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The emergency services would be able to unlock the phone of an unconscious road casualty using their fingerprint to search for an ICE number (speaking from personal experience of being contacted in such a situation). If it's done at all, that would be at the hospital rather than by emergency services. The role of the ambulance staff scraping you off the road is to stabilise you and get you to hospital as fast as possible, not go rummaging around for a phone and trying all your fingers (assuming of course your fingers are intact, not covered in blood etc!) More recent Android phones can actually be set up to check on their owner after a preset time. Tell it what you're doing (like "cycling alone"), tell it when to check (like "2 hours") and it'll sound alerts and messages for a little while at that time. If you don't respond, it'll contact your preset emergency contacts and share location. I assume that Apple has similar functionality. And, as mentioned above, my phone will also show emergency contacts without the need to unlock.

Perhaps a better statement would have been.. Hey today we arrested a bunch of people from doing stuff which might have caused people to think about some issue or other, which might have negativity affected short term profits... and we didn't arrest a bunch of other people because what they did wouldn't have caused too much in the way of additional thinking... The CPS stands proud on its long history of protecting the status quo and holding back the evolution of society... even if that means society destroys the ability for planet earth to support life. Now as a crown proscutioner person i'm off to live in my magic la la land, where water is made by taps, ekectricity comes out of a wall and food magical appears on shelves.. and all the poor people, the homeless, those with disabilities live elsewhere... Nice one CycleTramp

Given also the remarkable percentage of people convicted of offences during the Epping and Southampton 'protests' who had previous convictions for assault and domestic violence it does raise the question of whether these are more patriotic subjects than most, or alternatively disaffected people with a pre-disposition to violence looking for an opportunity to take out their anger on others? Absolutely

The aerodynamic point is pretty irrelevant unless you're racing. You have to be going at quite a clip on a bike before it's worth chipping away at air resistance (and wide tyres/very vaguely aero rims really are just chipping away - there's still a crouched hairy monkey up top powering the thing, and I haven't seen a tourer with 4" deep carbon rims).

A useful fact would be the percentage difference between accelerating a rider and bike with light rims compared with the same bike and rider with average rims.

I imagine I know the answer to this, Jonathan, but can those wishing to help a downed phone owner access the medical info., without unlocking the phone? The emergency services would be able to unlock the phone of an unconscious road casualty using their fingerprint to search for an ICE number (speaking from personal experience of being contacted in such a situation). Assuming it uses a fingerprint lock, that is. Mine does, but sometimes it helpfully wants to double check I'm me with a PIN. Probably been pointed out upthread, but if you put medical information in your phone (in Settings, jut search on "medical") then the emergency call screen (which doesn't need one to unlock) has a very clear Emergency Info point. On mine, with no unlocking necessary, you'll see who I am, what my blood type is, ICE contact, that I don't have any allergies etc. Learned about this on a first aid course taught by a paramedic. There was a brief interlude while several of us who hadn't known that put it in our phones... Pete.

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Many such hubs avoid the Shimano freehub patent by having the right wheel bearing at the inboard end of the freehub body - leaving a long length of unsupported axle Surely that patent expired many years ago. The freehub bearing arrangement was first used by Shimano circa 1980, e.g. FH-7250. Even earlier than that. I had one of the first generation Dura-Ace cassette hubs (120mm OLN, 5-speed) back in the late 1970s. It got rid of the axle bending I had experienced with 10mm axles in freewheel hubs. However, with a sufficiently large diameter axle, having the drive side bearings inboard does not lead to axle bending. We've been using Phil Wood hubs on tandems since the late 1970s, initially freewheel hubs, now cassette hubs. The axle diameter in Phil Wood hubs is 15mm. All of those hubs have had the drive side bearings inboard, and none of them have suffered with bent or broken axles, even though the all-up weight of the two of us plus tandem plus cycle camping load is somewhere around 400lbs.

Many such hubs avoid the Shimano freehub patent by having the right wheel bearing at the inboard end of the freehub body - leaving a long length of unsupported axle Surely that patent expired many years ago. The freehub bearing arrangement was first used by Shimano circa 1980, e.g. FH-7250. https://si.shimano.com/en/pdfs/ev/FH-72 ... -0335D.pdf Patents generally expire after 20 years and then the invention enters the public domain for anyone to use.

Very much doubt the French CRS would have regarded these protests as acceptable. As far as I'm aware, the French police don't operate in Dover. I don't see any relevance in the comparison.

One of the primary functions of the police is to keep the peace. That often involves managing some unlawful activity, it always has. Back in the 90's, at the start of the illegal rave scene, it was understood that once enough people had gathered the police were not going to attempt to enter the site and close it down. I don't accept this is an instance of double standards, I think the police action was tailored to the circumstances. Depends on what a police force regards as acceptable standards. Very much doubt the French CRS would have regarded these protests as acceptable. Those involved would have rightfully been given a hell of a beating even if not arrested.

That graph show snothing of the sort. What it shows is the debt to GDP ratio was just over 60% of GDP when Brown left office, mainly due to borrowing to prop up the banking system due to a financial crash which originated in the USA. Another way of looking at it is to say that Labour came in in 1997 to £347bn in private sector debt and departed leaving £1011bn in private sector debt, tripling it. It's also true to say that wars in Iraq (Blair's dodgy dossier) and Afghanistan cost the UK hundreds of dead, many more permanently scarred and at least £30bn for the MoD, not to mention the unquantified cost to the NHS, etc. The outturn cost of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan totalled £21.6bn between 2002/03 and 2010/11, with a further £7.7m estimated to be spent in Afghanistan over the subsequent two years. The Government has estimated the total additional costs of the operation in Libya to be £320m. https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/re ... s/sn03139/ After the 2010 election the Tories had no such crisis to deal with but still managed to steadily increase the debt to GDP ratio to just over 80% of debt to GDP ratio by 2020. It was another four years before UK forces left Afghanistan. They also started Blair and Brown's promised national infrastructure projects that had been kicked down the road, e.g. nuclear power modernisation. It's fair to say that for governments worldwide, of all colours, debt was too cheap for too many years. BY 2021 they increased to the debt to GDP rati