Cycling Related

Having read the latest Cycle, I was prepared to be in a generous mood, and point out (a) that we now know that the new Interim Chief Exec is in fact not only a former London cycle commuter but a Brompton user, and (b) it featured words from Chris Juden for, I think, the first time since he was sack...

Is anyone trying the National Theatre Live streaming of theatre shows, or any of the equivalent offerings from other theatres? It doesn't really work for me: theatre shows are designed for the dynamic of a captive audience in a physical place and the shared communication between audience and stage,...

Rutabaga wrote: ↑

4 years ago

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Must it? Even in the 1880s it was actively lobbying and taking action to make cycling accessible and safe for all. https://www.cyclinguk.org/about/history/ctc-history-timeline There's absolutely no contradiction in those two things. The point we were trying to make in Save the CTC was that effectiv...

Winning power. It's pretty flexible as to the way in which it goes about it, and reinvents itself all the time. It usually stands for a mixed economy with overt support for private enterprise, as long as that support doesn't get too much in the way of winning votes. It has a broadly market-led view...

Anyone who asserts that the Conservatives want to fundamentally change the basis of the NHS or restrict what it does really ought to provide some evidence rather than vague assertions. Vague assertions that don't bear any relation to reality are what is wrong with politics, and get found out eventu...

Which tells us that he has the tools to be successful. But at what? This is the point, of course. I'm sure none of us have forgotten that about ten years ago we had a mahoosive and somewhat bitter row about what the organisation is for, and those of us who thought it should act in its members' inte...

Speaking of which, how is Volcano faring in these circumstances, TRR? I can see you're doing quite a bit online, but are you going to survive? Pretty well for now, thanks, John - the little-appreciated upside of never making a profit even when things are good. We're part of what these days is calle...

JohnToo wrote: ↑

4 years ago

I can't be the only person whose first thought on seeing this picture was "Big Brother"...

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Ha for a minute I thought National Theatre of Wales were doing a new site-specific performance.

LowlifeDes wrote: ↑

4 years ago

BBC News - 'Shamed' despite sticking to social distancing rules
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland- ... e-52230081

People are clearly being driven mad by this.

'she produced a measuring tape from her pocket'

Glad you took up the recommendation! It is quite something. I watched it after Louis Theroux named it as one of a number of docos that influenced him. I'll drag up the other titles now in a minute...

Iris wrote: ↑

4 years ago

Remarkably, the autocratic Home Sec has confirmed that you are allowed to buy general stuff, by slapping down the cops.

https://www.northwichguardian.co.uk/new ... secretary/.

I have to admit I didn't see that coming.

ransos wrote: ↑

4 years ago

TFFT. The edge of my seat was increasingly uncomfortable.

Yeah sorry about the agonizing suspense.

Iris wrote: ↑

4 years ago

Isn't this the Kaffenback that was built starting from the moustache bars? Are you really so fickle?

Yes. But ontological questions of the Trigger's Broom variety aside, it wasn't the bars I didn't get on with - it was the brakes.

Sounds a plan I doubt that anyone has put their life on hold waiting for news, but as it turns out the new cassette removal tool is thinner-walled and it did the trick. Plus I have shortened my brake hoses with the aid of a YouTube video and a Shimano widget. Not only that, but I have two of everyt...