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True, true.
Only destroys his opponent if he actually hits them.
OT – but did you see this one, peter? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-50057649
I hadn’t – that’s pretty awesome.
By the way, OnePunchMan is powerless against ordinary animals (from https://sundaycomicsdebt.blogspot.com/2015/07/squirrel-girl-vs-one-punch-man.html):
vonhelmet wrote:
Well, sure, and to be honest the way I ride/drive it’s pretty much mirror mirror mirror mirror mirror mirror mirror mirror mirror…”Mirror” signal manoeuvre, lane or no lane.Shouldn’t that be “mirror”, signal, “mirror”, manoeuvre? Once glance to see if there’s room and a second glance to check there’s still room (also known as “the life-saver”).
I don’t think there’s any issue with cyclists crossing solid white lines – I’d treat a cycle lane like any other part of the road.
Yeah, it’s worrying how many drivers sit at junctions indicating to pull out, and as a space develops, they pull out with doing that final check that it’s still clear to do so (and no pesky bike has gone up their inside/outside).
Ranges from easy to easier, except when it’s nearly impossible. Depending on the style of bolt used, may need a chainring nut spanner (if one side has two flat notches instead of a hex head), and some cranks have to be pulled to swap the rings, though many do not. The nearly impossible comes into play if they’re riveted on, which is usually only seen on very low-cost cranksets.Thanks for the tip! Changing a chain and cassette are currently within my bike maintenance skillset – how easy is it to replace worn chainrings?
I’d be replacing them on this bike:
https://www.evanscycles.com/cannondale-caad-optimo-105-disc-2017-road-bike-EV280310
My hope was that I’d be able to undo some screws, pop the old chainring over the cranks and then do the reverse with the new ring(s).
You should be fine with that – looks like it’s a FSA chainset which are easy to work on.
A far more important question
A far more important question is who would win in a battle between Squirrel Girl and SaitaMan?
Thanks.
Thanks.
My take on this is that the parents are probably factoring in the aggressiveness of some motorists and the traffic experts are just seeing cars/trucks etc.
However, it could just as easily be explained by the parents responding to the MSM agenda of portraying cycling as a dangerous activity.
vonhelmet wrote:
”Mirror” signal manoeuvre, lane or no lane.Shouldn’t that be “mirror”, signal, “mirror”, manoeuvre? Once glance to see if there’s room and a second glance to check there’s still room (also known as “the life-saver”).
I don’t think there’s any issue with cyclists crossing solid white lines – I’d treat a cycle lane like any other part of the road.
Question for you: What does “I’ve sat on both and like both.” Mean? I sat means I rode both? If not get a rough bike fit and go ride. Choose the bike which feels right to your riding style/goals.Better yet, choose the bike that makes you grin more.
Something for lower back pain
Something for lower back pain…
Oh, God help us all! Are you on tomorrow night as well?There’s a squirrel sitting in an acorn tree, doing squirrel stuff…
When he notices an elephant approach and begin to climb the tree. He’s baffled and yells down ‘WHAT are you doing?!’
The elephant nonchalantly replies ‘I’m just coming up to eat oranges’. The squirrel snorts and shouts back ‘you IDIOT; this is an acorn tree!’
The elephant, now nearing the top and getting annoyed by the squirrel, snaps back
‘WELL I BROUGHT MY OWN FLIPPING ORANGES!’
This reminds me of a time
This reminds me of a time that an archaeologist friend of mine visited a small town in Nevada.
He was just ambling around, enjoying the play of the autumn light on the terracotta and adobe-colored buildings. He rounds a corner and is surprised to see the most, bar none, stunningly beautiful alley he’s ever come across…
It may sound like he’s a bit nerdy, but we all have our things we love and he’s a lover of old streets.
The ground of the alley is a light orange in hue, with a soft almost nutty sheen and texture.
His feet feel refreshed!
The street has gorgeous slopes and embankments, like an alleyway out of Florence in the 1500s, but made out of clay stones.
He sees two gentlemen working on fixing a small crack in the street, the only blemish for blocks.
One of them is pounding down the clay with a wide-head sledgehammer, thwap thwap!
The other is on his knees with a compass and a pick and a broom, adjusting the grade of the street material.
He interrupts them to say, “Excuse me gentlemen! I hate to be a bother, but I just want to applaud your hard work on this alleyway. It’s rare a city takes such good care with its streets and this one is one of the best.”
The man with the sledge stops and says, “Well, we appreciate that sir. You know your streets, it seems! Would it surprise you to know that the composition of this street is not adobe? It’s mulched with our native nut trees, the cashew nut. That’s what gives it its softness. When it rains, the petrichor has a slight sweetness due to the cashew, and the town smells fantastic. I’m just hammering it down before it gets too cold.”
“Well, I’ll be!” cried the archaeologist. “And what’s that fellow up to?” pointing to the man on his knees.
“Oh him! He’s in charge of checking the grade of the clay. If it’s too rough, he picks and sweeps it. Backbreaking work. We hire four of them, one for each season. And since autumn just arrived, he’s got a few months yet. So you see…”
And here the man paused…
“So you see…my hammered alley is really ‘cashews clay’. And he is the gradist.”
“The gradist…of fall time.”
hirsute wrote:
Perhaps a camera would be a better option. Depending on police force.Wouldn’t a camera get broken if you used it to smash into cars?
I saw that earlier and
I saw that earlier and debated whether I should post it here and strangely, thought that it wasn’t relevant (never stopped me before).
Hope you didn’t hurt yourself
Hope you didn’t hurt yourself.
It’s a shame they didn’t add
It’s a shame they didn’t add on a bit about how much toxic air is produced by the three methods as well.
Still, I like the phrase “toxic box”.
On the topic of school runs, there’s a choice piece in the BristolPost: https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/knackered-bristol-mum-stuck-school-3399091
Asked if she would consider letting more of her children walk to school, she pointed to recent crime issues.She said: “I am always seeing things on Facebook saying to be on the lookout for this and that in the area.
Sriracha wrote:
The total amount of heat generated will be equal to the total amount of gravitational potential energy, and that will be a linear function of mass x height (as in altitude) differential. Whether you add it up in large but less frequent dollops, or eke it out in one continuous stream, it’s the same mass x the same height differential. However, that all ignores wind and other resistance, which is a non-linear function of speed. So cadence braking, by having intervals of higher speed, should dissipate more energy in resistance losses leaving less for the brakes. At the limit, you would not be braking at all and all the energy loss would be wind/rolling resistance, but death might overtake you first. Then you have to consider how the heat flows. It’s generated at the frictional surfaces, and flows from there. The trick is to keep it away from heat-sensitive things, like the brake fluid, by dissipating it to the air. I’m guessing that with cadence braking the rotors and pads reach a higher peak temperature, causing them to dissipate heat at a faster rate, and then continuing to cool during the rest periods. So they act as a heat sink that is continuously refreshed before each successive injection of heat, so that less heat ever reaches the brake fluid. But I’m yet to convince myself. Could make for a good test with two matched riders on the same descent, one dragging the brakes, the other using cadence braking to achieve the same average speed, the bikes rigged with sensors and data capture. Any engineering students out there?
That will actually create more heat. Hard short braking will work much better and produce less heat. It give the rotor fluids time to coolIt seems to me that continuous light breaking controlling the speed of descent to a near constant will cause fewer problems than occasional heavy breaking, The energy that is dissipated ultimately as heat will be the same in both cases, but heavy breaking will result in much higher brake component temperatures during the period of braking, whilst continuous breaking will result in a lower equilibrium brake component temperature to be established.Is that like how a cup of tea will cool quicker if you wait for it to cool down first and then add milk rather than adding milk and then waiting for it to cool?