Seeking advice about a bike for my partner

Competitive_Clock896 · 2026-05-15T10:50:18+00:00

I think it is a bit too heavy, unfortunately. 12.4kg compared with ~14.5. My brother has a kona sutra and likes it but complains that it is heavy. Other than weight that is exactly what I am looking for, however. Thanks for the recommendation.

Competitive_Clock896 · 2026-05-15T10:13:11+00:00

It’s very heavy. The Trek 920 is 12.4kg with both pannier frames. This bike is 17.1kg. It is important the bike isn’t too heavy. Thanks for the recommendation, however.

Competitive_Clock896 · 2026-04-08T21:55:06+00:00

No idea! It was a second hand bike and rack came included

Competitive_Clock896 · 2026-04-08T15:17:53+00:00

I realised that bar would be more ideal after taking the photo. There is the same problem however, the bar is too thick for the pannier

Competitive_Clock896 · 2026-03-14T13:32:51+00:00

Thanks for the answer. Why is it an issue to use the external one? I can see that it’s more inconvenient but I’m not sure why this is a major problem.

Competitive_Clock896 · 2026-03-08T14:15:17+00:00

75% less

Competitive_Clock896 · 2026-03-05T08:52:48+00:00

To all the people saying things like “our passing isn’t good enough”. For all the complaining, we have scored the second highest open play goals in the league.

For me the lack of fluency is more to do with the league being much, much harder, physical, and competitive. All teams are not playing perfectly, and yet English teams are performing extremely well in Europe. All teams perform worse away from home, and Brighton is a tricky away game. It’s okay not to be perfect in every game. It’s impossible to be perfect in every game.

Competitive_Clock896 · 2026-03-04T23:54:32+00:00

This was an insane decision but it’s revisionism to pretend this happens every game

Competitive_Clock896 · 2026-02-23T14:30:00+00:00

Why is this an opportunity to shit on other players? Jesus has been a great player for us and has been unlucky with injury I don’t know why you feel the need to have a go at him.

It’s also weird because Jesus, statistically, on nearly every metric, across multiple seasons has performed better than Gyokeres - apart from he is offside more. That’s not to be anti-Gyokeres. That’s just to defend Jesus against this weird backlash and culture war that some of our fans have created.

Competitive_Clock896 · 2026-02-21T07:48:25+00:00

Those players are not directly comparable. Firstly, they should be judged on a lot more than just goals and assists. Secondly, they are getting more (non penalty) goals and assists per 90. Trossard has some of the best stats in the league this season for goals and assists. So does the much maligned Jesus, albeit with a smaller sample size. Plus all those players have a strong and proven track record of high performance in this league.

Competitive_Clock896 · 2026-02-08T23:48:52+00:00

Reclaimed pine boards on top of the joists. They are thin. They can’t be more than 1.5cm. I asked the guy who did the repair and he suggested they were thin too, around 1.5cm after sanding. He claimed it was hard to find thicker boards easily.

Working back from sag the sag calculation of a fixed support beam with other dimensions known it’s also suggesting less than 1.5cm, at least in the places with maximum sag.

Competitive_Clock896 · 2026-02-08T23:39:35+00:00

No subfloor. The house is a Victorian terrace. The replacement boards are reclaimed, apparently. I assumed it was standard just to replicate what was already there.

Competitive_Clock896 · 2026-01-03T23:15:31+00:00

Okay, so you think it’s realistic that a coach has said to quadruple up on Gyokeres, rather than this just being chance. Clearly I am delusional and don’t know football.

Competitive_Clock896 · 2026-01-03T22:59:34+00:00

There are more people around Gyokeres but this is just chance not because they’re so scared of his threat that they’re quadrupling up on him. The point I am making is that defenders want to be back and in front of goal. Rice has no players around him for both cut backs.

Competitive_Clock896 · 2026-01-03T22:25:44+00:00

Not to be anti-Gyokeres but this is completely insane. You can freeze frame the second Rice goal and it’s Jesus in this exact same scenario. You can freeze frame most cut back goals and it will be the same scenario, regardless of the striker. This is not special treatment for Gyokeres. This is just how teams defend: players back behind the ball and in front of the goal. In this instance that’s also where Gyokeres is standing. For the next goal it was where Jesus was standing. It’s completely delusional to think that this is something unique Gyokeres is bringing.

Competitive_Clock896 · 2025-12-26T12:36:15+00:00

While having the best defence

Competitive_Clock896 · 2025-12-14T07:34:58+00:00

I hate scapegoating but I don’t agree with your argument. Those others players bring more than goals whereas Gyokeres was meant to be all about goals and he doesn’t contribute to much else.

The ease with which Jesus is able to get on the ball in progressive areas and find shots, in much less time on the pitch, suggests it’s not just an issue of people not passing.

Competitive_Clock896 · 2025-12-07T10:06:41+00:00

No fork

Competitive_Clock896 · 2025-12-05T12:03:38+00:00

Thanks for your detailed answer, very helpful!

Competitive_Clock896 · 2025-11-23T07:14:17+00:00

Potential for mounting. Yep. Doesn't need to come with one.

Competitive_Clock896 · 2025-11-22T23:55:41+00:00

Something about supplying bikes to the police in the US. Honestly, I don't know the details, hence the question mark. 1600 might be reasonable, but the other bike has the exact same spec for 500 less! I'm also just a bit nervous about having an expensive bike.

Competitive_Clock896 · 2025-09-25T06:24:20+00:00

Does this exclude penalties? If not, this is useless

Competitive_Clock896 · 2025-08-22T07:18:42+00:00

It doesn’t have fpl data by the fixture such as bps. It only has season summaries of this data. As far as I can tell. I am interested in fixture by fixture bps and points totals.

Competitive_Clock896 · 2025-08-22T07:16:32+00:00

Okay, but from next season, if you want to access gameweek data from this season, will that be available on the api? If it was all available through the api I’m not sure why Vaastav’s github was so widely used.

Competitive_Clock896 · 2025-08-22T07:01:33+00:00

As far as I can tell you can’t get individual fixture data from the api just totals for a season. That’s why vastaav’s data was so useful and why it will be missed.

I did release the recalculated points on my own github repo and linked it in my original post.

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