I try to not use the wipers and rely on Rain X. It is surprisingly good for rain, not so good for nasty salty gritty road spray.

I am no expert, just nosey. I think some Primeras has the same engine, so maybe a Primera part would fit. 1.8 Petrol, or 1.5?

Is the only other connection the crankcase breather?

Generic Switch controllers are pretty cheap on Amazon. We bought 4 for playing Mariocart as a family on the TV.

Good on everyone who attended. We will be travelling down from Scotland in the next couple of weeks for a week in N Wales, and CyB is always on the visit list.

I am a Principal Teacher of Pastoral Care with a caseload of about 275 pupils. For each of these pupils I am expected to know their literacy and numeracy levels, whether they get free school meals, the deprivation index of the postcode they live in, any ASN needs they might have and the correct strategies to address them, any behavioural traits and the correct strategies to address them, whether they are a Young Carer, or if they are somewhere in the care system, or have been at any point in the past, as well as if they are on the Child Protection Register. Some pupils need time out, some need coloured overlays, some text-to-speech, and others speech-to-text. Some can’t bear to see images of certain things as they are triggered. Allergies? Medical info? Know it. Some need to sit at the front, some at the back, some near the window, some near the door.

I absolutely promise you that the staff involved here are not doing it out of malice, or even incompetence. The reality is keeping all of this information in the front of your mind whilst delivering a curriculum, managing behaviour and remembering to breathe is very challenging. Sometimes things slip through. In these instances it was you daughter, and that is not nice for anyone involved.

As @Stevious “when I was a teacher there were numerous times I made mistakes with the support needs of kids I taught and I’m mortified by them all. ” – this x 100.

No one is in the job to deliberately do this, as it would be far easier to earn a living somewhere else, and anyone who was truly malicious like that would never get anywhere near the profession in the 21st century.

Speak to the school. I fully expect that you will be received with sympathy and apology.

Post Feb 2023 engines have the thicker chain. All now use a very specific new oil specification.

I used to swap wheels for summer/winter, but now I just put all seasons on all year. They are not as good in the snow as pure winters, but I haven’t got stuck yet. When I know it could be challenging I have chains with me too, but have never needed to put them on in anger either.

I haven’t yet found a cheap source for the 5mm thick pads.

Last new year we queued from Chambery to La Plagne. It took 4 hours. Arrived at 11pm, after we’d stopped for an hour in Albertville to eat.

We still always drive from Scotland. Mainly on cost, but also environmental grounds.

This could be a post Covid change. I was just about to take 40 kids to Italy when lockdown happened. The trip didn’t. It was a total nightmare trying to get the money back and refund the parents.

We (the Mrs) have a Peugeot e2008, bought outright, 2nd hand, this May. we have just moved to Intelligent Octopus Go – 28 August. I have been trying to shift any load that I can – Washing Machine, Dishwasher, Tumble Dryer – to off-peak rate of 7p kwh.

IOG gives access to the cheap rate from 23.30 to 05.30 every day, as well as whenever the car is charging as long as you cede direct control to Octopus via Ohme.

Today my wife had a lift to work, so I drove her EV to work. She is out tonight and needs to do about a 100 mile round-trip, so when I returned home from work I stuck her car on to charge, telling the charger I needed another 25% of battery charged by 5.30pm. The charger does it’s calcs and starts charging.

My understanding is that all the electricity consumption of the house is at 7p kwh while this is happening. I managed to wash a machine load of biking gear on the right setting, plus run the softshells through in TXDirect after they had been washed.

We are getting pretty good at off-peak usage. It is easy with the Washing Machine and Dryer, but I need to make a wee button-bot activated lever to switch on the dishwasher at 11.30pm.

I drive past Balado daily. There were here earlier in the year and are back now. I saw them hovering yesterday as I drove past. Earlier in the year there were multiple Apaches, and we have had Chinooks buzzing the house at low altitude in the middle of the night. Noisy, vibrating neighbours…

You need Nipple Therapy… http://www.fraserbrowneng.co.uk/index.php?c=nipple-therapy-kit

What is it made of? PVC? Use PVC glue and a PVC patch

Beware a seized bleed nipple!

@nickc

I don’t how other ICB’s organise it, but where I am, only school can refer, GP referrals are rejected

Direct from local Health Board Website

“The first steps to getting support from CAMHS is normally through seeing your Doctor or General Practitioner (GP) or asking the Named Person in School to make a “Referral”.”

Nb. The Named Person legislation was never actually passed.

@Kramer

@TroutWrestler

While we can write a referral, we can go into no greater detail than the GP,

I’m interested why you think that GPs will have more information than the school?

? Because the parent and child have gone first hand to the GP to talk about an issue that the school knows nothing about. The GP may have physically examined the child.

I have actually had exactly the same today. A parent contacted me to say she had seen the Primary Care Mental Health Nurse twice. At the first consultation the MH Nurse apparently said she was 99% sure the child was ASD, and gave the parent a screener to complete. At the second consult the MH Nurse reviewed the screener and said, 100% ASD. Then, go and get the school to refer to CAMHS.

The Mental Health Nurse who has seen the family twice, gathered information and seemingly made a diagnosis (!) wants me to make the referral to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, despite her having the training, the contact and the evidence.

I have no info, just secondhand info from the parent. Do I just write “MH Nurse says 100% ASD” on the referral?

If you are buying, look for a post Feb 2023 diesel with an 8mm cam chain. Make sure you use the correct oil. It is highly likely that what is in the handbook is wrong. There have been a number of changes.

This flows other ways too.

I work for n Pastoral Care in a Secondary school. We get contacted by parents who have taken a child who has been self harming to see the GP. The outcome of the appointment has been that the GP has said “Speak to the school. They can make a referral to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services.”

While we can write a referral, we can go into no greater detail than the GP, and after will have less information. The GP will often have seen the result of the SH, while we often won’t.

It is appropriate for us to write referrals for condtions and behaviours that we see in school, and can gather useful contextual evidence for, such as ASD and ADHD.

However, we are not medically trained, and are outside of the NHS. Pushing the self-harm referrals to us feels like buck-passing, and just makes the referral chain longer and less efficient.

I totally accept that we are best placed for behaviour and developmental referrals, as we know the children involved far better, but once the GP is aware of the SH, they are best placed to do it.

Teaching unions may well be registering an official dispute with COSLA and the SG by lunchtime on Monday. COSLA and SG have been essentially ignoring the issue of a pay settlement this year since January, despite an agreement at the end of the 2022 industrial action that a settlement would be negotiated and in place before 1 August 2024. One excuse is that they were too busy negotiating with other sectors.

Sounds like amateurs unable to plan ahead. I don’t hold the teaching unions in very high regard either.

I bought a second hand Carrera Crossfuse. It has a Bosch Active Line Plus motor and a 400wh battery.  I use it for commuting.

I can’t remember, but I think it was £750. It was in excellent condition.

I am not actively looking, but I think there are s/h bargains out there. The Bosch ALP motor is reliable, and fully rebuildable.

When doing a hose swap, I remove the disc, then pump the brakes so the pads are touching. I then disconnect and swap the hoses.

Any air will only be around the joint where the hose screws in. Pushing the pads back will push any air into the lever reservoir where it should cease to be a problem.

The latest I have read is that the mast did not snap off. It looks like the yacht was blown over, and water entered through open windows and doors, which had been left open as the weather was hot.

The hull was swamped by the water entering and sank. The yacht is lying on its side in 50m of water, otherwise intact.

It would be very hard to control the weather, but easier to compromise the stability of the yacht by interfering with ballast, then hoping for a gust, but actually getting an extreme weather event.

Usually the simplest cause is the correct one.

I am on my second ebike, and 6th motor. The first was still on the original drivetrain (4 motors) when I sold it. I used 3 chains, hotwaxed, and rotated every 100km or so.  I did break the axle on the original rear hub, and burst the hub shell at the ratchet ring on another rear wheel. I think it was about 4500km when I sold it, but had to keep track with all the motors!

I use the same regime on my 2nd bike (another Levo).

In both cases I used a full steel 11sp or 12sp Sram cassette, and matching Sram chains. If treated well, with a suitable riding style, and sympathetic gearshifts, an ebike drivetrain should have a reasonable longevity.

I hear crazy stories of needing a new cassette after 300km. WTF? New rider, crap maintenance, poor cadence, non-sympathetic shifting, mashing in Turbo everywhere. Probably endless crank strikes too.

Alfine? Sprocket to suit, and no dangly bits…

The year of the Icelandic ash cloud disruption, we did a ski-safari in Canada. We flew to Calgary and did 2 days at each of Fernie, Panorama, Kicking Horse, Revelstoke, Sunshine, Lake Louise, with a single day in Jasper. Almost all of the resorts did a ski’n’stay package, with a 2-day pass and 2 nights accomodation, often B&B or even DB&B. It was great value, but long days, especially when travelling to the next resort after a day on the snow. Not child friendly. IIRC we had to fly home with the skis sticking out of a bike box as we may have picked up a cheap ex-rental DH bike on our travels…

Yes. Booking the Les Arcs extension was only £15 per person, and then we are spoilt for choice.

This thread has just cost me! Just booked a week in La Plagne/Les Arcs for early April. Self-drive, self catering, full Paradiski pass, bargain!

Velcro sheets.

Don’t worry. Get the school to ensure it is emphasised in the UCAS Reference. There is a section specifically for this kind of thing.

It is possible that she could get in contact with the Admissions offices for her chosen courses to see if they would accept her/ what extra she would need to get this year.

I would start at Kincraig. The shuttle will take a while. If the midges are out your lad might be devoured by your return.

Be careful. Using data that someone else has collected will be considered a secondary source. They will likely want to see evidence that he has collected his data himself as a primary source. Why did he collect that data? How did he collect it? How did he process it/ assess it’s statistical significance?

I am 49 and got burned by this doing my GCSE Geography on hedgerow removal. The exam board wouldn’t award an A as all the data was secondary – I’d used old maps showing field boundaries.

The local museum took the project and displayed it as an exhibit. I still only got a B.

I have a Ziploc bag full of assorted bearings. Pre-chilled and ready to install. My wife calls them “those things”.

I have 2.8 Vigilante on the front and a 2.6 Trail Boss on the back. 27.5 though. When I had 2.6 Vigilantes I ran them on the rear. They were noticably more grippy then the Trail Bosses.

I tend to bulk buy when I see them cheap.

I am Magic Mary curious…

Is it not very Levo SLish ?

@DickBarton In this context MGU is Motor Gearbox Unit, like the new Pinion ebike motor.

Yes. I appreciate that. I’d checked, and has accepted £0. Then the “WINNER!” email led to the smallest prize available. Not ungrateful, just feeling a bit manipulated.

I checked the app just after midnight today, so there is obviously some lag with the app accounts being updated.

After saying my lean spell continues, and I HAD checked the app at that point, I received an email this morning telling me I was “A WINNER!”

Upon RE-checking the app, it now shows £25. It almost feels like an insult…

Share your voodoo Jonny! Quantify the angle, frequrncy and pressure…

I have bought the Tektros.

It feels like I have been bleeding my Shimano 4-pots since the last post on this thread…

I have massivlely annoying variable bite point on the rear brake. The front is perfect.

The first pull is always nearly to the bar, and then a couple of pumps and it firms right up.

Today I have tried a different lever, done multiple bleeds using all sorts of different methods. I have ebven tried a bastardized SRAM vacuum/pressure method. Each time I can get the lever to be rock solid with the bleed block in place, but the VBP returns when the pads are inserted.

Pump-pump-pump and the lever is solid. Pump-1-2-3-pump and it pulls almost to the bar. Literally 3 seconds between pumps and it pulls right back.

There are no leaks, and there are no bubbles to be seen at either end, no matter which way the fluid is put through the system.

I am about to buy some cheap Tektros from Merlin.

To add insult to psychological injury, when I reinstalled the the test lever from another bike back to the original bike (2-pot), Boom! – it bled perfectly and firmly immediately.

WTAF is going on with Shimano 4-pot calipers?

My lean spell persists…