Any question answered...

@Dick is the resident expert on that and R2 bike, maybe @TotalShanner too

What VAT / customs are levied on orders from Europe?

Under £135 the shop will collect UK VAT at 20%, so you have nothing to worry about. Above that, the shop won't charge VAT but UK customs will, and you'll probably have to pay the carrier a fee for acting as HMRC's agent.

There is a third way where the sender makes arrangements with a UK agent to pay the tax, so as the end recipient you don't have to go through the hassle of paying the carrier before they release your consignment.

They are legit, and are a good company, but they have a minimum order for UK deliveries of 165 Euros so that they don't have to pay the VAT, you do. You'll pay VAT at 20% plus customs duties at whatever percent plus a Parcelforce handling fee of £12. It soon adds up.

I ordered an Abbey Tools HAG from them a while back because they were one of the few places with one in stock. The cost was 216 Euros, the VAT/duty/handling charge was £60.66. Spenny.

My nephew wants to build himself a website for his solo sports coaching service. He already has loads of Instagram, YouTube etc content, but wants to link it together with a simple site. He's not interested in writing code.

I am well out of the web game these days so no idea what to suggest - what starter no-code services should he look at?

Edit - does need to be able to take payments for a couple of different session types.

wix, squarespace, webflow. webflow v nice but might need a hand setting up something more complex within it. wix and squarespace both very easy and still nice but quite ubiquitous. all can handle payments at varying prices per month. He could potentially use something like square/sumup etc as a payment means instead of baking it into the site depending how he's contacting clients/prospects. Those usually mean a hardware outlay of between 20 and 150 and then a 1-1.5% fee per transaction. But often cheaper than upgrading to the ecommerce versions of those sites which can get spendy per month. So if he's just booking in one or two customers here and there and he speaks to them / sees them face to face he could take a card reader and take a payment on the day or something.

Related to @t-v question

Is deporvillage legit?

Are you thinking of bike-discount.de? I get them mixed up sometimes.

There's also bike24.com and bike-mailorder.com which are german as well?

They're legit but are based in Spain iirc so could be a pain with customs. Bought several pairs of shoes from them when living in Ireland.

If he’s likely to want to paywall certain content, Wix is a good shout. The CMS is a bit bullshit until you’ve spent some time and really figured out the best way to use the tools for layout etc

Please help me settle an argument. What are these, in a bicycle context? (They are wavy)

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Wave spring. Iirc

Came across them on nutted braked BITD. Not sure if they are used on modern bikes

https://www.smalley.com/blog/can-you-use-wave-spring-replace-lock-washer

Many thanks - and @jackbepablo!

Thank you. Fighting to keep someone from putting them on their spoke nipples…

They look way too big for nipples but DTSwiss have their PHR washers to go with their squarx nipples which look very similar.

They look way too big for nipples

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Does this video work?

If so would you expect these suitcase wheels to roll more freely - like skate wheels?

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would you expect these suitcase wheels to roll more freely

Not really. You could improve them (by fitting literal skate wheels in their place, which seems to be a common hack for anything on 70-80mm wheels), but they seem to spin easily enough that they will absorb a negligible amount of your pulling power at walking speed.

You're right. I did a quick test.

I guess I was expecting them to be smoother for 2 for £15. But the my only experience is skate and bike wheels...and I guess I'd have to factor in bearing into the cost of skate wheels. I swear I have some somewhere too.

I'd like to have something (e.g. small bunch of flowers and bottle of wine) delivered to a boat moored at one of the harbours in Grou, NL.

Does anyone know a courier who could do this? Might need a bit of ingenuity/ flexibility as there are several harbours in the town and I won't know until the last minute where the boat will be.

Wondering if any of the Dutch contingent on here knows someone who could help? @Tijmen @Rodolfo maybe others...

You tagged two Dutchmen who have moved east to colonise the former GDR..
It's also Friesland, which is very way out of my Dutch native Brabant lands so afraid I cannot be of assistance. But there must be people on here round those parts..

Any Confluence and Jira users here?

I think I already know the ans to this, but thought it was still worth asking.

I have a table in Confluence tracking various issues. For the ones with a jira already raised I want to pull in some of the fields like Status and Fix Version.

I can pull these into a cell in a shit looking table-in-a-table format (including heading) using the macro. If I only wanted Jira fields then I could have the whole thing in an acceptably looking table, but I don't. I want to mix info.

So is there a way to pull these jira fields into a mixed table, in a tidily/visually appealing form?

Cheers

(I would not be able to include all the wider regular table info into jiras for lots of reasons)

Maybe these guys can help? Drop in that L F G S S pedigree.
I reckon local couriers is the way to go. Can't imagine the larger companies being that flexible.

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And @nutsjesmoar is based round those parts iirc. The name would make sense then anyway

Thanks!

If @nutsjesmoar has any suggestions I would be open to hearing them...

When the wheels on a couple of our suitcases began to fall apart I replaced them with skate wheels (Decathlon's cheapest I think, and similarly cheap bearings). No real difference to how easily we can pull them along, but they're so much quieter than the originals