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A second-hand 90's mountain bike with non-suspension forks & 26" wheels. These are generally pretty rugged. If the wheels and frame etc. are sound you can replace the transmission & tyres to get a pretty decent bike for around 200 quid. Use until you drop some weight and then use as a second, pub bike
Something from https://www.fahrradmanufaktur.de/en/fahrrad/trekkingrad.php, pretty solid German touring bikes. I use one of them for commuting
Something from https://www.genesisbikes.co.uk/bikes?categories=Bikes~Touring, pretty solid British touring bikes, I've got one of their Ti audax frames for my "nice" roadbike

Carlton green wrote:

sukuinage wrote:An impeachment only says that charges can be brought in the Senate. There is nothing proven against Trump, no trial has been brought and no court has convicted him. Sadly there seem to be a number of people who think that their dislike of someone should allow them to remove all due process and go back to the standard of evidence required during the Salem witch hunt.
I very much doubt that this will ever be handed over to the Senate as the Democrats are too scared that a trial will bring out all sorts of information about Joe and Hunter Biden's dealings, inter alia, in the Ukraine and elsewhere.
I would love to see all the information being brought out in court but I doubt that it will ever happen; it's purely mud slinging from the Democrats who should be spending their time finding a credible alternative prior to the next election.

A few days ago I was chatting to an American friend about this situation. He’s a swing voter who once supported Trump (can’t think why beyond being fed up with the Liberal Elite) and now doesn’t like him. His view is that the Republicans will stand behind Trump regardless and that consequently the Democrats are wasting time and resources by pursuing Trump. He feels that the Republicans need to identify - and focus their efforts on - candidates and policies that the American people will vote on mass for, and that the recent U.K. election results point out what failure to do that will achieve.

Brucey wrote:

Darkman wrote:Ooh, reminds me of Geocities!

So the bottom line is, 28" and 29" tyres are both 622mm??

700C is a French sizing term, but the same.

Therefore, any of the above should fit my rims (within reason re width)...

28" = 622, always....? oh no, if only it were that simple, I would have said so.

The reason why some 700C tyres are marked 28" is because they pinched one of Mr Dunlop's many 28" tyre/rim sizes. That still leaves plenty of others. For example 28" x 1-1/2" is a size which is still used and fits to a 635mm rim, so ~40-635 in ISO. There are other (now rarer) sizes too, which in some cases the French also pinched and called 700A, 700B, 700D and so forth, all using different rim diameters. 28 x 1-1/2" tyres are 700B by the way.

cheers

Norman H wrote:A pair of back rollers and a bar bag should be more than adequate for hostel touring. The Ortlieb dry bags are a cost effective way of expanding capacity. The 13l size are a good fit crosswise on top of the rack and are more than large enough to contain even a 4 season sleeping bag. For more capacity, but a little more expensive, the 31l rack pack is excellent and can be attached by using the buckles of the Ortlieb panniers.

Psamathe wrote:There was an interesting commentary earlier today on the radio about why he's pulled out of visting Denmark and it has nothing to do with their PM not being prepared to talk about selling Greenland.

Apparently Obama is visiting Denmark a few weeks after Trump was to visit (Obama giving some talk and/or Q&A to students in Northern Denmark) and the thought is that Trump is scared Obama will undoubtedly draw a large crowd and he will get a few people all of whom will all be booing him and the US press will report the comparison extensively. So he's scared about the comparison so he's cancelled his visit. And Obama's visit was only announced a week ago so Trump cancelled his visit pretty soon after he realised Obama was going there....

Which also feeds into another wild speculation from a talking head I don't hold much regard for (Trumps ex PR guy that lasted for less than 2 weeks, can't remember his name) but his thought made a lot of sense. He was saying he thinks it likely that Trump might pull out of the next Presidential elections. His supposition is that Trump has such an ego and is such a narcissist that standing and losing would be a disaster for that ego and, as the news and polls get bad, so Trump will look for an excuse and he thought it likely that Trump would pull out of standing for another term around next March under some daft excuse (bone spurs maybe?) but purely becaus ehos ego could not stand it should he lose.

Ian