I have this issue with my Garmin. I would love to know what’s causing it. I have tried turning it off completely or just leaving it on standby and that seems to make no difference. I’ve done a lot of searching and plenty of people have this issue.

I have to remember to keep charging it, even on weeks where I don’t use it much.

A big yes. I’ve always been very fustrated by mountain bike clothing, mainly by lack of vents. Cycling uphill and off road generates a huge amount of heat, but then cycling down in the cold wet mountains requires a lot of protection. It’s always been a balance to get this right, involving pulling up sleeves on jackets not designed to have the sleeves pulled up, and unzipping flimsy lighweight zips which break after a month of use.

Roadie clothing seems to work well nowadays, and walking clothing has for a long while, but mountain bike clothing seems to be variation on either of the two above groups and yet not quite totally fit the bill.

I would ring 999 as an ambulance takes so long to arrive nowadays, it will just be arriving in time for when the wife finds out what you’ve done.

Advisory means that you need to keep an eye on them, as it’s thought that if you wait till next time you have an MOT you might well be driving around on illegal and dangerous tyres.

“But what if you crash?” Well, if you’re that worried about crashing then why even drive? Are you really stopping your car millimeters away from a dangerous accident? Perhaps look at the way you drive. Your insurance is for a legal car, of course you’re insured if you get “advisory” from the MOT garage (but the advise is to keep an eye on them – you won’t be insured if you’ve worn them to be illegal).

I got an advisory on tyres one year, didn’t change them for the whole year and got another advisory the following year. The reason being I don’t push the tyres hard and do limited mileage through the year.

Yes, tyres are an important safety aspect of the car and I won’t go waiting till the very limit of their life, but they’re also expensive and from almost the moment you start using them they’ll be degrading. Just be sensible and drive your journey. Drive many journeys, but check your tyres regularly and start saving for a new set.

She’s actually a very good driver

It was a joke based on hte stereotype of her age, I meant no offence and I have no idea what her driving is actually like. But cars which are not trendy and youngsters don’t like are often good buys as they don’t have a trendy premium to their price. I guess that was my point.

It’s getting very difficult to find good reliable cars and which are not stupid huge SUVs imho.

Can I add another vote to Honda Jazz. I had one and lots of people laughed as it was seen as an old persons car. But it was one of the best cars I have been in. More room inside it than a Focus and the like, but smaller in body size, easy to park, reliable and fast enough if you were not timid and rev’d the thing to the red line. When I split with the wife, the car went with her and she ended up buying two more since, despite being one of the people who originally laughed.

I now have a decent spec Skoda Octavia and it’s not a patch on that Honda.

Your 21 year old is showing why she’s not yet responsible enough to drive. :-D

Cars are expensive and can get damaged. That’s one of the reasons you insure them. Car owner needs to contact their insurance with details of what has happened and insurance judges if they pursue the childs parents or not (I suspect not, unless there was something odd going on here).

Some people have odd ideas of morals in here. Do you think there was some sort of deliberate attack against this poor persons car because of the way it was parked?

I know you have said you have ruled out an e-bike, but an ebike seems like the better option to me.  I’d think the e-bike was a far safer option than a scooter, cheaper to run, and I am somewhat doubtful of those timing differences you give between the two. But then we’re different people so will see things differently, so if you fancy a scooter then go for it.

I appriciate your dilema though. I’m approaching 50 and really struggling with my occasional cycle commute nowadays.

Surely you’d be happy that you can now sit on the wheel and have a group to pull you home?

The swiping left is the In Focus part, which appears at the top on mine. I haven’t worked out how to get it to appear below At a glance, but I may end up turning it off all together as it’s just slightly annoying and I’ll try just using the at a glance as buttons to see the information I want. Maybe that will stop me with the left/right, up/down thing.

Previously I could get four bits of information and my eye would scroll down, and then scroll the page. Now, with “At a Glance”, I have four bits of information, presented smaller in two columns, so my eye has to scan left and right and down, and it’s harder to read for someone with aging eyesight. I fail to see how this is better.

Add in the confusion of it not being consistent with how to change things (edit home page is at the bottom of the homepage, but edit Tabs is at the top right on “More”).

It still suffers the problem of the connect app, and that’s it is difficult to find some of the meterics until you get really used to where they’re hidden. Maybe even more so now you’re having to search out things for your home page. I cannot say I’m that impressed with it. Still, I learn the quirks of the previous app and I’m sure I’ll learn to use the quirks of this one.

I really dislike the having to scoll left and right. I’ve no idea why you’d want to arrange the information sideways on a phone which has a narrow screen and is designed for scrolling up and down. You have to do a lot of editing the page to get it usable to how you’d like.

Previously you got the latest information near the top, and then you just scrolled down, which seems like a major feature over this scrolling left/right/up/down thing.

Not going to comment on the idea. But I think you need to have an idea of how much data you are wanting to store, how many users, and how often they’ll be accessing.

The zero friction guy had a pretty narrow requirement for his testing though. All he’s interested in is reducing power loss and reducing wear.

If you enjoy the place you are riding so much that you want to take the dirt back home with you, then muc-off performs second best to only glue, although glue loses it’s effectiveness once it hardens, which muc-off never seems to do.

Do you mean someone who commutes by bike in the city? Or do you mean someone who uses a cities hire bikes? Anyway, I commute from outside the city into the city by bike and I’ve not a clue and never even thought about it and wouldn’t know why you’d want to know. Is it a question on how much effort it is, or is it some sort of pollution related question?

I turn it off because it’s triggering AF. PTSD from having to get through urban traffic in a dying shitter, doing the three pedal dance knowing that if it dies it’s not going to restart. Stop start brings back all that trauma and I don’t need that. So it gets turned off. I’ll happily lose a quarter of an mpg.

Not really understanding what you’re saying at all. It’s estimated it saves about 5% petrol minimum and probably much more since you mention urban driving. Plus why would you want to create extra pollution, especially in an urban environment?

I swapped the battery in my Octavia after 10 years. I never switch of the stop/start as it cuts emmisions and saves petrol, so cannot understand why you’d want to do that to be honest.

I would be weary of comparing to old Howies T-shirts as I used to be a Medium in Howies and now a Small, and I’ve not shrunk.

I currently have 8 tabs open on running shorts as I can’t decide which ones are right.

Let me help you, the ones which fit you the best are the ones you should go for.

My mind is blown that people worry about the wiper blades of their car. I walked to the local car supplier, bought the ones he said were for my car, fitted them and never lost any sleep over worrying if they were wrong.

I’m more worried about the rain on my walk to the shop to get them, than if the wipers clean my window in high enough definition for my vision.

I’ve an open mind, as a crash on the tarmac is much less dangerous that one of the cobbles. And it might make the cobbles more exciting, as the slower speed accelerating on them might mean more skilled riders benifit.

Palestine-Israel has not suddenly become an emotive issue in the last few months. It has been discussed on STW for years without the slightest problem.

I would respecitvely suggest that it has become a lot more of an emotive issue recently, which you may not realise if you say…

The only thing which appears to have changed recently on STW is apparently less support for Israel.

..as it suggests you are not following any news and happily riding your bike in the hills all day every day.

My point is also that I believe it’s unreasonable to say that any such policy is “allowing attrocities to take place”.

Asking people not to discuss an emotive subject, is not unreasonable. To claim that doing so is “allowed attrocities to take place” is unreasonable and perhaps somewhat justifies their claim that this is not the place to discuss this subject.

Middle class solution: A kitchen extension, hence moving where your kitchen window is to way from their door. Solves your problem, gets you a bigger kitchen in the process.

Maybe bake them a nice cake to welcome to them the neighbourhood then in pink icing sugar on the top write in a nice script font ‘stop smoking, you inconsiderate bastards’

Welcoming them to the neighbourhood is certainly a good step. Calling them inconsiderable bastards probably won’t get you what you want.

And not everyone likes icing on cake,.

Other than being friendly and politely explaining the issue and provider a mutually satisfactorary alternative, then I don’t think there is much else you can do. As they are new neighbours, if your first interaction with them is asking them not to do something which gives them pleasure is probably not going to go well. You may have to get used to closing the window while you get to know them.

The fan in your kitchen to blow back the smoke is the only alternative I can think of.

I’m quite amazed at the number of angry posts regarding this. Life is full of such issues and compromises.

Good adventure. To be fair, the cobbles on the canal are lethal. The rumours of the canal pusher due to the number of people who have been found in the canal, could just as easily be explained by people falling in.  As for east Manchester, while there are plenty of rough areas, I used to cycle to a girl friend in Oldham from my work in the centre of Manchester and I had worked out a lovely quiet route and was one of the most pleasant commutes I’ve had. I was warned by her to avoid the canal though, because of the “pusher”.

I’ve never tried the Manchester hire bikes though, I don’t trust the app, don’t like the pricing structure, and your experience hasn’t helped me overcome those views. You’ve done well to find a working bike to be honest.

I don’t know how to choose, I suspect they are all pretty much of a muchness. My advice would be to get this sorted as quickly as possible, cut your financial loses and move on with looking after your children and yourself.

Follow mediation if possible, but my ex refused mediation and it had to go to court to get settled. It cost and absolute fortune and it could have gone to court twice because she refused to follow the judges ruling, so I just gave her what she wanted to avoid the second lot of court costs. This should give you an idea that fighting is not worth it. Good luck.

Btw. I’m very happy now, life does get better.

A different suggestion – to train yourself to accept the noise? You can learn to sleep through pretty much anything, but it can take some training and acceptance of the situation.

Not sleeping is pretty miserable though, so I hope you find a solution. I suspect that you will never totally muffle out the sound as even with solid block ear plugs you sense noise around you. But there might be a level you’re happy to sleep through.

I see Tuned or Tund. I can get how people are seeing turd but it involves changing one letter to something it’s not, so I just don’t see it that way.

I switched to tubeless for commuting because I absolutely hated Marathons with a pasion. They turned a lovely riding bike into something which rode like it was cheap from Tescos. I’ve been using Pirelli Cinturato for years, but I would say the quality of the last set I have has dropped so I will be investigating others once I’ve worn them out.

My commute takes more over a lot of broken glass in the city, and decent setup tubless with a robust fast tyre has done me well.

7% reduction in membership since the deal has certainly cost BC. I’m not saying that’s totally down to the deal, but there are certainly people who left because of it. It’s difficult to get those members back as well.

Open plan offices are a nightmare for anyone who has to use their brain for working, rather than those which just jabber for their jobs.  Open plan offices are also a nightmare for introverts (also the majority of IT people).

You need a trackpump, which you say  you have so then a seperate better pressure gauge. You can get fancy digital pressure gauges if you want an electric toy. I don’t think covert is on a high horse, but actually he’s standing on fairly solid ground.

Radical idea, anyone know any women we could ask?

Yes, I know one, who is my wife, and she says she totally judges men on their looks.

I don’t dry clothes at night, just wash them.

I have a few friends who are firemen and they have all warned me never to use a washing machine or dish washer at night or when I’m out. This is by far the biggest cause of fire they see. Based on their advice (which I totally trust), I would suggest you rethink washing your clothes at night.

I agree with what Poly is saying. I think you have a fixed view of what’s an issue of boys/men and what’s an issue of girls/women and you think that’s society. I think people and society is much more complex than the view you are presenting.

Would a nick out of an earlobe cause the same long-term stress for boys and girls equally?

Yes, it might well do. I gave an example in my previous answer. I’ll give another – I worked with a lad that got so upset about a red patch on his face that he was willing to spend thousands of pounds on cosmetic treatment to remove it. People are different.

Women are judged by their looks way more than men are. Am I wrong?

Yes, I believe you are wrong. Men and women are judged on looks but it maybe true that societies judgement is on differnet criteria. How that judgement affects individuals is different but I don’t believe it’s based on gender like you are suggesting, but on an individuals personality.

Our views of society are different as we’re differnet people with different experiences of society. We are both male (presumably), but may well move in different circles, so our views of “society” are different and we are both therefore correct. But from a treatment point of view, the NHS have to take in account all those differening views and cannot draw lines on gender, race, their own class/society views. And they have to take in account cost.

Yes and no. From its inception, the NHS was (and still is) free at point of use. We pay for it via various forms of taxation. I’m not aware that anything has changed here (other than attitudes).

The treatments that the NHS provide has expanded and expanded and as you say, attitudes what it should be providing have greatly increased. To the point that we want minor cosmetic issues, or physio for minor physical conditions or whatever provided by the NHS.

Because Society. It’s wrong, of course it is, it’s a symptom of a much larger problem.

I think this a really out of date outlook, or even just your own personal outlook. We live in the Instagram age and young lads are very concerned about their looks and if anything socity is not telling such lads that it’s wrong and doesn’t matter. But even then, when I was a young lad, which was a very long time ago before social media,  I knew someone who was really upset about their nose which had a bump due to being broken.  I certainly surprised you think the NHS is going to base it’s procedures on what you may or may not think society thinks. It would be discrimination and they’d only treat if it was causing them long term stress.

Medical procedures cost money. The trouble is everyone sees the NHS as free and complain about private medical care costs. The NHS is not free, but it was setup as free to use medical care because people who couldn’t afford it were not getting life saving treatment.

Sorry this doesn’t help the OP, but I think the advice to seek further advice and find the costs of a private procedure is good. I personally wouldn’t carry out medical procedures on my offspring based on advice gained from the internet.

I commute to Manchester by bike and getting mugged is a concern in the back of my mind. I avoid certain routes at night because of this. However, Manchester is the place where I seee the most people commuting and using e-bikes as everyday transport (including very expensive e-mtbs).  I certainly feel a lot safer when I’m closer to the centre and there are plenty more people around.

I have been using these for years now. I use them for commuting, as getting a puncture on a commute is a disaster and I was going over so much broken glass into Manchester that I ended up using Marathons. So a swap to a Cinturato was a huge boost in speed. They are not like race tyres and are hard and uncomfortable on long rides.  I’ve had punctures and they’ve generally always sealed easily and quickly and kept me going, and they’ve proved tough considering the glass which is mixed with the gravel surfaces I ride on.

I would say that the quality has declined over the years. The last pair I got were not as good and developed a large split and I’ve heard other people complaining about Pirelli tyres generally declining in quality and increasing in price.  I’m going to have a look what else is available when I need to swap and now I’m not commuting to the office that often.

If I was you though, I would question why are you getting punctures so often, and why is your sealant not working.

People actually bother to remove condensation from windows?

Yes, because if you don’t then the window frames rot. The previous owner of my current house hadn’t bothered and the upstairs frames had rotten and so have the windowsills. It’s part of looking after your house.

Do these people also remove raindrops from the outside surface too?

Yes, it’s called the wind.