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I did another 12 miles on the main road tonight. Small fry to the amount you guys are doing but I’m enjoying it and feel better mentally for it
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3 hours ago, Todd_is_God said:
Today's UK figures are a disaster for second wavers. Almost 1 month on from VE Day / restrictions easing and deaths crash.
Minter.
The press and folk on here are just itching for the “second wave” so they can pour scorn on people going about their life’s with some normality. We’ve been waiting for massive spikes since the Easter weekend, VE Day weekend and now from the weekend restrictions were eased a bit. Covid has made people very strange
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17 minutes ago, ayrmad said:
Dry your eyes ffs, you've whined your way through this whole episode like a toddler not getting a treat, do what the rest of us are doing, suck it up and dae wit yer fuckin' telt.
I just think we’re been treated like toddlers.
15 minutes ago, welshbairn said:You really are a miserable fucker sometimes. Events can be uncancelled, others can go ahead and the football would be back to normal.
You're predicting it will all be over by August and whining about it. It would be brilliant if you're right.
They cant be “uncancelled” when they’ve already been rescheduled for 2021. It may not completely be over by Aug, but certainly not enough numbers to justify draconian measures.
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I also find it pathetic that people are allowed to go to work, travel on public transport, come in contact with lots of people per day (even more so if you’re a supermarket worker), they can do this Mon-Fri yet we’re not allowed to go to the football for 2 hours on a Saturday. If there’s one of two deaths per day come Aug will we still be sheep and go along with their “social distancing” measures?
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3 minutes ago, welshbairn said:
If there are no new deaths or new cases in August, everything will be back to normal.
It’s too late for things happening Aug/Sept/Oct/Nov/Dec that have already been cancelled
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3 hours ago, Steven W said:
Getting really fed up with events continually being cancelled all across the globe (I take an interest in the World Rally Championship and woke this morning to the news that the Finland leg in August and New Zealand in September are now cancelled).
Can't see there being any live gigs, football or indeed any sport with fans any time this year. Mass participation events (running events) likewise. And who knows, possibly not next year either.
All work (if you're lucky) and no play makes for a pretty grim existence
It’s a joke tbh. By Aug it’s looking like we’ll have no deaths or new cases, yet punters from lower league teams can’t go and stand on the terraces and “socially distance”. The killie light show in late Oct/Nov was cancelled a few weeks ago. It seems that we won’t be able to go to events until either a vaccine is “found” or after Jan 1st 2021 - new year, new logic
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4 hours ago, Day of the Lords said:
Road bikes have also sub-divided into various genres over recent years. Endurance road bikes are becoming more popular - they have a slightly more relaxed frame geometry than race/aero bikes, wider types (up to 32mm is quite common now) and often feature a few gimmicks to minimise the feedback from rough road surfaces. I picked up a Giant Defy Advanced 2 (Endurance) bike last December and the difference in comfort levels from the old B'Twin Ultra AF is night and day.
If you're doing a mix of road and decently surfaced off-road paths then a gravel bike might be a solution - it's essentially a road bike with a few mods to make off-road riding much more enjoyable with wider tyres, some form of suspension, mods to the drivetrain to prevent chain slip when on rougher ground etc.
If you're doing rougher ground than that, then you'll probably want an MTB. A hardtail will be enough unless you plan on doing technical downhill stuff.
As for tyre pressures, I always thought maxing out tyre pressure would be better and faster and on perfectly smooth roads it's fine. On less smooth roads, not so much. Tyres with lower inflation pressures will contact more of the surface of a rougher road, but this gives a smoother more efficient ride. I always felt that with max inflated tyres on shitty roads the bike felt like it was bouncing a bit and a real momentum-killer. If you run tubeless tyres you can get away with much lower pressures, thought tubeless have both positive and negative aspects.
Yeah the guy who serviced the bike inflated the tyres to their max and on the roads it’s really bouncy. I’m paranoid I’m going to get a puncture as the roads here aren’t exactly smooth and they’re full of pot holes or loose stones. I feel I can’t enjoy the cycle fully because of worry
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If the 14 team top flight gets pushed through because of this new “investment” it will just typify the shit show that is Scottish football. It’s been farcical from start to finish during this covid situation. Fcking soap opera
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I’ve never tried a road bike, can anyone explain the differences between that and a bog standard MTB. I go on main roads near where I live and I feel every single bump in the road and it’s quite “juddery”, is it the same on a road bike?
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7 hours ago, Bairnardo said:
There has to have been a huge lesson learned in terms of preparations at a national level but I think theres still a lit of folk insisting that life can never be the same again. If I go to a pub or restaurant or anywhere that maintains any trace of covid measures visible to me as a customer once this is dusted I wouldnt be back. I recognise the need for it but I fucking hate it. I hate being permitted into a shop one at a time, I hate the big stupid 2 metre tape and I hate the perspex screens and the aversion to being close to others that has been drilled into everyone.
If I meet someone in a setting where a handshake would be appropriate and they f**k me off cos covid I would be raging with them.
I get what you mean, once bitten twice shy, but if its affecting the experience of being somewhere like a pub or that they would lose my customI hate all that as well. You’re put into a line to wait like lambs to the slaughter, then when you’re inside you’re made to feel like you’ve got leprosy. The plans for pubs and restaurants reopening don’t look like a “fun” night out at all, if the waiters are wearing masks whilst serving folk and we’re at zero deaths and new infections per day I won’t be going
7 hours ago, bennett said:Thousands at our parks and beaches, thousands of protesters in London giving no regard for social distancing or the virus.
Families going to the beach after 10 weeks stuck in their own town = selfish covidiots who are going to kill their gran and everyone else. Thousands flocking to a march = it’s ok as they have a cause.
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9 hours ago, Smurph said:
They’re a pair of twats, but in this case all I can say is lucky bassas!
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I did 14 miles tonight. I’m still shite at trying to get up inclines on the road. Had to push it up one (I’m only 12 stone so it’s not due to fatness
). Another thing I noticed yesterday and today, once I’m home from a cycle a headache starts almost immediately. No idea why
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I’d hope championship clubs (aside from Hearts and Dundee) would be able to have their full quota of crowds present. The infection and death rates are free falling, the 2 metre rule will probably be relaxed to 1 metres by Aug. Have fans wear a mask or their scarf over their face if need be. Don’t open the pie stalls if there’s worries over the size of the queue.
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25 minutes ago, Todd_is_God said:
Can't go to phase 2 tho...
And looking like no top flight football in front of crowds until 2021, when the virus magically resets itself
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Max Currie has left Stranraer, a GK I've always rated. Wouldn’t be upset if he ended up at us
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Doc must have had a nosey on this thread yesterday and saw the comment that complained he hadn’t thanked us on Twitter. He’s put a post up now
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1 hour ago, die hard doonhamer said:
Left hand side is the front chainset (the gears attached to your pedals). Just experiment with them, but general rule of thumb is to use both if you're looking for a gear (ie don't put youself in 1 on the front and the highest on the back, or 3 on the font and 1 on the back. Use the middle ring and find it there).
Eta: re pumps, I have 2, I have track pump I keep at home and a smaller hand pump that I attach to my bike frame. The smaller pump should suffice on a mountain bike as you don't need to get them up to a massive pressure.
How often would you recommend inflating the tyres I found im just using the hand pump ?
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1 hour ago, Fratelli said:
I see the right wing lot have started bringing up Lee Rigby and that awful Emily Jones case in some sort of whatabouterry/equivilence argument. Not just a small amount of folk making these arguments either, It's reinforcing that there are a dangerous amount of utter, utter thickos about. I'm not even sure why they feel they have to be opposed to the BLM movement, they've chosen to see it as more soft lefty virtue signalling and i don't really get it. Probably comes from right wing shock jock opinion leaders feeling they have to be opposed to everything to keep themselves relevant, which then makes their followers adopt the same viewpoints.
The Emily Jones case was hushed up. I remember at the time it wasn’t on the mainstream news and only a side bar on Page 7 of a newspaper. I could ask my hometown if they’d heard of Emily Jones and I’m sure 90% wouldn’t have. If I asked them I didn’t they’d heard of George Floyd I’m sure 90% would have. That’s not a slight at all on the George Floyd case, more a slight on how mainstream media reports things
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I get the feeling the likes of Glasgow/Edinburgh live are absolutely desperate for a second wave. Edinburgh Live posted a article today talking about how there was more deaths during the second wave of Spanish Flu in Edinburgh than there was during the first bout of it. They’re desperate to pour scorn on those going to Portobello and Luss and blame them for it
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12 minutes ago, Sergeant Wilson said:
Any other emergency services or 101? The number has obviously been shared by a 3rd party if you didn't do it. Filled in any forms on line or on paper?
Not that I can remember. I've called places using the landline but never my mobile.
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4 minutes ago, Sergeant Wilson said:
Had you called before from that number?
No I havent. Just found it very strange
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1 hour ago, bennett said:
Low gears, the lower numbers on your shifters for easier pedalling/going up hills but isn't very fast.
High gears, higher numbers on the shifters for more speed on flat ground but needs more effort.
I tend to just use around 4 gears myself.
Edit. You can linings to put in your tyre to protect against punctures, as well as better quality tyres. Also try to avoid glass and thorns.
Cheers for that. Any idea what the gear shifter on the left hand side is? (I think it's only numbered 1-3).
I got the bike back and went 4 miles and I felt every uneven surface on the road. It made me paranoid of a puncture. The guy said to keep the tyres well inflated to help prevent punctures. Will a normal "fitba pump" suffice for that?
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I phoned police Scotland to enquire about something. I used my mobile and didnt give my name or anything. The call handler phoned me and said "hello is that..." and proceeded to say my first and surname! I honestly have no idea how they could have known that as I'm PAYG
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I was clearing out the hut yesterday and found my old bike. Haven’t been on it for 5 years. I took it to the bike place to get “roadworthy” and I collect it this afternoon. I’m buzzing! It’s about 20 years old and a big standard mountain bike. What out me off last time was I kept getting punctures every other week and also I pfennig never really understood how the gears work
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George Floyd/Black Lives Matter Protests
in The General Nonsense Forum
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I saw a pic from the riots where a police horse had a brick thrown at it and was bleeding. Attack police all you want but the minute you attack an innocent animal you’re a p***k