Was that an MTB rear wheel? Depending on your rim tyre combo, you can probably get away without levers at all ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNhLPXfd8FM <– the step shown from 0:37 where he’s taking up the slack in the bead, working it all toward the far side of the wheel, is crucial).

With or without levers though, I always pump the tube up a little bit before popping the second bead in. Helps it into the tyre a little, and makes it easier to pop out from under the bead if it does get caught, since the rest of the tube is trying to pull it back instead of sitting in there like wet lettuce.

I heard media server was the best use anyone found for an Ouya. Apparently easy to root and put XMBC on.

Good luck if you want the 100mm one. I spoke to Jungle, they said they won’t be importing it but could maybe do a special order that would likely take a few months to arrive.

colornoise:

Hiroshige? That’s quite a tense composition compared to most of his work. Which I also love :)

I have an original of this hung on my wall:

A lot of Ukiyo-E prints are fairly inexpensive, because they were produced at such volume. Travellers used to use them to wrap gifts for the journey back to Europe or America.

Frans Masereel was an incredible printmaker:

Rothko No14. Doesn’t look much does it?, but in real life it’s just utterly breath taking.

I never thought much of Rothko after seeing his work in books, but similarly to you, seeing it in person was absolutely mesmerising.

I don’t know HB very well, but it has a cinema and the local trails are indeed excellent. If you get stuck for things to do, Manchester is pretty close on the train.

Posting about tyres on STW.

Ah, I might be completely wrong then, and probably am. Thanks timmys, and sorry OP.

I thought it was a habanero, but GIS shows a least a couple of other crown designs molded onto different tyres, and retooling just to mold with a different compound would get really unnecessarily expensive.

This is good to know, thanks. I’m having second thoughts about carrying a D-lock behind my lower back.

Big chains worn like bandoliers saved an expensive softshell when I washed out and slid across a road once. Ribs and intercostals also intact, face, not so much.

Anything that’s actually effective at filtering pollutants is likely to have a rubber seal and a canister or two hanging off the front, as well as insufficient airflow for something like cycling. A layer of charcoal cloth badly fitted to your face doesn’t do much at all when it comes to smaller pollutants, except maybe act as a placebo.

They should have little black chilis moulded between the tread blocks, like this:

That might only go for recent ones though, I dunno. The one above also has the checkerboard sidewall pattern, but I thought that just signified the beefier Protection sidewalls though. It came from Tredz, so you can assume it was recent distributor stock :D

Shoe Goo or Barge Cement.

Also: http://thistothat.com

Every time someone uses “female” as a noun, the HU-MAN FE-MALE klaxon sounds. Also, I read their post in a booming robot voice.

One day, I’ll be on a non2.5Mb connection and be able to go through this entire thread. Until then, occasional accidental reposts.

I only got some blurry ones of people by the massive cairn, but also a nice shot of the sunset:

I pinch flatted on almost every ride just after moving to Calderdale, and I’m finding now I’m up to 35 – 40 it’s mostly ok. Still happens occasionally, but worked for San Marino last night.

… which, by complete coincidence, is “Deadmurder” in German.

If you’re only running lightweight programs occasionally, VMware Fusion is probably a better approach. It works pretty well and doesn’t seem to impact performance too badly. If you’re looking to run games or anything intensive, Bootcamp is probably the way to go.

VMware fusion is really straightforward, and lets you easily set up multiple virtual machines. I once used it with several different versions of Windows for testing things.

Bootcamp won’t slow it down at all, though beware: getting windows 8.1 to work with it was a complete ball ache and took me the best part of a day. I don’t recall why exactly, but I think it’s that there’s one specific version of Windows 8.1 that’s supported. Compatibility can also be erratic, for instance bootcamp drivers can force windows to use the more powerful of two GPUs, vastly reducing your battery life.

Installing anything earlier on a newer MBP is (probably) impossible or at least a lot of hassle, because it seems nothing up to Windows 7 included USB3.0 drivers, and hence won’t even recognise trackpads, keyboard input or anything you’ve plugged in once installation starts.

If you’re on a hard disk, rebooting between OSes takes long enough you might as well put the kettle on. If you’re on an SSD, it takes about ten seconds for either to boot.

23! Excellent ride, cheers all.

If anyone who didn’t come is reading this, and has a long travel hardtail bike, go find San Marino. It’s incredible :)

Yeah, I’ve had Ti skewers eject a back wheel before, and that happened a few hours after checking they were clamped down.

“When protecting your frame, it is important to not use an old inner tube, or others might assume one is lower middle to working class, and that would not be mega-rad”.

“Thanks mister Cholmondley-Warner!”

+1 for old inner tube wrap and zip ties, works really well.

I had a neoprene one, which slipped around on the stay, soaking up loads of water and chainset gunk.

I’m more impressed that they carried out the sortie with the canopy open and a ladder attached to it.

(Really impressive painting goon)

I cut my bars down will I die?

j/k, I made a coat rack out of some scrap bits of oak and bits that used to be on a cheapo commuter:

I read up on this last year as I had a small stack of old tyres. What I found was that bike tyres are too small an amount of rubber compared to the cost of recycling per tyre, so hardly anyone bothers. The official advice is to cut them up and shove them in your black bin :/

Probably worth asking your LBS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBCq8XDgrP0

(Well done OP and Richpips!)

I have superstar wheels with about 800 miles on them. They still spin well, I’d probably buy switch hubs again. SS rims: Not so much. I *cough* lack finesse, so will be getting something burlier to build up.

I would call it the Administration. Calling them Government leads them to believe they should have power over us. Wrong. They should be administering the affairs of the nation for the benefit of the majority. They are our servants, not vice versa.

A name change is hardly going to affect behaviour of people who are holding the reins, and it’s not like career politicians/voracious climbers suddenly won’t know where to go.

They should be administering the affairs of the nation for the benefit of the majority all.

FTFY

*runs*

Software that endlessly asks questions then matches people up with opportunities to retrain? Dibs on the name OKStupid :P

No they (W Bk) haven’t.

Trickle-down has been dead at the World Bank since at least 1973, when MacNamara took over.

Fair enough, I got suckered by that.

It was a decade later that we had heads of state pushing it though, and there’s still a significant bunch of people who believe (or profess to, for various ends). I think that’s a significant problem when tech and automation can empower them.

I believe in tech as something that can benefit all and increase resilience, but not much seems to encourage that. Seven or so years peripheral exposure to startup people has given me a profound cynicism and disbelief in those generally pushing tech, because a lot of them are just rolling the dice to get rich and exhibit a profound distaste for regular jobs or lifestyle businesses. A lot of startup/tech output is so ambiguous, and as this guy recently put it, the twee way they present themselves is (potentially) kind of like Oppenheimer mugging at the camera and doing a thumbs up after the detonation of Trinity.

(… to overstate it!)

(The only use for most robots in human shape is for purposes of relatability and drama in media :P)

This history of technology is one of automation allowing humans to do more. New industries get get created e.t.c. The invention of chainsaws did not stop lumberjacks existing, more trees can be cut by one person but people just move jobs and industries.

The problem is that in our present climate it seems to expand income inequality, and while previously people backed that up with the idea of “job creators”, even the World Bank have recently admitted that trickle down economics is horse sh*t.

That inequality isn’t necessarily a property of automation, but it’s a property of our current economy reflected in it, and it’s bad for us all.

If no one is entitled to work, are they entitled to benefits? Also, are people entitled to life?

and what about oxygen?

There are a lot of people in tech and video games who dish out tough meritocracy talk, and I suspect they’ll stop the instant their job is replaced by code (happening right now, and while SDETs I know tend to be increasing test capacity through automation, at some point their job is likely to switch into replacing QA staff).

I’d really like to see more study given to the idea of basic income[/url], but even so much as studying it seems like an impossibility in the current political and tabloid climate.

Very nice; maybe see you there.

I wanted one of these and, after a month or two looking on fleabay, settled on a Blue Pig instead.

We just have to hope that there’s a limit to the intelligence level of these artificial machines; can we ever really create an artificial conscious being?

We are so unbelievably far away from achieving this. The recent news story about a piece of software passing the Turing Test was total PR-fuelled BS. Problems like pathfinding have been solved with stuff like A*, and while that’s a lot more complex in the real world, if you can feed the system enough sensing/mapping/data it’s surmountable.

These behaviours look intelligent, but they’re only small components of anything that might constitute a mind. They’re not minds any more than Festo‘s work are species. Syntax doesn’t map well to reasoning ability yet, or if it does, it’s for very specific, well documented and solvable cases like Chess. Likewise, AI from video games is a piece of technically sophisticated theatre, but take it out of those extremely narrow contexts and it’s really fragile.

This and everything above seems to suggest our jobs are pretty basic and we’re all kind of sh*t at them :)

Virosol is a good, cheap, citrus based degreaser for parts. You can probably get 5l delivered for £10 – £15.

I’ve now got to plan rolling out of bed

I don’t have any advice over what’s been given, but you have my sympathy. 4 – 5 weeks of that was one of the worst things about tearing up my intercostals a few years back (same healing time as cracked ribs).

I used to get a lot of injuries from running in the wrong shoes, including long-term dull calf pains. My feet have very high arches, and the shoes I started out in gave too much support.

I didn’t go to a running shop, but they’ll give you good advice. I did a wet footprint test, looked at the wear patterns on my old shoes, then spent a few hours googling shoes for different types of foot. Got some suited to my feet, and suddenly long distance running got a lot easier.

If you run in the wrong shoes, your body is basically fighting them, and that can have knock on effects on your feet, legs and back.