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If you are still after one of these..

£185
https://www.merlincycles.com/4iiii-precision-r7000-105-powermeter-259005.html?

I doubt I would make much use of this personally but would it make sense for someone 'on here' to create an LFGSS club (they've just increased the member limits) before someone 'not on here' pinches the name..?

Just to let you know, child care issues are almost certainly going to rule me out of riding next week.. (so feel free to do Kent 2/3!)

Sorry to lose you guys.

More importantly though, you missed the first ever WGC pub visit! :(

Urgh, I've just realised it's Spurs v Arsenal on Thursday which means any hopes for a return from our glorious leader are surely dashed.. (which also means someone else will have to tell Russell to stop riding at 40kph).

Ok. In that case, as the week is racing by again, let's commit to doing an SE route next time and do the aforementioned WGC this week (sorry @cagimaha !) in the hope that might tempt Matt out..

Thread is here.. https://www.lfgss.com/events/7242/

Train Out:
1)
2)
3)

Ride Out:
1) Rod_Munch
2)
3)

You know the drill - Welwyn Garden City

39 miles, one slightly draggy hill, a few undulations and a travelator.
Train out: KGX 19:06, arrives 19:42 or 19:21 arrives 19:55 (alternatively: Old Street 19:03, arrives 19:49)
Train back: 22:22, 22:52, 23:22, last train 23:24

(might want to check these train times, because I have not!)

http://ridewithgps.com/routes/104879

Oooh, I think it's still up for debate (I don't mind either way but I suspect others might). Is SE in 3 weeks preferable to SE next week for you? (if it is, that will probably swing the decision)..

I believe @cagimaha is also planning to attend (not sure on his intended transport methods though).

P.S. Just a reminder, if you haven't seen the other thread, I won't be at the start - but you will find me meandering along the route a few miles up the road..

Yep, but don't wait for me at the start. Long story, but I think i'll be coming late from the NW so will join along the route and roll slowly until you catch up..

Pretty sure @middleofnowhere has served up some of that vintage before..

Sounds like a good plan. We might even be able to keep up with @Ruserius next week if he commits to drinking his own body weight in pear cider tonight..

Sorry, I had been lurking in the hope of some last minute stars aligning but inevitably they just shattered into a hundred pieces instead..

I have an appointment with Ikea Legoland unfortunately..

Well done for setting these up.

Whilst I would dearly love to be that headbanger, this week has turned into a logistical nightmare on multiple fronts so I'm definitely out I'm afraid..

I was just about to say don't move it on my account (although yes, that would be better for me).. but then I saw The Weather Forecast and figured it might play a big factor regardless.. (hail, rain, wind, frost)?

Yes, good work @cagimaha . Next week is looking problematic for me unfortunately (i'll have to confirm nearer the time) but I should be up for most of these..

Now taken..

It's just about OK in daylight but in the dark it looks really bleached and virtually monochrome.

I flogged my 1030 to Hippy for this exact reason. It's much discussed amongst users but dissenters are usually shouted down by the "but it's amazing in sunlight and the battery life is awesome" crowd (which is true, it is very good in those specific scenarios - but that doesn't alter the fact that it's shitty in the dark).

You might want to have a look at the 530/830 as it seems Garmin did relent slightly on the display for those (and the battery life is still excellent). They still aren't as good in the dark as the 800/1000 were though..

It will be interesting to see if Garmin continue to pursue the battery life angle, at the expense of the display clarity, on their next models - particularly given the increasingly positive reviews that the Karoo is getting (mainly due to its display)..

Three months later I have managed what I'd call a negative LFT but there is still a very very very faint line if you stare at it.

It's possibly irrelevant in your case but, circling back on our prior discussion on potential LFT 'false positives', I had never really considered the particular manufacturer might be a factor in my own experiences as I'd only used the 'NHS' tests (Innova I think) at that point and was assuming everyone else was using the same.

However, a couple of weeks ago, I got my first box of Flowflex LFTs and tested blatantly positive (as opposed the the faint lines I'd regularly had on the NHS ones) on all of them. I just assumed I'd finally caught it, despite no symptoms, and was surprised when the subsequent PCR came back negative. I tried again over the following days and the same thing happened each time, with another PCR coming back negative again.

At this point I got hold of some 'Orient Gene' LFTs and they have all been negative - yet the Flowflex ones were still showing positive nearly two weeks later. On the other hand, my wife has always tested negative with both types - and I had friends who definitely did have Covid who tested negative on Flowflex throughout. My own experience seems to be consistently repeatable though..

I don't like to disappear down Twitter rabbit holes but there seems to be quite a lot of discussion about this, specifically relating to Flowflex, including amongst healthcare professionals, at the moment.

Thankfully I'm borderline isolating anyway, but this is likely to start getting tricky for me if Flowflex becomes the only available brand..

I'm guessing you mean dual sided, but if not, sign up for their newsletters and they'll almost certainly ping you a 10-14% discount code within a few weeks which would work on one of these £209 jobbies..

https://www.probikekit.co.uk/cycling-power-meters/4iiii-precision-2.0-3d-power-meter-105-r7000-black/12104435.html

Haha! Yeah, sorry I had to run some errands and couldn’t resist popping in to grab that back!

Thanks. Yeah, tried that but it all leads to this..

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and if you click 'find tickets' it just asks for a membership number. I actually registered for free and got a number but it still says I need to upgrade (pay £29) to access tickets - which is fair enough - but maybe I'm doing something wrong..

It will allow me to buy tickets for Arsenal Women v Barcelona Women though :)

Thanks, I assume that still requires you to become a member first?