Move the cage into the position it will be in the lowest gear with a chain on.

Does it still hit the cassette? It probably won’t, but if it does then B tension.

Nice, good to know thats still the case. Back there late September.

I was there a year ago.

Adhoc uplift was £4 per run and they had a contactless machine in the van. Priority was given to people who had booked the day but I never had to wait (this was a Monday in late September).

I suggest giving FlyUp a bell to see what they are doing this year.

A lot of places won’t look at the tyres for a service. They will just do the required service items and that’s it!

As Mashr says, get a check/second opinon. Easy enough to check tyre wear – have they clarified what they mean by out of shape?

Wherabouts (roughly) in the country is the property?

I know a person who has helped with this sort of thing in the past…

Also glad folks have created a bit of stability in the hub width for now.

My last bike purchase saw me keen to try a Saracen. Until I realised they are using 157 hubs on their trail and enduro bikes. That’s a nope from me! Shame, everything else was about ideal for what I wanted

I think I’m onboard with direct mount chainrings although I’ll expand it to cranksets in general.

Pick an axle diameter and direct mount interface then stick with it.

I’ve got a few shimano chainrings knocking around and all my cranks are 24mm. But I do fancy giving hope 155mm cranks a go. I was all set to do it until I realised just how much extra a chainring and bottom bracket would layer on top. Suddenly gets very expensive for something I don’t know if I’ll like!

@hardtailonly

You have described some incredibly bad management here.Managers should be enabling their teams not passing the pressure they are under downwards wholesale.Your boss sounds awful – they may of course be under the exact same issue and feeling similar but frankly – not your problem.

Speak with your wife then speak with your GP – and if possible do both today instead of going to work. Can you inform HR directly if you are taking time off sick? If you can avoid any further contact with your boss at this stage that might help you too. It sounds like that would be another stressful conversation you could do without.

Time to look after yourself. Your company and boss don’t care if you burn yourself out over work so their opinion on the matter is now irrelevant. Do this for you and your family.

can’t unlock the car (even just using the key in the lock), to then get in the car, to open the bonnet to charge the battery

Is it the hidden lock on the passenger side you are using? This should still work if the battery is dead, but I guess it could be seized. WD40 in the keyhole would be a starting point.

Get the Micra going.

How long since it was actually running? You may be able to save a good deal of cash by getting it running on the drive then taking it to the garage for the MOT and service.

If you spent a grand on a car then you would be buying something that would probably have some hefty bills coming. You already have a car which has been well maintained for at least a portion of its life so to me that one is a no brainer.

Yep, all sorted now. Looks like a good deal

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Based on the description of what happens, it sounds like exactly what I would expect from a shock absorber that was no longer absorbing shocks.

Stick another 20% on fuel tax, people will soon start riding bikes.

Remember how many people stopped driving cars when the average fuel price went up by a third in just a few months at the start of 2022?

I have a Jabra speaker and a set of Plantronics Voyager wireless headphones.

The plantronics headphones are great.Can walk about most of the house while on calls – my team are quite used to me just getting up and wandering off while we’re on calls. The noise cancelling is mediocre but the microphone quality and noise cancelling is incredible – I can grind coffee while on a call and my team are none the wiser. I’d buy another set in a heartbeat.

For comparison I have a pair of Sony XM4 headphones and, while the noise cancelling and music quality are both much better, everything else is worse. Mic quality, poor. Bluetooth on windows – poor. Wired I hear you say? Nope, mic is bluetooth only. All day wear-ability? Only if your ears are the perfect shape.

Disappointing to see that, according to some at least, knowing something about a topic implies approval of said topic.

Being able to see the world how it is doesn’t mean we approve of how it is.

I’ve not seen anyone here actually state they still partake in a bag or two but for a few it seems just having done so in the past make them worthy of a good sneer from the drug free ivory tower.

I watched a recent documentary about the manufacture and supply of coke and it’s easy to see why usage has become widespread.

I can’t remember the exact numbers, but the key message is price. The cost of a decent pint has gone up dramatically over the past 25 years and while a bag has also risen in price, it’s nowhere near as much as alcohol.

It’s now very easily absorbed into the cost of a night out which makes it commonplace in many cities and often more so in small towns.

Get shot of the useless Henry and buy a decent hoover?

Our cleaner uses a Henry and it gets more crud off the floor than the various decent vacumn cleaners we have had.

They are very good in a simplistic sort of way, and are far less prone to going wrong. Unlike many modern things.

My bike has the same dropper routing.

Works fine with a shimano xt spec gear cable.

Very good work sir!

I rode for many years with a ‘not jumpy’ ethos but as the writing on my singletrack mug has faded so has my commitment to stay grounded. I’m now past the mid 40s wishing I had got into this jumpy lark sooner.

I think it is absolutely worth going back to Merlin quoting the consumer rights act.

Especially since you have some evidence that something was amiss sooner. While the onus may be on you to prove the failure occurred earlier (it may not, I don’t know) you also have that proof.

If you have to ask for an apology, any apology received as a result is meaningless.

The person whom the apology is being demanded from is clearly not sorry – otherwise they would have offered it freely. The would be recipient of the apology surely must know this so really, what is the point.

The problem is not smart meters but Eon. I’m not sure if they are thoroughly (thoroughly) incompetent, or in fact just plain old criminals, but my advice would be to switch provider as soon as possible.

Interestingly E.On use the Octopus platform for their billing and smart metering. Now the platform is actually quite good, but it’s not without flaws and limitations.

Pre migration to Kraken the E.On platform was a lot more flexible and allowed agents much more scope to correct customer issues. I might be biased, but their smart metering system was also the most robust in the industry at the time.

We submit a reading online for leccy every month and just pay for what we’ve used, nice and simple, am I missing something?

I don’t submit a reading online, ever, and just pay for what I have used.

Perfect.

My gas smart meter ran out of battery apparently , so needs the whole unit replacing….what sort of progress is that for net zero!

They don’t have field serviceable batteries because of tampering. But the battery will be replaced and the meter reused.

Are the smart meters and supporting tech different between different suppliers?

Up to a point, yes.

The as is mentioned above, the main backend infrastructure is the same via the DCC. This handles some elements the device management and all communications to the meter (assuming it is a new SMETS2 meter or an enrolled SMETS1).

The meters themselves… while there are a number of different manufacturers they should all be compliant with the standards set out by SMETS2 (and SMETS1 for older meters). In reality there are some bits of operation that some meter variants and firmware versions do less well. But this is a problem across all suppliers.

Then there is the software that suppliers use to talk to the DCC. Some use the software supplied by the DCC, some either write their own or use software from a third party. This is where things get a bit more variation – although that software still needs to be certified by the DCC.

And all of the above has a minimal impact on billing. That is done exclusively by suppliers on whatever software platform they are running – be that in house developed or supplied by a vendor.

Some points on that. When a meter is removed, the engineer is expected to take final readings for that meter. Those reads should be returned to the supplier on a dataflow and be used in billing. It is sensible to take readings on the day, but hold them back and don’t submit them. There is no guarantee those reads would be used (and some suppliers software having those reads might throw up reading validation issues when the meter change reads come in).

Some suppliers are now in a position where they can reuse meters if they have been removed and confirmed as not faulty. It may be one of the meters went in with a non zero opening read.

If the consumption is on your new meter ask E.ON if they have your meters configured for daily reads or half hourly consumption retrieval. It’s too far in the past to get a historic read off the smart meter as they only store them for 29 days but thy can get up to 13 months of half hourly consumption data if the meter is configured to store it. That would prove your consumption.

The microwave is on the work surface.
There is always ‘stuff’ in front of the microwave.
I move the stuff to a sensible place when I need to use the microwave.
It migrates back.

I’m way more annoying with just leaving stuff in daft places though, so she can have this one.

Intense using the brakes does suddenly make it wrong that people called them out for copying trickstuff.

It changes absolutely nothing and I have no idea what logical gymnastics you are doing to think otherwise.

Intense are not risking their reputation at all because a lot of people have never heard of the brand they copied. Intense know this and they took the risk that the backlash would be minimal.

because it was clarification I was right

Only in your head. Here in the real world – at risk of laboring the point – nothing has changed.

Well other than you being an excellent advert for every brake brand that isn’t lewis – especially now you are calling everyone who disagreed with you pathetic and cowardly. Your words says a lot more about you than your choice of brakes but you really are not selling them. -100 internet points.

Lewis (or their UK distributor) had clearly paid youtubers to use/review them without declaring it so it seems likely.

Indeed. I certainly saw a number of ‘gram accounts make videos about the new amazing Lewis brakes they were trying. There was a degree of hype about it and no one was declaring they got them free. Maybe heavily discounted?

Many of those people have subsequently posted bike builds and shots that don’t show them using Lewis brakes.

Read into that what you will.

I do have a hard time looking past the millionaire shortbread these days.Shortbread is hard to get wrong, and adding caramel and chocolate to the top is also hard to get wrong. The only time I steer clear is when I can see the caramel to shortbread ratio is completely off – ideally it needs pretty thick shortbread with slightly more caramel than chocolate. But when the caramel is 4x the chocolate it’s going to be messy to eat.

Rocky Road was always my go to – but alas it turns out you can do a great job or a terrible job of making that.

Coffee and walnut cake is another fine choice though – shame you can’t ask for a taste like any decent pub will do for cask and craft.

I remember that thread.

Not so much the abuse… But there was a lot of heated discussion was not around them being good brakes but around them being a direct ripoff of good brakes. Not sure why having a factory race team use them changes that fact in any way, certainly doesn’t make anyone else suddenly wrong.

Everyone’s assumed you’re talking about the sky. Is that what you meant, or are you talking about neon street lights, cars with motion blur and the occasional owl?

Not quite everyone… but yea, without knowing the intended subject it’s harder to give more generic advice.

TBH I assumed the camera was already in hand but there is quite a bit of ‘what to buy’ advice too.

Riding that again sits very much in the ‘oh hell no’ category.

Looks like something has given way already, and the remaining structure is now cracking as the loads are transferring elsewhere.

The question is now ‘when will this fail and how catastrophically’

When you say ‘proper’ are we talking something with all the manual controls? Any more details on what it is, as the camera capabilities can change the approach somewhat.

Also, when you replicate what the human eye would see, are you referring to anything specific? I’m not sure what the night modes to that make a photo differ from what the human eye would see.

But given that brief, and using my ‘walkabout’ camera here is what I would do.

Brace the camera against something ideally, and set the aperture to the widest it will go (widest aperture is the smallest number). On the camera in question I would be at F2.0. Set the ISO to 1600 and set a shutter speed of 1/15th second. Then take the shot and assess.

Some reasoning behind the above. ISO is in laymans terms the sensitivity of the sensor. Higher is more sensitive, but it comes with a tradeoff of increased digital noise. Most fairly recent digital cameras are perfectly acceptable up to 1600 and many are still good up to 6400.

The shutter speed of 1/15th keeps the shutter open a bit longer to let more light into the camera. Keep it open too long and you introduce blurring which is typically associated with night time shots, but too quick and the photo will be darker than your eyes see.

Wider apertures let more light in too, which is why you go as wide as the camera allows. As you are probably seeing, the whole thing is balancing the amount of light that reaches the sensor in order to expose the scene. Once you have assessed the shot you will almost certainly need to make changes to the settings.

Too dark? Increase ISO or lower shutter speed. If there is already some motion blur you can only increase ISO but if everything still look good you can drop the shutter to 1/8 and even 1/4. Much lower than 1/4 and you are needing a tripod.

Too bright? Take the shutter up to 1/30 and if that is not enough reduce the ISO a bit.

A note about all the settings. They are linked very closely. For example if I’m at F2, ISO 1600 and 1/15th second shutter and I change my shutter to 1/30 the sensor would get less light – but if I were to change the ISO to 3200 then that would increase the sensitivity meaning the end exposure is the same.

Finally, once the scene looks like you need it to, you probably want to try a few different white balance settings to get the colour looking more like you saw. I tent to start with incandescent and go from there.

The camera which I can and have done similar on is an Olympus with a slightly smaller than aps-c sensor. The better tool for the job is my sony full frame with fast lenses but that is a considerable investment.

Iphone? Get an app like pro camera which opens up all the manual controls then all the above applies.

I’ve got a ragley marley which is designed around 27.5 2.6 tyres.

29×2.25 fits…. just. But it rubs on the frame a little in some situations.

It also feels a bit weird with the super short 27.5 stays.

I want to like the tru tension stuff… some genuinely well thought out stuff. I just wish they would use aerosols less.

So many options for reusable stuff these days.

I do quite like the SQLab 30x which come in 12 & 16 degrees.

If it was you that got beaten up/attempted murder then you would want any witnesses to turn up.

A very logical statement that will unfortunately have no impact on the anxiety of OPs wife, and indeed it is quite likely that stating such a thing would have the opposite of desired effect.

Still need one?