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What a great day’s football. Leyton Orient into the FA Cup 3rd draw with a 4-0 win over Tranmere, Dulwich Hamlet in top 3 in the Nat League South with a 5-2 win over 3rd placed Ebbsfleet and Walthamstow running away with the Essex Senior League with a 2-1 win over Woodford Town in front of nearly 500(!!) and huge donations of food for the local Eat or Heat campaign. What a day.
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Nope, I’m gonna need help with that one.
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I’m more on the sidelines, being an Orient supporter, but Stow are my old hometown club and it’s great to see them doing well, top of the league and two defeats all season. But it’s good to see Woodford Town up and running again, so no animosity here. Should be a cracker.
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Jimmy Savile, Stuart Hall and Rolf Harris walk into an Irish bar. The barman says “ah, not you tree again?”
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If anyone in the east London area is free tomorrow and fancies a terrific afternoon out at a proper football ground, then can I suggest….
https://facebook.com/events/s/walthamstow-fc-v-woodford-free/3065829257033124/
Please bring food/donation, or just pay £7 on the door. Should be 300+ crowd, a great atmosphere at a local derby, and it’s all for a good cause. If you see a green Brompton on the terraces, I’ll be nearby. Ta!
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I’ve tried and there’s no way I can find to inform eBay what the actual issue is. Very frustrating.
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How do you get an eBay listing taken down? Someone is selling this - it belonged to @cake and was written off in a crash. The frame is bent. The insurance company flogged it off and now some scrapper has bought it and is flogging it off as rideable. There must be some way to stop it?
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Glad I had my hoodie on yesterday, it was so bastard cold at football I had the hood up over my woolly hat. Although that meant that I noticed my frozen feet more.
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What Ed says below, basically. Looking after it is the key. I had a Trek ebike with a Shimano motor, and the battery lasted a year before it failed on me, so it was replaced under warranty. The replacement lasted two years and was still fine when I sold the bike. But generally if used sensibly then I’d expect several years of use.
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Our rule is no conversion kits, nothing with a throttle or trigger and definitely nothing de-restricted. We’ve had a few pissy people when we’ve refused to fix a puncture or whatever but it’s not worth the hassle.
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The issue is that none of them are BS kitemarked, because they’re all bought online and there’s no restrictions on what’s coming in to the country. The idea of a cheap li-ion battery would have been ludicrous even a few years ago, but that’s what we’re getting now, and the reason they’re cheap is because there are zero safety features built into them. A Bosch or Shimano battery will cost £500 while a Chinese one will cost around £150. The chargers you get with cheap bikes & scooters have no cut-outs either, so if the battery fails the charger will keep pumping into it, exacerbating the issue. Cheap li-ion batteries are made from cheap materials, and the cells are badly insulated - eventually the insulation will break down, debris will fall down to the bottom of the cell and short out the next cell, and wahey, it’s thermal runaway time.
Basically you get what you pay for.
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FOF was robbed in Leyton a couple of days ago, and his equipment stolen. If anyone hears of anyone offering any of the following, please let the Met know. Thanks.
Hasselblad 503cx, Chrome, RR1417750
Hasselblad PM finder (non-metered)
Carl Zeiss 80mm Planar CB, serial 8851096
A12 Back, Type IV, 30EE17296, Chrome
A12 Back, Type III, Chrome, attached to camera
Artisan and Artist camera strap, black and red
Acute Matte D Screen, split prism w/grid
Billingham 207 bag in blackMet police crime ref: 4923587/21
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Nice to hear Warmduscher and The Lovely Eggs get a rare mention on Marc Riley’s show this evening…..
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Just don’t use Wiggle. They’re a bunch of price shaggers who really cause a lot of LBS’s a lot of grief, and if it goes wrong you’re in a world of pain, as you’ve found out.
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Mrs JJ trying to work from home…
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@sbbohr - you have mail, if you read this? Ta.
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Yeah, I did wonder about that, but I like my job!
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I have my booster booked for tomorrow at 10am. I had my 2nd dose of O/AZ back in May and I’m 59 so it’s time. I know of a few people who’ve had the booster and who have reported worse after effects than they had with the two initial doses, oddly enough. I’ve had this bastard cold thingy for a good six weeks or so, so maybe that’ll have some effect too. It’s my day off tomorrow so if I do feel a bit crap I can laze around at home til it passes. Then I just need my flu jab.
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e. The important part is to pull the lever as hard as yuh can to pre-stretch the cable and compress the outer housing, then the rider can use the barrels to take up the pad wear. Personally I like my levers with only a very small amount of pull but I’m sure most people don’t like that.
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Was a great effort. Walthamstow made it free entry if you bought a donation (it’s usually £7) and all the Stow and Woodford players bought donations too. And Dulwich had a collection for Kings hospital, to buy toys for children who will be in the kids unit over Christmas. They raised over £3,000. Awesome.