wynne

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• Should vegans use shimano?

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• Should vegans use shimano?

  in General • 8 months, 4 weeks

  

  I use money and my purchasing decisions to support basic human rights. I am not anti-chinese, but i am anti-authoritarian. I believe we all have a responsibility to stand up for people who have no voice.

  The CCP has unquestionably raised the living standards and life prospects for the majority of the country's population, but there have been, and are some, terrible abuses of power along the way.
  Obviously, the wealth that we enjoy in Europe now was built on the back of ruthless exploitation of people in poor countries over the last few centuries. There has never been a more ruthless bunch of gangsters than the British East India Company - who got legitimized and became empire. I am not a jingoist, blind to the awful debilitating impact of imperialism. During ww2 Winston Churchill made decisions about army food supplies that created famine and mass starvation in what was British India. The man was a massive racist even by the standards of a very racist time.
  I am not seeking to enter into a competition about who has done worse things when. What i am trying to do is highlight bad things happening now - and avoid endorsing them through my purchasing decisions.

  I haven't had a recent head injury. I've had several in the past. I don't much care for your tone in this regard.

• Should vegans use shimano?

  in General • 8 months, 4 weeks

  

  Creaky, undersized bombs apparently.
  Many good points here. I would also say that vegan is not the only filter for my purchasing decisions. I try to buy almost everything second hand. I will not buy items produced in countries ruled by authoritarian regimes (which rules out an awful lot), for example no amount of sustainable accreditation is going to persuade me to buy a product made in china since there is no chance of meaningful accountability there.

• Should vegans use shimano?

  in General • 9 months

  

  As a long term vegan, i have decided that given that Shimano generates about 20% of its revenue from fishing-related products that i will no longer use its cycling-related products.

  Anyone else gone down this line? (no pun intended - but i can't help myself)

• Wiggle are being Nobs

  in General • 9 months, 1 week

  

  Nicely put. I've ready this a dozen times and it's still making me laugh.

• Wiggle are being Nobs

  in General • 9 months, 1 week

  

  Their last remaining Gaerne road shoes are a bargain. I've ordered two pairs. Brilliant shoes - also an extra 10% off.

• WTD: Austrian 30.8/26mm threaded headset

  in Wanted Adverts • 9 months, 4 weeks

  

  Well, i tried, but i failed.
  Both local bike shops were still closed at midday and i had to catch a train. It's annoying because both had lights on and people inside when i called, but no one was answering the door. But, if you get stuck you could contact these one of these places:
  https://www.rebikel.at/service-und-reparatur/

  https://bananabikes.at/

  Both look to have LOTS of old bits of bike.

  Sorry to have raised hopes.

• WTD: Austrian 30.8/26mm threaded headset

  in Wanted Adverts • 9 months, 4 weeks

  

  I am in austria until tomorrow lunchtime. I noticed there is a secondhand bike shop near my hotel. If i get time in the morning i will ask them if they have such a thing. I am in Graz, the home of Puch!

  Rich

• Mid-priced carbon wheels from UK firms: Parcours, Scribe, Zed Wheels, Just Riding Along, VEL...prob not Hunt!

  in Bikes & Bits • 10 months, 3 weeks

  

  I work as a wheelbuilder. I can have and have had the choice of many high end boutique components. These days, for customers and for personal builds i find it hard to look beyond some combination of bitex hubs, sapim spokes and venn carbon rims.

• Brighton Swapparoo and Classifieds

  in Brighton • 10 months, 3 weeks

  

  Paul is having a bike jumble in a couple of weeks.