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True, given time project fear will have become the reality, just as originally forecast. .

There's a big problem with the border solution that's been reached. A hard border with the strict rules that accompany that tend to be complied with, since even the thickest can see that variation is criminality. A more flexible setup which intrinsically allows deviation engenders a feeling...

Probably sport is the determinant, Presta were created for the sport types who try to save every gramme in weight. Originally though the Woods/Dunlop valve was always on bikes, originally with a rubber sleeve over an insert with a hole making a crude valve. Later versions have a ball valve in...

Solving a problem by pretending it doesn't exist never works, and that in essence is what has been done here. .

That's fine, each to their own. The benefits for me are that Schrader pumps and attachments are universal and everywhere. I find attachment quicker and easier with Schrader. The exposed center pin of Prestas is easily bent. And for those who use Slime etc, it's much easier to insert into...

Yes, some while ago a big fall in bike sales was forecast and it's looking like being a full third down in 2017 according to Bike-eu. It's a double whammee for IBDs, since they also can't compete on prices with the multiples. .

It was all three for me. Track pump on the full-size bike bike, CO2 on the folder and the Ring electric pump back at base. .

I imagine it will be more flexible than soft. Trying to cross with bulk illicit goods intercepted but individual transfers not bothered with. .

Which happened, cancelling the prior prediction of battery price reductions. One of our suppliers had to reverse a price reduction:

Very different from our ground conditions where I've spread 61 tonnes of gravel recently to alleviate the worst of the muddy stretches. Being surrounded by three estates totalling around 6000 homes and with other large numbers driving to it with their dogs, our reserve suffers a very high daily...

You may be surprised by how many know it's nearly a foot, and most of us have two of those. ,

Officially there's no cycling allowed in our reserve, and having a muddy paths problem it is a bit damaging, since bike tyres dig well in. However we don't attempt to enforce the byelaw, happy that many use it as a quiet bypass between two centres to avoid very busy local roads. We even...

Once again highlighting a real world impracticality of metric. 279mm isn't easy to picture and 0.28 metres is just awkward. The metric system is great for mathematics and science, but the Imperial system created from the real world of experience and scale is best for everyday purposes. That's...

Indeed, plants grow in annual cycles and we've calculated that around 134 tons of dog poo are deposited each year in our one third of a square mile reserve. If none of it was picked up it would finish the native downland plants in the reserve. That's how serious it is. . .

Yes, a compact and efficient way of saying 454 grammes. .

I think it may have been my earlier mention of having to pay for trade access like Norway. Of course he knows there is no link for that logical assumption, hence my saying his request is perverse. In that sense I was occupying a different space time co-ordinate and would have sent him that...

But my concern is a chalk downland nature reserve. The soil there is very poor, having flora that suits in those conditions. The last thing we want is added nutrient which lets in invasive species, destroying the natural flora. That's our published and genuine reason we want the hundreds of...

Indulging again in your new hobby of keeping people guessing Eddie! :D .

Because it's the sensible place to be. .

With some communal land around my home I have a different method with cats. When I've noticed a nuisance one I fling open the French door and run full tilt straight at the cat as if with murderous intent, chasing it out right of sight. Once is enough, they are all terrified of me now, running...