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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.

RIP. Condolences to the family.

WOW!!

Your links lead me to this ...

It is just a Chinese company that wants to know everything about you. Nothing to worry about .

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.

Am I the only one thinking if a perp notices that escourt vehicles come with a group of cyclist that at some point in time they (the perps) think ... great they brought a van for us to load more bikes in. Pretty crap situation. Wishing you guys all the best to deal with this.

Now to get Strava to allow you to create challanges like in Endomondo.

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.

Almost chocked on my headset when I read that. I saw here Elitebooks with 8 GB Ram and 256 Gb SSD going for just over 800€ which converted to Rand would be 16-17 K. But that 50 K is a bit rough. Ok I just happen to look and I lied, I paid 1800€ but still not close to the 50 K you saw there. The i5 is not bad but I would maybe look at 16 Gb Ram. Screen size is also relative. I have a fairly small screen (I think 14") but the advantage is that the laptop is small, compact and light. The bigger the screen the more space you need in your backpack. I have a further 3 monitors connected to the laptop and two are 27" and the other 24".

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.

What price range would a HP Elitebook go for? I bought one here in Germany a year ago for 1200€. It is a bit stronger than what you have speced with I7 processor 32 Gb Ram and 1 Tb SSD among others but I am super happy with this machine.

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.

Maybe that is why admin is closing the one thread after the other ... he is running out of disk space at the moment.

Currently my commute is about 10 meters by foot. To get to my bike is a longer distance than getting to my office

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

What material is your bottle cage? I remember long time ago my allu cages often made rattle noises (and they never lasted long). For long now I use carbon cages and never had a problem.