As I posted in the other thread:

“Yeah, they’ve hired a lady.”
I *love* the way you happily use gender neutral pronouns when referring to the person or people doing the hiring. And no, plurality isn’t an issue.

Also, who says “they’ve hired a lady” anyway? Or “they’ve hired a man”, for that matter? It’s weird.

Your assertion would be more valid if people normally used ‘They’ve hired a she” or “they’ve hired a he”. Which, of course, is totally normal and fine and not in any way deeply weird and warped just to make a point.

The ‘gender neutral’ way of doing it would be the one that removes the emphasis of gender in any way, and is coincidentally the one that the vast majority of people would actually *use*:

“Yeah, they’ve hired someone.”

It’s a pretty lousy thought experiment TBH

“Yeah, they’ve hired a lady.”

I *love* the way you happily use gender neutral pronouns when referring to the person or people doing the hiring. And no, plurality isn’t an issue.

Also, who says “they’ve hired a lady” anyway? Or “they’ve hired a man”, for that matter? It’s weird.

Your assertion would be more valid if people normally used ‘They’ve hired a she” or “they’ve hired a he”. Which, of course, is totally normal and fine and not in any way deeply weird and warped just to make a point.

The ‘gender neutral’ way of doing it would be the one that removes the emphasis of gender in any way, and is coincidentally the one that the vast majority of people would actually *use*:

“Yeah, they’ve hired someone.”

It’s a pretty lousy thought experiment TBH

Andeh: Applause for Gold Dust Woman 🤣

Good grief.

There are a lot of correct people on this thread who really should know better than to engage with the spectacularly incorrect people on this thread.

Feel free to argue pointlessly amongst yourselves as you determine into which group you fall.

SMH

Ton – FGF is (or at least, used to be – please correct me if I’m wrong Benj et al) exclusively based what gets sent in to the office. The mag doesn’t get much of a say in that – lots of things are unsolicited – unless it’s a product that’s come in specifically for a test. Some of the products will be cheap; some expensive (although which is which will highly vary by reader).

I’d guess this is pretty much what ‘Cheaper Things Tuesday’ was created for…

I do like the way that it’s perfectly possible to uglify a perfectly fine frame (especially BITD) by simply looking for a photo of a 20″ or XL bike 🤣

As the owner of a set of disproportionatly lengthy limbs, I vividly recall trying to find photos of XL bikes to check that they weren’t completely gopping compared to the M versions that everyone photographed for the catalogue…

All of these – *all of them* – pale into putrid insignificance compared to this magnificent beast…

“It’s an older word, sir, but it checks out. I was about to clear them”.

Archaic – ‘demolished’
https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/demolishment

If this isn’t thread of the week, there’s no justice in the world.

Jack Ryan – Lynx roll-on deodorant and overpowering sweat.
Wednesday Addams – Blood and patchouli.
Lukę Skywalker – Spectacularly strong BO.

The battery is a pretty low capacity one by modern standards – you can get 4000mah NiMH for about £20 if you shop around. Similarly, you’d be better off with a fast charger. Hobbywing 1060 esc for about £20; Flysky TX and RX for about £25-30ish – maybe less? I’d probably go that route personally. Especially as a slow charger will be pretty hopeless…

I have something probably not related, but on a similar theme. I frequently (as in pretty much always) can’t name colours properly on the first pass. It’s not that I don’t recognise the colour (I’m not colourblind), it’s just that if I have to name a colour of (say) an object during conversation, I’ll get it wrong. But once I’ve said it, I’ll instantly realise I’ve said the wrong colour, and I’ll be able to correct myself.

Never met anyone else who has the faintest idea what I’m talking about :-)

Actually, you’ll no doubt be deeply fascinated to learn that the main body of the test *was* written from scratch – I outlined some ideas, submitted a list of questions to Hilke, who emailed back her answers, and I incorporated them into the text. The rest of the information mostly came from reading around – Boa’s website, of course, and some other information that Boa was kind enough to send me. The finished article then went back to Singletrack, and thence to Boa for their approval.

The information on the shoes/helmets etc was, naturally enough, assembled rather differently. The detail there mostly comes from their respective websites, and I tried to standardise it where I could.

But thanks for taking such an interest, and I’m super glad you liked it! Have a fab rest of holidays.

@theotherjonv – says up there ^^ – “one click equals one millimetre at the laces”…

Boards of Canada – YES. Or Plaid’s Not For Threes.

But it always was, and will always be (somewhat inevitably) Cardiacs Sing To God.

Shouldn’t Robin Hood’s Bay be further south somewhere near Sherwood Forest?

Apparently the places that lay claim to Robin Hood are very many. He’s all over Calderdale too – there are several pubs, and a massive stone up on the moors called ‘Robin Hood’s Penny’, the story behind which includes a super-powered game of quoits or something :-)

Not to mention that his grave is in Kirklees…

Dammit @scotroutes. Brain farct. It’s not far from me! Amended, with apologies :-)

Pontefract should be in Wales, not Yorkshire. Ashby De La Zouch should be somewhere on the French Riviera, and Goosnargh should be on Mars instead of just outside Preston.

Saw these chaps last week at a gig in Bristol. *Utterly* fantastic… very much looking forward to the new album.

🤣

Someone (I’m not saying who) has asked me to point out that James Vincent has had seven Singletrack covers :-)

I’ve built a Carisma – pretty good for the money. Bushings and bearings in the right places (if you’re planning on getting it wet – I replaced all the bushings with bearings as I’m not).

I wonder if I might be permitted to humbly submit to the panel my brother-in-law’s old band, LA-based Masters of Portentous Doom, Yidhra?

Well, that’s – uh – *quite* the easy-to-read website :-) Couldn’t find much/anything in there less than decade old, and I can’t find the paper in there either. 🤷 Thanks tho!

It’s interesting to me (as an established MIPS – and other shear force helmet technology – advocate) that they don’t mention whether MIPS performs as well (or even *gasp* better) than KASK on its WG11 test. Surely if you’re coming out fighting then you need to show the data against the other side?

Without reading all of the surrounding data – I actually have a job to do! – the article also only mentions ‘superficial’ brain damage – whatever that means. Current thinking suggests that many concussion symptoms might be explained by perturbations in the corpus collosum, a massive wedge of nerve fibres which effectively holds the two hemispheres together, and is responsible for integrating their functions. This is not a superficial structure.

More reading necessary, obvs. But I’m all for better and more testing.

The best bit of research I have seen on this topic used full body dummies and threw them at things from various angles. they found increased rotational forces with helmets in 30% of all cases.

You got a link to that, TJ? Be very interested to read.

Double posted…

It’s no worse than ineos sponsoring a cycling team and mercedes F1 though is it?

That has no relevance to this discussion. Neither does all the other ‘whataboutery’ that’s being bandied about.

Although, to play devil’s advocate, perhaps it IS worse, after all…

BC is, for want of a better term, am umbrella organisation that many folk have to subscribe to – and hence implicitly endorse – if they want to keep racing. The same cannot be said of Ineos and Mercedes…

I’m just going to leave this here in the hope that some folks might read it:

Tu quoque fallacy- Appeal to hypocrisy (personal inconsistency)

Good grief.

I’m still trying to comprehend what it was I actually watched last night. Snarky Puppy was my first experience of live Jazz Funk fusion stuff, which involved instruments I’d never seen before and lots of bongos

It felt a bit like being trapped in a factory that was manufacturing the theme tunes to 1970s American TV shows

They’re clearly amazing musicians but I’m not sure I ‘get’ it, with my aversion to too much noodling. There was A LOT of noodling

I was there too – thought it was truly excellent. However, even I, a self-professed fan of the noodle – struggled a little to attend properly at times. It was funny watching a vast sea of bald middle-aged men’s heads bobbing in time to the music, tho :-)

Send the invoice to the usual place 🙂

Can you make sure he flushes properly next time?

Decent tomato slices, olive oil, salt, with a bit of basil (if you’re feeling fancy). Simple and very, very nice.

Vinny, I knew someone would be along to do it for me :-)

@twonks – nope, Moron (‘more on’ the ends, geddit) was Ibis’ 1990s response to Ritchey Logic and (particularly) Columbus Genius steel tubing. This was, don’t forget, the same company that gave the world the ‘hand job’ brake cable holder.

Regarding the actual story up, it seems to me that someone has been outsourcing to a non-specialised marketing company, and has been releasing internal comms as a press release…

Slow as in Rings of Power slow?

I’d say even slower. YMMV. Lots of people looked very unhappy, though.

I mean, stuff clearly happened, but I’m unclear as to why, or why I should care.

Got half an hour into the first one and gave up out of boredom. ‘Slow start’ seems to be a massive understatement 🤷

Mark, I’m genuinely curious as to how GA works out the gender of the reader – is it based on other site visiting habits? Do we tell them some other way somehow? Curious how it’s done…

I’ve used E6000 plus before with good results…

Musician (in the loosest sense of the term) here. I also have tinnitus. I’ve used a wide variety of plugs, and (surprise surprise) the best ones are the most expensive – the custom moulded ACS ones, at several hundred quid. They’re the best compromise between similar attenuation across the whole noise spectrum.

https://acscustom.com/uk/

That said, I’ve also had good experiences with the non-custom ACS ones (which are a bunch cheaper, as you’d expect) and I’ve also liked EGGZ, which I think are another branded generic one (there’s one very *very* similar in a link up there ^^ from Mumba), – I’ve got no idea what their consistency is like, but mine seem to be OK.

My recommendation would be to get some mid-range ones, and then if (after a few gigs) you really end up hating what they do to the sound, then ramp up your spending. At the very top end are the custom moulded ones, but they really are good.

Probably would stop if I had to wear earplugs tbh. I need to feel it.

It’s not as bad as you think, especially with decent plugs. You still get the bass drum in the chest etc.

Rich – I put it to you that if you’re riding it at all, and at tyre pressures suitable for a 7yo then yes, it’ll definitely feel *very* odd to ride :-D

Tester Alis is currently 132cm, and has had the bike for a few months now; I’d be surprised if she was much bigger than 129cm when we got it.

The crank length was absolutely perfect for her – the ones she’s graduated from were far too short. I guess it goes to show that every kid is different.