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https://www.thoughtco.com/countries-of-s­candinavia-1434588
This is on the internet, so it must be true.

Yeah for some reason the English-speaking world in particular often gets this wrong. Scandinavians are those who speak Germanic languages that descend from Norse. Finns, although Nordic, speak a Finno-Ugric language. Confusingly, the peninsula on which all these peoples live is called Fennoscandia. There is a gulf that splits Scandinavia and Finland but not much longer because of a very rapid rate of post-glacial land uplift. Another thing that adds to the confusion is that Finland is bilingual (Finnish, Swedish) because the Swedes were kind enough to look after us for half a millenium before losing the province to Russia in a war in the early 19th century.

Is that bulge underneath a Quietus kit then?

What are you - some sort of frenchman?

Just because of the common ground with the other thread derail topic going on here, I´ll add that the only ways to properly clean one´s undercarriage is by way of the Finnish arse shower (hangs on the wall betwixt toilet and sink) or the bidet. Who the fuck wants to spread one´s faeces about with a bit of flattened dead tree carcass? Disgusting.

What are you - some sort of frenchman?

Finnish actually, although married to a Frenchwoman. The thing is, growing up, squat toilets were associated with filthy Russian holes in the ground. The SOAS ones were the first ones I had come across any in western Europe and properly cleaned and flushed to boot.

The ones in France tend to be rank as well.

Well done you. Now that we´re on the subject of the legendary SOAS bar circa 1997 and accompanying toilet furnishings, one thing they most definitely DID have back in the day was squat toilets. Such a superior way to poo I find.

So much want for that Texas hand hygiene poster, complete with y´all and the Lone Star. Where can I order some?

In both senses of the word. School of Oriental and African Substances innit.

I used Senate House when I was QMC student and don't recall any soap on spikes in the toilets.

As I said: if memory serves. The soap spikes were definitely in one of the Bloomsbury university buildings I frequented in 1997-01: SOAS, Senate Hse, Birkbeck, ULU, UCL Gower St. Exactly as posted upthread but with the chrome plating long since fallen off and green from oxidised bronze.

In English public toilets around 1919 the soap was often fixed on a spike on the wall cos so many men had lost an arm in battle.

Back in the late nineties some toilets still had those, like some at SOAS and Senate House if memory serves.

Also, I was alarmed to hear your glorious leader on the telly the other day telling people to spend only 20 seconds "washing" their hands while the WHO says a full minute is needed. The rule of thumb is to sing Happy Birthday twice. The WHO alcohol handrub poster does say 20 seconds though: https://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/How_To_HandRub_Poster.pdf?ua=1

Is there any point of washing your hands as you are touching the handles when people haven't washed? Also how the hands are dried.

Keep your fingies out of your face and your bare hands off door handles and taps in public places and you´re doubly protected. You´ll look weird using your elbows to open doors though.

The official WHO hand washing guide (https://www.who.int/gpsc/clean_hands_protection/en/) has as its final step the instruction to use a disposable paper towel to dry one´s hands and to then use said tissue to turn off the tap.

What I would add as a Finn, having been drilled at school on hand washing and looked at fingernail scum samples through a microscope during a science lesson, is to use one of these: https://sinituote.fi/tuote/sini-siivousvalineet/kylpyhuoneen-wcn-ja-saunan-pesu/pesuharjat/kynsiharja/. Every home in the country has a pile of these. Nothing beats good ole brute mechanical force when it comes to cleaning hands and especially those filthy fingernails.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/3718052.stm

Feck me how did I miss this? Do tell us more.

For longevity and low cost it´s hard to beat Claris steel rings. A set will set you back about 20 quid from the usual German suspects. The big ring comes with a silly plastic cowling to make it look more expensive I suppose. I just chuck it off.

This is bonkers - in a good way

The school´s mascot name is Shipbuilders and the bloke who found the ring is a welder at a nearby shipyard.

There are conflicting accounts of how the ring was lost though. Ilta-Sanomat, a Finnish tabloid, had quoted the welder as quoting alumni as first saying via Facebook that the ring´s owner had lost it while travelling in Finland and Russia. Reportedly he was then told that the ring´s owner had left it in a public bathroom in Portland in 1974 whereas US media quoted the wife as saying she had left it there. Hmm... ;)

Never mind, did not read till the end of the thread...

Came with swappable end caps although not a QR one despite coming with an actual skewer.

Oh? Spj7´s photos (link above) seem to show three sets of caps, including QR ones, as well as a skewer. So yours came with only 12 and 15 mm ones then? Weird.

It seems that hub (KT JH-KD5F) also goes by the name Contec Powerhouse 2+ Pretty steep though at 150 euros but swappable end caps is a plus I suppose, and comes in 28 hole as well.

Not bad. Shame Evans charge 20 quid to send a wheel across the Channel.

For those of us who like to build, the DH-UR705-3D has been available for quite a while now for 100 euros. According to Igaro it spins about as well as a Delux. High praise indeed: https://www.facebook.com/igarouk/posts/shimano-say-their-new-dh-ur705-3d-dynamo-is-up-to-44-more-efficient-than-their-c/892339554464085/

Also, the Shimano one comes in shiny as well as in black.

Yeah it´s solid in both senses of the world. I think it´s about 8 kg.

It´s the only proper way of attaching a kid´s bike to the towing machine that´s worth considering. Very well designed and built. It essentially turns two bikes into an articulated tandem.

The kid´s bike is very easy to attach and release and the same goes to removing the whole thing from the towing bike. What we used to do when the kids were smaller was ride to daycare and then I´d leave the Follow-me Tandem with the kid´s bike attached there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr5_O1cFi8k

I got ours from a flea market in Brussels for the princely sum of 1.5 euros. Was practically new.

If you have small kids get one at once.

That´s a Chinese Bi Bici copy.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/collectvelo/2833223059

You see these about in Italy sometimes. I´ve been looking for one for quite a while now as the thought of a tandem that one could take into public transport appeals.

I´d obviously do wheelies too. Perhaps fit a headset and brake levers in the back as well and tie the ends of the two handlebars together with a length of string and off you go.

Also, RCZ have the SH-RP900 in EU sizes 40.5 and 41 in black for 66 euros a pair excluding postage.

https://www.rczbikeshop.fr/fr/soldes/soldes-chaussures-shimano.html

Check for discount codes.

The Shimano RP9/SH-RP901 shoes mentioned upthread can be had for 100 euros a pair including a pair of posh socks or whatever with discount code FSH-WOW25 on Futurumshop. Only in white though and no size 43.

https://www.futurumshop.nl/shimano-rp901-raceschoenen-wit-heren.phtml

You´d have to email them for postage rates to the UK, it´s free to BeNeLux or you can collect in Apeldoorn or Utrecht. I think I had them post something to Finland once and the cost wasn´t too high if memory serves.

You can´t squeeze in some Conti GP Classics (25 mm nominal) then? They seem to get positive reviews in the usual German cycling supermarkets where the going rate is just over 20 euros a pop.

Have a look at the previous page in case you´re after something a bit faster than Kojaks but in similar width. Samuli is a Finnish ultra endurance cyclist who rode this year´s Transcontinental Race on those confusingly named Continentals.

Found it.

https://bikerumor-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2020-Ritchey-Classic-Zeta-Disc-Wheels_high-polished-silver-modern-disc-brake-tubeless-alloy-road-wheels_rim.jpg