@Criggie normal in the sense that it's only a couple of degrees above average and 85% of Australians voted for hotter, not cooler.

voted? They get a choiice in the weather ?

they voted liberal coalition

who's aim is to get as much coal out of the ground as the possibly can

ahhhh

burn the kid's inheritance

@PeteH I've never owned disk brakes, but my understanding is that bedidng in is moving some material from the brake pad onto the rotor using a series of hard stops from full speed. Enough to do a rapid stop but not to loose traction between tyre and ground

the number I have in my memory is 30 times, not sure if the front and rear should be done together or separately.

I lack the experience to answer the question directly.

have I missed something?

you're right according to the manual for my brakes Criggie

in practice, it can take less or more stops

I do them separately, the rear doesn't get much of a look in if you're really pushing the front

and I just keep going until the howling stops

@Criggie that's my understanding too, bedding in is kind of inevitable sooner or later

@alex - link to question

morning

hi @ynnekkram, how goes it today?

good good, you?

yeah, good, I'm gonna get on the turbo later.

Never as good as the real thing though

true that, my turbo has been gathering dust since getting it 18 months ago

I finally figured out that even though I still can't straddle the bike - I tried yesterday - if I can temporarily remove the seatpost I might have a chance

but yeah, I spent hundreds upgrading my turbo to a vr thing, in the hope of making it more interesting. It didn't.

Zwift?

Tacx

tacx.com/en/products/trainers/flow-smart

looks nice

When I bought mine originally, it was just a Flow!

possible for you to drop the seat all the way down?

First time around, money was tight. I'd just done my collar bone and was desparate to get back on the bike. I liked the idea of vr, so something with a "vr later" option was good.

the VR stuff looks good and very well put together

possible, except I just used some sticky tape to mark the height

the vr stuff is good, but fiddly

It can suck all my old Garmin activities in, so I can re-ride them. All the while viewing it through a Google Earth plug-in

that's nice

I've mostly used my turbo as a bike stand

haha

yeah, compared to being out in mid-summer, it sucks

I might try give it some more time in the winter months

GCN seem to have some decent workouts for them

though not going to have the money to invest in VR stuffs

yeah, nice when it's soaking outside. Sufferfest.com is another. Anyway, I need to go find an Allen key. Later...

scientificamerican.com/article/…

I used to quite enjoy my rollers

trainer road was my favourite

has a gazillion workouts to do and can talk ant so your HR, speed, etc. are plotted against your target as you go, which is nice

and has regression curves for a whole pile of trainers so you can use virtual power

"He believes he can eliminate speed wobble with a damper to soak up vibrations in the seat post."

interesting article

Yeah, I just read it through

@alex You can get a damper for your seat by eating a lot of twinkies. Alternatively, by doing lots of heavy squats. Either "material" will work.

@PeteH you can't just put a platform behind-ish the bike and walk on? I'm thinking of those car workstand-ramp things. But I suspect if you had those you'd be using thing. Or in Australia, the universal temporary construction material... milk crates.

@ynnekkram now there's a name to conjure with.

Author of "Bicycle Science", one of the very few people I take seriously when they talk about bicycle mathematics.

Lots of mathematicians get excited by the problem but end up analysing spherical cows on tricycles.

Or as Jim puts it: In my view, the issues related to handling are not mathematical, rather they are matters of critical thinking, trying to square experience with candidate theories. crazyguyonabike.com/doc/page/?page_id=134967

There's also a mech eng prof in the US whose book I have, but the name escapes me right now. It has amused me in the past using his formulae on various experiments people have talked about to see whether his ideas explain their results. Too often the answer to their "shocking revelation" is "yes, they just never used his work".

When there's only two or three people who've done much work in the field saying "oh I couldn't find it" is one of those bullshit excuses you fail undergrads for, not something you expect to crop up as a letter to the editor following publication in a peer-reviewed journal.

The "four types of cyclists" model is really important when you're looking at bike planning. Us mob are mostly in the "will ride regardless" or "ride if possible" groups (10-20% of the pop), but it's the 50% of the population in the middle "interested by concerned" who matter. Getting them to ride is the goal.

yah

I wonder if compulsory bike riding for motorists involved/causing a car/bike accident would achieve anything.

there was a truck driver who has killed two cyclists in two separate accidents here

not quite sure how but the two events were years apart.

Would that driver learn anything by riding a bike ?

maybe

@Criggie I saw that. And yeah, compulsory cycling might be useful. I think at least one country teaches "how to use the road" on bikes, possibly through schools, but the idea is that they get everyone out on the road learning to indicate and navigate on bikes first. Then once they have that down, they're allowed in a car

@Criggie didn't he go to jail for the first one? Or was part of the problem that he didn't?

Either way, I'd be inclined to say "clearly you're not capable of driving safely, therefore you shall not".

Or put the onus on him "when you demonstrate that whatever led you to kill two people has changed, we will consider revoking the ban on driving".