Luke Rainbird

Cool to see Hans in there, and strong bloody work on the cargo bike @Ali C

You're on the wrong forum if you want to suggest bike brands/models don't matter, Frank...

As much as they're a horrible bunch of useless pricks, I'm back with Virgin Media again at the mo. 200Mb for £28/mo (and some cashback deal which will bring that down to sub £20pm overall). Speeds etc are great (usefull as we run too many devices simultaneously, inc. lots of file sharing via Drive and the like for YT stuff with Prawn) so provided you don't have to contact their customer services team (who are utterly incompetent) it's all good.

New drinking game. First post in any thread in over 12 months has to neck it. Drink up, Booth.

We ran into Daisy and her mum at Center Parcs a couple of weeks ago. Ella was fangirling

Another vote for Ryobi here. Might not be so durable/balls deep as some of the bigger industrial brands out there, but they're equally not so expensive and for general purpose home use I've been impressed by the few One+ bits I've got.

This. Totally ruins the look of an otherwise decent looking bike. Marin should have run with this one for the press release...

Didn't see it coming right now, but pleased for you all. I'll echo the thoughts of the guys above with a huge "thank you" for all you've done for trials over the years. I'll also throw in a "well done" for making a step towards simplifying your life and taking off some of the load to let you focus on other things - not an easy step in the slightest. The very best of luck to Ben and Charlie - big shoes to fill but I'm sure you'll all do a sterling job

Magnussen back in as Mazespin's replacement too. Will be interesting to see the team dynamic with Mick and Kevin.

I don't have anything to hand, but from memory it was literally called "RimDisc" or something similar. 25" multi-piece rim-mounted rotor which conveniently buckled every time your wheel went out of true

Yeah, it's less of a "first birthday" party and more of a "we kept the squishy thing alive for a whole year" party.

Lots of good chat already, so I won't try and add to that and water it down. Babies are pretty robust, and you guys will figure it out in your own way. They don't tend to remember the first few years anyway so there's plenty of time to get it sussed before they realise you don't have a clue what you're doing. We used to do this shit in caves, you'll be fine.

Yeah. I've put a bit in over the past 6 weeks or so, but not nearly so much as I would if I didn't have darn responsibilities Still, the bits I've been drip feeding in each time it drops have brought my average unit cost down pretty nicely, so despite ETH being down over 40% in that period, I'm only around 14% down in the same period, and that's not factoring in the fact I have been switching between currencies a bit to take advantage of differentials in movements, which should offset that a bit more too. Not playing with much money, but it's my new car fund so it'd be nice if it saw a bit of a recovery.

Less Biden by the sounds of it, and more the Fed/general Central banks raising rates, and financial markets doing what financial markets do. Crypto as a hedge isn't working while things appear more correlated, and general market fear is causing literally everything to drop. Still, those discounts, if you think it'll come back again.

Really pleased for you man, that's great news. Congrats!

Usually they're negatively correlated, and one can be used as a hedge against the other. Until that resets it's unlikely to pick up for a little while. I'd recently started to dabble again - if it was good enough to buy last year, it's definitely good enough to buy at a discount now!

That's cool - I've not seen the study or any supporting info, only Ads' post (Which shows how easily a few figures can me misinterpreted and spread though, I suppose!)

I mean, China haven't got the best track record of transparency and being a team player

In all honesty, I think I find it more worrying that they claim 100% efficacy for ages 12-15 (and the odd dip for 70+ category)

Quite enjoyed this for a quick, cinematic edit.

Almost certainly - when I went from an old style cassette to one with a cheater gear it was genuinely comical how light the front end suddenly became every time I shifted down

Cheap (<1.3%) borrowing and a token (£150) monthly overpayment here. If rates go up significantly then I've hedged my bets a bit and reduced the impact, but they'd have to go up fairly significantly to beat long-term investment returns so that's where I've been funnelling the majority. We'll likely move back to the coast at some stage, which will inevitable cost me a small fortune regardless Mortgage free is a lovely box to tick regardless!

Looks fantastic Ads, nice one! Look forward to seeing how you get on with the spokes after some miles.

Sounds great Tom!