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I'm short too, but I've hit the level that I intended to hit. Next months challenge will be about right.

iPhones have always fitted in the pockets in Portrait, just drop them in, pull the top of the pocket over the phone and zip it up.

You can only just about get an iPhone 5 into the zipped pocket.

I'm not phased by the idea of a mountain accent.

Would this be a Norwegian accent?

All my strava is commuting, so I don't mark it as private because otherwise I don't get to compare my times over the segments (not racing, just seeing whether I'm getting slower or faster over time). No one follows me, so all is fine.

I guess a lot depends on how much mileage is going into your commuting, but it would seem to me based on the current Strava challenge for those who are in the Strava group that some peoples commuting is more than others total rides.

Thanks all - will suggest these to her.

Or she could just use Strava and ignore the segments part.

The ignorant demand that cyclists RLJ?

Why would people need to ask for pictures? Why do you want to make it harder for people to buy it?

I know the Fahg is a better lock but you can get the Brute for £24. It just seems like a better deal.

How much is the cost and inconvenience of having your bike stolen, and how much do you increase the chance of that happening with the Brute compared to the Fahg?

merely the construction industries inability to provided a sensible timeline to prevent their tippers from being in a tight time limit?

From my personal observation of tipper lorries, this seems to be the issue as the drivers often seem aggressive in traffic.

Did you know that vintage 'gin' traps are legal to own? ;0)

Legal to own but not to use, especially as a snare for a burglar - there is case history for traps used to harm thieves and it's basically GBH/ murder depending on result.

Maybe you just need a bigger lock to take in frame, front wheel and stand? If they cut your one lock or the stand they could take the whole thing and worry about the second lock later. Granted cutting the stand might cause comment in a busy street.

RIP Always sad to hear.

I missed the start of the season, was hoping to have magically become fitter, but I passed the start of the Hounslow Wheelers 10 on my way home and had a chat with the unofficial timekeeper. I set off on the outward bound leg of the course to continue on my way and it reinforced just how much faster these guys are. The front two riders on the return leg were going faster uphill than I was going down with the wind behind me.

So, into the drops this morning to try and stretch out my position and not a bad thing with that head wind. I tried to ignore the other riders and tell myself that 15mph was OK for my 25 mile pace and also tried not to recall the advice on the Hounslow Wheelers site for newbies that can't cut the pace to join the LCC instead. But where the hell does all the snot come from?

Yes exactly, I know people in their sixties who have worked in the computer industry since the Seventies. I would regard the sort of stuff that Velocio is working on to be an emergent industry part of the computer world and I'd guess most of the people involved are 'younger.'

It seems people think that "emergent service worker" is a service worker who is emerging, i.e. young. I think, in fact, it refers to a service worker who is delivering (or working in) an emerging service, i.e. something that didn't use to exist, like Internetty, computery stuff, or something like that....

I think the two are in fact related as the average age of people working in emerging services tend to be younger - though much computery stuff isn't exactly an emerging service nowadays and the average age profile shows that.

Hmmm... Technical middle class. I have no idea what that means, but I'm guessing its what you get if you take an emergent service worker and add twenty years.

maybe england should invade n.korea

We tried that in the Fifties - it didn't end well.

the best way to do this is to wind back and forth over the midnight position. the date will only count up.

Only works on some watches, some you just have to keep going round and round.

China is unlikely to stand back and allow the US to invade and would instead simply use it as an excuse to expand their borders and absorb North Korea.

I've got the Craft lobsters on today, and they aren't flexible enough for that, so I doubt the Sealskin ones are either. But I guess it depends how big your pockets are and how big the things you are trying to pick up are.

Interesting thread about redials:

http://forums.watchuseek.com/f11/how-tell-if-dial-original-vintage-omega-seamaster-551662.html

And a current one:

http://forums.watchuseek.com/f11/should-i-concerned-about-corrosion-835069.html

The hands are lumed - you can see it flaking on the minute hand, and there should be a dot of lume at the base of the hour markers to match. It is clear from the state of the hands and the bumper that some moisture has got into this watch as some point - and the dials are always the most sensitive part of a watch. So you've got corroded hands and bumper but a good condition dial and a very shiny calibre. It's not impossible that the corrosion in the mechanism is limited to just the bumper but add in the dial and it ticks just too many of the wrong boxes for the price.

Lovely but there are quite a few issues going on there. Given the condition of the hands I would imagine that it has had a redial. I'm wondering too why they didn't relume the dial when they did it. I also have to wonder given that they didn't bother to buy new hands for it. Then again the mechanism appears to have been built out of at least two different watches, so I think I'd leave well alone for that price.

You will recieve:
MJ-808 Light unit
Battery of your choice
MK-6012 Charger
Rubber mounts for the light
MJ-808 Storage box
MJ-808 Instructions

Only the 808?

^^ lol, no problem, I'd like it to be just a little bit warmer in any case.