AdamR28

Got a photo of the hub as it is now Andy? Should be straightforward.

Agreed, they were twisting his words and always on the attack. Not cool. Reminds me of this car crash... In good news news, looks like cases are coming right down now. Perhaps we are nearing the end of data that can be used to create panic, and lives will start returning to normal.

Hmm, perhaps Onza and Mission. Early 2000s maybe. Bolt size is normally M5...

Oldskool! You need some rectangular spacers to go between the 'low' part of the mount and the clamp (only the small bit at the right hand end of the blue foam you made).

Over 1 million, apparently: https://electrek.co/2021/05/25/tesla-cybertruck-reservations-1-million-electric-pickup-trucks/ Not a bad bit of business. Small fry for him though I guess! I keep forgetting this is the angry thread, so I need to be angry. My ex-wife (and her behaviour / legacy) is continuing to prove a pain in the ass despite us having been divorced at least a year. I hoped I would be 'free' by now, but stuff still keeps cropping up. Advice on marriage: If you're not a million percent certain, just don't do it... If that means not getting married, your partner should be comfortable enough within themselves to know it doesn't change anything between you.

Is Planet X run by a guy called Boris? Hope you get your bike soon dude!

The bike industry is indeed hurting, but surely companies could just be honest and not take payment for stuff they don't have and therefore can't supply... That seems the easiest way?

They have their own factory now apparently, based in Guang Zhou.

A can of spray paint? Fair play on bending one of those though... I guess there are tons of options at the moment. Comes down to riding style, budget, etc really. Oh and availability! Yeah hopefully so. Really gotta get over the front when the wheel is so far out in front of you. I am sure you'll take to it like a duck to water!

I think you'll be alright with that much exercise Rowan! Jeez. Legs of steel! Had no idea Martyn had gone vegan a few years ago... Interesting. On the controlling calories thing, I guess eating plants has a huge benefit that way. 500g of tomatoes have less than 25g of cheese, for example, and I think we all know which one is easier to eat Agreed about eating out. It is really hard to find anywhere that serves 'normal' food plus has vegan options which are even as good as what you'd cook at home. Side salad and chips it is then...

Yeah, from what I can tell, and what others have said to me about low carb, that's exactly what happens. And agreed that having only the 'right' stuff in the house eases temptation! A decent, short commentary on GI (Glycaemic Index) and GL (Loading) at the top of the page, with a useful table of foods about half way down, is here: https://lpi.oregonstate.edu/mic/food-beverages/glycemic-index-glycemic-load In short: GL = (GI x how much carbohydrate), and is how much your insulin will raise post-eating. So, to keep blood sugars more stable and reduce fat storage (which is the same as burning more fat, effectively), you can either reduce the amount of load (eat less carbs) or reduce the GI of the meal (eat / make your meal from harder to digest food, ie. protein and fat). The second has the benefit of also keeping you feeling full for longer. I tried the first (cutting carbs) and it didn't work for me, but everyone is different so it's well worth experimenting. The other thing I liken this to is a fire. If you keep piling wood on it, it'll keep burning strongly. If you only add the odd stick here and there and let it burn down to embers, not much fuel gets burned. BUT I think that has to be good quality fuel... 1000 calories of processed stuff full of trans fats is not in the same league as 1000 calories from raw nuts, seeds, vegetables, etc, for example. Oh and when I say fat, I mean good fat... Oh and one more thing - vegan washing up. Amazing! Wipe the pan under running water and you're done, a very different experience to scraping bacon fat from a frying pan (for example). My thoughts at this point usually turn to 'if it's so tough to get that off a non stick pan, what is it doing to my insides...?'.

Ah yes, your body and brain both love carbs, it's very hard to give them up! I think if you are cutting things from your diet, it's easier to do this gradually, unless of course you have iron willpower (kudos to those who do) I went the other way recently and rather than cutting carbs, decided to eat the same amount of carbs but add more fat (good fats). In theory this has a few benefits: - Your body learns to use fat more readily as it's source of fuel (same way that keto works, I guess) - Having more fat content in each meal reduces the glycaemic index of the whole meal. In turn, that means less insulin released so the blood sugar spike - and resulting storage of carbs as fat - is reduced. I added almost 500 calories a day more to my diet (mostly in the form of peanuts, cashews, walnuts, almonds, pumpkin, sunflower, chia, sunflower and linseeds) and lost 4kg (of fat) in 2 weeks. It was really quite surprising! Also noticed my joints have become less creaky / sore - perhaps it's all the Omega oils in the seeds - and my overall energy has gone up. So that's a roundabout way of saying that my top snacking tip is nuts and seeds, basically. Sticking some dried fruit (dates, apricots, unsweetened cranberries, etc) in the same pot, or eating them along with a piece of fruit or with another meal (pumpkin seeds sprinkled on a tomato-y pasta dish, or chia seeds with porridge for breakfast, etc), helps to make them more palatable.

Well this has been even less "popular" than I thought Anyway, I hear what you are saying Flipp! I think Veganuary is almost more to do with thinking more about what you're eating, and trying new stuff, than actually the 'being vegan' bit, if you see what I mean. Lots of benefits to be had from both though, IME. I guess I would also call myself 'vegan' if someone asked, as that's probably the easiest way to explain it. So yeah, offer of 'support' from here too if anyone wanted to try some new food.

Correct... they use V12 and part of the T&Cs is that proof of delivery should be provided. They haven't delivered the bike yet so... https://www.v12retailfinance.com/images/PDFs/v12-retailer-guide-jan2019.pdf If it irks you Rowan, you are well within your rights to get the payments stopped. Just looked at the Hello Dave again, comedy head angle is comedy!

I think that's a poor effort at a word-glue I briefly had a look when I saw it had come about... let me rejog my memory... https://www.gov.uk/government/news/oral-covid-19-antiviral-paxlovid-approved-by-uk-regulator I just wrote loads and it disappeared, so this is the abrupt version... basically I think the headline number of 89% is a bit sly. The results are for those with other health conditions, does it work for the general population? Seems to insinuate it has been tested with Delta, hard to say for sure but perhaps Delta + Paxlovid gives a similar or worse "result" than Omicron without Paxlovid. We have 10% of the deaths from 3 times the number of cases this wave, so that means Omicron appears 30 times less deadly than Delta (I know that is flawed as we are doing more testing, but to illustrate a point...). Paxlovid reduces deaths by a factor of 9 according to their study. Insanely expensive (£375 per dose). No side effects listed. Think its come about too late. Think £94m could have been better spent elsewhere. Still think vegetables and exercise trumps pharma.

They haven't said. My feeling is that there is some sort of lockdown going on that isn't being reported.

Government restrictions aren't allowing them to manufacture anything at the moment.

Way too much effort. I'd rather eat McDonald's every day and just have a few dodgy injections.

Haha wow, you got away with that one dude! Cat like reactions Any ideas what those two videos will have been called? I do have an old HD with this sort of thing on.

As the title... interested to see if anyone is trying it. Heard quite a lot about it the last few years, but not so much this year. Anyone who has tried it before... how did you get on?

And even got the holy grail of up tensioning

Best type of bike ever. Enjoy

Its an impressive bit of engineering, but I'll never trust anyone who runs that little tyre pressure

Technically 'stronger', as the diameter is smaller for the same thickness and a sprocket of that size won't have the additional holes, but it won't last as long as the chain will only be running on ~7 teeth rather than ~9.

Gusset will be quieter, providing its a hardtail and you run the tension just off 'tight' (as it should be ideally).