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This bike belongs to a friend who teaches circus skills. He still has the Brompton, but it’s had a new frame and new wheels since this was taken 😉

I found an old mobile phone, which had a bunch of pictures on the memory card – including this remarkable trailer that was travelling around the UK…

Another helicopter I’ve been building – this one has a camera mount and GPS for aerial photography…

A job from a few days ago – fitting a disc brake to a Sinclair C5. It’s a very small wheel, not a very big disc 😉

Nick from Carry Freedom popped by with one of the latest production Paper Bicycles, in a bright orange with two matching childseats – looks very slick. The one hanging in my window is prototype no.2…

A new thing to experiment with – years ago, Sachs made a Duomatic, and it’s great to see SA resurrect both the idea and the name.

It’s a beautifully simple isea – it’s a two-speed gear with a brake. Back-pedal a little bit, and it changes gear, alternating between the two. Backpedal more, and it brakes. So you have gears and brakes with no cables – perfect for a minimalist commuting bike.

It’s about £80 I think…

Getting Rohloff dropouts 😉

A neighbour’s DIY bike rack…

Had the Mikrokopter I built recently back for a few tweaks, and took the opportunity to play with it a bit 😉

Started off with a Surly Long Haul Trucker frame, chopped it to fit the S&S couplings, replaced the rear dropouts with sliding Rohloff-compatible ones, then built it up like this…