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The opposite of GSFL is the arms race that is retina searing rear lights.

I really really wouldn't want some of the ones I see on my commute. Simply because you can't trust the motorists behind to be able to safely pass something they're unable to look even in the general vicinity of. They may ward off many people, but they're not going to ward off the fuckwit who now can't see you well enough and is going to try and pass you anyway.

Best child seats for bikes, and suggestions of good bikes to attach them to. A friend has a 3 or 4 year old child they wish to transport around town by bike.

Hamax Kiss works fine for my 4 year old. http://www.greenbank.org/misc/IMG_3758.JPG

I think they're good for up to 22kg or so, so she'll be done with it in a year or so (she's 19kg), by which time she'll be on her own bike (sometimes attached by a trail-gator, sometimes free).

Top tube seats are generally only rated up to 15kg, which will probably rule out carrying a 4 year old (and possibly rule out carrying a 3 year old boy, they tend to be a good 3kg or 4kg heavier than girls of the same age).

I needed the extra height mounting bar for the Hamax (another £20 or so) as the compact geometry frame on that hybrid is tiny (and I'm only 5'8" anyway) and it needed to clear the rack and panniers (which are slightly wedged in with the seat on, have since moved to low-riders on the front for carrying stuff).

EDIT: Yes, the only place that seat is mounted is on the seat tube, it doesn't touch the rack at all. Seems odd that all of the weight is supported just by a single mount but it's solid and doesn't hurt the tubing.

I'd be a lot more wary of carbon forks with an alu steerer than full carbon forks (the latter I'd probably never plan on replacing). The bond between alu steerer and the carbon is where there's most likely something going to go wrong.

I had just bought some replacement carbon forks (alu steerer) for my Tempo just before it got stolen. It had done ~50,000km or so by then (no point replacing based on time if the bike rarely gets used). I might get round to fitting them to the new Tempo (assuming I still have it) in 2020 or so (it gets a lot less usage now).

I use Deda Black Rain forks as I have mudguards and long reach (57mm) brakes.

505

He's one of the turtles.

Those keyboards are pretty much my favourite. (I prefer the IBM SK-8815 version (http://img04.taobaocdn.com/bao/uploaded/i4/T1GkNiXXI7ltQDLSEV_021645.jpg) with the music control keys top left and the built in 2 port USB hub).

I split work between home and office and I prefer the same keyboard at both, so any "nice" keyboard I'd have to buy twice. I can happily bash away at 100wpm+ on anything though.

This site: http://www.kreuzotter.de/english/espeed.htm is a useful guide to speed calculations based on power, weight, CdA, etc. It'll be accurate enough for the amateur.

For my figures, on the flat with no wind.

15W gets me going at 10kph.
61W required for 20kph.
166W for 30kph.
250W for 35kph.
361W for 40kph.

Note that doubling speed from 20kph to 40kph requires almost 6 times as much power.

Anyway, there are lots of non-standard distance triathlons, whether a "fairer" one catches on is more to do with marketing than science.

"...snatches the crown..."

There never needed to be proof before, just people start putting links to Strava/GC for their efforts and it escalated from there.

http://www.bitcoinity.org/markets

Also shows you live market depth and trades from the various exchanges.

I'd worry that just one was an Anthrax Ripple.

Swim #2. A massive 500m (slowly building up). Slightly faster, more freestyle less breastroke/backstroke (recovery), less time resting. Will aim for 750m next time (if I count properly).

Another 4 laps, slight improvement on last time (2m30s knocked off) but still not faster than earlier this year. Won't be long though, just have to keep shedding the weight.

This particular one was useful for me as I was going from Southbank to the 5-a-side pitches next to the Imperial War Museum to play football last night at 6pm. I took the back roads past Morley college to avoid the closed road.

HWC Rule 145

You MUST NOT drive on or over a pavement, footpath or bridleway except to gain lawful access to property, or in the case of an emergency.
Laws HA 1835 sect 72 & RTA 1988 sect 34

I'll leave it to someone else to check the sections of the Highways Act and Road Traffic Act referenced to see if they would apply to cycles.

And not sure this would cover using the pavement to get to some bike parking either.

y u no have dust or lint

If you have to ask...

"So fast I don't need to get left" attitude

That's what bells are for.

No turn washer?

tg;dr shirley?

@Ludd > Can you fit all the words in that book into a single tweet? Just wondering.

No.

$ head geah.txt
I am Sam

I am Sam
Sam I am

That Sam-I-am
That Sam-I-am!
I do not like
that Sam-I-am
$ cat geah.txt | sed -e 's/-/ /g' | tr ' ' '\n' | tr A-Z a-z | sed -e 's/[.!,?]*$//' | sort -u | grep -v "^$" | head
a
am
and
anywhere
are
be
boat
box
car
$ cat geah.txt | sed -e 's/-/ /g' | tr ' ' '\n' | tr A-Z a-z | sed -e 's/[.!,?]*$//' | grep -v "^$" | sort -u | wc
     50      50     222

So 172 characters if you concatenate all of the words (with no punctuation) without any spaces. 221 characters if you want a space between each word.

$ cat geah.txt | sed -e 's/-/ /g' | tr ' ' '\n' | tr A-Z a-z | sed -e 's/[.!,?]*$//' | sort -u | grep -v "^$" | tr '\n' ' '
a am and anywhere are be boat box car could dark do eat eggs fox goat good green ham here house i if in let like may me mouse not on or rain sam say see so thank that the them there they train tree try will with would you

Do you like green eggs and ham?

The tunnel vision from the severe hypoxia caused by pushing so hard for so long will cause him to be unable to see his legs, and so he won't be able to tell them to shut up.

A valiant 49.75km (and a new record, but not quite 50k).

iOS8 requiring 5.8GB of space? Luckily I can't get it on my iPhone 4.

Just use clingfilm.