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Mick F wrote: ↑3 Jan 2024, 5:06pm Said it many many times on here .................

I cycle coz I can.
If I need assistance to cycle, I won't bother.

What about walking?
I can walk, and what if I need assistance to walk?
What then?
Mobility scooter?

Sorry, I'm an independent and active aerobic sort of chap who enjoys being out and about. Cycling "lights my candle" ............. and walking similarly.

Jdsk wrote: ↑3 Jan 2024, 2:43pm There are no declarations that justify responses that breach the forum guidelines:
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Jonathan

VinceLedge wrote: ↑25 Nov 2023, 9:33am I would think it might start to be a problem when bikes are 15-20 years old, but I suspect some sort of bodge would be possible. How many of these bikes will still be in use then?
Inherited a high quality Cordless drill, with NiCad batteries. Batteries are knackered and can't get replacements, so drill will go for recycling, a shame but it is probably 30years old!

Cugel wrote: ↑13 Dec 2023, 10:27am

Jdsk wrote: ↑13 Dec 2023, 8:36am

francovendee wrote: ↑13 Dec 2023, 8:28am MickF, I've looked at the area where you live and it looks a challenge even for someone who's cycled most of their life.

I'm sure it's not what you'd ideally want but the idea of a road ebike might work.

You could limit use of the motor to the steepest hills and use your legs alone for 'easier' sections.

I live somewhere fairly flat and use a non assisted bike but if we holiday in hilly parts I take the ebike.
Like many others I decried the coming of the ebike but eventually realised they do have their uses.

This option shouted out at me when I read the description of the route.

Jonathan

That's four recommendations for a Mick e-bike in the thread so far.

However, Mick strikes me as a chap who'll not easily change his mind. Wot he needs is "an e-bike “experience". Mind, it would need to be the right ebike - perhaps a lightweight tourer style rather than a-one o' them Bosch-equipped bike-tanks.

If only you lived in West Wales, Mick. What a time you would have trying one of me fine e-cheaters up and down the many mynydds! Off to the e-bike shop you'd be rushin'.

SwiftyDoesIt wrote: ↑3 Jan 2024, 2:19am

Cugel wrote: ↑2 Jan 2024, 8:03am

SwiftyDoesIt wrote: ↑2 Jan 2024, 3:15am
Using metric has meant more mistakes in both science world and ordinary folk confusing/misreading c(m)/m/k(m), m(l)/l, g and k(g) thus multiples out.
you wouldn't get that with imperial as much due to the non similar scaling.

As a proud Brexit voter I wouldn't have expected metric to be gotten ridden of and people don't like change so not surprising vast majorit are happy with metric but at least no further incursions on distances travelled.
driving on the right could be a thing in the future to be in line with Europe, we already have EU motoring laws coming through to the UK in any case that have been agreed without any consultation or consent whatsoever,

Driving on the right particularly could be a thing with full autonomous motor vehicles
All that said Brexit is sham and a pretence of change, the elite scum used it to create division amongst the plebs with no intention of following through, have essentially done nothing much to remove the UK from a corrupt globalist agenda driven entity.

But control what it is one wants, ignore the agenda driven crud from big brother and do 'you'. People can behave like sheep and do as they are told as clapping blue-pilled slaves/seals (as the powers that be like them to be), or feel a bit of individualism and not be so ruled b fear porn and brainwashing!

A fine and entertaining rant! (The style rather the the content). I particularly enjoyed the dissonance, having got used to it by listening to the more post-modern stuff on Radio 3 whilst in the shed spoilin' wood.

One question, though. How does one identify the "you" to "do"? Whenever "I" (whatever that is) look for my "you" all I can see is a great long jumble of events filled with mirrors, spangles, archetypes (both animate and inanimate) and some sort of beetling virtual authority figure giving "me" the gimlet eye whilst making a long series of contradictory demands, few of which I can understand, fully or in part.

Generally I try to ignore it all and go for a bike ride, devoting what processing power I have in the wetware to staying upright and on course. Staying upright and on course is what I do when not riding a bike too ..... although I'm not too sure what the course is so I mostly do staying-upright.

PS "Proud Brexit voter" ..... that's a hand grenade, that is! Incidentally: pride comes before a fall. It certainly has, eh!?

That's a nice personal attack in the passive aggressive style oft found these days instead of simply addressing the points made, what makes you think a character assassination is acceptable on this forum? I'd expect it on FB, X etc, but here, a supposed grown up cycle enthusiast forum, really?

Jdsk wrote: ↑3 Jan 2024, 9:33am

Mick F wrote: ↑3 Jan 2024, 9:31am

mattheus wrote: ↑2 Jan 2024, 1:46pm
Lines of latitude?

That's a figure of speech.
Latitude "lines" are curves around a radius or radii described by a point.

Lines are lines, and curves are curves in the World of Geometry.
...

Are you saying that curves can't be lines? That the only lines are straight lines?

Thanks

Jonathan

Airsporter1st wrote: ↑30 Dec 2023, 1:55pm

Airsporter1st wrote: ↑7 Dec 2023, 9:36pm

Tilley wrote: ↑6 Dec 2023, 8:21am Have you looked at something like these?
https://www.halfords.com/cycling/bike-a ... hMQAvD_BwE

They look pretty good - I’ll give them a try.

Many thanks to all for the suggestions.

Just a quick update - I bought a set of Winglights as suggested. Then I discovered that the handlebars on my scooter are not tubing, but a ‘D’-shaped extrusion, so the internal clamp method of fixing was out. Undeterred, I sawed off the internal boss, flush with the inner end of the lights and superglued them to the rubber grips. Job done!

They are very effective and the bars are quite wide , so there is an effective seperation of the lights. Video link to follow, if I can work out how to attch same. There we go (ignore the exhortations to download Dropbox and just click on “continue to website” to see the video):

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/tbxh8mf0 ... y7lm0&dl=0

Airsporter1st wrote: ↑7 Dec 2023, 9:36pm

Tilley wrote: ↑6 Dec 2023, 8:21am Have you looked at something like these?
https://www.halfords.com/cycling/bike-a ... hMQAvD_BwE

They look pretty good - I’ll give them a try.

Many thanks to all for the suggestions.

Nearholmer wrote: ↑15 Dec 2023, 2:34pm

These are always advertised in the golfing mags and certainly look like they would do the job

I may be doing an injustice to golfers, but from what I’ve observed they don’t seem to work very hard, a lot of walking fairly slowly while chatting, a lot of standing about while the other bod has a go, more standing about ‘sizing things up’, then a very brief burst of activity to hit the ball. They probably need to hang on to body heat.

That’s quite different from riding a bike, even riding a bike gently, so it seems likely that a different base layer will be appropriate. To some degree, cycling usually involves deliberately shedding body heat, in a controlled way, even when the weather is cold.

To me, that’s the thing: match the clothing to the activity level and how the individual responds to that activity level.

Toffee wrote: ↑18 Aug 2023, 4:36pm Currently in The Netherlands at the moment, there seems to be more people wearing helmets since the last time I was here in 2018

Tilley wrote: ↑6 Dec 2023, 8:21am Have you looked at something like these?
https://www.halfords.com/cycling/bike-a ... hMQAvD_BwE