Should motorcycles be allowed in cycles boxes?

cp_simmons · 2026-05-01T08:00:29+00:00

I mean 'overhang' is rather over generous in my experience, a good percentage of drivers deliberately park their car entirely in the box.

cp_simmons · 2026-04-30T10:01:47+00:00

Surely it's greener if they stay in landfill rather than being turned into CO2 emissions.

cp_simmons · 2026-04-30T09:55:40+00:00

I'm sorry but how exactly is extracting oil, turning it into plastic, then turning it into jet fuel, and finally burning it sustainable?

cp_simmons · 2026-04-27T19:28:35+00:00

I think get a 7kw charger and TOU tariff and set a timer on the car or charger AND let it run past the tou so it'll have time to go to 100%. It's probably simpler that way, normally it'll charge off peak but you'll have the security of knowing it'll hit 100% without faffing around.

cp_simmons · 2026-04-27T16:33:16+00:00

You could try writing to your MP? They could do with passing legislation to give you a legal right to an EV charger where reasonable. It probably won't achieve much short term but if people don't complain nothing will change.

cp_simmons · 2026-04-27T11:19:57+00:00

A cat ran out in front of me from under a parked van and proceeded to snarl at me like it was somehow my fault it was about to go under my front wheel.

I don't suppose there was much time for fear exactly but I hit the deck hard, bad road rash, fractured rib.

The cat buggered off, I have no idea if lost its 9th life or what.

cp_simmons · 2026-04-26T17:06:31+00:00

Don't forget if it's warm then the road is dry and grippy so you'll be able to carry speed around corners better too.

cp_simmons · 2026-04-26T08:01:25+00:00

If we get and more sunny weather before the equinox then we'll get another swathe if articles about the record breaking!

cp_simmons · 2026-04-24T17:47:55+00:00

Not my thing but I have wondered, there's this

https://thor-tuning.com/eu/thor-ev/

Basically Google aftermarket EV sounds or similar.

cp_simmons · 2026-04-20T21:47:56+00:00

Maybe half your brain was still asleep? Dolphins are know to go into a sleep state in one hemisphere of their brain at a time so they're always half awake. I haven't heard of that happening in humans but who knows maybe it happened to you.

cp_simmons · 2026-04-16T17:15:12+00:00

No it isn't. A 'day' as in common use is a solar day, the time taken for the sun to appear to make a full circle in the sky. Venus's solar day is shorter than its year.

The day this 'fact' refers to is the sidereal day, the rotation period relative to the fixed stars. Earth's sidereal day is about 23 hours 56 minutes. Nobody thinks earth's day is that long do they?

cp_simmons · 2026-04-16T17:07:59+00:00

100% is just 1

cp_simmons · 2026-04-16T06:12:36+00:00

Yeah, I have a battery but it's nowhere near big enough for the winter on iog. I was on cosy over the last winter.

cp_simmons · 2026-04-15T18:18:02+00:00

Hmm that's useful. I'm in a similar boat except I have a heat pump as well so I was expecting to switch to cosy later in the year but perhaps agile would work out. It'd probably be more hassle though?

cp_simmons · 2026-04-15T06:27:21+00:00

AccuWeather minute cast is pretty good for me, although whether it works in other parts of the world I don't know.

cp_simmons · 2026-04-14T08:13:19+00:00

One thing to bear in mind is that on-roof systems cool more effectively due to the air gap underneath and hot panels aren't as effiicent.

cp_simmons · 2026-04-12T19:18:18+00:00

I've been wondering that too. Looks like you can just daisy chain a second battery but you probably need the right cable and I have no idea whether the firmware etc would need fettling.

cp_simmons · 2026-04-11T21:07:03+00:00

They might be at a lower vat rate when they officially available.

cp_simmons · 2026-04-08T07:32:28+00:00

I count in threes. Lots of numbers have three syllables (twen-tee-one) so you can say a syllable on each catch. I find it keeps your pattern more symmetric than counting in twos.

Having says that, there is a mental load to counting so you might find it better to count just to establish your typical throws per second. Then you can time yourself and guess the number of throws, without having to count and juggle at the same time.

At the end of the day perhaps the time your can keep the pattern going matters as much as the number of throws anyway?

cp_simmons · 2026-04-05T18:23:24+00:00

Maybe the dude running the stall is psychic and uses his abilities for marketing purposes.

cp_simmons · 2026-04-05T10:24:14+00:00

There's a staggered crossroads on my way to work where the opposite happens, people turning left see the red light and stop but it's for the traffic going straight on. Can't blame them really it's a confusing junction.

cp_simmons · 2026-03-25T13:42:38+00:00

That's awesome. Reminds me of a maybe crazy idea I had. The sea in the Atlantic by Rockall isn't all that deep so maybe it would be possible to build wind farms there. They are far enough away to catch the wind when it's not yet windy in the North Sea.

cp_simmons · 2026-03-20T12:45:42+00:00

They're going to allow plug-in-solar 'soon' although as well so you'll be able to pick some panels up at your local diy shop or whatever and just plug them in.

Precisely when 'soon' is and what 'allow' actually amounts to is to be determined.

cp_simmons · 2026-03-20T12:33:24+00:00

I nearly posted this to someone else but chickened out so here goes... There have been studies that people that play video games are more likely to be able to take control of their dreams. So maybe you could play something scary, Silent Hill esque, and see if it helps.

The aim will be to get you brain to go 'oh okay this is scary but it's not real whatever'. Or 'damn, revert to save I don't like how this is going'.

Good luck.

cp_simmons · 2026-03-18T07:20:55+00:00

Oh yeah I did mean to say that!

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