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The frame is more compliant than a used Shimano Ultegra crank
Purely decorative calipers, I’m afraid.
Incidentally, the tyres are the biggest tyres that LEGO has manufactured.
Looks to me like this site is going for full-on enshittification.
It’s a shame really as the old site was so much better for comments/discussions/helmet rows.
Just in case you’re not aware, but a lot of people visit Road.cc for the “wisdom” in the comments under the articles. With the new website, it seems that commenting is made more difficult and this is going to reduce the amount of engagement with long-time visitors. When the number of comments drops off, I guess you’ll see the amount of traffic dropping off too, which I guess is not what you actually want.
I recommend that you fix the commenting quickly as it’d be a shame to see Road.cc disappear just because of a borked upgrade.
Looks like the IMG tags don’t work now in comments. They did a few days ago, so I don’t know if that’s by design.
Huh, just discovered that once a comment thread goes 4 deep, you can’t reply to the comments.
Okay, after giving the site redesign a few days to settle down and for me to get used to it, I really don’t like the new look. There’s too much whitespace which makes it more awkward to read the comments. The lack of comment quoting and editing is a negative too.
I don’t like the change to the “Latest Comments” – I preferred it when it showed only the latest comment on each of the more recent threads/topics. That made it easy to read the most relevant articles, whereas now there’ll be multiple links to the same article due to it having the most recent comments and other articles will fall off the carousel.
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Spray WD40 all over the components. that’ll get rid of any stiction.Hope this helps 🙂
Micronised carbon is a better lubricant for scales as it won’t gum it up after a time.
The tea should be brewed before it ever gets to the cup anyway – in a Proper Teapot.Quite. I must confess that I only occasionally drink tea and so I usually brew in the cup itself with one of these devices:
I like the way it allows more space for the leaves to move around – most steepers that I’ve seen are too small.
Mr Blackbird wrote:
This discussion is an example of roadcc at its finest. I have gained some useful knowledge about coffee beans, loose teas and weighscales today. I tend to drink coffee am and tea pm. I have tried various teas, such as Darleeling, Earl Grey, Assam, Kenyan, Chai and like them all, but am ashamed to say that I find PG Tips is very hard to beat (as long as it isn’t made too strong). The best ever coffee I can remember having was at a coffee shop in Peterborough run by a Latvian family. The most disappointing (excluding Starbucks and Costa) was some ground Jamaican Blue Mountain – the flavour was weak, but maybe it had been in store a long time because of it’s price! The parallel of Tubeless = Beans and Loose is an excellent piece of work. Could pre or post lactarianism be analogous to disc/rim brakes or maybe tyre width / pressure?Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee can be over-rated. It’s a great coffee with a relatively mild but well balanced flavour (i.e. very little bitterness), but it got over-hyped, probably due to its scarcity. There’s only a small area that it comes from and 80% of the production goes straight to Japan (there’s a strong link between Japan and Jamaica), so the rest of the world fights over the remaining 20%. It’s better to try less well known coffees as there can be some real gems from the small independent producers.
As to lactarianism, it’s clearly a mistake to put milk in before the tea as it lowers the brewing temperature. (Good coffee shouldn’t require milk to reduce the bitterness)
wtjs wrote:
Crikey! This coffee business is hard and complicated work when an alternative is easy and cheap: go down to Booths (some research will be required to determine the most suitable variety) and buy a sealed pack of loose Earl Grey for £3. Put a small amount, about 3 mls for 400 mls tea, in a tea-egg or similar device and add almost boiling water. The pack lasts more than 2 months. All reminiscent of tubes v. tubeless, although I am thinking of TPU as a concession to progress.I do like a decent Earl Grey, but I thought boiling water was recommended for black teas?
Loose leaf Russian style Earl Grey is my favourite
Mr Blackbird wrote:
Instead of buggering about with scales, repeatability, precision etc, why not buy ground coffee (consistent bulk density) and add it volumetrically (I use heaped tablespoons) to your cafetiere or percolator. I tend to drink Taylor’s After Dark either on its own or as a 75/25 mix with a flavoured coffee. Maybe these coffees are such high roasts that any variations in measurement are insignificant.?Unfortunately, pre-ground coffee is inevitably stale before it leaves the supermarket shelves. When coffee beans are roasted, they tend to be best used after two or three days to allow them to de-gas, but they start going stale after a couple of weeks. Once you grind beans, the extra surface area means that they go stale much quicker – within an hour or two.
Very dark roasts are more consistent in terms of flavour, but the flavour tends to be more due to the character of the roast than the character of the beans. It basically means that cheaper beans can be used with dark roasts as people won’t be able to tell much difference between the cheap and expensive beans (see Starbucks for details or should that be Charbucks).
Its as clear as mud now, thanks
You need a coffee spectrophotometer or refractometer for that: https://www.beanpoet.com/best-coffee-refractometer/
Great fun reading the comments.My solution is to put a Nespresso pod in the machine and then press espresso or lungo.
<<lobs grenade into discussion and retires very quickly>>
If you really want to set off indignant coffee aficionados, my favourite is to keep referring to “expresso”. (There are good arguments for why “expresso” is as valid as “espresso”).
