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My left leg is 11 mm shorter than the right, so plastic-armature saddles and hard leather ones are utter hell on my left sit-bone. The supple leather Selle Anatomica works, though: http://www.pbase.com/johnewing/image/160761090.jpg The two sides move pretty well independently. The creases are there ...

Hah. Speaking as one who caught an enlightened French cycle-path barrier in the breadbasket some weeks back, the best approach is no <expletive> barrier at all.

There's a fortune to be made in self-adhesive supra-occular gutters for cyclists.

Anyway, my candidates for Room 101: hackers. They turned something wonderful into a minefield.

I had an Aldi drill and after a few years the battery expired. I couldnt get a replacement battery from anywhere. I had to bin the drill. I hope those Samsung batteries are a standard item. Al Ditto my Leroy Merlin own-brand piece of horse pucky*. Two batteries, both NiCd, whereof one just swelled ...

Gareth Marshall said that he couldn't thank the NHS enough. A chum of my wife's just moved to New York and posted that his projects there were all dependent on staying healthy, because a hospital stay cost $4200 per day, not including treatment. It strikes me that the NHS should be suing Hefferman t...

The hunting clubs have a lot of influence here. Some years ago our club planned an MTB event through state-owned forest. We put our declarations, with maps, in to the Préfecture and received an OK from all the mairies whose areas we'd be riding through, ditto from the Office National des Forêts. The...

+1 for Carradice. Super C Audax for 200, 300 & 400, Lowsaddle Longflap for 600 & PBP. Put extra straps on the flap to take wet rainjacket etc. I use an SQR block and strap a small toolbag under it, in front of the saddlebag. The Super C Audax would do for 600 & PBP too if you didn't mind...

Almost a year since my first answer to this thread, my plans have changed a bit. I've stopped writing my routing program since Google changed their business model and ICBA learning another system; also, I'm not aiming at 1000k rides any more so those that already exist are sufficient. While I still ...

As to whether colour makes a difference, you decide: http://www.pbase.com/johnewing/image/153575916.jpg http://www.pbase.com/johnewing/image/153584117.jpg The pics are from a set of slides I found on a fleamarket. From the fashions, they date from around 1911. Colouring the subject in Photoshop wasn...

It does exist and it is used: https://youtu.be/NjDclfAFRB4

I wouldn't worry about it: the strongest signal is emitted by the scanning gates, and everyone walks through those, with or without tags. If you live in a town, the chances of getting cancer from fossil fuel emissions are far greater, especially if you ride in traffic a lot.

Ain't that jolly?

MikeF wrote:Drag is proportional to the square of the speed, ie it is almost twice as great at 70 mph than 50 mph.

As you will notice when you take your foot off the accelerator.

bigjim wrote:

Audax67 wrote:

You selling your phone Audax?

Yeah, it drags down my jersey and the wretched cord is a nightmare at intersections.

What struck me about this was the fact that he must have known he was on the cab camera. So he almost must have known he would get away with doing this. Did his employer ever check the camera? If he did? Then again if he didn't? The phone is most likely the employer's preferred method of sending or...

As usual, the Beeb squit about bacon doesn't mention the absolute probability of getting breast cancer, just the possibly-alarming increase.