I’m staying in Salcombe, lots of dog friendly beaches but apparently only until end of April.

Also, don’t bother trying to get here by car.

How would UK citizens retaining EU membership work? The EU would want reciprocity and at that point you have the Brexiters frothing about their favourite nonsense of “taking back control of our borders”.

We just have to wait until enough politicians realize that trying to pretend that Brexit was anything other than a colossal mistake just makes them look foolish

Spin round from Salcombe. A bit underbiked in places. I can recommend the ice cream.

Require all MPs to cycle everywhere, or take public transport, even the prime minister.

This would fix politics in a number of ways.

As we all know, cycling makes you cleverer because of the increased blood flow to your brain.

It also makes you less miserable – hard to be unhappy when riding a bike, even (especially?) in the rain. A happy politician is a good politician as my old grandad used to say.

And travelling on public transport would mean our politicians meet the people they make decisions for on a daily basis, rather than only when out campaigning.

“Thank you and have a great day.”

My voltmeter has s battery tester built in. It’s just whatever Maplin were selling at the time, some thirty years ago.

Could get a Fluke if you really want to go to town.

I don’t know about wire strippers. I have one from Screwfix but it’s rubbish.

Well, that was fun but did not work. It’s a couple of mm too short.

My machinist (eldest son, has watched all the yt videos and is now an expert) says he can make one from some steel bar.

I was going to cut the top 9mm section off and drill out to the thru-axle diameter.

Taylors of Harrogate (Italian blend?) on the left, Horsham “Bwishaza” on the right (finally started a subscription and arrived yesterday). Very different tastes.

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This wasn’t on the way to work, it’s out in Suffolk next to the bridge at Moulton, which (little-known fact) was the inspiration for the famous Moulton space-frame bicycle design.

(I’ll see if I can find a picture of the bike itself, rather than a bridge).

I have a DJI  osmo 4 which takes decent quality video but it’s quite expensive and the battery is only really good for about an hour. Could probably connect to a battery pack though.

Stabilization is pretty decent.

I am still amazed that one in four of the electorate would still vote for those lying shyster conservatives.

Next time I get a speeding ticket I’ll offer them £5 instead, and if they don’t take it I’ll bring a load of my friends round to the local police station and smash some stuff up.

I have a new Mason Bokeh on cycle-to-work, arrived about a month ago. I’ve been mostly cycling to work on it, but I took it out for an epic gravel adventure through the dusty trails of Cambridgeshire and on into the mudgloopfest of Suffolk on Saturday.

Those purple clouds were full of hail – I found this out shortly after taking this photo.

I’ve been getting coffee from Horsham Coffee. Not yet signed up for their subscription but very tempted.

https://www.horshamcoffeeroaster.co.uk

Generally seems to be on the lighter side, which I tend to prefer (my wife isn’t so keen – she likes a nice dark italian). Their espresso blend works really well in my cheapo Sage espresso machine though.

I’ve just finished my last bag from them, and I’m now on some quite rough beans I bought from the local coffee shop, which is why I’m sat here on STW thinking about where I can get some nice coffee from.

The free fatmap OS map access is really useful. Well worth it for that alone now that VR has gone away.

I had this. After replacing the bearings I found that the screws holding the dropout in place were loose.

Sorry to hear that, it’s never easy.

It had revenue of about 5M last year. It’s only worth that much because a few die hard MAGA are buying and no one is selling. If trump tries to sell the price will tank.

Belgorod is on fire and being evacuated. Russian independent fighters taking the fight to Mother Russia, hard to know where this ends.

I like a lot that their hubs were made in the UK and half the price of Hope. But I did notice that the slots for the pawls in my SS hub have a lot less metal around them than the equivalent Hope which might explain why a bit of that metal cracked off. Making hubs is probably a lot harder than it sounds.

Looks like the Republicans may have given up on appeasing Putin and be about to vote for that Ukraine aid bill:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/gop-ukraine-mike-johnson-congress-b2512976.html

OPs roku might have a hardware fault by the sound of it.

But May told delegates: “This kind of scaremongering does nobody any good. It doesn’t serve you, it doesn’t serve the officers you represent and it doesn’t service the public.”​

https://www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/article/theresa-may-crying-wolf-over-police-cuts-has-to-stop

The last wheels I built I used the Sapim double-square. I found it a bit easier and faster to insert and then turn the nipples from the outside using a three-pronged spoke wrench than using a spokey (4-sided).

I can certainly see why machines prefer them.

I used the Sapim aluminium ones; they claim to be as good as brass. Not been used long enough yet to know if this is true.

I met a rescue greyhound while walking my dog the other day. It was absolutely stunning, lots of tail wagging going on.

Often there is a spacer in the freehub between the bearings. You can push it to one side which then gives you somewhere to get a screwdriver in against the bearing and whack it out.

Last one I did I still couldn’t get it out, even with loads of swearing and ended up getting a new freehub but you might have more luck.

I recently bought a track pump. It goes to something like 200psi which makes it quite annoying to use with mtb tyres when I only want 20psi.

There’s also an incredible trail on the other side of the peninsula – an afternoon of mostly hike-a-bike with a few hundred metres of riding. I’ve not felt so far from civilization for a while – if anything had gone wrong I would for sure still be there – no way anyone would have ever found me. Absolutely stunning but don’t take a bike.

I was pretty relieved when I finally found my way back to the 21st century. Best coffee and ice-cream for a long time.

I stayed nearby last September on holiday; I spent a day riding up to the top to see what it was like.

It’s a nice steady ride up to the top of the trails, but the trail eventually disappeared into a massive felled moorland – after about an hour of struggling over streams and through tangles of branches and fallen trees under a blazing sun I retraced my steps – so there’s a trail somewhere that might be amazing but I never found it.

There was one trail that was pretty full-on – can’t recall the name but it was a little bit overgrown, then had a hugely committing drop over a massive rock – I felt that if it went wrong I would be lying there for several days thinking about my life choices before being found.

Found another trail that was quite nice, quite overgrown, but nothing insanely technical and quite fun. Then headed back.

Judge Engoran has signed the order, so the clock starts ticking today – he has 30 days to appeal.

$454M in total.

I think if I had previously loaned money to Trump, at this point I would be wanting it back ASAP.

Sooooo, if he has ran out of time wasting options and doesn’t have the cash, what’s next?
(please say prison!)

This is a civil case, no prison. But isn’t the Manhattan DA, Alvin Bragg, eyeing up criminal charges based on all that juicy evidence?

(On top of the Stormy Daniels payoff case).

What is wrong with the GOP? Why are they so obsessed with appeasing Putin? Has Putin really managed to buy them all?

The springiness of the material (steel, aluminium, etc), does not change with load until you reach the yield point, after which you are going to be walking home.

Probably just means that none of those revewers have any idea what they are talking about.

OK, so what’s wrong with the statement about 50% of people are below average (assuming we’re talking about median here of course)?

Yes, you are being totally unreasonable.

How would you feel if the roles were reversed and she was insisting you couldn’t bring your new partner along? You would have to go and explain to the new person in your life that they couldn’t come on holiday with you because your ex might get a bit upset and start crying?

Seriously?

Get over yourself already.

If you can stay polite and sensible and not be a weirdo then go. Otherwise cancel and suck it up, and go somewhere else.

Can you get anything useful from the Firefox network monitor?

https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/devtools-user/network_monitor/

The way that ipv6 dns bugs seem to work is that your DNS server hands out ipv6 addresses instead of ipv4 when available. Sites that are only ipv4 work fine.

A packet capture with something like wireshark will tell you straight away.

Not the same I know but I found I could drag and drop a gpx to the garmin connect app on android and it would then open it. From there you can send it to your garmin.

It is far harder than it really should be.

My ravemen has a clip. I have a garmin varia for the rear which is a garmin 90 degree twist mount.