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thanks, I half agree, in Rotterdam what one does is take a cheap paint brush and purple paint to ones titanium bike to make it ugly. but I doubt that really works. only snag with cheap mountain bike (from a non electric perspective) is that riding satisfaction and good geometry is lost, which is...

but what else? are locking up expensive bikes in a public space simply impossible?

so (hopefully this isn't derailing) what is light but safe enough to lock up say a 3k euro bike for six hours somewhere semi dodgy? at the moment I use a kryptonite new York, but it weights as much as the bike.

at best it says to the world we are a bunch of serial losers who have to resort to protectionism to survive in a globalised economy because we are too thick, unproductive, unoriginal to survive on our own merit.

I'm afraid this is the big one https://www.poundsterlinglive.com/gbp-live-today/5563-gbp-to-eur-and-usd-wipeout all personal perspectives aside, my instinct tells me the excrement is about to finally hit the fan

to those that voted brexit that is, to those that voted remain it will feel exactly like they imagined brexit would feel (a deep **** situation).

Thankfully i gather from bbc this am the penny is beginning to drop (dreadful pun),finally the great esteemed public (or media at least)are noticing. I think we may see a few u turns and some different posturing from ms may

oddly I have the exact opposite experience, I would try to swim the Atlantic (or vote for my miniature dachshund) rather than live under trump, whereas living under Hillary would only require regular, heavy, sedative doses of tricyclic antidepressants to take the edge of the despair. equally I...

a very great deal depends on your terrain and level of fitness: I'm not very fit (a bit more so than before nowadays, but not much). but I had an electric bike in the UK mainly because of hills. if your commute is hilly (say the chilterns or bath or similar), a pedelec it will have to be, and it...

I have a mini American trump vs Hillary dilemma about this. I like Corbyn, a lot, but Dianne Abbot and Shami Chakrabarti are such insider types - regardless of say Chakrabarti's very different journey into the Westminster inside - to my mind. so utterly sounding like professional politicians...

in the real world - in a wet dark winter in the uk on roads with more broken glass and deeper potholes than anywhere else I've been, including much of Africa - I definitely wouldn't go for 70-0c or narrow tyres. I'd accept recharging at work (i.e. a 25 mile range), bear in mind fat tyres don't...

it's doable - or it would be if you take "without pedalling" out. back in the UK I had an 11 mile commute (each way) I did in a regular 37 minutes on a derestricted bafang rear hub motor bike. so it will take you about an hour and a quarter each way. if it's a congested area this may well be...

who exactly is "we"? as long as one bears in mind she is fighting hubby and g4s's corner, not the publics. but there will be plenty of dirty tricks as she screws the public while doing this. much as there was in her shamelessly populist bit of "middle ground posturing". saw the interview in...

yes, as I listened to her obliquely refer to phillip green and say "from now" on that (asset stripping and the taxman picking up the tab) wont happen "anymore", I could almost hear that little tet-a-tet between Theresa, phillip and her G4S hubby (in which they agreed it would be quietly put...

i agree with everything except the "ignored" bit. What I hear most when people who voted brexit speak is ignoring - not being ignored. telling the world they don't give a **** about Aleppo, or victims of war, that all that matters is their obsessive self interest. wanting to obscene along with...

scrutiny cuts both ways: everyone remember the snatch land rover debacle in Afghanistan/Iraq. I used to be a conscript in an impoverished African country, who's GDP was probably around 5% of the UK's. It wouldn't dream of putting its soldiers in those kind of combat environments in a snatch land...

saw that a while back, bizarrely main thing I took away is feeling better about all the strange, dysfunctional stuff I've tried to make (and the eight weird frankenbikes in the lock-up), as well as the food mixer fantasies of getting sucked into the blades..

I wish I could, agree, but am afraid I cant. This is anecdotal: but my experience is that war crimes are underreported, generally and in terms of the MOD. I may be wrong. Unfortunately I know of too many reports of phosphorus grenades being tossed into civilian homes in Iraq, and similar...

was interesting to see how mutti merkel and others responded to May's overvalued idea that the UK holds all the cards and can dictate the terms of negotiation. I know Tory politicians suffer from narcissistic delusions, but this was pushing it. First the EU politicians say they won't play her...

Ive done my share of trauma work with ex soldiers(mostly mod). Mostly complex trauma rather than ptsd. Most had self selected the kind of life mod service abroad in a war situation offers because of what freud called repetition compulsion,better the devil you know,or a reality of surviving often...