Time to buy some waterproof over-trousers

strava.com/activities/623099628 <-- check out the photo on that

@SuspendedUser I have either a cup of water, or maybe a coffee before riding.

then nothing for the first 30-60 minutes.

connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/1233334040

I generally try to get some fluids and a stimulant (caffeine increases exercise tolerance after all), then nothing during the ride. If I was riding longer, in the 90 minute plus range, I would take some fluids and calories.

I don't have a picture, but my ass looked pretty similar when I got done. Just following the storm for part of the ride and the road bike has no fenders.

Luckily just rain. We had thunder storms over the weekend and it started 36+ fires. They are still finding new ones this week.

sus: looks like you just biked around Australia :)

i sometimes take a caffeine pill or two.

its way cheaper than pre-workout and is probably 75+ of the effect that a preworkout gives you

as for what I carry when i leave town, I bring everything. small crescent wrench, multitool, tubes, co2, pump, tire levers, medical stuff, etc.

unless its something thats going to take me a ton of time to fix on the side of the road, i'll bring the stuff for it.

so i don't carry spare spokes.

comes in useful occasionally

and some granola bars.

weird

@batman you answered bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/40871/… and OP deleted teh question.

yep.

they accepted the answer then deleted the question.

which you're allowed to do unless the answer has upvotes

or there are multiple answers or something

ive never had it happen on bicycles.se

but ive had it happen on math.se a few times

its annoying, but it happens.

weird - we can undelete it if you like ?

not worth it. its not a good question -- nobody gains from it

ok

Howdy

@Criggie I have these: sks-germany.com/en/products/raceblade-long-black and the coverage on them is great

I still wear overshoes and my feet are usually dry

though this morning required cycling through several large puddles which covered entire width of the road

Irish summer for you :|

Sounds AWESOME

Did I tell you I got the folder up to 40 km/h ?

140 RPM in top gear :-\

yes - the folder has mudguards. My MTB has a carrier rack so I put some black plastic under that as a guard too. There's some plastic jars that used to hold chocolate drink which I have cut up and placed around the front part of the rear wheel. Seems to go OK, though decidedly freddish.

@Criggie the answer is also applicable to the public transport wiki, though, so you'd IMO be better pasting it in there.

My take FWIW is that when the customer service people don't know the policy or wrse, are certain but wrong, you're really at the mercy of whoever you happen to deal with on the day you travel. And if you have to change busses midway... good luck. I've once chosen to ride to the next town (~120km) rather than wait two days for the next bus and risk dealing with the same demented anti-bike bus ticket person and having them get to the bus driver before I did.

@Batman My experience with drivers is uniformly positive, I've had drivers repack half the bus to get my bike in, and once had it strapped securely but weirdly to the front of the luggage trailer then covered with a bus company tarp (road had had resin spilled on it for ~50km, so the driver understood me not wanting to ride on or have to sprayed off the bus wheels onto my bike). Normally they have so much spare luggage capacity that it's no problem.

@Criggie I gotta take a photo of the front mudguard on my commuter for you.

The benefit to living in a sub arctic desert is that the "wet" season is so short that it doesn't require buying anything or being inventive.

Holy smokes @Móż. I may rename that Oz Loop.

@Batman I'd argue for 80%+ of the effectiveness. However, you can't put a price on the purely placebo effect I get from it.

Fair. In grad school, you can't exactly pay 30 bucks on preworkout. but 2 or 3 bucks on a bottle of caffeine pills is a good investment

for work and fun.

hey @SuspendedUser, nice to see you back on the site!

Thanks Pete. I am over myself for a bit; we'll see how long it lasts ;)

@Batman I'd probably agree, except I thought college had poor returns as an investment for where I wanted to go.

Granted between my wife and I now (mostly due to her "good" school investment) I have a comfortable amount of "disposable" income.

@SuspendedUser we all sometimes feel a bit like that, totally understandable, there are some people on here whose role in life, it seems, is to be a pain in the ass

You called ?

Yes, but we expected you to be taller. And green and more Blam like.

I'm tall enough that my pain in the arse is a pain in your face :-P

as for being more blammo - no.

hahahaha @Criggie

i wish my desk was a bit higher up

@Batman so do I!

a friend of mine gave me themicrodesk.com to try for a week

@Batman so I take it that's a No vote from you? We're used to those.

no vote?

we had a small referendum...

oh

im not british, but i dont think leaving the EU is a good idea

There is a lot wrong with the EU, I think the question was basically whether you try to change it from within, or whether you just walk away.

i dont see it being economically better to walk away. and socially not so much too

The "Remain" people made a big thing about the economics.

It seems like the main motivation is to make England anglosaxon again. and homogeneous societies creep me out.

I'm not seeing what people who said leave were planning to gain other than some different immigration laws

Well, their argument was also that being inside the EU cost us money, although there were lots of promises "we could spend it on X" - all fluffy stuff

you said youd vote leave, why?

i saw the brexit movie. didnt really seem compelling beyond trump's MAGA

Yeah. I think the economies or the member countries are so diverse that it is difficult to apply a single set of rules to them.

makes sense. but that is somewhat the case in america and we make it work. richer states do subsidize the budgets of smaller states through the government. But we do have a joint goal: america

Also, the EU is essentially undemocratic, in the sense that we have lots of people who are there through patronage - I can't vote to get rid of them

The concept of "America" is I think more binding than the concept of "Europe", which can be quite divisive here

yeah.

Personally, I don't think immigration will be particularly affected

We'll still need specialists

It's funny, when you talk of specialists, you automatically think of highly educated people, but really it is any person who comes and does a job that a British person won't do.

yeah. but we're kinda seeing that in the american south already. mexicans aren't coming up as much as they used to to do agriculture, for exmaple

do you think that is because their life if Mexico has improved, or they are put off by the political rhetoric? I mean, Hillary seems quite far to the right, even for a Democrat, while Trump is just off the scale

mix. its actually a problem once you get below a certain latitutde.

even if you are american, you can have some trouble with places like arizona

if you're tan

but its not that bad. we'll see what happens, but i don't like trump or clinton

the VP picks havent unrolled and the whole process seems shadier than usual this time

but I'm 26 now -- didn't vote in 2008 or 2012

so maybe i wasnt particularly tuned ot it

yeah, I can imagine. I remember hearing some strange things even in Va, like turning the clock back 150 years

so it really doesn't surprise me that some people can havee quite backward views

yeah. its going to be an interesting few years in US-Europe I guess.

Here it is a little different, but ultimately the same. I can be as interested in politics as

well, people are pissed off

and scared

not really a good combination.

though i guess you have to remember this is as good as civilization has ever been

so you cant be too mad

...as I like, but where I happpen to live, the other side has such a massive majority...my vote is only ever a protest

do you live in the country?

Yes, about 100 miles south-west of London. Very Conservative (Cameron's lot), a world away fron the big cities

People tend to be very insular here

Of course, that makes them scared also, but largely of stuff they hear about on tv

Right now, it is immigrants. Before that, Muslims...

or worse, immigrant muslims dun dun dun

yeah. Anyway, bed time here, time to shut down and see what's on tv. Nighty night.

night

@PeteH won't do for the pay offered. A big part of impoverishing the lower classes has been the use of immigrant labour to replace the semi-skilled jobs that are left. Both in the EU and the US. Having immigrants available allows the balance to shift even further to profit over wages.

We have the same choice being offered here in the election on Saturday. The far right offering "company tax cuts - jobs and growth", not mentioning that for billions of dollars every year we might see 0.6% extra GDP in 20 years time. The other party offers "we're better than that", with the right wing media running right wing lines, and the only other option is state funded so every time they say anything about the opposition the other media kick them.

@Batman That's where my laptop sits, with two monitors above it.