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1) Ride King Alfred’s Way 2) Do a bit more for charity (restoring and donating bikes to BikeStart) 3) Get my backgammon PR rating consistently under 10

Happy New Year to everyone Cutting it fine, but hopefully I’ve made the cut 👍

Many thanks for all the replies.... always good to know what other do. I'll break out the polisher 👍 Normally just use it for steel, so will get another set of mops / compounds for non-ferrous parts.

I feel as though I'm underachieving getting old clear-coated aluminium parts looking fancy, e.g. crank arms, brake arms etc. My usual approach is wash with warm, soapy water then a *lot* of elbow grease and Autosol, rather than attacking anything with the polishing mop and compound. However...

Very, very long shot, but does anyone have a pair of Hozan C-203 lockring pliers they would part with? Cheers, Richard

Are you able to take bikes away from your local tip then? In Surrey Heath it is punishable by death. Haven't been able to work out if it is H&S related or if someone has a contract with the council to hoover up anything of any value.

Hi @Fatal Swan I’ll take these if you still have them available please.

Lovely. Might consider getting the wife one for Xmas for the freezer, then I can borrow it for the bikes.

Hi mate, I'm always on the lookout for labour-saving / performance-enhancing cleaning hacks. Do you mind me asking what exactly you use the steam cleaner for, and how? Bike rather than freezer. Cheers.

@Jam_SWorks that really is a lovely collection of bikes 😍 Randomly picked up a Peugeot Black Mamba this weekend. I'm guessing early 90s. Apart from the tires there is nothing to make me think it isn't entirely original. Components are all LX. It is currently looking unloved, but apart from a...