What are your jeans doing today?

[julian-wolf]

@CSL Great photos

You’re not too far from Death Valley—have you thought about making the trip over? This is looking like the wettest year they’ve had in a long time: I’ve really been really wanting to try and make it down to catch the wet flats

[CSL]

@julian-wolf Thanks!
Actually Death Valley is almost 300 miles from here. We're much closer to the coast. I'd like to visit Death Valley again. I've only done a brief drive-through. 

 

[Thicolas Rage]

13 hours ago, Double 0 Soul said:

Breakfast

Peak District trails are swamp-like so i rode to Youlgreave in the pissing down rain

Down Froggett

Through Hassop where the rain stopped

Through god's waiting room.. i'mean Bakewell and up to Alport, Gin clear rivers are in flood

Youlgreave

My kid used to swim in here when he was little.. it's fkin freezing!

...back to Alport

I couldn't bear to ride up Froggatt so i took the Grindleford route home.. turns out, i couldn't bear to ride up through there either..

..past Padley Gorge

..and home where it started to rain again

Your bike is seriously cool. Did you build it up yourself?  Just picked up gravel cycling on a steel frame last summer, and while there's lots of gravel and mountains where I live, I also have to compete with tons of poor drivers and (sometimes cranky) bears. Would be a dream to cycle in your neck of the woods!

Edited February 9 by Thicolas Rage

[bod]

^ I lusted over a Pace frame in the nineties and early 2000’s, the closest I got was a pair of their carbon rigid forks and then an RC40 coil sprung fork around 2005

[Double 0 Soul]

Did you to read MBUK @bod ?

The Mint Sauce sheep did as much to market Pace as anything else.. 

3 hours ago, Thicolas Rage said:

Your bike is seriously cool. Did you build it up yourself?  Just picked up gravel cycling on a steel frame last summer, and while there's lots of gravel and mountains where I live, I also have to compete with tons of poor drivers and (sometimes cranky) bears. Would be a dream to cycle in your neck of the woods!

Thank you, it does get a lot of attention out on the trails.

Yep, with a little help from b_F proxying me some parts from Germany..

Pace are a 90s 'poster bike' here in the UK, hand made in North Yorkshire so local for me.. they use square tube aluminium, machined out to save weight in areas of less stress so they're super light, super rigid and super fast.. built to win races but not really built for bike-nerds to be riding them around 40yrs later.. riding low pressure 2.2 - 2.4 tyres (instead of 1.75") makes the ride a lot more forgiving.

Due to the pared down construction.. they are somewhat prone to cracking where the bottom bracket is welded to the rear stays due to torque transfer from the cranks and stresses from removing BBs over the years.. also the headtube can crack but this can be avoided to a certain extent by not using Chris King headsets.

I've been searching for a donor frame for the last 6yrs without success.. the 40 something year old me always wanted to ride it a lot more aggressively than i do.. but should the worst happen, i could just flip the components over and think 'lesson learned' .. the 50 something year old me seems more about self preservation.. so maybe we will reach a happy medium at some point in the future. 

Apart from the Paul's Klampers / Love Levers.. it's pretty much all period correct with 1996 components.. 

Rob English built a cromo homage to it recently.

[ATWM]

8 hours ago, CSL said:

It's way early for wild flowers but since we've had a wet year and it's been a warm February, they are starting to bloom. 

This is wild for me to see as I go walk the dog and our neighborhood still has a foot of snow everywhere lol. This has felt like the wintriest winter I’ve experienced in at least a decade, possibly more. Don’t get me wrong, I’m generally quite happy about it but I could use a day amongst the sun and wildflowers at the moment…

[bod]

@Double 0 Soul I did indeed 😁 and I’ve just bought the book

[CSL]

8 hours ago, ATWM said:

This is wild for me to see as I go walk the dog and our neighborhood still has a foot of snow everywhere lol. This has felt like the wintriest winter I’ve experienced in at least a decade, possibly more. Don’t get me wrong, I’m generally quite happy about it but I could use a day amongst the sun and wildflowers at the moment…

This has truly been one of the nicest winters here. On most mornings I've been able to go out and exercise, shirtless while soaking up some sun (not today as it's foggy). 

Once the sun goes down it cools off and by midnight gets down in the 30s, sometimes a bit below freezing. 

A nice balance.

[Maynard Friedman]

@CSL - your land looks great, is it a farm, a ranch, both, something else? Also, where is it? Somewhere in Northern California I think…

[CSL]

39 minutes ago, Maynard Friedman said:

@CSL - your land looks great, is it a farm, a ranch, both, something else? Also, where is it? Somewhere in Northern California I think…

Thank you Maynard.

The super bloom area is on Soda Lake Road which runs up to California Valley. Some of it is unpaved so we've never driven all the way through. It's actually considered Southern California.

Our place is on 20 acres. Never dreamed I'd be a land owner but we liked the house, which we bought when the market was at rock bottom and the land came with it.

We're totally off the grid, not connected to anything. I think that's what put off other buyers. Propane (which has to be delivered) is our biggest expense. We have solar panels, batteries, etc. A very out dated system at this point, but functional.

[MJF9]

@CSL lovely place... and you can play music as loud as you want and have the tv on maximum volume without fear of upsetting the neighbours 👍👍

[CSL]

Thanks MJF9! Yes. This is true. I'm usually practicing piano in the wee hours. Thankfully Mrs. CSL can sleep through  that.

[Double 0 Soul]

We have a deep love of electronic noise here in Sheffield.. for a pure experience you need to forget about Cabaret Voltaire and get yourself down to the Co-Op..

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/feb/18/the-sheffield-supermarket-going-viral-for-the-symphonic-sound-of-its-freezers

..walked down Rustlings Road..

..past the tennis club

..micro bar

..pizza joint

..to the Co-Op

..freezer department wearing SC-47s and Odd Future Vans

..some folks say it's a C-sharp minor.. some folks say it's a C-sharp major

.. It certainly puts Philip Glass's minimalism to shame

[bod]

@Double 0 Soul it’s a bit hoover-ish sounding so defo not Voltaire and more like Beltram / Mundo Muzique 😁

Edited February 19 by bod

[okimoto]

Enjoying such nice weather with my brother in Oceanside. Vanishing West 1947 on me and my brother’s got on a TAG Heuer Carrera CS3110. Crazy hair on both of us from the wind

[smoothsailor]

Build a new workbench in my workshop.

the floor is all crooked and I design as I go. Bought a bunch of 4x4,s and used board we have lying around.

it seems solid, and had fun building it

[Thanks_M8]

RRRs on Monte Giarolo (1470 m)

[CSL]

Denim-free post.

Coos Bay, Oregon for a small jazz-ish festival.

Edited March 16 by CSL

[Double 0 Soul]

Buy fancy Japanese mudguards they said.. they'll last forever they said.. metal fatigue?.. Pfft Na!

I noticed an annoying rattle on the way to work.. ut-oh

Cut 2x pieces of aluminium plate

Made a hardwood former, the same profile as the mudguards..

Peened the 2x pieces of plate over the former

Set the internal piece on epoxy

External

Painted it..

Good as new.. Just got to put the bolts through

30min 'made do and mend' work bike ghetto fix

Edited March 15 by Double 0 Soul

[PartTimeBarista]

When I said I was hemmed in before, I was wrong. My jeans have spent 3-4 hours shoveling since yesterday as we received almost 30 inches of snow the last 30 hours.

 

[ATWM]

@PartTimeBarista that's wild. I thought ski season was about over...a few extra days at least. I know up north it's always a different story but still...

[smoothsailor]

Honjo mudgaurds? @Double 0 Soul.

nice job, must be so nice to have all the tools and materials on hand

[PartTimeBarista]

@ATWM Should have enough to keep the season going for a few weeks at least. No significant warm-up in sight. Carnival Weekend at Boyne this weekend if you want to enter the Slush Cup!

 

That wasn’t you that had to get rescued on the Straits yesterday taking ice pictures or something was it?

[ATWM]

Ha! I wish I were up there now. But no, usually the only authorities that have been involved when I’m taking photos are ones telling me to leave or otherwise make my job harder (although in one case a concerned citizen thought my vantage point was to jump…yikes). 

[Hopethisoneisnttaken]

Morning was a nice 13 C and raining. Perfect weather for a nice v60 at local coffee place 

 

later on it cleared, so had a nice walk and saw some spring flowers

[Double 0 Soul]

Got up this morning.. ate some hot-cross buns with a cup of tea

Went for a game of tennis.. after 40 days of rain, the moss is so thick, it's like playing on grass courts

Set off for a bike ride

Burbage

Surprise View

Down into Hathersage

Stopped at Adventure Cafe so my bike could socialise.. cake was great, iced-coffee less so.

Insecure men with small penisus and surgically enhanced wifes drove past in a line.. Brum Brum!

Edale

Mam Tor.. where those twangy bits behind your knee started to hurt like fk.

Broken Road.. forgot all about the pain

First tadpoles of spring 😍

Crushing Circle.. this dates back to the Romans on their quest for lead.. Ores were crushed and washed.. there would have been a wooden pole at the center, an axle into the square hole which was pulled around the iron circle by a horse.

Some serious shit / climbing accident must have occured today, i was sitting outside Alpkit getting my shit together before the mega-climb.. 3 ambulances wizzed past, then 3x Edale Mountain Rescue Landrovers.. all with blue lights flashing.

Riding up the devils elbow on the way home.. the furthest hill you can see in the distance is where ive just been

Up the back of Burbage / the other side of the hills seen in photo #4

..and home where i'm icing a torn calf muscle. .. the twangy bits seem fine tho!

 

Edited March 22 by Double 0 Soul

[tg76]

https://www.instagram.com/beardthebestyoucanbe/

helps stop the twangy bits be so twangy

[Double 0 Soul]

According to the interwebz.. it's a torn popliteus due to over extension of the hamstring / common cycling injury, often caused by saddle being too high or too far back (it's been in this position for 7yrs) or cleats are too far fwd causing over extension of the heel.. the fact that i ride in a battered old pair of clipless Vans..  it'll be like the rest of the worlds problems.. caused by inappropriate footwear.. and here's you^ thinking that i'm an injury prone old fart.. pfft ?! 

I'm in the car for the second day running.. using up all my precious petrol 

 

[Double 0 Soul]

Went to a modded car show at Peddlers with the boy, he's all about cars now he's nearly 17

Over the river from work

Peddler Market

This NSX belongs to one of our neighbours..

..as it came to an end, the boy and his friend were stood on the street filming them leave.. but there are only so many cars one can see nailing it down a street before you get bored (for me that was 3 maybe 4) .. plus t'was fking freezing so i went to peruse the new graff..

..went to look at some house plants, some record shops (evn tho i don't have a record player)  and some junk shops

Old tools 😍

..walked back to Peddlers

..on the way home we called at M.eat

..a new smoke house on Sharrowvale Rd (you'd like it here @MJF9 there are no plates of food as such.. just portions of meat with sides) they fire up the smokers at 5am, fill them with meat.. open the doors at 5pm (ish) and when it's gone, its gone.

It was fking rammed, the only seats we could get were at the bar, they don't serve booze and a soft drink / soda was £8. Ouch!

I had short rib with marrowbone gravy and a side of pit-slaw

Yum 😋

Edited March 28 by Double 0 Soul

[julian-wolf]

Looks like a great day out on the town, but truly sad to see so much wasted potential in that garage…I’ll bet @reallypeacedoff would’ve loved it