lol. no honestly I just want my rapidly growing daughter to be able to ride her bike while it still fits!

Anyone had success fitting the “failsafe” bolt?

Mine bent on first attempt, at a few mm insertion using their supplied hex key.

as @brucewee infers we’re all in the market whether we like it or not. to hold fiat is to be long on fiat and short on crypto. it’s all just opinion.

all cool @Rio. “2 opinions make a market” as I once heard.

my 2p: the worldwide market for a fungible deflationary government independent store of value is a big multiple of that of gold (which itself today is about 12x that of bitcoin, which I think is about half of all crypto, don’t quote me on that).

it will touch every life**.

look down, that barely perceptible murmer beneath your feet is the tectonic plates of finance shifting.

** or it will go to zero and you all get a good laugh. also possible.

(The Tesla thing is just cheap PR and Musk leveraging his voice).

even if you’re sceptical consider putting just a teeny bit in, then you have skin in the game, are paying attention, and are exposed to the possibility however remote of it going 100x. once it’s in kiss it mentally goodbye, don’t expect to see it again as fiat except maybe the last moment before a payee receives it. pretend it’s gone forever.

catch up in year y’all.

@yourguitarhero

I actually feel I get a better workout with the eBike. It’s a bit shorter, but the intensity is much higher and more consistent and I take less breaks.

my experience too. plus I ride more because I can get a meaningful ride in 90 minutes out the door.

I got fitter and dropped a couple of kg when I got my e-bike, and also found a bunch of new local trails because I was exploring.

from what I see, the tradeoff vs full gas Levo is loosing turbo mode and gaining a few pounds weight saving, shorter chainstays, rolling a Levo and bio trail bike into 1 bike, and plausible fly-ability.

I’d take that deal.

Want.

Haven’t the read whole thread but response to OP is: quit the denial and take the preventer**.

** Spoken from experience.

Thanks. Shimano. Decision is made.

The Police have openly admitted that the protesters in London are really peaceful, nice people, hence why they’re so difficult to deal with.

there’s a legal issue for them – they have a bunch of powers they can use if there is any violence.

but since there isn’t those power are not available so they’re quite restricted.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/18/scotland-yard-defends-response-to-climate-change-protests

Particularly love the “we” can’t allow the world to continue flying, unless you Emma Thompson ofcourse 😎😎

what do you want her to do, swim?

I find myself hypocritically typing this on a computer.

I shall cease immediately and whistle in the message using Morse Code.

pleased to see the tread got some traction

this is fun

sorry missed this, so did one here https://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/the-extinction-rebellion-actions-in-london-and-worldwide/

what can you do?

on a personal basis (I’m assuming that educating girls and empowering women doesn’t apply to readers here)
* plant based diet, be strict about food waste
* stop flying
* join and work with a group pushing for political/society wide change

pretty much everything else on a personal level is just frippery, don’t kid yourself that recycling beer cans will stop it. it’s a global and (inter)national level problem.

Toby what level of disconnection of modern society would suffice for you to respect them?

Living in a handwoven teepee in a Welsh forest, organising on a (vegan skinned) bongo network and walking 200 miles to a protest?

Switching to sturdy coffee cups and paper straws ain’t going to save the situation.

Update – hypromellose drops aren’t a fix (for me) but do seem to help.

Some good advice here

https://patient.info/health/eye-problems/dry-eyes

Informative link ta.

I used to suffer from this and an optician friend pointed out (as mentioned above) its a lack of lubrication fluid on the eye ball.

yeah I think that’s where to start in my case.

thanks all.

looking at search images of blepharitis, I don’t have all that visible gunky eye stuff now (tho have had the stringy bits at times in the past) so I suspect it’s currently eye dryness as an affect of my general auto-immune stuff (aka snowflakiness!).

a few things to think about in your replies thanks.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/jan/17/brexit-uncertainty-prompts-employers-to-cut-graduate-jobs

Take that, snowflakes.

Were we? Result!

Absolutely. Norman = Norseman.

Hard as nails us.

Except I’m, errr, now a middle-aged middle class computer guy from Surrey who never won a fight in his life. Oh.

(tho maybe I should try again for that French passport!)

the Normans were vikings though.

Norway! result!

Yes – I’m Norman so you have 700+ years advantage on me.

Bloody incomers.

Has he realised he is about to lose his MEP job?

Perhaps, tho regardless he gets to keep his £78k annual EU pension and his kids can have EU passports of course as their mother is German. My daughter on the other hand has the “good fortune” to be English going back multiple generations. Thx for that, our Nige.

I don’t think Farage, Gove, Johnson et al ever expected or wanted to win.

But a new referendum would be a poison chalice for Tory & Labour … what would they campaign for?

As for a result, that may well be down to last time’s abstainers pitching in, and the young coming out in force.

But the red tops are still for leave.

Very hard to call.

and why bojo is writing articles saying we must not become a vassal state of the EU.

perhaps he’s making a case for being a vassal of the Chinese or US.

As an asthma sufferer and if it flares up then 32 puffs in a day would be very easy to do. That’s only 2 – 3 puffs an hour for 12 hours.

As a fellow sufferer I agree. However if I was that sick I’d barely be able to ride a bike let alone at world class pace.

scotroutes » When I was at school the asthmatic kid was always the last to be picked for playground footie.

nah to be fair it was because I was crap.

All the best riders have a toot on the blue puffer.

And everyone who already figured that one out, say, before the vote, slow claps.

clap

clap

clap.

I think statement 2 trumps statement 1.

I don’t think the EU is bothered, the document is more political than legal. They have us where they wanted us and the asset grab can continue in an orderly fashion.

(I keep saying ‘us’ … I’m not an us).

Well wouldn’t they all technically have dual nationality as Irish/British anyway…so nothing changes.

What’s changed is they will no longer be citizens of an EU nation. Like the rest of us.

The wording seems imply “hard brexit” can never happen?

yeah that’s my sense of it.

all the bluster was BS, it’ll be compliance with no influence.

may as well stay in then!

they do anyway as they are all Irish* and can get an Irish passport

sure I realise. but the context has changed, they’re still getting treated differently post-Brexit to the rest of the country, we’re getting stripped of ours (personally, against my consent), they’re not.

So everyone in NI gets to retain their EU citizenship says the G (including ironically my friend from Derry who voted Leave … and since applied for Irish passports for his kids!), but I’m English so I don’t.

So how is that not treating NI differently to the rest of the country?

Regardless of how people voted is this how they would expect any UK government to conduct itself during the planning and execution of an EU exit?

yes, it’s one reason I voted remain.

Thx Mefty.

Presumably that means the complier playing tag-along, and continual equivalence testing?

Ultimately the complier has to have the same outcome to any tests, no?

but we’re already in it!

phew that’s OK then, nothing to see here.

…now, sooner or later someone will have the radical idea that if we become a member state of this trading bloc, we can influence the rules from within, no?

yes but that requires the other members of the bloc to give up a bit of their precious “sovrintee”.

obviously that would never happen, the nation state is king!

retaining freedom of movement

Good, retention of my FOM, & especially for my kids, is my red line.

thus the stronger partner in the relationship gets to dictate the rules?

there is no partnership. they set the rules we comply.