Julia9054
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Down the handle bar tube, seat tube? Can't remember if the hingy bit is closed or open
Partly open. I had a little toolkit that fitted down mine
Down the handle bar tube, seat tube? Can't remember if the hingy bit is closed or open
No more mucky than a pair of shoes.
Do you often oil your shoes?
On a Brompton the chain folds in the middle, and is safely tucked out the way, and thus you can’t get oil on other stuff as you lug it around.
I'll remember that fact after you've arrived on a cold wet miserable day and your Brompton has dripped an oily, mucky puddle on my carpet.
Sorry, but your bike can stay outside with the rest of the bikes, e-scooters and cars. My house and the house of parliament is not a garage so let's not expect to treat it like one.
There's a perhaps apocryphal or certainly old, story in the chemistry community about someone who used to smuggle mercury out of an industrial site using his bicycle frame. Only got caught when he dropped the bike and couldn't pick it up again (mercury being very dense/heavy). So weird things have been done with bikes, but even so you'd have thought places would be better organised by now.Partly open. I had a little toolkit that fitted down mine
A sticks of gelignite would fit inside the tube quite nicely, or if they had loose explosive they could just ram it in. The tube itself would create a nice lot of schrapnel.
Indeed, allowing car bombs, potentially full of a ton of anfo, yet banning bikes in case there's some gelignite in the tube is plain sillyWould it though? I remember reading some information on this when there was a similar discussion about HoC security and bikes not being allowed chained up near the place, I think in the 9/11 aftermath. Someone who assessed risk apparently had a good look and could only find one example of a bomb inside a bike frame. This was the instance I mentioned above where it was stuffed down the seat post, and when detonated fired the saddle skyward leaving the rest of the bike ridable. As was pointed out at the time, banning car parking in the same area would have been a better way to improve HoC security.
I'll remember that fact after you've arrived on a cold wet miserable day and your Brompton has dripped an oily, mucky puddle on my carpet.
Sorry, but your bike can stay outside with the rest of the bikes, e-scooters and cars. My house and the house of parliament is not a garage so let's not expect to treat it like one.
A sticks of gelignite would fit inside the tube quite nicely, or if they had loose explosive they could just ram it in. The tube itself would create a nice lot of schrapnel.
Bollocks. The tube is likely to split lengthways if it contained an explosive than shatter into lots of bits. Not much in the way of shrapnel.
Bollocks. The tube is likely to split lengthways if it contained an explosive than shatter into lots of bits. Not much in the way of shrapnel.