I guess I’ll buy one and try it but I was under the impression that some couldn’t be uninstalled as they share services with others e.g. GMail and Play Store.

And don’t forget… it isn’t actually a war. These people are basically just tourists who fancied a bit of rape, torture, theft, execution etc. No reason not to try them.

IAdefinitelyNAL

It’s hard not to be suspicious that Erdogan is pulling a fast one with the veto in return for some quid pro quo from Putin.

Or from the US? Or the EU (membership???)

I’m not saying he’ll get anything out of this but you can bet he’s trying.

can’t see them declaring victory with maripol still holding out.

Given the control over the media and population, I reckon he can declare any kind of victory he wants.

kimbers

Even with less deaths omicron is going to get the nhs

Yep, the rise in admissions and some additional serious illness will put some strain on the NHS (at an already busy time of year). Staff absence caused by Omicron is perhaps a bigger factor. I’m told all trusts have drawn up ‘battle plans’ for this. The trust my sister works for are working on the assumption that there will be 35% absence within two weeks. It’s this combination – increased strain on the service while while staffing levels are reduced and chaotic – that’s so dangerous.

Thanks for the suggestions.
I’ve bought a decent length cable lock that will allow me to lock the bike to something fixed and will look locked. It will require ‘bike nicking’ tools to break it even if someone with the right tools could take the bike in seconds.

I figure it’s a good compromise between cost, weight and protection. It’s a lot better than what I’ve used for the last 15 years (no lock at all) and will deter local scrotes and passing van chancers. My defence against dedicated thieves will be to lock my bike up next to the very expensive eMTBs that use the same pubs.

…Bikes were just below the window we were sat at…

That’s been our approach for the last 15 years in at least two of the pubs – stack bikes up under the window and try to get a table near the window. Then assume any bike robbers will be slow and noisy making it really easy for us to spot and stop them…

We all carry These locks now, a bit weighty but pack small and would take some getting through.

That’s the kind of thing I’m thinking about.

Do you always go to the same pub? Are we talking mid-ride random stop or a regular Thursday evening pint with a couple of mates at the local?
If the latter a big huge heavy lock and leave it there?

We tend to have 3 or 4 routes so 3 or 4 pubs. Probably a bit OTT to leave a ‘big lock’ at each of them.

She has swim shoes and has now been warned about urchins, thanks.

Thanks both.
The Rixos was on our list (and looks spot on) but has no availability for our inflexible dates. Cavtat is also a possibility – we’re definitely not stuck on being in Dubrovnik itself. I’d seen the Hotel Croatia but the photos make it look like it’s a rocky/cliff approach to the beach. Having said that, their website says they have access to two beaches so they must have.

I’ll carry on with my original plan – take everything apart, put it all back together and hope for a different outcome.

Well I took it all apart and put it all back together again and it’s all tickety-boo (on the workstand at least).

Every day’s a school day.
It looks very similar to the XTR example at the start of that video. Good job I didn’t attempt to bend it ‘straight’.

Mech hanger looks fine. I’ve whipped it off and everything seems straight.

I’ll carry on with my original plan – take everything apart, put it all back together and hope for a different outcome.

If you can stretch to it I’d get a used DJI Mini.

I started off with a Simrex X11 which was ‘OK’ because I didn’t know better but in retrospect it was difficult to set up, difficult to link to phone/controller, difficult and unpredictable to fly and decidedly average photo/video. That was before it flew away never to return.

Then I bought a DJI Mini 2 and it is like night and day in terms of operation and image quality.

I think there will be a tipping point with mask wearing

I think we’re already there. I pop mine on when I go to the local but take if off when I get to the second inner door when I see people milling about, at the bar etc without masks on.

I’m happy to wear a mask, check in with the NHS app and have table service but if nobody else is doing it I won’t either.

It is clear… that it is ‘guidance’.
And you can choose to be guided by it or not, like ‘5 portions of fruit/veg per day’.

Anything V8

It does feel like good news but I’m sure yesterday being a bank holiday is relevant.

Quick report back and thanks for the suggestions.

It was the day after our 25th wedding anniversary and we’d had a good meal (with a glass or two of wine) so I was feeling slightly liverish and a lap of the Red North then Blue was fine for me before I retired to the café for a coffee and a cake.

Mrs higgo loved the swim in Crummock and did the swim Karnali recommended from Lanthwaite Woods to boathouse to three mature trees and back. She said it was cold but no colder than Salford Quays and considerably more scenic. She was fine in her wetsuit and straight into a DryRobe once she was out.

@karnali – no, she’s not swum in Crummock before. I think she’s planning to park near Rannerdale and swim across to Low Ling Crag and back and then take it from there.

Thanks – I’ll definitely consider the blue.
I used to ride at Llandegla a fair bit and would enjoy a blast around the blue as much as the other stuff.

Excellent – a Whinlatter thread just when I’m looking for Whinlatter info.
I’m also up there in a few days and will be dropped off at Whinlatter while Mrs higgo drives over to Crummock Water for a swim. We reckon by the time she’s driven there, changed, swum, changed and driven back I’ll have a couple of hours or so on the bike but may either need to cut my ride short or have the opportunity to ride a bit longer.

So my plan is to ride the North loop first then check the time and do either:
all of the South red loop
some of the South red loop
the Blue.

I’ve never been to Whinlatter before and do understand there are loads of variables including my almost complete lack of fitness but would be interested to know what people think of my plan.

Also, if we don’t coordinate timing perfectly, what the Visitor Centre area like for hanging around and waiting on my own, in the rain (probably) and with current Covid restrictions?

I was an apprentice and there was a guy in the same lab block who wore a wig that looked like it was made from greenish-brown carpet. In fact he had three wigs – short, medium and long – and would wear each in turn for a couple of weeks. Then he’d spend the second ‘long wig’ Friday complaining about how his hair was out of control and how he needed a haircut before turning up in short wig on Monday morning.

This was despite his wig having fallen off in the lab more than once.

He was also into photography and had a folder of ‘glamour’ pics of his catalogue Thai wife and her daughter in his desk drawer that he’d show to anyone interested (or anyone he thought was interested).

And just look at the timescales… if things go to plan we will be back inside pubs in 54 days. Does anyone think this government can set up a water-tight ‘vaccine passport’ scheme in 54 days?

This just seems like complete lunacy! I predict a roaring trade in fake passports (whether that’s bits of paper or digitally on your phone) so that the idiots can get pissed all summer.

Pubs that check Covid status may be allowed to drop social distancing

That’s only between May 17th and June 21st anyway, isn’t it?
I thought the plan was to be ‘back to normal’ from June 22nd – no masks, no social distancing, no other restrictions (apart from not being allowed out of the UK unless we have an overseas holiday home that we need to, ahem, get ready to be let)

Drugs. The stronger the better.

And the finest wines known to humanity?

New mattress for me.
If I’d known I would have got a new one a year or more earlier.
Mattress was approx 10 years old and didn’t feel wrong but I guess if things get slightly worse day by day you just don’t notice them.

I guess the sub will help but mine sounded ‘puny’.

I had a pair and wasn’t impressed at all.

How many of the 10000 are lorry drivers?

Arriving by air? Not many.

No facts but my opinions are:
a) for all three reasons
b) resident-facing only except at the end of the day if there’s some going spare in which case it should be given to anyone who can roll their sleeve up.

Spot on TiRed
I can see a future where we (and I’m over 50) have the ‘flu vaccine yearly and every few years there’s an updated CV-19 vaccine thrown in with it.
In fact I get my flu vaccine through work so anyone (at work >16 gets it) and it may be that CV-19 vaccination needs to drop below the 50s but the rate of change will be less than ‘flu.

I’d take a walk down it (without toddler) and see if I can see any evidence of dangerous trees or trees that look like they have been dangerous but have since become less dangerous.

Other than that I’d try to find out who the landowner is and drop them a line. I’d start with the National Park authority rather than ROW officer just because it’s a permissive path and maybe not in their scope.

Sad news.
A character to be sure – we chatted on here about routes etc a number of times.
I met him out riding a couple of times too – the first time was around Calderdale and we met a huge group of bogtrotters and a guy in lycra with too much camera equipment.
Life is short and fragile – best enjoyed in the here and now.

Out of interest, if the EMA approve the Moderna vaccine on Jan 6th, does that mean the MHRA will ‘mutual recognition’ it? Would that be affected by any agreement or not on an EU trade deal or is it separate?

They make a good collar bone sling.

Having been in the canal (in the dark and on my own) I can tell you that it’s cold, wet, muddy and smelly in that order.

Rather than starting my own thread, I’ll add to this one…

I currently have a SolarStorm (2 led) on my helmet. It’s lashed on with cable ties, can’t be adjusted for aim and is pointing a bit low (great view just in front of my front wheel when riding normally). It’s a few years old now – I bought it the first winter these SolarStorm lights were a thing – and I don’t know which LEDs it has.

I think I can solve the aim issue. I’ve just bought a GoPro style mount for my helmet and am waiting for a bit to attach the SolarStorm to it.

But I’m wondering if there is a better option these days that would fit a GoPro mount?

I like the idea of a self-contained light but I’ve never had a issue with a battery in my back pack.

Mind you, if you thought the 46 was, erm, questionable, you should have tried a PRST-1…

I never rode the PRST-1 but I had a JW-4 and enjoyed it when riding uphill on mildly technical trails. Anything else though was pretty horrible looking back on it. It certainly didn’t like getting its front wheel in the air at all.

I had a 46 a couple of times when the JW-4 was in for one of its frequent warranty visits back to the shop and did find that an improvement. Apart from the time it chucked me down the road on a flat smooth piece of Lake District tarmac for no apparent reason.

Updating my own thread – I know what screw I need – it’s a ‘8-32 X 0.250 TLG 303 Half Dog Point’
but I’m still interested in replacing the whole knob with a metal one if anyone knows anything suitable.

Julianne Moore?