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And I've just read it, so thank you for that. OK ... I've also just got back from a ride on which I tried out different combinations of gear and power setting on a couple of long gradual hills into a bit of a headwind. Using combinations of 3rd to 5th of 8 Nexus gears with med and high...

Thanks for that, flecc. I was inclined to think it was heat tending to accelerate oxidation, so I guess if I want to mellow this new stuff down, I just leave it outside in the sun this summer?

Most of the time, unless I'm feeling particularly idle, I ride with the power setting on "low". If I come to a significant gradient, I switch to "med", and when I do that, the additional motor assistance is always obvious. So far so good. What is puzzling me though is what happens (or...

If I go to the local timber merchants and buy some of their prepared timber, it's really white wood. The old secondhand prepared timber I've got in the shed tends to be much darker, and some of it's gone a lovely golden colour, although it's not been waxed or stained. I assume that the...

That's it! :D To go off at a tangent for a minute, we are blessed with a new development of "executive residences" backing onto the bottom of our garden. Yesterday, whilst trying to enjoy the sunshine and faff about peacefully in the garden, The Lady Wife and I were vexed by the continual...

And I'm now trying to remember where I read the advice that when set upon by a dog, the best defence was a proper old-fashioned bicycle pump. It was left up to you to whether to beat the hound about the head with it or to ram the pump down its throat. Alas, nowadays you'd probably get sued for...

Er ... no. It just proved to me that he's a designer, not an engineer.

If the rear end is in fact rigid (in the sense of doesn't have suspension), that frame design is a joke from an engineering POV.

Oh poo. Apparently my treasured South Lincs Mountian Rescue Team tee shirt has long since gone to the charity shop because I "hardly ever wore it 'cos it was green" :( Anyhow, on thinking about this, does that mean that on a good day, the residents of Amber Hill can see Moscow without the beer...

Well, FWIW I was brought up on rod brakes which were essentially neither use nor ornament, particularly in the wet. Having owned several good-quality bikes with various caliper brakes and with both 1980's and modern vee-brakes, I can truthfuly say that you can keep them. Give me the Magura...

I have nothing useful to say by way of answering your question, but good for you for getting both the kids and your good lady on two wheels. Nice one.

Shouldn't that be "ad hominem"? :cool:

Oh very good, Indigo. Or whatever your name is ...

Apologies if everybody's already seen this ... Why do people hate cyclists? - YouTube

Any other Radio Paradise listeners here? And while I'm at it, what else is worth listening to on t'internets?

Fascinating. Now tell me ... if I had nothing better to do than trawl through that site, would I find any small print anywhere telling me that using a bicycle fitted with some of that gear upon Her Majesty's highway is Naughty?

Awesome. Consider, if you will, the number of people who must have been involved in drafting and translating that directive, and the cost of the same. Then multiply that by the numer of EC directives ... Oy vey! And I'm not even Jewish ...

This time in Peru ... BBC News - Peru cyclists stage naked protest in Lima about safety

I'm no expert on this, but I do know from experience of taking pictures professionally that you may be in for a surprise about how many "public pavements" are no such thing. Don't want to **** on your parade, but even if nobody objects to your presence wherever you rock up, you're almost...

I wouldn't know about that, but I can tell you what used to be great fun on a motorbike in the late 1960's. It was called "Titty Time", and it involved pulling alongside Mr and Mrs Righteous and their kids in their Ford Anglia at the lights, and on the amber, giving a couple of hearty blips of...