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- 27 Mar 2024, 5:15pm
- Forum: Fun & Games
- Topic: English Language - what "Does your head in" ??
- Replies: 2256
- Views: 126427
Re: English Language - what "Does your head in" ??
Quite. Same as what I said, really.
- 26 Mar 2024, 10:52pm
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: Custom Storage
- Replies: 15
- Views: 704
Re: Custom Storage
We don't have a garage, so I've never really faced this
But, if we did, I think I'd prefer the garage to any outside store, on security grounds. I vaguely remember seeing some arrangements where people store bikes horizontally on a lift-type arrangement, above the car bonnet. The nearest I could find was this, but the ad is American by the looks of it, so it's a massive garage space with room above the car roof. In typical UK garages, I'm sure that you'd have to position it carefully in the way I suggested. But you get the idea? Maybe something more home spun, though frankly the store and storage are going to cost you that much anyway.
But, if we did, I think I'd prefer the garage to any outside store, on security grounds. I vaguely remember seeing some arrangements where people store bikes horizontally on a lift-type arrangement, above the car bonnet. The nearest I could find was this, but the ad is American by the looks of it, so it's a massive garage space with room above the car roof. In typical UK garages, I'm sure that you'd have to position it carefully in the way I suggested. But you get the idea? Maybe something more home spun, though frankly the store and storage are going to cost you that much anyway.
- 26 Mar 2024, 5:29pm
- Forum: Fun & Games
- Topic: English Language - what "Does your head in" ??
- Replies: 2256
- Views: 126427
Re: English Language - what "Does your head in" ??
Shows what a mess you get into when you forget the origins of words. Agendums is a nonsense. The agenda is the list of things to be done, as noted, so it's inherently plural. Unless the meeting only has one item to address, in which case it's an agendum.
- 24 Mar 2024, 3:47pm
- Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
- Topic: Clevedon Seafront - Cycle track removal - Active Travel England
- Replies: 18
- Views: 871
Re: Clevedon Seafront - Cycle track removal - Active Travel England
I don't know the area, and I can't comment from knowledge. But I should have thought that the single most relevant comment is about one-way streets increasing speeds and therefore risk to cyclists. I'd move that to the start, and generally focus the letter on the specific proposed works. In writing this kind of thing, I'd always ask myself, "If someone stops reading part way through, will I have got across my most important points?", and, "Although this is a good point, it's one more thing for people to read; is it so important to make this in this particular letter that I'm not prepared to remove it, in order to ensure that readers grasp my other points?"
- 20 Mar 2024, 11:28pm
- Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
- Topic: Filthy bridleway
- Replies: 61
- Views: 2767
Re: Filthy bridleway
I didn't know his name, though I grew up singing the Manchester Rambler. I notice that Wikipedia says that a side-effect of the trespass was the production of the first version of the Countryside Code (which covers respect for property).
I'd always perceived the mass trespass as a controlled and managed event. Some involved of course may have favoured a free-for-all. I'm far too young to have been there, so who knows.
I'd always perceived the mass trespass as a controlled and managed event. Some involved of course may have favoured a free-for-all. I'm far too young to have been there, so who knows.
- 20 Mar 2024, 11:10pm
- Forum: Does anyone know … ?
- Topic: Oldest bike
- Replies: 39
- Views: 2481
Re: Oldest bike
I've still got the Aende that I built up as a student in 1979. It's had some new parts since then, but others are original. It's also been resprayed twice. The frame was second-hand, so is older, but I don't know by how much. It gets the odd outing in club 10s.
I've also got a Holdsworth Mistral from 1982/3. That's pretty much original except for the obvious (tyres, toe clips, probably chain and freewheel).
My Rogers trike must be a 70s frame at newest. The wheels were 27" when I got it, but i've rebuilt them as 700C. The transmission was friction gears and 10-speed in old money (i.e. 2*5 not 2*10). However, it's now had a Trykit rebuild, so indexed 2*9.
I've also got a Holdsworth Mistral from 1982/3. That's pretty much original except for the obvious (tyres, toe clips, probably chain and freewheel).
My Rogers trike must be a 70s frame at newest. The wheels were 27" when I got it, but i've rebuilt them as 700C. The transmission was friction gears and 10-speed in old money (i.e. 2*5 not 2*10). However, it's now had a Trykit rebuild, so indexed 2*9.
- 20 Mar 2024, 10:54pm
- Forum: Fun & Games
- Topic: life online
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6035
Re: life online
The Cambridge coffee pot stands out to me as a site that helped to promulgate the concept that a Web page could be dynamic, rather than just a load of text and images.
If you can call a coffee pot dynamic.
If you can call a coffee pot dynamic.
- 20 Mar 2024, 10:50pm
- Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
- Topic: Filthy bridleway
- Replies: 61
- Views: 2767
Re: Filthy bridleway
What matters, I think, is what you do as a result of points such as these. I'm not sure I'm entirely disagreeing with you, and jgurney is correct that we're both right. But I would not want to encourage people to cycle on public footpaths on the basis of the absence of No Cycling signs. Whilst you're right also that rights of way are established by use, I'm not sure it would be good to try to establish a new bridleway on a current footpath by using it a lot by bike.
That point about establishment by use is why of course you get signs (mostly in town) to say that the landowner has not dedicated this path as a public right of way (i.e. you can walk along it, just don't try to use that to claim doing so as a right), and bizarre practices such as barricading country paths on Christmas Day (or other times when no-one wants to use them anyway), so that it can be demonstrated that the path has not been in continuous use for a whole year.
There has to be some respect for property rights as well as respect for the public's rights of way. The whole system generally collapses if anyone tries to claim one set of rights to the exclusion of others.
That point about establishment by use is why of course you get signs (mostly in town) to say that the landowner has not dedicated this path as a public right of way (i.e. you can walk along it, just don't try to use that to claim doing so as a right), and bizarre practices such as barricading country paths on Christmas Day (or other times when no-one wants to use them anyway), so that it can be demonstrated that the path has not been in continuous use for a whole year.
There has to be some respect for property rights as well as respect for the public's rights of way. The whole system generally collapses if anyone tries to claim one set of rights to the exclusion of others.
- 19 Mar 2024, 7:41am
- Forum: For Sale - bits of bikes, etc.
- Topic: HG500 10-speed cassette slightly used - now taken
- Replies: 2
- Views: 233
Re: HG500 10-speed cassette slightly used
Sorry, you were fractionally beaten to it.
- 18 Mar 2024, 5:02pm
- Forum: For Sale - bits of bikes, etc.
- Topic: HG500 10-speed cassette slightly used - now taken
- Replies: 2
- Views: 233
HG500 10-speed cassette slightly used - now taken
Can anyone use this? 12-28T.
I got it on a wheel, but I don't have any 10-speed stuff so it's no use to me. I believe it may have been used only for a handful of rides on a trainer. Whilst it looks OK, I can't guarantee the use, so sold as seen really.
A tenner to Oxfam maybe? Just really need to get rid of it. Postage at cost or pick up if you're in the North Herts or central London/Old Street areas.
I got it on a wheel, but I don't have any 10-speed stuff so it's no use to me. I believe it may have been used only for a handful of rides on a trainer. Whilst it looks OK, I can't guarantee the use, so sold as seen really.
A tenner to Oxfam maybe? Just really need to get rid of it. Postage at cost or pick up if you're in the North Herts or central London/Old Street areas.
- 18 Mar 2024, 10:15am
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: Re-using an old 8-speed Campagnolo wheel
- Replies: 17
- Views: 697
Re: Re-using an old 8-speed Campagnolo wheel
I either didn't know or had forgotten that Fulcrum was a Campagnolo brand, to be honest.
There is something I recall about 8-speed (Campagnolo) splines being softer than 9, that might make 8-speed hubs not such a long-term option. I've stopped using my 8-speed stuff in favour of slightly-less-ancient 9.
- 17 Mar 2024, 3:13pm
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: Re-using an old 8-speed Campagnolo wheel
- Replies: 17
- Views: 697
Re: Re-using an old 8-speed Campagnolo wheel
Serves me right for being too definite But I think it's fair to say that most interchanging goes on with third-party hubs, and relatively few Campagnolo, and possibly no Shimano at all, hubs can be made to take the other brand's cassettes?
- 16 Mar 2024, 8:15pm
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: Re-using an old 8-speed Campagnolo wheel
- Replies: 17
- Views: 697
Re: Re-using an old 8-speed Campagnolo wheel
It's not the hub proper, it's the body (the splined bit onto which the cassette slides). Campagnolo and Shimano have never made available bodies for each other's cassettes. You'd need an independent hub to make the kind of swap you are proposing, in either direction. For example, though it's of no use with your hub, a number of independent hubs take Novatec bodies.
- 14 Mar 2024, 9:30pm
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: Headset on Claud Butler Dalesman
- Replies: 41
- Views: 1301
Re: Headset on Claud Butler Dalesman
Because phones tend to have orientation sensors in them, and embed the orientation in the picture. Some programs that display pictures take notice of the orientation information, and some don't. Jdsk will have used a photo editor of some kind to rotate the picture. That way it comes out the right way regardless.
- 14 Mar 2024, 5:27pm
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: "Plus" vs breaker for fairy protection
- Replies: 16
- Views: 963
Re: "Plus" vs breaker for fairy protection
On a tarmac surface, I think I'd have spotted anything like that when I was looking for the puncture. But it's true that I never did figure out exactly what happened.