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Mine (Swytch 250W 50mile 700c) arrived via DPD on Tuesday (ordered in May) and immediate impressions were extremely positive. Do you have any longer-term thoughts now you've lived with it for a while? I am still very impressed by this kit and it continues to work faultlessly, albeit on very steep c...

philg wrote:Mine (Swytch 250W 50mile 700c) arrived via DPD on Tuesday (ordered in May) and immediate impressions were extremely positive.

Thanks for the review, interesting as I'm thinking about funding their latest campaign.

Do you have any longer-term thoughts now you've lived with it for a while?

I think that you're correct in terms of cars, and have experienced much the same myself. I also can accept the argument that many cyclists will take more risks with disk brakes, and potentially be less safe as a result. But, I can't accept that this makes the disk brakes "less good", which...

Unless you're a fixie rider with no brakes, in which case it's all the fault of the careless pedestrian ...

Found an envelope in Ikea car-park, containing around £200 in cash. Didn't want to hand it in (thought it might get "lost"), so just let Ikea know where the owner could claim it from. Sadly, the owner got in touch and we returned it, but got a nice card and a bottle of bubbly for our troub...

That sounds like things have improved. I clearly remember my iPhone 3G and iPad 2 reaching the point where keyboard response was awful, apparently ignoring multiple taps, them all arriving at once.

Maybe my perception is a little out of date; since escaping Apple's clutches I've not been following the compatibility story in any detail. Are they making any efforts to maintain (or improve) performance on old devices as the OSs roll on? I was always cynical about how the responsiveness of a devic...

BBC Radio iPlayer app/service has been closed by the BBC (or will be closed within a few days). Nothing to do with Apple. All apps on all platforms tend to only support a limited number of older operating systems - mainly because new Operating system introduce new features and apps need to use thos...

reohn2 wrote:There's none so blind as them that cannot not see because they haven't ridden disc brakes for a few tens of thousands of miles.
Some of us have ridden both discs and rim brake and know the difference.

You could also say something similar about cable vs hydraulic discs!

Just sayin'

I’m riding on 25 Schwalbe Luganos, carrying rear panniers. I cycled 69 miles day one, 66 day two and then 54 today(worst road surface today). I’m using the same saddle and bike set up I did LEJOG, the Rhine cycle and St Malo to Nice, plus several shorter trips in Europe on their lovely cycle tracks...

What model of lever/shifter are you using? It sounds very odd that you need to cut away the hood in order to bleed the brakes. It sounds as though you should have sufficient parts now to create a working lever, by adding your current shifting components to one of the old bodies? If that's not an opt...

Normally, roadies will shout "on your right" to indicate where they are passing, or perhaps "keep left". I agree that a direction on its own is meaningless. Also, this is completely inappropriate behaviour on a shared path. It generally implies that the cyclist is committed to ba...

Wanlock Dod wrote:

Mike Sales wrote:Since I don't wear a lid I could not suffer such an accidental conversion.

Indeed there is evidently an element of susceptibility required. Could a god communicate directly to somebody who doesn’t believe in them at all?

How else is a God going to get her belief system started

According to the OP, the bloke "wanted" to take the bike inside, which is quite understandable and very different from insisting. The establishment can always say "no", which is equally understandable!

it looks to me as if this company perhaps decided to call one of their models 'the $100 Admiral'. Which would have been a smart choice for one season only, I'd imagine; mass production and competition meant that prices for bicycles rapidly fell from those that only the wealthy could afford, to more...