Just checking, but have you set the Tracer to it’s lowest power setting?

Interesting take on why road bikes haven’t evolved as much as other disciplines here. Point number 2 is I think the main one.

How about Kate Smith?

So you need something you can sort out now for tomorrow. Bit if a long shot but are any of your local pubs or restaurants doing meals for collection? Might be able to book something online to collect for tomorrow lunchtime or evening?

You are soooo screwed.

Fenix 6 pro, you get maps, routes, music and more stats than you can shake a stick at. If like me you’ve tiny wrists get the S.

The Airdrop Edit luxe build comes in at £2,999. Just need to see if there’s any stock in the February drop.

Mackenzie Leatherif price is not consideration.

It did seem a bit odd to me – it was the driver who said it was new Brexit regulation. It also seems weird that the DHL website didn’t mention this when I booked the collection. It’s not like they didn’t know where the package was going to!

If you haven’t got one try installing a WIFI Analyser on your phone. This will give you some idea about signal strengths in the various rooms and, probably more important, Wi-Fi channel overlaps.

Fun story – my home office is on the side of the house by our boundary with the neighbours (my 1 year working from home anniversary is coming up soon!), just before Xmas we had someone new move in and then my Wi-Fi connection became slow and flaky soon afterwards. Running the analyser showed that their 5Ghz Wi-Fi was sitting on the same channel as mine and as I was now closer to their router then my own… A quick reconfigure of the router moved my Wi-Fi to an unused channel and it’s been fine ever since.

I’ve given up scrambling for the mug egg(s). Take a microwavable mug and crack an egg into it. Add a small knob of butter and some grated cheese, whisk with a fork. In my 900w microwave it takes 70 seconds to cook. Two eggs works if your mug is big enough, I add 10 seconds to the cooking time in this case. For extra points take one of the chilli’s you grew and froze in the summer and chop it into the mug before whisking.

You could try Privacy Badger

How about Ludlow, lots of riding from the door but big enough to have the infrastructure you want. Also Church Stretton and the Long Mynd are 2 stops away on the train in one direction and, if you want, you can get to BPW via Cardiff.

In addition it could also be the saddle height. A purely personal anecdote, I rode with clips for years with no problems at all then I had a bit of a fall and twisted my knee (stupid slow speed sideways tumble – just landed wrong). Switched over to flats while the knee was recovering and then back to clips after about 3 months. With flats my saddle was too high so lowered it and when I went back to clips it was too low and that lead to pain in my other supposedly good knee until I raised it ever so slightly! YMMV

What you have to do
If your account provider contacts you to ask for information about your account it is important that you reply. For example, you may be asked for a self-certification of your tax residency status.

If you don’t reply your account provider may share incorrect information with the relevant tax authority. They may also refuse to open new accounts for you in the future.

Before you provide any information make sure the request is genuine. If you aren’t sure, check.

It is worth replying, you’ll get reported to HMRC as a non responder otherwise.

There are various events that can trigger a request for this info. The regulations are complex, I know, I’ve had to design a system to do this! The most common one is an overseas address but value limits and changes to account details can also do it.

This is probably to do with this Automatic Exchange of Information previously known as FATCA and CRS. It’s an agreement between governments to exchange info on people who may owe tax in another country. If your a UK citizen it shouldn’t be much more than a declaration of this plus providing details of the controlling persons for your company and there tax residency status.

However if your not sure it’s legit then ask Barclays.

Go traditional and buy jewellery, might still have time to get something from Kate Smith.

If you already have a linkable Garmin device then the Garmin Connect app will show you all of the info you want. Just go into Activities\Cycling and you get day, week month and year data with totals.

From a convenience point of view I’d use whatever Garmin watch you like plus connect. I use a Fenix 6 and it works seemlessly with my phone. Start the activity in the watch, ride, save it and your done.

Integration into Strava is also seamless of you want to use that instead or as well.

I just buy a pack of valve cores of amazon (£8 for 20) and replace them when they get sticky.

Well almost exactly a year ago I bought a new Airdrop Edit, along with the people I ride with I’d started doing uplift days at BPW, Flyup 417, Antur Stiniog etc. My short travel full suss bike was ok but I thought I’d treat myself to something a bit more capable. So far Strava tells me I’ve ridden the thing 70 miles since I bought it. It was great in the right setting, but it’s not the right bike for the local bridleway rides that have all I’ve managed for much of 2020. Hoping I’ll get to ride it properly next year.

If you already have it you can use Microsoft Word for this. Save the document as a PDF and in the Options (its a little button at the bottom of the Save dialog on mine) select Create Bookmarks Using and Headers. This will create a navigation bar in the left pane in the viewer that links to you Word section headers.

EDIT:
Having a bad day – Word probably won’t do the other things you need so just ignore me. I’m going get my lights and go ride my bike.

I’ve been lurking in this thread for a while now and just want to add my congratulations on your award. Well done TiRed and thanks for finding the time to keep us informed.

If you really have to do this then I’d go old school and connect the windows 7 machines using a serial port. Then go get a serial file transfer utility like Kermit that allows you to transfer files over the serial connection and also allows the transfers to be scripted.

Make sure you set it all up so that the only thing the windows 7 machines can do is push data out the serial port.

It might not be practical if you fine sizes are large, serial comms aren’t quick.

I’m a bit rusty at this so bear with me, you know two facts the length of the chord (CL) and the length of the arc (L). There are formulae to calculate these when you know the radius and the angle (a) made by the two radius lines that join the centre of the circle and ends of the chord. We need the radius r

L = a*r*pi/180 and CL = 2*r*sin(a/2)

So rearrange the first equation to get a and replacing a with this in 2nd equation will give you an equation in 1 unknown that you can re-arrange to get r. Once you have r you can work out CH.

Kona seem to have some XL Units frame and forks for £599. See their website here.

This is a very deep rabbit hole your venturing down here, if your really interested then the OS have a good introduction to co-ordinate systems and GPS that may throw some light on what is happening.

You might find something useful on the SuperUser site, search for Comparing Similar Text Strings in Excel.

Magura do still make hydraulic rim brakes if you do want to go down that route. HS33R

A lot of the online training sites are giving courses away right now, for example Introduction to programming is free until the end of the month. That would be a low risk way of seeing how you get on with programming. Do a search as there are lots of others.

It’s only going to get worse. Confine people in their homes for nearly 24 hours each day, provide a diet of internet nonsense and your going to get all kinds of weirdness.

I’d go with whatever minimises the number of different brake pad types you need to keep in stock.

I like the Grasshopper Cafe in Hope, excellent coffee.

On the recommend what you’ve got front I’d suggest having a look at the Airdrop Edit V3. If your anywhere near Sheffield you can get a test ride in the Peak District.

Without knowing about you particular use case, what are these codes used for, it’s hard to give a definitive answer. You could look at one way hashing, the openssl library is available on most platforms and provides sha3 secure one way hashes.

If a raw hash is too much data you could use an agreed subset of the hash, say you want a 6 character code take characters 1,2,3,5,8,13 say each time. This does increase the risk of collision, two values giving the same code.

The advantage of this approach is that you don’t have to store the codes, they can always be regenerated.

But a lot of this depends on volumes and what your planning to actually do!

I put one of these on my Salsa El-Mariachi last year. It’s survived the very wet and muddy winter without any issues so far.

You can’t spend a penny in Bridgnorth.

Good excuse to read My Name is Legion, all the way from 1976. Our hero is part of the team implementing the new World Bank cashless society but instead opts out destroying his identifying punch cards (Yeah for 1970’s technology!).

On the basis of reccomend what you’ve got I’ve just added an Airdrop Edit V3 to my bike collection, 160mm travel, pedals up hill perfectly well and was a complete hoot at Antur Stiniog. Probably pyscological as much as anything but I was just riding stuff I’d have been bypassing or thinking very hard about on my 120mm travel Tallboy. Even gives you an excuse to ride in the Peak district after grabbing a demo bike from the Airdrop guys at Sheffield.

To add to what Cougar has said, if you buy a new machine with plenty of memory (I’d go with 16GB) and disk space and if your hard drive on the old machine is ok you can look at using disk2vhd to create a virtual image of the old machine and then use VirtualBox to run that image.