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My career took me everywhere so I didn't have a regular commute. If I was fortunate to be on one City site for any length of time, I used to power wash my mech, avoiding the cassette, then dry and re lube. The daily commute begs the question why have a deraileur? They are really superfluous these da...

I have a similar problem with my Shimano Thumb shifter. I have onset arthritis in my hands and the Thumb joint can be painful. No doubt, with grip shift, the problem would be less so.

I had a much loved Claud Butler that I fitted butterfly bars to. The bike came with the defunct GripShift changers and I carried them over to my new bars. They were excellent changers, and I cannot understand the prejudice against them. The Sachs Wavy variety that superceded Grip Shift were excellen...

My insurers stipulated a Gold Standsard Lock too. I found a Master Lock DL 210, supplied with a steel cable with eyes either end and four keys, was the answer . At £41.99, it represented good value. It is heavy, but that's the price you pay for security. The "D" is large enough to go aroun...

I am in exactly the same situatiuon as Tangled Metal, indeed we live within a stones throw of each other. Frankly, I cannot be bothered to scramble my brain trying to understand all the half buttocked regs. I confer that I will ride in smal groups, keep out of shops other than take aways, and limit ...

Cornwall!! You're welcome to it! i worked there in the late sixties and back then you still might find a village with a bakery selling saffron buns and people who talked proper and confered with you by sucking through their pierced lips. Now the place is full of of incoming grockles, who speak with ...

No change to Lancashire in the latest Tier farce.
I won't be cowed into staying in my tiny top corner of the county and will ride my bike within reason, just as I have done to date.

Someone mentioned Tredz. First class outfit. I tried ordering a cassette from CR yesterday, but their payment pages would not accept my details. I tried their pathetic Chat when it wasn't busy. Complete waste of time. Their phone line was unavailable and the E mail just tries to send you through The...

All the foregoing offers just reinforce my negative outlook on county boundary tiering and from a personal point of view, I will ignore the ban on inter county travel and furthermore, I will ignore the sort of pathetic castigation some of us are getting from the usual mysanthropic virtue siignallers...

Whilst I am willing to comply with government regulations aimed at stemming Covid 19 infections,I am confused and unhappy with the tiering boundaries. It makes sound sense that large built up areas of the UK like the West Midlands and the Liverpool/Manchester region will be contiguous and share the ...

Interesting variety of replies here and thanks. I admit I favour the up front and forward tactic of simply approaching a friendly looking "Neighbour" and offering a small contribution (Say £2). That will work fine until the issue becomes more "public" when some sort of protocol w...

This is obviously going to emerge as an issue sooner or later. Presently, only hook up's are going to offer the facility of charging your e bike battery. Only people with camper vans and motor homes and the odd family tent unit are going to have the requisite leads and terminals. I wonder, has anyon...

One very negative aspect of the confusion is the way that it has set us against each other and given the usual zealots among us yet another chance to castigate and censor. This has happened in my own small group and it is utterly dismaying. The fact that there is no legal staus to the restriction se...

Just to assure people, I have no problems at all with physios versus Osteos. My Physio had to close his clinic due to Covid, but the Osteo worked on.
National health physios are confined to telephone appointments which I think most would agree are a bit of a farce.

Well, still suspicious of the chance it might be a fracture, I got my Doc to refer me to the Radiographers. A couple of weeks back, at the walk in, I asked if there were signs of fracture and was relieved to hear "No" Subsequently, my Doc assured me that I was suffering from arthritis cons...