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Roads in Edinburgh are shockingly bad.

Geoffrey Cox did suffer a loss in earnings by being Attorney General, but my heart is not bleeding.

Between July 2017 and June 2018 he had extra parliamentary earnings of £487,043.

In South Wales there is a Sebastopol which no doubt developed after the Crimean War.

Then there is Bourneville in Birmingham and Chapel en le Frith in Derbyshire.

Good year for cycling.

Did the Moffat Toffee 200km Audax in March and did the Randonneur 500 for the year
Got the train to my brother’s house in London and cycled up to Derby over 4 days and bagged 20 BCQ points.
Rode up Gospel Pass for the second time in 36 years.
Got another 12 BCQ points through the year.
Cycled Schipol Airport to Zandvort and back after work on a hire bike.
Used an e-mountain bike in the Tuscan hills.

Managed just shy of 3,300 miles, my best distance ever.

He only got fined £750.

That’s a fair bit of money for me but for him that’s got to be small change.

I see plenty of people on my plane (BA) with helmets, cycling or skiing.

There shouldn’t be any issues at security so it comes down the airline.

Stroud's books were great for me in the mid 80's studying engineering at Uni.

Plenty of taxis at the airport, but from memory, they are usually four door saloon Seats or Skodas.

I don't recall seeing MPV's.

I recommend reading her book. It is a very good read.

She had to fight a lot of battles with the system.

One that stands out. 2002 she won Gold at the Commonwealth Games. 2006 she was told she would have a team of Welsh cyclists to support her. In the end she was sent on her own.

The Welsh mens team sent 6 riders. None of them finished even finished

She got bronze solely on her own efforts.

I have also seen many wheelchairs delivered from the aircraft hold to the aircraft steps. None of them needed the tyres pumping up before being used.

Cabin pressure in an aircraft will vary with the altitude it is flying at.

Aircraft holds are pressurised to the same pressure as the cabin.

On the aircraft I fly, the maximum cabin pressure is 8.4psi, which is equivalent to being at 8000' above sea level.

So the bike tyres are not going to burst on a normal flight.

Even if we lost all pressurisation, as has been said before, the increase in tyre pressure would only be 15psi. I would expect the tyre to withstand that or else we would be getting punctures all the time due to pot holes and bumps through normal riding.

If you want to see a good example of the effect of cabin pressure, drink a bottle of water empty and reseal it before the aircraft starts to descend. After landing it will be quite crumpled by the increase in pressure.

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From what I can remember of the rules, it states that the container mustn't be bigger than 100ml.
Always puzzled me that you could take a 1ltr container that was completely empty ............... and be refused.][/quote]

It is perfectly acceptable to take an empty container greater than 100ml through security. I've taken a bidon through many times.

Some airlines don't provide their crew with drinking water so they will often take an empty bottle of water through security and fill it up airside.

I have taken a small bottle of wet lube oil in my carry on luggage without any difficulty. Needed to take it out to oil bikes provided by works sport club that are kept at at hotels we stay in. It must be in a less than 100ml container and fit in the 1 litre clear plastic bag that all your other liquids you carry on board will be in.

A group of us from SE Gwent (Caldicot) had a go at it in 1980 at the event in Raglan.

I was thirteen at the time and it was tricky. I remember the pacing event, and the observation challenge.

We had been told we would be asked questions enroute, "about cycling".

Turning a corner a Marshall stops me with a selection of wild flowers to identify - no hope!

Then "What is a pipistrelle?" I had a good look around my bike before giving up and being told it was a bat.

A good day out but a bit challenging for me.

When I lived in Solihull, I bought a number of bikes from Scotts Cycles, Stratford Road, Hall Green as mentioned by aprevious poster. They stocked Dawes at the time (2003-2007) and found them a good place to shop.