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Can't wait to see the finished article.

I've just purchased a wahoo kickr turbo trainer and subscribing to trainerroad so hopefully be a lot fitter next summer :)

I'm currently in lanzarote and it's amazing how high in the sky saggitarius and Scorpio are.I could pick m6 and m7 up easily with bins and see the star clouds with naked eye.

Tbh I think half the cycle hatred is caused by other cyclists.the amount round my way who don't indicate when changing lanes or stop for red lights just makes other motorists hate us even more.where I work we have strict no cycling rules on our pontoons which all the cyclists seem to ignore and it just makes even the pedestrians hate them.Then when you stop them for cycling they become aggressive and say that it's a stupid rule.commuters are by far the worst form of cyclists.

Yeah I'm looking at getting a turbo trainer for the winter and doing some intervals and other training.this year is more a fact finding session and then next year will hopefully be where I find what I can do with a bit if training.I still don't want to do this as an only hobby so it will still have to fit in with climbing and work and hopefully next year my scope will be done.I had a look at one of your dartmore rides and may have a go at it sometime.I love hills I'm just not that good at them yet but I'm getting better all the time.unfortunately portsmouth isn't that good for hills but there's plenty about the area so I can always throw the bike in the car and do a round trip ride where there's more hills or do laps on local hills.10,000' of hills would kill me at the moment!!!

The edge 1000 is a great bit of kit-once you have it set up properly!I had loads of problem syncing it up, sometimes it would work and sometimes not.now I've sorted it out it syncs with my phone when I finish a ride and uploads straight to garmin connect then straight to strava.loads of info as I have the heart rate and cadence sensors.power meter not necessary at my level of fitness I don't think.I make routes up on strava and then download them onto my garmin which is good.I'm looking at getting strava premium then I can download other people routes too.

Bit hilly where you are fella!!

Don't really go on th3 cycle forums much as they seem to be a massive bunch of [removed word] takers if you are new.

Yeah new house new grinding room ;)

I knew it was going to be a big undertaking but I was hoping to do it all myself but I would like to use it some day rather than look at it in my garage :)

I've been to wrights rock in the churned manyons ago and had a few trips in to staffs to the roaches and hen cloud-lovely place.

Yeah it is shocking but I can understand people selling up with the weather we seem to have although it's not been bad lately.ive not observed through a scope in well over a year now but hoping that this will be the last year I'm scope less!

Yeah new lap poured and channels cut hoping to get an hour done before I'm on holiday the end of the week to see if it's polishing well.nice and thick this time :)

Have the pitch but just haven't had the time to do anything with it!!will hopefully cast the lap tomorrow afternoon then cut the channels before the weekend then be back to polishing.i can now se how people take years to make a mirror!

Pitch on the way so hopefully get a new lap made this weekend :)

It would eventually but I've only gone back to 600 and it would take about 100 hours to grind a mm off the sagitta with 600.the problem I have looked massive when testing but it's 100ths of a mm and undetectable by the human eye.

Yeah hoping the new lap will do the trick.as I had a raised centre before I'm thinking that after the regrinding that the lap is missing the new lower centre and there isn't enough material to fill the gap even after a hot press.time will tell :)

Not an option fella,I have to do it myself.it was John who said i should polish for a bit then go back to 600 if the astigmatism didn't polish out

Jrm-yeah reading back I agree that it's just the centre not polish d out that caused it hence why I'm going to polish through centre

My test set up is pretty much compete but I'm currently sunning it up in the Algarve so no time to do anything.it's weird not being able to see ursa major at all!!

I am going to keep on polishing as we are pretty sure the problem is that I've not been polishing enough through centre.I'm just going on what John told me after looking at my mirror and asking what strokes I had been doing

I am using a sub diameter lap,it's about 17" :)

I'm hoping it's quite spherical when I'm rid of the depressed centre but time will tell

ive loved almost every single of minute of it too :)

Yes but because of the amount of edge I had to remove(as advised) it will have slightly changed the shape of my tool toa shallower curve so despite the pencil test being perfect it may not have been the perfect result for a sphere.Will soon find out :)

I meant the curve being too shallow not the depth which is ok.I had to grind my edge down quite a lot to get my sagitta right hence why I'm worried about the curve.

My fl is about 2000mm so between f3.5 and f3.6

That's a small area 5-10mm wide around the edge.have ground through 400 and 30 mins of 600 with a nice smooth grind and no scratches but still not getting the edge.it polished well with the lap so hoping it's just my tile tool that's beyond its best.

One thing to add-as I've done some 400 I've noticed that a small area about 5-10mm wide doesn't seem to be roughing up as well as th centre so I'm thinking I may have a slight turned down edge.it could just be due to my tile tool getting a bit more worn as I had to grind the edge down after hogging to get my sagitta.Going to carry on through 600 and a few hours polishing then will find out when it's tested but I'm expecting a bit of extra work.steep learning curve :)