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I got a bit further, but came to the same conclusion.
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precariously balanced on the razor edge of Newtonian physics.
Truly a sweet turn of phrase.
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Agreed.
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I don't agree with @frank9755, but he's not shit-stirring, it's useful opinion to see.
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Well worth reading, thanks for that.
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Sorry if re-post but an interesting article in Time, published shortly before the invasion (02/02/2022), joins up some of the dots of the last few years, Putin, Zelensky, Medvedchuk...
https://time.com/6144109/russia-ukraine-vladimir-putin-viktor-medvedchuk/
And on some of the other, Ukranian oligarchs:
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TIL I learned what TIL means.
And nitter.
And OSINT.+1 for this thread, very informative, and interesting personal insights (dau, dibble, atz...).
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Faun Ardeche Classic today (won by Brandon McNulty).
Alaphilippe and Roglic riding side by side the first time they passed us, and still together the second lap, finished 25th and 26th. -
Faun Ardeche Classic today, climbing up the Val d'Enfer (Chemin de Toulaud).
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Loved some of his solo work, some great tracks on Bubblegum, listened to his album with Isobel Campbell quite a bit when it came out, but favourite for me was the Broken album he did with Soulsavers, great stuff. RIP.
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It's that time of year again...
On the off-chance that anyone is around Valence on the weekend 26th/27th February, the annual Boucles Drome Ardeche event is in town again.
Saturday's race (the Faun Ardeche Classic) is all on my local weekend cycling roads, with great views, and teams this year include AG2R, Groupama FDJ, Cofidis, Astana, Lotto, Quick-Step, etc.
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Too big for me, but this is really nice.
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Full bike in 60cm here, a quick ferry-hop to Calais when no longer Covid-blocked?
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The advert (or the one I saw at least) just says "faire offre", did you offer 90€, or is the seller asking for 90€ ?
The chrome on the forks looks a bit pitted, but the frame looks really nice.
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"A US congressman has posted a Christmas picture of himself and what appears to be his family, smiling and posing with an assortment of guns..."
Bonkers.
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Just read about this.
Stormboy was as much one of my childhood Christmas holiday tv regulars as StarWars, Roger Moore-era Bond films, The Magnificent Seven and Von Ryan's Express.
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Coming to London soon...
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We had someone round for heat pumps, there's a big govt. push for them in France.
The general impression was that they are efficient for new house builds, or with full conversions to under-floor heating, reverse cycle air-conditioning and the like, but not so much for existing houses full of radiators. They are more efficient the more they are exposed to sunlight, which tends to be out front, but no-one wants to see one out the front of their house, so they mostly get installed at the back, where they get less sunlight and are less efficient, and therefore require more electricity to run. They do make noise outside - how much noise depends on size, quality, etc, though the guy did admit it's a bit comparable to an air-con fan. -
"The now famous silhouette of the Inflite..."
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That looks so wrong. They've forced the seat cluster into that awkward geometry, and still the seat stays aren't even parallel to the downtube.
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I found some some nice photos of the bike shop in an album on Kick My-Pan's Flickr page, taken in 2015. There were still the two separate shops back then; one workshop, one showroom.
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Photos of the restauration of the Prouvé bike by Lorenzo Savarino:
https://www.facebook.com/bicyclette.la/posts/2741511745887287 -
I only discovered this quite recently too, working on drawings for the renovation of a Prouvé facade in Paris. One went at Christie's for 72,000€ in 2009, and another for 50,000€ in 2020.
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Been looking at these for a while, but their website still has an aversion to displaying actual prices.
£620 was the 50% discounted price for the full kit, everything included?
How much is the upgrade kit, and what does it contain?
Thanks.