We have an Xbox one. I refuse to pay a monthly sub for online gaming for our kids but I do have 3 so they can play with each other.

I hate the bloody thing. Everyone needs an email, a password, a PIN number. The thing needs to update whenever we turn it on, which is not that often. Unless you have fast fibre you’ll take ages to update or download games.

I think a bloody ps1 where you turned it on, played a game and turned it off when you were finished was a much better user experience.

Bah humbug #notlikethegoodolddays

I bought a Dt 240 boost hub in the end

Yeah… I have a feeling that the road less bodged will be the way forward.

Will you be paying to get your wheel rebuilt, or do it yourself?

I’ll be paying. I don’t think it will be much if I already have the spokes and hub but I won’t be doing it on a regular basis.

I was out on Saturday night and the people I met were telling me how their Dyson cordless made vacuuming fun.

However…

They did not ride bikes
They read the daily mail
They were talking about vacuuming over dinner and
They became upset at our misaligned views on the royal family

Take from that what you will.

How big is the wedding? … Lots of planning/stress? … Will the Mrs turn into bridezilla ??

Is so

A week, or two, doing nowt on a sunlounger after your big day is good thing

Good luck

^^ this! It can be a lot more stress & work that you think. I’ve never needed a sleep / swim for a week so much as after ours.

One thing to remember; years ago a honeymoon used to be your first holiday together as you set off on life’s journey. These days it is more likely to be your last before have kids and holidays will never be the same again.

Do they have chair lifts?

Thanks. 35’s seem to have the popular vote.

@nedrapier… not these ones unfortunately 🙂

cheers guys. interesting feedback on the 45 / 35 comparison…. I need a rear anyway, just wondering if it’s worth getting the set or putting a new hub on the 45 rear.

Similar to nedrapier, I picked up the 45’s pretty cheap – seemed like a bargain but on a pay-per-use basis they are probably the most expensive wheels I own – doh!

We ride there regularly. There are loads of kids out there now TBH. I’ve been stopped in Peaselake and seen nothing but kids.

There is a Horsham Youth Cycle Club, they cycle in varying places in the area, sometimes around the SH.

We’re not that regular with our timings so probably can’t commit but this sounds like a good idea. Good luck!

It will be awful. Please leave your ticket at reception for me and I will dispose of it for you appropriately.

yup – smaller than 20″ for that age. He’ll be able to pedal but not much else.

I persuaded the kids to buy some BMX’s so they had a bike they could take to the park…. of course now they actually want to use them so I had to get one for myself so I can play too and I think it will be good for thinking about bike movement for all of us.

I just picked up a Haro Boulevard for <£100 on ebay, pretty new, this years model and boxed (so hopefully legit).

It’s not going to excite people who know what they are doing but for an old numpty like me it’s fine and a good laugh (and painful when you fall on concrete too).

Good luck.

I have the Revelation 120…. It fits 29ers but rubs on the b+ as soon as you put any weight on it…. it’s fine upside down mind!

Available at a decent price though 🙂

If I want privacy I take the dogs for a walk!

lol

Alexa is already the best conversation I can get in my house.

…and what could possibly go wrong having an always-on listening device sitting in our homes? (which of course our phones could be hacked to be too anyway) 🙂

Yes yes, it’s easy to laugh at a clickbait article but there is more than a grain of truth to it. Unfortunately it’s a complicated issue to grasp and therefore to debate but if people like Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Stephen Hawking say that AI is potentially dangerous I believe there’s something to it.

According to Musk “AI is the biggest risk we face as a civilisation”.

It won’t be robot armies, it’ll be the unethical application of algorithms.

Good point. Look at the last elections in the US & Brexit.

Those results were fuelled by clever use of intelligent data. People are easily manipulated and if it gets / stays in the wrong hands we are all in trouble.

If you look at Trump. He secured power based on the back of a wave of dissatisfaction with inequality and a ruling elite. Unfortunately, his policies will only exacerbate the situation so a few years down the road there could be a more extreme populist leader who does more damage to the stability of the world than old Daffy Trump and gets on the back of doing what DT said he was going to do.

I think this worst-case-scenario is quite likely somewhere in the world, if we look at the rise of populist politics in the UK with Brexit and across Europe. Sure Macron managed to hold off Le Pen but one swallow doesn’t make a summer.

As AI increases increasing numbers of jobs will be automated. This will include everything: Journalism, Lawyers, Drivers, Checkout Assistants, Delivering, Driving etc pretty much everything you can think of will either be automated or made much quicker and easier with the use of advanced robotic tools and will therefore require less people to do the job. This of course as the population is rising and international competition increasing.

Of course the governments of the world could come together and define a sensible, innovation-friendly, framework for global taxation, retraining and something along the lines of UBI (Universal Basic Income)… but then pigs might fly too. 🙁

At worst, this could be very bad. I would say that we are on the verge of a technological global warming style crisis. We can redirect it but I have seen very little momentum to try and I worry that it will be too late when we do wake up sufficiently. The voices that are shouting about this do not attract the interest in the way that the populists: Johnson, Corbyn, Trump et al do.

I think this will result in fewer winners than there are now with a few global businesses increasingly taking over and growing exponentially. As they become more global, it becomes harder for governments to legislate and guide them too.

If we are looking for parallels, I would consider the Industrial Revolution. sure we are sitting pretty now but for 80 – 100 years afterwards things got a lot worse for working people.

but on the bright side…. we will all have time to bake more cake – Yay 😀

grooming the back log

If it makes you feel any better, this one is already out of date. The Yanks eventually realised that we use the word Grooming to mean something completely different. We now Refine the backlog.

This basically means that we chat regularly about the most import stuff that we need to do next so that everyone agrees the solution to the problem and is working as a team to achieve shared goals (like a team innit 🙂 ).

Anyone else who’s organisation is transitioning to a more Agile way of working could do worse than take a look at The Innolution Glossary from Ken Rubin for reference.

don’t push it… mixing wth older kids on bikes going faster can motivate them to the possibilities but don’t stress he’ll get there when the time is right.

I have 3 boys and and they all now love it but they all ride very differently and were motivated differently too.

Have fun. We’ll be heading out there shortly with my 2*10 & 8 yr olds.

The greens are pretty steep for greens but only in patches.

There is a riverside flat path with an overgrown little pump track down by Samoens which is fine for a nice picnic family ride.

lol. these are great. I don’t mind dog-fooding but I did splurt out my tea when someone recently unintentionally repurposed it as “eating our own s**t”.

anything without hope hubs

Yes, I think they all think that they’re Pioneers and Integrators, but aren’t interested in Driving or Guardianing.
I certainly see the Drivers in my management team
I rather think that people are bits of all – sometimes there’s no overall clear style in people.
Oh yes, and more cake!

Yes. I agree. I believe they have categorised a range of different sub types with about 10% of people being an even split. I think it’s a decent tool to help share perspectives and explain PoV without making things personal.

I aim to do that, but increasingly with millennials it just doesn’t work – as they appear to consider that they’re here, and great, and should be paid loads – just not particularly diligent and with seemingly no particular desire to want to learn the specific skills required to deliver the work and a massive dislike of having their work reviewed and asked to revise/ rework it.
Oh, and they all clock watch and go home at 5:29:59pm – which is one of the reasons why I’m in the office today.

Tricky and of course you’re not the first person to say this. I guess there could be a couple of things to consider. It’s not a situation that I’ve encountered. The millennials I have worked with have all been engaged and motivated to change things for the better…. the old guard however is another matter 🙂

Things to consider… (if you haven’t tried them already…

1) Team Chemistry. There is good article on business science from Deloitte on Harvard Business Review where they talk about the different personality types and how sometimes it can be the different way of looking at things that people don’t understand. They boil it down nicely to 4 key types. It certainly resonated with me.

2) Sometimes we teach the innovation and problem solving mentality out of people. I worked with a team recently that had become so used to having their problems solved, they just looked at me blankly when I said “so what – what are YOU going to do about it?”…. it takes time.

3) I heard a good quote recently too: “Don’t fight stupid, make more awesome”. Sit down with them informally, have feedback sessions as a group to see how you can make things better, take a few actions each week, listen and make sure it’s a 2-way open and honest street etc.

Here’s a Forbes article on it too

Good luck! Have you tried more cake 🙂

Some of my colleagues have to force themselves to find something to volunteer in order to maintain their jobs.

lol / shakes head in despair.

When good ideas go bad.

Does Lokki [/url] do it?

Lots of organisations are struggling with finding and keeping good people. The Oxford Economics forum found recently that the average cost to replace an employee in a knowledge worker field is about £30K. This covers base costs of HR, marketing efforts, impacts to performance of the business, training… the list goes on.

Organisations are also learning (slowly) that people work more effectively when left to their own devices and they are not micro-managed through “assigned tasks” by people who don’t know their job as well as they do.

As a way to try not have to incur these costs, people are looking for quick wins to try and get people to enjoy being at work and to feel engaged and part-of the company not just like a cog in a big machine. It’s very difficult, particularly at scale.

Leaving people to solve problems rather than to complete tasks also helps them to stay motivated, engaged and interested which has proven to result in better products, better teams, lower attrition, happier customers, more profit etc..

Lots of this has its routes in the New Product Development Game from 1986 (HBR) and Peter Drucker before that. There is a sliding scale and it starts where you are now and continues to areas such as Organisational Agility, Management 3.0 & Holacracy where employees are treated more as the responsible, autonomous, decision-making individuals that they are outside of work rather than plug and play “resources” like desks or a bag of spanners.

Enjoy the cake 🙂

They are the HV rims, they aren’t as hard to get tyres on and off.

Fair enough… it’s always easier on youtube though isn’t it 🙂

If it makes you feel any better, I just did mine. Light Bicycle rims. Schwalbe front, Maxxis rear. The Maxxis was definitely easier but neither as bad as the OP’s.

seems easy enough on you tube – with decent tyres 😉

Pure highway from halfords was pretty much plug and play. Discreet & smart too.

Great for radio 6. I stream a lot of music & podcasts too.

b****x 🙁 some of those have been there for years.

Glad I got a few recent spins in down there then. Hopefully they will pop up again.

(but thanks)

Does anyone know which trails the OP was talking about as being bulldozed?

The Plough does have rooms.

I’ll be out in August and would be up for the Samoens run (or another one) too.

Has any cunning chap or chapess started a doodle poll for dates and roll call yet this year?

I’ve used very fine wet’n’dry paper and then covered with clear nail varnish previously which did the job.

Those worms are awesome. I fixed a side will pinch near my rim before Christmas in Snowdon and it’s held well.

Other mates have tons in their tyres too.

I’m 5’11 and I have the 20. My bud is the same height and prefers the 18… horses for courses?

I think these were the 2015 versions.

Good luck.

I know a few good & experienced riders on the swoop… they all love it.

Citroen c4 grand Picasso does the job. Has provided enough back seat space for 3 kids on journeys to the Alps etc.

2 of Mine are now out of ISOFIX so thankfully we can leave MPV world as they are not the most inspiring cars to drive.

I agree with you though. I would go ISOFIX too. The safety stats that I saw indicated a big difference.

Dorset is lovely but don’t forget Cornwall too if you’re not down this way often. North coast is rugged and raw, south coast is more beachy. There are a ton of places to walk too from ruined castles to faerie waterfall walks to exposed moors.

Lots of reasons you can get cramps and a ton of different cures ranging from prune juice to tonic water.

The one that works the best for me is Hammer Endurolytes.

Good luck finding yours!