Nice post docrobster, I’ve pretty much avoided the internet, having had good advice from my GP Practice Nurse that such ill informed sources will at best scare me and at worse end up killing me 🙂

Got a pretty good working relationship with the GP practice over managing my diabetes. Overall the NHS have been brilliant for me and I’m now getting my A1C around 5.2, eating a balanced diet and not having to do any faddy internet low carb high fat nonsense.

I do feel better off the statin, I guess I’ll see how the blood test looks in three months and see if trying a different one works.

Asked on here a while back. Took Simvastatin for the past 4 years, didn’t think I was getting side effects but had my share of exercise difficulties. Painful muscles, no energy or arsedness to get on the bike. At it’s worse I was struggling to even walk 2 miles.

Last discussion with diabetes nurse I was advised to stop the statin and give it three months without. Most of the aches have gone after a month or so, but it feels like starting from scratch again.

I’d suggest trying them but keep an eye on the symptoms and be aware they can creep up over time too. If you’ve got a decent GP they’ll be understanding.

80kg – optimistic aren’t you? Or is that just the children of those who absolutely have to drive everywhere? 🙂

Just had the parking rant at work. Someone with a BMW X5 always abandons it near the building rather than use the overflow carpark. Now either the X5 is so cr@p at off road that it can’t cope with a gravel overflow carpark, or the fat bloke driving it is a fat bloke because he can’t walk the extra 200 yards 🙁

For those who lost time to Elite. It’s back and it’s not half bad.

https://www.elitedangerous.com/

You can play Open Universe with real people in the other ships 🙂

Peugeot 207, by the stats on Fuelly based on how much I fill up and how far I drive, 51mpg for the normal commute.

Long motorway trips it will do 60mpg easily.

The dodgy trip computer is way off and is always 5 to 10mpg higher than the real figures. I’ve never, ever seen the Peugeot published max of 74mpg.

Did broadband support for a few years. It’s basically a signal on a line subject to interference. If you’re on standard ADSL then any electromagnetic interference between you and the exchange could cause the drops.

What should happen is the router and exchange should establish a connection that gives you the best speed for the line leaving a margin for error. If you get interference over the margin of error then the line drops. It should reconnect at a slower speed with more margin and stay stable.

The problem happens when the interference is really bad or really patchy. you may end up on a really basic banded profile where you get really poor speed to allow for a stable connection.

The problem is compounded more by how far from the exchange you are. There’s a limit to how far a broadband signal will travel before the line gets too noisy to maintain a consistent connection. Longer line means slower speed and more interference. As a rough guide if your overall speed is 2Mbps or less, chances are you’re on a longer line and drops might be just part of the experience.

ISPs should be able to see from the line stats what’s happening and errors should be a rough guide as to where the problem is. This is a good site that explains broadband better than I can:

http://www.kitz.co.uk/

Autonational:

https://www.autonational.co.uk/index.php

£66 for Homestart and Recovery type cover, never seems to go up each year either. Used them a few times and never had to wait more than 30 minutes or so.

Had the check up and almost immediately the nurse told me to come off the statin, not even a replacement. Just see how the next quarter goes and what the next blood test shows. Everything else was fine so she wasn’t too worried about the statin.

Best part of a week without the tablet, last couple of rides have been better with less after effort muscle pain. Not quite there but I was warned it can take a few weeks.

Fingers crossed.

Cheers all, passed on the advice of legal advice again.

It’s a bit of a messy situation and they need to MTFU and sort it rather than hoping it will go away. No telling people sometimes though.

Never get the fuss over paying for MTB grease. Bought a tiny tube of some grease from TF Tuned last time I bought seals. It was a few quid and it works.

I could probably get five times as much of a similar grease for 50p, but the little tube of stuff from TF tuned will probably still have a bit left in when they’re dropping me in a hole in the ground and I won’t be leaving massive quantity of value for money grease for my nearest and dearest to throw in a skip when I’m dead 🙂

Used BG for years, had a boiler fault so signed up for the Home Care boiler cover and got the repair done as part of it.

£18 a month for a year’s cover and an annual service was better than the expensive fix I was looking at. Had the same bloke who came for each visit. Knew his stuff but was increasingly fed up with BG working culture. I got the impression a lot of the good engineers were gradually leaving and setting up on their own or sticking out until retirement or decent VR offer.

Stopped the cover and got with an independent engineer (ex-BG) once I got a new boiler.

Only one I actively avoid is Homeserve, electrician mate got an offer to subcontract with them and the rates were appallingly bad. So I suspect you are getting the very cheapest of people through Homeserve 🙂

Me for not being quick enough to book this week off work.

Office is right next door to Bramham Park, everyone else bagged the holiday and work from home tickets so I’m the only one in today, now listening to the Leeds Festival sound checks and hoping like hell the traffic is going to be OK later.

I notice you mention Macs, there’s your problem. You need to upgrade immediately to the latest.

I understand there is now a Gnarmac….. I’ll get my coat.

It’s China, several million might be worth 20p later this afternoon.

IT Security and ID Management.

Hate it, would prefer something a bit more active involving moving around but no idea what.

I suspect my sedentary desk job for several employers, although easy up until now, has right royally buggered my pancreas 🙁

I updated this morning before riding to work, do I need to activate it in the settings I can’t see any reference to it.

Don’t use Strava anymore, just the Garmin Segments in Connect. I had to Send the segment to my 510 for it to track. When you approach it starts a countdown and then raced me against my best time for the segment. Headwind last night so it was an ever increasing red box 🙁

More useful than I thought it would be.

http://www.rspb.org.uk/discoverandenjoynature/discoverandlearn/birdidentifier/

May help.

Looking at the prices for the 810 at the moment I’d probably say yes. They’re cheaper than old 510 stock!

The live segments on my updated 510 worked well last night so can’t see why it won’t on the 810. I only use the Connect Segments rather than Strava but it did the whole countdown, start and live compared my best run.

The Museum of Scottish Lighthouses

Found this interesting in Fraserburgh.

Haven’t rag n bone men been replaced by travelling types in flatbeds.

They don’t announce as if someone realises they’re about then they can’t just take the stuff out of your garden 🙂

If you’re after a change, I use a Cat Eye Volt 50. Seems bright enough for dark country lanes.

USB charge and a saddle rail mount. Lasting well apart from looks, some of the surface coat on the metal body is bubbling a little. Salt spray I guess.

Getting to the stage where we need to convert a bedroom for bike storage and sleep outside 🙁

http://www.airsoftworld.net/alarm-trip-mine-12g.html

You might have to clean up some scrotes trouser mess 🙂

Hope you get a result.

Ta, quick coffee read. Good site that one.

Looks like the mapping is the same breadcrumb style as the 510 but with the useful addition of a map as background. A step forward but still no real routing involved.

Does it do maps or is it like the 510 where you can upload a route and get some basic pointers where you should be heading?

I thought only the 810 up had maps.

Could be wrong as I still take paper maps when out and about.

Used it for a while, deleted the account this weekend. Use a Garmin Edge so was uploading from that to Strava via Garmin Connect. Just realised that Connect had been updated since I last looked and now did what I wanted.

I found it very useful for my own reference, wasn’t bothered about the social bits, it was useful to see trends and performance over a period of time on regular routes. I’d track a handful of segments across my regular routes. Connect didn’t have a decent segment option at the time but it seems to have improved. The privacy options are more suited to what I need as well.

Privacy always annoyed me with Strava, it’s designed to be a social app and it’s assumed you will want to share. Security is in there but it felt like an afterthought.

Yeah, I’ve had those odd and inexplicable highs.

Discussed with the nurse and it was probably a hypo response, the liver has a panic attack and dumps glycogen stores. I was getting them on rides, only found out by stopping and testing every 20 minutes. Found out that I could start a ride and there was a point, after about 20 minutes, where I’d get a sudden drop in blood sugar, 8 down to 3 in one 20 minute gap. It then shot up and stayed up in double figures but I had little or no energy left to pedal. It got bad enough I had a exhausted walk of shame back to the car at Sherwood Pines after post 6 – midweek so not many people saw 🙂

Sitagliptin does seem to have sorted that one out for me.

Certainly believe in taking control and being knowledgeable but I still take my primary info from the diabetes nurse. The NHS aren’t perfect but I’m very grateful it’s there. If I could make one change I’d take the GP out of the loop and make it so the diabetes nurse reports to an endocrinologist at a hospital.

Ta, I found the link interesting too, the article about glucagon especially.

Recently gone onto a DPP-4 inhibitor which effectively suppresses glucagon production. It was one of those impressive tablet moments as I could see the effects only a few days after starting. I’d struggled with the normal diabetes tablets for 6 months and was half expecting the insulin prescription to come into discussion.

Nurse offered Sitagliptin instead.

Next A1C is next week with checkup the week following so will discuss the statin. Never thought of it being a problem until today.

Looks shit, can’t get a bike in the boot 🙁

Desk jobs aren’t all they’re cracked up to be.

You get one, get the money and the girl, you work longer hours, pay gradually slows down, between mergers, buyout’s and outsourcing to huge American IT Corps where career progression involves keeping your head down until redundancy payouts are worth more than the hassle.

You get fat, bald, stressed and the girl runs off with a 24 year old bus mechanic…..

Only another few years to wait 🙂

I didn’t bother with Kinect for Xbox One. Had it on the older 360 and it was clever but ultimately an overpriced gimic as the games were utter garbage.

Not missed it on the Xbox One yet apart from the voice control.

Xbox Live Gold is for online and costs, there’s a Silver account which is free but doesn’t include the online bit, but there are a few benefits for Gold now. You can get access to some games free and get decent discounts on some download games – almost makes the £39.99 a year worth it.
Xbox Live is linked to an MS ID so you’ll need to setup a Microsoft account. It’s worth checking the best ways to do this as a family, not sure as I just have the Xbox for me, no kids and the other half hates games.

You can get away without it. I did without for years, you might find the kids will use it to astound you with Call of Duty brilliance and a range of foul mouthed vocabulary you could never imagine possible 🙂

Should have mentioned above, it’s best with a damn good internet connection for game updates.

Mine was advertised as a gravel bike (Giant Revolt).

Brilliant bike, got it instead of a road bike, local lanes have a few farm track, bridleway and forest road options.

Probably ridden it more than my MTB the last year or so.

Xbox One 500Gb rapidly runs out of space. Install is mandatory and can be anything for 10 to 80Gb. I have around 8 games installed and I’m at 96% full.

Depending on price though the 1Tb console may not be worth it, it’s been around £50 to £80 more depending on stockist. The console is USB 3 and will take an external drive and merge in the space easily. Therefore it can be cheaper to get the 500Gb console and a 2Tb external drive.

All depends if you mind the extra wires and what the current deals are.

Try living with diabetes, it’s treatable, but for most of us treatment involves delaying the death sentence rather than removing it.

Having spent the last year having the NHS sticking needles in my eyeballs every month, the side effects are deeply unpleasant.

If you live near a rural area have a look for somewhere that does the aircon servicing for farm machinery, they can be substantially cheaper the usual car places and do a pretty good job.

Those big glass cabs in combines need some hefty aircon systems.

650b 2012 Banshee Spitfire.

Bathroom scales, (me+bike)-(me) is 31.5 to 32lb. Display wouldn’t settle).

I reckon you’d have to really, really try to get one of these down close to 30lb never mind under 30lb.

Still rides well, up and down, works for me. I’d rather lose 2lb or more off the 190lb lump in the saddle.

Thread finished 🙂

Only been to two, Pembroke and Flint.

Pembroke wins easily, Flint was interesting but the town was a scary odd place.

It’s getting like you need to ask for references from employees about the employer rather than the other way round these days.

Worked for a small family company for a while and will never do it again if I have any choice.

Having been told there’s no money pay or training by the owner and then seeing his new car and hearing how much he blew at the Casino. I gave up and got out. Only regret I never had proof of any tax fiddling to whistle blow.

You’re probably better off out of there just hope that it’s not too long before something better shows up.

It’s this kind of careless driving that needs tackling to make roads safer. No amount of rules or white paint will make it better.

When caught, these people have to lose their licence. Career impact or not. It doubtful that plod will ever have the resources to police, compulsory black box technology and CCTV in all cars, linked by secure connection to DVLA might be one way to sort it. Possibly wishful thinking though.

I’ve pulled up to a junction on a rural road before and the BMW behind has decided I wasn’t quick enough so overtook while I’m at the Give Way and pulled out onto the main road with hardly a glance. I’m considering in car CCTV as that footage would have gone straight to plod.

Same junction has regular accidents as it’s on a long straight road and the people pulling out to turn left don’t usually look left and then hit the overtaking car or bike they didn’t see.

So thats another vote for removal of markings, especially the centre line, on rural roads.

Any that has to get the vote for stupid statement of the year so far.

As if the 4×4 brigade need more excuses to drive in the middle of the road. Without the centre line, as a cyclist, I’d be risking the idiots that overtake badly as well as the oncoming school run parents in Range Rover Sports who now thing the whole carriageway is fair game.