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Another thing Texas has going for it, is that it's not Arizona.

No sprocket distance dimension changes in the years between release ?

There was some funny business with 10s, IIRC... two versions, one with non-uniform spacing, was that it?

The arrival of 11s finally put a stop to worrying about anything beyond having the right number of cogs, didn't it? After all these years you can just throw in a Shimano wheel no problems.

Those laser lane things only work if drivers aren’t...

So you say they work right there. There's nothing a light can do about drivers not actually presenting their retinas; nobody imagines otherwise.

The thing is, people are ripe for capitalist harvesting as motorists, so something as destructive to the interests of profiteering multinationals as preventing a significant proportion of them from being allowed to inflict their negligence on everyone by means of say, printing fewer licenses on the back of cereal boxes, will never get up.

No new tech bike light will ever make riders safer.

Seems like a dubious claim... Anyone seen those laser bike lane ones? Surprised they didn't become more of a thing.

NOOOOOO! Crankgate is not over until I decide it is!

Has one dude ever had so much assistance in choosing a crankset before, in the history of cycling? Doubtful

no way that would be getting cut down to 68mm!

IKR, that's mental. Never seen a BB shell's width used up so much on a welded frame!

-> Any Questions Answered About Stuff Other Than hippy's Crankset

...Wouldn't be stainless into stainless, perhaps?

And they will fuck you up

Fuck that blows

Velocio have you considered structural hot glue?

I can endorse it as vastly superior to thin air / crossed fingers composite

If in doubt, collectivise?

Hey, maybe you're not a total cunt after all

blatant Brommie rip

Sorry, what

Ofcom

I've only been on here a few years; what's more a blow-in from the other side of the world, and thus super jealous of all the folks who've been able to use this place to boost their IRL social life over the years...

But I'm no less NOOO, FUCK THIS than anyone else here - hoping against hope this is a false alarm. Even if that's all it turns out to be, this shitness drives home the impression that significantly good events are mostly in the past. The biggest significantly good event for a very long time was The Onion buying Infowars, in what's been an increasingly shit century so far...

LGFSS is a haven from the encroaching enshittification of it all. It's symbolic proof that not everything has to suck rancid corporate arse. Reason alone enough for dozens to mobilise in @Velocio 's defence.

If it does all go away, here's my suggestion: go and crash boingboing.net, where... Oh wait. Was gonna say, where there's another lovely hand-coded forum platform full of weirdos, but since I was there last they've ditched it and moved to a paid subscription model running on Substack, what the absolute fuck

Oh okay, so the name isn't anywhere near as daft as it seemed, given that

Second batch, everything works (maybe half a dozen weren't running), waiting on batteries now.

Some more interesting stuff here. VDB-300, can record and play back voice memos, 30s memory. Has an EL backlight, and the alarm is super loud; pretty handy watch. PRT-50, has a barometer and a thermometer, logs measurements into a little graph on the Twincept LCD, super cool but hard to read the transparent LCD above the analog watch face. WVA-200 is another Twincept (easier to read that one), they both light up the whole face with EL.

CA-901 from 1982, proper hardcore vintage business, this was a couple of hundred bucks even with the LCD blemish (most of them have bleed now). Lovely NOS one up on eBay at the moment for 860 quid. Has a game in it.

T-2000 from 1984, this is a gorgeous thing. Front-facing speaker is fairly loud, and the hourly chime can be either the standard bi-bip or a really unusual ding-dong, which makes you wonder why bi-bip is so ubiquitous. The beautiful big dot matrix strip is lit centrally from above by ye olde incandescent; it's glorious. Translates five languages, pretty damn fancy for the time. This one had some badly corroded side buttons, which I swapped out with the ones from the DB-500 with the cracked screen I got for parts.

Couple of DKW-100s, big fancy-looking JDM numbers with full dot matrix for the Kanji capability. Haven't quite figured them out; the manual was only printed in Japanese and there's no digital copy of it floating around. These have a couple of contacts on the side for a data connection to a PDA.

Couple of analogs in titanium; the one without a crown is a JDM Waveceptor, and complicated AF to set (it wants to know the year), had to translate the Japanese manual for that. I'm annoyed I can't just buy a jigger to broadcast one of those time signals for it to sync to, but I guess I can make one... Some bloke put some code for it up on GitHub. These two ti watches were like $5-$10 each (plus proxy charges and shipping).

Let's see, what else... A couple of the less interesting Databanks came with the T-2000 in a lot of three. DBT-700G lacks an original strap and has lost a bit of plating off the front buttons, but is otherwise very nice, that's a timetable one. Haven't quite worked it out, manual not available. Couple of DB-500s, they're great value. Metal and glass, big clear display, sleek form. The later all-plastic DB-520 (bottom right) although apparently quite sought after, just isn't in the same league.

Then there's three FS-00s, a 5mm thick Databank with EL and world time, but unfortunately no sound. These go for a bit. Not a fan of the elliptical window which shows the flat edges of the screen; the other style looks a lot better I reckon. These came with three different modules, not sure what the differences were, maybe the backlight shining through the black instead of the silver on one of em? Some of them have a coloured stripe along the middle of the display, maybe that's another variant.

Got a third batch on the way, some good stuff in that one too.

Is KB really the best that the Establishment can field?

Keir Starmer has entered the chat

Nobody can touch his dishwasher chat. Or Christmas light chat. Or heat pump chat. Or pinball machine chat. He's a god among nerds

Okay, a hotel... That makes it about 5% less incredibly weird, but I still have so many questions. Wonder if they were colouring outside the lines, or if it was somehow legit?

Dying to see the rest of the Mk-1 Space Genie

I was surprised the parrot needed a run

Apologies for the shitty vid; didn't realise it was so crap

Yeah sure, the stem is the weird bit

Really? So I guess this bit is a surprise, or, no?

am militantly opposed to the marginalisation of cycling.

3 "are you human" verifications.
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Are you fucking thick?

https://youtu.be/VTsBP21-XpI