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It's the bridge at Bidford-on-Avon, just over the Warwickshire border when looking at it from my direction...

7/14/21/28/35/42/49/56/63/70 not so great. I am hoping for better results at 77 and 84... I don't fancy facing 91 unless the next 20 years are really good!!

The challenge with zips is snagging the material in the zipper and it jamming - PITA However, 2-way zippers introduce another trap - the misaligned zip! You're riding along and as if by magic your gilet starts to unzip from the bottom up -...

A lot of phones have a separate volume control/mute for the ring tone. Check yours to see if you have accidentally changed the settings?

Genuine people are in fact the norm. 👍

I just took delivery of this Concept 2 rowing machine to help me on my long bike rides. The thing is, it is very big and heavy, so I am not sure how I will carry it on the bike! :whistle: Actually... My legs are pretty good from riding my...

Oh, I forgot to explain that they had accidentally listed it as being delivered by courier, but they had intended it to be for collection only. I explained that I don't drive, and rather than cancelling the deal they drove up with it from...

Turns out that the rowing machine glass was actually 90% full! :smile: A very nice couple delivered it after a 2.5 hour drive. They said that they would deliver it free because they had cocked up the eBay listing, but I didn't feel good...

You might find some kind of community bike servicing evenings in your area. We have those here - Bike Repairs and Advice at Todmorden Makery.

That's a very unusual use for a phone, but each to their own.

It might keep working, or it might start playing up again later. I had that problem on one bike. I got it working again like you a few times, but eventually I ended up taking the freehub to bits and fixing it properly. The pawls** were gunged...

If it was bought seven years ago then it probably hasn't had any security patches for three or four years, so if there's a "Non-Trivial things that absolutely ruin your life" thread somewhere I fully expect to see "Someone hacked my account and...

My Sundried gilet (which I really like) has a one-way zip, but that can also be a pain because it tends to snag on the wind flap that is supposed to cover it. The problem is easy to overcome two-handed, but the zip snags when trying to adjust it...

Thankfully my forks weren't getting all of their structural integrity from my mudguards but I could maybe have eaked out a few more months from them if they were. I think my problems came from when I vaulted an unexpected tree trunk (my bike...

Thats why God invented pre-ride checks.