badgerx16

And Influenza is a virus from water birds, no wonder it makes you feel fowl. ( Badgerx16, BSc(Hons) Microbiology )

Based on reports from the US, that is an assumption that that probably does not stand up to scrutiny. "Nurses at the Dallas hospital say they worked for days without adequate protective clothing and received little guidance on how to prevent the spread of the virus." http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-29628622

TBF, in Heywood&Middleton Labour's share of the vote went up, marginally, in a low turn out, ( possibly less than 30% ). It was the Tories ( down from 27% to 12% ) and the LDs ( down from 23% to 5% ) that seem to have enabled the swing to UKIP ( up 36% ).

Horrendous as it was, this was a freak of circumstance. If the tractor had been 2 metres to the right Bianchi would have hit it head on rather than go under the engine, if it had been 2 metres to the left he'd have missed it. If his trajectory had been 2 degrees either side of the one he took, again he would have missed the tractor. As for the safety car issue, Sutil crashed on lap 42, afaik Bianchi came off on the lap after, so would the safety car actually have caught him before that corner ?

"Better to keep out of the press and be considered a complete pr@t, than to have a PR story planted and have it confirmed."

Some of the other goals in that article are unbelievable - especially Paddy Connoly's.

Wasn't that just his standard practice of fielding weakened sides in cup competitions ?

20% slopes on cobbles - you are ;-) Pray it stays dry.

Portsmyth - noun : a statement, often in relation to football history or payment of creditors, that is plainly false, but due to a genetic abnormality is taken as true by the inhabitants of an obscure area of swampland in southern England.

This.

I don't use a cadence sensor or power meter, and very rarely use an HRM - I go on how I feel. If you're reasonably competent at counting seconds you should be able to judge your cadence without the technology, but don't obsess about it - the most important thing is that you are on the bike, gradual improvements will bring their own reward. You've probably got 9 gears on your cassette, so that's 9 from the big ring - plenty enough to be going on with.

May I refer you to The Rules : http://www.velominati.com/the-rules/ Rule #90 Never Get Out of the Big Ring. If it gets steeper, just push harder on the pedals. When pressed on the matter, the Apostle Johan Museeuw simply replied, “Yes, why would you slow down?” It is, of course, acceptable to momentarily shift into the inner ring when scaling the 20% ramps of the Kapelmuur. You can also adopt the Gospel according to Saint Jens - "Shut up legs !"

I'm hoping for a Lancy miracle against Middx now.

5 wins in a row. Obviously a team in crisis.

Depends on your current gear ratios, but you will almost certainly have a more efficient riding position, a higher top gear, lighter and more responsive frame, much less rolling resistance from the tyres, and there is less effort required to overcome the inertia of lighter wheels. Once you go the whole hog and get clipped-in pedals that will add at least another 10% on top.

Or introduce a separately elected devolved English assembly - exactly what the other 3 regions get.

Calling, the Dark Side is. Resist can you not !

It seems to me that the Tory plan seems to be to give us the following : Scotland, with just over 5 million population, would have a devolved Parliament PLUS representation at Westminster for 'National' issues and interests. Wales, 3 million, ditto. N Ireland, 1.8 million, ditto. England, 53 million, one group of MPs for everything, and no regional recognition - except for London. Not sure about that sort of unbalanced 'federalism'.

68 miles ( 110 Km ) today on my "Sunday Best" bike ( Van Nicholas, titanium frame ). It always amazes me that on a flat calm day you can always find a head wind cycling through Blackpool.

Where's N+1 ?

Return power to the true capital of our nation - Winchester.

It might depend on how effectively UKIP undermine the Tories.

Does that mean we're probably related ?

As a direct descendant of a prominent reiver family, I am glad that the open borders will remain.

Having read through this thread I had to double check as to whether this was The Muppet Show. If the opinions presented above are truly representative of the views of the posters, I despair.