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A friend came into my workshop wanting to remove a freewheel. I fitted the tool, secured it with the qr and pointed him at the vice. I neglected to tell him to stop unscrewing when the freewheel started to come loose. It was the qr skewer which lost the struggle.

Strine curse.
"May your chooks turn into emus and kick your dunny down".

mjr wrote: ↑5 Jan 2025, 10:16pm

Mike Sales wrote: ↑5 Jan 2025, 9:52pm

Bmblb[i wrote:[/i]zzz post_id=1887371 time=1736112560 user_id=25113]


Unacceptably to some of the motorists behind them, that is. I doubt their passengers would actually mind.

: When robotaxis obey law, they don't go fast enough to compete successfully with Uber, so Google execs ordered engineers to ignore laws."

That sounds as if it is the passengers who object.
If the robots have to disobey traffic law in order to conform to normal monkey driving, the conclusion is clear.

Not explicitly object but they vote with their custom and hire the faster human-driven taxis.

Quite. I have often seen passengers get restive when a more cautious driver fails to push forward hard enough.

cycle tramp wrote: ↑8 Jan 2025, 11:41am Following reports about Trimp's latest speeches, do we think Trump is now suffering from dementia?

How could we tell? He has always seemed demented to me.
Vance the Vice does not appeal much as a substitute.

Bmblb[i wrote:[/i]zzz post_id=1887371 time=1736112560 user_id=25113]

Mike Sales wrote: ↑5 Jan 2025, 8:00pm

simonineaston wrote: ↑5 Jan 2025, 7:45pm It's an extraordinary boast on the part of us primates that nothing could possibly drive a car better than us!

The implication of mjr's post is that by driving more safely than us monkeys, the robots would be unacceptably slow.

Unacceptably to some of the motorists behind them, that is. I doubt their passengers would actually mind.

: When robotaxis obey law, they don't go fast enough to compete successfully with Uber, so Google execs ordered engineers to ignore laws."

That sounds as if it is the passengers who object.
If the robots have to disobey traffic law in order to conform to normal monkey driving, the conclusion is clear.

simonineaston wrote: ↑5 Jan 2025, 7:45pm It's an extraordinary boast on the part of us primates that nothing could possibly drive a car better than us!

The implication of mjr's post is that by driving more safely than us monkeys, the robots would be unacceptably slow.

“Tariff,” Donald Trump has said many times, “is the most beautiful word in the dictionary.”

gregoryoftours wrote: ↑26 Dec 2024, 11:34am

Mike Sales wrote: ↑24 Dec 2024, 4:00pm I note that the OPs fork had an aluminium steerer bonded to the carbon crown. I wounder if an all-carbon assembly results in a stronger joint here?
I hope so, because that is what I have.

I think that an all carbon monocoque fork is far less likely to fail in this manner.

Yes, the fibres can run from the blades into the steerer, avoiding any weakness.
This was a consideration when I bought them.

Navrig wrote: ↑26 Dec 2024, 10:56am

Pendodave wrote: ↑25 Dec 2024, 8:02am Counter point.
The nc500 is a wonderful ride in an amazing part of the world.
In March I doubt you'd see many other people on it.
I was on it in April a couple of years ago. At no point did I feel part of someone else's insta story.
Ymmv...

You are probably right. I have a thing against the NC500 and suspect the person who came up with the idea regrets it. I don't believe that the NC500 is good for the area, mostly because the type of traffic and how it is treated by the traffic.

All that said the roads and scenery experienced on the NC500 are fantastic but the same can be experienced elsewhere in Scotland.

I travelled the route by thumb in 1970, long before NC500 was thought of. It was rather more remote then, I am glad to say.

I note that the OPs fork had an aluminium steerer bonded to the carbon crown. I wounder if an all-carbon assembly results in a stronger joint here?
I hope so, because that is what I have.

March is a good month for avoiding midges, which can make life a misery, especially if camping.

pete75 wrote: ↑17 Dec 2024, 8:54pm

Becuas ethey don't like all the "foreigners". Ironic really because, outside Norfolk, Boston is probably the English town most in need of new blood to widen the gene pool.

A letter in the local paper complained that the writer had walked across the market place and heard not a word of English, but only nasty foreign tongues.

pete75 wrote: ↑17 Dec 2024, 5:13pm
Sounds like Lyell's butchers on Wide Bargate.

I like Bycrofts in Dolphin Lane. They sometimes have dripping on sale.
Boston is a fine town with many fine people, but they did vote for Tice!

Heard on the radio.
"I was literally over the moon".
Another word done to death.

simonineaston wrote: ↑14 Dec 2024, 12:12pm I think that in the old days, when most fittings were still threaded, adjustment round a circle could have been achieved by a combination of plumbers’s hemp & hard-setting joint compound. We don't know how lucky we are!
see too, oakum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakum?wpr ... 1#Plumbing

In the very old days, when plumbers were literally working with lead, joining lead pipes was a very skilled job.
I once drank with an old plumber who pointed out of the pub window to the lead sheathed finial on the cathedral spire opposite, and proudly told me that he had made it.
Myself, I prefer to use Yorkshire (soldered) fittings. Once you have the gas torch and the skill they are easy to use. In the case above you could align the tubes as needed, and solder into place.
Anyone with a training in electronic soldering will have a head start.
Cheaper too
I do like to include a compression fitting with a screwdriver operated valve so the appliance or tap can be isolated easily.