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Leave it to the Dutch to give it to you with no sugarcoating. Heleen de Coninck of de Technische Universiteit Eindhoven: "als je optimistisch bent hierover dan ... dan, heb je de literatuur niet goed gelezen". Delivered with a bone-chilling smile. Fuck.

https://www.vrt.be/vrtnu/a-z/wat-houdt-ons-tegen-/1/wat-houdt-ons-tegen--s1a2/

+1 to wut Fox said. Having worked more than a decade in journalism (mostly news agency side), it was scary to witness how badly papers mangle up agency content.

Tried any of these https://kidsracing.co.uk/collections/typ­es?q=Handlebars

Perhaps rebadged Satori? https://www.satoribike.com/pro.php?m=d&pid=118&cid=18&f=2

I´ve sent them a message but to no avail. I´ve no idea where to buy the Satoris.

Tried any of these https://kidsracing.co.uk/collections/typ­es?q=Handlebars

I had come across these. They´re on the wrong side of the Great Brexit Wall though. I live in Belgium.

My guess would be 390mm B135 SSB

A lot of other people think it´s that, too, but it seems the ones in the photo I posted have a lot less reach. Could be off course the way they´re mounted.

I need very small drops for my 11-year-old son´s Trek 1.2 (43cm/650c frame). Van Schip´s bars would be just the ticket, but who makes them and where can I get some? The press have seemingly just wildly guessed that they´re Nitto or Easton but I cannot find these in either company´s catalogue.

(Photograph credit: Ben Delaney.)

Was it Nicholas Freeman on Radio 4 today or am I assuming too much? (I am on the wrong side of the Channel to play the programme back.)

zeroes

Zeros, lower case. Zeroes, upper case, means you should find cover or abandon ship.

most of the Pfizer vaccine

The BioNTech (Pfizer) one is made in Puurs in (Belgian) Flanders for this half of the planet and somewhere in Michigan (US) for the other (rich) half.

Achtung bitte, eine Botschaft aus der Zukunft: https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/themen/coronavirus/besonderehelden-1-1811518

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2mf8DtW­Wd8

There´s also the signs. "Survive this drive" for example is so simple and effective.

low 40s

Yeah back in the day I commuted 40 km a day at full tilt I had resting heart rates in the high 30s to low 40s. Professional cyclists have resting heart rates in the 20s, so low that hospital heart rate monitors think they´re dead or about to walk through the pearly gates.

Good read.

"Rasputin had a massive cock, Cummings is a massive cock."

Kay Burley was on fire today

Didn´t Cameron once tell Gove "don´t be a wanker"?

Cheers, posted on the moderator thread already. Will send a private message as well. I am very much in favour of people going by their actual full names online and would like to join some on here who I know already do. Will the black helicopters come if I follow suit? ;)

Hello. Essentially, this:

"Sorry Mr Schick. I used to go by Cycloslalomeur but somehow managed to bugger up my account after forgetting my password and had to create another account. Is there a way a moderator could just merge my new(ish) account and the now dormant one?

Edit: that´s my real name. The old username was shite anyway. It was a tired pun on a new commuting sport I invented many moons ago before it saw me ram a Focus estate at 30 kph."

Sorry Mr Schick. I used to go by Cycloslalomeur but somehow managed to bugger up my account after forgetting my password and had to create another account. Is there a way a moderator could just merge my new(ish) account and the now dormant one?

Edit: that´s my real name. The old username was shite anyway. It was a tired pun on a new commuting sport I invented many moons ago before it saw me ram a Focus estate at 30 kph.

Oh dear. One has but exposed oneself as a commoner hasn´t one.

"gas"

This is even more infuriating as we put actual gas into the van to make it go.

car’s mpg are not as manufacturer claim to be, moreso when it’s a big and heavy thing.

Verily in urban driving and also true for extraurban but only if you drive like a cock on the motorway or drive in the mountains. If, however, you cruise at a constant 65ish mph even big lumps can achieve those claimed mpgs because there´s no stopping and starting or pointless accelerating and braking cycles. We have a VW Caddy Maxi CNG (very heavy because of those gas bottles strapped underneath) and I regularly exceed the manufacturer´s extraurban mpg claim with shitloads of people and bikes and luggage inside. Ditto for a Focus diesel. Obviously results will improve drastically if you reduce cruise speed.

Also, I had no idea the Disco was so low nowadays. The boot in the news footage looked so tiny that I assumed it was an Evoque. What a pointless thing then. Where do one´s hunting hounds go?

Was about to mention that too. It drives me insane.

My mistake then. Was referring to the footage where he loads that bike into the car. Yeah, a Disco is no hypermiler.

Judging by the news footage he has an Evoque, which is a fairly low and light "crossover" that´s usually sold as front (two) -wheel drive. It´s not a four by four. If it´s a diesel it´s easily capable of 500 miles on a single tank. Not defending Mr Cummings, just car chat derail.

So painful to watch. To think he just spread himself out on the griddle having been told what he´d be asked. It´s as if he was there to defend the head of government.

I have a headache now.