Cat flaps are also quite anxiety inducing for cats; if a cat appears hesitant or appears to be having trouble working one, it’s apparently because they don’t like having to emerge into an open space without being sure if other cats are around or not.

There was a three part BBC series a few years ago on cat behaviour, if you’re an owner I really recommend tracking it down.

There was an automated litter tray I looked it, but it used special washable granules, and after reading reviews I found out that if the robot scooper happens to miss a poo, the wash/clean cycle then helpfully cooks it for you…

That’s a different kind of biathlon.

griffiths1000 – Member
Vortex cannon

:D

Longer, more explanatory version

Doesn’t take much to break a rotor or two, but, what slowoldman said.

Great ride! Nice to meet you Mike, and good to see you all.

Birthdays.

I’m sure Chipps would let you borrow the tandem*, Bregante :D

* Actual tandem may differ from one shown, and entirely lack rear suspension. Supplier assumes no liability for riding a mode of transportation that can also serve as a metaphor for a relationship. Terms and conditions apply.

Crank Bros multitool is the only thing I’ve had from them and kept.

I’d try the press cutting approach too, though the resulting cut will be tapered as the rubber compresses. Sounds like that might not be a major issue. Does steel pipe exist at a close enough diameter? Probably easier than modifying a hole saw.

TalkTalk are dreadful. They’ve been buying up all the asymmetric copper others are offloading, which was mostly for cable TV and poorly suited to broadband. Where they offer that, your future is shit internet. Where they offer fibre, there’ll be another company that’ll be much better to deal with.

I’m posting from a TalkTalk connection now. It’s suffered so many problems that we just kind of expect them like weather (sometimes it drops to sub-56k speeds, and caching problems once cut off access to imgur for months). Cannot wait for fibre to roll out here.

He mentioned that he could have made bad choices. I think his baseline for that might be a bit skewed compared to most.

Charge/Fabric saddles.
Maxxis tyres.
Spank stuff but only because it’s nice.

steve_b77 – Member
Apparently it does make you faster http://youtu.be/DZnrE17Jg3I

Sounds like a slow, careful drilling job. Preferably with a vice and maybe a pillar drill.

Afraid I’m not sure as I didn’t set it up. A quick look at their support site just cites Eye-Fi’s “Webshare service”, which seems to be free.
https://x2help.eyefi.com/hc/en-us/articles/200085567-Supported-Online-Sharing-Sites

(Unrelated) Also dug this up from the mailing list for that org:

There is also this handy feature where you make the card ‘endless’ which means we won’t even need to empty the card as it will self delete the oldest items when the card gets so full.

For the past few years we’ve had one in the camera for a non-profit I’m involved with, and it uploads every shot automatically to flickr. Then whoever was running the event just logs in to edit the set down later. It works well and has been very reliable.

In!

I thought I only had beautiful landscape shots of Tod, but here’s something creepy from the toy and model museum a few doors down from the Golden Lion.

Tim Hunkin is ace. If you’re ever near Southwold, go visit his arcade on the pier, and if you’re in London, pay Novelty Automation a visit in Holborn.

This happened to me, and it was seat angle. In my case, the seat was flat but actually needed to be tilted quite far forward. After I’d done that my back sorted itself out within a few months.

Ah, sigh. Those Z-Max tyres were so good at picking up mud.

I would. Got to ride a few different models of Kili Flyer in the past year and enjoyed them all. They made me confident enough to go for a Saracen when buying a road bike last year, and that’s been great too.

(The Kore saddles they ship are absolute murder on your arse if you’re more used to a Spoon though).

If I did uplift trails with music I might be into something like that, but like the others above, I ride to get away from my phone, notifications, etc.

I’ve also smashed a dropper remote that went on top of the handlebars before, so that design would make me a bit nervous.

Really interesting to see the cost breakdowns above. In answer to the OP, it’s basically because staging events isn’t cheap, especially as they scale.

A very tiny event can run with volunteers. A slightly bigger one might be able to break even with volunteers plus a single figure £ entry per rider making just enough to cover, say, equipment hire and any venue fees (etc.). A much bigger event will have large production requirements in terms of time, and won’t run well at all without at least some paid staff. As production time reaches further back from the event day, and staffing requirements scale beyond what a small group of volunteers can do or coordinate, that starts reaching into significant costs. Infrastructure and venue fees don’t necessarily benefit from any economies of scale either.

The frustrating thing as an organiser (I don’t run bike events, but I do run events) is that what you and your team do is absolutely exhausting, often involves long hours and a whole load of crisis management, yet is essentially invisible to everyone who turns up and makes use of all the stuff you sorted out. I think that’s one of the reasons events can feel expensive.

In that SDA list above I’d query what the following are for:

NON-RACE COSTS £16,117
PRIZES/TROPHIES £12,380
MARSHALS £8,190

They’re laughing at you right now from their cigar and champagne den.

but hey who really uses them these days

Me, all the time for external displays, projection at events, external drives, taking footage from cameras, charging phones and action cameras, tethering on the road, working with microcontrollers.

Sorry, did you want me to talk dirty? Ok, *ahem*

There are a lot of times I need more than one thing plugged in at once.

Second on the Giro new road shorts. Found them comfortable for long road rides, and they’re fine off the bike too.

Finding a card fast enough to record 1080P on a hacked GH2 can be a little more expensive though. UHC speed class SDHC cards run at half speed. SDXC ones won’t work at all with a GH2.

(To clarify, I have a hacked GH2. It’s good to lose the 30 minute EU recording limit, and be able to switch between PAL and NTSC frame rates, but I’d only recommend it to people who actually like occasionally tinkering with things).

Every camera seems to have something better replacing it within 18 months at the moment. GH4 is probably overkill for what you do.

Even the GH2 gives really good footage, though the GH3 is the first they did that could shoot 1080P without being hacked.

They give an amazing sense of presence, but there are are reasons the Oculus is just a devkit at the moment. The DK1 can be nauseating for some, and the DK2 works with a very strange screen resolution (Effectively it’s a portrait format screen turned 90 degrees, making it difficult to mirror to conventional screens)

I used to have a DK1, and one of my favourite things was the quadcopter videos made for it on this youtube channel. Give it a go if you have one, just make sure to lean your head back against a wall or something, or you’ll probably get sick really quickly.

I’ve not tried Valve’s new one, which apparently does head tracking down to a millimetre, but a friend did and said “You know that feeling when you first tried an Oculus? It’s like that, but, again”.

I’ve been avoiding, partly because my games backlog is huge. I’ve heard good things about it and this is selling it to me:

Northwind – Member
What a brilliant interactive china mieville novel

I’m not surprised they’ve had Meg Jayanth working on it:
http://megjayanth.com/post/104527935975/the-isle-of-cats

I’ve seen a friend blown four feet across a road on a light bike with deep rims. It was a crosswind coming out of a tunnel on a descent. Afraid I wasn’t measuring the wind speed though :D

BillOddie – Member
You can’t flip 30T 104BCD rings due to offset on them.

With some spacers to duplicate that offset though?

Every second building in the central square mile of Nottingham is a pub, bar or club. Here, I drew a handy guide:

There are plenty of exceptions to that, like the Alley Cafe and Malt Cross and most of Chapel Bar in the NW being nice. Nottingham got a bit more diverse in terms of night life after every small place stopped trying to be gatecrasher around 2009.

From the market square NW up to Rock City is where you’ll find the more chainpub type places like Squares and Yates’s.

Hockley (Around Carlton St./Goosegate, NE of the map): Some places with good beers, hipster bars (for want of a better term), Brewdog etc., and a Revolution incongruously in the middle of it all on Broad Street. North of here is Oceana, Nottinghams go to twelve room tacky superclub.

Lace Market (SE around High Pavement and Pilcher Gate): More upmarket, though a lot of places there only have licenses for seated drinking now (About a decade ago it was full of cokeheads, and doormen who’d check you were wearing the right labels. Then there were stabbings. It’s peaceful now and still upmarket).

The Deore that came with my chainset lasted a year before getting crunchy on one side. I just replaced it with a Gusset ext24 following Northwind’s advice in similar threads.

I’ve had five months to reconsider my position on skinwalls, and

they still look great, do whatever the **** you want with your bike.

You could build a cantenna[/url].

Maybe Takk on Tariff Street; chairs rather than sofas though.

Yes, I use it for cleaning parts and it’s fine.

I’ve had a few and my least favourite has been the HTC One M8 :P

(The camera is bobbins, Lollipop is an awful buggy mess, it feels too big even though I have big hands, and even though I’m not one for dropping phones, the surface finish on it is slippery; coupled with the size that means I’ve dropped it quite a bit).

The best one I’ve had was a HTC One X running KitKat.

Wow, snipe drumming sounds like part of a horror film soundtrack: