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Audax / Re: Intermediate Checkpoints Now Untimed for ACP/RUSA Brevets (Feb/Mar 2024)
« Last post by Ivo on Today at 08:44:59 am »The most accessible thing I probably do is my events being within range of a train station.
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Arts and Entertainment / Re: Television tonight: what's worth watching?
« Last post by andyoxon on Today at 08:41:55 am »BBC2 iplayer Free Solo
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Online quizzes / Re: Wordle
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Rides and Touring / Re: Morton in the Marsh camping weekend 24th may/27 may
« Last post by cycleman on Today at 07:58:23 am »Thanks butterfly 🦋
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Audax / Re: Intermediate Checkpoints Now Untimed for ACP/RUSA Brevets (Feb/Mar 2024)
« Last post by Lightning Phil on Today at 07:04:54 am »I have a father and daughter who have done my Greenways audax each year. He uses e-brevet but she loves the info’s. She is now 18. I’d be careful about saying one age group wants this, and another wants that. I offer traditional and modern and let the rider choose.
What I do try and do is make it as frictionless and easy as possible, so they can enjoy the route and scenery. For instance I’ve had people use my control alert IQ app on their Garmin Edge as they worry about missing controls, but stick with infos and receipts for proof of passage.
The most accessible thing I probably do is my events being within range of a train station.
What I do try and do is make it as frictionless and easy as possible, so they can enjoy the route and scenery. For instance I’ve had people use my control alert IQ app on their Garmin Edge as they worry about missing controls, but stick with infos and receipts for proof of passage.
The most accessible thing I probably do is my events being within range of a train station.
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The Knowledge / Re: The return of Bicycle Repair Man
« Last post by Gattopardo on Today at 02:04:37 am »Hello
Was wondering about M Steel frames and if the frame numbers started with MJ.
Now then Lord of the Sith, you should realise that rebuilding the death star is a futile exercise as I, being a Jedi Master will ultimately cause all the joints to fail due to lack of braze
On a more mundane matter, none of the M Steel frames have a letter prefix other than the ones made for Dales Cycles in Glasgow under the Flying Scot banner. They used our number sequence with the prefix FS
Thank you for the reply. It is the frame from https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=48975.msg2820511#msg2820511 someone mentioned that the frame looked M steel frame.
Glad to see you around here, hope that you are well.
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The Pub / Re: Tune Association II - Son of Tune Association
« Last post by Mr Larrington on Today at 01:01:23 am »Where Are The Prawns? ~ The Soft Boys
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Audax / Re: Intermediate Checkpoints Now Untimed for ACP/RUSA Brevets (Feb/Mar 2024)
« Last post by LateStarter on Today at 12:38:47 am »Unless you have a Garmin Edge, then my IQ datafield might just help.
https://apps.garmin.com/apps/503d9fec-4863-455a-b528-6a5f297e4a03
Tested on 4 calendar events and one perm (with alternate start) so far. Has 118 installs thus far. I haven’t widely advertised it yet, just mentioned it to riders of my own events.
Looks good, we younger riders (in my dreams) expect everything to have an app these days, anything that doesn’t is clearly for fuddy duddies only , e-brevet and similar are great assets to maintain membership and eliminating overly fussy (worse if enforced) intermediate control timing is a step forward. Advisory timings are useful guides to a target progress and I have used Robert Sexton’s CIQ Time in Hand field for a few years https://apps.garmin.com/apps/341a30bc-d557-4564-bf3f-cd5c8dae2f47
I can see that too many info controls especially if heavy with in-crowd meanings and required knowledge might also be off putting, e-brevet would eliminate the need and streamline admin for rider, organiser and upstream processor. Good to see we are all moving along, next for a bit of AI ?
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The Pub / Re: Tune Association II - Son of Tune Association
« Last post by Robh on Today at 12:05:43 am »Hold Tight (I Want Some Sea Food Mama) - Fats Waller
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Phototalk / Re: OU Photography Course.
« Last post by LEE on Yesterday at 11:30:18 pm »I edit everything because I shoot in RAW, which necessitates it.
There's a lot of nonsense spoken about "Straight out of camera" images. Nothing is "Straight Out of Camera".
If you shoot JPGs then your camera just "photoshopped" your image ... based on decisions made by an engineer in Japan.
Sharpness was added, saturation was increased, plus other tweaks to the raw image.
In my mind it's better to shoot in RAW and tweak it how you want, rather than how a Japanese engineer thinks all your images need adjusting.
Ansel Adams, and all the great photographers in history Photoshopped their images .... in a Photo Shop (Dark Room). They chose papers for contrast. They dodged and burned. They hand painted negatives and prints.
Don't feel guilty about editing your images. All the great images will have been manipulated at some point.
No camera can recreate an image the way the human eye and brain interprets the scene.
I use Photoshop/Lightroom to create an image that looks how it felt at the time, to me, not what my camera thought it should look like.
There's a lot of nonsense spoken about "Straight out of camera" images. Nothing is "Straight Out of Camera".
If you shoot JPGs then your camera just "photoshopped" your image ... based on decisions made by an engineer in Japan.
Sharpness was added, saturation was increased, plus other tweaks to the raw image.
In my mind it's better to shoot in RAW and tweak it how you want, rather than how a Japanese engineer thinks all your images need adjusting.
Ansel Adams, and all the great photographers in history Photoshopped their images .... in a Photo Shop (Dark Room). They chose papers for contrast. They dodged and burned. They hand painted negatives and prints.
Don't feel guilty about editing your images. All the great images will have been manipulated at some point.
No camera can recreate an image the way the human eye and brain interprets the scene.
I use Photoshop/Lightroom to create an image that looks how it felt at the time, to me, not what my camera thought it should look like.