Three time bike theft victim went out to steal himself a replacement

Tried the ChatGPT Komoot integration. It didn’t work. Asked for some routes from my home. It started them in other towns. Basically it provided the same output as if I’d just gone onto Komoot and asked for a similar 4 hour road route. So to me, it just looks like a bit of PRery. Nothing new to see here. No need for outrage - it just gives you the same as if you look at heatmap style routes on Strave, RidewithGPS etc - perhaps it will change and become the devil. Perhaps not.

I haven’t seen this survey but if I was asked - do you feel safe cycling in London I would reply ‘no’. If I was asked - do you feel safe cycling in any of these boroughs, Camden, Hackney, Islington, City of London, parts of Enfield, Westminster, Lambeth, Southwark, Walthamstow I would reply ‘Yes’ London is a huge city. Most of Central London and some outer boroughs have very good infrastructure. The outer boroughs are hideous to cycle in; dangerous, angry drivers, fast roads, huge SUVs, Uber drivers,Van drivers, Daily Mail readers..that sort of challenge.

What was it The Streets used to sing? ‘A grand don’t come for free’ or something like that. This isn’t bad for less than a grand. It’s biggest plus is it’s from a shop and not on-line, where there is no after sales support. If it was mine, I would swap the tyres immediately and get some more puncture resistant tyres - a puncture on an e-bike with a rear hub motor is a pain.

"There's a solution for ebike parking chaos" - but, er, the BBC doesn't appear to know what it is, from what I can make out from this article. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2d1ne15w5go

One of those inflatable saddle covers, surely...

Hiplock are offering 10% off their series 1000 ultimate bundles, the lock and the anchor, with ULT10, until the 28th. It's something.

Stage 4 - the bot turns up and wants to do the ride with you. :o(

Very good.. And if white shorts reflect the aesthetic of where amateur (road) cycling is, I have one more reason why road cycling is dwindling.

I see LLMs as returnung the internet to its proper form. We had stage 1, where we could use the internet to dodge human interaction. Result! Then stage 2, social meeja, where suddenly the internet was about interacting with more people. Boo! Now stage 3: we can dodge the humes again and instead prattle on to chat bots and ask them to plan bike rides.

We are told day in day out that AI is the future, mankind's only way forward. One step at a time, the environmental damage and human costs of AI start to surface. Mega data centres require plenty of electricity to power servers and gazillion of cubic meters of water for cooling, each year. This means more atmospheric pollution and respiratory diseases and less water for humans, animals and agriculture.