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Boatsie wrote:
Just as happy as fly lips on a corny ship Although I’m not knot fit and won’t be doing a flip. Most recent photo..many months old. Although filthy at moment. Smoke was thick, pressure blew at least one window out. Firemen took out at least a few other windows. Smashed 9 as total. My helmets all melted. Lol. Guessing I’ll start riding soon. Loving wide tyre roadies.Was that from all the fires going on in Australia? I hope you’re safe and the country stops burning soon.
I was getting that yesterday morning pretty much every other refresh, seemed to clear up in the afternoon.My antivirus software (BitDefender) also kept blocking a script multiple times on each page load.
Web Threat Blocked
Infected web resource magictraps.com/221a***********cd5d.js
(I’ve redacted the full filename to prevent people running it)
I scanned the offending script manually using https://urlscan.io and it passed as clean, so its probably more likely to be poorly written tracking/nuisance adware than something that will try and wipe your disk / hold you to ransom.
Nothing says nuisance ads more than a domain name like magictraps. I assume the road.cc site admin staff noticed the poor performance and blocked the ad provider.
I don’t think the ads were the cause as I have my browser fairly locked down with AdBlock Plus and NoScript so my browser wouldn’t even see that javascript let alone run it.
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#Me too
#Me too
I’d go for a reasoned
I’d go for a reasoned dissection of each particular complaint and explain calmly and clearly why their complaints don’t have any kind of logical basis.
The chances are that they haven’t put any thought at all into their complaints and are just repeating emotional reactions to being stuck in a metal cage for long periods.
TheBillder wrote:
I’d pay more if I could disassemble the mouthpiece to get it really clean. Some of my bottles are labelled not to do this; the rest are blank. I don’t want to destroy one in trying it.I’ve got some Camelbak (before I realised their connection to gun sales) bottles that have a good mouthpiece design for cleaning.
They’re not going to learn a lot from that survey. Having said that, I did another poorly thought-out survey on water bottles the other day clearly compiled by someone who’d never ridden a bike with a water bottle. Keep it up Road.cc. How about quality testing the survery before you ask us to take part?I don’t think you can really pin the blame on Road.cc – they just provide a free forum. Blame the person doing the posting for the poor quality surveys.
That water bottle survey was heroically bad.
Boatsie wrote:
Due to a recent FAR K. I’m allowed to buy a bike, hand over receipt and get reimbursed but I’m going for a good quality cheap bike instead of a slightly more expensive lighter, easier shifting transport machine. Because I’m an idiot and really find non needed use of carbon composites unnecessary. Looking at 2 bikes in particular (3), looked at a GT but only found carbon forks. I’d love a GT but don’t care. Other 2 bikes have base models with alloy forks. Looking at CX. Looking at imaginary images on pictures of bike, they look like they’d provide a higher torque during acceleration, hence they look quick. Tending towards the cheapest gravel bike though. Same frame volume throughout models of gravel bikes, not sure if base model is triple butt, double butt, I think it’s hydroform.. It’s 11.5 kg. All alloy. 2*7 speed disc brakes at 250 quid($500 Aud) with front/rear rack and guard mounts plus bottles. 7 speed, I don’t torque shift, spacings easy to clean and maintain and super cheap to replace when worn. Basically a cost effective endurance set with wide stays to roll fat tyres. Wheels on bike are cheap, often hearing of spoke breakage, should be fine to hop gutters and avoid jumps with. More than plenty enough strength and maybe later a seasonal aero set with skinnies. Gravel will offer comfort over long road rides, whereas a CX would be quicker and nimble and adopt more choice of routes but maybe not as fast on a long flat straight due to posture. Well that’s Watt eye recon from this thoughtless more on anyway.. You beauty. Ride onI like this post
You’ve got some trailing
You’ve got some trailing characters in your link – it should be: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/QGT6PXT
I was going to start answering it, but the first question only allows one response whereas I’d want to check several of them.
I’ve filled that in now.
I’ve filled that in now.
Some of the questions seem a bit pointless to me – why would anyone want a water bottle that transferred smell/chemicals etc into the contents? Similarly, no-one wants a leaking bottle – why even bother asking those kinds of questions?
Can I recommend adding in
Can I recommend adding in some options about requirements e.g. winter shoes, wide-fitting etc.
would caulking (Its waterproof and ussed to seal up stuff) its sort of like apoxy but softer, would it work to use it to replace the gromets?Possibly. I’ve used Sugru on my bike when the hard plastic hose holder kept breaking. Sugru is hand moldable silicone rubber – it sets in about half an hour. You can get it from Amazon/EBay or model shops easily enough in a variety of colours.
Haven’t tried it myself.
Haven’t tried it myself.
I’d go with the first vehicle that reaches the pinch point should have priority, but some drivers don’t see it that way. With the cycle lane being blocked, it’s less clear and I can see why the bus driver might think that you were in the wrong place.
Isn’t there some law/by-law that building works that block cycle infrastructure for a significant time have to provide an alternative?
Their ‘Premium’ Fat bike looks like it may be missing something…not sure what though…Mudguards?