Oxford clarion response to the Gov Review, and a local motion to restrict LTNs:
https://oxfordclarion.uk/the-politics-of-ltns/
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- 19 Mar 2024, 10:15am
- Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
- Topic: LTN politics
- Replies: 52
- Views: 3138
- 18 Mar 2024, 12:38pm
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: 8 speed chain on 10 speed chainset ?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 443
Re: 8 speed chain on 10 speed chainset ?
Here's a tangential question: will the narrower chain run better/worse on those chain-rings? And shifts be slicker/worse? More fussy?
- 18 Mar 2024, 9:14am
- Forum: Racing, Olympics, TdF, Competitive cycling
- Topic: General racing chitchat
- Replies: 52
- Views: 32709
Re: General racing chitchat
Well, he tried to win a sprint finish this time, and he came pretty close!
I really admire his approach to TRYING to win these races that really don't play to his strengths. AND going for the Giro-Tour double this year - gotta love 'im!
- 15 Mar 2024, 12:40pm
- Forum: The Tea Shop
- Topic: The "Royals" Thread
- Replies: 1350
- Views: 54542
Re: The "Royals" Thread
That sounds about right.pwa wrote: ↑14 Mar 2024, 10:33pmA daft criticism, I have always thought. During that first week, unless she turned up with a spade and ready to dig, what was she going to do, except hinder proceedings? I have never heard serious criticism of her, here in S Wales, for that delay. All the serious criticism was directed at the Coal Board, for allowing the disaster to happen, and the Labour Government for clawing back funds raised for the community in the aftermath.Bonefishblues wrote: ↑14 Mar 2024, 8:20pm Fairly or not she was criticised for delaying her visit for 8 days though.
Good to know that fake outrage has been deployed for over 50 years (and counting ... )!
- 15 Mar 2024, 8:37am
- Forum: Touring & Expedition
- Topic: crazyguyonabike site
- Replies: 11
- Views: 796
Re: crazyguyonabike site
They seem like a worthy cause. Quite a close kinship to this one, IMO. Lots of cool stuff, just found this https://www.crazyguyonabike.com/blog/bo ... ted=0&v=15RecumbentRide wrote: ↑14 Mar 2024, 11:23pm Just noticed the site below is fundraising to avoid having to host ads and to keep going. I've known about this webite for donkeys years and it hosts many amazing journals of touring cyclists. It's an amazing resource that I think should be supported and reminds me of the Internet Archive. Pop along and have a look.
https://www.crazyguyonabike.com
- 14 Mar 2024, 7:15pm
- Forum: The Tea Shop
- Topic: UK Politics
- Replies: 935
- Views: 72532
Re: UK Politics
My first impressions are the same.Nearholmer wrote: ↑14 Mar 2024, 2:37pmI think it’s worth pretending that that form of words wasn’t put forward by a Government that is widely, and IMO rightly, distrusted in respect of the protection of fundamental rights and constitutional norms, and pretending that instead they were proposed by a neutral, trusted body.Hmmm... does anyone see any problems?
IMO, if you do that, and assume that the legal tests inherent in them will be rigorously applied, they actually aren’t bad. I might prefer to see it all flipped the other way, to create a clearer set of rights, and then simply forbid anything that impinges on them, but, defining rights is always a complex subject, as prone to have unintended consequences as anything else.
[And I was utterly dismayed at their most recent anti-protest legislation, so don't trust the current lot one bit. They must be fooling us both, somehow!]
- 14 Mar 2024, 6:58pm
- Forum: The Tea Shop
- Topic: The "Royals" Thread
- Replies: 1350
- Views: 54542
- 14 Mar 2024, 3:59pm
- Forum: The Tea Shop
- Topic: The "Royals" Thread
- Replies: 1350
- Views: 54542
Re: The "Royals" Thread
You're making a massive assumption about "the public" and what "no-one likes".toontra wrote: ↑14 Mar 2024, 1:33pmIndeed. It's really playing the public for fools. Middleton is saying she edited the photo herself. I would suggest that's a lie. There isn't just one edit - there are numerous, some relatively sophisticated and some clumsy, either done manually or by AI. I simply don't believe she had the time, knowledge-base or inclination to have done this.Psamathe wrote: ↑14 Mar 2024, 1:21pm Recent outcry over William and Kate released photo being removed from agencies because of extensive doctoring (fake), royals then admitting it was "fake" and refusing to release the real image to me highlights a major problem. I could not care about an image they chose to release to public for their PR purposes. What concerns me is that they feel it quite acceptable to deceive the public for their own PR purposes, that they cannot be honest and straight with us. Not good.
Ian
As you say that raises a whole host of issues - all varyingly grades of bad for the royal's standing. No-one likes being lied to.
I'm mildly favourable to the Royals, and don't give a monkey's about Kate/Wills tweaking a family portrait. They're not my kids!
90% of pictures published by the national press are processed in some way, often to give some bias to the story - this one seems very harmless.
- 12 Mar 2024, 10:51am
- Forum: Does anyone know … ?
- Topic: last second ebay bidding
- Replies: 51
- Views: 2421
Re: last second ebay bidding
At the risk of sounding ungrateful*, do you have a yes/no answer?? :-)Jdsk wrote: ↑12 Mar 2024, 10:09amAuction sniping:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auction_sniping
Jonathan
*I promise, I am grateful!
- 12 Mar 2024, 10:46am
- Forum: Racing, Olympics, TdF, Competitive cycling
- Topic: Death of a Pirate
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3979
Re: Death of a Pirate
Thanks!Paulatic wrote: ↑11 Mar 2024, 4:21pm Can be watched on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MgXT6dpm00
Just started it ... does it have Rendell all the way through? :-/
- 12 Mar 2024, 10:07am
- Forum: Does anyone know … ?
- Topic: last second ebay bidding
- Replies: 51
- Views: 2421
Re: last second ebay bidding
That was my understanding, too. I only use eBay now for BUY IT NOW items, as I can't be bothered with all this ...
but back-in-the-day I remember telling eBay my MAX BID, then walking away, knowing I didn't WANT to pay more than that. (maybe I'll get the item, maybe I won't because someone was willing to pay more). And you couldn't outbid me by a penny to "win " the game, as eBay had a minimum "raise" (as would any sensible real world auction room).
So now I've made it clear that I am decades behind the times ...
Are folk here saying that the current Sniping Software is cleverer than eBay's inbuilt feature? IAMFI :-)
- 12 Mar 2024, 9:59am
- Forum: Cycling Goods & Services - Your Reviews
- Topic: SendBike
- Replies: 3
- Views: 377
Re: SendBike
Cheapness isn't everything.
It seems likely that the OP found the courier option more convenient in some way. After all, it's no secret that airlines take bikes, so it's unlikely that he/she was unaware of the option until reading your post
- 12 Mar 2024, 9:57am
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: Why not have dual front discs?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1294
Re: Why not have dual front discs?
Could we have the two sides balanced electronically? Would save the weight of some hardware.
Preferably run by Bluetooth. Hopefully with an App to control it?
Preferably run by Bluetooth. Hopefully with an App to control it?
- 12 Mar 2024, 9:55am
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: Why not have dual front discs?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1294
Re: Why not have dual front discs?
Or in other words - the Bike Industry will love the idea, especially the last bit!rareposter wrote: ↑12 Mar 2024, 9:21amExtra weight.
Extra complexity.
Unnecessary in terms of power and even in terms of balancing brake forces.
Would require a complete redesign of the entire front end and make backwards compatibility even worse than it already is.
- 11 Mar 2024, 1:36pm
- Forum: The Tea Shop
- Topic: UK Politics
- Replies: 935
- Views: 72532
Re: UK Politics
*my boldJdsk wrote: ↑10 Mar 2024, 8:54pmAnd the next step:Jdsk wrote: ↑1 Mar 2024, 6:16pm Very strangely pitched speech from the Prime Minister:
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/we- ... xtremists/
"Minister fails to name which groups or individuals will fall under new definition of extremism":
https://news.sky.com/story/minister-fai ... m-13091632
Fortunately it's being called out:
"UK terror attack survivors condemn anti-Muslim hatred in joint letter":*
https://news.sky.com/story/uk-terror-at ... r-13091864
Jonathan
Thanks for that - genuinely good news:
IMO these 2 in particular could be influential:More than 50 victims of Islamist-inspired terror attacks, including the Manchester Arena bombing and Bataclan shooting, have joined together to call for an end to anti-Muslim hate.
In a joint letter, they warn that it is the "height of irresponsibility" for unnamed politicians to equate "being Muslim with being an extremist" and say some have been "facilitating anti-Muslim hate or failing to challenge it".
Rebecca Rigby - the wife of soldier Lee Rigby, who was killed by extremists in London in May 2013 - and Magen Inon, whose parents were killed in Hamas's attack on Israel on 7 October 2023, also signed.