Even a cheap one - while not as nice as a park tool one - is a step up! Having your drivetrain at chest height makes working on gears a heck of a lot easier!
I miss the electric stands I had when I worked in a shop (for ebikes) but my regular bargain bin one keeps my joints happy!
My neighbour's douchebag boyfriend drops his cig butts all over the front of their (her) place.
I found one flicked onto my front windowsill literally this morning, on my doorstep nearly daily, and it turns out that he's been chucking them out of a window and they have been ending up in our shared guttering for months. This affects about 4-5 other houses as well.
Smoking is an inherently selfish act - but at least have the good grace to keep your fucking plastic pollution to yourself - especially when you're smoking outside your own goddamn residence!
Bottom brackets are easy (esp.. if they're threaded) - the main thing is having a half-decent stand and the right tooling!
Yeah, crypto as an "investment asset" is a load of steaming hot shit that feeds environmental collapse.
Trustable decentralised finance? That's rad as hell.
I mean not as rad as mutual aid and battering but why let perfection be the enemy of the good?
We have the benefit of a private education system whose primary output is financiers and politicians - give the septics time to figure it out.
I'm a convert to Saxx - still got my original pair from four odd years back which are still amazingly comfy.
I'm sure you probably have everything in hand, but also if you have any technical questions chuck them on here also - it's nice to have to bike tech content!
One of my go-to pizzas back in the day was sweetcorn, pineapple, and black olives.
I love traditional pizza, but sometimes, you want to get your freak on.
It's mildly infuriating that I don't have this slce of pickle pizza in my mouth right now.
You'll have to post updates - we could do with some good bike porn!
Honestly I don't know enough about the way that it's run to give a correct answer!
I mean even pre-privatisation the rail service was being reduced (Beeching's cuts etc.) so there's clearly a cultural element at a government level, but the actual running of the rail firms is pretty opaque; there's a lot of subcontracting, and the profitability is high, with reinvestment in the railway services not being proportional to that. I suspect that the culture around rinsing public services for private gain isn't quite so dominant in Japan, but again, I couldn't comment on that really.
We also have relatively old infrastructure, comparably narrow gauge railways that we would struggle to update because the country was built up around it, but this might be a bit of an old-fashioned take. I'm sure some transport historians could set me right!
I mean I live in the UK so it's not a massive risk (part of why it's acceptable) but I have a farmer friend who almost lost a seasons worth of crop to a fire started by a fag end flicked from a car.
But yeah, smoking correlates with poor behaviour more broadly in various ways (in my experience). I feel like such a crank but I identify strongly with Costanza screaming "we live in a society" more than I'm comfortable with when I see people brazenly littering (esp. fag ends).