Watched HPV racing at Eastway once, but the riders were the vehicle owners and def not athletes as these folk seem to be. Incredible, what the diff between a streamliner and velomobile though please?
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Watched HPV racing at Eastway once, but the riders were the vehicle owners and def not athletes as these folk seem to be. Incredible, what the diff between a streamliner and velomobile though please?
Our local rural coop has a lot of the bigger bits of meat in security boxes Jack, I thought that was extreme!
A wants me to clear out some paper and junk. Found a load of stuff from my active travel activist days in town. The speakers were v good at this event, including Mr Moylan! Despite being cycling focused I pushed a lot against barriers to walking in those days, literally and metaphorically.
Footway car storage permits 20 mins waiting doesn't it? Making a person's wait unbearable.
The glue gremlin - bastard!
We had a demo of that at my local bike workshop. Someone opened a new tube of glue and there was nothing in it!!!
How embarrassed am I! I am sorry Mr B. Good response though, I expect Mr Epstein is chuckling away in his heavenly production studio.
Is that OK Bryan?...
'...this of course all happened years after he made his live gig crack about 'those in the cheap seats can clap, while the rest of you can rattle your jewellery...'
'...he moaned about paying tax in song while riding around in a yellow Rolls Royce humming >imagine there's no money<...'
The Leonard Whiting one is pretty well forgotten, rather like Leonard Whiting. Wrongly so.
HS1 - as a case study, we built a whole new make-do station at Waterloo because we knew we'd never get the HS line off the ground in time. We were a laughing stock in here and in Europe for the way the speed of the train went from 200 mph in France to 70mph through Kent once it entered the UK.
With that low turnout I'd be reluctant to call it a landslide, a landslip perhaps?
He says different
Is it just a 30% turnout though, if so really surprises me
Well done!!!
Black comedy, the guy won again didn't he! Clearly a lucky place for him.
20 minutes x 3 innit
Scotland's 20 minute grace period in action....you can obstruct the footway for 20 minutes
Why would Putin bump off an ally?
Chemical weapons, holocaust history...to his credit, he's a polymathical twat.
🚄 For international followers: Scotland has scrapped expensive peak-time rail fares from today, making it the same price to travel by rail any time of day. A really positive move for encouraging more people to get around by sustainable transport.
The silly sod got his arse handed to him by Dr Beorn @waitmanwbeorn.com when he tried to lecture one the world's experts on holocaust history about... holocaust history.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEQu...
All ready for the Battle of His-stains
Our govt up here is subsidising this privatisation of street space Wolf £3.5 to ensure roads are forever used for private car storage: www.transport.gov.scot/news/cross-p...
Bravo!!!
I'm glad the businesses are surviving Neil, something like a quarter of homes on Arran are second homes. I've been taking cycling holiday groups there since the mid 00's and I've seen so many businesses fade away. V happy to see some new ones have come back.
In some case this £3500 grant is likely to make the installation of separated cycle infrastructure much harder to install as it will reinforce attitudes to kerbside car storage, that the footway and road out someone's home is part of their property. www.transport.gov.scot/news/cross-p...
Andy wins!
That's rather lovely Jess. Pushing the balloon via fluffy colourful jumpers.
Flex post bought his big brother.
Stuart, do you remember Bill Brand, and Shabby Tiger?
Me too, and the A96 dualling is as bonkers as the Queensferry Crossing, made nesscesary by political motive and removing v low tolls. The end result being the creation of the most expensive bus lane in the world.
The council's consultation appears to be a presentation. Surely there are on street tram alternatives in which road space can be taken, and where lost entirely to drivers they can be permitted to pootle onto back street alternative road routes?
Glad to hear it, so would I.
I agree entirely, and always been on the side of turning cycle infra that had a former use as PT back to PT. We had former canal routes in London that are now cycle paths and looked at turning them into tram lines. I want more trams, but I'd rather see the car lobby lose out, before trams or bikes
'I just feel that the current users of the Roseburn Corridor are in danger of sounding a bit like those car users who object if you take a bit of road away/...' Think of it as severing the A9 to put rail services back on a section of it that was former railway...that's the impact this will have
some of the capacity on some of those. Continental countries do trams and bikes really well, it can be done. The folk who hate trams are the ones who cannot bear losing a tiny bit of road capacity to install them. I've been on the fence re Roseburn, but it would sever a fantastic well used route.
But we also like other forms of sustainable travel like bikes and walking. The Roseburn Path is such valuable corridor, it's painful to picture Edinburgh without it, probably the nearest thing Edn has to continental quality infra. We have a lot more roads than bike tracks, and I'd rather we lose
Lots of us love trams Peter (it's the Scottish govt that hates them, I recall Stewart Stevenson at a transport conference telling us he's no friend of the trams when transport and climate minister, and Keith Brown telling us he wants a M'way between every Scottish city when in the same post)
That is irrelevant, we all know what it is meant to mean.
Isn't Longstreet one of the Great Generals, albeit on the wrong side?
Good heavens, that seems a lot, maybe it's not compared to other cities?
Why do Alabaman's have the St Patrick's cross on their flag?
Where is the Speaker re this. There seems to be little in the way of parliamentarians requiring to speak the truth. Lords regularly lie in the house, and commons too.
Used to be a great brewery, then they went all weird. Got rid of handpumps and put in keg everywhere.
Catching things early also saves the NHS £m as prevention or early treatment is lot cheaper than all the long term care and pain. Really sorry about your dad.
parking you see, nobody gets to park for free) I was the only one in the room who appeared to have used the bus to get there, to the door. One silly old sod even said 'We should organise a minibus to get us all here next time' I should've said something
I'm sorry to hear this Bill. I get all the NHS invites nowadays, being an official pensioner. That benefit includes my bus pass. Weirdly, at last year's flu-jab penisoners session all the grey haired mob were moaning about a lack of parking spaces at our hospital (a negative impact of free hospital
Congratulations to the new Co-leaders of the Scottish Greens, but a voter turnout of 12% is incredibly strange for a party whose membership one would expect to be pretty passionate and which has made real change in government. 950 votes were received in total for all candidates for this election.
She would say that, particularly to those of us asking for an elected Head of State.
They haven't learnt the lesson of Leith Walk, Princes St or the CCWE link
Wow, serious biker stuff!!!
Probably at 20 as I officially left the service at 21, so 19 or 20.
'There is currently little incentive to switch to an impractical EV.' Other than the world is burning up in front of our eyes, no, no incentive at all.
It certainly is. Tyranny of democracy and all that.
Some horrible folk there though (IMO) Countryside Alliance, that's 100k folk blocking new rail lines, power lines and ensuring vast areas of land ownership kept in a few wealthy palms (probably including all the existing Hereditary Peers as well).
Interesting list here: memberwise.org.uk/influence100/
Wait till I show you my collection of puncture repair tins, I've an Emmelle one going back to the fifties, with the original tube of glue!
That this has only just occurred to many surprises me. It's been going on for at least 10 years. Farage has been championed by the BBC even while a barely attending unknown MEP. He was getting airtime on QT and any other outlet the BBC could find for him
They are great photos. Talk to some folk about hobbies and things can get alarming quickly. We ride bikes, we now have four bikes each, a folder, tourer, MTB off roader and both have redundant v old tourers. We've lots of friends with 20+ bicycles each. Chatting to a mate this summer with 30+ bikes.
We can all laugh at Drump, his stupid appearance, bizarre statements and behaviour. But he seems to be able to make foreign powers do his bidding at will.
Bravo!!!
Cry God for England, Harry and his stains George!
I like the scale of the rooms, not so big as a grand country house, and more that modest Edwardian merchant wannabee aristo scale. It'd be easier to live there than some the massive piles Hysterical Scotland are landed with. I agree is has none of the classic appeal. Who owns it now, do we know?
That is old! I salute your steadfastness Charles
Old enough to remember (1979) when western powers armed and supported the Muhajahideen against the Soviet Union who had invaded Afghanisatan.
My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
Chris Whitty for example advises via the civil service rather than the Lords doesn't he? In post via merit rather than because someone likes him, which seems to be how the Lords works.
Is the Lords really meant to function as a list of experts? That's even more reason to abolish it then. Johnson's last bunch was a list of nine party members four were SPADs including Charlotte Owen.
Oh, I've never used Reddit.
That certainly has merit. We have experts now don't we, advising the legislature. The Chris Whittys and his like?
Shit, Beatles haircuts, terrible dialogue and singing minstrels. Caedfael from 1994 did it better
It's dreadful, a Steven Segall film has deeper character development
I wasn't clear, I disagree that the lords is compromised. I feel it's entirely dysfunctional and a travesty of democracy. 'We all agree, I think, that at present the Lords is a compromised version of this.'
'Basically the BBC is in the vanguard of a decades-long project to make Farage prime minister' I'd completely agree with this. An unknown MEP with a lousy voting record until about 15 years ago...now a candidate for PM thanks to the BBC
Elon Musk dumped a brand new car into space, creating space junk. The new car had a catchphrase from a Douglas Adams book on it Otto and the world, literally the whole planet never got the lack the irony. In fact the world cheered him. This has been coming a long time
David, in this list you mentioned interest groups: 'Peers should be nominated by membership organisations. Groups with sufficient members.... charities, interest groups, etc.' That could include Tufton St type groups couldn't it, and BTW Eton is a charity, do we want them making legislation?
r/Liverpool?
That's pretty breathtaking isn't it...
I've been laughed out of court by my mates when I've argued that the BBC is complicit in the creation and promotion of Farage, but he's the guest on Question Time with the 5th most appearances and he's been an MP for only a year. Now he's never off the BBC
'We all agree, I think, that at present the Lords is a compromised version of this.' I don't, the Lords is the worst of the worst at present, hereditary peers still exist as do the Lords Spiritual. As for appts of Johnson, Truss, etc...I've seen better legislature at the bottom of my compost heap.
Your point was made by highlighting two political appointments.
So lots of Tufton Street groups get folk in the Lords then?
Absolutely, we can all cherry pick publicly spirited folk in the lords, but for every one we'll have ten Charlotte Owens.
You've never heard of: Matthew Elliott, one of the founders of the Taxpayers Alliance Ruth Porter, who ran Ms Truss' Tory election leadership campaign and briefly served as her deputy chief of staff in No 10. Jon Moynihan, who chaired the Vote Leave campaign, among the Ermine appointed by Truss
Are you sure it isn't Darlimgtom?
Did that on my cycle rides, pre and post introduction of mobile phones. A couple of minutes grace and then off. Phoning up to ask us to wait....sorry no
Are lower speeds or traffic filtering an option. Would the footway be widened to accommodate the utility space lost to any barrier installation? I hope the homeowner will be happy with a reduced property valuation as well.
Subsidising public transport and active travel infrastructure is a better one. So is not obstructing footways with private vehicle charging points and cables. Assuming EVs are for for everyone is the downside of progress.
then we should have
concern locally here in lower Fife, with folk fretting about getting home from the Oasis gig.
FWIW I struggle to see any negative crossover between Oasis and the festival crowd, other than more pressure on infrastructure. But if that's a concern then we should have the crossover between the book, TV, Festival and fringe festival that we have. Transport beyond Edinburgh appeared to be the
The UK does not have a "migrant crisis" or a "small boat crisis". It has a racism crisis, and it has been deliberately created.
CoS sites are undergoing a sell off. Our church in Burntisland, birthplace of the King James Bible is now effectively closed.
Our college art tutor told us the same.