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I've not ever retrofitted, but we had one in our new build flat that we bought 5 years ago. It was really fantastic. Clothes dried indoors on the rack within hours, and we almost never turned the heating on.

However, house plants were not super happy with it, as they all tended to dry out very quickly.

I've not had this. Try Wahoo support, though. They genuinely have been really helpful when I've used them

Whaaat? Portobello mushrooms are seriously tasty!

Almost certainly with that kind of a jump, yeah

Are wiggle not?

Check with your insurer. Some ask you to insure for what it would cost to replace it with a brand new equivalent bike. Others say to insure for what you paid for it when you bought it. For example, the 2 insurers I was considering at renewal time this month both had completely different policies, and for me that was a big differentiating factor.

Thank you, that is really helpful to know. I'll try M&S for a quote. It feels like it is becoming harder and harder each year to put high value bikes on a home insurance quote. Maybe at some point in the future it'll have to be a separate policy.

Looks like it. Is that a bad thing?

Sorry, Laka isn't gonna do it for me. Estimating 56 quid a month just for bikes, whereas the 2 cheapest home insurance quotes I have are around 340 including the bikes.

Thanks for sharing that! So they are the same company or a sister company for Yellow Jersey? I thought Pedalcover was part of the direct line group?

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Both part of The Plan Group Ltd. Interesting ...

Anyone have experience claiming with either Frontier insurance, or Pedalcover? Both are coming in with very similar quotes, so keen to hear any experiences claiming on either.

Mmmm, interesting. Thank you for correcting me. Makes sense when you explain it like that. So rust on the plates is fine, rust on the bushes or pins and inner bushes is bad.

Really, you don't think surface rust matters? Even if it's on the surface, it's corrosion, and therefore likely to reduce the life of the chain, no?

If my chain gets very wet on a ride, I stick it in the pot. I've learned from mistakes last winter that led to a fully rusted chain that I threw away. I store my bikes in a cold garage, though. This may not be such an issue if you store your bike in your house and therefore any water is likely to evaporate.

Uber bike are my go to for disc brake pads. Something like this should work for SRAM red, unless you have Red AXS

https://www.uberbikecomponents.com/view-product/Uberbike-SRAM-Red-Force-Rival-CX1-700-B1-HRD-Apex-1-Sintered-Disc-Brake-Pads

I love my Ecovacs, purchased on a Black Friday/Prime day deal. We went for one with radar built in so it can make multiple maps of each floor of our home. It is really good for the price. I just set it on a schedule to clean downstairs every Thursday, and then every other week also carry it upstairs to clean there too. You have to remember to pick stuff off the floor on a Wednesday night, but that's become part of the routine now.

Our model is capable of mopping as well. It's a nice-to-have feature, but definitely not essential - we rarely use it compared to just vacuum.

They are really nice. I bought 2 pairs a few months ago and really prefer them to woolie boolies. I love how the sole and heel are much thicker than the rest

Not a cycling device, but their deal on the Forerunner 245 also seems like a good one. I was tempted, but had a word with myself as there's nothing wrong with my current garmin watch.

I'm glad I'm not the only one. I've been an extra small in pro team for years, but recently ordered a newer pro team jersey and had to go up to a medium. I knew I haven't just got fat, as all my older pro team stuff still fits me in XS.

Haha, I would like to go back without already having done 95 km to get there and see if i can get up it without putting a foot down. Yesterday I was walking before it even got very technical. I was just so exhausted!

Another awesome ride on The Peak District's famous gravel yesterday. It was much drier than my previous ride, but the wind made it really hard in places. The final climb out of Baslow was murder. I was so low on energy by that point! https://www.strava.com/activities/6225891923

Dang, that is awesome! Are you based in the UK? What do you think are your secrets to success?

There's 2 types of magnetic locks, though - fail safe and fail secure. Fail safe is open if there's a power cut. Fail secure has a physical obstruction if the power fails.

When I asked about the bike store to the block of flats where I used to live, the managing agent assured me it was a fail secure lock. Thinking about it a bit more in the context of fire safety, I am fairly sure they'd have just been lying to me, in hindsight!

Most property developers sadly just put on the minimum possible lock they can for a bike store door. Generally this will be a single mag lock at the top. These can then be broken open with surprisingly little brute force. They really need at least a 2nd mag lock placed on a different part of the door frame. However, whether or not that gets done really depends on how good the managing agent for the development is. Sadly most new build developments with bike storage these days are hit by gangs within the first couple of months of completion, and the whole bike store is cleared out. I've had 2 full bikes and a rear wheel stolen this way over the years I lived in London.

I believe most mag locks should fail in a locked state, though. In other words, if there is a power cut then they stay locked.

Tom Bell looked seriously fast as he came past me. A decent bit faster than anyone else, and even Andy Feather, so I wasn't surprised that he won it. I was surprised by quite how much, though.

Lots of riders complaining of wheelspin. Mine span a bit twice, but I doubt that cost me many seconds.

Sat in my car dreading it! Off at 9.06 😀