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Which makes my comment harsher than it should be and I apologise for not fact checking first. My underlying feeling remains that CUK is fast becoming a cookie cutter entity in the Charity sector administered by those who see their stay in CUK as largely just an episode in a Charity industry career. ...

.....As an aside I notice that senior management costs seem to have increased by a very significant amount 2018 to 2019...... Yes, "We're abolishing the Senior rate in the interests of fairness and increasing the rewards for Senior Management 'cos we'll have moved on before there's any comebac...

..... I entirely agree that in particular geometry especially angles and wheel base important factors.... The stiffness of the tubes will have a bigger effect. The weight of the rider and the size of the frame are part of this too. Tyre characteristics don't just depend on the nominal width either....

alexnharvey wrote:.....The variance within each group is bigger than the differences between the
groups.

Yes, this, and other threads, is rife with people creating generalisations from their own personal circumstances. The variances due to design and manufacture will outweigh those due to material.

Rejection of disk brakes reminds me of rejection of the horseless carriage! :lol: Al I haven't seen a post rejecting disk brakes. I've seen posts pointing out the negative features of disk and other brakes (in the real world everything has positive and negative features. Which leads me on to why is...

pedals2slowly wrote:.....The key is - give value judgements with numbers and added up the scores - disc brakes win hands down.......

.......but only if we use your values. Others may vary.

mikeymo wrote:......Steel and carbon fibre are two different choices, that's all.

Ah, so you did understand my post after all!

@Sweep..........I found a photo of CJ's CF tourer on a 2020 tour of Lanzarote and Fuerteventura,........ I'm sorry, I can't resist posting this any longer. The other day I was browsing an old CTC magazine (Feb/Mar 2006)in which CJ was reviewing a Koga Miyata carbon touring bike. It was, as always, ...

The irony with these events is that they're designed to celebrate a nostalgia for a time gone by that many share but because of their nature they end up as a celebration of pedantry that tries to invent an imagined past. My old racing bike sits in the garage exactly as it was built in 1986 but isn't...

simonhill wrote:A flip flop on the front wheel is favoured in some less well off countries.

I think in engineering terms this a variation of the spoon brake. Avoidance of any toe in with this type of brake is essential.

Caliper, cantilever, disc, drum and roller brakes can all provide all the power and modulation you need, or not, depending on the quality of the kit and the way it's installed and maintained. If you've got other criteria like weight, complexity, tyre clearance, rim wear, mud clogging, thermal effici...

Noisy rear hubs are a mechanism to identify morally deficient people - lazy cyclists who aren't pedalling and those with low tolerance thresholds.

I'll suggest that the underlying case for a senior discount here is expectation......... The reference to Thomas Hardy and Common Law after this was lost on me. I think the expectation is intuitively based on (at least) two things. In sporting or activity based organisations there's a progression f...

I've asked for the arguments in favour of lower fees for older people but TTBOMK haven't seen any. Jonathan Point of order: this was in the OP from Tony - "Not withstanding the popular impression that old age retirement is a blissful time, in reality it is usually a depressing decline into wre...

My 2d. I've always thought that KOPS is nonsense. It works as a starting point because it just happens to correspond to where you find yourself more or less when seated on a conventional bike. I would suggest starting with the saddle set at midway in it's fore and aft adjustment and make adjustment...