Any question answered...

As yet* I've not had a puncture with a gatorskin hardshell thats with skidding and over 6 years. That being said they arent exactly a comfy ride and a bit slippery in the wet.

*I did once but that wasnt the tyres fault, I was running 25c ones at 20psi in the snow and a hit hidden pothole got a pinch.

Gatorskin are readily available, never go for a 23mm if you value your body.

Why do some pro's do this to their pedals? My cleats (brand new) roll (around the fwd axis of the bike) more than I would like, is this a solution?:

Something to do with variable QC on Look pedals and cleats I think, sometimes the cleat doesn't engage as much as they'd like.

That would make sense. And it's irritating. Cleats just feel loose in there.

If i have 3 categories, group a, group b, and group c. And i have results from time point 1 and time point 2. So you can have a1, a2, b1, b2, c1, c2. If there was only one category and 2 time points, I would plot a graph where a1 is black and a2 is grey.
I want to keep easily distinguishable colours and they need to be printed in black and white, because of who this is going to.

I'm colour blind. Not badly, but enough to maybe ask this question.

I would like to have a Dark something / Light something combo for a,b,and c, that can be easily distinguished on a screen and on a badly prnted page.

Ta.

How thick can the lines be?

Long dash, short dash, dash dot dash, for dot dot etc

Schwalbe Marathon Supreme.

Definitely this. Unless you never, ever want to puncture* in which case Marathon +

* from normal things. Three inch nails in the road are not normal.

Is "everesting" a thing?

It's a cheap and obviously desperately unimaginative variant of the forum's inspired invention of Ventouxing. :)

Is "everesting" a thing? apparently guys went up and down up and down till they had done same elevation as mount everest.

It is. I'm planning on try to do a spot of Everesting next time I'm out in Switzerland as a bit of a warm up to the Alpenbrevet. 19 climbs from Blonay to Lally and 19 descents back down again.

Choose tones of grey that work, then choose colours that match those tones.

Avoid any colours out of gamut.

Yes

Zipp Seatposts: are the graphics on the older ones (2014) screen printed or laser etched? I'd be looking to wipe the graphics with acetone or similar, so this won't work if they're lasered.

Standard service course, not SL, if that matters. Thanks.

You won't explode......maybe.

Who the hell is riding around at gas mark 4?

He's stolen that, doesn't have cleats on his shoes, nick him.

Who the hell is riding around at gas mark 4?

It's not the riding around, it's cooking them in closed cars which can really get the temperature up. Admittedly not past boiling point, unless you park near the Walkie-Talkie, but >340K is possible even in this country.

That graph was following an experiment to do with prolonged braking which heated some carbon rims/tyres up. I wasn't interested enough to actually read all of it.

Who the hell is riding around at gas mark 4?

HOW FAST??

GAS MARK 4!

It's for mountain biking on lava.

That'd be a volcano bike then.

Do any of the online routing websites allow you to import a gpx trace and plot a route over the top, using the trace as a guide?

I know plenty can import and create a route from a previous activity but I want to select some but not all of a mountain bike route.

Hmm... Cropping is possible with ridewithgps basic (£3) membership - not sure about re-routing a gpx trace, but I think so.