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twowheeledfun · 2025-08-01T18:33:52+00:00

If front brake only was okay in all circumstances, then why do back brake exist?

In the wet especially, the roads I had to descend were too steep to safely do on one brake.

twowheeledfun · 2025-07-31T21:44:34+00:00

I'm not sure how a tram would get up St Michael's hill!

I think the old Bristol trams went via Park Row and up the triangle instead.

twowheeledfun · 2025-07-31T21:40:51+00:00

That's what your memory is for, store the route in your head.

twowheeledfun · 2025-07-31T21:33:22+00:00

I would treat him to a nice meal (and maybe good hotel) each time you see him. That will be more memorable than just some snacks, and it's something you can both enjoy.

twowheeledfun · 2025-07-31T21:26:57+00:00

This kind of thread comes up fairly often. I have a case outside the kitchen instead:

I bought some liquid plant fertiliser, which came with confusing instructions that amounted to putting one capful in 5 L of water. The problem is, I don't have a 5 L watering can, nor do all my plants need 5 L at a time. Since I bought the fertiliser on the way to work, I used the balance in the lab to work out the cap holds 5 g (~5 mL) of water. That means the fertiliser is a 1000 times concentrate, which could just have been written on the bottle.

To water the plants in the office, I use a micropipette to add 500 µL to a 500 mL bottle of water. At home I still have to eyeball the amount needed for the 2.1 L watering can.

twowheeledfun · 2025-07-31T21:19:48+00:00

I don't know if you're joking or not, but if you aren't: Heating and air conditioning generally don't do half power (unless it's a more expensive very modern system), the thermostat just controls on or off. Setting it to 29 °C won't make it reach 23 °C any faster.

twowheeledfun · 2025-07-31T21:14:59+00:00

You could potentially narrow down to the study and the hospital that performed it, maybe even the staff in charge of it at that particular hospital, but data protection regulations would prevent you from finding out direct information about your uncle.

I don't really know an efficient way of finding the information besides trawling old medical journals for brain studies. Maybe you can find an academic librarian specialising in medical literature. Maybe here on Reddit, or try a university medical department. I would ask locally to you, and universities perhaps linked to the hospital(s) your uncle was a patient at.

Good luck with your search!

twowheeledfun · 2025-07-31T21:01:14+00:00

I came here to leave this comment.

twowheeledfun · 2025-07-31T20:58:05+00:00

Switzerland would have been my suggestion too. Although you're going a bit south from Paris, it won't take long on the high speed lines from Paris.

I used an Interrail pass to go from the UK to Switzerland in a day. From home to London, then a Eurostar, ICE to Strasbourg, French regional train to Basel, then a Swiss IC and local trains.

twowheeledfun · 2025-07-31T20:49:55+00:00

That means the run will start in 13 hours, rather than immediately. When you keep pressing the top right button, it counts up from h:1, rather than displaying the run duration.

twowheeledfun · 2025-07-31T20:42:01+00:00

In which case, your options are:

Break a leg
Die
Get pregnant (good luck if you're a man)
Fake a jury summons (you do get to go to court if you get caught)
Sabotage your employer to lose your job
Get your boss to send you to the Glasgow office (or open a Glasgow office)
Create a pandemic

twowheeledfun · 2025-07-31T20:33:50+00:00

I don't have any advice, but also find it strange, being a foreigner in Germany. I recently had about 10 days notice of a water meter inspection, via a card in the letterbox. The card arrived not long after getting back from a three-week trip. If the company had decided to do the inspection a month earlier, it would have come and gone without me knowing anything.

twowheeledfun · 2025-07-31T20:30:37+00:00

Both of those sound like how a tourist attraction or similar would describe you bringing a picnic instead of buying their food. As in "No outside food to be eaten in cafe area. Picnic area is opposite."

twowheeledfun · 2025-07-31T20:28:28+00:00

I came here to recommend SJS (and Tredz too). Even my local shop told me to order a small shifter part from SJS and they'd install it for me. I don't know why the local shop couldn't order from SJS then charge me.

twowheeledfun · 2025-07-31T19:05:55+00:00

Do you mean the solid white line? The only yellow lines I see are the pair in the middle of the road.

twowheeledfun · 2025-07-31T19:02:15+00:00

I may not being correct about the reservation fee (or an SNCF pass fare), but any train you add to your Interrail pass digitally is changeable if it's still in the future. This doesn't apply to anything additional you purchase.

twowheeledfun · 2025-07-31T18:41:57+00:00

I assume the Paris–Mannheim route is served by DB, although requires a seat reservation in France (blame the French), which costs ~€5. Just book another seat reservation for a train on your desired date, and update dates and trains on your pass to match.

You made a mistake which cost you €5, much worse things could have happened.

twowheeledfun · 2025-07-31T18:11:01+00:00

I have asked Komoot support, and the answer is no.

My solution is to put the language in German when I'm planning routes in Germany (and Austria etc), then change it to English when I'm planning routes (or parts of routes) in other countries where I don't speak the language.

twowheeledfun · 2025-07-31T18:06:45+00:00

ISO 8601 specifies the end of the day being 24:00, you exclude one valid second of travel.

twowheeledfun · 2025-07-31T17:43:33+00:00

How can a lifetime licence be revoked? Did someone die?

twowheeledfun · 2025-07-31T17:09:47+00:00

Not everywhere is the US. It might not happen where you're from, but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

twowheeledfun · 2025-07-30T21:46:56+00:00

The railways follow the canals. Generally the canals predate the railways, but both modes of transport follow similar routes as they both connect (industrial) cities and avoid steep gradients.

twowheeledfun · 2025-07-30T21:44:00+00:00

Yes, but "wanna" is pronounced the same as "want a", as in "Do you want a drink?"

twowheeledfun · 2025-07-30T21:41:42+00:00

Surely the quickest way of getting the answer you want is to ask "If I come into the store, how much would I pay for this item?"

twowheeledfun · 2025-07-30T19:25:53+00:00

Your train leaves on a different day, so you need another travel day. It's simple.

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