You've found Colin's video, so you know about dropping it into the well.
Is that the general purpose VAR lever? I now have the Kool Stop rim lever and a Tyre Glider, as discussed here:
viewtopic.php?t=159972
Jonathan
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- 28 Mar 2024, 11:52am
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: Tips for fitting tyres to WH-6800 rims?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 21
- 28 Mar 2024, 11:40am
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: issue with new inner ring on ultegra hollowtech
- Replies: 10
- Views: 478
Re: issue with new inner ring on ultegra hollowtech
Mine's a genuine Dremel. It's cordless and I find that makes it much more convenient. Spare parts are available.Cyclothesist wrote: ↑28 Mar 2024, 11:19am ...
A dremmel sounds like a v useful tool. I'll add one to my wish list.
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Similar tools are available in Aldi and Lidl special offers. I haven't tested either, but most of their tools are good.
Jonathan
- 28 Mar 2024, 11:37am
- Forum: The Tea Shop
- Topic: Take These (Supply) Chains from My Heart
- Replies: 810
- Views: 44002
Re: Take These (Supply) Chains from My Heart
"Brexit costs Scotland up to £100 million-a-year in lost salmon exports":
https://www.salmonscotland.co.uk/news/b ... on-exports
Scottish salmon is the UK’s largest food export, but farming companies have faced increased red tape and costs triggered by the departure from the EU in January 2020.
Jonathan
https://www.salmonscotland.co.uk/news/b ... on-exports
Scottish salmon is the UK’s largest food export, but farming companies have faced increased red tape and costs triggered by the departure from the EU in January 2020.
Jonathan
- 28 Mar 2024, 11:21am
- Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
- Topic: Over-powerful LED lights
- Replies: 100
- Views: 6638
Re: Over-powerful LED lights
https://unece.org/introduction-24axel_knutt wrote: ↑28 Mar 2024, 11:13am ...
4. I didn't know that the UN had a finger in the vehicle regulation pie, considering that we left the EU so that we don't have to be told what to do by forriners, it's interesting that we're happy to be involved with them. Mr. Konstantin Glukhenkiy is the contact, I wonder if he's amenable to submissions from lay road users.
https://wiki.unece.org/display/trans/Ho ... egulations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Na ... for_Europe
and, from upthread:
JonathanJdsk wrote: ↑28 Feb 2024, 3:31pm The regulations (which are UN ECE), history and dates of change for selective yellow headlights:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_yellow
- 28 Mar 2024, 11:15am
- Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
- Topic: Over-powerful LED lights
- Replies: 100
- Views: 6638
Re: Over-powerful LED lights
I don't think that they are sufficiently detailed.axel_knutt wrote: ↑28 Mar 2024, 11:13am 1. I wonder whether police stats are sufficiently detailed to reveal an effect that may be small in terms of all-cause road deaths but quite large in terms of deaths related to headlamp design. I also think that any advantage of better visibility will have been consumed in the form of faster driving rather than reduced accident rate, and that that possibility won't have been researched.
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Jonathan
- 28 Mar 2024, 10:29am
- Forum: Does anyone know … ?
- Topic: Wiggle... clearance sale without refunds?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 485
Re: Wiggle... clearance sale without refunds?
That's why I asked how you paid. ; - )
Jonathan
Jonathan
- 28 Mar 2024, 10:23am
- Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
- Topic: Over-powerful LED lights
- Replies: 100
- Views: 6638
Re: Over-powerful LED lights
Thanks for sharing that.
First thoughts:
1 I don't think that I knew that were maximum intensities in the regulations already. Have we discussed that?
2 It nearly falls into the trap of equating absence of evidence with evidence of absence (of effect), but then recovers with:
3 The plan for future independent research. This may be the route to improvement and I've written to Cycling UK.
Jonathan
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/653793
- 28 Mar 2024, 10:17am
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: M2.5 bolt
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1016
Re: M2.5 bolt
Well done, and thanks for adding the outcome.
Jonathan
Jonathan
- 27 Mar 2024, 10:19pm
- Forum: Touring & Expedition
- Topic: touring wheels upgrade
- Replies: 66
- Views: 2615
Re: touring wheels upgrade
Yes, it's worth getting the physics right first. And the language, including distinguishing between mass, weight and the relevant moment for rotation. Then it's possible to be sure that everyone is talking about the same things.roubaixtuesday wrote: ↑25 Mar 2024, 7:13pm ...
I agree it's all but irrelevant for touring, but it is good to get the facts straight IMO
The size of effect may not be particularly important in particular settings. And if it isn't the physics will explain why.
Jonathan
PS: I also suspect that there are some pre-Newtonian concepts of momentum lurking in the undergrowth.
- 27 Mar 2024, 8:51pm
- Forum: The Tea Shop
- Topic: Take These (Supply) Chains from My Heart
- Replies: 810
- Views: 44002
Re: Take These (Supply) Chains from My Heart
Defra Secretary Steve Barclay was asked to explain the Department's stance on funding checks for illegal meat imports when he appeared in front of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee on Tuesday.Jdsk wrote: ↑6 Mar 2024, 11:19am"Defra confirms funding withdrawal for Dover illegal meat checks":
https://www.fwi.co.uk/news/eu-referendu ... s-at-dover
Prior to the meeting, EFRA published a damning letter to it from Lucy Manzano, head of Dover port health & public protection, which suggested Defra had misled the committee of MPs in its response in February to questions on illegal meat import checks at the port and the decision to move legal customs checks to a new inland site from April.
https://www.npa-uk.org.uk/Barclay_quest ... hecks.html
https://committees.parliament.uk/commit ... committee/
Jonathan
- 27 Mar 2024, 8:30pm
- Forum: The Tea Shop
- Topic: What Has Made You Laugh Today ?
- Replies: 1471
- Views: 96559
Re: What Has Made You Laugh Today ?
Is it an in-joke referring to that? Because the difference in views wouldn't work with a product designed to be used for the purpose for which it is used...
Jonathan
- 27 Mar 2024, 7:19pm
- Forum: The Tea Shop
- Topic: What Has Made You Laugh Today ?
- Replies: 1471
- Views: 96559
Re: What Has Made You Laugh Today ?
: - )colin54 wrote: ↑27 Mar 2024, 11:44am As the OP, continued thanks for all the laughs.
This made me laugh today whilst looking at the SJS site, £4.99 inc postage; also available at your nearest shop complete with contents for slightly less.https://www.sjscycles.co.uk/gear-spares ... -shim-set/
Do you know the Zen... story?
Jonathan
- 27 Mar 2024, 7:18pm
- Forum: Does anyone know … ?
- Topic: GPX devices...Garmin alternative
- Replies: 26
- Views: 917
Re: GPX devices...Garmin alternative
My most common workflow is from a Mac to a Garmin Edge 1000, so I can help with that side.PH wrote: ↑27 Mar 2024, 7:12pmWith a Garmin Explore 2*, from PC** to phone to Explore, at home with wi-fi it couldn't be simpler. Have Garmin Connect on the phone, have that open and the Garmin turned on, check the phone recognises the Garmin, save the route in CT > GPX > Send to Garmin Connect and it's all done. It sometimes takes a couple of minutes to show, though you can hurry it along by pressing "sync" on the Connect app.carlislemike wrote: ↑27 Mar 2024, 3:11pm Tempted by using it as default and I think I can use my saved Cycle Travel routes on it. Simple question, can I load CT routes onto Garmin or other devices?
* Probably on other models as well, I'll stick to commenting on the ones I have.
** Probably with a Mac as well, but again I'll stick to what I know
But I usually move route files by mounting the Garmin as a USB mass storage volume rather than using Garmin Connect. (I do use Garmin Connect for device and map updates.)
Jonathan
- 27 Mar 2024, 7:15pm
- Forum: Does anyone know … ?
- Topic: GPX devices...Garmin alternative
- Replies: 26
- Views: 917
Re: GPX devices...Garmin alternative
That's OK, we can take this one step at a time.carlislemike wrote: ↑27 Mar 2024, 7:01pm Regarding the last two answers, I created my routes on a MacAir / AppleMac laptop. I can follow routes on CT as long as I’ve saved them but I’m not wholly convinced that I’m using the right processes. At nigh on 76, I’m a techno-Luddite
The Mac laptop should work fine for this. You can practise exporting your routes from cycle.travel, that might be different from saving.
Which model of Garmin are you considering?
Jonathan
- 27 Mar 2024, 3:54pm
- Forum: For Sale - bits of bikes, etc.
- Topic: Garmin Edge 130 Sold
- Replies: 1
- Views: 112