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I’m now slightly annoyed that
I’m now slightly annoyed that I walked our Xmas tree home like some kind of peasant.
Bristol bus smashes into
Bristol bus smashes into house after being hit by car: https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bristol-bus-smashes-house-after-7937671
I don’t know why, but the car driver fled the scene on foot after the car collided with the double-decker.
What I find more puzzling is that there was a bus in Bristol that could be hit – I thought they’d gone extinct.
My top tube bag might be empty…
Is that a euphemism?
If you’re cold, then they’re
If you’re cold, then they’re cold – bring them in!
However, if you insist on treating them with cruelty, then cold shouldn’t affect much. I’d be inclined to check that brakes are still working fine before setting off as you never know if you got a bit of ice trapped somewhere and maybe the gears too.
Sadly, the guards probably are telling truth. A long time ago, the first thing we taught them was to not lay a hand on a shop lifter. In the store, the goods are not stolen yet (even if hidden in a bag or stuffed up a jumper). Outside the store, they are not insured and may find themselves on an assault charge.Erm… So what are they being paid for, exactly?
As a deterrence and to occasionally eject unwanted customers. I’ve seen some cardboard cutouts of police used in lieu of security guards at some bargain/pound shops.
Would diabetes count?Maybe if you telll them you urgently need to buy some jelly babies as you’re feeling hypo.
I read the headline for this and honestly thought you were on about a crossing for sparrows (like hedgehogs, toads, et al) <face/palm>Maybe they’ve got tired wings?
Aren’t there studies that show how much traders overestimate how many of their customers came by car and parked right outside / near their premises…No it’s well known that pedestrianised areas rapidly turn into ghost towns and all the shops go out of business.
I guess the beauty of modern cycling is that you can be a techno-fiend… some folks love the latest gadgets, equally others prefer it being an ‘analogue’ pursuit. My worry is that the manufacturers are pushing us down a digital route (looking at you Shimano), along with a move to disc-brake only wheel upgrades.I personally cannot see what problem electronic shifting actually addresses over properly set-up and maintained cable shifters, without introducing different issues.
I can see the advantage of discs, but not enough to upgrade my perfectly good and much-loved frameset.
Tubeless seems to introduce a whole host of other issues… sealing the rim to the tyre, topping up sealant etc. Even if I was running tubeless I’d go out with a tube and levers in case the sealant failed so I really don’t see the advantage. I run tubes at quite low pressures anyway.
Personally, I’m a fan of new tech and love to try out new stuff (as long as it’s not too pricey). The biggest innovation on road bikes is the combination of disk brakes and carbon wheels. Carbon allows wheel designers to craft specific shapes and disk brakes allows superb braking performance without compromising the design of the wheel so you can get decent whooshing sounds when they pick up speed.
Tubeless does provide excellent ride quality and the lack of the P word is obviously good, but I can see why people might prefer tubes. Electronic shifting is only a slight improvement on cable gears and also brings some downsides.
First suggested by HawkinsPeter, they should string cycle helmets along the wall opposite the mouth of Park Wynd. I have it on good authority from Linda from Facebook that every little helps.If it saves one life…
And so it begins
And so it begins
Uncle Stans is shite for road. Orange Endurance is what you want. Plus overdose it for the first couple of applications if using new tyres.Its a fair critism of tubeless that its a lottery of variable factors. Its magic once you get it settled. Borderline on 28mm tyres and pressures imo, good on 30-32. Bloody magic on anything bigger.
(No worse than the “chain lube freaks” though. And much more real life benefits than any chain lube apporach you will find.)
Caffelatex works well too. You do need to top it up every so often though – most of my tyre problems come from when the sealant’s all dried up.
I should add a caveat (as should everyone) that one person’s experience doesn’t represent a good sample, however, in the club people are generally content with their Di2. I’m more irritated by the lack of upgradeability without the expense – mine was the battery version just before they introduced better programmability so I’ve only got basic shifting.I do like Di2, but it is expensive. The battery price is definitely a rip-off – a cheap lithium cell and a bit of electronics for over £100! I wouldn’t recommend using it for touring in areas that don’t have well stocked bike shops due to the chances of it failing – could do with a manual control of the gears (e.g. at the derailleur) for when the battery fails. All it needs is a little lever/control that disconnects the cage from the motor so that you can move it by hand to the desired gear and then fix it in that position – would only allow you to use one gear at a time, but you could at least hop off and change it for big hills.
Awavey wrote:
but why does nearly every cyclist youtube channel with tubeless, who goes out on a ride nearly always get a puncture ? they rarely seem to last more than a couple of rides before oh stop for a puncture again.
That’ll be the Big Tubes lobbyists sabotaging them
I’ve had a couple of battery
I’ve had a couple of battery failures with Di2. One of them just happened out of the blue – cycled to work fine, locked it up and then the gears were dead when I came to cycle home. The other failure was after I damaged a cable and the battery lost power quicker and quicker until it was unusable.
Changing a Di2 battery is easy enough, but expensive.
