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What do you have on the
What do you have on the bottom of your Garmin mount? Is it a male quarter turn fixing (used for Varia headlight and the likes of Fabric Lumaray & Ravemen FR160)?
If so, then you’ll need a Garmin Quarter-turn to Friction Flange Mount Adapter:
https://www.garmin.com/en-GB/p/552900…plus the Exposure GoPro fitting Light Clip
https://www.exposure-use.com/Brands/Exposure-Lights/Products/Bike/Brackets-and-Mounts/Helmet-Light-ClipI use the Exposure Joystick in a similar way, the mount is the same for the Sirius.
Put the two together and it should fit on the bottom of your Garmin mount, providing it’s one with the Varia mount on the bottom. If it’s not, you could try using a third-party Garmin Edge mount with GoPro blades on the bottom and then just use the Exposure clip linked with that.
If we’re doing car bumper
If we’re doing car bumper stickers…
I’m sure Johnny Depp would be
I’m sure Johnny Depp would be interested.
Rich_cb wrote:
I think we need to find a way of taxing wealthy boomers and Gen Xers to provide the services which those generations are now requiring or will imminently require. Property taxes are the most obvious way IMO. Reform council tax to make it truly progressive and you’ll tap a lot of unearned property wealth and also encourage better functioning of the housing market.I’d be interested in your thoughts on how a property tax would work, there will be a lot of people who as they get older, due to property inflation in the 2000s, will be “home rich, cash poor”, i.e. living in a modest home (with a market value of ~£750000), but getting by on state pension plus whatever other pension provisions they made. Until the auto-enrol schemes became law around 10 years ago, there’s a whole generation of people from the 80s/90s who have little or no pension provision.
People in the home rich cash poor situation above could sell and downsize, but this won’t always be possible. Interestingly, when a similar scheme was introduced to encourage people in social housing in 4-5 bedroom houses to downsize and make their house available to larger families on the housing waiting list, the under-occupancy charge, it was described as a “bedroom tax” by opponents.
From time to time, I do
From time to time, I do venture through the door at the rear to check my family haven’t moved out ?
Nothing new or post-Brexit
Nothing new or post-Brexit about this, just 25 miles west of Poole and BCP council, here in Weymouth there’s been no street lighting in residential areas midnight-0530 since 2012.
Wow.How easy is it to take out / put back the top most bikes on those triangular stands?
I find it easy to do (my height 1.81m), the lower bikes have to be out so there’s some rotation to do a couple of times a year (winter bike goes to the top in the summer). Then, with bike facing right, hold seat tube and head tube, put one foot inside the lower bar of the stand, and either remove it from or place it on the top rail. I’ve only got drop bar bikes in there (not sure it’d work that well with flat bars due to overlap), the heaviest of those is the gravel bike at just over 10kg, and it’s still easy enough to lift and place. The saddle of the top bike is just about 10cm lower than the 2.4m ceiling, so that’s another consideration.
I refurbed my garage a few
I refurbed my garage a few years ago. I started by plylining the bare brick walls and painting. Next, laid down studded interlocking floor tiles from BIGDUG and picked up some kitchen cabinets & drawers from a local kitchen fitter who had a cancelled order. Cheap worktop from Wickes, overhead cabinets from BIGDUG, then 4 Bott Perfolock panels and an assortment of fittings for most of the tools. One of these for the rest. I already had a Bicisupport BS255 for some bikes. Some cheap eBay wall pedal mounts for a couple of others. 40″ HD TV & Denon soundbar for watching bike racing, (and GCN+ until today), and running Zwift. Stools from SGS Engineering. Tub chair from eBay. Currently home to 11 bikes with room to work on them.
As with most things like this, it’s a movable feast, and changes over time. Spent just over £3k (not including the bike rack & tools) plus another £2k for secure electric roller door.
Thanks, although it was like
Thanks, although it was like this before I started…
I would like to see them all (Wankpanzers and pick-up trucks), speed restricted the way that vans are. i.e. 50MPH national limit and 60MPH on dual carriageways.Pick-up trucks already are. If they have class N1 type approval and a payload capacity of over 1000kg – which they would have to as the VAT & BIK tax advantages are only applicable if they are commercial vehicles, then they are subject to the same reduced limits as a van.
Update. We may not see
Update. We may not see responses from the OP on this debate, Cugel appears to have PFU status (previously flounced user). He is active and well back on the Cycling UK forum after an 8 month absence, educating and informing the forum denizens in a pompous and sneering manner, 15 paragraphs at a time.
If I’m typing into a comment box here on road.cc, how do I type a ‘proper’ ellipsis, then?(I’ve always just done three dots).
On Linux, I can hold down ctrl+shift+u then 2026 then enter.
On Windows, I believe it’s:
Press and hold down the Alt key.
Press the + (plus) key on the numeric keypad.
2026
Release the Alt key.Alternatively, just find the wikipedia page on ellipsis and copy/paste the example one.
Key [option]+[;] on macOS… but then I usually just do three fullstops… not a problem either way…
I wonder what the Artic circle is? Is it where they build or store HGVs?Not sure… is it called the semi circle in the USA?
No, they still exist, but they are getting rarer and from brands that I trust the options just weren’t there. From your list I would immediately exclude about half of it because I don’t trust them. Peugeot, Vauxhall, MG, VW. They will never get my money because I just don’t regard them as reliable brands. I’m not buying shit.Others on the list fall down on the specifics of the interior and load space, the Clubman and Focus for example, which are small cars with estate backs rather than full size estates.
Others just aren’t available locally to test drive, the MG, Leon and Swace for example, we’ve got dealers for most of the rest.
As for the second list, the brand and/or sporty nature makes them insurance liabilities, even if we can get them used.
To be fair, we probably could have given the Skodas more of a look in, but I don’t have the patience to make it a project at some point it became “what can we get that’s reliable and from a locally available brand that is within budget”, and the options are much narrower than they were 5-10 years ago, when I’d have had a whole heap of options from basically evey brand.
Just my $0.02, you exclude VW on the grounds of reliability but would’ve considered Skoda? You know they’re basically the same platforms? I have a VW Caddy van (with rear seats, windows, etc) it’s a 2017 LWB I’ve had from new and I’m keeping it for life now, it’s the perfect vehicle for rural transport, bike trips, family holidays (3600 miles of last chance easy European tour of FR/BE/NL/DE/CH/IT) with 4x people, luggage and bike. Cheap insurance, VED, servicing and apart from a battery problem fixed under warranty, has never been anything other than reliable.
I like Hyundai too as it happens, the other car in the household is an Ioniq 5; best EV currently on the market IMO, and I had one of the first BMW i3’s back in 2014, no comparison really.