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Dea Matrona at Royal Albert Hall:

The gear sets on gravel bikes tend to be a bit shorter than on road bikes - you can upgrade them if you are making the bike do dual duty (and swap the mud tires for road tires).

That's the one I was assuming you would look at. Too much money but the S-Works Creo 2 looks sick.

I mean, it's a nice starter system.

I think gravel is the way to preserve the option of putting wider tires on. With road tires it seems like they are slightly less efficient than road bikes. Agreed on the e-assist. I'm circling the Creo and this is the most similar to it, geometry wise.

Some stat amps allow tube rolling and I do understand this also yields a less then optimal design . But does anyone here use or designed a stat amp for kt88 tubes Most all designs seem to el34 tubes Am I missing anything?

I don't really know much about gravel bike, but is choosing a gravel bike more limiting or does it give you more options because they are equally good on the road? If it were my first bike when trying to get into it, I would definitely want it to be comfortable as a road bike. I'm assuming that local clubs are more likely to have road rides, but I also don't have a clue if that assumption is correct. Regardless, I can't see why you would buy anything without pedal assist. Speaking from experience, it will allow you to ride more and longer, but it also will encourage you to do it more often. It looks like the Diverge is as much or more than Specialized ebike options. Just a lazy man's two cents, fwiw.

Demo’ing a Diverge Comp Carbon this weekend. I’ll take her out on some farm roads and see how she feels. Brent thinks I got the sizing all wrong (58 even though I’m 5’11”) but Brent’s bike also has been ridden maybe 2-3 times in the last year so we take his advice in proper proportion.

Perhaps this will prompt Panasonic to finally add SACD playback on a DP-UB9000PC successor... probably not.

Magnetar reveals new UDP900MKII and UDP800MKII 4K players https://www.techradar.com/televisions/blu-ray/4k-blu-ray-fans-rejoice-magnetar-reveals-two-new-4k-blu-ray-players-at-cedia-expo-2025

You had me at 'bleak'. ...but I kept reading...you had me again at 'dreampop'....but I still read all the way to the end. I will definitely be giving the whole trilogy a listen, if it's as good as the one track.

Not bad! His voice reminds me a bit of Ian McCulloch from Echo & The Bunnymen.....

Bougatsa

The Anne Boleyn rubber duck is available from the RSC (Royal Shakespeare Company) shop in Stratford on Avon. https://shop.rsc.org.uk/products/anne-boleyn-rubber-duck , Now £7.50 Of course if true to life, its head should fall off.

This Alien show rocks. Show of the year for me so far. Easily.

7 views? Fuck me, maybe I'm the only person who likes bleak Swedish conceptual art/dreampop. (Actually, when I put it like that ... 🤷‍♂️)

just a good song.

^^ I think I need to check out that channel! 🤣 I can't believe they actually made that song OR video! Some more fun from my machine. Best reply to this one: "It puts the Bleu Cheese on the Wings"

Speaking of fixing...

They need to stop worrying about the logo. The food sucks. How about fixing that? Yes, the wife dragged me to one. Never again!

Is the plural of 'haboob', 'haboobies' or 'haboobs'?

The Thursday Murder Club (Netflix) - fun to see Brosnan & Mirren in more, er...light-hearted roles (compared to their characters in the show Mobland). Other septegenarian British heavy-hitters, including Ben Kingsley, Celia Imrie, & Jonathan Pryce provide support. Enjoyable, easy watch. Set up for a sequel, so those writers better start putting pen to a page asap! 🤭

With cute observance, I can say the listening chair's placement is slightly off-balanced.