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by drossall
27 Mar 2024, 5:15pm
Forum: Fun & Games
Topic: English Language - what "Does your head in" ??
Replies: 2256
Views: 126190

Re: English Language - what "Does your head in" ??

Quite. Same as what I said, really.
by drossall
26 Mar 2024, 10:52pm
Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
Topic: Custom Storage
Replies: 15
Views: 624

Re: Custom Storage

We don't have a garage, so I've never really faced this :D

But, if we did, I think I'd prefer the garage to any outside store, on security grounds. I vaguely remember seeing some arrangements where people store bikes horizontally on a lift-type arrangement, above the car bonnet. The nearest I could find was this, but the ad is American by the looks of it, so it's a massive garage space with room above the car roof. In typical UK garages, I'm sure that you'd have to position it carefully in the way I suggested. But you get the idea? Maybe something more home spun, though frankly the store and storage are going to cost you that much anyway.
by drossall
26 Mar 2024, 5:29pm
Forum: Fun & Games
Topic: English Language - what "Does your head in" ??
Replies: 2256
Views: 126190

Re: English Language - what "Does your head in" ??

Shows what a mess you get into when you forget the origins of words. Agendums is a nonsense. The agenda is the list of things to be done, as noted, so it's inherently plural. Unless the meeting only has one item to address, in which case it's an agendum.
by drossall
24 Mar 2024, 3:47pm
Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
Topic: Clevedon Seafront - Cycle track removal - Active Travel England
Replies: 15
Views: 659

Re: Clevedon Seafront - Cycle track removal - Active Travel England

I don't know the area, and I can't comment from knowledge. But I should have thought that the single most relevant comment is about one-way streets increasing speeds and therefore risk to cyclists. I'd move that to the start, and generally focus the letter on the specific proposed works. In writing this kind of thing, I'd always ask myself, "If someone stops reading part way through, will I have got across my most important points?", and, "Although this is a good point, it's one more thing for people to read; is it so important to make this in this particular letter that I'm not prepared to remove it, in order to ensure that readers grasp my other points?"
by drossall
20 Mar 2024, 11:28pm
Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
Topic: Filthy bridleway
Replies: 61
Views: 2739

Re: Filthy bridleway

I didn't know his name, though I grew up singing the Manchester Rambler. I notice that Wikipedia says that a side-effect of the trespass was the production of the first version of the Countryside Code (which covers respect for property).

I'd always perceived the mass trespass as a controlled and managed event. Some involved of course may have favoured a free-for-all. I'm far too young to have been there, so who knows.
by drossall
20 Mar 2024, 11:10pm
Forum: Does anyone know … ?
Topic: Oldest bike
Replies: 39
Views: 2470

Re: Oldest bike

I've still got the Aende that I built up as a student in 1979. It's had some new parts since then, but others are original. It's also been resprayed twice. The frame was second-hand, so is older, but I don't know by how much. It gets the odd outing in club 10s.

I've also got a Holdsworth Mistral from 1982/3. That's pretty much original except for the obvious (tyres, toe clips, probably chain and freewheel).

My Rogers trike must be a 70s frame at newest. The wheels were 27" when I got it, but i've rebuilt them as 700C. The transmission was friction gears and 10-speed in old money (i.e. 2*5 not 2*10). However, it's now had a Trykit rebuild, so indexed 2*9.
by drossall
20 Mar 2024, 10:54pm
Forum: Fun & Games
Topic: life online
Replies: 22
Views: 6019

Re: life online

The Cambridge coffee pot stands out to me as a site that helped to promulgate the concept that a Web page could be dynamic, rather than just a load of text and images.

If you can call a coffee pot dynamic.
by drossall
20 Mar 2024, 10:50pm
Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
Topic: Filthy bridleway
Replies: 61
Views: 2739

Re: Filthy bridleway

What matters, I think, is what you do as a result of points such as these. I'm not sure I'm entirely disagreeing with you, and jgurney is correct that we're both right. But I would not want to encourage people to cycle on public footpaths on the basis of the absence of No Cycling signs. Whilst you're right also that rights of way are established by use, I'm not sure it would be good to try to establish a new bridleway on a current footpath by using it a lot by bike.

That point about establishment by use is why of course you get signs (mostly in town) to say that the landowner has not dedicated this path as a public right of way (i.e. you can walk along it, just don't try to use that to claim doing so as a right), and bizarre practices such as barricading country paths on Christmas Day (or other times when no-one wants to use them anyway), so that it can be demonstrated that the path has not been in continuous use for a whole year.

There has to be some respect for property rights as well as respect for the public's rights of way. The whole system generally collapses if anyone tries to claim one set of rights to the exclusion of others.
by drossall
19 Mar 2024, 7:41am
Forum: For Sale - bits of bikes, etc.
Topic: HG500 10-speed cassette slightly used - now taken
Replies: 2
Views: 230

Re: HG500 10-speed cassette slightly used

Sorry, you were fractionally beaten to it.
by drossall
18 Mar 2024, 5:02pm
Forum: For Sale - bits of bikes, etc.
Topic: HG500 10-speed cassette slightly used - now taken
Replies: 2
Views: 230

HG500 10-speed cassette slightly used - now taken

Can anyone use this? 12-28T.

I got it on a wheel, but I don't have any 10-speed stuff so it's no use to me. I believe it may have been used only for a handful of rides on a trainer. Whilst it looks OK, I can't guarantee the use, so sold as seen really.

A tenner to Oxfam maybe? Just really need to get rid of it. Postage at cost or pick up if you're in the North Herts or central London/Old Street areas.
by drossall
18 Mar 2024, 10:15am
Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
Topic: Re-using an old 8-speed Campagnolo wheel
Replies: 17
Views: 688

Re: Re-using an old 8-speed Campagnolo wheel

TheBomber wrote: 17 Mar 2024, 7:42pmI think that because it isn’t widely known that you can get Campag hubs that take Shimano cassettes, and because Campag are understandably reluctant to make a big thing of it in marketing, that they came up with Fulcrum wheels.
I either didn't know or had forgotten that Fulcrum was a Campagnolo brand, to be honest.

There is something I recall about 8-speed (Campagnolo) splines being softer than 9, that might make 8-speed hubs not such a long-term option. I've stopped using my 8-speed stuff in favour of slightly-less-ancient 9.
by drossall
17 Mar 2024, 3:13pm
Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
Topic: Re-using an old 8-speed Campagnolo wheel
Replies: 17
Views: 688

Re: Re-using an old 8-speed Campagnolo wheel

NickJP wrote: 17 Mar 2024, 3:41amThis is definitely wrong as regards Campagnolo.
Serves me right for being too definite :oops: But I think it's fair to say that most interchanging goes on with third-party hubs, and relatively few Campagnolo, and possibly no Shimano at all, hubs can be made to take the other brand's cassettes?
by drossall
16 Mar 2024, 8:15pm
Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
Topic: Re-using an old 8-speed Campagnolo wheel
Replies: 17
Views: 688

Re: Re-using an old 8-speed Campagnolo wheel

It's not the hub proper, it's the body (the splined bit onto which the cassette slides). Campagnolo and Shimano have never made available bodies for each other's cassettes. You'd need an independent hub to make the kind of swap you are proposing, in either direction. For example, though it's of no use with your hub, a number of independent hubs take Novatec bodies.
by drossall
14 Mar 2024, 9:30pm
Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
Topic: Headset on Claud Butler Dalesman
Replies: 41
Views: 1282

Re: Headset on Claud Butler Dalesman

Rob D wrote: 14 Mar 2024, 4:39pm Not sure ehy the photo turned round 90⁰...
Because phones tend to have orientation sensors in them, and embed the orientation in the picture. Some programs that display pictures take notice of the orientation information, and some don't. Jdsk will have used a photo editor of some kind to rotate the picture. That way it comes out the right way regardless.
by drossall
14 Mar 2024, 5:27pm
Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
Topic: "Plus" vs breaker for fairy protection
Replies: 16
Views: 960

Re: "Plus" vs breaker for fairy protection

On a tarmac surface, I think I'd have spotted anything like that when I was looking for the puncture. But it's true that I never did figure out exactly what happened.