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Lumintop turned up. Looks really well made.
Shame it doesn’t actually work. Now I get to see how good the customer service is.
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Cool, appreciated
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Just checking - no problems with the mounts? You don’t have the light launching itself into space when you hit a pothole?
I had a couple of magicshines when they were first a thing. The torches were great, but I couldn’t find a reliable way to fix them to the bike - either they’d bounce off or I’d fix them with ties or tape, which was a hassle when swapping from bike to bike. I ended up with a Hope Vision - the size of a coke can - that’s still going strong after 14 years. But is still big and ugly!
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As I posted above, their economy is growing - faster than most western economies - and the sanctions are clearly not having an impact on it.
Apparently one consequence of the sanctions was that it forced the oligarchs who had taken their wealth abroad to bring it back and invest in Russia - which is exactly what putin had wanted but previously been unable to do.
Everything I read suggests that Russia is throwing everything into the military. So they have immediate GDP growth given its a fire sale to china, etc. and using the funds to maximise tanks and bombs. Its not sustainable as theres zero investment in actual infrastructure.
Both Germany and the UK had higher GDPs in 1944 than they had in 1938 - GDP growth is not sufficient to tell you whether a country is good, sustainable, etc.
Interested in where or whether you're getting the impression that they're investing internally in their people, factories, infrastructure rather than spending the money stuff to blow up.
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You paint a very rosy picture of an economy running at 9% inflation with interest rates at 20%. The military expenditure has come at the cost of taxing resource extraction and cannibalising civilian expediture . Gas prices are back to pre-spike slump and Russian oil trades at a discount.
I don’t know enough (I’m guessing no one does) to say how long russia can continue but the view that their current state is sustainable seems very optimistic (for russia)
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I use the superfeet in both. IIRC though my cycling ones are the low profile type - thinner than the “normal” ones.
If it’s just for comfort or stability, rather than attempting to correct some mechanical problem, then I imagine the shape should be the same.
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Yep, faced last time or time before.
Googling doesn’t suggest that they’re less reliable either so maybe I’ve just been unlucky
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Shimano road bottom brackets.
The old larger silver ones were fit and forget, but I think I’m on my 3rd BBR-60 (the narrower, black, ultegra level one) in as many years.
Rotor 3d24 and torquing pre load with a torque wrench (1.5nm or whatever) so reasonably confident that I’m not too cack-handed. The bike gets ridden in every weather mind, and I do no maintenance to the bb.
Just me? Unlucky and try again? Or are these now throw-away wearable parts rather than things you’d expect a decade out of.
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If I understand the article right, the issue is that it’s just some paint delineating the cycle lane from the pavement. In normal times these are rubbish but at school chucking out time they’re worse than useless.
Cyclist comes along thinking they’re on the cycle lane so full speed, 100 kids spill across pavement and cycle lane, car drivers taken by surprise when cyclists suddenly swerves onto car lane , etc
Guitar Guitar in Camden has the largest stock of central London guitar shops I think, and they’re pretty relaxed