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  • Freight Worse Than Death? Slopestyle on a Train!
  • joeyr
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    Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/copy-all-urls/djdmadneanknadilpjiknlnanaolmbfk?hl=en – Copy (and paste) any currently open tabs. Easy way to save what’s open, and reopen them if necessary.

    Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/copy-all-tab-urls-we/ – Doesn’t have the paste function, but will copy all open URLs.

    Just use these and save the open URLs in a text file.

    joeyr
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    Roses are red
    Violets are blue
    A Singletrack thread
    wrote this poem for you

    joeyr
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    I don’t know a huge amount about Musk and his companies, but this sums up the issue for me.

    Completely irrelevant conversation, but if he spends his life surrounded by sycophantic yes men, then you can understand how he’s ended up like this.

    joeyr
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    British Gas saying I’m overpaying on the App, but lists me as underpaying on their website. Admittedly the amount I’m supposedly underpaying by (debit at end of contract) is shrinking by the day so App may use current usage (with meter issue mentioned above), and the Website uses historical data? Worth double checking both if you’re with BG.

    joeyr
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    Thanks irc, will keep an eye on the usage over the next few months. Have e-mailed ofgem to see what the procedure would be if the old meter was inaccurate. I imagine there’s no comeback as many of my old energy companies have gone bust – if I’ve paid £40 too much each month for gas then I’ve overpaid by £6k over the time I’ve lived here.

    joeyr
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    Right, does this seem a bit odd to you guys?

    We recently had our meter changed from an old school one to a smart meter.

    Electric usage remains roughly the same.

    Gas (showers/heating/hot taps/hobs) has gone from 158kWh over 17 days in end August / beginning September (9.29 kWh per day)
    to
    33kWh over 14 days since the meter change (12th til 26th September – 2.35kWh per day)

    No heating on, same regular usage but 1/4 of the gas used with the new smart meter.

    Appreciate limited data, but I always suspected our gas bill was huge compared to everyone else, seems the old meter might have been inaccurate? If so, no idea where this leaves me as old energy company went bust and on British Gas now. Might have been overpaying by 3/4s for 13 years?

    joeyr
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    69er_Gav: (someone far more knowledgeable will probably correct me in a minute but..) If people can’t afford their mortgages then there will be a lot of houses on the market, so (hopefully for you) prices will start to fall soon.

    joeyr
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    Magura HS 11s and HS 33s
    X-Lite chainstay chain tensioners (looked like a cotton reel fixed to an alloy frame?)
    Club Roost Go Fast bars, narrow diameter with a shim where the stem clamps
    Old school 7 Speed gripshifters
    IRC Mythos XC tyres

    joeyr
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    Our 2 year old has just began toilet training, before that we were using reusable nappies which were (roughly cleaned) then put on a rinse and then a 2.5 hour 60 degree cycle, 3 times a week. Since we’ve stopped doing that, our electric consumption has gone down considerably (obviously).

    Which got me thinking that people could save a fair chunk of electric by soaking clothes in washing powder overnight, then washing on a shorter and lower temperature than usual, as hopefully a fair bit of the work would already have been done?

    Also, we have a huge gas bill compared to most, when we hardly ever use it. A few minutes using the hob, very short showers and the washing up. From what we’ve learned this month, it’s the short bursts from the hot tap (when washing hands etc) that seem to be eating up all the gas, as the boiler fires up, takes a while to heat the water and then takes a fair bit longer to cut out. I was always under the impression that “it’s just 5 seconds of hot water so won’t cost that much”, but seems that I was wrong. We’ve stopped using the hot tap for all but essentials and it’s made a huge difference to consumption.

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