If extrapolating from this graph is valid, discharging at C = 35 or so looks like it might have a detrimental affect on long-term life (assuming that charge and discharge rates affect life equally).

I’ve had good use out of a couple of the lead-acid ones. Never tried a lithium one but people having used them to start cars were rare in the Amazon reviews, so nuke’s experience is positive.

This was a thread I started recently .

We renewed with Pedalcover after clarifying that even though the policy document excudes car cover the underwriters don’t intend to enforce that clause.

Presuming you bought it and collected it from a shop they should be the people you should be asking this

I suppose that I have no confidence in the bike shop knowing the answers or not fobbing me off and thought that other owners might know. Their advice to the other customer asking what were the good local trails wasn’t particularly confidence inspiring.

I did ask about the wheels, but he didn’t even come out from behind the counter and just said “if it gives you any trouble bring it back”, which is all well and good but won’t stop a buckled wheel ruining a day out.

I’m not mechanically gifted, so don’t know what’s right or wrong. A valve exposed to mud and grit feels wrong but might be fine if they’re all like that. Equally there’s 0.5mm clearance on the suspension pivots, so a small burr might be OK.

OK, so I ordered an Enduro and collected it today.

And now I have more questions! Mostly I think this is buyer’s remorse and general nervousness, so please put my mind at rest!

1. Where can I find the specifications for spare parts? The manual that comes with it is for the 2015 model and happily tells me the specification of the front mech and the PF30 BB, so I don’t trust it at all.

2. Is the rear triangle supposed to feel like there are burrs under the paint, a bit like it’s been hit with a chisel near the bearings on one side? The other side’s smooth.

3. Is the autosag valve supposed to be exposed to the elements? (My stumpy has a dust cap, but that’s Fox, and there doesn’t seem to be anywhere to screw a dust cap onto this valve).

4. My stumpy came with a full custom-cut helitape kit. This one’s got a few cable rub prevention stickers and that’s it, is that right? But then the stumpy also came with reflectors and a bell.

5. Last one I think’s obvious, but am I correct in thinking that spoke tension should be even and there shouldn’t be loose spokes?

DPP v Jones [1995]

About the right to protest on the public highway… so entirely irrelevant.

Tabernacle v Secretary of State for Defence [2009] EWCA Civ 23

About activity that had been going on for 23 years and the suppression of the right to protest about nuclear weapons by bylaw… so only relevant in that it applies to bylaws.

Kuznetsov [2008] ECHR

About Russian death squads and subsequently rejected by the UK courts as not appropriate here.

Not sure there’s anything in any of those that lets cyclists ride where they like over other people’s land.

Usually they’re just plug in and go, only gets tricky if you want to add to an existing network. Adjacent wall sockets should work. Adjacent sockets in a surge protected extension lead won’t.

It’s possible that they’re not joined to the same network correctly – did they come with pairing instructions? TP-Link, for example, have a nice visual network viewing tool that you can download and, if you’re plugged in to one adapter, view the network from its perspective.

“training aircraft are to be painted black to make them stand out more clearly against the sky”

Much like a cyclist from the PoV of a seated car driver.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/safety-first-as-raf-paints-planes-black-1146643.html

Thanks Tracey, very kind offer but we’re in the south so it’s a long trip. Local shop reckons he’ll get a medium in soon but is reluctant to end up with a small he can’t sell.

That’s interesting. As I mentioned, I’ve got a 29er stumpy but I broke spokes at Antur and on the Les Gets Red (and, at the time anyway, none of the Morzine bike shops had spare 29er spokes). Poor technique I’m sure but big bikes are there to compensate for poor skill, so I’m considering his-and-hers Enduros! Which opens a whole load more questions…

Back to the original question, it seems Specialized have changed, if not necessarily fixed, the BB. We’ve had two sets of Pikes that we’re happy with, so I think you were unlucky Bob. Fitting a reverb looks like it might be problematic but people seem happy with the command post.

She’s 5ft6 too and was going for a small, standover height being one of the reasons. I’m 6ft5 and ride a large; I’ve no idea who the XL is designed for!

This is the bearing warranty:

Specialized warrants to the original owner of this bicycle that any Specialized branded suspension attachment points, and any Specialized branded suspension related equipment (including pivot points, bushings, shock units, front suspension forks, stays, plates, fasteners) when new are free of defective materials or workmanship. This warranty shall expire five (5) years

Just need to find a shop with stock so we can do a test ride. There was a Specialized dealer doing a demo day at FoD once that specialised in women’s frames, but can’t remember who they were.

We were in Currys this afternoon and I’m fairly sure that they had the G7 14-42 kits for £250. Still £500 on their website though so I may have remembered wrongly.

which brings us back to the part where it’s the funding and support that are the problem not the system

I genuinely think it’s the system that’s inefficient.

Rather than 1 GP on £100,000/yr you can have 3 nurses on £30,000/yr. You get dedicated skills and see more patients. You don’t need a doctor for your fungal infection or your travel jabs, both can be done by a nurse (mine were). My referral could have been done my someone in India for peanuts because there was no clinical judgement necessary at all.

Specialist nurses are awesome value for money, whereas doctors are expensive.

Sounds like your just one of those grumpy people looking for a bit of sky to shout at today.

I’m a bit grumpy ‘cos the pain kept waking me up all night and I’m woried that I’m going to have a chronic problem due to delay in being seem be a specialist…

…but yes, I am venting steam.

You went to the consultant before consulting your gp and are complaing about people buggering up the system?

Come on, you’re on a bike forum, and you can’t think of a scenario when you’d go to hospital before a GP? Think blue flashing lights and a helicopter.

…but in the specific example you missed the word “heritory”, which kind-of implies that there might have been someone else involved.

So your experience of 3 visits in 15 years makes you an expert??

Not just me ambulance drivers too

and lift out the urgent

How can you lift out the urgent when your waiting time is in the weeks?

If you don’t have the capacity to respond quickly, don’t put yourself in the way. “Either help or do no harm”.

Deal with ongoing health problems -Diabetes and other stuff
Mental Health

Nurses.

And GPs for mental health – seriously? MCTD’s experience aside, Mind did a survey a few years ago which discovered that the majority of GPs were of the “pull yourself together” school.

(or see you so frequently for minor problems

I’ve need my GP three times in the last 15 years.

Gate to the specialists

Two of those I turned up with a letter from a hospital consultant advising a course of action. What does your average GP add to the party when you’ve got Prof X, leading cardiac specialist advising that their patient gets checked for hedititory disease of the heart Y? Absolutely nothing except delay.

Maybe a barcode on the forehead.

or a badge:

Some pundit in the FT this morning was predicting £1 < $1 before this is all over.

You know what, I’d rather pay towards the maintenance of the trails… Which is actually what the CTC promised to do before breaking their word and stealing the money for something else.

who has now been jailed for conspiracy

The Guardian says:

Judge Gerald Gordon adjourned sentencing until 21 October and allowed the defendants continued bail.

Windows allows shut down or shut down and install if configured. Otherwise just hit shutdown and walk away or for a laptop close the lid, what’s the problem?

Win 10 AU still waits for each person to login before doing it’s post-install actions.

But the fundamental problem is that Microsoft can and do break things without telling you first or giving the option to opt-out. Win 10 is different to all previous versions in this regard.

6% return is pretty conservative for a stocks shares isa

Last year the FTSE All Share returned 0.98% including dividend reinvestment and excluding charges. The year before 1.18%, and the year before 20.81%. The FTSE-100 was worse in all three years.

Over the past 10 years the All Share has grown 21%, or 2% per year (excluding dividends and charges). The FTSE-100 11% over 10 years.

If you go to dpreview (e.g. https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canon-eos-1d-x-mark-ii/6) then you can get side-by-side comparisons of cameras that you maybe interested in.

Try comparing that Canon at ISO100 with a Coolpix at ISO1600 for an extreme example.

I used GoPro studio – https://gopro.com/software-app/gopro-studio-edit-software

Not sure I’d recommend it, but it works and is free.

is it really that inconvenient?
‘install updates and shutdown’, walk away.

Yesterday’s rebooted, paused a long time, and then went with:

“This app is no longer available” … ” and had deleted one of the programs I use daily. According to the developers the app isn’t incompatible with Window 10 and can safely be reinstalled, but saved data is gone forever.

It also turned back on a couple of the “send all my browsing history to Microsoft” options.

And installed a whole load of extra apps I don’t want.

And uninstalled .Net 3.5 (which was being used by VMWare).

Might have to be a Mac next time unless Adobe start supporting Photoshop and Premier on Linux. Or just stick with Windows 7.

paid for themselves to get trained and the necessary qualifications in order to be able to do work that can legally be signed off in order to make it safe from potential hazards

This is one of those things that annoys me. There’s nothing magical in a piece of paper that somehow makes either an installation or installer “safe”.

I’m also amazed at the number of people who won’t work on electrics (one death per decade or so) but will happily work on their car (a handful of deaths per year).

parachutists pop out of the clouds

This always scares me. OK inside controlled airspace where you have a reasonable hope that there’s nothing below to hit, but inside a MATZ, shared or uncontrolled airspace where there could be anything below that you have no realistic chance of being able to see or avoid is just asking for trouble.

Money Saving Expert are doing one of their collective negotiations the week after next, that might result in a cheaper deal than you can get elsewhere (or might not).

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/cheapenergyclub

Googling suggests that in normal operation fuel injectors are pushed with a fairly hefty current (c. 4A) for a brief (few ms) pulse.

So I’d be tempted to put a capacitor across that power supply (or battery) to give the extra heft. Some barely remembered A-level physics equations make me think that 1,000uF should be enough. I’d also chuck in a back EMF protection diode (don’t know if there’s much inductance in an injector but it doesn’t hurt).

Google Photo is free, up to 16 megapixels.

Amazon Prime Photos is bundled with Prime subscriptions.

AWS Glacier is $0.70/TB/month if you can put up with a more manual upload/want more control and are unlikely ever to retrieve.

Backblaze is $5/month for “unlimited”.

External hard drives and/or NASes are very convenient but vulnerable to theft, fire and ransomware.

…all of which reminds me that I haven’t run a backup this year.

Was it this petition? – https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/109702

If so they are proposing that the general public be restricted to four days but nothing about organised displays.

Rockliffe’s Babies, if only for the theme tune.

a folding and a silky pruning saw (that just happened to be in our packs)

I wouldn’t go with that story; 4 years max sentence for having a bladed article for no reason.

RM Cruise Syndicate entered.

We’ve settled on an Amazon Fire stick. It’s a pain to use the onscreen keyboard for search but is the most convenient otherwise.

HDMI cable from the laptop works well, but is untidy and you need a long cable, to fiddle around with HDMI ports etc. Even assuming the laptop has a HDMI out.

Kodi was unreliable, wouldn’t work for more than a few days and didn’t always stream correctly.

Playstation and external bluetooth keyboard also works well, but obviously you need a Playstation and have to wait for it to boot up.

How do those of you with compressors inflate tubeless tyres?

Car to presta adaptors screw onto the valve, so don’t work with the valve in (https://www.evanscycles.com/innovations-presta-valve-adapter-EV170954)

Compressor attachments with presta valves are very expensive (https://www.evanscycles.com/park-shop-inflator-inf1-for-use-with-air-compressor-EV185169)

Best option I’ve found so far is a small piece of plastic tube stuck over the valve ones end and stuck in the car inflator at the other, but it doesn’t give good flow rate into the tyre.

We bought one of these http://www.screwfix.com/p/stanley-dn-8-5-4-5ltr-portable-air-compressor-240v/22374 thinking it’d be ideal for inflating tyres and not take up too much space, but haven’t had much luck.

I’ll second what Graham said. Very sweaty inside.

My Dad’s been doing exactly that from the lounge to the study for years with no problems.

I suspect what you’re seeing is that when you’re in one of the programme modes the camera is metering for ambient light and just using the flash for fill-in – that’s what Canon’s do. Depending on how much light is available that can lead to some interesting shutter speeds. Why that gives you inconsistent exposures, no idea, unless it’s picking speeds that are too fast (so you’re relying on luck to get the flash into the scene) or you’re shooting before the flash has had a chance to recharge.

If you haven’t see in, this book has some nice examples:
http://software.canon-europe.com/files/documents/FlashWork_EN.pdf

I struggle to make TTL flashes work with the camera in anything but manual mode. Set the aperture how you want it, pick a shutter speed below sync speed and use the exposure compensation on the flash to get the exposure right is how I do it.