efficiency of movement outweigh aerodynamics?

What do you mean by that, the more aerodynamic an object is, the more efficient it is at moving. The resistance increases non linear, its proportional to the square of the speed.   And at higher speeds this dominates the efficiency equation.

Sure.
The wheels are probably end of life, I can fit another spoke myself but they are a lightweight cheap cero wheel that I’ve had since 2016, not really suited to winter but I used them as a stop gap.

Thanks everyone for the responses. So not quite a desperately poor situation as I thought.

I’m in Sheffield so depending which bit of the Midlands not far at all. Could well be interested in those.

I used clear silicon on the noisy rattling bracket on my sks race blades. Pretty silent now.

What model Sony TV? Have you had a look at the sound output settings?

Some Sony Android tvs can be configured to output over hdmi arc and to another device using pcm via toslink simultaneously.

1 hour from Calais is Arras. Stayed there loads of times. Nothing special but easy

1 pan, 3 timers for (in order)
Potatoes, trofie pasta, green beans.
Jar of pesto and some pecorino gives you

Trofie al Pesto Genovese with Potatoes and Green Beans

Is 20 minutes too long? It’s not 20 minutes cooking.

The BBC makes all their radio stations available as really high bit rates

http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_high/ak/bbc_radio_fourfm.m3u8
http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_high/ak/bbc_radio_two.m3u8

I’m listening to these a lot and I don’t get any interuptions. I do use bbc sounds too but sometimes this is just easier using VLC.

Chromecasts I use a lot for bbc radio as well, they aren’t gapless but for radio streams it doens’t matter.

I use a Sony av receiver. Also for sound too of course. Bit overkill perhaps.No guarantee it would work either.

Definitely smoke

You would need to connect with hdmi arc output from the tv. This can pass remote control signals via cec as well as audio where as an optical connection cannot as it’s just pure pcm (pulse coded modulation) sound.

YouView does tv over the internet. It’s pretty simple, less painful to use than iplayer or itv hub.

Comes packaged on some Android TVs or you can get it as a separate device.

I think voice control would be a bad idea.

I’m a big fan of chromecast but it only supports Spotify bit rate up to 250kbs quality.
For 320(highest) you need a Spotify connect client. Regardless of it being a video or audio chromecast. Yours appears to be over hdmi.

The wimm linked above is a good bet. Or raspberry pi with hat that outputs spdif into your dac rather than a dac hat. They seem to be hard to source lately and will look a bit diy science project.

The other problem is as said before is that it isn’t and seemingly never will be gapless. Which frankly is terrible for an audio streamer. Great for radio though.

It’s definitely nothing to do with error rates. That’s complete nonsense given the tcp error correction and packet replay. It’s actually where streaming is superior to a cd transport.

Does it not stifle menu choice, an actual deterrent to doing one off specials as the calories need computing.

UK food is too corporate as it is, no imagination, this just makes it even worse as there is yet another bureaucratic hurdle.

Cliff walking

I’ve heard it on my seat 1.2 tsi, definitely worse on the E10 fuel. Had a couple of tanks of super and it wasn’t noticeable. Went back to E10 just recently due to the price and the pinking is back.

Trainline mobile app. Has all the major European carriers.

I plug a £22 Echo Dot with AMU into a Naim player and all seems to work surprisingly well, it would just be nice to get rid of her voice announcing each track requested. Is that possible?

I sometimes (rarely) connect my amazon (not dot) to my naim muso using bluetooth (rather than plug it in?) and tracks don’t get announced. sounds like it might be a setting somewhere. Possibly Song Id. just tell Alexa to turn it off.

Song ID
When you’re listening to a new song you’ve never heard, it can be annoying to interrupt the song by asking Alexa what it’s called or who sings it. However, with a feature called Song ID, Alexa will announce the artist and name of the track before playing the song. To enable, say, “Alexa, turn on Song ID.”

Gcn app is less bug ridden than Eurosport but it’s a low bar. Still isn’t hard to find issues. The android tv app only accepts the ok button input from my Sony remote. But if I use the remote app on my phone I can select other feeds than the default. Generally just cast it from phone though which is better. I just don’t get how such poor app quality can make it out to the general consumer.

Yesterday my live feed had the French 3 way commentary. No idea how that happened but I enjoyed it. Sure one of the guys called team Ineos les Grenadine.

Can’t beat Imlach and boardman though. Highlights repeated on itv hd later on for those on standard def freeview.

That’s actually not recommended as your isp monitors connection stability. A disconnect every day ‘might’ lower the line speed.

And keeping it in the Anjuna stable, wah guest mix, last 30 mins of this is quite nice.

abgt 424

And the sultan & shepherd mix in episode 425 (last 30 mins) is good too.

I had a pair of cheap rock shox, they always made the wheel off centre, think the legs were not level. Tried different wheels, same result.

You would notice under braking a large tyre would buzz the bridge.

If it works you don’t need to understand.

The software I was using required me to first install the new drive in situ. I.e replacing where the old smaller drive was installed.
Then you had to boot the laptop from the old drive connected to the laptop via usb and the caddy allowing the clone software to do its magic on the new drive. Once complete turn off. Unplug caddy and off you go booting from the new larger drive.

I assumed nvme.

I bought a usb c enclosure that holds the nvme drive natively. My new drive was a crucial nvme drive whose website allows a download of a free version of their clone tool but will only work if one drive is crucial.

And importantly is clever enough to force you to have the destination drive connected to the motherboard directly. And the source disk in the caddy for good reason.

I recently cloned a small m2 drive to a larger one. First I had to put the new drive in the adaptor on the motherboard and the old drive in a caddy and boot from usb.

Which complicates it a bit. I forget the reason why exactly but something the clone software has to do to make the cloned drive bootable.

It’s counter intuitive to how you would clone older 2.5 / 3.5 inch drives.

July 2nd 1989 on a spearmint green Raleigh Montage. Aged 14 and a bit.

I realised after I posted, mine is the it500 not the one you mention. apologies.

However, picked my thermostat unit up this morning to inspect and it started going very weird. way out by well over 5 degrees and now won’t control the boiler. It’s been fine for well over a year.

I shoved some new batteries in it and put it out in the snow to teach it a lesson.

In the app you can offset the reading of the temperature. Mine seemed a bit off so I think I run a permanent 1.0 degree offset. So reads 19 where before it said 20. I ran it next to another thermometer to compare.

You can offset up to a maximum of 3 degrees

Another vote for the western my cloud thing. I bought one after a psa on here a few years ago. The latest software for it on windows has no shutdown option but if you hunt the web for an older version there is. As it’s so rubbish, I only power it on about twice a year. Wonder how many people just pull the power cable out which isn’t a good idea on a mechanical drive.

we get the first taster of froome vs bernal vs thomas and Dumoulin vs Roglic

If you ignore Tour de L’Ain which finished yesterday.

I think I’ve spent actual money in France twice this week. Make sure you have a contactless card that doesn’t incur a fee for every transaction. A lot of places are contactless. You can still use cash but not everywhere; contactless is being pushed heavily. The limit in France is 50 euro now.

Doubt it. The phone isn’t a weak link whilst the music remains in the digital domain.

I think there are bigger things to worry about. I would just tut and be done with it.

Don’t forget starting an engine once stopped isn’t without energy cost. Rough rule of thumb is the engine needs to be stopped for greater than 30 seconds to be worth it versus the energy cost of replenishing the battery. Then of course, the greater wear on the starter motor and battery etc.

Typical of modern thinking, yes its a waste of energy but stopping idling isn’t going to solve anything at all. Certainly not worth worrying about.

Whereas the atmospheric conditions at platform 1-4 at St Pancras International well that has to exceed Euro legislation every single day. its horrible but its not the evil motorist so its fine.

Tv will be set to OVERSCAN on the hdmi. Remove this, its a legacy of the old analogue transmissions. (probably)

setting should be hidden somewhere in the settings. turning it off should get the display to correctly translate to a pixel 1:1 assuming the laptop is set to the native screen resolution.

Naim muso. Supports natively airplay 2, chromecast and a host of other streaming options.
A very pricey solution but works really well.

Chromecast, I have loads and the issues are usually to do with wifi signal. Fix that and they are reliable and super flexible. Can play any source through them.

I’ve always thought motorway junctions should always be above the carriageway. Gravity assist to get up to speed and less braking required to exit.

Half the requirements are covered by this

https://www.thetrainline.com/farefinder/

I like the look of that nob sound. Will the mini usb power a chromecast audio for even more options? if it does, i might just have to get one.

That is disappointing, I have two and use them loads. often in a group.

Very recently they have let you add video ones to an audio group, so this surprises me.
Also a tip for streaming youtube videos over chromecase audio, i use allconnect on iphone. works really well.

you can use it to listen on your phone with a lock screen too, no need to pay for premium.

I chromecast from this all the time, like every day.  Wondered whether casting was unsupported because it’s also gone from the web desktop in browser player.

I don’t like the way it looks.  I’m not moving until I have to. which i’m sure i will have to.

Also, it’s this kind of thread is why i like stw so much. This was literally a  question i wanted answering for weeks but cba to download the app as somehow that would validate the terrible UI of the new app.