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I have nver worn more than a medium weight baselayer (Nike Pro Combat) under my Stolen Goat jacket and that was plenty to see me through last winter in the Peak District. I do run hot though

Has it actually been regsitered yet (ie activated)?

I have POA for a relative and as I understand it, if it hasn’t been registered with the Office of the Public Guardian, then you can’t change it but your relative could.

Much harder I suspect if it has actually been registered with the OPG and you are actually acting as attorney

Based on no legal knowledge but several years of experience.

Red Moon Rising by Matthew Brzezinski gives a Soviet viewpoint. Good read.

I didn’t feel there was nearly enough specific information on their plans, so that’s what I said. I think they’ll find it very hard to get a balance which allows access for all their user groups without also making descending speeds on a bike dangerously high.

While I would never argue that nuclear has been a shining beacon of truth over the decades, its opponents are no better.

“Energy too cheap to meter”

was never said about nuclear energy; it’s a quote taken totally out of context. Have a look at this link.

I think ABWR will be interesting because, of all the different designs, it’s one we’ve not really done in the UK. Boiling brings a lot of interesting engineering problems. It’s certainly raising some tricky questions in GDA. But if/when they get it through, then they ought to be able to get it built quickly.

People whose opinion I respect say that they fancy NuGen to be first to generate power because the EPR is so complicated to build and the ABWR will be tough to get through GDA.

Well, Horizon started out as a partnership between E.On and RWE and was then sold to Hitachi in 2012. The (inevitable) choice of the ABWR was only made after Hitachi bought Horizon, so it was well behind EPR into the GDA.

NuGen was set up as a joint venture between ENGIE, Iberdrola and SSE. SSE bailed out in 2011 and later Toshiba bought Iberdrola’s stake plus some of Engie’s to give t a majority hoding. At that point they (inevitably) chose the AP1000 design and started that in GDA.

So EdF are first because they are the only one of the three which hasn’t had major comercial upheaval on the way to choosing a design, apart from Centrica, a minor partner, getting out early on. It was also clear from the beginning that Hinkley would be EPR so there was no technology choice to be made.

But it’s also pretty nuts for cyclists to cycle along those routes if they know those routes are poorly configured and dangerous. Just go another way.

It’s the only practical way to get where I was going. I hadn’t ridden that way before, trundled down the cycle track, and it then just lined me up to cross the tracks at a very shallow angle. I do now know this route is poorly configured and dangerous but it was an irritating way to find out.

The Manchester ones got me in the rain a week or two ago. The bike lans set me up to cross them at a shallow angle, I hopped over the first one, but put the front wheel straight into the second, and over….. F&^$ing stupid arrangement!

In the Bleak Peak, but not really very remote at all

They’re fine. I ride both with and without glasses (without if it is drizzly, or the lenses steam up), and have no major problems. I have once lost a lens in my eye, but it sorted itself out in a couple of hours, and I once somehow anaged to cut a slice off a lens, probably with a fingernail, which again sorted itself out eventually. Both sound far worse than they were.

I know someone who managed exactly this twice, both times the rear tyre failing on the drive side. One tyre was a Conti Trail King and the other a Nobby Nic. The Nobby Nic was new and failed in a couple of months.

He had the habit of hosing the cassette and rear derailleur with WD40 to dry them, and the WD40 dripped down on to the tyre. He stopped doing this and, magically, he hasn’t had the problem since.

Which is a long-wided way of asking if you got some aggressive chemicals on the trye?

Drum and Monkey, Chapel Road, is a good real ale pub

Number 6 The Square in Buxton good for lunch, teas, excellent cakes

And Zayka- Oh YES!

Walkers of Whitehall if you are at the Trafalgar Square/Charing Cross end

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The mountain bikes are unnamed, but the Enigma road bike with all the trimmings is called Hergen, for the man who unwittingly paid for it, shortly before he was sacked. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer chap!

You can decrease entropy locally, at an energetic cost, but Universally, entropy must continue to increase because by definition the Universe must be a closed system.

See also Heat Death of the Universe.

Or he held you hostage until your girlfriend bought a bike as a ransom payment?

I’ve come across her a little bit professionally”

That’ll be the one without the H then.

If only…………. I don’t move in those exotic circles

I’ve come across her a little bit professionally. We are a long way apart ideologically but she’s sharp, tough, committed, clear minded and serious. I respect, maybe even fear her a bit. She’ll be different…….

When you say it’s heavy, would you say it hinders breathability?

No, but for me, with a good insulating blubber layer and a tendency to run hot anyway, I only need it in seriously horrid weather. It is very much my ‘worst weather’ jacket for cold, grey Peak District winter days with rain, sleet or snow, and temperatures under 5 degrees or so. It’s great for those. I’m glad I have it but I probably only used it four or five times last winter, out of a toal of maybe 40-50 rides and it would be too much for me if it was my main jacket.

Short road ride this morning- 24 miles x 3000 ft- and an afternoon fiddling with bikes outsde. Total failure to keep cool.

I’ve never tried to pack my Vulpine up small but I think it’ll be quite bulky. It’s pretty heavy fabric so I tend only to use it in really bad weather when I’m sure I’ll be wearing it the whole time. It’s fine then, with just a baselayer underneath

Well my claim to fame is that Andrea Leadsom has recently sacked me (not quite true- I cam to the end of my time on an advisory committee and she wrote me a nice letter). She’s sharp and pretty tough. Don’t underestimate her

1 x carbon hardtail
1 x Al hardtail
1 x Ti roadbike (with a second on the way)

It doesn’t matter what the ‘facts’ are, it is the perception that influences people

That’s the great and unanticipated benefit of titanium frames. The untrained eye has difficulty working out how many bikes there are around if they are all natural metal Ti frames

My current employer has just created a bunch of Vice Dean positions. Is it only me???

[sadgeek]Is your 1321 kJ work done cycling, or total energy expended?

Say your power output during the ride was 200 W, and say you took 2 hours (7200 seconds), then total work done would be 1440 kJ, not that far from your measured 1321 kJ. I therefore suspect it is the useful work done.

You are physiologically about 20-25% efficient which suggests that your total energy consumption is probably about 5-6000 kJ. It makes the difference between you and the car a bit smaller, but doesn’t invalidate your point. [/sadgeek]

I got rid of a 2015 road bike to a friend of a frend recently, about 15 months old but quite well used.

End-of-line ones are still available new so I asked £ 500, about 1/3 of the price of one of them, and the buyer actually came back offering an extra £ 100. I could probably have got a bit more if I’d stuck it on ebay but this way was very hassle free and I know it’s gone to a good home.

So I’d pitch the price on the low side of reasonable.

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The tandem’s almost back- that’ll be quite an achievement

58cm which apparently is the right size for me @ 6’1″ yet it never felt right, I felt like I was always shuffling rearwards to try and get comfy but also the front end was too long (ended up with a 85mm stem on it !!)and to low

That sounds exactly like me when I got back on a road bike last year after a very long time. The underlying problem was saddle height. I had it miles too low so was always shuffling backwards trying to create room for my legs, and then because I had too much weight backwards I was stretching for the bars. A competent bike fitter sorted that in ten minutes. The new fit felt very weird for some time afterwards but I cannot possibly imagine going back to the old one now.

Which is a long way of agreeing with the posts above which say get a proper fit. Don’t just get one who does computer stuff- experience and understanding you and your riding is important too. Paul Smith at Enigma is my hero but I have heard good things about Adrian Timmis, mentioned above, too. Once you have the fit, persist with it. I stuck it out for several months (and it was weird and uncomfortable at times) before tweaking anything, and I feel I have now come out the other side.

Thanks all. A new computer worked just fine, so it’s given me the kick up the backside I needed to move everything from a rather tired laptop to a shiny new one, which I have been meaning to do for months. I think the USB slots on the old one were getting a bit temperamental.

Thanks all- I’ll try these suggestions

It doesn’t see it at all. I’ve reset the Garmin and wiped and reinstalled all Garmin files from the PC, without any improvement. Then I start pushing buttons and the World goes Blue….

I don’t think I am the same species as those guys. I just don’t understand how they can ride so far, so fast, and over such terrain, never mind do it day after day.

Being followed home definitely an issue around Bristol – happened to me. I noted the guys reg number, and police said he was a known bike thief. Same thing happened to another friend in the area too. In fairness though, in both cases we picked up the tail on way home rather than being followed from the trail centre

They have a mate who acts as a spotter and phones the tail when you leave. Happened to me on the way to the gym from work and cost me a rear window and a laptop.

You are doomed!

That’s pretty much how I started out a bit more than 2 years ago. My original MTB has been extensively rebuilt and upgraded, and been joined by a carbon-framed friend for nice days. A good weather road bike has been bought and recently sold, replaced by a total indulgence, and a winter roadie is being built up at the moment. All very well, and the bikes are nice, but the real problem is that the engine lacks ooomph. Oh, and I have committed myself to a 150 mile road ride in early July.

So, from one sensible bike to four not-at-all sensible ones, and from normal middle-aged apathy to questionable sanity, all at considerable financial cost in less than 2.5 years. What more could you want?

Loving it! :D :D :D

I think I’d sooner disassemble my house…

The only bit that might be tricky is anchoring it to a concrete base. I didn’t fancy that and paid for the installation service. The two lads who delivered it took about 20 minutes to do the whole job.

I have the 1-bike Asgard box which holds a 29er and a road bike easily enough. It doesn’t have a floor though and there is some condensation, though that has decreased since I spread a load of gravel in there.