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That's insane!! What's happening with your sneaky familial purchase?

Not angry... just getting old. All uni staff who started before April 2020 are getting a one off £600 bonus this month for efforts during the pandemic. My immediate reaction was not 'oooh, what can I buy?!' but 'hmm... I better up the childcare vouchers this month and stick another £300 voluntary contribution to the pension pot so the tax man doesn't get me'. I'm disappointed in myself .

I almost feel sorry for them. Until I remember they're paid like £20M a year to kick a ball in a net and they can't even do that reliably...

His current tunnel series is mental!

. I'm 39 but we were definitely 'ahead of the curve' in our local area and got the invites a good chunk before we 'should've'.

I was expecting suspension smashing noises but no it's his breathing that makes it brutal! Crazy effort required!

One of the guys at work had his first Pfizer on Monday and didn't feel right afterwards. He's off today with a slight fever and not 100%.

I read it as an unnamed expert said the "as good as any, and better than most" rather than Steven the Welsh carpet fitter but it's odd that they don't name the leading expert...

It's very similar to what's on my Whyte MTB- the brass inserts are just so that if you strip the threads you don't wreck the frame, just the barrel nuts (https://whyte.bike/collections/parts-accessories/products/post-mount-barrel-nuts). Fairly sure they couldn't be used as IS mounts (they're just plain bores through the frame to accomodate the barrels).

It's probably an unfair assumption but I've always had a very poor impression of all bike shops. Mainly probably fuelled from when I started trials and no bugger knew a damn thing about anything related to trials but equally knowing how easy bikes are to work on it astounds me how expensive bike shops are for simple jobs. I literally can't think of taking a bike in to a bike shop for anything for about 25 years. I don't even bother looking round them anymore as I know what's available, what's good and what's not and am happy buying it online and fitting myself. What was it you were expecting to be done?

Double Pfizered here and only had a bit of a sore arm for the next day after each, nothing more. Cases are increasing rapidly though, @JT! Although hospitalisations and deaths etc. aren't currently following as previously.

I dunno... Overpriced? Probably. Too much chrome? Check. Shit to ride? Check. Basically pointless? Definitely. Sounds like a Harley to me...

Note to 20 year old me: Bitcoin. Buy some Bitcoin.

It's something that I can get that the theory means is should work (and also at model scale as shown on the actual treadmill) but at full scale on a somewhat rickety vehicle with bearings and chains and imbalance and an 80kg passenger I'd be surprised if that could do it. Having said that it's odd that none of their explanations mention the rotating prop sees a totally different air speed to the wind that the vehicle sees...

Ok, so came across this on 'I f**king love Science' and it's got the grey matter working. The logic behind the reason it could/should operate is fair enough but the explanation of how/why it might work doesn't really follow in my mind and it reminded me of the aeroplane/treadmill classic but with a twist. Definitely an interesting one...

Incredible that he was over 6 seconds faster than everyone else in quali... what the hell?!!

Is that being filled via the gutter?! I feel that Martin Lewis would be proud!

His confidence, power and accuracy just seem insane...

Apparently Lewis had accidentally knocked his 'magic' button before the restart which completely screwed him at turn one on the restart.

Prices seem to be going pretty crazy at the moment... Glad things are looking promising for you, Mark, and you're finally at the end of being dicked around!

If that was me it would turn into an expectation vs. reality meme... vs.

That thing looks lethal... Centre of gravity is all wrong for jumps it seems.

Sorry to hear of Jane's loss but that does sound really promising for you guys. Hopefully you can work something out with her brother once the estate is sorted out.

I hope you're not paying your solicitors per hour (or per letter/email etc.)! Such dickheads!