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@fesshole@mastodon.social Should've packed it with enough random stuff to cost them extra
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Paul Edwin
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mastodon 4.7.3Nunc Est Bibendum 🍻
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Also occasionally featuring: #motorcycles, #running, #cycling, #dogs
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@ascentale@sfba.social
After ~50 years of trouble-free cycling, I seem to have recently become the sort of person who's prone to abscesses. My GP says it might just be a "phase" I'm going through. I think I'm doing the obvious right things.
Has anybody else been in that situation? What's worked for you, either for prevention or dealing with the problem once it occurs?
#BikeNitePQ
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A5a.
Gravel bike - mostly for fun
Hard-tail mountain bike - mostly for fun
Gravel e-bike - mostly for commuting
Old mountain bike - shopping
A5b.
There's often an overlap between the mountain bike and gravel bike, and many occasions where I've taken one and wished I'd been on the other, but usually it's pretty obvious which one I'll be using.
@ascentale@sfba.social @gbargoud@masto.nyc @bikenite@fedigroups.social#BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #MastoBikes
Out on a school night last night, at the Vault in Hexham to see Kaïa Kater with support from local The Early Purple. I hadn't realised how well-known she is, quite a big deal for a tiny venue like the Vault.
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@pete @FourT4 I once tried riding through some floodwater that was over knee deep. Wheels lost traction, so I stopped and tried to dismount, and the bike kept floating up as I tried to lift my leg over.
I had to strip the wheels once I got home, there was still water sloshing around in the hollow rims.
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@samir If code review is the bad bit, you're doing it wrong. That's how you learn and share.
Last night's gig at the Star & Shadow
Tibshelf was a bit odd… nothing wrong with the music, but he was just sat in a corner on his laptop while a video played on the big screen. Could've been doing his accounts for all anybody could tell.
Parastatic + Late Girl were very good, bit of post-rock krautrock with mostly spoken word meanderings about brutalist architecture. (Ummm… much better than my description makes it sound.)
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We saw more red squirrels at Kielder this year than ever before, but I suspect that's a special case.
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Urgent calls to prevent the extinction of red squirrels - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjwpd9d399wo
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@rpickler@mastodonapp.uk @fesshole@mastodon.social It's so hard to find bricks that fit in a normal post box
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@sarahdalgulls Hah! I put a value that was more in line with my other investments, thinking that it's more likely to be taken seriously.
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@sarahdalgulls @mattround I was going to say that it sounds like a GIS application (implemented in a CAD application) that I worked on, ~30 years ago. None of that w3w nonsense back then though, thankfully.
Anybody in the UK had cause to scrap a motorcycle recently, and might have recommendations for a company that could collect?
We've got a CG125-a-like that's beyond economical repair, kept for a few years as an insurance placeholder, but it's not worth keeping any longer and I'd rather have the garage space.
(If anybody wants it as a "project", you're welcome to it, but I really don't think it's worth the effort.)
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@BeerGuysRadio I'm quite tempted to give it a listen, but only if you promise to knock it off with the shitty AI images. There's no need for them.
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@VOLEwtf@crispsandwi.ch Awww, the download link doesn't work. (DuckDuckGo browser on Android, if that makes any difference.)
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@VOLEwtf@crispsandwi.ch Yeah, playback works fine. The link doesn't react like it's a link at all.
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@VOLEwtf@crispsandwi.ch Don't worry if it's only me that's complaining. But if other people are complaining, I could probably help with the investigation.
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@AsphaltandEarth@mastodon.me.uk Possibly as good as conditions can get in Kielder Forest, but this year's route somehow felt like particularly hard work.
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@AsphaltandEarth@mastodon.me.uk You probably made the right decision, the two big climbs after the split were brutal. Glad I did the 200 again, but also glad to get it out of my system and don't feel any need to do it again.
I think I might volunteer for next year, maybe do a feed station then the sweep ride afterwards so I still get a bit of riding.