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• Highway Code changes

  in General • 3 hours, 24 minutes

  

  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/j­ul/30/pedestrians-get-priority-as-uk-unv­eils-changes-to-highway-code

• In the category of Best Local Bike Shop

  in Bikes & Bits • 3 days, 10 hours

  

  cool, thanks

• In the category of Best Local Bike Shop

  in Bikes & Bits • 3 days, 12 hours

  

  Other than Brixton Cycles any recommendations for a bike shop in Brixton or surrounding area for a new cyclist looking for a practical, decent, town/ commuter bike. Somewhere with good advice, and after sales service would be great. Could be a good branch of a chain, or independent shop.

• Touring Scotland

  in Cycle Touring and Bikepacking • 4 days, 15 hours

  

  Thanks for this. Sounds great, but I've got plans for the Thu evening. Will PM if things change though.

• Earphones / Headphones: Where to try, what to buy?

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 5 days, 3 hours

  

  May have to do some long train journeys soon, so dug out my 2 sets of IEMs. Both are broken but possibly repairable:

  Sennheiser IE 80 - the nozzle has come off. Thinking about gluing it back or buying replacement but noticed google says these IEMs now sell for about £30 on wish.com (were quite high end and expensive originally). Seems suspiciously cheap. Genuine?

  Cheaper set of Meelectronics A161P something or other - cable frayed where it joins the right headphone. Fixable? I might have a go anyway, but reckon I'll need to cut into the housing of the headphone to expose more of the wire.

• Touring Scotland

  in Cycle Touring and Bikepacking • 1 week

  

  Cheers, that route on komoot looks perfect. Will check the logistics of getting over to the west coast. May have the option of riding in Perthshire too and see there is a Perthshire gravel website.

• Touring Scotland

  in Cycle Touring and Bikepacking • 1 week, 1 day

  

  Will be staying in Edinburgh August 2 - 9 and taking my gravel bike. So, between now and then will be reading up on gravel routes reachable from Edinburgh and trying to decide whether to take the 650b 47mm tyres or 700 43mm. I'd probably only choose 700c if I end up doing a high proportion of road. Also, thinking about combining train and bike to get to other parts of Scotland, but may end up needing accommodation too. Any suggestions, group rides etc happening at the time would be great.

• Let's offroad / mountain bike / mtb / ride dirt

  in Rides & Races • 1 week, 5 days

  

  Was riding the trails between westcott and ranmore common today and one of the routes which komoot said was ridable and am pretty sure is a bridleway/ byway had a sign that said "access to national trust vehicles etc only (covid-19 regulations)". I took a detour which involved hike a bike, stinging nettles, and swearing. I doubt the NT put the sign up, and can't help but be sceptical as to the existence of these "covid-19 regulations". Has anyone seen this?

• What time is it? Watches and horology

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 2 weeks

  

  cheers

• What time is it? Watches and horology

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 2 weeks

  

  Where is a good place to check out Seikos in central London?