Bearings are smoothest when they are worn out. So if you have replacement I would just change it.

This is maceration not fermentation but I unintentionally did something similar with red currants and wine. I don’t know how I made it but it was partly fermented with sugar wine and vodka (or some other clear distillate) to add more alcohol to be stable.

Found bottle few weeks ago and it was amazing, I forgot about it after I tasted it and don’t liked it few years ago.

I don’t like distillates that much, bit too strong for me, but basically fruit+bit of sugar+time+still and you have some eastern Europe pálenka/slivovice (from plums) or other “moonshine”.

Lol, in the Czechoslovakia some regions were divided before war - Sudetenland was proper part of the Germany, protectorate which was officially occupied and Slovakian nazi regime.

So when the Soviet army came they behaved quite differently depending where they have been because only some of it was liberated other parts were conquered.

To be honest the comparison with Trump is bit harsh.

Because of how fucked up are American politics all the populists and right wing parties are compared to him.

In fact he has closer ties to democrats in USA than to republicans. But that doesn’t mean that he isn’t populist, political chameleon and sometimes in his retorics gets bit to the extreme to catch most possible votes.

I wasn’t expecting that, only the paint. When you look at the picture with the fork, you can get the idea of how gunked up was the lower bearing. It is only wiped with damp rug and you can still see some mud and deeper scratches on it.

Yes, it was too short and routed bit improperly (too sharp bends and routed from wrong side) so it was rubbing the frame.

So it damaged the paint job (which I don’t mind that much)…

… and wore hole in the headset bearing cups

Yeah, but worse problem was improperly sized cable housings, scratched frame and fork around headset and chewed through bearings cups of headset.

To be honest after visiting in winter some places (Spain, Portugal and southern France) are bit no go for me in summer. Too hot for me, I talked to some guy in Valencia and he just doesn’t understand why so much people are visiting in August.

Yes it was the plan but at the end of June not on the beginning ;-)

But I will probably go for another month July/August. After I deal with the bike, I was bit surprised by some things the wear on some parts that I didn’t expected, water and mud got to headset bearings…

It looks beautiful, my bike isn’t right now in ridable condition so I won’t be touring for another month or so (life happened so I decided to do maintenance in meantime).

If you look at it from the political side that this is the basic idea of liberal democracy.

Everyone votes in their best interest and especially in proportional representation you get some compromise of the interests.

Right now at least in politics people act less in their own interest but more of what they emotionally feel like their interest.

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I have no more Fuchs to give

My Fuchs have runeth dry

I’ve tried to go Fuchs shopping

But there’s no more Fuchs to buy

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“Does it matter if I bring it back tomorrow?”

That’s also classic answer to this question at daycare.

Sorry dangling from the outside of my bike panniers…

It’s not my bike, but yeah I am surprised too that it can hold it. I had to help her readjust it few times when it fall down.

We switched bikes for a bit few days ago and hers bike rides like a tank.

I had to did a bit of workaround so I hope it isn’t that pixelated…

Mine is on the left, taken just now.

Btw this can be found by just using iodine solution to test it. I think that it can be found at pharmacy. Your wort is quite dark but it is doable to test it.

Put few drops of wort on plate, on side the iodine and look for colour change on the border where it mixes.

After my bikepacking trip I will pitch the interrail to my parents. They are so excited about the places I visited but don’t know how or if they will be able to get there. They (me too) don’t like flying and by car it is just too stressful.

Really nice experience - 9 completely different beers, it was more local so I was bit of curiosity but I had really good chat with few people there.

Yes some stout with bourbon, beer brewed with spruce, tripels and more. Every beer just tasted completely different.

Bit more chill than in France, different style of signage (node network) and today ride in Brussels was lot easier than in Paris.

What is worse is that there is forbidden wild camping and they don’t have many campsites, first day I stayed on someone’s garden and then I had bit of long and short days of riding to get somewhere to camp.

Yesterday I crossed the border, tooted on mastodon and someone told me about local craft beer fest…

I think that the first day in Belgium was really great.