Any question answered...

Contrails & fluoride in the water.

If a brake is on a TT bike, then sure it's not actually a brake but a "speed moderation device" like the Delta's were.

I'm comfortable enough with just an Omega on my TT bike. With decent pads and proper set up it's more than powerful enough, and apparently the Omega X is significant improvement.

Tour just did a test.

100km 1000m elevation in Aero savings with 404 75kg 200 Watts

Winner: Madone 9.9. 03:21:37

Any other bike: 03:25:16

any other bike

I bet it could.
Especially if kwazi is on the back.

I'm pretty sure nobody ever wore a top hat to ride an ordinary, back in the day. They have always been for the most formal wear.
A nice flat cap to match one's tweed suit would have been much more the thing.

I'm pretty sure nobody ever wore a top hat to ride an ordinary

Remember kids, always wear a Bowler

Well... a bowler was the safety hat of the day. EDIT: totally just typed the same thing as you on the end there.

Bowler hat has lower CdA than a Top hat. They were up with teh aeros even in the late 19th century.

X-ray came back negative. "No further action".

So what the fuck am I supposed to do with this lovely new-found reduced lung capacity or peak flow or whatever the fuck? What happens when this puffer runs out?

Oh, apparently my mum didn't have adult asthma, she had normal asthma and grew out of it. I must've got that arse-about.

What happens when this puffer runs out?

Repeat prescription.

If the blue one doesn't work, you may be put on a brown one.

When you get a cold / chest infection, you get a TUE, and will turn into a machine.

Don't need a TUE for a couple of puffs. Might just be a good excuse to never ride in the cold again. books one way ticket to spain

Chest infections for asthmatics can be a lot worse, and are often treated with steroids. And need a TUE. And turn you into a machine.

I don't get chest infections. There's nothing to infect. #deadinside

in reply to @hippy
The brown inhaler is a preventer which in my and my daughter's case is two puffs morning and night. The blue is to ease the wheeze so to speak should it occur. I haven't needed the blue since my polypectomy/septoplasty op in June. They should, as far as I know, be prescribed together (or have been for us).
My daughter is suffering badly at present because she is fifteen and has a cold and knows better that the doctors when it comes to brown puffs or blue for that matter. It has stopped her running and trips to the gym but she is still a pain in the arse.

what the fuck am I supposed to do with this lovely new-found reduced lung capacity or peak flow or whatever the fuck?

What's your peak flow when you're on the salbutamol? Have you been back to your GP yet to discuss a treatment regime? If you're consistently doing 70% of predicted PF, they will probably want to get you started on beclomethasone to reduce the inflammation which is the likely cause of your reduced PF, especially if salbutamol alone isn't getting you back up to some decent numbers. Salbutamol and other beta-2 agonists treat bronchospasm, which is the usually temporary constriction of the airways caused by some trigger event (allergen, irritant or exercise etc.), but if your airways are constricted all the time you probably have underlying inflammation (typically caused by infection or autoimmune action) which is treated with beclomethasone or other glucocorticosteroids. Most of us experience a mixture of both, so we get to take both classes of drugs at different times.

As @TW says, the long term prognosis if you have asthma is a lot of repeat prescriptions and annual visits to the surgery to see the asthma nurse to check that your treatment programme is working. The good news is that the drugs actually work, so now we live* with asthma rather than dying from it as my grandmother did.

*mostly. Asthma still causes some fatalities. You're lucky you moved over here, Oz is just below us in the league table :-)

Anyone have a Currys discount code for an oven?

@mdcc_tester

I've not been using it. I haven't been riding and I don't really notice any breath shortness until my commute and then I just assumed it's coz I haven't been doing any riding, ie. add 8kg and remove all training = everything is a bit harder. Certainly nothing like California. I'm hitting maybe 500s without Sal.

I rang my GP clinic today to find out if they'd got my xrays back, they had and they said, nothing out of the ordinary. That's it. Should I book another appointment or just carry on? Because it's tricky to notice I'm not sure it's a massive issue unless I get cold. If I do another winter audax I'll test peak flow again.

It doesn't feel like it's going to kill me. Neither did DVT. Neither did the brain surgery. Ok, the brain surgery did feel like it was going to kill me.

@mdcc_tester How long does Sal take to kick in? I've just had a puff to see how I compare without.

Shit, WADA's at the door!!! Hide the drugs!!!

There is only one thing to do then. Ride the Crackpot for the Rapha 500.

perhaps your airways have developed a reaction to yeast..

You're a reaction to yeast

well i am cultured

Mouldy.