here goes with something more useful…

from Unstone I’d follow backroads to join Meadowhead just north of the big roundabout on the ringroad then follow chesterfield road into the centre. you won’t be flying along but you won’t be going fast anywhere between you and the centre.

On the way home you’ll need a very small amount of MTFU but neither homebase hill nor the climb up to meadowhead is that bad (I reckon they’re both easier than the climb you did on the way in in the morning)

good luck with the riding in. Chasing cars up hills is a good way to build some fitness

where in the city centre? i ride in from Greenhill to Park Square (ish) so can give specifics if you’re coming in this way.

I think i’ve seen film from someone watching. if it is the same one he had a parachute but didn’t get enough air for it to open properly

you absolutely don’t need one but if you like to ride with your saddle at the right height for non-techy sections (road link up etc) but get it out of the way for something technical, and not keep stopping all the time, then they’re great. If they didn’t exist I wouldn’t miss mine but now I have it it’s great. Weight difference is not significant if you’re not racing (in my case the rider could stand to lose more weight than the heaviest post) but they aren’t cheap.

I stand corrected, but the ones they’re talking about above are all big and bulky.

And I still reckon that if you’re going for IEMs then you’re best to spend your money getting them custom molded and not worry about NC. I spent far more than i planned but the sound quality is fantastic and they really do cut out all the background.

I’m going to post the same thing I always do on these threads. Noise cancelling phones are great but they are big bulky things and they inevitably don’t sound as good as a non-NC headphone for the same money. I’ve got custom moulded inner ear phones which cut out the noise very effectively. Mind you, CFH would probably object to the fact they would also very effectively block out the stewardness offering him another drink.

EDIT: this thread is slightly a sore point today. I’ve had an attack of earwax so decided not to wear the expensive IEMs and then failed to pick up the big NC phones before running out the door this morning. Am now sat in Philly with a thumping headache :(

I think it’s very likely that those who would say “no” wouldn’t get invited in the first place. What sort of person would think “I’m going to marry my beloved of the same sex. I know who I’ll invite, that bigoted homophobe who thinks I’m going to burn for all eternity”?

I really really don’t understand why some people get so het up about who other consenting adults choose to share their bed with.

I have an old and battered one of these in the garage. Tempted to build it up again, just wish it was a bigger size.

I think there are situations in which a pharmacy can give an extra few days of a regular medication (I heard about it for women who’ve run out of contraceptive pills). Of course I could have totally misunderstood as I am neither a medic nor a pharmacist.

meehaja’s option #2 sounds most promising if #1 isn’t a goer

EDIT: looks like i’ve not imagined it :-)

text to cols will work if you’re doing this once and not trying to automate it. If you are, then you need something cleverer.

or high (chair) roller?

have we really not yet asked “what tyres for running over a toddler?”

I’m assuming you mean spirometry not spirography :wink: It’s basically blowing hard into a tube to measure peak flow, total volume etc.

are you the 5th teletubby?

thingummybobby or whadjamacall might work if I fail to think of something with a funny/obscene acronym (little things please little minds)

Stumpjumper Rocker Adaptation Module?? I can’t see anything anyone would object to there

the first dry day of spring when everyone is happy, even the red socks, and we’re all so glad to be out in the dry that we share the trails with none of the usual grumpiness

EDIT: and the cherry on top was the smile from a pretty lady on a bike who didn’t seem too disturbed by the random mtber saying hello

porter_jamie – put my name down for one of those rockers (or whatever I should call it), I’ve looked for such a thing in the past but not found anyone making them. hopefully you’re now getting enough interest for it to be economic…

no-one is that argumentative

the edinburgh defence

Ban this sick filth.

isn’t banning your job?

looks like one of those Brooklyn Machine Works overly complicated DH and hucking machines

hub gear makes it (marginally) more sensible

only 3? I’m on 3 at the moment but still wanting a hub gear winter mtb to save the wear on the FS when the peak is a mudbath

to properly address this question we need the OP to come clean about the full extent of his stable. So far we have the commuter, the FS, and the plastic HT. Not mentioned so far are the cx bike and the tandem. Any others you wish to have taken into consideration? :wink:

for me the key is to have very different bikes so the bike I take is determined by where I’m going. Road bike, mtb, commuter (aka frankenbike).

you sell it to a Romanian slaughterhouse, they kill it and sell it to a dodgy Dutchman who stores it until it goes rotten, he sells it to someone who makes burgers, they sell it to a well-known British supermarket, you eat Dobbin for tea. Simple

for the beneift of any lawyers reading, I should probably say this is all allegedly

are we now suggesting he teabags the vendor through the letterbox? 8O

when you say club? do you mean STW strava or your club????

I meant STW strava. i looked at road segments and was last each time. I looked at off-road segments and wasn’t last. I know I’m not fast in the wider world, was just interested to see the difference between comparing me to STW forumites on-road vs off-road

that’s not working so well. Just checked a few segments and I’m often the only STW-ite who’s ridden it. Where I’m not, I seem to have gone from halfway down a very long leaderboard to the bottom of a very short one. There goes my chance of being a strava god :(

EDIT: the roadies in the club are fast, the mtb-ers not so much

If you want to make yourself feel better, join the stwforumites thing on there and filter the segments to just show those results. Bang, I’m suddenly top 10!

so I can compare myself against other old and fat people without paying for premier membership :D

(i know there are some genuinely fast folks on here, just thought I’d wheel out the stereotype for comedy value)

not seen the second one before. Just the sounds of his axes hitting that slush made my sphincter clench. what was he thinking?

do you have a pig?! surely that’s the first step?!

Road bike on Saturday. Mtb yesterday – weather was good so I went further than I planned. My legs hurt now and I’m struggling with the stairs but it’s worth it to have got the miles in while the sun was shining.

I’ve got some Rudy Project glasses. A bit roadie looking but they’re very good for those rides that go in and out of the woods or when the sun might go behind a cloud. They do different versions depending on the range of brightness you might want to cover. I’m a big fan of photochromic lenses.

it can be dependent on what you’re riding/wearing. Response rate is far higher when I’m on the road bike in lycra than the mtb in baggies, and I’m fairly sure that if I was on a BSO in jeans riding with my knees out and a bag of shopping on the bars I’d be totally ignored.

Mind you, some roadies don’t respond just because they’re trying so hard they have tunnel vision and can’t think of anything but how much their legs hurt.

EDIT: beaten to it…

I’ve even started riding to work (11 miles and 1000ft of climbing each way).

Sudden increase in mileage is looking most likely cause

Having said that, cleat alignment could also be an issue. Not so much forward/backward but the angle of the foot, meaning both the heels in/out axis and the rolled in/out axis. I got bike fitted a few years ago and now use wedges to slightly lift the inside edge of the foot. On flats you can move your foot around so it doesn’t matter if the position isn’t perfect – if you’re clipped in it needs to be right.

Roe deer trying to clear fence, couldn’t make it, started crashing into it. Saw me then went into a panic, terribly nervous and highly strung creatures.

well it would be if it couldn’t clear the fence

what’s wrong with some totally uninformed wild speculation? isn’t that the STW way?

nosedive is right that CRA is a good stepping stone for other clinical trials jobs but I’m with batfink in saying that she’ll probably need another stone before that one. Good chance of promotions once you get a foot in the door though.

Be warned though, don’t think that a PhD will make her stand out from other candidates. Half my CRAs have either PhD or MD.

interesting view on MSL up there. I think it varies from place to place. Some I see have to spend an awful lot of their time telling big-headed doctors how wonderful they are and I’m not sure how much science they really get to do.

I was discounting 3 legged horses since horses with broken legs don’t seem to have a very long life expectancy

Close enough.

Let’s assume that HM = Human and
HR = Horse
HM + HR = 74
2HM + 4HR = 196
(2HM + 4HR) – (2 HM + 2HR) = 196 – 148
2HR = 48
HR = 24
HM + (24) = 74
HM = 74 – 24
HM = 50
So, the solution is 24 horses and 50 humans.

that’s quite a big assumption there.

Have you not considered the following solution?
Horses 25, two-legged humans 47, one-legged humans 2