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  • in reply to: Tubeless tire blisters #1006365
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    Wingguy wrote:
    Are you somehow under the impression that boring tubed tyres never have delamination issues or other manufacturing defects?

    I’d be surprised to see delamination on tubed tyres as there shouldn’t be any noticeable air pressure against the inside of the tyre to push apart the layers. Yes, the inner tube will be pressing against the inside, but it will distribute pressure over any tyre defects so even if there is delamination, it’s unlikely to be visible as there won’t be blisters.

    in reply to: Tubeless tire blisters #1006351
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    wtjs wrote:
    HP is a worthy source of advice about things to avoid- I have taken note of the radical Ultegra Pasta Cranks, and now it’s the delaminating tubeless super-techno graphene tubeless tyres with aero-blisters which confirm my decision to stick with boring old tubes and Schwalbe Marathon Plus. I’m sure they’re slower but it doesn’t make much difference while towing a trailer round the Lakes, and I haven’t had a puncture for over a year

    I’ve had zero problems with Conti GP 5000TLs (running tubeless). Schwalbe Marathon Plus are a good way of avoiding the p-word, but they’re heavy and aren’t very flexible.

    in reply to: Tubeless tire blisters #1006343
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    Is it anything like the

    Is it anything like the blisters I got on my Goodyear tyre? https://road.cc/content/tech-news/270603-first-look-goodyear-eagle-f1-road-tyres-launched-graphene-technology

    IIRC it’s the tyre layers delaminating which shouldn’t be a major problem, but I changed my tyre after getting them as they’re not confidence inspiring and they made a funny noise rolling until the blisters got flattened.

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    IanMSpencer wrote:

    IanMSpencer wrote:
    Alpacas are smaller and look silly, often helped along by stupid haircuts, llamas are bigger and have a face like a camel (not that this helps in the UK). I was surprised to discover that alpacas make noises. A local was walking two large shaggy dogs and the local alpacas went mad, making a screeching noise. Apparently they did it on sight of the dogs every time.

    There’s no dogs allowed on the alpaca-walk as alpacas get very nervous around them. Alpacas can be very skittish, but they’re quite friendly to humans as long as they don’t get spooked. Apparently they spit at each other as a dominance thing, but very rarely spit at humans whereas I’ve heard that llamas can be quite aggressive.

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    Awavey wrote:
    if its fields you want https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/crime/driver-arrested-after-car-crashes-in-sudbury-field-9295420

    I just liked the picture of the Alpacas reaction…or was it a Llama…the police werent sure

    Definitely looks like an alpaca to me. We took some alpacas for a walk on our recent holiday in Brecon courtesy of Alpaca My Boots

    in reply to: Stem/steerer clamp bolts #1006257
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    That seems odd, but if it can

    If it can be tightened enough so that the wheel won’t move, then it should be fine for use. I’d agree that no gap does seem a bit odd, though.

    It’d be interesting to see if anyone else has that stem and whether they have a gap or not.

    in reply to: Streets of Bridgwater closed off for filming of new TV drama #997763
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    brooksby wrote:
    Yeah, but its for a period drama so its fine.  All the usual complainants will be gathered round watching it at teatime on a Sunday.

    They weren’t even able to feature them on TV adverts until 1972, and now they do whole dramas about them?

    in reply to: Those ‘ice on the windows’ tweets #996845
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    jaymack wrote:

    jaymack wrote:
    When I were a lad, we used to dream of living in the corridor. It would have been a palace to us, we used to live in an old water tank in a rubbish tip. We were woken each morning with a load of rotting fish being dumped all over us.

    I told the kids of today your story and they didn’t believe you

    in reply to: Wahoo breaks element bolt #997649
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    Not encountered that issue

    Not encountered that issue although my Bolt doesn’t seem to connect to my phone unless I open up the Elemnt app. Also, after it has connected to the app, it then won’t re-connect unless I terminate the app and restart it or leave it long enough e.g. overnight.

    Your problem might be to do with your particular phone as Bluetooth seems to vary amongst manufacturers. What particular phone do you have?

    in reply to: Car crashes into building – please post your Local news stories #966191
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    It’s lucky that they didn’t

    https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/IYtbQd0Q/poster.jpg

    It’s lucky that they didn’t kill anyone or else it would have been in-fanta-cide

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    IanMSpencer wrote:
    Hve you noticed that there are no cars in Star Trek* – they walk (or crawl in Jeffries tubes) have multi-dimensional lifts for long distance travel on the ship, and everything else is the transporter.

    I suspect we won’t evolve the transporter unless we manage to invent the nearly free energy we were promised with nuclear power – and don’t mind occasionally been turned into blobs of ooze. Still, worth it to avoid the parking problems of now.

    *Excluding the obligatory time travel episode.

    What amuses me is that the Star Trek transporters were invented to reduce the cost of making the programmes – no need for expensive space shuttle shots.

    in reply to: Car crashes into building – please post your Local news stories #966163
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    They were planning on

    They were planning on flooring it

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    Rich_cb wrote:

    Rich_cb wrote:
    And we’re nowhere near as bad as the US. I have some friends there and it’s genuinely impossible to get anywhere from their house without a car. That’s why I think self driving cars will be successful. They will enable our society to keep using most of our current car centric infrastructure. The cost of replacing that infrastructure would be enormous. The cost of implementing self driving cars will likely be negative overall. Money talks.

    The U.S. is truly terrible to get around unless you’re in a city.

    It may play out that autonomous cars take off in the U.S. but I have my doubts about their power infrastructure being able to handle lots of EVs – our own power infrastructure is going to need serious work to enable it and we don’t suffer from all the brown-outs due to aging infrastructure that they do. There’s also the issue of lithium supply unless alternate battery tech is developed (quite possible).

    I think it’s a mistake to keep current car-centric infrastructure as it doesn’t work well now with current traffic levels, so unless autonomous vehicles can significantly reduce traffic levels, there will be the same traffic jams featuring autonomous vehicles.

    The best bet is to try to replace as many journeys as possible with two-wheelers/two-feeters and thus reduce the overall traffic load – eBikes will likely make a bigger impact than autonomous cars will.

    in reply to: Car crashes into building – please post your Local news stories #966159
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    Doesn’t look like broad
    Doesn’t look like broad daylight to me

    in reply to: Hit-and-run driver who killed motorcyclist jailed for 24 years #997561
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    chrisonatrike wrote:
    The rich and powerful are always going to have it easier – at least until HP gets the revolution going.

    Look, have you got any idea how hard it is to seed an insurrection using just squirrel pictures?

    https://cdn.road.cc/wp-content/uploads/roadcc/614oSjFBxuL.jpg

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