SwissChap

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• Rapha, nice but a bit pricey?

  in Bikes & Bits • 13 hours, 3 minutes

  

  And then I found a fiver.

  Some people just lead more successful lives than me.

• This morning's commute and other commuting stories

  in General • 18 hours, 41 minutes

  

  Haha yeah the gods punish swiftly... at least it wasn't a complete deluge this morning like some days last week?

• This morning's commute and other commuting stories

  in General • 18 hours, 55 minutes

  

  Had a guy on a scooter tell me I lost my building pass a few metres back, which was very nice and very useful as I would have been a bit fucked without it. I'm taking it as karma from when I told another cyclist that his pass was starting to slip out of this jersey pocket.

• FS: Giro Empire Shoes EU43, Sram RED shifter & more

  in Components, clothing and miscellany • 2 days, 11 hours

  

  Hey, do you have some more pics of the SRAM lever that show its condition?

• EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 3 days, 18 hours

  

  And an interesting thing about 'foreign aid' I learned recently: apparently it can be spent on building an airport in British overseas territories such as St Helena. Personally, I'm a bit confused how that qualifies as 'foreign' aid.

• I hate

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 3 days, 18 hours

  

  Absolutely agreed. Unfortunately it's at the point in the US that some businesses can legally pay waiting staff below normal minimum wage, as long as tips they receive push them over - otherwise they have to make up the difference though. Meaning there is a big incentive for the business to aggressively push tipping, as you are not just improving some waiter's wages, you are very directly replacing the business' obligation to do so.

• eBay problems, resolutions, shenanigans, questions and info (not bike finds)

  in Classifieds • 3 days, 18 hours

  

  This was when dealing with government of India departments

  Btw, I remember reading that some of those weird or wrong-sounding terms and expressions are holdovers from the Colonial era, i.e. things that used to be normal expressions, but which disappeared in the UK. I think 'do the needful' was one example. Maybe that use of 'revert' has a similar backstory?

• Wanted: Cinelli Mash bullhorns (black) - or similar shape bullhorn / 'TT' handlebars

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• EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 6 days, 13 hours

  

  I think it's not so much a justification as clinging to the straw of hope at this point. They are trying to convince themselves (or keep themselves convinced) that it is going to be good like the brexiteers say, because otherwise, they have realised, it could really be a major catastrophe and really really negatively impact them (and in this case, their business).

• Extinction Rebellion

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 6 days, 19 hours

  

  anywhere they close/move on people just swarm over to another site

  Also, I'm very much enjoying some of the closures police put up as they were still letting cyclists through. Bliss.