For me the range issue with most EVs is a bit of a fallacy – I’ve had petrol cars with a 200 mile range, but they only take 5 minutes to refill rather than 60 minutes. To me, that is the actual issue. I don’t want to add another hour to a 4 hour journey.

But these things will improve quickly, and fwiw, we are about to order an iD3 as a second car, seems a decent option at the moment. We thought it drove well enough, seemed spacious and easy to drive.

There are quite a few non Zwift plans on Zwift, like the GCN ones – has anyone found any of these to be any good?

I agree that the Zwift plans don’t make much sense, but at least they provide a bit of motivation and focus for putting an effort in.

I think it’s also about the nose bridge, to work better with small noses.

I have no idea if you look daft or not though.

Are you going to attempt a back flip as your first jump? That kick at the end looks perfect….

Is there a difference – genuine question? At the end of the day it’s all ropes and mountains, ledges, etc to me, like dh, enduro, xc, bike packing etc are all mountain biking

I’d say Everest mountaineering and bouldering are much further apart than DH and bikepacking, but it’s a fair point. The Everest litter is caused by inaccessibility and costs, but it is still unforgivable.

In the climbing world ethics and respect for the environment are ingrained in everyone, young or old. You don’t see young turk climbers chipping holds or bolting grit, or dropping litter or acting like dicks at the crag. And when someone does step out of line they are quickly shut down by the wider community. We probably need a bit/lot of that in mountain biking.

Whilst there are issues within climbing, like litter at the crag (finger tape etc, so clearly climbers), human crap, chalk and tick lines everywhere and even music, I think that the smaller overall numbers lessen the impact.

I think that the key point you make is “when someone does step out of line they are quickly shut down by the wider community”. In mountain biking I kind of get the feeling that the wider ‘community’ doesn’t give a crap about much except their latest youtube upload or strava segment. Of course, mountain biking has moved on immensely from the rambling on two wheels of old, and that is inevitable, but it is certainly putting a lot more pressure on the environment than was present 20 years ago.

Some people and groups, such as Ride Sheffield, do fantastic work, but mountain biking lacks any cohesive body to both represent and influence riders in UK.

I’ve now finished the first 300 pages of the Bugatti Chiron build, only another 300 to go. It is incredibly, it’s massive, but so densely packed with detail it weighs a tonne too. Gearbox, clutch, flappy paddles, W16 engine with pistons, 4 wheel drive, 2 diffs. And designed to be built how the real thing is supposedly, so front half and back half of chassis built separately and then joined together. God help me if I’ve got anything wrong so far, a rebuild would be a nightmare.

1 box into the Bugatti Chiron build. 5 more to go, it might take a while.

I’m always amazed by the integrity and attention to detail of Lego, but this thing is incredible.

Crisps relate to the overcooked bread just above them.

Canoes aren’t a clue.

One clue for the tablets, 2 for the apple.

The second, non medical related answer is literally written on the Apple.

Of those 4, only the plastered digit stands out as a clue.

The other three things you mention aren’t clues at all I’m afraid.

Second bird clue – the first answer deals with the blue tit, the second relates to the circular looking remaining bird.

2nd Apple clue needs hi res and zoom in on it.

Are they not already on the iCloud? If so download them from there to the PC.

“Someone, anyone, please before I drive myself mad, the waste paper basket and the damn spitting water deer head.”

Both relevant words for the two answers are mentioned here – the fact that it is a deer and water is irrelevant, as is the material in the bin.

The bin clue is particularly tenuous – it only really relates to one out of the four words in the answer.

The bin answer is pretty oblique! Only one of the four words in the answer comes from the picture.

Just one left – the to-do list.

Edit: got it, all done. Back to my own to do list!

Thanks all.

Fat bird and taciturn antelope done, thanks.

Congratulations.

6 left for me.

Man on floor
Antelope water
Paper in basket
Knights Lance looks suspicious
Book and gavel
Third clock one

Bugger.

It is, and sorry, can’t remember the exact words required.

I never sit on urinals.

You sure it was a garage and not a dressing room?

spider in my Dressing room

I have done about 11,000km and 190,000m of climbing every year for the last 10 years or so. This year will be similar, but I have counted Zwift rides this year for the first time. Normally have a few weeks in the Alps each year etc to up the mileage, so had to substitute Zwift for that instead.

18.7 apparently. Mainly road bike.

You don’t say what you ultimately want the money to do – If it’s for cashing in/selling the houses to fund retirement eventually, then putting the cash into a pension instead makes sense as it gets an instant uplift from the tax break + market growth. If you want extra monthly income (although it sounds like you don’t), then other investments are more accessible and less hassle than property. Things like VCTs also give you an instant 30% return (albeit at a higher risk).

The fourth property based option is what we did – spend the money buying a ‘nicer’ house to live in. You still get the potential capital growth, no worries about CGT, tenants or (extra) maintenance costs and you get to enjoy the space/location every single day.

Cheers, I’ve given them a go.

Castelli Transition Jacket. Windproof front and arms, breathable back, lightly brushed inner. Really, really good for UK winter riding.

Good idea, I’ve signed up.

Fantastic effort all round Robbo, very impressive to have been noticed by Zwift overlords.

I’m not sure I will get to do many more or these; the timing is pretty bad for me and my normal road riding group has organised a more palatable 6pm regular Tuesday race now, so I can get beaten by people I actually know rather than imaginary friends.

I’ll certainly keep an eye out for the next series and see if the day or time changes, it was good fun.

Gore Shakedry for road use – just gobsmackingly good. I barely bother to carry a windproof any more, just take the waterproof instead.

Something made from Gore Active for off road use, as it is far more robust than Shakedry.

Two races, two costly mistakes.

I went over the first summit on Nixie’s wheel, but decided that I didn’t rate the chances of a 2up TT staying away so sat up for a few seconds to wait for the bunch on the downhill. But despite me doing 800w (v. briefly!) the bunch swept past and very quickly had 20 secs on me which I just couldn’t close. So I sat up again and waited again to be caught by DrP, R. Charlie and TPbiker and we stayed together pretty much.

Ah well, at least I went for the right finish line this week.

I was reading down and thought ‘that sounds like a job for Polartec Alpha’, but see I’ve been beaten to it, so I’ll just second that suggestion.

I’ve done the raid, west to east.

At this point in time I’d be concentrating on spending as many hours as possible in the saddle for consecutive days and not worry too much about the terrain, HR or gradient. Nearer the time would be when I’d start to up the intensity of the sessions personally.

There are some lovely climbs, hope you enjoy it.

One thing (amongst many) that I don’t understand about this election is why are both sides claiming victory and success in various states (sometimes even the same state) before the results?

It’s not like the vote counters are going to say ‘oh, well, if you say so’ and stop counting, nor can they influence the result or voters at this stage?

So what is the point?

Erm, ok. I’m gonna have to ask, how does everyone else know where the finish line is? ‘Cos it clearly isn’t that bloody great orange banner across the road at the end of lap….!

Do it properly with Spatz.

singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/stw-zwift-autumn-series-2/page/2/#post-11456471

This works well on the Donny Chaingang on Zwift; if Robbo doesn’t say GO until everyone is close but still behind him I’d have thought that would work, even if it takes a few km to get there.

All trying to stop in the same place on Zwift could be pretty awkward without brakes!

Macarena video on its way to Robbo’s private account. Would a naked version raise or lower the potential handicap, asking for a friend.

FTP 303, weight 70kg.

Sounds good. Followed you on Zwift, didn’t do first round so what else do I need to do?

Ahh, good info Hols2 – they haven’t been showing for me for weeks, clicking play just changes the preview image to a big grey space, phone, tablet and PC.

Logging in seems to work, thanks. Good job this website doesn’t log me out all the time….

Cheers, yep, that’s what I thought.

Never mind, we’ll swap it to self catering in England. I really do not fancy a hotel, I’d far rather trust 2 friends than rely on dozens of strangers.

So would you locals please confirm my thinking on this, we don’t want to fall foul of any rules.

My wife and I have a self catering cottage booked in Scotland in a couple of weeks along with another couple. All of us live in England.

I understand that there is no mixing of households in Scotland currently, but all the time we are in Scotland we would be one household, made up of 2 couples?

I assume that our situation is also against the rules, despite the fact that if we had all booked a hotel instead and come into contact with lots of staff and guests, that would be fine?