...and a Happy New Year.

STATUS UPDATE: As promised, we did postruns on Monday 29 and Tuesday 30 December to clear out the holiday orders. (At time of writing, I'm just back from running the sacks down to the sorting office at closing time.) We're now pretty much up to date except that we ran out of RB-021s at some point in Christmas weekend -- the restock is due here any day now, so the wait shouldn't be too bad for affected parties. We may have a bonus postrun on January 3, but the next officially scheduled one is on Jan 5. And to all a good night.

Since things are relatively slow here, we've taken a minute to put up photos of a built-up Gorilla.

The Gorilla is one of our two stock frames: it's a snappy steel one-speed with a brisk ride and neat graphics.

Phil Thomas bought one of the first batch, and built it up as shown.

He writes: "After riding an extremely small Langster for 6 months, the Gorilla Hattara is the perfect size for me. The geometry is really good too, I find it comfortable for longer rides but its still really responsive when you need it.

"I overheard someone at work say 'I don't know whose that is, but it's beautiful!'

Phil is from Newcastle upon Tyne where the fixed gear scene is steadily growing. Other Newcastle fixers might like to contact him via this thread on LGFSS.