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There are some reasons why a diamond frame cannot be entirely constructed from triangles The Delta V sort of was… though obviously the large tube diameters and relatively short head tube (required for the Headshok fork) are key to that "sort of" :) I had one of these for a while in 1993, ...

A proofreader would place a plural possessive apostrophe after the s, in folks ie - folks' written language - and suggest the closed spelling 'proofread' rather than 'proof read', as the currently accepted norm. :wink: Hopefully they'd also sort out the comma in the first sentence, and then come ba...

pwa wrote:I'm waiting for someone to invent a radio that detects when a song has finished playing and goes straight to another song, cutting out the DJ, the ads and the jingles.

Try Internet radio. Plenty of stations with no DJs, and often minimal ads and jingles.

pwa wrote:I take my car to a garage with a misplaced apostrophe on the sign outside … I don't go to him for good punctuation.

Do you drive one of these?



PS: what Mick F said.

Only if there’s acknowledgment that both context and idiom are of fundamental importantance to meaning and therefore it’s naive and wrong to take one narrow definition of a word and apply it indiscriminately.

“Can we stop arguing about helmets?”

Storm in a teacup? The situation is exactly the same as a car hitting you on public roads as a car hitting you on the docks. If the fault is motorist's their lawyers will try to reduce the insurer's bill by contributory negligence. Right. So BF's pointers make no difference. So this thread is a sto...

If only he were right. From memory of cases that tick a number of those boxes, not only would you not be deemed liable, but the police would make a pretty impressive job of defending you.

I think my main objection here is not that someone cycling is liable, but that had this been someone driving it would have been a slam-dunk case of the person on foot being at fault. In general I subscribe to the principle that the logic of presumed liability should extend below the threshold of mot...

So if you keep your brain switched on you probably won't need to make a claim, same as anywhere else. If you slip over on wet steel then you might get hurt, same as anywhere else. Basically you're free to apply your own risk assessment, but if it doesn't align with their insurers' view then they'll ...

If that's a problem you're a real sight weeny. Also, where backpacking weight is an issue, cycling weight isn't as much of an issue IMHO. It's not weight, it's faff. It's another thing to buy for no good reason beyond ticking a box, another thing to remember to pack, another thing getting in the wa...

Lug it around? Hiviz vest bought cheaply from hardware stores weighs little and packs small. Lights? You mean you're not carrying them on tour anyway? I always have lights. A vest is pretty packable but I like to minimise the kit I need to carry. A helmet is a proper faff. I get your point, but it'...

To be honest I'd have thought the pragmatic solution would be that if Brittany Ferries feel the need to enforce their guidelines then they could have a stock of hi-viz vests and hard hats (as worn by port/ship staff) available, which could be handed out to anyone passing through without their own an...

I've been on the ferries several times (via Portsmouth, St Malo and Ouistreham) since this advice came in and it's not been an issue for me or anyone else either in daylight or at night; and on some trips there have been quite a lot of people cycling. No-one at check-in, on the loading area or on de...

mattsccm wrote:I think thats what I am doing.

As long as you end the previous activity before starting the TT, they should be recorded separately. Is that not what you find?