oh – (suddenly remembers). Women aren’t objects btw

Some people have very odd tastes in women. I’d rather ride the motorbike.
As Zappa said:
“Who wants to ride on an ironing board?
That ain’t no fun,
I tried me one.”

I bet that left the victim with a bit of a haddock

A 19″ frame on a 27.5 feels bigger than a 19″ frame on a 26. A man in Halfords told me so.

Pretty safe, I would have thought, given that he was probably the fastest vehicle on the road.

DP

Kirby Stephen – tracks running like rivers, foot deep mud, wind, sleet, stinging hail, more mud. Sunshine, tailwinds and a superfast descent on the way back. Great really!

Why did the bloke with the blue bucket on his head put another, slightly smaller, blue bucket on underneath it?

I have to know!
He’s Russian. There’s another, slightly smaller blue bucket under that one, and another etc

Not sure you can get drop-bar compatible shifting?

Lyse Doucet

I thought that was just me.
“Seeeeeerrrria”

Is the brake rotor in the way?

I should have mentioned – take away food is a weakness, usually have one a week, occasionally two,

Oho!
Treat yourself once a fortnight.
You’ll probably save the equivalent of a day’s calories a week.

Shouldn’t he be wearing a helmet?

Great contest!

When you can’t perv over a fit young hottie without it feeling wrong.

When you find the fit young hottie’s mother more interesting.

from advanced-driving.co.uk

The easiest thing to do is remove ourselves from the problem. Aim to change lanes on the motorway or dual carriageway, but only when it is safe to do so. Clearly indicate your intention to pull over. That way you can let the tailgater get past you, even if he or she is driving too fast for the conditions and/or breaking the speed limit.

Don’t be tempted to impose the speed limit on somebody who is clearly hell bent on breaking it. And if you choose not to let the tailgater past, there is a danger that he will try to “undertake” you, posing an additional risk for other road users.

We are often asked what can you do if you’re being tailgated in a 30mph zone on a single carriageway?

Pulling over here may not be practical either. But do not be intimidated into speeding up just because somebody is right on your back bumper. Instead, create an additional stopping distance between you and the vehicle in front so that you when you do brake, you can do so smoothly. Think of yourself as adding a little “buffer” zone for the tailgater, whether he appreciates it or not. When the time comes to brake, you can do so gently, giving a clear signal of your intention via your stop lights. The more time your stop lights are on, the more time the tailgater has to register that and pull back.

At the lever end if you can. That way, if any air gets into the hose it’s at the lever end and easy to get out again.

That KLM flight 8O
What’s the clearance between the wheels and the fence?

Bikes being described as “trail hammers”, “race weapons” or any other expression used by that Kesteven bloke at WMB

The 2CV was my first company car

Class outfit!

As to whether the French think they are good – we were in Montbeliard where they are built last year and at least as many people were driving Fiats as Peugeots so make of that what you will.

My old 306 lx turbo diesel estate has 150k on the clock and still going strong. The most practical & reliable car I have ever owned and a very nice drive actually. Pity it’s ugly and costs £230 a year to tax.

What was most disheartening about the whole thing was the vocal minority of fellow cyclists (including women) saying how ridiculous it was that she was wearing normal every day clothes instead of lycra, helmet, high viz jacket, gloves, sensible shoes etc

When I went to the “Go Dutch” conference in Newcastle, one of the Dutch experts was expressing his dismay at how so much promotional material in the UK that is meant to encourage cycling actually deters people. He argued that constantly showing riders in helmets, reflective gear etc puts out the message that cycling is a dangerous activity.

Music in a similar style to Lemon Jelly

Marmalade

Metal climbing frames on tarmac playgrounds at school

Soft. Ours were covered in concrete and broken glass. There was always some kid with his arm in a plaster at school.

Iodine on your knees after you fell over.

It’s all a lie, apparently.

My old Blacks came back from TFTuned in the summer as good as new. They hadn’t been serviced for 5 years but apart from needing a new compression damping knob (and new seals etc obv.) they were fine. They work really well and are super-reliable.

On a similar theme, ads (usually for furniture or computers) where they try to make the price sound not like a price by just saying the digits. eg; “This leather sofa is now only six-nine-nine”. Stop it.

Director’s Cut

It’s like a Norman Wisdom film.

I’ve done been followin’ this thread since the birth of the internet, but I ain’t seen nuttin’ to beat the boxer.

28 lbs is pretty impressive weightwise.
I like the idea that they found 18 gears “more than ample”.

Ps the space ship could not actually reach the speed of light for reasons already mentioned.

So if it is travelling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, what happens?”
This is the kind of question Einstein used to ask himself. He concluded that the light from the headlights would appear to travel away at the speed of light relative to the motion of the spacecraft, for an observer travelling on the space ship.
the speed of light is constant, regardless of the speed of the observer.

Imagine you were on a clock, and if you traveled away from the clock at the speed of light.
The time on the clock would always be still. Thus time will have stopped for you, relatively speaking.

That’s the opposite of what molgrips said earlier.

And I know space and time are supposed to be the same thing, but I also know I experience them differently!

I wonder what it would feel like if we lived in 1 dimension of space and 3 of time?

No, nothing to do with that!

so why does your equation have E=mc^2 in it then?

Hmmm klumpy, a veritable spanner in the works!

Why isn’t it possible to travel faster than the speed of light, supposing your car had enough theoretical horsepower?

E=mc^2 innit? As you accelerate towards the speed of light, your mass increases to infinity and it would take an infinite amount of energy to get you beyond the speed of light.
I think..

speed of particle through space plus speed of particle through time = constant.

Therefore the faster a particle travels thorough space, the slower it travels through time.

The constant happens to be 186,000 mps. I have no idea why it isn’t say, 183,000 mps or 189,00 mps,
Yup, that sounds like what I was thinking of. I think the value of the constant pops out of Maxwell’s laws but as you say, why it is the value it is might just be one of those things…a bit like the values of gravity or the nuclear forces. If they were different the universe would be a different place.

Thanks sharkattack, that clears that up.