Commuter diaries – I feel like Dorothy

Wouldn't a police officer issuing a ticket for a non-existent offence be grounds for more than a slap on a wrist at a job appraisal?

My suggestion is to use a dry-wipe marker. When the owner finds it and then eventually wipes it off easily, hopefully they might realise how much worse it could have been with a permanent one.

Doing some tooth counting based on the image above, the 11-36 cassette is composed of: 11-13-15-17-19-21-23-25-28-32-36. I would have preferred 11-12-14-16-18-20-22-25-28-32-36 (because the 21-23 is unnecessarily tight and the 11-13 too big), but I guess we can't have everything perfect. Shimano tends to choose cog sizes based on how well they can align all of the shift ramps and gates to make mechanically smooth shifting rather than to minimize cadence jumps.

This is exactly my question. The derailleur geometry looks similar to other road 11-speed options, so I'm hoping that's the case.

CUES doesn't seem attractive to anyone who even vaguely considers themselves interested in their performance, not least cos it's a terrible name, so perhaps a Tiagra revamp is a tacit admission of that. That still leaves a huge market of people who just want a bike that works, and the CUES promise of long-life components is very relevant in the era of ebikes, so probably going too far to say CUES has failed.

Give Way lines should be on the left of the cycle lane as viewed I think, but probably the people marking out the lines in Gt Yarmouth have little experience of cycle lanes.

Is the cable pull compatible with other Shimano 11spd? 4700 wasn't compatible with other 10spd.

https://m.xkcd.com/927/

Probably a good thing it doesn't come with a rim brake option, because it would stop all these oems using the rim brake brifters with mechanical disc brakes to save a few pennies on their builds.

Yes, and also while "roads were not built for cars" they are now designed for moving motor vehicle traffic. So they are frequently lacking in convenience for non- motorised users. As well as being unpleasant places to be in outside of a motor vehicle. Take traffic lights - needed to manage drivers of motor vehicles. But (outside of eg. level crossings) not required for non-motorised traffic. It's little sweat for drivers to accelerate to the minimum speed limit, race 500 meters, then stop and wait. Most people aren't interested in cycle interval training though. Reduce the volume and speed of motor traffic - and ideally send most elsewhere so people inside and outside vehicles aren't mixing - and we all reap benefits (even drivers)!