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    Trike

    Don't understand why he hasn't got one already. Had they been culled in East Sussex or wherever it is he lives?😉
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    Where's my forest gone? To the Grouse...that's where....

    My friends work in food import /distribution and they tell me environmental stress is raising most food commodity prices fast. Corporate greed often then raises profit on a rising price - I think the joke Musk blue plaque wasn't suggesting he had a duty to feed the poor, but that he could...
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    Trike

    There were also a lot of tandems in the postwar period - I think one reason was that disposable income was increasing, and yet the motor car was still beyond reach of a working man. I think there was a much stronger bike cult in those last days before universal motoring. Sidecars...
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    Where's my forest gone? To the Grouse...that's where....

    Seems I spend most of my money on food. Food used to cost 1/3 of household income- i think ours still does. National average is under 10% https://ahdb.org.uk/news/consumer-insight-how-much-money-are-uk-consumers-spending-on-food-since-the-cost-of-living-crisis Being old can have the benefit...
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    Where's my forest gone? To the Grouse...that's where....

    I've done quite a lot of accounts Bob😉 the minimum wage is £12.21 https://www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage-rates In 40h full time work, £25,400 per annum take home works out at £21,800 That's £10.48/hr Let's include workplace pension, (which would be 5% of £18000 employees contribution)...
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    Today's Ride

    Snow on our hillside this morning, so Minty and I went for a ride on The Beacon It was good snow, quite grippy but not sticky. Riding on the forest paths was odd, as if the Gravel was coated in ice so like riding on a layer of ball bearings! You forget how easily ice packs into spds, but...
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    Sorted shimano 3x9 front derailleur

    Is the height and angle correct, and the cage not bent? Post a photo! Front mechs are famously fickle - I call them a 4 dimensional object ( as there are four planes of adjustment to get right) they are a lot harder than they look.
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    Where's my forest gone? To the Grouse...that's where....

    I don't think good food is expensive, if you're cooking from scratch. I don't eat much meat, but recently bought 350g of fillet steak from a local farm, whose beef cattle live and graze outdoor on small fields - so £45 a kilo - but that £15 fed 4 of us! Delicately cooked and thinly sliced -...
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    ai and us

    Surely the AI bots are just going to start arguing bullshit between themselves - like people really, just consuming all our electricity and therefore natural resources.
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    Sorted shimano 3x9 front derailleur

    How's the chainline? Middle ring should line up with middle on the cassette. Some frames weren't built for a triple, pushing the chainset out to clear the stays. And around octalink time, shimano moved chainsets out to allow for wider carbon and aluminium stays and fatter tyres. The earlier...
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    ai and us

    If humans wrote these AI descriptions, they would fall foul of the trades descriptions act: Obligation to Match Description: Sellers must ensure goods match their description at the point of delivery unless explicitly agreed otherwise in the contract. So when you're knocked off your bike by an...
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    Orange Vitamin T still in use

    In the mendips 2025 with his young trendy friends. This day, 5 bikes, we had ti, carbon, steel and aluminium frames, 26 27five, 29er, full sus&ht. Nearly everything🤣
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    Sorted shimano 3x9 front derailleur

    What size chainrings? And what's wrong with the current one? Front derailleurs often seize from the filth chucked off the road, but will free up with attention.😃 Grooves worn from constant chain rub is a different matter. ☹
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    ai and us

    Well, you're not alone.
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    ai and us

    For your sakes i hope Google AI CEO is less stupid than the AI they foist on us😁 I'm certainly not wasting my Time on him😉
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    Some Retrobikes passing through Bikeworkshop in Bristol

    Here's a little hardrock looking fresh, 93 is my guess
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    Some Retrobikes passing through Bikeworkshop in Bristol

    Bear Valley, 92? poor little thing lives outdoors so time for a big grease-up😃
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    Wanted Shimano 105 r7020 11spd STI Levers and brakes

    So you could save your hoses👍 What's the benefit 105 over ultegra?
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    Bikes and Bridges

    Loads of livelihoods and homes ruined, but nobody drowned. The river got over the flood defences half way up the high Street, rushed through town, then got trapped into a deep lake by the flood defences at the bottom of the high St. 🤔Looks to me like the planners thought the floodwater would...
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