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by ransos
4 years ago
Forum: Cycling
Topic: Your Ride Today
Replies: 186
Views: 79142

Re: Your Ride Today



Gospel Pass 200 Audax. Welsh rain is wet.
by ransos
4 years ago
Forum: General
Topic: Covid-19 Pandemic Thread
Replies: 899
Views: 226065

Re: Covid-19 Pandemic Thread

Lots of people, including some experts, are calling for the government to introduce more drastic measures and sooner. And it is fairly obvious the short-term benefits that introducing more drastic measures would have on slowing the spread. The argument given, by other experts, is that there's a tim...
by ransos
4 years ago
Forum: General
Topic: Covid-19 Pandemic Thread
Replies: 899
Views: 226065

Re: Covid-19 Pandemic Thread

I manage a large team and have already implemented a few measures, but our business continuity plan isn't going to work if the schools close, as so many of us have school-age children.
by ransos
4 years ago
Forum: Natter
Topic: Meanwhile...
Replies: 2424
Views: 504434

Re: Meanwhile...

Small and far away.
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by ransos
4 years ago
Forum: Cycling
Topic: Rotor Mystery
Replies: 14
Views: 3407

Re: Rotor Mystery

Thanks peeps. I'm gonna try stuff in this order: 1) a different removal tool, on the offchance it's thinner-walled. 2) LD's screwdriver trick 3) emptying my hub bearings all over the floor. Should you have to resort to the perils of option 3, I recommend placing an empty tub under the hub as you wi...
by ransos
4 years ago
Forum: Cycling
Topic: Rotor Mystery
Replies: 14
Views: 3407

Re: Rotor Mystery

A nirvana I hope to attain if I ever get this one off - the new rotor is a six-bolt so I can do away with the adaptor. The snag is that, with the adaptor and lockring in place, I don't think there's enough room to get even a skinny cone spanner in behind the locknut. I wonder if I have somehow eras...
by ransos
4 years ago
Forum: Cycling
Topic: Rotor Mystery
Replies: 14
Views: 3407

Re: Rotor Mystery

I'd say that your axle locknut is incompatible with an internally splined lockring, except that you managed to install it... I reckon the easiest option is to undo the axle locknut on one side, and maybe change the lockring for the externally splined type for future ease. I caveat this by saying tha...
by ransos
4 years ago
Forum: General
Topic: Bollocks to Brexit
Replies: 1252
Views: 254110

Re: Bollocks to Brexit

I don't dispute much of what you say, but I think there's also more to it. The smugness, the complacency, the English exceptionalism, the thinly veiled racism, the nasty narrow-mindedness suppressed for so long but now emboldened - I see that most obviously in the well-off, middle-class community a...
by ransos
4 years ago
Forum: Natter
Topic: Movies
Replies: 32
Views: 12274

Re: Movies

^ Being shallower than you, I went to see Book of Mormon. Much as you would expect from the creators of South Park, it's crude, outrageous and riotously funny. Think Avenue Q meets Life of Brian, given the full Broadway musical and choreography treatment, and you'll be close.
by ransos
4 years ago
Forum: General
Topic: Bollocks to Brexit
Replies: 1252
Views: 254110

Re: Bollocks to Brexit

In my emotions, I seem to have moved beyond grieving for the loss of EU membership itself, and instead, am in despair at the nature of the country we live in that produced this outcome. The liberal progress of the last decades now seems an illusion and the fundamental nature of our country is revea...
by ransos
4 years ago
Forum: Cycling
Topic: Your Ride Today
Replies: 186
Views: 79142

Re: Your Ride Today

[strava]https://www.strava.com/activities/3025498722[/strava]

A glorious day for a ride over to Wales and the Forest of Dean, though ice was a constant worry and we did see a cyclist being loaded into an ambulance.

No idea why the Strava link won't work.
by ransos
4 years ago
Forum: General
Topic: UK politics
Replies: 183
Views: 79829

Re: UK politics

I too like Keir Starmer, but then I'm a city-dwelling, Remain supporting middle-class man. I have serious concerns about his ability to reach beyond his natural constituency and reclaim the seats across the north that Labour will need in order to return to power. I have a lot of time for Angela Rayn...
by ransos
4 years ago
Forum: Food and Drink
Topic: Beer
Replies: 224
Views: 116904

Re: Beer

Life has got in the way of brewing this year, but I finally managed to make a batch of special bitter yesterday. Plenty of Challenger, Northdown and Golding hops, 7% crystal, Fuller's yeast, pitched this evening and it's already fermenting. Should take the edge off Christmas with the in-laws. It's ...
by ransos
4 years ago
Forum: General
Topic: UK politics
Replies: 183
Views: 79829

Re: UK politics

Perhaps three people made some unwarranted assumptions based on their own view of the world and their own assumptions about what I was saying? Certainly three people seem to have read some quite complicated stuff into what was a very simple howl of rage about someone who the voters of the UK decide...
by ransos
4 years ago
Forum: General
Topic: UK politics
Replies: 183
Views: 79829

Re: UK politics

@@Iris I'm engaging with what you actually said rather than what you claim to have said. I would've hoped that three people picking you up on the same issue might've given you some pause for thought, but experience tells me that your blinkered credentials are far too well established for that.