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I did the Struggle Legacy sportive yesterday, starting and finishing in Leeds and visiting some of the lumpier parts of the Dales. It was a long day, but a good one.

A surprising number of former politicians seem to turn from mendacious arseholes into reasonable people once they leave politics. Maybe he's just going through this process very quickly.

Lord Cav?

I still wouldn't want to have anything generating that much heat in a cupboard. Not with the door closed. It'll get very hot in there without active cooling.

Otaksune 103 secateurs. If Carlsberg made secateurs...

Apologies for the blurry photo, but I thought using flash photography would be overly intrusive.

Although maybe I should've put some rose petals in the back lawn as there's some serious hedgehog lovin' action taking place...

We've gathered all our rose petals for the past two seasons for confetti, we comfortably get enough for two weddings a year.

I would do, but I'm at that stage in life where the first wave of weddings is over, and the second hasn't really started yet. I'm still in The Divorce Years where rose petals are superfluous.

As midlife has pointed out, izza trug. It is rather nice, although I draw the line at hooking it over my forearm like a handbag. For now, anyway.

And one dandelion...

This is about a quarter of today's deadheading. Admittedly I've left it longer than I should since last time.

Not once I've got into three figures as I suspect I will have by the end of today.

Yes. And handling fees from the courier.

I love the reaction. A trademark combination of petulance, finding someone to blame, and startling incompetence.

The bigger issue is that it sounds like climbing shifters have to be plugged into DI2 shifter units, as satellites? You can't just have them on their own?

This is correct. That's why you need to use the guts of a climbing switch.

It's OK, he claims he's recovered from the worm that ate part of his brain.

I haven't read the Telegraph article, for obvious reasons, but apparently the opinion in question dates back to 1987. And while I'm no expert on the ECHR, I have been required to deal with ECHR arguments in the course of my professional practice, and I'd say it's obviously complete bollocks. To use the technical legal terminology.

Excellent, thanks. I don't need a precise number - 'barely any time' is accruate enough for me!

I achieved something similar on my Cervelo S2, which has subsequently been transferred over to my P5, but getting a climbing switch, stripping it down to the bare PCB, soldering some flying leads onto the PCB contacts underneath the switches in the climbing switch (or rather getting a friend who's much better at soldering than I am to do it) and then connecting the flying leads to momentary switches originally intended to work as remote switches for Cateye cycle computers.

There were some photos of the process on my Cervelo S2 'Dentist's Chair' thread, but they're no longer visible as the web host looking after the pictures doesn't seem to allow https. It's all pretty obvious once you strip down the climbing shifters though.

The only hard bit is finding switches that won't look like massive carbuncles when they're in place.

On the face of it I can imagine it would therefore be quite hard to argue that ending a temporary exemption is illegal.

It's not temporary. Charities have never had to charge VAT, and schools have had charitable status since the Statute of Elizabeth in 1601. Pretty well-established.

Fair enough but he’s hardly on the breadline or part of the taxi rank system

The cab rank rule would apply to him. He's currently a barrister in private practice, and so will be bound by the Bar Standards Board Code of Conduct, which includes the cab rank rule.

Arcsin(1/3) is roughly a third (it's 0.339 and lots of other numbers) so I'd you only need an approximate result you could just use that figure. It simplifies things a bit.

If that is coming from SRAM then I'd take with a massive pinch of salt as they aren't over the moon about anyone using anything other than SRAM chainrings.

SRAM aren't over the moon about anyone using a front derailleur, on account of them never having managed make one that didn't suck massive giant donkey balls.

Is it Pistonheads by any chance? Pretty much the whole of that site could be copy-pasted in the GC thread and it wouldn't look out of place.

Better reasonable ideas please ?

Better than voting for a bunch of racist, misogynistic neo-fascist grifters? How long have you got? It's a long list.