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While not the usual MTB helmet, I have used a Nutcase helmet for winter riding for years. As the temperature drops into single digits I appreciate the lack of ventilation. My only complaint is the lack of a visor as at times the rain or trail detritus comes over the top of my riding glasses.

Once I need to replace the Nutcase, I will gladly look at a helmet like the Kali Viva.

Dickies. And check out squidbikes.com. They take Dickies and add a chamois. Shorts are near indestructible. And long. Love my Dickies.

If the sizing that RF puts on their charts is accurate, these will be too short for pants and too long for knickers. The chart says the XL has a 83cm inseam and my legs are 92cm. Mind you this is nothing new. I am accustomed to clothing being aimed at the XL wearing crowd as being short and more rotund. I will continue to search for something with a more appropriate inseam length.

I have a friend that brings in all these cheap and stupidly bright lights off of ebay & we do late night rides when we get together. Squamish at night is so much fun. In the summer when the heat is off and no one sweats so bad they look like they just showered. Nothing comes close.

And I do have to start carrying some sort of a shell. Sunday was getting cold with just a fleece in the highlands.

It looks nice, but I'm not about to go out & purchase one. The video was a little too artsy for my (admittedly) pedestrian sensibilities. 

A well done press release. That's all.

While I  like the idea of carbon, horror stories like the following keep me with the reliability of steel &, to a lesser extent, aluminium.

https://www.outsideonline.com/2311816/carbon-fiber-bike-accidents-lawsuits

Loving the music. Not so much some of the tools, but that is personal. Thank you for taking the time to answer some of these pressing questions that so many need to ask.

<div>Brooks Cambium. Based on the old B-17. Most comfortable for my butt for all day riding of any sort that I have used recently.
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<div>I had a Cinelli saddle back in the day. It was the best I had found, but then the rails collapsed under my 100kg one day riding down the road. I have not seen them in the local shops, but the GF is going to Italy in the autumn and I might have her pick one up while she is there. I loved that saddle</div>