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My comically old 705 has died, again, and this time I’ve decided to let it go to the big gps party in the sky. Must be more than 15 years I’ve had it.

Anyway. Recommendations please.

• mainly used for realtime data while cycling: power, time, etc.
  
• need route navigation: upload a GPX or whatever and then turn by turn please, with reasonable off road (bridleway type stuff) routing
  
• must be able to press intervals start stop (worst case in thick gloves in the rain)
  
• Painless uploading of rides
  
  

That’s about it really. What’s the cheapest best option?

I’ve a week in the Cairngorms in May/June, staying at Braemar.

Any recommendations or tips on hikes? I’ll have a 10 year old with me who’s capable of distance and height (Lomond/ Snowdon type stuff or Suillven last year for example), but I’d avoid anything technical.

Looks like Castelli was bought by Assos circa 1997, and they’ve just got their first product out…

cool - i actually bought from Condor, so it'll go back there.

I'll send measurements over though - its the same pit to pit as my long sleeve jersey (which is hugely stretchy) and an inch less than my insulated gilet.

Any news on when there will be some more rain jackets in the burnt orange colour? (pertex allroad or 3.0)

Mmm - the zoa insulated in medium was the right size for me, but I found the cut very baggy - quite a square shape rather than tapering from shoulders to waist.

Rain jacket 3 in medium turned up today - it’s tiny. I’m medium in everything (including a couple of Albion tops) but I can just squeeze into this if only have an baselayer on, can’t do it if I have a long sleeve jersey over the baselayer - and the arms are an inch short.

Do they normally size up so small? I’m not going to be shocked if someone said there was a batch of smalls that were sold out as mediums.

Is the all road pertex thing the same size as the rain jacket?

Ah, cool, thanks. I’m after a replacement for my decade-plus old assos racecape. The material has worn to the point that I managed to put my hand through the middle of the sleeve a couple of days ago. It’s still waterproof where it matters - around the the shoulders, arms, chest. It’s old school plastic bag where you need proofing and a mesh where you don’t.

Anyway. The time has come. Race cape it is.

Just finished this, picked it up on your recommendation. And yeah, agree, it was excellent. Across the spectrum of action adventure, history and devastating personal loss. I would have liked another chapter on the end.

Thanks!

The Tunnels of Cu Chi is also worth a read for some more vietnam history. As is Dispatches (Michael Herr iirc).

rain jacket 3.0 vs allroad pertex

i assume the rain jacket is more of a roadie cut (tighter, shorter at the front, etc) than the allroad. And perhaps the pertex is more durable and waterproof at the expensive of weight and bulk?

The second and third books of the three body problem are vast improvements on the first IMO. It was only someone telling me that that got me through the first book.

Neil Stephenson’s Snowcrash is worth a read if you like William Gibson

My guess (presented with no evidence whatsoever) is that a long long time ago most people who ran or cycled did mostly or exclusively what we now think of as long steady distance.

Back then, if off a diet of relatively high mileage you could also knock out 8x800m at sub 3 mins, then there was a really really good chance that you could do a sub 3 hour - because the distance and endurance was a given.

In recent years with watches and computers, and maybe time pressures, people tend to focus much more on shorter, faster, and intervals. So there’s a much greater chance that you can do 8x800 at sub 3 mins, but couldnt do sub 3 hours (very much the case for me)

5k pb would be a full warm up for me - say 10-15 mins jogging with strides in the latter part, and a few sprints. Aiming to be slightly in oxygen debt with time to recover.

I had an id.3 for 4 months and hated it. The controls are a stupid touch screen type thing that doesn’t work, and the sideways visibility (looking left and right at junctions or ped crossings) was dangerously poor.

My vote would be the MG4

Generally I think the European manufacturers loaded their EVs with gimmicks (Tesla style) to justify high prices and margins, and are now hamstrung as the Chinese EVs are cheaper and better.

And with the addition of the strandberg I need to shift the strat. 1987 MIJ E series contemporary squire - 12" radius, basswood, maple. It has the system one trem - the arm is loose though. Shout if anyone is interested and i'll send more info!

Any recommendations for touch paint paint kits?

Have a 2 inch x 1/2 inch scrape on my dad’s golf. Theres no denting and it’s on the wheel arch, so fine with touch up paint. There are a million websites/ Amazon products so it’s the usual problem of working out which are actually any good.

Flatout bear

They’re Aussie sheepskin, pretty sure you can get them in the UK too

Edit - example
https://www.baababy.co.uk/collections/flatout-sheepskin-bears?utm_source=%7Bsource%7D&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiA2KitBhCIARIsAPPMEhKv_XW1rtjutci1e8ZgbtKCVW6_YFnXNGTALJI50afCJ-cy81PCROYaAud-EALw_wcB

Question is, how do you run slower than than feels right? Any tips?

To slow down I found changing shoes - so heavier, structured mileage shoes that are more comfortable at slow paces - and clothing - “Over dress” compared to what you’d normally wear.

I don’t know how much is mental and how much “real”, but wearing slow shoes and more kit allowed me to run distance at a slower pace than I’d done previously.

Jacket or jersey?

The jersey is good for 5 - 12 degrees say. Layering up underneath will let you go lower, and unzip the inner for a few degrees higher.

Don’t know about the jacket, but afaik it’s warmer than the jersey so maybe 0-10 type conditions

No experience to share, but your theory of taking lots of BP measurements and thereby reducing general anxiety physiological response seems valid

I'd guess though that instead of "a test every morning" it may be better to get yourself comfortable, in front of a tv, and do 20 readings. And then do the same tomorrow. etc. Basically just get to the point where its hard to care (as BP tests are in fact very boring)

Thanks! I assume you’ll have a new run at some point (even if it’s months away)

I quite liked Going Infinite. I agree it wasn’t anywhere near critical enough of crypto as a whole (Number Goes Up is a good read for that) and SBF doesn’t come across as evil, just very off the end of some personality scale, super bright in a narrow band, and insanely out of his depth.

He could have explored and critiqued the system that allowed him and others to continue for so long (more of The Big Short style), and the book ended badly with the one sided negativity about the bankruptcy lawyer, and the stupid “looks like the had the money all the time! So they weren’t actually bankrupt!” angle, which soured it for me.

But as an account of the rise and fall of SBF, it’s fine

Ha - yeah, I get that it’s a little marmite. But if you want to stick with your lute then that’s cool.

It’s a really nice bit of kit but more interestingly it (to me at least) really brings home how visual guitars are. Its so much about the look, whether the classic shapes or the crap designs that we put up with (taking a neck off to adjust a truss road ffs, the crap Tele bridge, or stupid placing of the start volume knob). Or for that matter all the wood nonsense - large head strats have better sustain, people that claim they can hear the difference between ash and alder, and so on.

You get get the sense when you pick this up that Strandberg has thought about each part - what’s needed, what would work best - and arrived at this design.

The lightness and compactness is fantastic - especially in a central London flat where the guitar sits between a cello and piano. Lifting the strat up was like carrying a scaffold pole through a glass shop.

Only thing I’m not sold on is that it lacks the large forearm rest area (or something - I need to pick up the strat again to check what I actually do) for funk - my arm feels a little unconnected. But, yeah, I’m pretty happy so far.

Picked it up on Friday and had a couple of days before I could change the strings, sort out the action and so on. Initial reaction is that its superb - a real focus on functional design

These are the sellers pics

Standberg Boden anyone?

Guy on fretboard selling one and I’ve just pinged him saying I’ll take it. Horrible mistake?

Interested in a swap for a pair of black ultra blooms?

Used 3 or 4 times, but although they’re a 43 (and I have primus trail, primus knit and magma boots all in 43 that fit great), they are too large. So, I’m guessing if 43 primus are too just small for you, then 43 ultra blooms will be right.