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I like my B+M Toplight line plus. Crucially it has a button to short out the standlight, so you can wheel your Brompton onto a railway platform. However, the wiring connectors are on the opposite side of the light to the Brompton/Spanninga ones, so it's a bit tight to reuse the existing wiring loom; if you're fitting a new one, this is obviously not a problem.

Out of interest, what does it weigh?

Good spot! I thought most F-15s had the wing and/or centreline tanks as a semi-permanent installation (even if they've got the conformal tanks fitted?).

My kids came back from school today with a letter saying that on the advice of the council, they're reintroducing some infection-control measures - mainly stuff like after-school clubs being limited to single-class bubbles (though to what extent they're going to operate with class bubbles again elsewhere is somewhat unclear). This doesn't include staggered start/end times, so presumably the kids are all going to be mixing on the playground/in the cloakrooms anyway...

1 in 69 people in the UK currently have symptomatic COVID

Aaaaand according to the news, as of today it's up to 1 in 60.

I was planning on going to Bespoked this weekend, but am not sure spending hours in an enclosed space with hundreds or thousands of other people is looking like the best of ideas, masked and double-jabbed or not...

I thought the ED2 innards were Cyo Premium, which have gone from 60 to 80 lux over the years?

(Either way, both ED2 and IQ-X are great lights, suitable for everything other than the fastest twisty descents)

Hasn't the Edelux 2 been stealth upgraded over the years? IIRC the reflector's the same, but the LED has been given higher output.

(The Edelux 2 is shiny and looks better than the IQ-X, which is obviously a 100% cast-iron reason to prefer it...)

I've been meaning to take a look at this - is it likely to be of interest to non-racers/non-serious-training cyclists?

HebTroCo's are made for them by the Bradford Sock Company, aren't they? I've had Bradford socks before, and was a bit disappointed - they went rather baggy after a couple of wears. OTOH they've held up ok since then, so maybe I just needed to size down.

I think trad cask bitter has been making a bit of a comeback among beer nerds the past couple of years; e.g. Five points and a couple of other craft keg breweries have started putting out beers in cask.

However, there are very few other beer cultures that are so closely tied to their method of dispense; the last 18 months have been pretty disastrous for pubs and so also for cask. I do worry that there is a risk of it becoming an ever more niche product, but I guess we'll have to see how the next few years play out.

I remember the days when Wells' Banana Bread Beer was a bit weird and outré... According to the internet it was first brewed in 2002, so I must have first encountered it when it was a new beer, but I don't think it was marketed as anything other than a special/guest beer. I always had a soft spot for it on cask, but don't think I've had it in years.

Very nice, and duly noted for metal mudguard upgrades! What if anything did you use to mask it?

How was your 3rd jab scheduled (if you don't mind me asking)? Looking at the guidance I'm probably eligible, but then I have to chase my flu jab every year too, so I'm not sure how joined-up all this stuff is.

Oof.

(Bonus points for capers - god-tier pizza addition IMO.)

All the LFTs I've taken have had dire warnings that even a faint positive line should be treated as a positive; PCR time?

The Swiss view the Swiss Germans in much the same way as the rest of the world views the Swiss: punctual, rigid, sticklers etc. I spent a couple of years there as a kid, and I have to say I never really noticed it - I think it's probably a great place to grow up, but I can see aspects might be stifling as a teen/adult.

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IIRC the higher-speed nexus hubs (definitely the N8s, and I think the N7s) have a slightly longer pull in the middle of the range (cause that's where they switch the second gear train over), so unfortunately you need a specialist shifter.

Do report back - I picked one up last week, but haven't yet got round to trying it.

Yes it is; small world! I can't recall the details (and it's decades since I took his rotorcraft course), but IIRC his work on the V-22's vortex ring state led him to believe that a lot of the eVTOL designs might encounter problems in a wider area of the flight envelope than might be expected.

I am suspicious of a lot of the claims for these on general hype grounds; there's a heck of a lot of regulatory hurdles to overcome before you can even think about passengers. FWIW, my pal Prof. Brown the rotorcraft aerodynamicist is suspicious about the flow regime that most of these designs are operating in (disc loadings etc.); he reckons a lot of them will be susceptible to vortex ring problems once they get into real-world testing.

Delayed mincing... unconventional, but I'll allow it.

For. Fuck's. Sake.

Does it do HR? That was always the deal-breaker for the things I looked at - ideally I'd like something that can do everything the Forerunner can, but controlled via a phone app. A minimal display for workout stats would be nice.

I double-watch; Garmin Forerunner 245 on my right wrist, proper watch on my left. Possibly looks a bit weird, especially when in short sleeves, but I use the HR/activity tracking enough (and prefer reading the time from a proper watch enough - I realise this is prime 'shit hipsters say' fodder, but then this is the watch thread...) that I'm not too fussed.