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Get a snake.

I mean, I'd pay to see cats fighting a python.

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I searched for this but can't find the answer above.

How do you get rid of moths? We are being plagued by the little sh*ts and the Rapha is under threat!!!

Socks full of dried lavender stashed around the wardrobes

This is a trick question?

Is three cats too many cats? We have two at the moment.

Thinking of getting one of these:

Turkish Van? 3 cats - if you have a social pair already they should be fine.

You'd better get the bath sorted out quickly then.

What evidence would there be of Higgs and James being a social pair?

The bath inspector came today, we have permission to knock down the last few walls as a result.

Excellent, then you can watertight the lot and make a swimming pool for the new cat.

Higgs and James can chew over the fat from the poolside bar.

What evidence would there be of Higgs and James being a social pair?

Do they have Facebook pages, or are they on G+?

I bet they're on twitter. Cat are notorious bird lovers

^ repped!

Google maps (RideWithGPS & all of those types of thing & thing) has my lap pegged at 2.1km, but my GPS has it at 1.86km.

It means that my lap time are either 20 seconds above target, or they are 10 seconds over target.

Have you uploaded to Garmin Connect? I think it uses Bing now, check the route that G-Connect outputs against the Bing maps distance, then report back

Excellent, then you can watertight the lot and make a swimming pool for the new cat.

Higgs and James can chew over the fat from the poolside bar.

I was going to amuse myself by chucking the new cat in the canal every morning

Being fascinated by the team work to slingshot Cavendish into orbit for his TdF sprints this year, I was curious about drafting ... given the regular London commute road environment, more turbulent air, etc, what sort of speed and what distance apart do you have to be to effectively draft another (consenting) rider?

Google maps (RideWithGPS & all of those types of thing & thing) has my lap pegged at 2.1km, but my GPS has it at 1.86km.

It means that my lap time are either 20 seconds above target, or they are 10 seconds over target.

My Garmin Edge GPS agrees with CTT measured courses to within about 1 yard per mile. Have a read of Guidance Note 1 if you want to know how obsessively precise CTT course measurement is.

Are you using a GSC-10 Tiswas? If so how is it calibrated?

I'd tend to trust the GPS as MDCC suggests, but that's not to say that it cannot be giving erroneous results.

what sort of speed and what distance apart do you have to be to effectively draft another (consenting) rider?

The old rule of thumb was a 20% reduction in power when correctly behind another rider at race speed. That probably means about 100mm behind at 40km/h. The draft is still worth having out to about 3m behind another solo rider in zero-yaw conditions, a bit more if you're going faster. With a little cross wind and no option to echelon effectively, and at the lower speeds involved in commuting, you'd need to be dangerously close behind even if the draftee knew you were there to get any worthwhile benefit.

I've got a large handful of foreign coins that probably add up to a modest sum, where is the best place to give them to charity? I heard oxfam and m&s bureau de change will take in coins but I don't want to walk in there and look like a knob if they don't take them.

^^^ thanks mdcc, I wondered whether there would be any possible benefit in commute conditions.

(need to have that answer ready when someone tries to wheelsuck me up Notting Hill ... )

I've got a large handful of foreign coins that probably add up to a modest sum, where is the best place to give them to charity? I heard oxfam and m&s bureau de change will take in coins but I don't want to walk in there and look like a knob if they don't take them.

Blue Peter collected foreign currency in the '80's ... gutted I gave away my collection from the far east.

I'm cycling around Japan for 4 weeks - leaving on Sunday.

Slight problem - I don't have a touring bike and none of my bikes can take pannier racks.

My options seem to be: splash out £1k on a surly crosscheck from BC, ride it for four weeks then sell it for half it's value (or keep it in the basement where it will rust away to nought but sentimental value).

Or, chance it, and try to get a tourer once I arrive in Tokyo. The worry here is that it could be even more expensive, and/or really difficult to find a bike that fits.

I did find some panier racks that you could attach to the rear qr skewer and the rear brake bolt (and thus I could take my road bike). But, I can't find any of these in the UK, and I also heard this would be inappropriate for carbon seat stays (Can't see why though)

:S

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Who is this bloke who presents Mock the Week?

Fucking do one.

Dara O'Briain

That was a lazy one, Tone.