Luke Rainbird

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!

Contact would lead to additional abrasion too, presumably? As it stands there's some (unavoidable) contact with the loops at the hub end which won't really move around anyway, but otherwise mid-spoke (where any real movement will be) there should be minimal friction so provided you stay on top of tension, shouldn't be an issue.

Baller! Edit: Had to go and check out the extra info on MTBR for the frame. That seatstay/ST/TT join is absolutely lovely Ads, really well done!

Surely if you're on the same local network they should be ok? Seems an awful setup if not!

Nice one Ed! Where'd you get it from in the end? I'll probably just wait until the 40X0 range comes out and grab a 30X0 at this rate

Rest of us are f***ed then

Sounds utterly painful Ali, bad enough for us on home broadband (albeit rural and normally at the 11th hour as we're no good at Youtubing). Must be a hell of a step up

Blue screen ***!

Pretty damn accurate in fairness

Sadly all the various allowances are notoriously shit for increasing in line with anything of value. Blinkin' useless and just mean everyone's going backwards in real terms

Not a lot you guys can do I'm afraid. It's a shit system - you either have to claim Child Benefit do a Self Assessment and pay it pack, or not claim it at all. Why they can't just integrate it into the PAYE system I don't know (well I do, but apparently they take no notice of their own incompetence)

I had the same thought. Looks great @DJEHB