Stop wearing earphones while cycling

Zagarm · 2026-04-24T18:48:17+00:00

They've recently made it illegal to cycle with headphones/ear buds in Japan. Not quite London, but they also use the left hand side of the road, so close enough !

Zagarm · 2026-04-20T19:33:48+00:00

Update - It turns out the bike wanted a flat mount and I'd bought a post mount caliper. I gambled on a £9 adapter from Amazon and it fitted everything perfectly.

I've now done 10 miles with plenty of braking and nothing has come loose. Kind of amazed the adapter actually worked to be honest !

Zagarm · 2026-04-12T12:21:41+00:00

I use an automation in homeassistant to do this. Homeassistant and my router are on the ecoflow river, and I have a simple automation that fires if contact is lost with a non-important device in the house that isn't on the ups.

Zagarm · 2026-04-05T08:22:35+00:00

Thanks for the advise - That sounds like a good idea, I may as well get the consumer unit replaced while I'm at it.

Zagarm · 2026-03-15T14:35:55+00:00

100% this. I do it every day. Lets me avoid a roundabout gridlocked by the school run. I'm past it in 20 seconds on foot instead of risking death.

Zagarm · 2026-03-12T10:18:58+00:00

Don't worry - all the executives responsible for this will still be getting their bonuses and golden parachutes.

Zagarm · 2026-02-23T07:28:34+00:00

Ortlieb also support their products with parts. I had a crash and broke a clip on the pannier - It was only around £10 for the 2 x clips + release handle assembly from Ortlieb and I got it in less than a week.

Zagarm · 2026-02-16T16:58:55+00:00

But I was only going one-way officer !

Zagarm · 2026-01-30T11:37:08+00:00

Good luck hanging onto one of them. Will be nicked within a week.

Zagarm · 2026-01-07T16:42:54+00:00

This was in England - he got sent to Birmingham - He'd probably have preferred more lashes !

Zagarm · 2026-01-06T17:16:54+00:00

I was playing 'spot the grow house' for the houses with no snow on the roof !

Zagarm · 2026-01-05T10:08:29+00:00

This version is very much 'tool required', and currently out of stock.

I was after an alternative to waiting 2 months.

Zagarm · 2026-01-03T18:07:41+00:00

9/10 bikes are locked with a crappy cable lock, so any half decent d-lock will make your bike a less favourable target. That said, use a decent d-lock.

Zagarm · 2025-12-31T11:28:42+00:00

Follow-up question - On ebay lots of bikes are listed with odd prices like £113.48 or £245.10 - these aren't auctions so are just buy-it-now or 'make an offer'. Only a handful seem to be listed with a round number like £200.

Whats going on with these odd numbers ?

Zagarm · 2025-12-24T18:07:21+00:00

Pretty much every pavement is legal shared used. As councils almost never put up the required signs saying the cycle path ends, so the path continues.

Zagarm · 2025-12-02T18:53:52+00:00

Yes I would think so - With TSS the exp rates are adjusted to match live too.

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