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by djnotts
27 Mar 2024, 9:10am
Forum: Does anyone know … ?
Topic: Cycle Retail In Meltdown.
Replies: 195
Views: 24364

Re: Cycle Retail In Meltdown.

The pricing is approaching rip-off. Probably the most ridiculously price I have seen on a new bike - alu frame, rigid, 1x drive.... 1835 quid!
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by djnotts
27 Mar 2024, 8:33am
Forum: Health and fitness
Topic: Why are the general population resistant to getting fit?
Replies: 97
Views: 5008

Re: Why are the general population resistant to getting fit?

^ Genuine question. Do you present the graph in support of the genetics are all argument or as rebuttal? I rather assume the latter, with economic, standard of living, factors looking "obvious" in the country rankings. Possibly a combination of the two?
The older I get and the fewer of my contemporaries, with very varied life-styles, survive the more I attribute longevity to "luck"! Or is that just another word for "genetics".
by djnotts
25 Mar 2024, 9:51am
Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
Topic: Escooter trial to start
Replies: 351
Views: 37539

Re: Escooter trial to start

Jdsk wrote: 25 Mar 2024, 9:24am
Grandad wrote: 25 Mar 2024, 9:19am Have the earlier e-bike trials finished? If so,what were the results?
Do you mean the trials of hired eScooters?

Thanks

Jonathan
In Nottingham e-scooter trial continues. The e-bike hire operator recently collapsed but a replacement is promised in a few months (I think).
Nottingham not an ideal environment - the City boundary does not include some of the more likely take up areas. E.g. I am <4 miles from City centre with some reasonable cycle infrastructure but am not in the City Council area. In particular, an affluent suburb <3 miles from City is south of the Trent and thus a different Local Authority.
I'd say most users of the scooters and bikes are students.
by djnotts
24 Mar 2024, 9:27pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: War on Our Doorstep: How do we respond?
Replies: 1875
Views: 83014

Re: War on Our Doorstep: How do we respond?

^ "I read that a missile from Russia to Ukraine went via Polish air space. That didn’t happen by accident and there are several messages in that action …"

Could not 39 seconds be by accident? Either way, potentially dangerous. If "minutes" rather than "seconds", would Poland fire at it? Putin would go even more ape than usual.....
by djnotts
24 Mar 2024, 6:55pm
Forum: Health and fitness
Topic: Why are the general population resistant to getting fit?
Replies: 97
Views: 5008

Re: Why are the general population resistant to getting fit?

^ millimole
"My experience tells me that it's persistent all-year round riding that is important to maintain a base level of fitness (and motivation!)"

Very much so. When I quit (almost fatally heavy) drinking very nearly 21 years ago I told myself I would cycle an average mimimim 10 miles per day. 2 miles was all I could manage at first, took a few months to get to 10, but that is pretty much what I have stuck to ever since ,- not fallen below 3,500 p.a. and often over 5,000.
At 75 with copd and prostate cancer in the meantime I am exceeding 10 p.d. so far this year. If I stop doubt i could start again!
by djnotts
23 Mar 2024, 8:29pm
Forum: Using the Forum - request help : report difficulties
Topic: Adding photos
Replies: 13
Views: 399

Re: Adding photos

Pendodave wrote: 23 Mar 2024, 7:49pm Could you also explain how to rotate the images (or link to foolproof guide).
Most of mine are OK, but every now and then they're not...
+1!
by djnotts
23 Mar 2024, 8:01pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Just how long will it take to turn this ship around?
Replies: 103
Views: 2925

Re: Just how long will it take to turn this ship around?

^^"The rate of tax for anyone earning over £125140 is 45 percent. What rate of tax do you propose, and what percentage of these people do you think would move to a different country with lower taxes if the 45 percent rate was increased?"

45% at 125K, 55 at 150, 65 at 200, 90 at 250 a good start. Let the leave if they want, but they take nothing with them. All assets forfeit.
by djnotts
23 Mar 2024, 5:20pm
Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
Topic: Tourer for gentle off-roading?
Replies: 145
Views: 6695

Re: Tourer for gentle off-roading?

^ Sounds an excellent piece of
RockShox engineering. Certainly beyond my abilities and my current needs! Those on my Saracen serve their purpose on canal paths, bridleways and rubbish roads. Being c.9st no doubt helps and my arthritic hands definitely benefit from the extra "give" in the front end.
by djnotts
22 Mar 2024, 6:07pm
Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
Topic: Tourer for gentle off-roading?
Replies: 145
Views: 6695

Re: Tourer for gentle off-roading?

Two variations on the 26"er answer. My mate's very original late '90s Thorn and my '95 Saracen, converted to drops a few days ago!
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by djnotts
21 Mar 2024, 9:01am
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: State Pension
Replies: 258
Views: 20665

Re: State Pension

^ "Theres only about half a million people earning that or more and their collective efforts wont win an election. The Torys appeal has to be wider than that."

Hence the stirring up of hatred against the EU, immigrants, the poor and disabled, intellectuals etc and the nostalgia for the elusive British Values of the past. There's the wider appeal.
by djnotts
20 Mar 2024, 9:54pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Pictures of your bike(s)
Replies: 1924
Views: 583813

Re: Pictures of your bike(s)

^ Yes, a '95 and built for cantis. I'm just running a full length outer to the rear V.
I have original rigid fork, tho repainted, but the bounce is kind on my arthritic hands!
by djnotts
20 Mar 2024, 8:51pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Pictures of your bike(s)
Replies: 1924
Views: 583813

Re: Pictures of your bike(s)

My version (well, 1 of them!) of a "gravel bike". 17" to 95" gear range, front sus (like the expensive new gravels), room for 2" tyres.
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by djnotts
18 Mar 2024, 9:10pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Just how long will it take to turn this ship around?
Replies: 103
Views: 2925

Re: Just how long will it take to turn this ship around?

^ simonineaston: "I don’t think on the whole, people have grasped how utterly desperate things are…
I have sympathy with that idea - after all, who want to go like oh that’s it then - my kids will likely die of war, famine or heat...."

Just so. I fear that the deportations, camps for indoctrination into true "British values", the torture cells.... will all come first. And quite soon. As much as I will miss them I am urging those of my family who can do so to leave here ASAP.
by djnotts
17 Mar 2024, 7:58pm
Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
Topic: Budget wheels opinion
Replies: 13
Views: 693

Re: Budget wheels opinion

Personally I'd rather not have sealed bearings, for ease of maintenance. Unless for a heavily loaded bike and/or
harsh surfaces and terrain the Bankrupt Bikes set should be fine.
by djnotts
13 Mar 2024, 10:10pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: UK Politics
Replies: 949
Views: 74401

Re: UK Politics

^ "And they say corruption is a third world problem."

It is. It's a problem here. Conclusion plain enough.