http://www.klwnbug.co.uk/2024/03/28/mar ... -bulletin/ contains the latest list of rides starting mostly from King's Lynn, but there is advance notice of the rides from Cambridge and Ely to Reach on May Bank Holiday Monday.
I'm particularly looking forwards to riding to Fakenham to watch the bike races on Easter Sunday.
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- 29 Mar 2024, 4:43pm
- Forum: People, Events & Rides
- Topic: Riding from King's Lynn, including to watch Fakenham Easter Sunday Races
- Replies: 0
- Views: 65
- 27 Mar 2024, 9:42am
- Forum: Using the Forum - request help : report difficulties
- Topic: Whether to split the thread 'Cycling using trains (in UK and EU)'
- Replies: 10
- Views: 437
Re: Cycling using trains (in UK and EU)
That depends where you are travelling in the UK. The Siemens Desiro is used around the Midlands, on the Transpennine Express and some routes out of St Pancras and Waterloo, but is also widespread in Belgium, Austria and of course Germany ( all with fairly good bike access). Eurostar's Siemens Velaro is also Germany's ICE3 and some of Spain's high speed trains (all with pretty poor bike access).
The rules may differ, but they differ between UK operators. The on train accommodation is rarely unique to the UK. I'd say keep train discussion across Europe as one.
- 26 Mar 2024, 10:38pm
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: how slow do they get?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1142
Re: how slow do they get?
??? Mine are about the size of a Presta cap. This might be like when some complain that there's not enough valve for a pump to grip, that they've some annoying short valve. Not all Woods are like that. It's not an inherent fault of the type any more that ejecting the core is inherent to all Presta, just because Continentals easily do.plancashire wrote: ↑26 Mar 2024, 10:27pmI don't know. They don't know. My guess is when unscrewing the dust cover. These things are tiny. You grab it and your fingertips extend down to the ring.mjr wrote: ↑26 Mar 2024, 10:14pmHow do people accidentally unscrew that? There's no need to touch it in normal use.plancashire wrote: ↑26 Mar 2024, 9:55pm Woods/Dunlop/Blitz are the devil's work. ... People keep unscrewing the retaining ring accidentally so it leaks slowly.
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Only if the pump can't open it by pressure alone, but that discussion's been done to death before.[...] but then the pump needs a lever-operated pin to open the valve. Sigh!
- 26 Mar 2024, 10:14pm
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: how slow do they get?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1142
Re: how slow do they get?
How do people accidentally unscrew that? There's no need to touch it in normal use.plancashire wrote: ↑26 Mar 2024, 9:55pm Woods/Dunlop/Blitz are the devil's work. Fitting them takes longer as you have to remove the valve to push the stem through the rim, screw back in, then partly inflate. People keep unscrewing the retaining ring accidentally so it leaks slowly.
It's slightly fiddlier to fit but I've good tyres and generally repair what few punctures remain without removing the whole tube, so that doesn't negate the benefits of a real valve that holds air for weeks between small top ups, for me. YMMV, especially if you're the sort who rips the wheel and tube out for the tiniest pin prick.
- 26 Mar 2024, 6:27pm
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: how slow do they get?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1142
Re: how slow do they get?
You're doing it wrong somehow. Woods are the only true cycle tyre valve in widespread use. All others let air out along the same path it entered, which isn't really a valve: "an automatic device allowing movement in one direction only".Galactic wrote: ↑19 Mar 2024, 2:49pm I appreciate the OP didn't say which valve his inner tube has, but I am triggered by the very thought of a Woods/Dunlop/Blitz valve. They seem to regularly develop slow leaks that are practically impossible to source or prevent. Now any inner tubes with that kind of valve get no second chances from me. Whip 'em out and replace with a tube sporting a 'proper' French/Presta/Sclaverand valve.
Avoid the rubber pipe ones IMO. I was surprised some are still sold, branded Giant.
- 26 Mar 2024, 11:11am
- Forum: The Tea Shop
- Topic: Heat in the home
- Replies: 2297
- Views: 134477
Re: Heat in the home
Why is this the power providers' fault? Isn't the fault with the smart meter licensed monopoly, the DCC, who seem to have grossly overestimated mobile signal strength in ground floor meter cupboards? Some providers seem to be developing their own smart meter measurement relays (the octopus mini and octopus home pro, for example) that use the customer's wifi to send readings back, bypassing the unreliable DCC, but they're not yet allowed to use those readings for billing, as I understand it.simonineaston wrote: ↑26 Mar 2024, 7:35am Re dynamic billing, for which a so-called smart meter is a requisite, today we learn that there are 4 million defective smart meters across the UK… the reason this is significant is because the power providers that should be called to account by a properly functioning regulatory system will claim that they've "done their bit”
- 25 Mar 2024, 8:35am
- Forum: The Tea Shop
- Topic: Air Pollution - Will They Act Now?
- Replies: 151
- Views: 8967
- 25 Mar 2024, 8:21am
- Forum: On the road
- Topic: Huntingdon: Angry pedestrian guilty of killing cyclist
- Replies: 244
- Views: 15368
- 24 Mar 2024, 6:12pm
- Forum: On the road
- Topic: Huntingdon: Angry pedestrian guilty of killing cyclist
- Replies: 244
- Views: 15368
Re: Huntingdon: Angry pedestrian guilty of killing cyclist
It was shared use and signed as such in the typical half hearted way usually done by Cambridgeshire outside of their two largest cities. Near Cambridge, there's usually dashed white lines by the kerbs, but I don't recall seeing that in Fenland or Huntingdon. Only the blue signs and not even full sets of those. It's not unusual to cross side roads and not have a confirmation blue sign, then arrive at a Toucan, which implies the path was still a cycleway.cycle tramp wrote: ↑24 Mar 2024, 1:45pm The one thing which appears to have been forgotten is whether this was a shared use path - if it was shared use then there was no reason for the defendant to swear or gesticulate... indeed doing so may have been a criminal offence in itself.
- 24 Mar 2024, 6:04pm
- Forum: On the road
- Topic: Huntingdon: Angry pedestrian guilty of killing cyclist
- Replies: 244
- Views: 15368
Re: Huntingdon: Angry pedestrian guilty of killing cyclist
Yes, even if it is from a firm of Mr Loopholes trying to advertise their services to bike-hating motorists.Jdsk wrote: ↑24 Mar 2024, 9:48amI don't know anything about their motivation. But *justice depends on everyone having access to legal representation.Bonefishblues wrote: ↑24 Mar 2024, 9:43amYou believe so, we do not. It's for others to look at this and determine their own pov.cycle tramp wrote: ↑24 Mar 2024, 9:40am We know I'm not skewing anything. This group of solicitors isn't about justice or fairness or the truth, but rather the publicity and the advertising if they win....
- 23 Mar 2024, 6:52pm
- Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
- Topic: Clevedon Seafront - Cycle track removal - Active Travel England
- Replies: 18
- Views: 871
- 21 Mar 2024, 9:50am
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: Yaw Know About Solar Chargers?
- Replies: 77
- Views: 4155
- 17 Mar 2024, 3:13pm
- Forum: Touring & Expedition
- Topic: Holland - Short Tour
- Replies: 38
- Views: 1266
Re: Holland - Short Tour
In France, keep an eye out for Pizza-minute, Distribpain and similar vending machines, the likes of which we rarely see in England.
- 16 Mar 2024, 10:27pm
- Forum: Touring & Expedition
- Topic: Holland - Short Tour
- Replies: 38
- Views: 1266
Re: Holland - Short Tour
Everywhere is more expensive than it used to be. Inflation and the mighty great british pesoDupont wrote: ↑16 Mar 2024, 4:57pmThanks.mjr wrote: ↑16 Mar 2024, 3:17pmhttps://www.stayokay.com/en
They're OK. Only criticism is the cafeteria offerings tend to be samey and uninspiring.
They are quite pricey too. I guess that is just the way it is now. I haven't been to Holland for a while.
Now I am wondering whether France would be a cheaper option.
- 16 Mar 2024, 3:17pm
- Forum: Touring & Expedition
- Topic: Holland - Short Tour
- Replies: 38
- Views: 1266
Re: Holland - Short Tour
https://www.stayokay.com/en
They're OK. Only criticism is the cafeteria offerings tend to be samey and uninspiring.