I love how uptight some people are. I've found myself wandering down the paranoid rabbit hole reading forums where people worried about fatigue strength of a material like aluminum and questioning how long you should ride certain parts before they mysteriously explode into oblivion. Meanwhile this dude is pushing parts so far beyond what people like that could even comprehend. Great stuff!
as a professional bike mechanic, i can confidently say don’t in any way attempt anything that has been shown here. as a connoisseur of hacked/diy/rat bikes/whatever the hell that is... this thing absolutely fucking rules and i totally wanna do this to my own bikes when they get thrashed.
This video popped up at exactly the right time...the internet of stuff has been heavily marketing a particular bike to me, I have almost pushed the 'add to cart' button so many times..but now I know I don't need that new ride! Money saved, consumerism thwarted...nice job!
wow, what an amazing clapped out beauty. To me these will always be cooler than pristine superbikes with no flaws. This is a bike that actually gets ridden and ridden hard.
I cut out a bottom bracket, welded the shell together with a new one, repaired a rusted out chainstay with a welded patch. Bike doubles in value when XT+ Rhinolite wheel is on it! Friction shifters 10 speed!
Repairs like this are waaaay more fun to do then replacing parts. And the accomplishment and the increased love for the bike you get from it is surely worth the effort.
Man, I really needed to hear this. I work on bikes that are worth more than I can stomach as an 18 yr. old bike tech.. My bikes are closer to the specialized. I keep them as mechanically sound as one possibly can and the proper amount of ugly things I'm too lazy to fix but pass for a certain amount of safe-ish on long rides especially on older bikes. The old steel takes me on longer rides than some of these carbon frames I work on are ridden in a week. No offense to those who have these works of engineering, I'm not trying to compare my work horses to purebreds.. I just feel under-biked when I see the bikes I service sometimes, especially compared to what I ride myself. This video made me feel so good about taking old bikes as far as they can possibly go ! Ok rant over ha
I have an old fuji touring bike and i was about to sell it because it looks old and ugly has scratches all over the frame and a huge dent on the top tube of the frame when my friend tried to use a forklift to pull out the aluminum seatpost from the steel frame, the seat post is still stuck...sad about the whole thing i was about to post it on kijiji and then this video came up on my screen now i feel better about my old rust workhorse bike and will keep working on it until it become a legend like the bike in this video
i am a mobile bmx bike mechanic ( i charge less per hour and can fix anything, but dont carry any parts beyond a spare set of pedals, some brake pads, and some small bits) and i work on $4k ti custom laird bikes and 2k colony and hyper setups, but my current ride is a handmedown sunday with some old parts i find for sale on bmxmuseum
Thing like this build up the soul of a machine. Usually only the rider can feel it, or the rider of another bike with soul. I feel you and the owner of this Bandit deeply brother 🤙
I am 110% in love with that bike now. WOW! Beat on, fixed, beat on more... fixed more. Much love! And who the heck would expect such a gorgeous cobbled parts pile!
The Rodriguez Bandido starts at $5999usd… if I spent 6k on a bike you bet your tail I’d keep it alive no matter what… but I also think 6k for a bike is elitism
Riding a handwelded bicycle, carefully made from ground up using shit and sticks, with all them tubes cracked and brazed back, feels that much more elitist when seeing folks on their out-of-the-box, zero-scratches, maintained by professionals pieces. You fix and cherish this everbroken bicycle so much, you know, there is no-one this dedicated in miles radius.
I’m into bikes and cars, and the contrast of mentality is interesting. That bike is built and maintained like a race car, where as most bike people treat the bike like art
I used to live up the street from Rodriguez. Now I work at a different Seattle bike shop, and we have a special shop bike designed by the owner, and Rodriguez manufactures them to order for us. Look it up. It’s called the kalakala
From watching Brian Chapman on PLP to this heavily modified Rodriguez... makes me want to pick up a torch and braze something! Never mind that I've never held a a torch in my hands in my life. Awesome!
Hey Great channel. My name is TJ. I grew up in Seattle. Do some research on Rodriguez. Their shop is a factory and bike shop in one. You can walk through it. They are famous tandem makers, Angel and his wife Carla. It’s a pretty special part of Seattle cycling culture. If you ever travel there look them up. I moved from Seattle managing a chain of bicycle stores to Boulder CO in 1997 to work at Schwinn headquarters, worked in warranty and was a mechanic for the Schwinn Toyota Homegrown team. I also built Yeti bikes. Rodrigues was originally R &E cycles Rodriguez and Erickson. They also had many employees start spin-off shops and bike brands.
I'm always amazed by the guys on retrobike who find some rusted out hulk from the 30's or 40's and restore it to function with the original hubs, shifters and headsets.
it's funny how the internet gets so fired up about repairing or modifying bikes.. so worried about it having a catastrophic failure. Meanwhile will pay thousands of dollars for a new fancy carbon bike that is also known to break and fail occasionally. I have welded disc tabs and bent bike parts back into shape , and the repairs and modifications have never failed me. only the manufactures have.
I'm putting a 26" terra tech frame back together and it is a off brand of Rodriguez from way back...Rodriguez and Erickson is a bike shop custom builder of almost 50 years ...loads of loyalty around here in Seattle...University of Washington area is where they are located. Build tandems and touring mostly I think steel steel steel...R&E cycles Seattle Wa. ....hand built customs...gotta say I have not been close to all the bike communities around here and I'm trying to change that as I'm 52 and loving bikes more than ever despite nowhere near my top conditioning....I appreciate everyone's interest and truly enjoy the personalities and bike lifestyles
this bike reminds me my old trusty and rusty RIP steel Peugeot which was converted from vintage road bike to vintage cx. Sadly my hands haven`t got to finalise idea of build nice cx or gravelish bike
that bikes just like mine, its not offten you find a bike thats the perfect feel and fit. mines been rebuilt 3 or 4 times, its got rust, dents, not pretty, hammered out areas to fit things better! frames always being straightned, Shes a real peach but rides like a dream!
Eric, when the post-covid time comes around, come out to Seattle and visit! So many great bike companies, like r+e who made the Bandito. More gravel than you can shake a hokey stock at (that's the correct way to say it, right?), enough trails to provide names for 20 more years of raleigh usa bikes, and some fabulous islands to bike around. Bring Russ with you, he wasn't here nearly long enough last time.
This video really hits different. A week ago, I was hit by a car, riding to school on my favorite bike, an All-City Big Block that I have lovingly built up to be my dream bike. The frameset and crankset got absolutely destroyed. Absolutely heartbreaking.
I'm still using my father's bike, that thing got to be older than me, I'm 30, and still rolls so smooth even after taking it to the mountain several times.
This is basically me on my junkyard classic mtb With mismatched rims and shimano mt300 cranks Alivio shifters on claris rd. Straight thrashing like a bmx
Given the predicted shortage of bikes & parts, bike repair might take a big flight in the coming months. I'm guessing you're better off with a weldable frame ...
And here's me, living in Russia, the country of great orkish mechanics raised in USSR, who does all sorts of crazy repairs and "tunings" to vehicles motorized or not, because you couldn't always just "buy" new parts back then, and old habbits die hard: "Well, duh, what else he has to do? OF COURSE HE REPAIRS!"
Other than it being esthetically pleasing what is the advantage of TIG welding a frame over MIG for repairs? Thinking more steel frame and in accessible areas here.
@RollinRat Hey, thanks for the reply. I used to be a welder/fabricator over 20 years ago but lost a lot of the knowledge. I did a lot of TIG welding of stainless steel in lab equipment and machinery for silviculture and aluminum on train boxcar doors. You're right, the material I was TIGing was thin 1-4mm thick (sorry for the metric, I was welding in Sweden). However, I would not hesitate MIG welding bicycle tubing as I think it would not be a problem. Not as nice looking as TIG though. But, for a repair no problem.
@RollinRat Ahh, now that is something I did not know- tube thickness that is. Yep, too much heat might weaken or warp the metal or make it more brittle. TIG would be preferable.
Authenticity is what makes it so beautiful. not a cheap bike either, but ridden and loved to the max...what is with the lacing he did on the back wheel? can someone explain?
@@alderthrelkeld6884 Never heard of that lacing pattern, so the wheel is stiffer, I assume its more stronger as well due to more number of contacts between the spokes?
Yeeeep to hell with all those ”minimalistic” fixie’s with a spotless twotone pearlescent powedercoat finish that hipsters and/or baristas twoddle around on.. 🧐😁
Something about old R and E stuff makes people treat em Ruff and keep em...I shouldn't talk though cause im captain retro myself ...on a 91 allez now and an 85 eddy merckx...90' shifters. And love converting old bikes to new uses...if I don't get disposable income soon I will never experience Di2 or any electric shifting...only road once with a dropper post.. don't use panniers but always have snowboard pack on with 5to20 lbs of crap in it...just what im used to . I seriously think bikes are all they need to be the last 15 years though...less cars more bikes I say
Whoa, sketchy (unsurprisingly) lacing pattern on those wheels. Normally its under-under-over.... he's got under-over-under. Spokes look pretty unhappy. Not gonna lie, this bike is not my jam. But I'm sure it floats the owner's boat so power to 'em
I see where your goin here ... and get the chop shredder. Fork is dope! Now get that GT going... just cut out and replace with a little crude weldin and grinding and sanding your well on your way to have a machine! But you might need to where more brown and green kit corduroy and sick aviator glasses and leather shop gloves and yes will need the custom built bars of course. All of which I have and well on my way ..The grass roots motorcycle chop community ( Born Free) has entered the bicycle world . BMX..is no longer the outcasts Suspension??? What’s that..it’s for gasser bikes Duh! Sign me up for a Jean vest too ...love the channel!
New subscriber, love your content. May I suggest that you hang up some utility/moving blankets on the walls of the room you're recording in to improve the audio quality?
I dunno maybe it is me but having a Bearclaw TI fork which is $700usd along with that handle bar says baller to me. It's like those rat rods that cost $6k but as the name suggests looks ratty.
I'm not going to subscribe, because I actually do need a hole drilled into my frame (to route my new dropper post) and I've been too scared to do it myself. So there!
You should make this a series... Featuring other cool bikes you've found on the interwebs
I think that’s what he’s doing! Lol
Did you just use the term Interwebs? There are more than just me?! 🤩
trasher bash 🔥
I love how uptight some people are. I've found myself wandering down the paranoid rabbit hole reading forums where people worried about fatigue strength of a material like aluminum and questioning how long you should ride certain parts before they mysteriously explode into oblivion. Meanwhile this dude is pushing parts so far beyond what people like that could even comprehend. Great stuff!
as a professional bike mechanic, i can confidently say don’t in any way attempt anything that has been shown here.
as a connoisseur of hacked/diy/rat bikes/whatever the hell that is... this thing absolutely fucking rules and i totally wanna do this to my own bikes when they get thrashed.
You couldnt pay me to work on that bike, but I'm down to rip up some dirt for sure
Both gets the "#yourbikehatesyou" insta shoutout from the mechanics, but mad respect at the same time. hahaha
This video popped up at exactly the right time...the internet of stuff has been heavily marketing a particular bike to me, I have almost pushed the 'add to cart' button so many times..but now I know I don't need that new ride! Money saved, consumerism thwarted...nice job!
wow, what an amazing clapped out beauty. To me these will always be cooler than pristine superbikes with no flaws. This is a bike that actually gets ridden and ridden hard.
I cut out a bottom bracket, welded the shell together with a new one, repaired a rusted out chainstay with a welded patch. Bike doubles in value when XT+ Rhinolite wheel is on it! Friction shifters 10 speed!
Repairs like this are waaaay more fun to do then replacing parts. And the accomplishment and the increased love for the bike you get from it is surely worth the effort.
Man, I really needed to hear this. I work on bikes that are worth more than I can stomach as an 18 yr. old bike tech.. My bikes are closer to the specialized. I keep them as mechanically sound as one possibly can and the proper amount of ugly things I'm too lazy to fix but pass for a certain amount of safe-ish on long rides especially on older bikes. The old steel takes me on longer rides than some of these carbon frames I work on are ridden in a week. No offense to those who have these works of engineering, I'm not trying to compare my work horses to purebreds.. I just feel under-biked when I see the bikes I service sometimes, especially compared to what I ride myself. This video made me feel so good about taking old bikes as far as they can possibly go ! Ok rant over ha
I have an old fuji touring bike and i was about to sell it because it looks old and ugly has scratches all over the frame and a huge dent on the top tube of the frame when my friend tried to use a forklift to pull out the aluminum seatpost from the steel frame, the seat post is still stuck...sad about the whole thing i was about to post it on kijiji and then this video came up on my screen now i feel better about my old rust workhorse bike and will keep working on it until it become a legend like the bike in this video
i am a mobile bmx bike mechanic ( i charge less per hour and can fix anything, but dont carry any parts beyond a spare set of pedals, some brake pads, and some small bits) and i work on $4k ti custom laird bikes and 2k colony and hyper setups, but my current ride is a handmedown sunday with some old parts i find for sale on bmxmuseum
I realy admire folks that fix bikes themselfe like this.
Hello from Berlin
That bolted derailluer tip just prolonged my exact same 10speed GX thingy.... To the workshop! So happy i kept it now...
Thing like this build up the soul of a machine. Usually only the rider can feel it, or the rider of another bike with soul. I feel you and the owner of this Bandit deeply brother 🤙
I am 110% in love with that bike now. WOW! Beat on, fixed, beat on more... fixed more. Much love! And who the heck would expect such a gorgeous cobbled parts pile!
We need more mountain bikes like this in the world and a lot less elitism.
The Rodriguez Bandido starts at $5999usd… if I spent 6k on a bike you bet your tail I’d keep it alive no matter what… but I also think 6k for a bike is elitism
Riding a handwelded bicycle, carefully made from ground up using shit and sticks, with all them tubes cracked and brazed back, feels that much more elitist when seeing folks on their out-of-the-box, zero-scratches, maintained by professionals pieces. You fix and cherish this everbroken bicycle so much, you know, there is no-one this dedicated in miles radius.
I’m into bikes and cars, and the contrast of mentality is interesting. That bike is built and maintained like a race car, where as most bike people treat the bike like art
That frame is amazing, basically a bullet proof tank. A bike lover, does whatever for his bikes.
Loved
Rodriguez are made here in Seattle.
I used to live up the street from Rodriguez. Now I work at a different Seattle bike shop, and we have a special shop bike designed by the owner, and Rodriguez manufactures them to order for us. Look it up. It’s called the kalakala
Me thinking I’m mature:
Eric: B U T T . . .
Me: 😐😐😂😂
From watching Brian Chapman on PLP to this heavily modified Rodriguez... makes me want to pick up a torch and braze something! Never mind that I've never held a a torch in my hands in my life. Awesome!
Yes, there is a life after rust and cracks!
this guy stops by the shop i work at on a semi-regular basis, and i can confirm that this bike goes so hard in person. its incredible
Hey Great channel. My name is TJ. I grew up in Seattle. Do some research on Rodriguez. Their shop is a factory and bike shop in one. You can walk through it. They are famous tandem makers, Angel and his wife Carla. It’s a pretty special part of Seattle cycling culture. If you ever travel there look them up. I moved from Seattle managing a chain of bicycle stores to Boulder CO in 1997 to work at Schwinn headquarters, worked in warranty and was a mechanic for the Schwinn Toyota Homegrown team. I also built Yeti bikes. Rodrigues was originally
R &E cycles Rodriguez and Erickson. They also had many employees start spin-off shops and bike brands.
The unsung bicycle hero, own it , ride it , fix it , repeat.
I'm always amazed by the guys on retrobike who find some rusted out hulk from the 30's or 40's and restore it to function with the original hubs, shifters and headsets.
Notice the "over/under/over" lacing pattern. Huge pain in the ass to replace a spoke, way too many bends, and just about perfect :)
I did. I felt for those spokes. Such extreme bends fit with the tortured vibe of this best of a bike.
That's somebody's baby
That's a good bike
it's funny how the internet gets so fired up about repairing or modifying bikes.. so worried about it having a catastrophic failure. Meanwhile will pay thousands of dollars for a new fancy carbon bike that is also known to break and fail occasionally. I have welded disc tabs and bent bike parts back into shape , and the repairs and modifications have never failed me. only the manufactures have.
Had almost the same build up north, moved to Florida and got rid of cables. All cables!
I sheared the seat tube on my 2014 Mukluk. I regret not repairing it, SOMEHOW instead of recycling it, every day.
I'm putting a 26" terra tech frame back together and it is a off brand of Rodriguez from way back...Rodriguez and Erickson is a bike shop custom builder of almost 50 years ...loads of loyalty around here in Seattle...University of Washington area is where they are located. Build tandems and touring mostly I think steel steel steel...R&E cycles Seattle Wa. ....hand built customs...gotta say I have not been close to all the bike communities around here and I'm trying to change that as I'm 52 and loving bikes more than ever despite nowhere near my top conditioning....I appreciate everyone's interest and truly enjoy the personalities and bike lifestyles
this bike reminds me my old trusty and rusty RIP steel Peugeot which was converted from vintage road bike to vintage cx. Sadly my hands haven`t got to finalise idea of build nice cx or gravelish bike
that bikes just like mine, its not offten you find a bike thats the perfect feel and fit. mines been rebuilt 3 or 4 times, its got rust, dents, not pretty, hammered out areas to fit things better! frames always being straightned, Shes a real peach but rides like a dream!
I really liked this video Eric, Thank you.
Eric, when the post-covid time comes around, come out to Seattle and visit! So many great bike companies, like r+e who made the Bandito. More gravel than you can shake a hokey stock at (that's the correct way to say it, right?), enough trails to provide names for 20 more years of raleigh usa bikes, and some fabulous islands to bike around. Bring Russ with you, he wasn't here nearly long enough last time.
This video really hits different. A week ago, I was hit by a car, riding to school on my favorite bike, an All-City Big Block that I have lovingly built up to be my dream bike. The frameset and crankset got absolutely destroyed. Absolutely heartbreaking.
This is why Spindatt is the goto for Rational bike content
this one hit so harrrrrd
I'm still using my father's bike, that thing got to be older than me, I'm 30, and still rolls so smooth even after taking it to the mountain several times.
Awesome bike, held together with willpower and ridden with intent.
This is basically me on my junkyard classic mtb
With mismatched rims and shimano mt300 cranks
Alivio shifters on claris rd. Straight thrashing like a bmx
More of these video pleaseee!
Keep them coming. Great video.
Quality build, abused beyond belief. Good stuff
This is like a post One Year War Zaku II. Awesome.
Given the predicted shortage of bikes & parts, bike repair might take a big flight in the coming months. I'm guessing you're better off with a weldable frame ...
Yeah this is sick.
And here's me, living in Russia, the country of great orkish mechanics raised in USSR, who does all sorts of crazy repairs and "tunings" to vehicles motorized or not, because you couldn't always just "buy" new parts back then, and old habbits die hard: "Well, duh, what else he has to do? OF COURSE HE REPAIRS!"
Other than it being esthetically pleasing what is the advantage of TIG welding a frame over MIG for repairs? Thinking more steel frame and in accessible areas here.
@RollinRat Hey, thanks for the reply. I used to be a welder/fabricator over 20 years ago but lost a lot of the knowledge. I did a lot of TIG welding of stainless steel in lab equipment and machinery for silviculture and aluminum on train boxcar doors. You're right, the material I was TIGing was thin 1-4mm thick (sorry for the metric, I was welding in Sweden). However, I would not hesitate MIG welding bicycle tubing as I think it would not be a problem. Not as nice looking as TIG though. But, for a repair no problem.
@RollinRat Ahh, now that is something I did not know- tube thickness that is. Yep, too much heat might weaken or warp the metal or make it more brittle. TIG would be preferable.
Ride it til it Ride No More .......... F@$%king Awesome ............thanks for the awesome content Mr Spindt
A street in our area named after a Rodriguez, a late local hero (okay no one was asking, going back to bike restoration)
Alder's a cool guy. I hope only the best for the him.
Authenticity is what makes it so beautiful. not a cheap bike either, but ridden and loved to the max...what is with the lacing he did on the back wheel? can someone explain?
It’s an over under over lacing pattern to stiffen up the wheel and make it impossible to quickly fix a broken spoke
@@alderthrelkeld6884 Never heard of that lacing pattern, so the wheel is stiffer, I assume its more stronger as well due to more number of contacts between the spokes?
i bet that bike operate better than a factory manufactured bike!!!
This motivates me
Loved this!
Not too dissimilar to my Kona weekend hack .
Dude, marketing game on point!
Oh, another excellent video by the way.
Nice!!! Good to see Michael Rosen (the nice guy) Make an appearance in your video especially since Covid very nearly killed him last year 🙈
Yeeeep to hell with all those ”minimalistic” fixie’s with a spotless twotone pearlescent powedercoat finish that hipsters and/or baristas twoddle around on.. 🧐😁
Your threats mean nothing! I drill holes in my own frames!... And then add water bottle bosses 😂
Something about old R and E stuff makes people treat em Ruff and keep em...I shouldn't talk though cause im captain retro myself ...on a 91 allez now and an 85 eddy merckx...90' shifters. And love converting old bikes to new uses...if I don't get disposable income soon I will never experience Di2 or any electric shifting...only road once with a dropper post.. don't use panniers but always have snowboard pack on with 5to20 lbs of crap in it...just what im used to . I seriously think bikes are all they need to be the last 15 years though...less cars more bikes I say
Its got a bottle opener! It wins! you can't have raggedy steel bike without one
My friend has a scandium kona super large frame and snapped the top tube...
Patched it up with a carbon wrap.
(He's poor)
Whoa, sketchy (unsurprisingly) lacing pattern on those wheels. Normally its under-under-over.... he's got under-over-under. Spokes look pretty unhappy. Not gonna lie, this bike is not my jam. But I'm sure it floats the owner's boat so power to 'em
went on the road holes ig recently, rip to a real one
great video, love the instagram not your bike series
Such a great bike!
That is a badass bike
Can we talk about the over under over lacing on the rear wheel?
I see where your goin here ... and get the chop shredder. Fork is dope! Now get that GT going... just cut out and replace with a little crude weldin and grinding and sanding your well on your way to have a machine! But you might need to where more brown and green kit corduroy and sick aviator glasses and leather shop gloves and yes will need the custom built bars of course. All of which I have and well on my way ..The grass roots motorcycle chop community ( Born Free) has entered the bicycle world . BMX..is no longer the outcasts
Suspension??? What’s that..it’s for gasser bikes Duh! Sign me up for a Jean vest too ...love the channel!
im liking these videos.
I 've seen it 9 months ago... youtube suggest it again, you should do an other one!!!
Bikes should be ridden HARD! They shouldn’t be treated like works of art…they should be treated like tools!
New subscriber, love your content. May I suggest that you hang up some utility/moving blankets on the walls of the room you're recording in to improve the audio quality?
BUTT, what happend with that stuck seatpost, was there a lock of motivation to fix it?
Not necessarily, just a lot of spinning plates to keep up all the time
Love it!
Similar to kintsugi... I like it 👌
So I'm assuming its a cromolly frame and the manufacturer didn't bother to anneal or heat treat it
Nah most of the tubes were ultra light air hardened tubes
Patreon bike vault/walkarounds/fleet flex? Just added a Spindatt flavor Rockhopper Sport to my fleet and I'd love to see other viewers bike(s)!
I still owe you a “someone else’s bike” video haha
@@Spindatt I probably ought to shoot something that doesn’t look like garbage then lol
This is good video. Much like
What is up with that lacing pattern? The spokes are almost twisted around each other. And the look backwards in terms of spoke direction. Bizarre!
Very inspiring
FYI your chain tool link is out of date
Lmao I found a gunked up ultegra 8 speed sti behind my lb, serviced it and slapped it on
I think it doubled the value of my bike
Awe, I thought your ultimatum was going to be "Subscribe or I'll use "organic carbon grit" on your seatpost."
I like that bike pretty cool
that pinkkkkk
ha how the hell did the ti bc fork even get tossed in this mix
a bad freehub from a proprietary chinese drivetrain on a walmart bike made me take it back
I dunno maybe it is me but having a Bearclaw TI fork which is $700usd along with that handle bar says baller to me. It's like those rat rods that cost $6k but as the name suggests looks ratty.
[7:11] they COULDN'T, would say it can't be done, and try and sell you $5,000 new bike. fuckin' posers.
this bike is RAD!!!
No one
Really no one
Me: let's see if we can fix that before you buy a new one.....
Dope
Love it! 🤣👌👌
I'd love to have a bike long enough for it to need restorative surgery. never had a bike more than 10 years before it gets stolen though.
Man, what a cool bike!!! 😊
But,why would you do that with your ears?? I mean...😳
Threatening to drill holes in my frame? Drillium when?
If you like custom bikes, check out wzrd.bikes on instagram. He works at a bike shop and makes his own frames from scratch
I'm not going to subscribe, because I actually do need a hole drilled into my frame (to route my new dropper post) and I've been too scared to do it myself. So there!
@RollinRat Hole drilled, and I've gone back and subscribed. 5 months, no issues.