Any question answered...

There used to liquid stuff to repair fractured elements in heated rear windows of cars. Conductive paint which sticks to glass.

That actually looks bang on.

Unfortunately they're out of stock.

What I actually want is a Kona Ute, but don't think I can store it anywhere.

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Idk about "properly" - but they are now very much in the late 00's road-bike-with-horizontal-dropouts price range.

Interesting. Which road bikes had horizontal dropouts in the late 00's though?

Cheers, finding a double chainset with a 30T inner ring is a challenge.

The 5703 and 6703 shifters are for triple chainsets, hence the 3. On my bike I was running an Ultegra FC6703 30/39/52 triple chainset and an 11-34 XT cassette. Deeply uncool, but an amazeballs gear spread.

No I meant the way back in the early days of fixies any old shit bag 2nd hand road bike with horizontal dropouts was >£150.

10yrs ago old an old steel mtb was <£50 whereas now they're priced on a whole range of factors and routinely go for good money.

routinely go for good money

First page of BIN/Steel/26" on ebay:
Marin Bobcat £70
GT Karakoram £100
Giant Stonebreaker £70

I bet the bargains are even better on other markets, especially if you go for less fashionable brands.

I have loads of thing to do and the British Cycling website is pissing me off.

I don't race and won't be commuting by bike but to join a local club I need the liability insurance of one of the non-Fan memberships - what's the point of the different ones? Just get the cheapest? Or are the discounts on certain tiers etc. worth the extra? I do have insurance with Bikmo already

Edit: okay looks like I have to either get Race Silver or Ride with the only difference being Race is £2 more and you get a "provisional race licence". Okay then

Any ideas what these white things on the horizon are? Spotted today from Edinburgh. Look massive given the tanker in front of them. Maybe some kind of water jet?

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I don’t think they’re oil rigs

Some sort of mirage? Eg https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/mar/05/ship-hovering-above-sea-cornwall-optical-illusion

Twin Towers cover up: they weren’t destroyed, they were stolen

The British museum shipping them over

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FataMorgana(mirage)

They are fairy castles or false land conjured up by witchcraft to lure sailors to their deaths, according to Wikipedia. Dunno though, they're pretty tall for water jets, would need quite some pump to do that.

They could be foundations headed for NNG. Pretty sure the marshalling port is near Edinburgh

This kind of vibe

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Yeah I wondered about those but they seemed a bit skeletal and yellow compared to these things. Also thought it could be the actual turbine tower or blades being shipped, it looks like they transport the towers upright on weird installation vessels that get jacked up off the seabed. But again didn’t seem quite right, eg can’t see any of the ancillary bits like the crane..

The sea is like, crazy

Is giffgaff’s service/coverage shit? They rate well on “Which?” but I’m regularly getting 4g signal (2/3 bars) but no actual connection. It seems like the phone coverage is also poor.

My speculation is that because it’s cheap their requests are low priority on the masts or whatever. But I don’t actually know how any of it works.

So I’m wondering if other people have any experience of giffgaff vs other networks. Is it worth paying a bit more for service from another provider?

The other thing I notice is that it’s shit when there’s lots of people around. I’m working in a shopping centre. It’s shit service all day, but now at 630pm once everyone has left the area it’s good again. Will this be the same for all networks?

Giffgaff is an MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) using O2's network. A quick Google gave this link, which I've not read thoroughly and which seems to be US-centric, but it also seems to backup your suspicion that virtualized network customers could be given low priority when there is congestion.

Does Giffgaff do this? No idea.

I'm definitely not an expert so this might be all wrong. I've used Giffgaff for years and it's generally been the right balance of adequate and cheap for me.

https://www.tomsguide.com/reference/mvnos-what-are-they-and-what-are-the-best-options

Will this be the same for all networks?

Giffgaff is as good as you're going to get on O2 infrastructure, it might be worth asking around if anybody is doing better in your location on a different network.

“ That translates to benefits for you such as lower costs, though you might experience slower traffic when parent networks prioritize their own customers over MVNO subscribers.”

Literally any busy place and giffgaff often becomes totally useless for me, lol. Might try o2 I guess.