I’m going to start buying up the old Mills in the north West for my new concept of work from home enterprises or “Work Houses” as I plan to call them

You will be making our country great again. Sir, I salute you!

…the EU won’t want to give the impression to other members that you can pick and choose the bits that benefit your country…

I suspect the UK will be made an example of should we actually leave, otherwise the rot could easily set in, especially after the Catalan vote in Spain and rise of Le Pen in France.

Ironically the only time I got shin splints was after getting my gait analysed and buying the recommended pair.

:lol:

Clarity Card?  Actually it’s pretty good for cash at ATMs too.  Interest is charged straight away but that is relatively small and minimised if you keep paying it all off.

What I have here for overseas transactions.

The shoes I have are a fairly decent pair of nike running shoes but I may invest in a different pair and see if that makes a difference. Ill also give the stretches a try tonight as well.

Well worth going to a decent shop and getting your gait analysed when buying shoes. If they still persist it could be worth looking at orthotics.

Pimpmaster, was your surgery a full plating etc. or did they just ‘tidy up’ around the join?

Rebroken, full titanium plate and eight stainless screws. I’ll see if I can dig out the before and after x-rays. :)

Not quite

You missed a bit in your quote:

The slight tendency towards improvement in power output when using the oval Q-rings (increase of 2.5–6.5 % relative to circular chainrings) suggests that Q-rings could result in slight improvement during on-road cycling performance.

As philjunior has said – with brake pads, the heat is already in the backing plate, and the fins will help suck it out.  In those RAM modules, the heat is in the tiny silicon wafer which would normally have been transferred straight to the chip casing and to the atmosphere, and they’ve added a far larger chunk of metal on top of it because they can’t get the metal into where it’s needed.  Also, the chip should be operating at about 20-30 degrees above ambient, rather than 100-200 above like brakes.  I would imagine this changes the heat transfer characteristics of the setup.

I have to admit I didn’t consider the fans inside a PC to get air moving, but yes – I was referring to moving air dissipating heat (and fins being a conductor). I have learned something new today!

I read recently they add approximately a 6% increase in power over a ride. It was a rough calculation though, so not to be taken as gospel. It was a US university doing the study IIRC.

I’ll see if I can find the article.

Edit: not the same article, but a quick skim read suggests a similar result: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3990898/

A slight parallel, in the world of computer hardware designs, ram modules started appearing with heat spreader designs, touted to help dissipate the heat.

I fail to see how a static PC in a room bears any similarity to a brake on a moving bike in the great outdoors.

Never underestimate how much a few kind words can have on a less experienced rider (especially kids)!

+1

Oh pleeeeeeeese be good….

Oh yes. This x a huge amount.

Based on extensive cave video review…

:lol:

Utter male chicken.

Has anyone tried the bell super dh or the giro? The giro looks a bit strange with ears covered for general riding so was leaning towards to bell but keen to get some user feedback from the forum!

A mate raced the French EWS this year and saw at least one nasty accident involving a detachable chinguard helmet that wasn’t pretty. I seem to recall it was a Bell, but the chin guard did not work as it should.

That aside I would try on as many as you can and go with the one that fits you. If you decide to race a lot more, or on anything fairly ‘serious’, it’s probably worth investing in a proper full face.

I was about to share the above link. Elon’s not coming across well.

Male chicken.

Unlikely that a private surgeon will be any better.   Probably the same person in practice

This.

My experience of letting it heal naturally was OK, except it didn’t heal that cleanly. This wasn’t a problem for 90% of things, until I started training more to apply for the military. Aside from being weaker due to the non-great join, the edge of the break was cutting me internally while swimming; this persuaded me to go for surgery. As the recovery period is very similar it’s what I’d do again.

AA here through Lloyds Platinum account.

Neither – both organisations are massively pro-car (surprisingly) and very politically active.

I like the AA president Edmund King, although it seems the last chairman was a bit of a dick.

…no expense spent maintenance program by the in house fitters…

That’ll do it!

Sporty looking would be good too but not essential.

Fabia vRS? One pulled at random: https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201807098256685?model=FABIA&postcode=hp236aa&price-to=2500&make=SKODA&advertising-location=at_cars&onesearchad=Used&onesearchad=Nearly%20New&onesearchad=New&sort=sponsored&keywords=vrs&radius=1501&page=1

(although personally I’d avoid one that’s been lowered)

The aversion to french vehicles comes down to my experience of being parked on the side of the road in a series of French work vehicles and my fathers Xantias that were awful to drive and maintain.

A lot of the larger vans are the same, just with a different badge on the front. Renault Trafic is a Vauxhall Vivaro and a Nissan NV300 and a Fiat Tolento, and a Toyota Proace is a Citroen Dispatch and a Peugeot Expert. Just saying. ;)

Anyone run a Butcher on the rear?

Specialized, as OEM.

https://www.specialized.com/gb/en/s-works-enduro-650b/p/128859?color=240137-128859

https://www.gumtree.com/p/campervans-motorhomes/citeroen-berlingo-multispace-micro-camper/1304632474

French, but it should do the job…

I’ve been wearing contacts for riding since my eyes were -1-ish and I was struggling with leaf-covered trails on an autumn ride.

Contacts are now -1.75 and glasses are -2.25; wear them all the time.

Sadly not tubeless though. Conti missed a trick there.

I had USTs and Protections: both set-up tubeless.

“It’s me! Hurrah!”

Im assuming that T4 vans of a similar age are going to be rust buckets with dodgy injectors for the money I want to spend?!

I think that’s a fair assumption.

I wouldn’t touch anything older than 2006 as they weren’t galvanised.

This.

Flipside is I enjoyed driving the one at my previous job; not as much of a handful as I expected. I’d definitely consider one when we look at replacing/biggerising our camper.

“It’s short for Bob.”

Economies of scale all to ****.

<div>I was about to say that rubber has got more expensive, but apparently it hasn’t: https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/rubber</div>

“I want to cover every inch of your gorgeous body in pepper, and then sneeze all over you.”

Proper bike?

My old late-2011 MacBook runs everything my new work MacBook Pro runs (mainly Adobe CC) with little noticeable speed difference. The RAM is max’d out and it has a new-ish SSD HD in it (which made a massive difference) but is otherwise stock. Battery still lasts a few hours too – nearly as much as the brand new Mac (sigh).

Screen’s not quite as nice, but it has a CD drive, real USB ports and an SD card insert – genuinely useful. I’m guessing they won’t cost the earth now. If you’re thinking Mac it may be worth a look.

I sort of agree with him, he has a point about human nature when it comes to the idea of “new” and “more”…

Me too. Which means companies either have to get on the band wagon or offer something substantially different.

If it was <span class=”skimlinks-unlinked”>me.who</span> had committed the crime Id much.rather be strung up than face the rest of my days in jail, with no possibility of release

There’s this and the risk of martyring convicts. There’s a reason the government never classified The Troubles as a war and never classed the IRA as soldiers. Similarly none that were convicted were given the death sentence (the hunger strikers were the closest to this, but it’s easily arguable their death was of their own making).

The last thing you want is tear-jerking folk songs rousing the rabble and romanticising someone dying for their cause/actions. Think of Tommy Robinson at the moment and what would happen if some of his nastier associates swung for some of their previous work. We – the great unwashed – would know their names, for a start.

I went back to my mates to explain no buffet car but I had met Mr Barr and they would give us breakfast.  It took me a good 10 minutes to convince my mates it wasnt a wind up.

<div>:lol: Brilliant.</div>

I was on a family holiday as a nipper up in Shropshire. We’re in a shopping centre and my Dad walks past a woman, only to stop and stare. Said woman also stops and stares. “Hello Jenny’ says my Dad; ‘Hi Rowan’ says my great aunt, from Monterey in California.

Similarly, sitting in Stuart’s Bar, a fantastic little spot in Grenada. I’d been working out there as a MTB guide for a few months. Just across the bay was the US uni St. George’s vet and medical school and I knew Jo, one of the English girls that worked there. This particular evening Jo comes in with a friend. I stare at friend, she stares at me. ‘You’re Helen’ I say; ‘yes’ she says, ‘and you’re Neil’. I used to club swim with her in Essex and her Mum worked with my Mum at the local village hospital.

I’ve been whistled at just out and about and had nice bum shouted at me on a few occasions on my bike.

I was stretching next to the van in a layby after a winter run a while back. Bent over, clad in tights, I got wolf-whistled. I stood up to see who it was  and watched the passenger in the builders’ open-back Transit’s face fall, poor little love.

That’s gorgeous.

I have an appointment with a mortgage consultant next week, albeit not an independent one.

See an indy one too. A lot of mortgages can also be agreed in principle and then held for a few months; this may work in your favour, or if rates change you could ditch it and look at what becomes available.

I’m in Aylesbury Monday to Friday…

You poor sausage.

Have to admit, I really like the howies shorts. A little short on the leg, but otherwise really nice. Material, while thick, seems to do a good job of wicking when warm and insulating when a little cooler.

It’s also incredibly stretchy, which is useful when taking a wild wee.