True - you can divide with them as well!axel_knutt wrote: ↑15 Apr 2024, 6:17pmBecause they aren't just used as a shortcut for multiplying numbers.
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- 16 Apr 2024, 9:54am
- Forum: The Tea Shop
- Topic: asonishing bana fact
- Replies: 8
- Views: 306
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- 15 Apr 2024, 5:04pm
- Forum: Does anyone know … ?
- Topic: Anyone ordered anything from Decathlon lately?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2511
Re: Anyone ordered anything from Decathlon lately?
Much the same here. Plus similar experience in Italy and Belgium! (UK staff have been fine, I just haven't needed their technical skills yet!)toontra wrote: ↑25 Mar 2024, 9:18am I had a similar experience while touring in France. The cassette had come loose. A Decathlon mechanic took off the back wheel, tightened up the cassette & checked everything else was OK. No charge.
Decathlon staff in every branch I've been to are superb - knowledgeable, friendly and helpful. I'm lucky to live within cycling distance of a store so I usually click and collect.
They sell affordable (+ethical) merino clothing too.
Great chain of shops!
The posts just above mine seem to be viewing them as A.N.Other retail website. They very much are not!
- 15 Apr 2024, 4:26pm
- Forum: Racing, Olympics, TdF, Competitive cycling
- Topic: General racing chitchat
- Replies: 87
- Views: 44774
Re: General racing chitchat
Agree with all that - and good race references there!
- 15 Apr 2024, 2:19pm
- Forum: Does anyone know … ?
- Topic: touring energy honey
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4094
Re: touring energy honey
If you're riding for 3+ hours, that is long enough to have a short break. Eat some proper food - could be a DIY cheese sandwich, if en France
Find some shelter from sun/rain/wind if required. Or be prepared and take decent weather gear.
- 15 Apr 2024, 10:00am
- Forum: Does anyone know … ?
- Topic: Techniques for braking on steep descents
- Replies: 89
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Re: Techniques for braking on steep descents
It's quite worrying that you associate all those who "loose energy to air drag" with "ignoring using your brakes altogether". And imply it's "all part of the 'natural selection' process."Carlton green wrote: ↑14 Apr 2024, 5:36am I think it unwise to do so (that’s the polite version ) but of course you could just ignore using your brakes altogether, just letting your speed build up and loose energy to air drag - enjoy the thrill, speed and fun, etc. That’s maybe fine until there’s some issue like: a bend in the road; conflicting traffic; potholes; and debris on the road. Falling off of your bike at speed can be painful and even fatal … but I suppose that that’s all part of the ‘natural selection’ process. As for hitting someone else because you’re going too fast to be in proper control of your bike, well it’s best if I don’t pass particularly negative comments …
That's the polite version
- 12 Apr 2024, 2:04pm
- Forum: Does anyone know … ?
- Topic: Kilometers or Miles?
- Replies: 409
- Views: 37264
- 12 Apr 2024, 1:24pm
- Forum: Does anyone know … ?
- Topic: Kilometers or Miles?
- Replies: 409
- Views: 37264
Re: Kilometers or Miles?
I was waiting for that ...
Fair point, of course, but I stuck with the old term, as doing so fits the spirit of the thread, and IMO the question!
(kilometres are so woke, doncha think?? )
- 12 Apr 2024, 1:21pm
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: Ritchey Road Logic back in rim brakes
- Replies: 13
- Views: 927
Re: Ritchey Road Logic back in rim brakes
Looks trés elegant. I'd buy one if the downtube was slim enough for DT shifters ...twodogs wrote: ↑6 Feb 2024, 10:05am https://ritcheylogic.com/bike/frames/ro ... c-frameset
I've always wanted to build one of these, I'm not sure why but it's probably just for the appearance.
I think it's interesting that for the first time in 4 years they're releasing a rim brake version, they must see a market for them.
- 12 Apr 2024, 1:15pm
- Forum: Does anyone know … ?
- Topic: Kilometers or Miles?
- Replies: 409
- Views: 37264
- 12 Apr 2024, 12:27pm
- Forum: On the road
- Topic: Feeling bad - is it the bonk?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 1877
Re: Feeling bad - is it the bonk?
Oh dear - sorry to hear about that :-/Audax67 wrote: ↑12 Apr 2024, 10:04amI've been diabetic for 40 years. My standard medication reduces sugar uptake from the gut, burns muscle glycogen all the time and depresses the release of glycogen from the liver. If I cut stop taking it, it takes 4 days to be eliminated, so on every ride a deal of the sugar I consume remains in the gut. When I ride without sugar intake I depress my blood sugar & the remaining muscle glycogen in about half an hour. Not recommended.mattheus wrote: ↑11 Apr 2024, 5:24pmProbably the biggest reason for this happening is you've effectively hooked your body on high-sugar intake.Audax67 wrote: ↑11 Apr 2024, 5:12pm I can offer this, though: after I got my first stent, the hospital dieti-chienne told me to stop putting sugar in my bottles and avoid sugary stuff at controls. I tried it for one ride, and had such a vile case of bonk that I thought I was having a heart attack: no energy, trembling, ready to fall over sideways. I ate one of the sugary bars she'd told me to leave behind and I was fine in a few minutes.
Just like smokers who cough through the waking hour until their first fag. They say it makes them feel soooo much better!
You fooled me with the "stent-talk". I didn't twig that - like the OP - you hadn't mentioned your diabetes.
SO ... when I looked into all this sugar/exercise business, I wasn't considering diabetes, so this is just off the top of my head, but:
the whole point of fasted training, low-carb diets etc (even keto for the hard-core!) is that you need much reduced, minimal sugar absorption from the gut. I can ride quite hard for hours on an empty stomach, and ride 4 days with 7h sleep just on fats/protein.
A quick google - a VERY quick google - suggests fasted training works well with Type 1 Diabetes.
- 12 Apr 2024, 9:52am
- Forum: Touring & Expedition
- Topic: Anyone else here watching Sarah Bridgewater?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1751
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- 12 Apr 2024, 9:50am
- Forum: Touring & Expedition
- Topic: Anyone else here watching Sarah Bridgewater?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1751
Re: Anyone else here watching Sarah Bridgewater?
You're not wrong!!!
I can't see me getting any value/fun out of watching that. Just tried it to see what the fuss is about, and ... well, each to his own I guess. Live streaming of someone's bike ride through very mundane places ...
Certainly needs some editiing ... but I'd want to see some actual bits of interest before watching for longMaybe when she finds time to do some editing there might be something worth watching.
It’s the modern world though isn’t it a way to make a living which we never dreamed of as youngsters. Her estimated income on Twitch is between 700-1700 dollars/ month
https://streamscharts.com/channels/sarahbridgewater
She’s not got enough subscribers or watches on YouTube to make anything significant on there.
Are the twitchers PAYING, or is it all advert-based payments?
- 11 Apr 2024, 6:58pm
- Forum: On the road
- Topic: Cyclist dies after crashing into open car door
- Replies: 94
- Views: 13097
Re: Cyclist dies after crashing into open car door
The Skoda Karoq ploughed into Midas Jewellers on King Street in Knutsford, Cheshire, at about 09:00 GMT. Staff member Jeremy Goodwin said he and a colleague had been putting out window displays when it happened. Cheshire Police said the driver, a 75-year-old local woman, was not injured in the crash.1 day ago
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Car crashes through Knutsford jewellers shop window - BBC News
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Car crashes through Knutsford jewellers shop window - BBC News
- 11 Apr 2024, 5:24pm
- Forum: On the road
- Topic: Feeling bad - is it the bonk?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 1877
Re: Feeling bad - is it the bonk?
Probably the biggest reason for this happening is you've effectively hooked your body on high-sugar intake.Audax67 wrote: ↑11 Apr 2024, 5:12pm I can offer this, though: after I got my first stent, the hospital dieti-chienne told me to stop putting sugar in my bottles and avoid sugary stuff at controls. I tried it for one ride, and had such a vile case of bonk that I thought I was having a heart attack: no energy, trembling, ready to fall over sideways. I ate one of the sugary bars she'd told me to leave behind and I was fine in a few minutes.
Just like smokers who cough through the waking hour until their first fag. They say it makes them feel soooo much better!
- 11 Apr 2024, 1:29pm
- Forum: Does anyone know … ?
- Topic: Techniques for braking on steep descents
- Replies: 89
- Views: 10158
Re: Techniques for braking on steep descents
Always good to be shown a Silver Lining! Bless you.rareposter wrote: ↑11 Apr 2024, 1:17pmIt's clearly unrideable and in fact you should offer your body to science for a study on how you've survived this long.
You are hereby instructed to visit a bike shop, and once they've overcome their amazement at your retro (and clearly unrideable) machine of death, they will sell you a more appropriate bike for twelvety thousand pounds. Be aware that it'll have a use by date of next month, after which it'll be obsolete and you'll be subjected to much derision and ridicule should you dare to be seen on it.
But for a month or so, you'll be king of all you descend.