Any question answered...

Including Rigida Sputnik for cheapskates

Some London polo players maybe able to get you unmachined 48 sputniks for £20.

Damien Frederick pastor.

Spa Cycles have them for £18, for anybody not hooked up with the London polo scene

Damien Frederick pastor.

I've always assumed his forum handle stood for Dressing For Pleasure

Lethal, Lethal Cnut Bag

"I need to get a friend a present for looking after the cats for a week- I've bought him booze the last two times, what should I get him and his Mrs this time?"

Flowers for the ladies and booze for the gents... Can't fail.

Muslims with hay fever.

There's always one...

Correction... There's always snottyotter.

Forgot to say, thanks for the tyre suggestions.

Polo players (me included) have had problems with the sidewalls of durano's, an educated guess would be they aren't made to deal with all the turning (and leaning) that goes on in polo.

Anyway, ended up going for the RiBiMo's

Kojaks too, I reckon it's from getting hit though.

It's something to worry about if you've read Xav's work on Q and efficiency

"Unexplored in scientific literature, Q Factor describes the horizontal width between bicycle pedals and determines where the foot is laterally positioned throughout the pedal stroke. The aim of the study was to determine whether changing Q Factor has a beneficial effect upon cycling efficiency and muscular activation. A total of 24 trained cyclists (11 men, 13 women; VO2max 57.5 ml·kg/min ± 6.1) pedaled at 60% of peak power output for 5 min at 90 rpm using Q Factors of 90, 120, 150, and 180 mm. Power output and gas were collected and muscular activity of the gastrocnemius medialis (GM), tibialis anterior (TA), vastus medialis (VM), and vastus lateralis (VL) measured using surface electromyography. There was a significant increase (P <  0.006) in gross mechanical efficiency (GME) for 90 and 120 mm (both 19.38%) compared with 150 and 180 mm (19.09% and 19.05%), representing an increase in external mechanical work performed of approximately 4–5 W (1.5–2.0%) at submaximal power outputs. There was no significant difference in the level of activity or timing of activation of the GM, TA, VM, and VL between Q Factors. Other muscles used in cycling, and possibly an improved application of force during the pedal stroke may play a role in the observed increase in GME with narrower Q Factors."

Why have the trees at St Paul's been painted blue, and is it not bad for them?

Does it stop them breathing?

http://www.demotix.com/news/2222809/blue-trees-london#media-2222807

It looks like Avatar, I'm not a fan. I would have thought it would be bad for the trees (do trees need to breath? I don't know how trees work).

Porous paint.

Trees use their leaves to live, I'm sure they've checked the paint to make sure it's fine

It looks like Avatar, I'm not a fan. I would have thought it would be bad for the trees (do trees need to breath? I don't know how trees work).

Trees need to breathe. That's why london has so many plane trees. They regularly shed bark which stops their pores becoming completely clogged by pollution, so they survived the smog.

It sounds like they've thought of that though:
http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do/green-spaces/city-gardens/news/Pages/default.aspx

The plane trees will probably be back to normal in a few years. They don't say whether the others will remain blue forever, or will slowly fade, or have their colour topped up.

I think, just to be safe, they should cut all the plane trees down. Stupid plane trees and their bark shedding shenanigans.

The leaves are unpainted, that probably helps.

I need to get a friend a present for looking after the cats for a week- I've bought him booze the last two times, what should I get him and his Mrs this time?

Cuban cigars

I need to get a friend a present for looking after the cats for a week- I've bought him booze the last two times, what should I get him and his Mrs this time?

A cat.

I think, just to be safe, they should cut all the plane trees down. Stupid plane trees and their bark shedding shenanigans.

Its not the bark that produces clouds of tree sex eye death, its the balls:

Burn them all with their eye destroying crap

Its not the bark that produces clouds of tree sex eye death, its the government's chemtrails.

Look behind the tree, the always release above trees so we don't know. BUT I KNOW:

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"Why have the trees at St Paul's been painted blue, and is it not bad for them?"

Have you been licking frogs as well?