Cycling UK Forum

The good news is that if you follow the mask/social-distancing rules for Covid-19 your chances of catching flu are seriously diminished. Get vaccinated on top of that and the epidemic should be nipped in the bud.

It's a bit early in the season for it: the antibodies it engenders could well have died away by March, but the flu will still be with us. In France we're still waiting for our freebie coupon.

Most of us rode our BMXs to comprehensive school in the early 80s.It was only a couple of miles but we always detoured on the way home :lol: IIRC no one locked their bikes up as they were secure(ish) inside the school. I also had a "racer" but that was for proper rides. When I had a summe...

I did, once I had a bike: down to the Newtonards Rd., then around 4 miles into Belfast, then Waring St., Donegal St., Carlisle Circus and up the Antrim Rd. to Cliftonville Rd. About 5½ miles in all, with tramlines in places and a couple of fiddly junctions. Used to go to chums' houses out in West Be...

Cyril Haearn wrote:'Doggered' could be used for 'stranded', meaning a vessel is stuck fast on Dogger Bank

Cue Fascinating Aida...

Cloth-eared misuse of "stranded." The strand is the beach, and a ship is stranded when it has run up immovably onto the beach. So when a ferry and its passengers are said to be "stranded in mid-Channel" it grates. I don't have any trouble with it. English is suffused with nautic...

People confusing the verb to lie with the verb to lay . To lie: https://chambers.co.uk/search/?query=lie&title=21st To lay: https://chambers.co.uk/search/?query=lay&title=21st In Standard English that is a confusion. In many regions it isn't. Usage differs. Jonathan I agree, but the confusi...

People confusing the verb to lie with the verb to lay.

To lie: https://chambers.co.uk/search/?query=lie&title=21st

To lay: https://chambers.co.uk/search/?query=lay&title=21st

I'll be going up the chimney, but just for devilment I'd like my collection of punctured tubes waiting for patches to go with me.

Mick F wrote:We could cut the newspaper into squares and hang it on a string by the loo.

Music 4 you: https://youtu.be/jTR6xBeC2xA

philvantwo wrote:Working in Wembury this week and have noticed 2 navy ships going round in circles in Plymouth Sound! What are they doing? Maybe Mick F will know?

Taking Plymouth Soundings (i.e. swinging the lead)?

Left hand down a bit.

@MM obviously not.

Highway Code Rule 176. If the traffic lights are not working, treat the situation as you would an unmarked junction and proceed with great care. It doesn't specify what "not working" means, but if the lights don't change at all, to my mind, they ain't working! Carry an axe just to make su...

We have a few sets that show the usual contempt for cyclists, and to add insult to injury we also have some of those "slow-you-down" lights* which detect you slaving your guts out on a steep hill, well below the legal speed limit, and change to red just for devilment. Then, as soon as your...

Start with the cheapest option, i.e. the cream. Assos cream is good.

Duh - you're not wearing underpants, are you? That'll do it.