I mean it seems to work which ever side the buckle is on ?

(Things you often wonder in retirement)

Thought us motorsport geeks and geekettes needed a place to chinwag and chunter - so here it is. Everything from F1 to FE and BTCC to GT. As long as it's got wheels and an engine and races, it's there to be talked about, as well as drivers, tech and gossip.

So i'll bid you all welcome and slope back off to listening to the Russian GP while watching the BTCC on the telly. Wonder how the F1 will pan out, things have gone a bit, umm, interesting..

A little game that was recommended to me over the festive break: https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/
I’m quite enjoying the daily word puzzle.

Situation is.....
As per title I have a 4 gang wall socket in the kitchen....its perhaps 18 months old and properly installed ie nit a DIY job.
It has a small light to tell me its live.
So....this morning I plugged the kettle in and switched on.....nothing (i assumed the kettle had conked). I tried it in another of the 4 ports (dont know the correct word) and it worked fine.
Q. Is it possible for just 1 of the port/sockets to fail ?
Q. If just 1 has failed can it be fixed ?
Its not..

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8/9/26
Arkel R40 Recumbent Panniers Weight Experiment on the Rans
(Test Shop)

The Arkel recumbent panniers are currently set up so that the hooks fit the Rans underseat rack (a TerraCycle Easy reacher Rack) as I have been using the Rans a lot this summer. The Spirit could equally well have been used for this trial with some adjustment of the hooks. Perhaps I need two sets of Arkel panniers, one set up for each bike.

Although I’ve been shopping with them before I haven’t tried them..

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It's back again by popular demand ( at least 2 people asked for it )
Welcome to the twelfth edition of the half century a month challenge
This thread is just for chatting about the challenge ,The challenge thread will be up soon ready for Jan 1st and gives a run down of the rules
The challenge remains as popular as ever and gets us out riding perhaps when we need that bit of extra motivation , strangely addictive you've been warned
I once again will be acting as general taskmaster( some say..

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A thread specially for 'persons of leisure' and independent means, or those with aspirations.
How do you while away those lazy days?
How do you cope financially?
When did you retire?
Is retirement what you expected?
How long did you take to adjust?
Etc.

Tell us what you are up to today or what plans you have.
Or just have a bit of silliness to while away those lazy hours.

I've been busy today. Hilly 15 mile ride in North Devon, took dog for a stroll along Saunton Sands, cut the front lawn..

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[Admin edit: Part 2 of this thread can be found here - https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/mundane-news.173256/}

Hill Wimp said:

Seasonal depression has hit.

Click to expand..

Sending you and

Mod Note:
Opening post slightly modified at the request of @ColinJ.
Hope I did it correctly

The object of this game is to identify where a photograph was taken. It should be taken on a public road which you have ridden in the UK, or somewhere very interesting that you would like to ride one day. (It's not that I don't like seeing photos from round the world but we really don't stand much chance of identifying (for example) a dirt road to a small temple in Vietnam!)

It would..

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Sometimes a bad joke can better than a good joke.
Its Friday time to get the ball rolling:

What do you call fake spaghetti? An impasta.
RIP boiled water. You will be mist.

Why are elevator jokes so good?
Because they work on so many different levels.

I always used to get small shocks when touching metal objects, but it recently stopped.
Needless to say, I’m ex-static.

I'm currently at some indeterminate point through an enormous mid-life crisis and as such have a new-found interest in dressing "well"; having been exclusively a "T-shirt and combats" kind of bloke for as long as I can remember.

As such (and being one four-pack of Kronies deep currently) I'm intrigued to hear of what all you blokes like to wear - and of course what the ladies like to see us in

I'm currently flying high having sourced a couple of pretty nice charity shop suits and..

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I am the proud owner of a 1980' Bianchi Caurus ( very strong North westerly winds). Thanks Norbert!

I picked it up at the weekend on our way back from Portsmouth.

The bike is finished in a faded light red pearlescent and black which now looks pink, perhaps a red version of the Celeste minty green which you normally see Bianchis painted in. Not normally a colour I would choose but it is growing on me.

The first thing to do once I got it home was to give it a clean and try to see if..

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So my Wahoo Roam V1 has died.

It served me well: bought primarily as a tool for a 19d LEJoG back in 2020, it never got me lost (well, only a little when I wasn’t paying attention), tracked my journeys, uploaded them to Strava, hooked seamlessly to the amazing Garmin Varia 515 to keep me well informed of traffic behind.
On the downsides, it was always a bit faffy to get my cycle.travel routes to download..a two-step process that wasn’t so simple.

What to replace with?
A pal rates his..

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Welcome to the 2026 Vuelta a Espana PTP thread. I'll be your scorer for this event, enter your predictions below.

This is open to anyone with a CycleChat account, so test your luck and/or knowledge won't you.

Get your GC and Stage 1 ITT picks in before 15:17 BST Saturday 22 August 2026.

Here are some useful links:

https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/vuelta-a-espana/2026

https://www.lavuelta.es/en/

Road Book

Here is a map:

Shirehampton Station on the Severn Beach Line at lunchtime today.. 👍

The scrapings can go atop a posh cappuccino.

If they get particularly moist they can be used to top up the creosote on a shed.

They can be placed over a steering wheel as a security measure.

And if theyre not too dirty after all that you can wear them.


So what clever ideas can you think of for Y fronts?

Vauxhall Viva Convertible 'G' registration (1968) - according to Wikipedia "very rare"

Feel free to contribute your own.

Had a look for animal pics, never found a thread so let's start again. Sheep on the move and goats and guard dogs

Well, I didn't know which thread this should go in, so started a new one!

Out for a for a run early this morning with Lemmy. Bottom half of the village is very olde worldly and has narrow footpaths. Sure enough, there's some chump sat in a transit flat bed parked half up on the path.

I try to squeeze by without slowing down, as is my lawful right, but I'm too big and I thump into his mirror as I go past. Transit mirrors are designed to take knocks and I didn't damage it.

I carry on running and Neil Anderthal jumps out of his van and gives a mouthful to my..

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Remcos upcoming schedule...bit disappointed that there's no Strade, San Remo or Flanders ☹️

Unfortunately I was hit from behind whilst cycling on Sunday early evening. 46 miles in to my ride and less than a mile from home then BANG and I was on the deck. A car was coming in the opposite direction and stopped immediately, the couple came running over took charge of the situation, called 999 and were so very kind. Meanwhile the driver that had hit me stopped, turned around and came back. The lady from the witness car started shouting at her saying ‘what the f*** do you think you were..

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