Mines mostly chromecasts (x3) and nest speakers (x6), which i can get the whole lot going at the same time. Same track. Sounds bloody awful due to the excessive number of speakers. Being a bit smarter about it and running selected speakers (living room/office/hall) sounds much better. Just running the chromecasts is really rather good.

I also have two headless Volumios running as well. They can apparently be synchronised, but i’ve never looked into it. So i play them in isolation (one is in the workshop, one outside).

I missed out on the whole halls thing at uni, they forgot to send the papers with my registration pack and by the time i called they were full. Same as most of my course (useless coordinators!).

On the plus side, the halls i would have been offered were quite literally falling down, the whole complex (16 or 18 blocks of 32 rooms each) had been condemned a couple of years before i arrived, and everyone was told that they didn’t need to worry about the place as they would be torn down the following summer. Damp, broken windows, some of the buildings had (literally) no front doors, gaps in the walls so you could see into the next room, and so on.

One of them fell down during the xmas break. And was demolished by easter. (Unoccupied at the time of partial collapse, and during demolition)

The rest of the blocks everyone went to town on at the end of term, totally trashed the place.
Then there was a new bunch of first years moved in the following year…

A mate went to Uni in edinburgh, long time ago now, he’s in his 50s. But he walked into his uni arranged digs, turned round and walked out. Ended up in a shared house (which was a bit rough round the edges, but no fungus in the kitchen.

Is it the tracking that’s off or the steering wheel?

Adjusting the TREs might leave you with weird steering in your attempts to get the wheel aligned. The rack won’t be centred anymore, you’ll have more lock one way or the other, might also give you issues with wheel hitting arch liners or other suspension components.
And depending on the rack and the cars age/spec, the pump might cycle at a higher speed if it detects the rack off centre as it *thinks* you’re turning and need more flow/pressure. They’ve been kicking around for ~10 years or so.

Do the right repair, not a bodge.

But I note a dispiriting tendency in our justice system to punish physical crimes against people less seriously than crimes against property.

That’s pretty much the foundation of most legal systems, property has value, people (for the most part) do not.

Oooooooo, XA3, i needs one for the garden…

It looked incredibly shonky.

I did some Ariane 4 and 5 component level stuff in the 90’s, it was still shonky as hell then. (Ditto for a lot of the DoD stuff!)

If you get the same car next time you go, it’ll still have the same scrape…

Call me old fashioned, I still steadfastly believe the first one is far FAR worse. Would anyone like to disagree?

That doesn’t mean the second is acceptable before you start

Yes, and there will be a sliding scale of sentences for both. Punishment will reflect what is in the sentencing guidelines.

I’ve done march/april/may half a dozen times for training camps and getting away from the rain/snow. Probably 50-60 days total, it’s rained maybe 3 times when i’ve been out riding and caused 3 or 4 rides to be delayed.

The one year i went in September on a family holiday was a disaster on both weather and bike fronts. The rentals were badly assembled and worn out, we had electrical storms, torrential rain and part of the road up to Lluc got washed out. The day after we left the storm drain next to the hotel overflowed and trashed the restaurant and the road outside.

Kids had a great time with their grandparents though and my wife moved out after we got home.

FWIW, you probably had to deconfigure your 800 when you bought it, you’ve just forgotten all about it (i had to do that as long ago as my 605 and the 810 i use now).

Maybe the perfect devices for me doesn’t exist… but maybe it does, hence the question.

No, it doesn’t. Sorry.

My job is about making technology fit requirements and I really have no passion doing that in my own time. I just want tech that meets my need straight off.

If that’s really your job you should know that almost no modern tech meets everyone’s needs straight off. If it did, the manufacturer would go bankrupt in days, pre-configuring hundreds of versions of essentially the same software is not a good way to do business. It’s part of my job too.

FWIW my Garmin has 3 screens with all the data fields i need. Mapping Data, Useful Data and Interesting Data, one i could get rid of tomorrow and it wouldn’t bother me. Also got rid of all the alerts and alarms, so it’s completely silent.

I’ve done lots of other tweaks and changes, but once you’ve got a stable baseline, it’s quick and easy to make changes.
(Profiles for different types of riding, different bikes etc)

Things have certainly moved on a bit since I was in the trade, but I’d still go for simple old school vs tech on an outbuilding.

Some of my smart motion sensors are 10+ year old designs. Is that old school yet ;)

Mine are mostly battery powered as well, so snipping the power to the garage doesn’t actually do much as far as triggering an alarm, except make it dark in there! And good luck spotting something the size of a matchbox on a shelf in the corner in the dark and then working out what it’s for… (If you set the system up properly the mains powered devices will also be flagged up as being powered down when they go out!)

Heat training aside, you’ll be amazed at how much heat a turbo session generates,

I had some graphs from way back showing the temp and humidity increase when the ex used to do monster sessions in one of the basement rooms (up to 3 hours of simulated road riding). It’s a big, well ventilated room and she could add 5 or 6 degrees and 25-30% to humidity… Glad it was a lino floor TBH!

I wouldn’t do it myself.

It does feel like councils are getting more stringent with their requirements.

Good?
Had a set pretty much abandoned outside my flat in Derby. The works took a week. They left a pair of lights and the trailer there for over a month plus all the barriers to close off one lane for 10m. All that happened is the guy from the traffic management company came by regularly to refill the generator.

One of my neighbours got fed up and tidied the whole lot away and rolled it over to a layby. Was gone the following day.

SKS Rennkompressor.

Then get a proper commercial pressure gauge with the range you need for ten or fifteen quid if you need better accuracy.

Last time I check the availability of the TS brakes the backlog was many months

There seems to have been some massive changes with TS over the last 12 months or so. Availability is now (pretty much) days to weeks for most stuff over here, i suspect that the additional funding and support from DT Swiss is now in full swing.

Sorry OP, but if you can’t even imagine how something can be better than your 15 year old Hope brakes you need to get out more.

Diminishing returns innit, i’ve got tech evo and tech 3 (and some classic m4) they work incredibly well modulation is excellent, power is more than enough, fade just doesn’t happen, don’t have any hand/finger issues. So why spend hundreds to replace something that works perfectly well? It’s spending for the sake of it.

Ride more bikes, squeeze more brakes.

I ride loads of bikes and squeeze loads of brakes. *Shrug*

Garages and sheds tend to be poor environments for movement detectors.

Get some smart ones then.
Mine have a delay programmed in. So you need ~5 seconds of sustained movement before it registers. Then you test it with a light (rather than a siren) and see how it goes. Either change the delay or the sensitivity until it works. Then add the siren into the equation.

The latest mmWave sensors can detect multiple items movements as well, which adds some interesting options. Like if it detects one person, take the maglite next to the back door to the garage to see whats going on. If it detects more people, call the cops!

A lot of manufacturers refer to the effective top tube as the size, not necessarily small medium large etc. 52 is generally considered a small.

No they don’t. I’ve not seem a single manufacturer refer to the effective top tube as the size, it’s the effective seat tube length they refer to.

Not a shed, a basement.

The highlights included most of a car down there, seats, body panels, wheels, etc. and a steel box (I still have the box) containing 70s/80s porn.

Is that you Shaun?
Mate of mine (called Shaun obvs.) found very similar, bought a big 3 storey end terrace (late 19thC build) for bugger all as a project.
Found that one of the walls of the cupboard under the stairs was actually a door that had been nailed shut, probably some time in the 60’s and filled/painted. House had changed hands many times between then and when he got it (late 90s). It’d been a family home, student digs, a drug den of sorts and empty for several years too. No one who they could track down knew anything about it.

The basement windows and exterior door had been bricked up and covered from the outside (either flag stones, flower beds or weeds all round the house!), there was still working heat, electricity and water down there. Also an almost complete Series II Land Rover, mostly restored and ready to rebuild, two classic motorbikes plus loads of parts, thousands of pounds worth of old tools and workshop supplies, stacks of high quality wood ready for whatever projects the person who bricked it up had in mind. A mini lathe, pillar drill and a few workshop style woodworking tools. Dozens of old workshop type books cars/metalworking/woodworking/electrical/plumbing/bricklaying/roofing all sorts.

And about 200 kilos of dust.

When i moved away from the area a couple of years after they moved in, they were still trying to sort out the basement, while simultaneously trying to make the house habitable…

Firewood processing for yourself is a serious pastime. Start now for next winter.

As they say over here, firewood warms you several times.

Felling, cutting, splitting, stacking, moving and burning…

Sounds like i’ll be reaping the Brexit Benefits there, what with being inside the EU and not in the UK.

Most of them are sized for nominal insulation levels and nominal weather.

https://www.reddit.com/r/redditonwiki/s/jt5XXIthHE

Dunno if anyone’s posted that yet…

It’s less critical than 12 speed, but 11 still benefits from having the hangar alignment checked and your issue at one end of the cassette could be due to it being a bit bent.

Anything from the change to 9 onwards is all but impossible to eyeball as straight enough.
Over 30% of new bikes need a tweak these days, including your 10 grand superbike frames, and anything that comes for a service on the gears gets it looked at as a matter of course.

Be more careful than usual on wet roads… for some reason I found the roads there super slippy (corners especially) after rain – much more than I usually find in the UK.

They don’t get so much rain, so when they do they have months of diesel/rubber/oil rising up out of the road surface. They also use a tarmac mix that is better suited to high temps, and it tends to be slippier anyway.
Saw most of a protour team coming unstuck on the mainland (Calpe) a few years ago. Little bit of light drizzle on their run/roundabout into the hotel and about 20 of them came down. Lucky the team car didn’t hit any of them, and that they were only doing 25kph!

Also, to reiterate about the temps, even in April it can hit 30+ by lunchtime, so make sure you’re either at the top of a big hill by then, or back at the hotel in the shade somewhere!
Sa Calobra is ok if it’s closed to coaches (they used to do this some days, not that i’ve been for 10 years!) other alternative it to do it on changeover day if you are there long enough as there will be a lot less coach parties or really early/late is good, i’ve dropped back into Port de Pollença as the suns going down after doing a loop up there. And one guy on a camp i did about 12-13 years ago left the hotel before dawn to get out and try for the record, think he did a 26 something in the end. Back before breakfast finished (just).

My ex in-laws do it most years

3 weeks in each, December, January and February. Week or so at home in-between for xmas, NYE and a couple of family birthdays. Usually do a couple of weeks in April as well.

Air BnB or a cheap hotel/villa in Spain is their usual target.

But you both know that the West Coast is the best coast.

I know this may sound controversial or anti-dog and doesn’t actually help, but I’m amazed that it is permitted to let dogs off of leads in public places (aside from areas that are specifically for dogs).

AFAIK over here (Sweden) it’s illegal to be off the leash in most built up areas/within most city and town limits except in a dedicated area like a dog park or enclosed private garden (not sure of the exact wording, i don’t have a dog).
And during the spring and summer (March to August ish) it’s illegal for them to be off the leash in the countryside as well. Unless they are hunting dogs, actually on a hunt (Again, not 100% sure on wording).

No one seems to complain, except those who don’t really want to look after their dog. And probably shouldn’t have one.

Garage. Unless there’s something painfully obviously wrong with the nipple or caliper that they can attribute to your abuse/misuse.

Podium here too, pretty much all i have. Got all the versions from when they first came out, still using some of the original ones too.
No leaks to report.

Regular issue round here, wheels seizing to the hubs with all the crap on the roads for 5 months of the year. On the plus side, i change the wheels twice a year, so it’s only 6/7 months worth of crap.

I keep a sledge hammer and a block of wood in my “tyre changing pile of stuff”.
Saw one poor bugger knocking his car off the jack trying to free it off to put his spare on after a puncture.

Oh, I’ve stopped worrying about branded discs n pads.

Did that on my father in laws skoda, he bought the cheapest pads he could find (About 30 quid for 4) by the time they were worn out (20000 km maybe?) the OE discs were also mangled beyond use (they were about 30% worn when i fitted the pads).
The decent branded discs and pads we put on to replace did another 50 or 60 thousand km without complaint. Then the car got sold. The decent pads were only about 15 quid more.

TBH, for future reference, IKEA do some cheap and pretty durable water proof covers for garden stuff, mines been out there 3 years and the covers are still working well, furniture is still good despite having been buried under a meter of snow and chilled down to -20 several times.
Only issue i’ve had was of my own doing. Dragged one of the covers across a nail, that i’d failed to hammer in properly after having looked at it a dozen or so times of the preceding weeks…

Went out with my girlfriend and her daughter at the weekend, mushroom hunting. About 5 kilos of mixed Karl Johan, Kanterell (about 3.5 kilos), early Trattkantarell and Taggsvamp.
All prepped and ready to eat now.

Surley the factory support from whichever brand of shock he uses might have a few words about the limitation of their shock :-)

The marketing team might, the actual engineers would be all over it as a concept. Get the shock to do what it’s good at, and get the mass damper to do what *it* is good at.

I went from a sub 9 kilo hardtail to a 12 kilo FS, the FS was faster in 99% of situations (and barely slower in the 1%). I broke the frame eventually.

I have two FS now, one comfortably under 11 and one uncomfortably over 12. Though, ive made so many changes since they were last weighed, i’ve no idea what they weigh now!

When they went to mushroom headed/peined chain pins.

The pins can’t be removed and refitted without damaging the outer side plates sufficiently that they’ll no longer hold the pin. That’s where the oversized shimano pin comes from.

And it started at 8 speed IIRC.

I’m struggling to go from a 10.5kg HT to a 13,14 even 15kg FS for this reason.

Get an 10.5 kilo FS then?

Assorted Stans tubeless, some on tubeless rims or ZTR, some on conversion strips. Some with tubeless tyres, some tubeless ready, some not tubeless at all.

Haven’t used an inner tube mid ride on a tubeless set up in 15+ years. It’s either fixed itself, or the tyre is a write off.

On the (few) tubed bikes, i haven’t had a puncture in a decade, at least.

I’ve been riding since the early 90’s and remember the days when snapped chains were a regular occurrence.

I’m early/mid 80’s and it’s never been a regular occurrence.

Only time i’ve had an issue with snapping chains was a handful of (probably faulty) shimano 9 speed chains that used to fall apart, outer plates just used to pull off the pin. Eventually had all those replaced by shimano tech service, sold the replacements on and bought Campag and Sedis chains, no issue since. Never bought a shimano chain since either!

Other than the handful of shimanos that went pop in the space of a month, i’m probably on one chain snap every dozen years.

Badly run, boring or directionless meetings are awful.

You need a new practice manager. One who knows how to organise a meeting.

Isn’t this in “manager 101” training.