If it was already rusted I don’t think snapping the bolt is on the garage, however I’d agree that snapping an easy out bit is their fault. Is it not possible to get the bit back out when it’s on the bench?

if you can pop a tow bar on, the thule xpress takes ~2 seconds to attatch and detatch (I leave the arms “out” the whole time), its my go-to when I only have one bike to pop on

if the dog’s done that much damage to you it’d do a lot worse to a kid. Needs to be muzzled, I’d be on to the police

there are a few 12 speed HG cassettes, but its worth noting that they rely on 11/12 speed HG spacing, which is different to 10 speed HG spacing (the length of the casette body is longer) – although some 11 speed hg cassettes fit on the old 10 speed hg bodies.

Either way, hope hubs will (afaik) get you to the combination. The mech will be closeish to the ground, but I don’t think thats too different to the 11 speed in length

A guide to freehub body and cassette compatibility  

I find seating a bead the first time on a tyre is way way harder than subsiquent times, I haven’t had a problem with fixing a tubeless setup I’ve had to bead with megapressure when out on a ride

you need a compressor with a tank to manage tubeless. That is not it

any tips on figuring out whether a wild mushroom will be decent? there’s loads in our woods, just use google lens to figure it out?

the other thing I’d reccomend is flying in and out of different places, with open jaw flights and a 1-way car rental. Not the absolute cheapest way of doing things, but flights are often roughly the same price as a return and 1-way car rental from one of the big players (avis et al) can be as little as a tenner more than returning to the same place. Saves a lot of time if you’re thinking of a large itinerary

Why not just use a kettle lead connection? Commonly used for TVs anyway so your next one might not need rewiring..

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Or if you have the depth in your wall, a concealed socket instead?

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thanks, that’s also the confusion I’d got stuck with.

a bit more digging found incharge who seem to have a bunch of chargers on the island – might risk it..

https://www.nrgincharge.gr/en/xartis-fortiston

does the tenatios tape/aqua sure work on the valve:matress interface? that appears to be where both of ours are coming unstuck (I assume the valve is non-pourus so some glues won’t work?)

we achieve a similar thing to the boxes and a custom rack by strapping one of this kind of thing to a standard bike rack (altura strada)

does the trick nicely, packs into a tiny bag when away, didn’t cost an extra £180

do any of these work (or not work) on self-inflating matresses? both of our (pretty expensive) vango mattresses have leaks and just leave you on the floor now

looks quite bumpy on the video – he said he was commonly running ~6 psi and it was really pressure sensitive – not sure its hugely useful with that in mind

the event is weather related so I don’t think you’re likely to get much out of them – they’re on the hook for getting you to the other airport as soon as reasonable but don’t owe any compensation nor (afaik) necessarily have to pay you back if you choose another option.

if you were checked in they should def refund you the first flight. I don’t know if you’ll get much more than that

I don’t think I’ve carried one for a while, normally have 2 quicklinks stuffed away. I recon any mangled chain I could mangle enough to get the bad link out (ie snap the broken link) and get the quicklink in if I absolutely had to

when just getting a wheel off, I normally try to slip the trolly jack under the suspension arm/bushing holder/whatever of the wheel I’m working on, and lift from there. My thinking (no idea if its any good) is that you’re lifting the car body far less (barely at all) so its safer if something slips, and you’ve also got no chance of crushing your cill/stupid plastic thing they put in that looked a lot like a jacking point and wasnt

pads often need a piston compressor. not expensive (£20?) to get a set that work on loads of cars, but you normally can’t just push them back in by hand. Also expect to have to take a bolt off the back of something with a massive breaker bar and work out after 10 mins you’ve been tightening it by mistake.

heading off to rhodes for october half term, one of the rental options is a fiat 500e – it officially has 200 miles of range, but I’m guessing I might have to charge it a couple of times (if I have to give it back full).

could anyone take a quick look at the chargers there to help me figure out if any can just be used with a credit card/single app? there’s a bunch of them on google but googling the name of the charger doesn’t seem to give any info that I can make sense of

lots of people with that sort of brain end up in software engineering – I expect she did a module or 2 as part of her course?

grad schemes around london start circa £50k, so its not poorly paid either

for anyone struggling with clubcard/nectar, add it to your google wallet (I imagine you can do similar on the iphone) and it’ll be stored on your phone, regardless of reception. Super fast to load it up too

it doesn’t really matter what size house you build, its the quantity of homes which is important. Obviously you can build fewer 4 bed detatched houses per acre than you can 2 bed terraces (and fewer still compared to low-rise apartment blocks), but pure land supply isn’t particularly limited in this country (land you can build on currently is).

Regardless of what the goverment do, there simply aren’t enough skilled trades in the country to build significantly faster than we currently are, so the danger is the same problem that’s hitting the free nursery placements – not enough reasonably priced labour to staff the need. That pushes prices up, which in turn makes everything less affordable.

I’m sorry this it mostly incorrect though I appreciate the effort to discuss rather dismiss MMT.

The UK government never borrows to spend.

They always issue currency when they spend – it’s a matter of technical record that they do.

Always. Every single time.

I disagree. if you issue a bond (which is a way of borrowing some money), and then spend the exact same amount of money, you have not issued currency. Nothing has been created, nothing has been destroyed. Someone (an investor) has lent you the money you are spending.

Always. Every single time.

just because you have the ability to issue currency (which I agree the BoE has), does not mean that they do it.

Yet again – a link to the only peer review paper conducted into central bank and government financing.

clearly factually incorrect statements like that just degrade any chance MMTers have of winning people over. Peer review also doesn’t make something true – I can’t find any of the actual review of that paper to see if their peers agree, but given the number of established economists who believe in MMT is extremely low, it seems unlikely.

In the mean time, here’s some other peer reviewed papers about how central bank and government financing work

https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2012/wp1216.pdf
https://ideas.repec.org/a/mes/jeciss/v55y2021i1p225-245.html
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/working-paper/2024/central-bank-profit-distribution-and-recapitalisation.pdf

you can daytrip sedona from vegas if you leave the wife and girls doing some shopping, but its generally a pretty chill place to hang out for a while anyway (lots of hippy type shops there). There’s also prescott forest a bit further round, and some riding in flagstaff. I’ve also ridden Kingman but there’s not a huge amount there (worth it if passing through with a bike).

There’s a lot of riding all over the place, I’d just stick you’re very loose nonbiking itinerary together, open trailforks in a different tab and see whats what.

You’ve never been to Glastonbury have you?

Tell me you’ve not been to a festival, without telling me you’ve not been to a festival.

I went to reading 10 years on the trot, glasto twice, download 4 times, rock am ring 3 times and a few others. I haven’t been to an old person festival, sure, but in my experience the majority of crowds at the UKs biggest festivals (which are also the cheap ones) is young. I haven’t been to glastonbury in over a decade – maybe the crowd has aged?

edit: looks like the bands have, based on this article – https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jun/24/cream-teas-rocknroll-older-revellers-glastonbury – perhaps its same for the crowd

festivals are cheap because the audience is generally skint under-25 year olds who don’t have the money to pay for more.

bands with middle-aged fans have always been expensive, because your audiecne is rich(er) folk who want a nice sit down and a reminisce.

you could pay £300+ to watch a video of abba playing ffs

We did run massive deficits – far larger as a % of GDP than now

a deficit is fundimentally different from issuing money to pay for things. A deficit is simply spending more than you collect in tax – thats pretty common amongst most modern countries. That shortfall can be met in two ways
1. borrowing more (extremely common)
2. issuing curency

MMT suggests leaning on #2 more heavily and frequently than has happened in the past (in this country it only really happened post-2008 crisis and during covid, under the banner “monetary easing”). The consiquences of this are argued about and not fully understood (by anyone) as its never really been practiced in the long term.

How do you think the post-war housing boom which peaked at 300,000 homes a year was paid for?

theres a mix of massively taxing the rich (inheritance tax peaked at something like 85%), huge gains in productivity and borrowing money. We were in the bretton woods system and didn’t devalue our currency between 1950 and the end of 1967 – no money was “created” in the MMT way of thinking

Don’t remember if it specifies WiFi or cellular however I’d imagine passive cellular would create more data.

its probably bluetooth, as the range is lower\more accurate than anything else and your device is likely to have bluetooth on. Wifi isn’t very useful as the device will stop searching for new connections once it’s locked onto one, and tend to hold onto old connections even when they’re not the nearest access point.

And that’s a fair comparison with a few hours watching a band?? I go to a lot of gigs and I go on days uplifted mtbing. They sure ain’t the same!

I guess it depends on whether the price of something should be anchored to the cost of producing it or the enjoyment\value gained from it? If the former, the tickets should clearly be a tenner each, as you can see some local band for that?

justifying/normalising £300+ tickets is just stupid

in some ways its a lot of money, but in others its not. £300 is probably what an uplifted biking weekend costs, once tickets, couple of nights in a bnb and food etc are considered.

I get a lot of pleasure from a weekend away biking, but its easy to see that someone might get more pleasure from watching their all time favourite band play a gig. The majority of Oasis fans are going to be in their mid-to-late 40s so a lot of them will have a bunch of cash.

I don’t know how you set the value for something like a gig ticket (I’ve never paid over £100 for a gig) but I can see it being fairly easy to justify the money for an event that could be the highlight of your year

If your wife wants a car like experience, galaxy, Alhambra/Sharan has similar space to a rifter/Berlingo but a lot less van-y. Often not much more money, either

gerber cool tool is surely what you want? free with a subscription of MBUK, circa 1998

https://wiki.multitool.org/tiki-index.php?page=Cool+Tool

A private pension I would have had a pot of money to leave to others.

ony if you don’t buy an annuity.

If you buy an annuity, the pot lasts as long as you’re alive, and possibly pays out a small amount to a dependent on death, just like a defined benefits pension

if you don’t buy an annuity, the pot is effectively just cash, which means it can run out, and you have nothing to live on.

you have a choice of risk profiles with defined contribution pensions, you often don’t with defined benefit pensions (although you can sometimes cash them in).

disappointed by the lack of posh french frozen food.

Tell us more…

I guess it should be defined otherwise loads of retailers would hide behind it.

advice from the government here https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a817b92ed915d74e33fe73a/bis-13-1368-consumer-contracts-information-cancellation-and-additional-payments-regulations-guidance.pdf

14. An item made up following a consumer order does not necessarily make it
a bespoke item which is exempt from cancellation rights. An item, for example
a sofa or computer, can be assembled following an order but the component
parts may be made up of parts offered from a standard range. So, for
instance, a sofa where the consumer chooses a fabric and colour from a
range on offer will not be bespoke for the purposes of these Regulations.
However, if the consumer asks the trader to source a special finish and which
is not in the range generally offered by the trader, that is likely to be a
bespoke item.

choosing a pair of sunglasses with a choice of lens and arms clearly falls under the above criteria of “not bespoke” – they also give the example of having a players name printed on a football shirt (not bespoke) vs having your name printed on a football shirt (bespoke)

so we all know the MGs are relatively cheap chinese stuff, and the estate’s got a rubbish boot, but £20k (new) for the long range estate or the (regular range) SUV version is pretty cheap..

https://www.baylis.uk.com/mg/offers/pre-reg-delivery-mileage-offers/

61kWh battery rated for 250 mile range WLTP
0-60: 7.3 seconds
156bhp

Out of stock on middle rings and they won’t be making any more due to lack of demand.

right, but if you order a 104bcd spider (as above) you can run whatever NW ring you fancy on there?

distance selling regs still applies – custom is defined very clearly (its basically when you have your name carved into something, not an order from a list) – so just drop them back in the post.

MIDDLEBURN RS7 X TYPE & RS8 X-TYPE BOOST MONO SPIDER 104BCD