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Be interesting to see if either starts tonight.

I've got a Kinesis gravel bike which can double as a winter road bike if I swap my spare set of road wheels on to it. Likely N+1 will be an e-bike for the road. Canyon have a sub 10kg one, only issue is its £9k+.

I remember having a Year 11 tutor group and trying to get them to do them was a pain in the arse.

Bike wise it does depend on what you want to pay as far as 'cheap-ish' is concerned. It also depends on what sort of bar set up you would prefer. Basically it would boil down to either a hybrid or an entry level drop bar bike. For the latter I'd be more inclined to look at a gravel bike simply because of its extra versatility. Decathlon might be a good bet here. https://www.decathlon.co.uk/p/gravel-bike-aluminium-frame-discovery-microshift-acolyte-1x8s/348757/c261m8817948 On the hybrid side this seems like a good deal. https://www.halfords.com/bikes/hybrid-bikes/boardman-mtx-8.6-mens-hybrid-bike-2021---s-m-l-frames-366006.html?stockInventory=undefined&_gl=1*1kd5f3c*_up*MQ..*_gs*MQ..&gclid=CjwKCAiA7LzLBhAgEiwAjMWzCHtkYDYZsdBO_5fHYUBxPIedij0N84kLFMeLMH4YM0bAspdL39wQuBoCoeoQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds&gbraid=0AAAAADrJx6x_8zxfiHDgApKnnh65Xupkj Hydraulic discs and decent Shimano gearing. For a turbo you've got two choices, wheel off or wheel on. If you go wheel on they tend to be more affordable e.g. TACX Flux S for example or Wahoo Kickr Snap. Wheel off means removing your rear wheel every time you use it and buying another cassette as most don't ship with one, however you don't wear your rear tyre out. Wahoo Kickr Core and Van Rysel D900 for example. Factor in a sub to Zwift or similar, I use ROUVY which is real life routes rather than Zwift's computer generated courses, but as with everything there are plusses and minuses to both. Personally I have a Wahoo Kickr trainer. Hope this helps, feel free to ask anything if not clear.

80% chance quoted today of the Democrats having the House post mid-terms and of course they have sole power to impeach. 33 senate seats up for grabs too in November so the balance of power to try and convict might shift also. He's between a rock and a hard place a bit like Netanyahu has been in Israel.

Never forget the promotion celebrations where he shouted 'Irons, Irons' as he waved to the crowd. Maybe he thought it was his way back to WHU and that it didn't happen coupled with the departure of RM has meant that we've been carrying a midfield recycler for over a year. Reminds me of a lad I was in a team with back in the day who just couldn't handle things when the going got tough as it was all about him.

Read a rather ridiculous tweet that Trump was reigning (sic) MAGA in and we ought to be really worried about what follows on.

Unlike you to use 'socialist' as a pejorative.

Steve Buscemi as Nucky Thompson in Boardwalk Empire, plus a shout out for the rather oddly cast Stephen Graham as Al Capone.

Tranmere here we come!

Here's a thing The closest point in the UK to Greenland is 879 miles border to border. The USA is 1226 miles from Greenland using the same calculation. Somebody probably showed Trump a Mercator projection of the world which distorts the size of land masses the further away from the Equator you go, and his eyes lit up at how much he could increase the size of the US.

Overcast, cool and fairly calm here in the Thames Valley. F****** horrible out with dogs a couple of hours ago mind. We rarely get snow here what with the Hampshire and Berkshire Downs to the south and west respectively and the Chilterns to the north. If it comes from the east we're too far west and vice versa.

My dad took me to The Dell in October 63, a few weeks short of my 6th birthday. It was against Leeds. Bremner, Giles, Collins etc. We lost 4-1, they got promoted under Don Revie, and I was hooked from that point. I went sporadically after that. My dad was in the Fleet Air Arm and was stationed at Boscombe Down we were living a fair distance the other side of Salisbury at the time so it was a bit of trek. Went a few times in our promotion season, but the old man was away on HMS Eagle for three months of it, although I was at Mick Channon's debut game. The 66 World Cup followed and by that point I was a confirmed Saints fan. By this point my dad was stationed largely at Daedalus and we were in North Baddesley so I went more regularly and then the lifetime of the ups and downs of being a Saints fan truly began. 60 odd years later the ups and downs continue.

RIP. Was at this game which secured our survival at the end of our first season in Div 1. Great header from Chivers to open scoring and remember the penalty incident. i was 9 so not tall enough to see it hit the net. https://www.google.com/search?q=southampton+v+nottingham+forest+1967&sca_esv=2abb81a9f80b289a&rlz=1C1VDKB_enUS1081US1081&sxsrf=ANbL-n5jtivCmTxUkTnT2GsYYG-1HCI7Sg%3A1767811824400&ei=8KpeadzmF8eYhbIPgp_BwQ4&oq=Southampton+v+Nott+1967&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiF1NvdXRoYW1wdG9uIHYgTm90dCAxOTY3KgIIADIKECEYoAEYwwQYCjIKECEYoAEYwwQYCjIKECEYoAEYwwQYCjIKECEYoAEYwwQYCki8O1CRCFi_J3ABeACQAQCYAXWgAZsIqgEEMTMuMbgBAcgBAPgBAZgCDqACpAjCAg4QABiABBiwAxiGAxiKBcICCBAAGLADGO8FwgILEAAYgAQYsAMYogTCAgcQIxiwAhgnwgIFEAAY7wXCAggQABiABBiiBMICBhAAGAgYHsICCxAAGIAEGIYDGIoFwgIIECEYoAEYwwSYAwCIBgGQBgaSBwQxMi4yoAeWP7IHBDExLjK4B50IwgcFMS44LjXIByiACAA&sclient=gws-wiz-serp#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:fc5e332c,vid:oPOAsWjKyiY,st:0

Downes, Harwood Bellis, Bazunu, Manning, Arma, Wood, Stephens they're all part of the rotten core from last season and just need to do one. No sooner was RM out the door they threw their football toys out the pram. Did for Juric and Still and now seemingly for Eckert. This is on the players.