Hi folks.
It looks like I won't be riding my bike until early next year.
Health reasons but the outlook is positive.
I'm in Scotland and keep my bike in an unheated but dry garage.
Temperature can dip below zero either side of Xmas.
Not usually damp inside the garage.

Bike hasn't been ridden since mid July.
Oil not due a change until October based on time rather than mileage.

Advice appreciated on storage/ oil change. Or anything else.

Thanks folks
Stay safe
Matt

The modified Klamper on a Rohloff with Hope vented rotor worked well after many significant down slopes (>8%) with our heavily loaded tandem (camping on tour). We have 2 canti rim brakes in addition to the disc on the Rohloff.  The Klamper caliper will not clear the Hope 3.3 mm rotor. I would call it a spacer, not a shim. The spacer should be at least 1.5 mm. Below is a drawing of the important parts of the caliper and a pic showing the result.

The metal buttons that hold the outer SS disc ring onto the Al carrier of the Hope disk came very close to the body of the caliper. This meant that the caliper had to be precisely centered else the buttons might scrape on the caliper body. The buttons rotate past the rear end of the caliper. In addition to machining the spacer from SS stock, I machined 20 mils off the rear end of the caliper body so that the arc of the buttons has significant clearance from the caliper body. That made positioning of the caliper much easier. It may be that a 2 mm spacer would result in sufficient clearance from the buttons so that you would not need to take of the 20 mils off of the body.

Don't know about the Santana rotor, the Hope rotor is the only vented rotor that can be attached to a Rohloff. All because of the much effort and testing of Thorn to find a disc brake suitable for a heavy tandem with a Rohloff. Thorn pairs this with a Hope hydraulic caliper, but hydraulics are a hassle with a break apart bike and for touring.

I done a class job the boss loves it 6 weeks it took but plumber and sparks held the work up can't depend on anyone lol.i like the look of those pants just got to figure out what size will fit me.
Cheers buddy

Anto.

Thanks folks much appreciated i like the glow in the dark idea I'm as blind as a bat most of the time.ill look on amazon also cycling trousers .I. looking  at Altura but 120 to 100 is a bit steep for me.i just finished  the new bathroom build so I'm back in the good books.

As Sod's Law would have it, last week I got a double puncture in my front tube, the first time in years. That was caused by hawthorne hedge clippings not being collected up by landowners et.al. I doubt if I'd have rolled through/over that using lower pressures.

Without insisting on it being the only possible mechanism, I'm of the opinion that cause and effect is the other way round, that lower inflation and therefore greater bulging would be more likely to capture the hawthorne, and that higher pressure would be more likely to lead to smaller contact patch and more rounding of the tire with the result that the hawthorne clippings stand a better chance of being swept aside before the thorn can find purchase in the tyre and perhaps penetrate it.

In effect I'm trading off some puncture proofing, and maybe a buck or two of extra wear per thousand kilometers, for greater comfort plus greater roadholding at the limit. Since in the last 11,000km, for which I kept a note, I had two punctures, both pilot error (hopping a step at speed on a building site, riding through a deep pothole at 55kph), I'm pretty pleased with my choice of compromise.

I must give this a bit of thought...

You don't want to think too much about tyres: their illogic and irrationality and nonlinearity will drive you mad.