Cycling UK Forum

I use open source software when I can, but LibreOffice just doesn't work well enough and LaTex isn't practical in many work environments. 2010 called and wants its criticisms back. It's been a long time since I heard many complain that LibreOffice works any worse than MS Office for core tasks. Bles...

Who cares? I care! I don't have anything to hide, but I've nothing to show them either. Besides, I paid for my devices. I don't expect them to extract more value from the transaction so they can send me advertising. Might be worth pointing out that for all the noise most (if not all) attacks come v...

I went round to a friend's house the other day. Her mammoth TV was switched on, but just the menu.
It started randomly playing adverts. I thought that was the default behaviour on many of them.

It's good stuff. Highly recommended. Get the free version, then wait till they do an offer where you get 75% off the paid version. It happens a couple of times a year. I use open source software when I can, but LibreOffice just doesn't work well enough and LaTex isn't practical in many work environm...

Smart TVs are dreadful and creepy. When our current TV dies, it won't be replaced by a smart TV; if none of the manufacturers produce a straightforward TV we'll have no tv. Who wants to buy a device only to find you get bombarded with adverts?

As a casual cyclist, I don't want to share facilities with a vehicle that could reach 45km/h, powered or unpowered. But then, a vehicle of that turn of speed can't mix it up with cars. I would feel much safer on a 650cc moped than a 50cc one going up hills. I think fossil fuel cars will become reall...

I need something, but their website seems to have ceased to be.

Have they shut?

......................Aren't we able to give simple clear advice that stands on its own and doesn't need to be argued in never ending posts. I've noticed that whenever someone asks about anything to do with cycling on here and mentions they're overweight, some people always start lecturing them abo...

Congratulations for starting!
The Rigida Andra 40 rim is rated for your weight. Add to that a good quality Shimano freehub, a good wheel build and you'll be golden. Expect the whole thing to cost £100-130ish.
Or the wheel in that SJS cycles link above.

My assumption is almost anything would be better than the cheap tat available in cup and cone land these days.
Expect a new post when the need arises.

My understanding is the Euro BB is the same size as an MTB bottom bracket (actually, there are two different shell widths). There are larger sizes (Mid and Spanish), which would require a different size frame. A BMX crank is what I'd use. You can get square spindles, but the crank it has now could b...

Regarding bottom brackets on these and singlespeed conversions. Mine is still on the original bottom bracket, which I suspect won't be good enough for another rebuild. There is the problem with the seat tube intruding into the shell. The quality of cup & cone bottom brackets is pretty poor these...

Yes. He was quite well known for it. Was mostly around Oxford way.

I suspect tyres and position of contact points are more important.
Still, I don't like it. It looks cheap.

There is a natural desire amongst a noisy minority of humanity to put down "out groups" (I think this is the current sociological term). insults on grounds of race, sexuality etc are now illegal, so these pathetic people have had to move down to the next target on the list. Personally I t...