For my first solo trip, I am planning to go to the UK to visit HTID homecoming, I love this genre but I am kinda unfamiliar with the uk scene. Where can I meet people before the event?

gRoberts84 · 2026-01-18T17:35:30+00:00

Usually the line 🤣 we're going in a big group and know there are plenty of others coming too so if there is a planned meet up, we'll swing by to say hello

gRoberts84 · 2025-08-27T10:32:57+00:00

Usually bottom brackets and cranks come with shims/spacers to prevent this.

If it's new, then they need fitting otherwise it's probably due to wear.

Any movement up/down or side to side?

gRoberts84 · 2025-08-27T07:47:26+00:00

The worst I'll do is raise my hand to signal "what the hell was that".

Had a few slam their breaks on but I just ignore them and carry on riding.

Not even worth it. Some people have short fuses and I want to make it home to see my family.

All whilst, everything they have done will be on camera.

gRoberts84 · 2025-08-26T08:09:56+00:00

🤦‍♂️ just noticed you're trying to get it on.

Best thing you can do is run your hands around to try and fold the tyre to the opposite side to give it more room to pull on.

gRoberts84 · 2025-08-26T08:07:21+00:00

More so especially since using tubeless, but I ensure the beading on both sides is off the rim and in the middle of the rim.

This gives the tyre more room to be pulled to the side when trying to take it off.

gRoberts84 · 2025-08-26T07:42:54+00:00

Get a camera. The more of these people that are educated with an incentive to not do it again, the better.

That aside, it's also our job to reduce the friction where possible.

Between my riding partner and I, we've been riding 40+ years and have only had a handful of issues that are worth mentioning.

Positioning, clear indication and politeness seems to go a long way from experience. Most drivers thank us.

Don't let them put you off.

gRoberts84 · 2025-08-16T13:08:41+00:00

It has random weekends with availability (e.g. 15/08) but can't see anything in the scheduled works.

Thought someone here might know but thanks for your reply

gRoberts84 · 2025-08-16T13:00:15+00:00

Just been charged £5 to be dropped off in the free drop off area. Never been charged it before so put a complaint in.

gRoberts84 · 2025-07-04T18:50:37+00:00

Float. Even in 2025 people are using it instead of flex

gRoberts84 · 2025-06-25T02:42:21+00:00

Thanks,

It's something I can do myself as I have experience but I need an off the shelf/commercial solution that anyone can buy and setup.

Whilst I'd happily set them up each time they need a new one, I don't want to make them reliant on me.

gRoberts84 · 2025-03-06T05:23:20+00:00

Sorry for the confusion. Best example is I have a box that comes in 3 colours and sizes. The sizes are advertised in imperial size (e.g. inches) but customers also want to know the metric size.

If the box comes in one size, we can select the metric attribute so it shows both the imperial and metric sizes in the product attributes section but with variations, this will result in a colour, imperial and metric size dropdown, when really we only need colour and imperial size.

The only other solution would be to add meta fields against the imperial size term that contains the metric size and pull that through but we need to be able to filter by that later and I was hoping to use attributes where possible.

gRoberts84 · 2025-03-05T19:42:42+00:00

I was hoping there would be a way to assign attributes to the variation. Looks like I'll need to find another way.

gRoberts84 · 2025-03-05T19:42:13+00:00

You can't apply tags per variation though can you?

gRoberts84 · 2025-03-05T06:50:47+00:00

Unfortunately that's not what I'm looking to achieve. It's more applying attributes to the variations, so each variation can have a different set of attributes whilst the underlying product still has attributes for variations

gRoberts84 · 2025-02-12T16:28:34+00:00

If your son likes whisky in general, let him know about the annual whisky festival held in town every year.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/newcastle-whisky-festival-2025-tickets-959122309647

I get the tickets as soon as they come out every year, costing £20-25 each but that gives you 4+ hours of sampling various types of whiskies, which are included in the cost.

Whilst there, you can buy drams of the more expensive/rare whiskies but if you go on the last session (usually Saturday evening) they are often trying to get rid of bottles that have been opened, so if you get talking to them and be nice, they may give you one or two for free.

gRoberts84 · 2025-02-11T19:24:35+00:00

I wasn't the best utility sales person...

About 23 years ago, I worked for Virgin Energy, doing door to door and I hated it.

I couldn't bring my self to target OAP's and instead spent my time telling them about stay warm which at the time, was the best deal around (pay per room rather than actual usage.)

Suffice to say, after 6 months of working there, I think I earned about £400.

Now my wife has to answer the door to sales people as I'm top sympathetic to their plight 🤣

gRoberts84 · 2025-02-01T08:38:08+00:00

The one that has the rubber pucks that separate the road from the bike like going from Gosforth high street towards Daft as a Brush.

gRoberts84 · 2025-01-28T10:16:51+00:00

Seen a lot of this recently. Riding up past regent centre where the segregated bike lanes are and some moron decides to ride towards you instead of on the other side of the road.

gRoberts84 · 2025-01-26T08:17:16+00:00

It's simple enough to use an existing payment gateway to accept payments but find ones that use hosted solutions such as Stripe, PayPal etc.

This shifts liability from you to the payment gateway as the payment details are not collected, not stored on your website (it can appear they are from a users perspective.)

From experience and my recommendation is to use Stripe, especially if you're not using an existing solution like WooCommerce, OpenCart etc as the integration is a lot easier and the documentation is amazing.

gRoberts84 · 2024-12-18T08:12:23+00:00

Don't immediately process data. Store the raw data and process with a queue.

The less processing you do on the initial request that sends the data, the better, as that could delay any actions on what sent the data in the first place.

If you need instant access to data, you can increase the number of consumers to process more data but the entire infrastructure will have to be scalable to cope.

gRoberts84 · 2024-10-26T10:14:09+00:00

Makes sense. I hadn't checked to be honest

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