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A couple of left-field ideas that I've mused on for rear lights:

The best way to allow drivers to judge closing speed is to have two or more distinct light sources, since these will visually diverge as you close. I think you can already get a light bar, but it might be an idea worth tinkering with to improve. For example a lightweight horizontal beam with a light at each end.

Secondly aircraft carriers have an system of lights that indicate to pilots their angle relative to the desired glides path. I wondered whether a similar thing could be designed for a bike to show extra lights to drivers if they are too close or change the display when they are passing with enough clearance.

No idea about the feasibility of these. Just idle speculation.

To add to all the wonderful stories about the forum: I've met some fantastic people on here and had the pleasure of communicating with many others in threads and through buying and selling stuff. My two nicest bikes were bought on here (or built out of stuff largely built on here).

Particular highlights include selling kids bikes, which was awesome as I knew they'd be used by people who shared my love for cycling to pass it on to the next generation, and also selling a late relative's collection of vintage bike parts for charity.

Most importantly, the friendships that I made on here helped me through a very tough time coming out of a period of depression. I was offered some temporary work, found volunteering opportunities, and ultimately found a new career. For that, I will be eternally grateful for the existence of this forum. Thanks for everything @Velocio

Cav gets a lifetime achievement award

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/articles/c0475w65054o

I'm not a particular fan of Jason Derulo but this hits the spot.

https://youtu.be/APyyMrH7HFY

Top work @UnclePete. Can you replace a broken brim in an existing cap?

I thought Changi was amazing, although I did very little long distance flying.

How about Foffa?

Burn (or possibly a rare self-burn on the part of @ELbowloh)

Needs Lotus about 3ft above colnago.

Also Bianchi are massively uncool.

I like the idea of it being a sort of sketchbook testing area full of batshit stuff not suitable for general release…

That's a theme in one of Terry Pratchett's books.

Steel frames can flex a bit, so you might be able to go for either. If you let us know what the frame is somebody might be able to say what the spacing was originally.

Nice! Funnily enough I was relearning that Free Salute chord sequence the other day. It's lots of fun to play around with and just unusual enough to be interesting.

I didn't know that. EDASD (every day's a school day)

Nice wheels, but just out of interest, what bikes use a 700c rim with a 135mm OLD rear hub? It seems like a strange mix of standards.

GLWS

Are you sure? I always assumed they just flipped the film.

Fair enough. There may have been other reasons why I left (possibly the horrendous price of things in the classifieds, I dunno), that thread was just my abiding memory of the place.

That's the one! My interest in it waned when I realised that 50% extra effort down the embankment reduced the duration of my commute by about 5% so I may as well get some panniers.

It's a while back by my recollection is that the whole place felt a bit city-boy-ish.

I have a vague recollection that there was a thread specifically dedicated to turning your commute along the embankment into a time trial or getting together with other carbon-commuters to form a peleton.

That seemed a bit much in the end.

@mustardbeak I reckon you absolutely called this one.

Parklife?

I forgot about that. I've edited my post accordingly.

I thought this was a forum for golf-playing, house-renovating, coffee-appreciating, crypto-investing, allotment-digging, barbecue-loving, basic middle-aged men.

At this point, cycling of any form is pretty much an afterthought.

I was on BR for a while but got a bit sick of the "roadiness" of it all.

This place seemed more genuine, with all the friendliness and unfriendliness that entails.

Fair.

I'm not saying he's innocent. I'm saying that there are lots of people who could write a day-in-the-life column that's at least that weird and are not guilty of sexual harassment, they're just unusual.