Have you seen the trailers for "Are you fitter than a pensioner"?

Looks absolutely bonkers.

NB: I've no experience of the lights tested above, but the stuff below is borne of plenty of time messing about with heatsinks.

Just a point on stuff getting warm – I often see this on lamp reviews, and heat does affect LED output & life.

But. It's very difficult to evaluate the cooling ability of a lamp by how quickly it gets up to temperature. You could build two lamps with the same LEDs and heat output, one where the casing was really well connected with thermal paste & a close fit, and second one where the casing wasn't a great fit, and the thermal paste is a bit lacking.

The first one would get warm quicker, but would work better as the cooling system overall is more efficient. The second one would stay cool externally for longer, but the LEDs themselves would roasting merrily away, because the connection to the casing isn't efficient at transferring heat.

I'm not implying this is the situation here – a lamp could have far more cooling capacity than it ever needs, and therefore never get noticeably warm. Equally, a lamp could get warm but never exceed the temperature where the LEDs start getting upset.

The only way to actually test this kind of thing is by monitoring the temperature of the LED units, or doing tests over time to see if the brightness and colour alters over decent periods of time.

Yep, went to the GP, he obviously thought it wasn't as bad as I said, so didn't do anything for me.

Went to a chiropracter on the basis of a recommendation, and the stuff he did didn't help at all.

Finally went and saw another GP, got physio and was sorted very quickly. I didn't think it was posture related either, but it was. At the time I was doing a fair bit of sport and manual work in my spare time, so it certainly wasn't to do with being deskbound.

Basically, physios and chiropractors look to be doing outwardly similar things, but physiotherapy is based on science, and chiropracty is based on god knows what.

Seriously, DO NOT GO TO SEE A CHIROPRACTOR. They're a bunch of quacks. It's up there with crystals and homeopathy in my book.

Get a physio – if it is a trapped nerve, they'll be able to sort it.

I had a nerve in my back which was getting pinched, causing phantom hip pain. It got to the point where I was struggling to walk about, and very worried as I was halfway through a degree for an occupation that required a lot of walking about 🙄

About 6 weeks of chiro did nothing beyond placebo effect and lightening my wallet. Went to see the GP for a second time, asked for a different doctor (had previously been palmed off) and he immediately referred me to physio. He identified the problem straight away, and within a couple of weeks things were drastically better. And it didn't cost anything, as it was all on the NHS.

As Dara O'Briain said, do you know what they call alternative medicine when they can prove that it works? Medicine!

You're better off doing it in the car, using weight transfer or left foot braking against the throttle (in a FWD car at least). At least that way the trails don't get ripped up 😆

Dominant Design, Abernathy & Utterback.

Aaaand relax 😆

Nope, it's in the same section of the literature as all the format wars stuff, architectural innovation etc.

Jesus.

I'm reminded of this:

How do you know if somebody has an iPhone?

They tell you.

I'd just get the army ones. They're good when you're frozen and it's lashing down.

I'd happily ride about on a Flying Pigeon to stop this torrent of shite 😆

18650, CR123 batteries….I'd rather use AA or perhaps C or D cells, so that I can always chuck in spare set if/when the rechargeables fail.

Some torches will take 18650s and AAs – dimensionally, they're quite similar. Rechargeable lithiums are the way to go though – any decent LED torch will burn through standard AA batteries like crazy and cost you a fortune to run. The issue is that alkaline batteries can't supply the current needed.

Yes. It's been going on for decades, and with plenty of other sports too – skating, BMX etc. I remember writing an essay about it in first year undergrad 😆

Most recently, I'd say it's happened with fixies.

For the basics of how torches work, Dans Data has some good info in the reviews. Really you want a regulated lamp and lithium batteries so that you get constant light output.

The best torches have a sort of limp home mode when the batteries are nearly dead – otherwise you very quickly go from nice and bright to no light at all.

He wrote a book?

Kin hell. He bought a load of stuff, he didn't make it! Consumer culture at its worst.

I'm going to write a book about all the stuff I buy from Aldi tonight, and how I'm curating it in my fridge / box of sports kit.

TJ, Elfin, Junkyard, please get together and sort out a Communist revolution. Much as I like my freedom, I don't think I can stand any more of this horseshit. 🙄

Avoid any torch that runs off AAAs is my advice. The AAA has about a third of the capacity of an AA, for not that much of a space saving.

I think an 18650 is roughly AA sized – the name is based on the dimensions – 18mm x 65mm. So you'd expect it to pack a bit more in than a 123, which I think is about half the size of an AA. Been a while since I used a CR123 though.

I go with helmet, gloves and glasses. If I had much more than that, I doubt I'd ever get out of the house.

Not keen on the Chinese made imports everyone is buying.

I reckon most things will be chinese made imports

The issue for me with DealExtreme is that you need a BSc in Torchology to have any idea if you're buying a decent torch or not.

Keeping reasonably cool? Riding alongside someone to have an argument after they've tried to knock you off several times?

I'd rather be alive and not make my point if it's all the same 😆

I'm having a go at winding Junkyard up. I'm all for getting people out of subsistence farming myself 😀

Clulites are very powerful, but by christ you've soon had enough of carrying them.

I'd go for some sort of LED special that runs off rechargeable lithiums. Candlepowerforums is the place to ask about these things.

The thing is, if you get a lamp with a massive throw for finding dogs off in the dark, it won't actually be that much cop for walking about with. If you get one with a broad beam, it'll be good for walking about, but no cop for finding dogs off in the distance. I don't know how many decent focusable LED torches are around – the optics are different to old incandescent bulbs.

Might sound daft, but have you thought of attaching lights to the dogs – maybe the sort joggers etc. use? A really poxy little lamp is visible from miles away, whereas my experience of looking for our dogs with a torch suggests it's a bit needle in a haystack 😆

All I know is that magnesium car wheels are binned far more regularly than aluminium ones. Are they that much lighter for the extra fragility?

Just remember how the poor old workers must have been exploited to make them for £7 a set eh?

Or be thankful that you don't have to apply for a set of arm warmers 3 months in advance.

Whichever floats your boat

P reg 900 is one of the glorified Vauxhalls.

TBH I always wanted an old 900, until I went in a colleague's one. Good seats, shame about the wheel well taking up the room you want for your feet 🙄

South end of Fuerteventura is good. North end is grim. The travel review websites will tell you otherwise – the North is full of English, the South is full of Germans. There are more naked Germans in the South, but everything else is markedly better.

Then I remember there's the rest of the Internet.

This morning I twigged that Google Chrome is the most spectacular unproductivity tool there is. Every time you open a new tag, it gives you 8 thumbnails of your most visited websites. Sods law dictates that this ends up being forums, facebook, newspapers, ebay, CRC, so every time you set off to do something, it's effectively asking "Would you like to waste some time?"

I have an Android phone, have used an iPhone, and the best phone is…

Drumroll…

A Sony K800i, or a Nokia 3210 for the true luddite.

They're rigid forks. There's nothing wrong with the on-one ones, they're just heavily reduced.

Learn how to spot panels that have been resprayed. 😆

Useful for some bike questions. There are a lot of people who seem to know every model variation of every fork for the last ten years or so 😯

On the other hand, there are a few too many people on here who seem to be suffering from an over estimation of their abilities alongside a lot of time to spend here 😆

A mate has one, it goes into standby. Looks like it's shutdown until you walk out and mouse moves a smidge and the whole thing starts up again…

ive met him in a fetish club

You've now planted the image of Ricky Gervais wearing rubber and leather into my mind. Not pleasant.

Windows 7 doesn't even shut down when you click on the power icon. Good luck explaining that one 🙄

You are now quoting things I've said and placing them in an entirely different context. Either you're deliberately being a tosser, or you're deserving of pity.

Ernie Lynch said one thing, which was not logical. I explain how it isn't logical in sentences one and two of my above post.

As for your post – agreeing that unions should bugger off out of politics does not equate to having the same views on the "role of unions".

I quite liked the Office, more cringey than laughy, and some of Gervaise's stuff on the 11 O'clock stuff was good. Not at all fussed about his stand up.

I really don't think going to do a gig in Afghanistan is going to be that risky – how many planes fly in and out of the place? Shedloads. Lads get blown up on patrol and journos occasionally get kidnapped, but I reckon you'd be about as safe as it's possible to be as a celeb doing a gig out there – they've got to think it's pretty safe to risk a few thousand troops all in one building at once.

As for who's good; Rich Hall, Dara O'Briain, Reginald D Hunter, Kevin Bridges.

Agreeing with someone on one point does not put you "in step" with them, as per Mr Lynch's post.

I hope that everyone posting on this thread believes that night follows day and the sky is blue, but the amount of arguing on here proves that we aren't "in step". 🙄

As for your little sequence, the trots & maoists probably think a few other things about the role of the union in the workplace – most likely that it involves seizing the means of production. Of course, it may be fair to say that we both believe that unions should bugger off out of politics (I don't any Maoist or Trot trade union members to canvas their opinions. Although, if I did, I doubt I'd need to ask.), but agreeing on one point cannot be extrapolated out to a general agreement via the widening of definitions.

You obviously suffer from the Dunning Kruger effect.

Which suggests you are competent, so get blowing that trumpet 😆

I think it may be wise to avoid any reference to age, marriage, religion etc. The Americans have strict rules about discrimination.

How the hell can you save to buy if you are renting, unless you live in a hell pit????

Rent a 2 bed flat at approx £500-£600 a month round here, and don't spend much on beer. 😆

The landlord often isn't paying off a great deal of capital.

When property becomes a commodity to trade in rather than just a place to live it pushes up prices

Whilst speculation can cause bubbles, it's not the driving factor behind long term house price inflation. Orange juice is traded as commodity, but it's not heading for the moon is it? Restricted supply makes it appear to be a one way bet – hence the bubbles. Demand outstrips supply for housing in the UK, and it's very well documented.

Personally, I'd just ebay them if I wasn't happy riding them. I can't see how I'd be able to trust the bike.

Yes and yes.

I recommend buying "Perfect CV" by Eggert. It's a nice short sharp guide to writing that bilge. 😆