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Guitar Guitar in Camden has the largest stock of central London guitar shops I think, and they’re pretty relaxed

Lumintop turned up. Looks really well made.

Shame it doesn’t actually work. Now I get to see how good the customer service is.

Cool, appreciated

Just checking - no problems with the mounts? You don’t have the light launching itself into space when you hit a pothole?

I had a couple of magicshines when they were first a thing. The torches were great, but I couldn’t find a reliable way to fix them to the bike - either they’d bounce off or I’d fix them with ties or tape, which was a hassle when swapping from bike to bike. I ended up with a Hope Vision - the size of a coke can - that’s still going strong after 14 years. But is still big and ugly!

As I posted above, their economy is growing - faster than most western economies - and the sanctions are clearly not having an impact on it.

Apparently one consequence of the sanctions was that it forced the oligarchs who had taken their wealth abroad to bring it back and invest in Russia - which is exactly what putin had wanted but previously been unable to do.

Everything I read suggests that Russia is throwing everything into the military. So they have immediate GDP growth given its a fire sale to china, etc. and using the funds to maximise tanks and bombs. Its not sustainable as theres zero investment in actual infrastructure.

Both Germany and the UK had higher GDPs in 1944 than they had in 1938 - GDP growth is not sufficient to tell you whether a country is good, sustainable, etc.

Interested in where or whether you're getting the impression that they're investing internally in their people, factories, infrastructure rather than spending the money stuff to blow up.

You paint a very rosy picture of an economy running at 9% inflation with interest rates at 20%. The military expenditure has come at the cost of taxing resource extraction and cannibalising civilian expediture . Gas prices are back to pre-spike slump and Russian oil trades at a discount.

I don’t know enough (I’m guessing no one does) to say how long russia can continue but the view that their current state is sustainable seems very optimistic (for russia)

I use the superfeet in both. IIRC though my cycling ones are the low profile type - thinner than the “normal” ones.

If it’s just for comfort or stability, rather than attempting to correct some mechanical problem, then I imagine the shape should be the same.

Yep, faced last time or time before.

Googling doesn’t suggest that they’re less reliable either so maybe I’ve just been unlucky

Shimano road bottom brackets.

The old larger silver ones were fit and forget, but I think I’m on my 3rd BBR-60 (the narrower, black, ultegra level one) in as many years.

Rotor 3d24 and torquing pre load with a torque wrench (1.5nm or whatever) so reasonably confident that I’m not too cack-handed. The bike gets ridden in every weather mind, and I do no maintenance to the bb.

Just me? Unlucky and try again? Or are these now throw-away wearable parts rather than things you’d expect a decade out of.

If I understand the article right, the issue is that it’s just some paint delineating the cycle lane from the pavement. In normal times these are rubbish but at school chucking out time they’re worse than useless.

Cyclist comes along thinking they’re on the cycle lane so full speed, 100 kids spill across pavement and cycle lane, car drivers taken by surprise when cyclists suddenly swerves onto car lane , etc

Shimano spd-sl yellows, came with pedals. I prefer the blues, so looking to swap the brand new, still packaged yellows for similar blues

Realise this is a very very long shot

Thanks. Despite a billion strains I wasn’t aware of the grading!

Calf strain last week from 400m intervals on the track. Typically it was the last interval (and all felt good up to that point).

Anyway I’m 10 days past when it happened and the calf muscle is still sore to touch - even a light pressure is painful, and painful to walk on. I’ve had a million strains and injuries over the years and I’d expect some kind of improvement over this time (even if it takes 4-6 weeks to get fully back to normal).

Are there degrees of strain? Can you do more damage than just “pull a muscle”?

Anticipate the ramming and come at the car from the side

You’re joking right? A car that’s smashing its way around and you’re calmly just going to “anticipate”?

Enough people on a cycling forum know how vulnerable a pedestrian is when someone in a car is using it as a weapon. It’s not some Hollywood action movie.

Totally - I remember finding an old cassette tape in a public library when I was maybe 14 and renting it out on a whim. And then being totally blown away by Spanish Moon. There’s just so much going on - the band has like 100 people in it all in a solid groove

Just finished In Ascension by Martin MacInnes. Funny one - it averages 3/5 but only because it’s half 5/5 and half 1/5. Maybe the closest I can think of is Margarot Atwood.

I saw this guy https://www.samoussedik.com/ a few years back. It was just consultation/ MRI/ injection in the end - he gave surgery as an option but advised against it.

He was thorough, explained problems clearly and gave a range of options which we talked through. YMMV but if (when) problems flair up or become unmanageable, I'll go back to him

My experience from loads of single leg stuff post injury (a decade ago) is that 8 reps of body weight single leg is achievable but high bar for a runner/ cycling type.

Two things would be - first make sure you’re starting from at least 90 degrees. Depends on the machine, but it’s sometimes easy to have your leg at less than 90 bend and not be aware (feel free to go deeper once you’re happy at 90 degrees, but start there).

Second get to the point where you can press 1.5 with both legs easily, say 3x10, before single leg.

Single leg on the press can be weird with body positioning and the force sliding you off to one side.

Marylebone road around the Euston underpass was underwater this morning with, what I assume to be, a burst water main.

Couldn’t see anything in the news though.

Anyone connected to Camden swimming club (for juniors)?

I know it's fun to dunk on Tech Bros, but there are a lot of people and companies that are acutely aware of their societal responsibilities and there is a long track record of successful industry-wide collaboration to improve and standardise areas of concern.

There’s also a long track record of obfuscation, misdirection and kicking the can down the road.

The Information carried a piece on snapchat this week. Their claim is that they’re “designed to be safe”. Contrast that with their director of security engineering writing (internaly) on the subject of child sexual abuse material: “that’s fine it’s been broken for ten years we can tolerate tonight”. Or this nugget from their director of public policy “ There’s only so many times we can say ‘safety by design’ or ‘we’re kind’ Politicians and regulators are looking for tangible substantive progress/ initiatives”

There may well be well meaning individuals, but any sense that you can trust the companies as a whole to do the right thing is, at best, misguided.

Thank you, I’ll give them a shout

I went with the Aonijie in the end - turned up today and looks like a good piece of kit. No plans at the moment so not sure when it will get its first real outing though

dredge

We've a small company that we want to wind up - would anyone have an accountant recommendation to help with that?

Ah, got you, sorry.