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Speak to the insurer and try to get a note put on your record. It's the kind of thing that could lead to a claim being invalidated.

Upper left brake lever is the clutch, cable tied off because they’ve given up riding the thing on petrol.

Grip shift on right is throttle. I think all the other levers are what they’re meant to be, including the floating grip shift gear levers.

It looks like there are two extra non grip shift gear levers not connected. Maybe they were planning to do it properly but got bored / collared.

Sometimes they’re just stiff and need some encouragement to go through. I’m going to guess the bike was sold without a preload cap, because I can’t see how the crank would “fall off” if it had one.

I reckon if you hit that crank with a rubber mallet from the drive side the left crank would fit no problem and stay on.

They add six months to any that are about to expire once a week from what I’ve seen.

Is it thin enough to bend vertically? Some brute force may be required. Maybe a ratchet strap or something that could bend it in a controlled way.

Otherwise build a new cabinet around it.

Kitchens and outdoor locations were removed as special locations in 2013. They haven’t been added back have they?

Yeah the Severn and Humber bridges have cycle lanes / service roads on both sides and must be subject to similar wind loading.

They’re occasionally closed on very windy days. The lanes are a few feet lower than the carriageway and they normally only close the upwind side.

It’s the same as the cheap stuff you get on eBay and Ali Express. A lot of it’s fine, a lot of it’s not fit for purpose. I don’t think there’s anything special about Wish in that regard.

“Italian” bottom bracket shells are larger diameter than the more common BSA type. Presumably your frame was specced Italian?

You just need the Italian version of the BB if so.

A fender disc is £6 RRP. Typo?

(It’s the metal thing on the front fork if you don’t have mudguards. Not really a service item, but maybe it was bent/missing? And you should only have one of them!)

If it’s an MTB crankset that you’re trying to fit the MTB cups are 1mm each narrower so you only need 3mm (IIRC) of spacers.

The tube in the middle still won’t reach

The Apple Upgrade Programme is only available in person in store AFAIK.

Also if you do do the upgrade you're effectively being offered a ludicrously tiny trade-in value for a nearly new phone (9/20ths of its original price).

There's a huge different in quality from the 7. There's something magic in the 11 generation (probably software) that makes them look like proper crisp camera pictures rather than phone pictures, even vs the Xs.

The cameras in the 11 are the same as the 11 Pro - it just doesn't have the 2x zoom lens. But that's a lower quality camera anyway (smaller sensor) so is far less useful than it first appears. If you use 2x in low light it actually crops the 1x sensor instead.

Slice them down the middle with a sharp blade. They'll still work and as a bonus they'll be rewirable.

Electrical tape works ok if you add some perpendicular bits at either end, and preferably secure the wire to something else (like a gear cable boss) so it can't be pulled.

Yeah there are some sub 7 kg builds out there. Usually they won’t have a single component made by Brompton.

It is a rich person’s game if you want to go that far though.

There won't be an Apple/Google app. It's an API that state providers can incorporate into their own apps.

So you'll need both the NHS app and a phone running the latest OS. I expect deployment to be far too low to be useful.

The problem is “56cm in common parlance” is pretty ambiguous. Can mean C-T, can mean real or virtual top tube, can be just a nominal value that doesn’t relate to an actual measurement on the frame.

I’d expect “square” to mean A1 and B are equal, but likewise it can just mean a traditional frame with a high-ish horizontal top tube.

What are the chances of reviving air con when it hasn't worked for the 7 years I've had it and failed a KwikFit regas leak test, for reasonable money?

(2006 Saab 9-3)

The light is part of the top case assembly of the computer, which also includes the battery and trackpad. Get your wallet out.

Seriously, the backlight LEDs are mounted on a membrane that's glued to the back of the keyboard, and on many models the keyboard is riveted to the top case.

One is manual, the other two are configurable in the app for whatever two presets e.g. two different cassettes, or full synchro (rear buttons shift front) vs semi-synchro (front buttons shift rear).

One long flash = manual.

Double click the Junction A button to find out. It should cycle through 1, 2 or 3 flashes of both lights depending on mode.

(though it needs configuring with cassette sizes etc, so I'm not sure they can enable it by default)

Otherwise what's the incentive to use their route planner

It sounds to me like they don't want you to use some of the more CPU intensive services.

Just seen in their update that they have a "small but mighty" team of 180 people. Given how many parts of their platform are close to abandonware, are they all in sales?

The heatmap is separate to their route planning anyway isn't it?

You can enable the global heatmap as an overlay while route planning. But not your personal one.

RWGPS is good for route-planning iff you want to spend an hour tweaking your exact route.

Newer apps that are terrain aware (Komoot, cycle.travel) are much better for following their routes without modification. Strava is somewhere in the middle, although the editor is buggy AF.

The key thing that annoys me is we’re comparing CoVid with drastic shutdown and distancing measures to flu stats without that. So of course CoVid numbers look less dramatic than they might be.

The number we’re missing is what CoVid would have done with no shutdown, and we can argue forever about what that might have looked like.

The brake pads should naturally align themselves with the rotor, especially if you push them back in (as per, coincidentally, my comment above) and start again. I don’t what that tool would do that’s better.

It’s possible if your calliper seals or mounts or pads or whatever are shagged in some way it’ll temporarily align them better to shut them up for a bit.