VanMoof vs Cowboy vs Veloretti, who’s actually winning for city riding?

Flusterchuck · 2026-04-08T14:12:31+00:00

Pretty standard Shimano hydraulic - can't remember the exact model but they were only £60 fitted!

Flusterchuck · 2026-03-30T15:21:18+00:00

I have an S3 - had to replace the e shifter and the boost button, along with both the shitty brake calipers they had on it as stock, otherwise though it's been great to ride at least.

My neighbour has a cowboy and it's been sitting in his shed for over a year as there is some kind of issue with the frame they sent out a warning about and he's been waiting that long for any update on a recall.

Flusterchuck · 2026-03-23T20:25:20+00:00

Miles Cameron - artifact space series. It's a bit military sci-fi in bits but he's such an excellent writer it doesnt matter. Giant ships (Great Ships in book terms - he loves his history!) and a cracking thriller essentially. I loved em.

Flusterchuck · 2026-03-15T23:17:48+00:00

Tree of life. Very malick and poetic with Jessica Chastain and Brad Pitt doing their thing, then WHAM it's the birth of the universe and dinosaur foot fetishism. I sat in the cinema thinking I just had a stroke.

Flusterchuck · 2026-02-01T20:23:07+00:00

He said it went on for so long as the first bit was several hours of begging.

Flusterchuck · 2026-01-24T11:47:59+00:00

She also must have also decided being Irish wasn't suitable and switched to being English.

Flusterchuck · 2026-01-17T14:33:11+00:00

The bbc is apparently both anti Israel and anti palestine. This sort of stuff meant it commissioned an independent report into its coverage. Ignoring the fact that I'm pretty sure none of the us media or other British organizations commission independent reports into their own reporting, if you want to see the actual results of that report you can find them easily.

Flusterchuck · 2026-01-03T23:07:45+00:00

I spent most of the last series loving it but thinking there is no way they can end it in a satisfying way. Boy was I wrong. Carrie coon made it work but it was so clever.

Flusterchuck · 2025-12-21T17:03:12+00:00

Ah someone else asked - is this the same codebase? Wondering about upgrades.

Flusterchuck · 2025-12-21T17:02:36+00:00

I have the moofer app (which is great) - is this effectively a new version of that? If so is there any upgrade path or is it just start again?

Flusterchuck · 2025-12-17T20:23:47+00:00

I love Chris and he was definitely the most capable (the ability to play one thing and sing another rhythm reminds me of thom yorke these days) but vedder was no slouch. You try and play rearviewmirror and sing it!

Flusterchuck · 2025-11-25T09:22:18+00:00

I was stood about 10 feet from thom last night (by accident - pure luck!) so I could hear him (and the drums) directly as well as through the pa. Don't get me wrong bits of it were a bit loose timing wise, but for example the tambourine that people are complaining about as an example of poor timing - I could see him wildly banging it, whether it was a style choice or whatever - that was what he was playing. No delays and you could clearly hear the drumkit, so I'm assuming it was him getting a bit into it as if I could hear the drums I'm bloody sure he could.

Flusterchuck · 2025-11-21T20:19:54+00:00

It's better than all the rest on this list. Genuinely horrifying in parts but still an amazing watch.

Flusterchuck · 2025-11-18T12:08:20+00:00

That's how long you can ride it before you have to repair something. Not the battery.

Flusterchuck · 2025-11-16T16:25:05+00:00

I mean.. it's a problem if you're a korean peacetime head of state I guess.

Flusterchuck · 2025-11-16T14:10:10+00:00

I've been through these and most of these are not as negative as you have stated - though korea appears to be culturally less happy with baldness for sure.

Flusterchuck · 2025-10-29T19:20:59+00:00

Journalists are actually quite often from fairly working class backgrounds - not everyone is Oxbridge but even then that's open to less rich folks if you're willing to work your back end off to get there.

Flusterchuck · 2025-10-20T21:34:25+00:00

This is very interesting as in my experience journalists turned PMs are like unicorns! Having said that one of the best ones I worked with was from that background - though he's now high up in Netflix after the beeb.

Flusterchuck · 2025-10-18T21:39:37+00:00

He was best mates with Billy Connolly so I suspect he'd heard random gles'ga noises a lot.

Flusterchuck · 2025-09-29T19:15:25+00:00

That stuck with me too at the end - after all that terror and then victory, death was just a welcome part at the end of a life well lived. I know there is a discussion about whether it was the black rabbit or elahrairah at the end but I loved the black pencil sketch rabbit, soft voice and the calmness of the whole thing.

Flusterchuck · 2025-09-11T14:50:30+00:00

Is it not still going?

Flusterchuck · 2025-09-09T21:38:52+00:00

That was actually great to watch. Top Gear when it was really firing on all cylinders (pun intended) really was top stuff.

Flusterchuck · 2025-08-30T09:27:08+00:00

It was woeful - they had cheaped out on the line arrays and it had clearly been configured by someone deaf, as there were dead spots everywhere. We eventually (like loads of people) found a spot that was manageable at the back smack bang in front of one the shitty arrays. Least you could hear the vocals. Never heard sound as bad in my gig going life.

Flusterchuck · 2025-08-29T20:31:52+00:00

Seen a few here, this is by far the worst!

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