.15pm in 30° heat wearing Supreme work shorts.. would lycra have been more comfortable? .. Yes, definitely! Do i regret not wearing lycra? Absolutely not

Went to take a look at my bike, but it's buried under the family fleet and tbf probably hasn't been cleaned since I last used it, which was at least 2020 😊 This due to bad health as opposed to laziness. Hey Siri, l mean Sufu. Can you please insert my photo on its side despite the fact that l haven't altered it in anyway, and despite attempts to resolve the problem otherwise, thanks in advance 😐

seiko arnie 80s ana-digi style/practicality for those who arent ready for the casio g-shock experience… had about 3 months: very wearable, has me looking longingly at grandfather and darth tunas…

If you’re really curious about it, forget all of the internet research rabbit holes and just go into a bike shop and just spend some time riding a few. So many of the shit you pay for to make your bike nicer is stuff that might give a racer a marginal benefit but is sort of a distraction. If you ever get to the point where you actually have opinions about components and geometry and all that stuff, you’d have already logged quite a few miles and noted what you want to change. I recently purchased my first new bike in nearly 20 years, but before that I had and quite enjoyed a rather cheapish ($450 new in 2007) trek single speed. It was an aluminum frame, cheap components, nothing special by any means. I rode it everywhere for just about everything except total off-road stuff. Took it on 50 mile rides even - not fast but enjoyable. I’m still not very knowledgeable about bikes but it doesn’t stop me from riding 30-60 miles a week just for regular life stuf (this doesn’t count going on a ride for the sake of it, which I occasionally also do). Bottom line - it’s worthwhile if you ride it often, no matter what it is. FWIW - I bought a “bikepacking” bike, https://www.wildebikes.com/products/supertramp which is really just sort of a cruiser/mountainbike thing. It’s just the most comfortable for carrying crap really and deals deftly with the often crappy roads we have here - and then for a gravel ride it’s no problem. It’s absolutely a touch slower than my old single speed - which I still use as well - but that’s not the point.

Yep.. when i first started riding MTB in the early 90s.. my one bike (GT Zaskar) did absolutely everything from trails to commuting to pump track, to XC.. the only adjustments i made while riding was saddle height.. come the mid 90s DH became a thing and you needed full suspension with lots of travel meaning you couldn't ride any distance on those bikes.. so that was 2 bikes you needed.. maybe 3 if you wanted to ride serious road miles. Some of the trails around me are now so extreme that you need super slack, full sus e-bikes, the jumps are massive.. the only way you can generate enough momentum to clear the gap is electric assist. Modern gravel / adventure is a bit of a marketing fallacy.. it's basically a late 80s - early 90s MTB with drops, larger wheels, disc brakes and a carbon fork with lots of tyre clearance.. alas, trying to convert a cheap early MTB to gravel is a nightmare because all the standards have changed, again, minimal advancement have been made, it's mainly to keep us buying new shit.. this is what a lot of folks find daunting. Anywho.. if i lived in the US and i wanted a fancy gravel bike i'd buy this.. or for a first gravel bike.. you can buy something that looks like this^ with all the same attributes.. single chainring, drop/flared bars, front fork (doesn't need to be carbon) and rear stays with lots of tyre clearance for 2.2 - 2.4 tyres (your tyres will be your cushioning over the rough stuff) disc brakes and brifters so your brake lever is also your gear shifter.. you could get something fantastic for a fraction of the cost of the above (i just desperately, desperately want one) .. just go to your local bike shop and ride some.

^ It’s actually not as bad as you think. I’d rather go ride 30-50k on a bike in sweltering weather than walk the golf course. The breeze from bike riding helps. Of all the outdoor stuff I’ve done in sweltering heat riding a bike is lower on the list of miserable ones, short of surfing or being out on the water. Now, I’m not in Texas, but we get heat waves up here and I did spend 5 years in central North Carolina.

Hotest day of the year so i took the day off work.. Rode past the waterwheel.. the local heron was fishing ..a bit of drystone walling at Ringinglow village for @Dr_Heech Peak District is quiet on Fridays this is where i fell off a couple of weeks ago ..rode to the Intrepid micro brewery at Hope .. up to Mam Tor ..sheep leg ..cows ..outside Speedwell Cavern back through Hope.. and home ..pushing back against the manosphere ..used a Brewdog Elvis Juice rub and cooked some pork medallions on the bbq ..on top of noodles, garlic, spring onions, bamboo shoots, mushrooms, pak choi and waterchestnuts ..hello cat from down the road ..my purchases from Intrepid.. Porter was £5.. Bitter was £3 ..kids off to fancy dress party dressed an Indianna Jones.. wearing my Lone Wolf Mechanics ..i got him a cheap sex whip from ebay.. word to the wise, don't type whip into ebay

Only wearing Lycra if you’re well-endowed, otherwise you’ll look like a little prick

BBC is decentralised with regional offices but the main hubs are in London and Salford. Just did a quick poll around some friends who have bikes and confirmed that mid-life crisis makes do pay upwards of £7k. A couple of mates who actually own this type of bike didn’t comment so I don’t know how much they paid BUT they would definitely baulk at spending £200+ on a pair of jeans 😆 High paying presenters and execs aside, typical media jobs don’t pay anything like they did 20-30 years ago. Most people will earn a fraction of what was available then, so I believe @ATWM is right. It’s the finance bros who generally have the most spending power.

Unless you’re a serious athlete or need specialist equipment, it doesn’t matter much. So many (usually men) are sucked into this world as part of their mid-life crisis - they have a bit of spare cash and can afford a £3k bike that they’ll never use to anything like its potential but do it anyway. I don’t have a bike anymore but if I decided to purchase one, I’d buy something cheap and ride it for a year to understand what, if any, sort of upgrade I’d want/need. In London so many bikes are stolen and, in certain ‘hotspot’ areas, like the Regents Park Outer Circle, riders of expensive bikes are frequently violently bike jacked by criminal gangs on mopeds.

Been loving this since I picked it up in March. Put 3000 miles on it since then.

^ I’ll get AI to rewrite it for me but I thought 15 words was fairly simplistic and economic and thanks for explaining Freewheelers to me too, I’d never have guessed.

You made that joke a lot harder than it needed to be, considering that the clothes company is essentially named after a bicycle part…

I don't think our pov's are worlds apart 🤝

I think you said people in London have more disposable income (and some do) whereas I said there are simply more people in London with disposable income than there are in a city such as Sheffield, which has a much smaller population. Anyway, you keep going on about Morrison’s but I can’t imagine why… 🤔🍕

Yeah I saw those as well. No mention of actual weight, yet "everyone" claims the denim got heavier in WW2 (and thereafter).

Seems it’s a limited edition version of Southern Comfort and Aitch isn’t the annoying one from Steps but a rapper from Manchester

Aero premier 30's half belt

...and sometimes this,

These two rotating most of the time!

^Plus one for Decathlon. My Mrs loves hers. No nonsense value imo, or at least it was 10 or so years ago 🤫

Maybe even try a budget version in the likes of the decathlon in house brand. Great value for your money. Beware: if you want to try bikepacking or something along those lines stay away from classical road frames and try gravel, had to learn that the hard way last week and need a new backpack...

And $3.75. Gone up a bit since the $2.25 for the Deadstock 1942 pair owned by Larry of Hellers café.

Hey @beautiful_FrEaK - in addition to the above discussion, the "for over 80 years" ticket also states Ten Ounce denim. Here's a 1945 flasher with a for over 80 years guarantee ticket. Levi's claim to have brought out the For over 70 years ticket in 1942, which makes this pair with the For over 80 years ticket from 1952 at least. But still with the 1945 flasher. Levi's have done this deliberately just to mess with our denim heads l reckon. This pair is owned by the Jukebox guy.

Truck Heck tee, TCB Late S40s jeans, Vans sneakers.

CSF M-35 pullover / Sugar Cane 1942 / Nicks

It was a pawl'ing! Good god.. i can't do any better

Can you make him one with no pedals as I understand he likes to freewheel

Exactly. We go from Nine ounce in For over 60 (c.1932) years and then Ten Ounce in the For over 70 years (both types, c.1942) and the For over 80 years tickets(c.1952). Yet in the For over 85 years ticket, Levi's just put in made from 'Top weight denim', no actual weights were specified.

Also @Broark regarding lycra cycling pants: I used to hate them until I tried them once you are on the bike for 2 hours you'll be grateful for their existence also good that they are light and often very short just be sure to get them in the correct same size and not see through...

They spent it all on coke and child maintenance payments and are now struggling to afford to bring up kids from their second marriages!

Before you buy anything, you need to know what size frame you need.. geometry, reach ect.. your local bike shop will offer you great advice.. they'll measure you up and wot-not.

What type of riding would you be doing @Broark MTB, road bike or split the difference with a modern gravel / adventure bike? Somthing that doesn't require lycra i hope..

Ball+Samurai

It was around 30°C but the sun hardly broke through the clouds.. personally, i thought if felt hotter yesterday but it might have been psychological because it was blue skies, beaming sunshine and i was stuck in work.. (thinking fk this i'm having tomorrow off) The heat is ok in the Peaks because it's a lot cooler/ breezier at the top.. you can feel the heat hit you like a hairdryer as you descend.. i think it's just what you get used to.. i see Italians riding Colnago and Bianchi road bikes in 40° heat hardly breaking sweat when we holiday in the summer.. yet for me just being out in the sun in those temps is exhausting..

Comfy midsummer clothes. Motivmfg trousers and shirt, Tender boots and Kimmo Halme hat.

Wash no. 4 or 5 I think, almost at the six-month mark Staring to see a little more in the way of whiskers, plus some nice oxidation on the rivets. The roping’s a little too intense for its own good; the hems are already wearing through at a few points!

Got rid of these today. Bought 2018, worn as sandals for a lot of summers, used as beach shoes and whatnot. Will not replace them as their footbed gives me blisters in recent years.

your reminder that the denim pullover is the piece you shouldn’t have slept on. This is just getting so damn good.

22501XX fit