Very, very hard work, but great fun. The 10 people at the front take it seriously, everybody else, well …

Both car parks are now open – Abergorlech (Red) and Byrgwm (Green/Blue/Black)
The last descent of the Red is closed following repairs and there is a small bit near the end of the Black closed.

I’d guess
1. Laurel
2. Wood anemone
3. Alkanet

The vulnerability could be avoided if the chain tensioning mechanism was moved to the back of the big ring, then the gear selectors could be tucked up close to the chainstay at the rear, ie separate tensioning duties from selector duty.

A bit like this ?

Like most bike innovations, it’s been done before
Osgear

Go full nuclear. Nut and bolt strip down.

Did this myself on the full suss. All the bearings, shock, pivots, BB, headset, everything. The creak was still there after the rebuild. Finally tracked it down to the cable tie holding the rear mech cable to the chainstay.

paraphrasing from Gwen Moffat

Glad to hear that someone else’s heard of her. A real heorine, tough as.

To paraphrase Eric Newby

I only ever take luxuries, some other bugger’s bound to have remembered the essentials

Front page news in this weeks Carmarthen Journal

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/more-deadly-nail-traps-found-14527111

Trailer. People use trailers for a purpose. Like moving ton weights.

All the forecast charts you could possibly want at TWO

This is a nice one for Wales on Monday :-)

50×16? I’ve ridden fixed gear TTs on that gear and finished first vet!

‘Medium gear’ TTs with riders limited to a max gear of 72″ used to be very popular, and the speeds are mind boggling. The current record for 25 miles is a staggering 53.23!

seems as though the wheels are the really critical part

Stand by for someone starting a “What tyres for 1000 mph” thread. Nobby Nics will do fine mate.

Neither of them are locked. The Abergorlech car park regularly has vehicles parked overnight. The pub is closed at the moment BTW, new owners refurbishing it.

Setting the limit screw will be fine, that’s what most people will be doing. It’s an early season U16 event, the scrutineer will mainly be checking to ensure that the bikes are safe – nothing loose, bent or broken and brakes working OK.

You can check the roll out yourself if you’re really worried. Two bits of tape 6.93.m apart, front wheel axle over the first bit, cranks vertical, roll the bike backwards until the cranks have gone round once and see if you’ve passed the 2nd bit of tape.

Shimano make a 16-27 Ultegra cassette, but they’re not cheap. Why not just set the limit screw on the rear mech?

Assuming 700c wheels you’ll need to limit the rear mech to 16T which is 6.6.
Youth gear restriction of 6.93 is based on 52×16 on 700 x 23 wheels.

Preferably with arms folded, angrily, in front of a parking sign

Or pointing. ‘Residents fury at pothole nightmare’ isn’t complete without a picture of some old codger pointing at a barely discernible dimple in the road surface.

Yes, that’s a good plan. Misses out the worst bit.

Mynydd Mallaen will be a miserable bog! Plus parts of the bridleway only exist in the cartographer’s imagination (the bit that’s shown as a dead straight line). Even with a map and GPS we found navigating across the top from Caio forest to be challenging. Never been so happy to see a standing stone in my life (didn’t help that my comp[anion snapped his chain). The descent from the moor down to join the trail at Cwm Rhaedr was fantastic though.
Definitely a summer ride.

Typical. Mrs Rusty has decreed a 700 mile round trip from Carmarthen to Leeds and back this weekend to see the latest grandchild, timed to hit the M62 at rush hour.
Snow tyres – check
Warm clothing – check
Suicide pill – check

If PI, was a nice round number, would we still need leap years ?

In 1897 the Indiana House of Representatives passed a bill declaring PI to be exactly 3.2. This was rejected by the Senate.

It’s busy, but it certainly isn’t fast. Narrow and single lane in many places, particularly between Cardigan and Aber, with lots of HGV traffic and loads of caravans and motorhomes in the summer. You’d likely spend a lot of time with a huge tailback behind you trying to get past. I’d try and avoid it if possible.

Right click on the TO header and select Field Chooser from the context menu.
Select CC from All Mail Fields and drag it to the header bar next to the TO field.

Why not just a standard lifting sling?
http://www.webexsupply.co.uk/shop/1-ton-flat-webbing-sling-copy/%5B/url%5D
0.5M 30mm 1000kg £1.51

Teifi Pools are nice on a sunny day.

And pretty bleak the other 364 days of the year :-)

It’s an interesting one, if it’s intent is to pursue truth and knowledge without being blinded by established “facts.”

It feels less like Einstein and Dirac temporarily setting Newtonian mechanics to one side in order to grasp a bigger picture, and more like building a big bonfire of science books because they’ve been written by whitey.

The post by 4130s0ul back on page one was illuminating I thought

The ScienceMustFall is part of this anti-white, anti-colonial Pan-African Nationalism, where people who are not very bright try to tell smarter people that anything western needs to be rejected and after “de- colonization” African ways needs to be the dominant driver.

Literally not much around Tregaron*. Head to the coast – fish and chips and dolphin watching at Newquay, seals at Cwmtydu beach, eat at The Harbourmaster in Aberaeron, and so on.

*edit: maybe Dolaucothi Gold Mines worth a visit
*edit again: OK, and Strata Florida Abbey

Is there just the one short marked loop?

Yes. You can venture out onto Mynydd Mallaen, but navigation is ‘challenging’ and it will be wet and boggy up there at the moment. Combine with a visit to Brechfa?

In a philosophy class whilst debating this point i suggested i hit them repeatedly with a chair until they decided it was in fact a real solid object that actually existed rather than a social construct.

After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley’s ingenious sophistry to prove the nonexistence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it — “I refute it thus.”
James Boswell, Life of Johnson

I reckon though that if you start out not knowing what Newton figured out, you probably just go around not having a scooby. But if you’re a genius, more likely you invent Newtonian physics rather than coming up with something better from base principles.

Or you could end up with something like Leibniz’s concept of monads. Leibniz was a probably a genius by most criteria, but what distinguishes his ideas from those of Newton’s is usefulness. We use Newton’s principles rather than Leibniz’s because they consistently work and make our lives easier.

a good way to come up with a better theory than Newton’s is to be unaware of Newton’s theory in the first place

Rather contrary to Newton’s famous remark If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Her description of the theory of gravity and the way in which she describes how we are forced to accept the theory shows she has no understanding of the scientific method.

You’re disrespecting the sacredness of her space, apologise. Rather reassuring that the majority of the students seem to be falling about with laughter.

I remember a nice bit of Yorkshire banter from a young waiter in the Grassington hotel. He brought our wine and poured a small bit into a glass to taste.

“Why do waiters always do that?” I asked
“It’s so you can check it’s not corked sir”
“But it’s in a screw top bottle”
“Well you can check it’s not screwed then”

Disappointed by the lack of flames. Unlike this guy

Whiskers would be my first thought; been the go to place for Campag spares since the 60’s
J.D Whisker Ltd
Tel: 01707 324528
16-24, Brownfields, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, AL7 1BA

I prefer too little (which is why I am just building up another brakeless, fixed track bike as my only off road bike)

Pah. You big softy with your skills compensator.

The section of the M62 between Manchester and Leeds should be easy pickings for the motorway cops.

Last time I was up there Mrs Rusty, who used to live in those parts, said ‘Watch out here, this is where the boy racers come out to play’. And right on cue, 2 Evos and a Scooby came off the slip road and into the outside lane in a single unbroken maneuver and proceeded to disappear over the horizon.
Yes, I was ‘undertaken’, but no, I was wasn’t the problem.

Rochdale you say? Sounds good to me.

And latest news is that Marcin has taken the 25 record today with a 44:04 in the Port Talbot Wheelers event. Two comp records in one weekend.

[edit] Beaten to it by dirtyrider. That’s what happens when your Internet Packets arrive on the back of a pony.

V718 ? Fast course I’m led to believe!

Marcin Bialoblocki has just smashed the 10 mile Comp Record on the V718 with a time of 16.35.
Yes, that’s not a typo – 16.35! Mental.

How on earth does it “look better”?

Crossing over each other and matching the offset top tube cable guides.