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Blinded by gnats and mozzies on the way home past South Bermondsey on the Q1.

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What needs to be taken into account is "Urine specific gravity" and I am pretty sure this would have already been done.

Essentially it's looking at the ratio of water to urine in a sample, and gives an indication of how well your kidneys are functioning. It would be normal to have a somewhat higher ratio if dehydrated (and/or exercised) - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/dta.1828

My view is, tomorrow morning, if there is any ice in the garden, I won't cycle.

Not that I cycle through gardens on my commute but I'd rather not risk injury/death/f*cked up bike due to ice.

Last night at the junction of Willow Walk and Lynton Road heading home towards Peckham. I move off as the lights go green, as I cross the junction I notice a lady ahead walking down the road, she has a pushchair.

She then decides to walk out into traffic, without looking at all, I think she presumed as the other side of the road the traffic is stationary that nothing is coming. Luckily I am not going that fast but she's pretty much running to get over the road quickly. I stop before her and she then comes to a sudden stop realising what she did. As she stops out of the pushchair a baby is launched into the air, at least I thought it was a baby, until I saw a slightly bewildered dachshund pick himself up off the road. She kept apologising as she picked up her dog, I told her to be more careful. At that point I was just glad it wasn't actually a baby!

Colleague at work said the front left wheel/tyre was damaged and deflated as he walked past, do wonder if the tyre blew and the car swerved into the rider. Either way, hope they're okay!

Ramps for doing trickz

Ha! You're not wrong

I'd take a look at the Koolstops for Weinmann on their site and see what would fit, they have dimensions listed: http://www.koolstop.com/english/rim_pads.html

Or just use a spirit level app on your phone, that's what I did to set mine up, worked fine.

Short Chain Stay

Maybe you know all this but Thyroxine (quite often referred to as T4) is a hormone your Thyroid naturally produces. So I am going to guess the zap has resulted in you now being clinically hypothyroid which would explain the cold and tiredness.

Taking it (I'm going to guess it's levothyroxine?) can cause short term hair loss (and being hypothyroid causes hair loss too) but if it persists then get back to your doc it shouldn't be long term.

Unicycle + brake + facepaint = Clown

Every morning. Love it

Look at how narrow those are, they're just for show

@jaxk

And if you really like your watermelon you could also go with this:

No pancake? Me neither.

Loved Maxxis Re-Fuse the last time I had a set and they seem to be reappearing on websites, any reason not to go for another set? They're not all that cheap, annoyinglu bike24 have no 25s and I can't fit 28s. Any alternatives to consider? Want something in 25c, puncture resistant that still rolls well but not too spendy

Done that before, and forgotten underwear too.

Worst was years ago when I used to use the Boris bikes. One morning I got off, went to pick up my bag from the front and got my rather nice white work shirt caught in the handlebar grips and as I stood up again ripped a huge hole in it. Needless to say I had to get a new shirt and I looked rather stupid on my walk to Oxford Street.

No headwind on the commute in, but that's because I was a lazy git and got the train.

Crazy cyclist on my commute this morning, she screamed like she was 1/2 scared 1/2 pissed off every time a car overtook her, not sure she's going to survive cycling in London if she carries on like that

Never rode on MKS Lambda, but I had exactly the same problem with the Streams, unless I was wearing very grippy soles (e.g. shoes that I could climb a mountain in) as soon as it got wet my feet would slide off them for plenty of "oh fuck" moments. I get the feeling they're only good with toe clips and I didn't want that.

I've since stuck with Duo Resilite pedals, not really sure you'd call them "normal" as I couldn't see them on classic road frames but fine whatever the weather is or whatever my feet are in, generally roll around in Vans or Converse

Saw one in the flesh today, the old triban it replaced locked not that far away, much prefer the new frame, the shape looks better and the tyre clearance is win

Somewhat surprised tonight by the motorcyclist on my commute doing a track stand on the approach up onto London Bridge, completely pointless but somewhat impressive I guess

Toes and fingers slightly numb, felt like the cold slowed me down too, but otherwise I quite enjoyed the sharp dry cold commute this morning

I'd like to presume that he didn't know at the time of writing the comment...

I think you've mentioned exactly what the bag is designed for and that is on the bike, your back is curved, and the padded sections at the back sit on your back while the middle lets the air flow, but off the bike it has a huge gap in the middle - the Infinity does the same thing although it's harness system is a bit different:

The rigidity of the bag at the back, whatever they use to reinforce it seems to make it that way, great on the bike, not so good off the bike.