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Applicable in a city or town with reasonable public transport, but many towns have poor bus services and public transport links which lead to an increased dependency on cars. Local services here have been cut drastically, add to that the trains service also is abysmal. I cycle a lot of my journeys and do use the train (when it is running) for my commute, but the reality is we still need a car to get around in many cases.
That’s one of the problems with designing towns around the motor car – it then becomes necessary as it crowds out all the other options. Even public transport becomes undesirable as virtually everyone living in such places will need to own a car anyway and thus the problem continues.
TheBillder wrote:
The thing that’s made the biggest difference to me since Christmas is a nice set of colour coded hex keys (Pearson Fiddlesticks) because I was sick and tired of wondering where I’d left the 5 mm one again. But then I am a bit absent minded.I got some colour coded hex keys a while back and recently Mrs HawkinsPeter spotted them and asked if they were LGBT rainbow ones. I’d consider my hex keys to be male/hetero as they only work properly with female socket bolts etc. but maybe they’re also LGBT allies.
I disagree; I do think it’s selfish but legal. However just because something is legal is not a reason not to adopt more considerate behaviour (but that applies more to drivers than cyclists).I don’t follow how it is selfish? 15 people on bikes will take up an equivalent space of maybe 3 cars which would typically be 3-4 people. That seems economical to me and choosing to use a car with only one or two occupants strikes me as extremely selfish, especially when you consider the pollution that they create.
I don’t get why you’re bringing the legality into this.
A pair of tyre pincers or
A pair of tyre pincers or whatever they’re called
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How about a disk rotor
How about a disk rotor centrelock tool? Your cassette tool may work, but I found that I had to buy an extra tool (IIRC my cassette tool didn’t have a big enough hole to accommodate the thru-axle).
It’s a thing; selfish cyling exists some just don’t want to admit it. There are more selfish drivers than cycllists though.There’s certainly selfish cyclists around, just like there’s selfish pedestrians and roller-skaters too.
However, cycling in a single file of 15 is not selfish – it’s just using the road. I’d consider it far more selfish if it was a line of 15 cyclists being stationary and preventing other traffic from moving, but that’s more likely with motor vehicles due to their size. Strangely, people consider drivers “stuck in traffic” to be the victims rather than active participants in selfishly hogging the road.
Ultimately, it’s down to the
Ultimately, it’s down to the consumer to decide if they are prepared to pay for the goods at the price specified. Competition is often broken in markets as there’s nearly always a benefit to being the biggest player and information is often hidden from customers, so the idea of a “free market” is somewhat of a myth.
I had hoped that 3d printing technology would democratise the production of physical goods in a similar fashion to how open source software took over the world, but it’s much cheaper for a factory to produce goods using more or less traditional methods than for people to get designs 3d printed.
You’re not alone. Many have had similar experiences, for example someone in my club was given their bike back with no hydraulic fluid in their brake lines (not Halfords I hasten to add).They didn’t let that stop them, though
One of the main reasons that
One of the main reasons that I do almost all my own maintenance is the length of time that bike shops can take to do simple jobs. Most of the time, I can plan to do a job, get the appropriate equipment and then carry it all out within a couple of hours – bike shops invariably take days to do anything and weeks if they discover that a component needs replacing and they don’t have it in stock.
I certainly wouldn’t be trusting Halfords with working on my bike judging from various reports of their staff.
I have seen motorway programmes and milk is not good environmentally, can’t have it just going into ditches and drains. More disruption for the clean up.How do we dispose of wasted milk in the house (if my son doesn’t use up all the milk he’s put on his cereal, for example)? – am I supposed to flush it down the loo or put it down the sink?
I’d just throw it a whey
HoldingOn wrote:
Only people with perfect vision can spot the “m” in this list of “n”s Loads of those have been popping up for me.So, do you spot the “m”?
Pointless crying as the M6 is blocked:Legendairy
Sounds like air bubbles in
Sounds like air bubbles in the hydraulics and bleeding them is probably the answer which is not particularly difficult with the right tools. There’s some bleeding kits easily available to match the brake system, but make sure you don’t mix different types of fluid (e.g. mineral oil and DOT fluid).
Mackowski wrote:
Thanks. Great idea, will definitely do that. Just need to order something big to get large enough piece of cardboard lol. Thank youAlso, playing with the saddle tilt is well worth a shot. I have my saddle tilted forwards about 2° but as I have my handlebars low, I tend to get numbness in my hands instead – it takes some experimentation to get things sorted and you’ll likely find that your flexibility will increase as you get used to a cycling position.