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Nice! That's a good idea.

With my build I went with VO mudguards under the misapprehension that they had a channel for dynamo cable. In the end I did similar to you, except we used a bead of silicone sealant to embed the cable, instead of tape.

And the fork clearly has canti mounts but there's a dual pivot caliper brake floating about somewhere...

Seems calculated to annoy.

This is normal hippo behaviour. It's a sign of submission for them to flick poop onto the dominant hippo in the area.

Just wanted to let you guys know that my kids finished their fundraising cycling challenge last weekend. A few of you were so kind as to sponsor them, for which I am very grateful! They did their last 10 or so miles by climbing up to Kenwood House and then descending to the finish line at Regent's Park, Inner Circle. They have raised £800 for Palestine Children's Relief Fund - a sum wildly beyond any of our expectations. Thank you!

It's also conflating decolonial with anti-colonial.

Sadly the latter, it appears.

The one with a planetary gearing looks really good. Got my Dad a cheaper version for Christmas, since anything will be better than the way he looks after kitchen knives at the moment. The main thing that kept me from getting him a basic Horl was that the guide with a 15° angle option (typical for Japanese knives like the ones I gave him last year) is only available on the more expensive models, whereas on the cheaper one I found, the guide has 4 different angle options.

They have to un-learn stuff. It's like a sort of wilful delusion.

Never an opportunity missed, eh?

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russias-navalny-removed-prison-colony-whereabouts-unclear-supporters-2023-12-11/

It may be too soon to call it, according to Reuters prisoner transit takes weeks and it is normal to get no information about their whereabouts until it is complete.

Which is not to suggest that Putin or any number of scumbags in his rotten regime are not capable of it, it would be entirely plausible, and given the recent shift in geopolitical attention, the risk of that sort of thing is probably higher.

I did Google first but got no recent stories. Used his full name though.

Link?

I don't mind wide and high so much as small and intense. Some of the tiny rear lights are extremely bright and with a very small illuminated area, that's quite uncomfortable with laser-like scattering across the retina of those behind. The same amount of light emitted over a larger, more diffuse area is more tolerable and simultaneously more visible. But I suppose a broad rear light is less aero or something.

That said I stick Moon lights on my kids' helmets at this time of year, because on kids' bikes the possible attachment points for lights are often below the eyeline of drivers or obscured by their saddles from the viewing angle of a car seat. They're not excessively bright but I want to get something up in drivers' faces.

On my bike I use a dynohub with Schmidt Edelux front and rear. I also have 'to be seen' lights integrated with my helmet, but again they're not too intense.

Nice one. Possibly the most appropriately named band of all time, then.

Yeah, one to add to the list of reasons I should get shot of Barclays, for sure.

The eating was a different incident. Drummer whose moniker translated to 'death' killed himself, bandmates ate a bit of him and one made a pendant from a piece of skull IIRC.

I think there was a connection to the murder of Euronymous by Count Grishnakh/Varg Vikernes (who is a 'not racist' racist twat of the highest order) but can't remember what it is.

So here's the link to my kids' fundraiser...They were (particularly my younger son) quite moved by the struggles of kids in Gaza, often similar ages to themselves - so raising some money to help kids in Palestine is a good way for them to feel that they're contributing.

https://www.justgiving.com/page/emil-karl-furze-1699800482706?utm_medium=fundraising&utm_content=page%2Femil-karl-furze-1699800482706&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=pfp-share

My kids decided to cycle the circumference of Gaza to fundraise for Palestinian kids - via the Palestine Children's Relief Fund. It naturally falls to me to organise the fundraiser and plan and chaperone the rides, etc.

Is it appropriate to share the JustGiving link here?

I'm up for that.

The headline speaker was some mad pastor who has said that God sent Hitler to help the Jews go back to Israel...

I'm not suggesting that religion can be ignored, I'm suggesting that we have to recognise that while they are genuinely believed and deeply held, they are basically confected (and often very recently) so resolution will be hampered as a result. That which we cannot speak of we must pass over in silence - thus "invisible space dad said it was mine" cannot constitute a solid claim to political or geographic hegemony on either side because it's untestable and thus will always be whatever the claimant wants it to be.

I'm being a bit facetious because this is a cycling forum, but while dealing with people appropriately sensitively, I think this has to be borne in mind. The word of a prophet or a deity however long ago, cannot be weighed against the real actual life of people, particularly when even the supposedly faithful are extremely sketchy about the bits they adhere to or recognise. Argument from faith is always going to be a hiding to nowhere.

What did she think of Princess Di?

There's written historical evidence of Spanish Catholic naval captains referring to Protestant churches in Cornish coastal villages as 'mosques' so it is not as if Velocio's comment on the relationship between Christianity and Islam is entirely without precedent. I'm not convinced that the religious angle is anything other than a dead end though. Then as now, religious justification has been sought for the establishment of temporal power, and religious rules will bend or break in the service of that power and control.

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