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On my cycle home each day, there is a really nice bit where I have been on a gentle downward slope for some distance, turn a corner at good speed, and then there is an uphill. I absolutely love pushing myself as hard as I can and keeping it above cut off for as long as possible. Being fat and...

So on a long downhill, where I really don't want to go at high speed, should I just use front brakes? Or try to achieve some sort of 50:50 or 60:40 balance? I think I have been very wary of applying front brakes hard and suddenly and flying over handlebars - and probably ending up using rear...

Just replaced the rear brake pads on my bike - worn right down. This was something of an emergency as I had not realised that they were so worn. When I noticed poor braking and odd noises, I checked both front and rear. Front, I'd guess, about 1.5mm left. My usual routes have quite a bit of slow...

Just as at the local takeaway - set menus are designed to make it look like you are getting a wonderful deal but are usually a selection of the least expensive dishes for the place to make and supply. You often get a small bag of prawn crackers when if you ordered them on their own, you get a...

I completely disagree. Throughout the driving force has appeared to be vanity. Going through a process like this which then falls apart due to issues which were predictable can be seriously negative. A second bite at the denuclearisation cherry might very well prove extremely elusive. (And not...

And I think it's gonna be a long long time

I want to know too! Well, once I have checked mine does that as well. :)

Even then, I suggest a bit of a stretch. I just ride my completely unmodified bike and have zero intention of derestricting it. I guess (and that is all it is) that despite some interest in dongles, etc., the reality is the majority are like me. Just yesterday I was overtaken by an Audi A6 just...

A few months ago I posted that I had bought some fairly inexpensive over-glasses - £12.50 - primarily for cycling. Now we have had some sun, thought an update might help? The ones I bought were from Amazon ASIN: B00ABGN40G I find they work very well. They do not dramatically affect the colour...

Even within some of the families with such antecedents, there can be dismissal of "the Jewish side", or "the goyim" (depending who is doing the dismissing) even today. And that is the extended family I know very well - coming in late 19th century.

That would have been good - but not as good as if it had been built-in (or at least designed-in) before the tunnel had even been built.

I could never understand why the channel tunnel vehicle trains only travelled to Folkestone. It would appear to make so much sense to carry the vehicles to Watford, or Reading, or wherever for loading/unloading. I can't believe it isn't far more efficient than each vehicle being independently...

Chameleons are very attractive creatures. Grossly unfair to put them in the same sentence.

Makes me think back to Clockwork Orange...

We do. But we also import considerable quantities in, for example, mayonnaise!

The irony of (almost) quoting Rabbie Burns. (I used to live in the house where he was married.)

As someone who only started cycling again at the beginning of this year, I know quite certainly that I could not have managed without assistance. I can now cycle up the steepest bit of my commute on middle power (not quite there at lowest assistance - yet). But I can also happily cycle a fair...

Using numbers of signatories as a way of bigging up something is a very old trick. It just might make some sense if this particular 60 were not countered by 60 with completely opposite views. Could end up as a sort of public referendum of top politicians, economists and business leaders only...

Except a member has marked the opening post in this thread for Offensive language - for no reason I can fathom.

Did you hear that the Democrats in the USA have abandoned playing bridge? They can't bring themselves to bid anything but No Trumps. :D