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Done but not interested in the voucher.
Why not? You could wait in Halfords by the till and wait until someone wants to buy something that’s more than £20 and offer to swap the voucher for twenty of their English pounds.
Sounds pretty stressful – go
Sounds pretty stressful – go get yourself a beer once things settle down
Probably the quickest way to
Probably the quickest way to get things working properly again.
Maybe they rolled back to a
Maybe they rolled back to a previous version?
So the next dilemma is whether to report something like this. Obviously the driver has given plenty of clearance and visibility ahead isn’t too bad but is clearly illegal as I’m travelling at at least 20 mph. If they are happy to cross the lines in this situation what’s to stop them doing the same close to a blind bend. What would you do?I agree with Bungle_52 – I wouldn’t bother reporting that, but I have reported close passes where the driver attempts to not cross the solid white lines.
I did report one instance where a truck overtook me despite me being in primary (going quick, downhill and just before a blind corner) and the double white lines had just begun – the police didn’t think the overtake was dangerous (it wasn’t a close pass to be fair) and weren’t interested in pursuing it. It probably depends on which police force you’re dealing with, so maybe give it a shot and see what feedback the police give you.
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Actually the link is to the Schwalbe One. The Pro One seems to be available.Cool – I was on my phone, so I didn’t check that well. Previously I’ve got their set of 2 x tyres and sealant which works out cheaper than getting 2 x tyres, so I was looking for that and must have picked the wrong one.
I’ll give you my usual warning about Pro Ones – they’re delicate and I found that they became very slippery in the wet when they were at higher pressures (IIRC over 70 PSI with the 28mm ones). I switched over to getting the Continental TL5000s instead which I’ve found to be superb.
Mantel are a good bet https:/
Mantel are a good bet (I’ve bought from them a couple of times with no problems) https://www.mantel.com/uk/schwalbe-one-tle-road-bike-tyreLooks like they’re currently out of stock but getting some more soon.
Openshot is a powerful, free,
Openshot is a powerful, free, open source video editor – works on Windows, Macs and Linux.
Still waiting to find out what “apparent gearing” means.It’s the ratio of force applied to the pedal versus force provided to the rear wheel for propulsion (i.e. where the tyre hits the ground). It’s basically like gear inches but also taking into account the crank length (i.e. size of lever).
To be fair, the difference between different crank lengths is a small effect and most of the time you’d choose a crank length to fit your legs (and hopefully not hit the ground).
If you consider your 50×13 gear example – a longer crank would propel you a certain distance for the distance that your foot moves, whereas a shorter crank would propel you a longer distance if you moved your foot the same distance. Your feet are moving along the circumference of a circle with the crank length being the radius.
Additionally, different size tyres would also make a small difference to apparent gearing.
No, sheldon brown doesn’t know the answer to everything. Despite it being a parameter in his gear calculator, crank length has no bearing on a gear ratio. If your chainring is 3 times the size of your sprocket then for every turn of your chainring your sprocket (abs so therefore your wheel) will turn 3 times regardless of the length of crank used to turn it.Heretic!
Crank length does have an effect on the apparent gearing – a longer crank will mean that the foot and pedal travel further for each rotation of the back wheel and require less strength (with a shorter crank being harder to push). Similarly, the wheel size doesn’t directly affect the gear ratio, but does affect the apparent gearing (c.f. penny farthings).
Which is exactly why the BBC
Which is exactly why the BBC edited it the way they did.
They must be getting some extra funding from the motor lobby as there’s no way that their continual anti-cycling bias is accidental.
The BBC are just
The BBC are just institutionally anti-cyclist.
I raised a complaint (with the BBC), but I’ve not been satisfied with the replies to any of the other complaints that I’ve raised.
Pedestrianising Princess
Pedestrianising Princess Victoria Street in Clifton, Bristol apparently caused a lorry to scrape a parked car. Also, it’s a ‘nightmare’! (I reckon that’ll buff right out)
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/nightmare-lorry-crashes-car-pedestrianised-5916809
Obviously it’s the pedestrianisation that caused it, not the allowing parking on both sides of a narrow road.
My cynicism suggests that
My cynicism suggests that where there’s money to be made, someone will be exploiting.
One of the problems is that
One of the problems is that we don’t have control over other countries continuing to extract fossil fuels. What we do control, however, is our demand for those fuels, so I think we have to shut down our continued burning of fossil fuels as soon as is physically possible. Building new roads and airports is just ridiculously stupid as what we need is infrastructure for pedestrians, cyclists, scooters and public transport.