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as our man of the spot, hawkinspeter, we need a regular digest of gammon tears about this. Unless you’re saying Bristol is a grown up city and Bournemouth is full of man-children.
I’m sure there’ll be plenty of people complaining here too
Rich_cb wrote:
A *blanket* 20mph limit? Careful lad, that’s fighting talk round these parts.‘Where possible’ though.
A lot of Bristol is congested enough that the limit is irrelevant during the day.
Anyhow, I’ve got my blanket ready
MattKelland wrote:
You’re not wrong: https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/jacob-rees-mogg-chased-university-9251367%5B/quote%5D[quote=hawkinspeter]That doesn’t look like Bristol to me. I’m pretty sure Rees-Mogg would be hounded out of the city if he ever dared to set foot in Bristol.
Close – that’s Cardiff
She had to run to a Bristol hospital from where ever that is north Somerset.That’s more like it.
Here in Bristol we’re often bewildered by the way that people in surrounding areas such as North Somerset seem to keep voting Tory. Our Police and Crime Commissioner for Avon and Somerset (not that Avon exists) would have stayed Tory if it wasn’t for Bristolians.
Brenda is going to be furious. She already had to run once to the hospital as her bus was cancelled – she’ll have to run even more now !(Brenda standing in a pothole to demonstrate the state of local roads).
That doesn’t look like Bristol to me. I’m pretty sure Rees-Mogg would be hounded out of the city if he ever dared to set foot in Bristol.
Sounds odd to me – I’d doubt
Sounds odd to me – I’d doubt that the plastic rim strip would cause a puncture. I’d guess it’s more likely to be some fragment of metal or glass that’s somehow got in.
As I’m on here, I think I’ll share my unfortunate fettling episode this morning. I figured I’d put some air in the rear tyre and check that the sealant level and then lower my saddle about 5mm to see what kind of difference that makes (after seeing that article about bike fitting).
So, happily removed the valve core and shoved in the sealant syringe and found that it was virtually dry, so put in 40ml and inflated it and saw that a previous puncture opened up again, so I left it with the puncture in the 6 o’clock position in the hope that it would seal again.
Meanwhile, I figured I’d check the front wheel sealant level. Removed the valve core and annoyingly, the plastic extension piece (I’m running 60mm deep rims and MilkIt valves that have a rubber seal on the bit inside the tyre) got stuck in the valve. No problem – just unseat one side of the tyre and get to the bottom of the valve and push out the plastic bit. Reseated the tyre and inflated no problem.
Meanwhile, my rear tyre had leaked out almost all the new sealant that I’d put in, so removed the valve core again and this time, the plastic extension piece got stuck. Swore a bit and then did the same thing as with the front – reseated, refilled and reinflated. Put the wheel back on the bike and that’s when I noticed that the freewheel hub was completely knackered – unless you want a rear wheel freewheeling both directions.
Luckily, I’ve got my previous rear wheel still lying around and waiting for me to replace a spoke that I’ve never got around to. So, took off the freehub and moved it onto my current rear wheel (they’re both made by Prime, so I was confident that it would fit). Put the wheel back on and then realised that the puncture just wasn’t sealing, so after failing to find a pack of anchovies that must be around somewhere, I thought screw-it and just put a new tyre on instead.
(I did lower my saddle a bit – I’ll try it out tomorrow)
That reminds me of a cycle lane in Bristol along Clarence Rd (https://maps.app.goo.gl/wMYjd5nDDQ5Fvhie7). They orignally had concrete lumps to protect the lane and then decided to remove them due to the number of cars getting stuck on them.
https://road.cc/content/news/169709-bristol-bike-lane-bollards-be-replaced-within-weeks
I just had a quick look at
I just had a quick look at Token’s website and they list i-ride.co.uk as their UK distributor, so I went there and found these ones in stock: https://www.i-ride.co.uk/products/components/braking/rim-brake-pads/tk345s-all-weather-brake-pads-for-wide-carbon-rims-hg/?sku=TK-BZZ345S-TK
They’re the “wide” ones, whatever that means.
Might be worth having a look
Might be worth having a look at Noah & Theo: https://noahandtheo.co.uk/index.php
They’re 3rd party pads and I’m not sure which pads you’re looking for – are they made by Token?
How about this: https://www
How about this: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004258548736.html or this: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006170354746.html
I’ve got an ultra-mini laptop
I’ve got an ultra-mini laptop (8 inch screen) with v4.0.4 installed for doing firmware updates etc. I’ve found the bluetooth connection to be trickier to use than the SM-BCR2 and a PC. My ultra-mini laptop happens to run Windows, so I haven’t tried running the E-Tube software under emulation (the laptop is a Chuwi model and had issues with the SSD not talking very well under Linux – the system would freeze/hang-up every so often so I had to revert to running the host OS as Windows and Linux running under HyperV).
ktache wrote:
What were they thinking building a grade II listed building that close to a main road…They should never have been given planning permission for that
You have to add images via a reply to yourself after the topic is created. One at a time too.You can add them to the original forum post, but you need to host the images elsewhere (e.g. Imgur) and then provide a direct image link between two “img” tags (i.e. “img” in square brackets at the start of the link and “/img” in square brackets at the end). That also allows you to have multiple images in a post or comment rather than using the easier “Upload” button.
(If you see my earlier post with the two images, you can click on “quote” to see what I mean)
Avanti does not allow locking bikes on trains.What does this mean? You can’t lock your bike to some part of the train, or you can’t lock it to itself? And, in either case, why not?
My guess is that they might conceivably need to move the bikes (e.g if handlebars got tangled) and they wouldn’t be able to do that if they’re locked.
.With thanks to the anti cyclist guardian, Joe Lycett and Foka Wolf.Do I win a prize for recognising where that is from just half of the road sign?
It’s just 5 minutes from my house in Bristol – Blackswarth Rd leading to Crews Hole Rd.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/6c7gSndgy7tGVory9
Edit: rode past there and it’s currently a British Airways advert