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There's one golden rule for taking your bike on a plane … never, ever use a soft bag. A "golden rule" that I have never followed in 30 years of flying with my bike all over the world with no problems. The only time I had a problem with my bike on a plane was when the airline insisted I us...

landsurfer wrote:Abellio Scotrail have lost their franchise 3 years early ...
It will be a direct award to the DfT ....
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Nothing to do with the DfT.
Transport Scotland are the agency with responsibility for these matters in Scotland.

Sweep wrote:
To soon to figure whether there might be general improvements with new franchisee - Scotrail will still be running it for a fair while.

The Scotrail franchise is currently run by Abellio. Scotrail is the franchise name not the operator name.

New Zealand and Australia shouldn't be lumped together either, they are quite different countries and cultures.

cotswolds wrote:A physio would understand the injury very well, but I doubt they'd add much to what you already know. If it's not a sprained ankle, further imaging is needed and only your doctor can arrange that.

Physios can order scans, and they can also use things like ultrasound, etc. to treat injuries.

See a physiotherapist instead of doctor.

From San Carlos Barloche it is possible to cycle to the start of the Carretera Austral by a couple of routes, I am planning to cycle south in Argentina and then cross to the CA at Futaleufu. . That is the route I took back in 1997, nice route through the Siete Lagos, El Bolsen, Parque Nacional Los ...

Depends on how long you plan to take to do your trip. I haven't cycled 'round the world' but I have spent many months cycling in various places around the world. But most of it was back in the 90's The longest single trip I was away for one year - Malaysia, NZ, Australia, Indonesia. I used to reckon...

axel_knutt wrote:https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k4306
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Study was done in China on a Chinese population, may not be applicable in western Europe.
Interesting though.

Serious health risks below 16 degrees?
What are these health risks?

Temperature in my house is below 16 degrees for probably about ten months of the year at least.
Currently 11 degrees inside, 4 degrees outside.

Might put the heating on next week.

Might be healthier to drink red grape juice instead though.

.....The thing is, though, the service costs to replace that for a Rohloff would probably be just about as "cheap" as getting a new A11 hub alltogether... Any Rohloff hub shell failures which I have read about have had the shells replaced free of charge. A new Alfine 11 hub costs around £...

Well, there's a 50 page thread regarding the Alfine 11 and its reliability, or to be more precise its unreliability, https://forum.cyclinguk.org/viewtopic.php?t=64432 I don't see a similar lengthy thread detailing Rohloff problems. Sure some folk have had trouble with their Rohloff, but not very man...

jonk wrote:We cycled on the "A road" through Forsinard and I had no idea that there were other roads available or that they are open to cyclists. One for next time I think.

All roads, tracks, paths, in Scotland's countryside are open to cyclists.

And that expression, which I also use, sums up the way we in the UK deal with these things. If a chunk of the UK displays a wish to leave the UK and they do it for long enough, they will get a chance to vote on it. The Scots have voted on it twice in my lifetime and will probably do so again at som...