I have watched the first two. Disappointingly shallow, I was hoping for more on the detail of what went on between the mythical men in grey suits in their smoke filled rooms.

Like most streets of it’s ilk, Albany Road (Cardiff I assume) has had a 20mph limit for some time. I am not sure how many changes we will see on the ground, as the Council already had implemented 20 mph in residential areas, and has designated a nummber of arterial routes as 30. So most of the pre-existinig signs will still be saying the right thing, though no doubt there will be changes with some previously 30 roads now 20.

So he is sufficiently non – comatose to have someone buried alive?

Difference between taking over an existing arrangement over a bicycle and promising to take on new arrangements.

No, unless it’s contractual. I very much doubt it will be.

My loose wording. What I meant was, for it to be legally a transfer, the contract needed to include the bikes, as they are part of the “undertaking”. No bikes, no TUPE would be the (probably a bit shonky but a runner) argument.

Shirley if it really is a “transfer of an undertaking” that would include the bikes? Or to put it another way, if the bikes are not included it isn’t a transfer, in which case the employees have been unfairly dismissed. Well, that would be an argumemt to run to frighten the horses and force some reason on the situation.

“Hole in the road” by Bernard Cribbins is a jolly song about burying a pesky local government official, possibly alive.

I saw it and understood it to have quite a narrow scope, about the implosion(s) of the Conservative government(s) and the political skulduggery behind that. With that in mind, it seemed OK.

Can also have a category for the medical teams, like the manufacturers in mtb/motor racing.

Like horse racing, where the owners and trainers are recognised as much as the horse.

Well this isn’t very pretty but the first link gets you there. He’s proper banged up and missing a tooth, was concussed but seems ok apart from that.

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Weather was a bit meh, but the apples are nearly there and so we make apple chutney from some windfalls and manky looking ones (cutting out all the manky bits obvs).

I had this. There is a stopcock out in the street under a black iron cover, which Welsh Water own, the one inside the garage (we don’t have a meter) is ours. As the one in the street was covered in muck and of an ancient type, the plumber couldn’t shut it himself, so I had to arrange for a Welsh Water person to come and inspect the situation, then at a later appointment close it for a few mins so the plumber could replace our stopcock. Welsh Water didn’t charge for this, but it all took a while to arrange.

What with one thing and another flying anywhere seems to be like a great way to get screwed over and stressed out these days, and that’s without even considering the environmental damage.

With us, every other trip seems to involve an unplanned hotel stay. The expectation hardly makes for a relaxing holiday.

water is a molecule (or if you mean liquid water a lot of molecules in close proximity) it has no emotions and thus the concept of describing it as happy/unhappy is actually weird

@poly I am afraid the weirdness is mainly your’s. As you later note, people do (often) anthropomorphise things. They are not all weirdos. Furthermore “happy” in such contexts is a common figure of speech, no doubt derived from ideas of what a human would feel but no longer indicating an actual connection with human experience. And further furthermore, thermodynamic happiness is true happiness. As for the thought experiment, it is clear. Water (I can’t be arsed to keep calling it “liquid water” where the meaning is obvious) in space. What happens to it. You can’t quibble about how it got there because it’s a thought experiment. It just got there, all wet and bucket-shaped (the bucket may or may not still be present).

Ice in space is quite happy as ice because it’s at absolute zero. It takes heat to change that hence the tail of a commet as it approaches the sun and warms up relaesign dust and gas which are carried behind it by the solar wind..

I knew that was not an ideal example to give, anyhow…

Water is also unhappy in space because liquid water cannot exist at low pressures (below the triple point pressure which is around 1/100 of an atmosphere), whatever the temperature. See the phase diagram below, off Wikipedia. If you could somehow transport a bucketload of water into space it would boil (though that word is possibly a bit peaceful for what would happen). The resulting bits would be ice and gas and would have some temperature. The lack of pressure would be the main driver of this, not coooling from the cold of space.

Water phase diagram the image wouldn’t link

ETA of course if your bucket is planet-sized, then it can generate enough pressure via gravity for liquid water to exist, and it may also get warm enough somehow.

I thought boost, at least on the rear, was driven by the need for more space in the bb area given the trend to bigger diameter wider tyres, particularly with fs bikes and carbon construction, and notwithstanding the ditching of the front mech? The chainline change then required something be done at the rear to meet shifting standards.

The thing about 100C is that’s the point at which the average energy of the water molecules is enough to break the bonds.

It is the temperature at which the pressure inside a bubble of gaseous water is equal to atmospheric pressure, so that bubbles can grow in shallow water and rise, aka boiling. So water boils at a lower temp at altitude and you can’t make a decent cuppa. The pressure the bubbles have to overcome also has a component from the water pressure, so it takes higher temps to boil water at depth eg around hydrothermal vents.

There is also a weak component of pressure holding the water together/ tending to collapse small bubbles from surface tension (which is due to the hydrogen bonds). But that is not enough to keep liquid water drops intact in space, where water exists as ice. Unless it has a planet and atmosphere to provide the necessary pressure.

Well I guess mine is pinching OK then, it all seems very solid. As do the e14 cranks atm.

So is one of the suspension issues a bolt that ought to fit inside the end of the axle pivot bolt for the frame mount of the upper linkage on the non-drive side? ‘Cos I can see bare threads, but the suspension seems to work fine.

Seems to me the problem in learning about this is the plethora of names we give water. Water, ice, steam, water vapour – four names for three phases. Confusion is understandable.

she’s really not really powerfully built, she’s actually just overweight

It is difficult for females to achieve big strength without putting on fat. Naturally, that is. Holl may be at the strength she needs and the lowest strength to weight she can get to. Looking at the way she rides she is clearly a total powerhouse.

Harris doesnn’t appear to be very popular though.

Yup, been using an XT mech with an otherwise Sram GX 12sp drivetrain for a few years on my trail bike, works fine.

My toilet valve is dribbling – a replacement from amazon won’t be here until tomorrow!

it will take a literal minute to fit

So you hope. A lot of the kit in our place is probably over 50 years old. Everything involves hacksaws and cursing. “Hire a plumber”, you say – he had to resort to a disc grinder and the cursing was truly epic.

Sorry to hear this. In my experiences, having to get on with the daily necessities is a help, organising funeral stuff is horrible though.

Putin not quite confirming Priggo is dead. Was it him on the plane? It was noted up-thread that putting all your top brass on one plane is not good practice for any organisation – perhaps they didn’t.

Thing is, she has had all the repairs done, no doubt trained as fully as possible, with the best advice, yet one mis-judged jump and… pop goes the shoulder. If she did race again I am not sure I could bear to watch. Sure, if anyone can make it through a race weekend with no mistakes Rachel can, but realistically it does not seem her body is up to it, which is what she is saying.

With chainline too far inboard the chain can graunch on your n-1 gear when in your smallest gear, which I have read as an explanation for chainlines outside of the middle of the cassette. Even in pre- boost days when frames were slim enough to achieve this.

I get about one bat collision a year night riding.

Charing Cross bomb, right platform, 15 mins earlier.

Much like everyone else, I imagine I would be easy to track down. And also vice versa (real name to online name). When I started joining forums having a username was the done thing, before facebook etc popularised real names. My username should now be whitespoke.

I watched the trials on gcn. Some unbelievable moves, and all that in soaking rain. Jack Carthy’s win was nailbiting, went right down to his final section.

Have you ever seen slugs having sex? Total slimefest. Very rude indeed.

I would like a smart washing line that reminded me to fetch the washing in when there was a shower.

I think a problem with bikes is that everything is built/specified with low weight in mind. So flex in the surrounding hardware leads to water ingress and so on, regardless of the bearing type.

Thinner spokes will compress more in use, but really since spokes stretch max around 1mm when building so can’t really compress more than that, and your suspension compresses 150mm, good luck noticing that. Hence I’m fine with more thinner spokes.

There is also side loading to consider. If you look at slow motion high frame rate videos, wheels (even carbon ones) appear to displace centimetres out of plane during some manoeuvres. That will represent mm scale spoke stretch, and spoke stiffness may make a difference. I built my 27.5+ wheels with 32 DT Revs and Nextie Alligator carbon rims. I now think I would use a stiffer spoke as there does seem to be some wheel deformation. My 29″ trail wheels have 32 D lites and chunkier carbon rims, which is probably better.

Parliament likes the monarchy because it has it exactly where it wants it. Changing the monarchy is only really practical as part of a wider package of constitutional reform. But it is difficult to see how the current owners of the constitution (Parliament), would agree to any reform, as any sane reform would reduce it’s power. A bit of a prob.

Worley’s Hardware Store in Rhydypenau, Cardiff often comes up with the goods when other places don’t. Focussed on home and light gardening stuff. And, against stereotype, run by a very helpful asian guy.

The horizontal axis in them photos is time, not distance*. If you pull the bike back after the throw so the rear wheel is delayed a bit crossing the line the bike will appear a bit long.

Eta and if there is a big speed diffetence the slower bike will appear longer

*The photo is made up of a narrow slice of the view across the line, re-photographed at regular intervals and magically spliced together.