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I believe that the article says that inexperienced/less fit cyclists are wrong to twiddle excessively. Froome etc are different. I know we are all different but I have always maintained that spinning a very low gear fast is daft. My legs are at their best a a slower cadence. Yes, you can frequently...

. As others have said though there is SOME innovation there ..e.g. the mech damper so MAYBE the more usefull bits will "trickle down" to more cost effective and useful groupsets over time... ???? To widen the discussion to SRAM innovations more broadly, one which did seem to have some pot...

I've noticed that judges in such cases, as in this one, now frequently use the phrase 'vulnerable road user' when sentencing. It seems to crop up too many times to be coincidental. Something new in the sentencing guidelines, perhaps?

box lining and a few of the components suggest a 1960s bike to me. Yes, I'm not sure the box lining is much help in narrowing down the date. My JT Clubman frame, bought from the brothers in 1975, has box lining and decals more or less identical to the OP's bike. As others have said, the box lining ...

If what is now Team Sky survive but with a sharp budget cut I think that would be a Good Thing. They can still do well with merely a good selection of good riders, rather than a suffocating selection of good riders. Yes. On several occasions they've been fielding teams in simultaneous stage races i...

Worth trying ShoeGoo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe_Goo

Used to use it a lot for repairing running shoes. Not sure it would be abrasion-resistant enough for the constant scraping in your application, but worth a try. Several UK suppliers

Simple really, if the sun is low, use the car sun visor and drive slower!!! Unfortunately too many people seem to assume that the sun visor fitted in the car will be enough, but very often it isn't. The visors in most cars cover only a small area - when the sun appears below the bottom edge or to t...

Worth noting that this happened to coincide with a road safety action week by the Devon and Cornwall police, which has included the WMP close pass initiative, among other things. The police officer quoted would have been conscious of this, so was using an actual incident to illustrate a general poin...

The problem only began in the 70s, when flails replaced oscillating cutters (like the domestic hedgecutters still in use), which were much slower. Because the flails rip rather than cut, they's also bad for the health of the hedge. I'm a bit surprised to rad that. I'm no expert but heard a wildlife...

One of the reasons you sometimes get a lot of punctures and others not is to do with the composition of the hedge. In areas where there's a lot of hawthorn/blackthorn you'll obviously suffer. But here in mid-Devon the hedges tend to be dominated by beech, hazel, elder etc - with the occasional thorn...

In those previous decades, the cutting technology seemed unable to collect or direct the cuttings, so they often ended upcutters seem able to either collect or direct most of the cuttings back into a field or over the hedge that they're cutting, so there's far less on the road. Cugel If only. Still...

I see that BC has launched a new 'Commuter' membership category. Was it not a late CTC CEO who objected to BC 'parking tanks on our lawn?'...

Including a half allegation that the Ordnance Survey discovered that the AA were copying their maps due to 'Mountweazels' though they claim it was just down to styling. In 2001 the AA paid £20 million to the OS for copyright violations. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/uk/2001/mar...

The extent of this problem can't be overstated. In the South West, every market town is being rapidly extended with greenfield developments of this type. Planning authorities are over a barrel: unless they approve substantial housing development, refusals will be overturned on appeal by the Planning...

I've been on Rivarox. for 3 years now after being 'promoted' from clopidogrel. (I'm now in permanent AF after two failed ablations.) No discernible side-effects for me, either. Even the excessive bleeding I was expecting from minor scratches etc. hasn't been an issue.