The TL;DW is that bike gears are often not low enough.
If you give me a lever long enough, and all that.
The assumption here, though, is that climbing is all you care about, and not an average speed across a ride.
I'm by no means fast but I certainly won't make it to the pub for lunch if my gearing was as low as it would need to be for me to make it up a hill using the same amount of effort if expend to travel moderately on the flat...
I think it's more to do with standardising the frames, right? Avoids weird funky stuff like the lotus bikes providing an "unsporting" advantage - much like with O'Bree's bikes?
My loyalty was to the truth, not to political tribes
And a liar!
Tubeless is great for small piddly punctures. Anything bigger and a spare inner tube and tyre boot are a necessity (esp. on longer rides).
Are they not? I've read various things stating that they almost already meet most requirements (being ex. EU anyway).
Okay, all of those are amazing.
I have lots of weird little "widgets" I love and would probably hold close to my heart forever (Mr Toad, Quar, etc.) so I suppose a mishmash of things is as good as something "meaningful". And I guess those things are more likely to stay dear to me over something "big"!
I remember getting a hand written letter from my MP when I hit 18 - I loathe the party he represented but he was a proper gent. His seat was taken over by the current leader of the opposition party who is undeniably mental too, so I doubt she writes to her constituents to welcome them to the democratic process!
I've wanted a tattoo since I was about 15 (and I'm 35 now) but I never pulled the trigger on it.
I never found an artist who was just right or a design I would be happy having on my body forever!
They're awesome though, and I love seeing other people's.
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I suppose so! I guess the big issues would be the deficit (and the exact methodology accepted to calculate this, timelines to resolve, etc), and the possibility of a veto by another member state not wishing to encourage the splitting up of larger nations.
I know that Spain have previously said they won't block, provided a vote of independence is constitutional, but that would also rely on UK Gov. recognising it, I guess?
They have a fairly short list of "bad takes" though, and they have an excellent track record in reporting broadly. Their impressive history of winning libel cases against them speaks volumes to that.
Fair enough - I suppose it's a caution borne out of experience of the awful roads by me - I've had a lot of unsealable punctures on the roads near me (from gashes to a bit of glass that wiggled around just enough to not seal).
As a result I always caveat advice to go tubeless - for "proper" punctures (anything more serious than a pin prick or snakebite) tubeless can be a can of worms, and give people a sense of confidence that inner tube users don't have (wisely).
Granted it's also down to tyre choice (you can pry my patched panaracers from my cold dead hands) but a tyre pissing sealant and air is much more of a hassle to deal with than an inner tube in my experience.