Bateleur1

It's a forum. People will debate arbitrary points and get into big fights. Removing Off Topic chats will not resolve it. The older hubbers might remember that the fights between Winningtime and Championchip was one of the big fights that I think contributed to the dimise of the Supercycling site. Cutting the Off topic forum will: A) reduce complaints to moderator (maybe assuming there won't be cycling related fights which I don't think will happen as we have pretty heated debates in ex Cycling safety topics) B) reduce posts on the hub C) reduce members The main focus of the hub should remain cycling related. But the US politics in my opinion should reduce after the 21st of Jan. The other big thread is the Covid which indirectly started because cyclists tend to think of what the effect of the virus would be on them and with lockdown it had a big impact on every one and that is why it would be such a debated topic. This should also start dying down by June next year in my opinion if not earlier.

The cammo makes it difficult to clearly see the wings but that has to be a Mirage F1

Boeing 737 max finally got FAA approval. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-boeing-737max/u-s-ends-boeing-737-max-flight-ban-after-crash-probes-idUSKBN27Y0FU

More like how the hell are they going to get you to hospital. you can't sit, you can't stand. Go to hospital with a bus and hold on to the upper rail maybe?

Don't forget this incident. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qantas_Flight_32 Although the debris did not pierce the haul, it did shoot through the wing (which kinda protected the fuselage) and cause quite a bit of damage.

Your links lead me to this ...

A few of these oaks came rushing by just now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panavia_Tornado Not often you hear jet fighters so as my ears picked that up I was rushing for the balcony to see.

You worried he might leave those band-aids behind?

The landrover does have the added future of leaving a line of oil behind to make the "skiing" smoother though

https://www.702.co.za/articles/401050/video-helicopter-carrying-donor-heart-crashes-onto-roof-but-heart-is-saved

The irony is that on Chinese tv the are show the chaos at the polling stations and stating that is why democracy does not work.

On one of my commutes home in early winter, the battery on the bike light started warning me halfway through the commute that it is running low. Now you have to remember when I started my commute at 17:00 in the "afternoon", it was already dark. It is fine to ride through Munich wrt to being able to see where you ride but you must have the light on so that cars and everybody else could see you. As you exit Munich it is also still fairly alright up until the halfway mark when you go "off the beaten track" and start riding on the roads that are not really used by cars. You also got to remember that battery performance goes to the dogs in cold weather. So as I was going through this forest I was getting worried if this light will hold till I get home. I did a test to see how dark it really is and if I can actually see "some" of the road. Did I mention it was new moon? When I switched that light off it was pitch black dark. You could see nothing. You would not even be able to walk nevermind ride a bike. The light went back on straight away and I just hoped that it would last till I reach the outskirts of my town ... which it did. Bought a new light after that.

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In summer sure. But commuting on an almost daily basis in -4 that stretch had its moments where it could feel like an eternity. You can only see what is lit and it is almost like a present if you happen to see the red led light of another cyclist a kilometer or two ahead of you.

In the last couple on weeks on my commutes I had extra batteries and even a extra light for emergency in my backpack. It was simply just too much of a risk to ride dark and I had a roughly 5 km stretch through a forest with absolutely no light, no street lamps, no cars. Without a light you will not even see you hand in front of you at night.

Why else did you think they removed the steering column and replaced it with a joystick on the side. Coincedence? I think not.

Then you would like my wallpaper on my work computer. It changes however every couple of hours.

You guys are depressing me. The queen is not quite dead ... yet. Enjoy the pics.

Flew on the SAA 747SP as a laaitie. Still my mission to fly on one of the 747-8 of Lufthansa.

Clad for Nick but having been there myself I know that the positive ID of a perp at the police is just a very small step. It is still a very long way for it to go to court and then a guilty verdict and then a sentence.

Did a nice sunset ride yesterday afternoon. (Actually almost misjudged the sun setting an hour earlier than what I am used to). But some pretty autums scenes again.

While the hubbers in Luxembourg and UK are complaining about the weather, we down here at the foothills of the Alps were having marvelous sunny autumn days. Well I won't mention that last week we had absolute crap weather with borderline winter weather and snow falling on the Alps (as you saw on the Giro). But in the mean time I am loving the view of all the Autumn colours and the blue skies behind it. Went on an afternoon ride yesterday and we are having fairly warm weather at the moment. Trying to take a pic of the snow capped mountains but the camera does not do the view any favours

Very nice Hairy. Are you architecht?

Maybe FR is not wrong. Its an American plane. If Trump is onboard it could also be full of hot air like a balloon.

Maybe Comair pulled a move like Nicki Lauda and told Boeing to send their own pilots to fly the plane back.