Some XC routes here;

http://www.mtbroutes.nl/

I’ve done Valkenburg & Epen and both were pretty good.

10mm steel tube, sharpen the end – give it a good whack.

In the example above you could do it with a simple linear dimension from the part on the left with the Dutch fold to a tangential face on the other component.

Best time I had there I packed the same (well almost) as donks, if your doing it right you don’t need your own tent. Don’t take beer, it will be horrible after the first few hours – wine bags and/or vodka.

Bought some new speakers recently and the tracks we listened to were;

Nightcall – London Grammar
Telephone – Lady Gaga
Rape Me – Nirvanna
22 – Taylor Swift

Seemed to be a good mix of the type of music we listen to, although probably never in that order!

If stevied can’t help, a place we use at work for quick jobs is;
http://www.protolabs.co.uk/
quality is OK, nothing special and they won’t do any special tolerancing, but you get your parts in a few days.

I think you’d struggle to find a more difficult shot than that! They never stay still, reflections off the water, difficult to compose and multiple tadpoles in one shot it’s a nightmare.

My preference is for narrow DoF shots, as long as the eyes and head are in focus, then background blur helps isolate the subject. Although I do probably overdo it. Compositionally I would probably have tried to get the line of tadpoles on a diagonal, with the left tadpole as the focal point on the ‘third point’. Not a chance of getting the others in focus though. And take lots of shots – I bin a lot where the focus is off slightly. Focus tip: focus as closely as you can then rock back and forth to get the eyes sharp.

Back to the OP, other things I take with me are card reflectors (A4 white card) which can also be used as a wind shield, I have some fishing rod rests that have an adapter for the card that can be pushed into the ground so it can be hands free and a small piece of camping mat to sit/lay on.

I don’t often use a tripod, it’s not mobile enough for living things.

For flash I use a speedlight attached to a home made bracket, with a home made diffuser, this;

I think it works OK;

Not a fan, they stink and the dog rolls in their poo. They also leave pigeons in the garden that the dog finds and then hides in the house. There’s a mangy one that sits in our front garden and just stares at you – it’s a bit sad.

Similar looking tube clamps here;

https://www.metals4u.co.uk/tube-clamps/size-d-48mm/c181

I had my op on the 20th April (Laparoscopic bilateral inguinal). After a few days of Netflix (with no chill) I walked a lot, the dog loved it and I’ve been trying to do some yoga to keep some flexibility. I was signed off work until yesterday – couldn’t face the fact that it would take 2.5hrs by bus to do the 12 miles so rode in steady – it was fine.

Not sure I fancy running yet, the actual hernia area seems fine but I’m still quite tender in sensitive areas that my get bounced around a bit!

These guys will supply small quantities;

http://www.mallardmetals.co.uk/products_and_services.htm

Couldn’t find a camera wide enough to fit in all the fat arses?

Had another thought; You mention that the copper is coiled around a lumb of steel for thermal mass, I’d be tempted to remove the steel and use the volume for more tube. Also, I would try to maximise the amount of tube with a direct line of sight to the fire – radiant transfer is much more effective than convective (Radiant is proportional to ?T^4, convective is only proportional to ?T).

Hot things expand so either it needs to be pressure tight or have space for expansion of the water.

I assume it expands out of the shower head.

I don’t think it will make a noticeable difference with either of your two scenarios, if you want the water hotter you need to either keep it in the heat exchanger longer (so need a longer tube for a given flow rate) or improve the heat transfer (increase the temperature differential between water and heat source, or increase the surface area of the tubes).

Pre-heating the inlet on the chimney will help.

This and id love for it to happen but further to my comments above – researching a business plan for local promotion of these threw up a few issues from the public. 1. being lack of thought out segreated cycle provision(a local issue) and 2. the weather.

Intrastructure is an issue obviously, but weather is just an excuse. When I lived in Holland quite a few people used ebikes if they lived too far away, or they were knocking on a bit in years. The weather there isn’t any better than here, you just wear waterproofs.

how would you feel about a yoof riding a 30mph limited moped along the towpaths you use?

Happens in Holland where mopeds are allowed to use bike paths, the cycle paths are a bit better though!

Mushroom farm and 5 bed detached with an agricultural tie?

(although the energy used by oil refineries would fall from the reduction in demand, so actually there’d be a bit spare anyway).

The 15GW/h extra demand will take care of a good chunk of that ‘spare’ fossil fuel.

EV is without doubt the future, but IMO it only becomes an ‘answer’ when we aren’t using fossil fuels to generate the electricity.

One of the ladies in my club uses a “bugaboo runner”, it must be OK because she holds the marathon world record for a mother pushing a pram (3:17).

Last place I worked had them as pool cars (on free loan from Tesla), I had one on loan for a couple of months – it was fast, when you could get in it, when the screen booted up, when the motors hadn’t died, when the charging was working etc…. Build quality was appalling with trim falling off left right and centre. You could only use the pool cars if you were visiting a local postcode, not because of the range but more the cost of the taxi you’d probably need to get back to work. They were all replaced with Volvo plug in hybrids which were significantly more reliable. This was about 3 yrs ago, I understand they have improved since.

The thing is, I don’t need a car that does 0-60 in <5secs, I want one that goes when I want to get in it. Would I pay >80k of my own money for one, no, if I did want a performance saloon I’d get something like a 340 and spend the 40k saving on petrol, tax and congestion charge.

I took my daughter to a park a few weeks ago and the roundabout was littered with the canisters, “someones had a good party dad”, “Err yeah, what? how do you know about nitrous?”, “What’s nitrous? I meant all of the whipped cream they must have used”

theotherjonv
Helpful because my wife 6S has a screen fault that is a month past the 12mo warranty that they seem decidedly unhelpful in fixing (want £200+ to send it off!!!) – so an indy might be a better option again.

It might be worth heading into the Apple store and quoting them EU ruling 1999/44/EC which states a minimum of 2 years warranty?

We got our dog when we lived in Holland and her obedience classes were all in Dutch. She responds in exactly the same way to commands given in English (some are obviously the same Zit=Sit, Laat het=Leave it but others are not so similar Bleif=Stay) so anecdotally I don’t think it matters what you say it’s the way you say it.

Although it would appear there is no intonation which translates “do not touch the bacon sandwich that I’ve left unattended for a nanosecond” into dog language.

I think it was more sinister than that, it was more a case of landowners not renewing old Teds lease. But, yes the rich ones were farm owners.

which area of the country was that?

East Yorkshire, so not exactly an affluent area (and not dairy TBH). A lot of it was ‘old money’ from estate farms but even then it was only the farms that modernised and expanded that seemed to be successful.

I’ve never met a rich farmer

Whereas I have (anecdotes eh!), I grew up in a small market town with a lot of farmers locally. Some of them were very well off, Ferraris, massive houses etc. some of them were obviously struggling. The biggest differentiating factor seemed to be size, the bigger farms had the clout to strangle the smaller ones out of the market and buy them out when they went bankrupt. So whilst I have some sympathy for the way that supermarket treat the farmers, they (some of them anyway) have done a very similar thing to their own peers.

I’ve only skimmed through the other posts so sorry if I’m repeating someone else. My main advice would be to be realistic about the level of fixtures and fittings. For example, a Smallbone kitchen may well be fantastic, but it might be out of place in a 2 bed terrace.

But in a 5hr road stage where conditions are completely different, where a rider is in amongst a peloton and tactics play a bigger part I think it’d be more trouble than it’s worth. Battery wouldn’t last long enough for it to be worthwhile

You wouldn’t need 5hrs, an extra 50w for 5 mins up the Cauberg could win you a rainbow jersey (for example).

With all due respect to U23 womens ‘cross, if people are using motors there, what on earth are Tinkoff-Saxo / Astana doing when the stakes (money) is higher?

A very subtle mention of a new WORLD CHAMPION

Was trying to avoid any spoilers :wink: , it was a commanding performance, and would have given her 5th place in the elite race (maybe better considering she backed off on the last lap) which is an outstanding result!

Elite men; I’m going for, van der Poel, van Aert, (heart says Sven) head says Meeusen or Pauwels.

Brilliant ride by Pidcock, if only he was gridded. And then a superb performance in the U23s by Evie Richards.

Good luck Nikki Harris.

^ That works in Google sheets as well.

We’re with AXA and it’s £55 per adult and £30 per child (both per month) for their “executive cover” via my employer.

will running improve your bike fitness?

That depends! Are you replacing some of your biking with running? Then probably not. Are you running in addition to your normal level of biking? Then probably yes.

IMO you would be better buying the sizes you needed individually, do you need plug taps? Spiral cut are easier to use (I just chuck them in a battery drill). I’ve used these[/url] guys a lot without any problems.

Threaded inserts and bolts in both sides of the cabinet, Key hole slots in the holder so it can be lifted off and positioned on the other side.

I could either rivet or bolt it on I guess but would prefer a non permanent fix

Traditional Goose for us. Not settled on the starter or veg yet.

My daughters got a Cortina Lief (here[/url]), we also looked at some Sparta models when we got hers. Both makes seem well made.

Still weighs a ton though.

Until there is evidence of him being a doper I’ll give him the benefit of the non-existant doubt

There may have been evidence if he didn’t swerve a random test!