http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Schoolboy error en Tue, 19 May 2026 08:41:39 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20419#post-341004 Mon, 30 Nov 2020 17:20:46 +0000 I were right about that saddle 341004@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thanks to all for the corrections, clarifications and errata.</p> <p>@Iain McR</p> <p>You are doing the sole trader thing <em>wrong</em> if you need HMRC to top up your bike budget. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20419#post-340994 Mon, 30 Nov 2020 13:56:54 +0000 gembo 340994@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ok, not dissolve it unravels </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20419#post-340992 Mon, 30 Nov 2020 13:51:31 +0000 dessert rat 340992@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@paddyirish - sadly a sole trader. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20419#post-340989 Mon, 30 Nov 2020 13:46:41 +0000 paddyirish 340989@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@IainMcR, if you work through a Ltd company, I think the company can buy the bike - a friend has funded his road bike habit in that way and it was a company asset.</p> <p>If you got a company logo on the bike, it could be part of the Iain Mcr ltd advertising budget. Also would be very distinctive/less attractive to thieves. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20419#post-340987 Mon, 30 Nov 2020 13:24:18 +0000 dessert rat 340987@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><blockquote>If the cycle to work tax dodge continues </blockquote></p> <p>you are just rubbing this in now.</p> <p><blockquote>If you are self-employed you sadly cannot take part in Cyclescheme</blockquote></p> <p><center>sadface</center> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20419#post-340985 Mon, 30 Nov 2020 12:02:06 +0000 I were right about that saddle 340985@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That's odd. Carbon is notoriously insoluble in the graphite and diamond allotropes. Buckminsterfullerenes are soluble in organic solvents though. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20419#post-340983 Mon, 30 Nov 2020 11:44:47 +0000 gembo 340983@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Carbon bikes dissolve in winter</p> <p>White bikes get really manky in winter</p> <p>Salt on the roads more than just the deluge </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20419#post-340974 Mon, 30 Nov 2020 09:49:00 +0000 I were right about that saddle 340974@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>If the cycle to work tax dodge continues manufacturers will create seasonal bicycles. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20419#post-340964 Sun, 29 Nov 2020 23:18:04 +0000 Arellcat 340964@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Summer mudguards are those skinny, short ones that ten-speeds used to come with in the early 1980s. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20419#post-340963 Sun, 29 Nov 2020 22:56:21 +0000 wingpig 340963@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It's like when you see people talk about a "winter bike" and it's just a normal bike, but sometimes without a rack. Whilst the shoes I wear year-round are supposedly waterproof they're not winter shoes as they come in a discrete winter version with a neoprene ankle enclosure.<br /> Occasionally you see an article written by someone about white tyres or U-brakes but they usually turn out to be authored by a Californian. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20419#post-340946 Sun, 29 Nov 2020 19:22:49 +0000 gembo 340946@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@iwrats, all Summer Rain falls at midnight. only Bill is out cycling then </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20419#post-340943 Sun, 29 Nov 2020 19:12:05 +0000 I were right about that saddle 340943@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Edinburgh gets between 60 and 80mm of rainfall in almost every month so summer mudguards would just be ordinary mudguards but in a light pastel shade and maybe a floral print? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20419#post-340939 Sun, 29 Nov 2020 18:30:32 +0000 gembo 340939@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yes summer mudguards are so small they are invisible to the naked eye.</p> <p>Lincolnshire is very flat</p> <p>Wingpigs wear shorts all year round but other summer things you can get</p> <p>Light weight short sleeved summer jersey</p> <p>Light weight, sleeveless mesh base layer</p> <p>summer fruit compote from m and S (once they also did a winter fruit compote, I loved that but<br /> Was a fleeting thing and I fear you don’t get the summer fruit one anymore either)</p> <p>Summer lovin had me a blast</p> <p>Summer in the city?</p> <p>Summertime blues (ain’t no cure) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20419#post-340937 Sun, 29 Nov 2020 18:12:16 +0000 wingpig 340937@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Do you get 'summer mudguards' and other stuff too? Perhaps those decorative ones made without a lip at the side, or made of cardboard? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20419#post-340928 Sun, 29 Nov 2020 15:06:18 +0000 I were right about that saddle 340928@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Nice pair of slingbacks. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20419#post-340926 Sun, 29 Nov 2020 14:24:36 +0000 dessert rat 340926@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><blockquote>What are 'summer shoes'?</blockquote></p> <p>Fair point. Back in the day I had egg beaters on the MTBs, something on the road bike that make me walk like a penguin and SPDs for spinning classes. Was all far too complicated. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20419#post-340920 Sun, 29 Nov 2020 11:20:42 +0000 gembo 340920@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Today went back out in fog, put washing up liquid on the neoprene overshoes zips so they worked. Picked the correct shoes with SPD recessed cleats. </p> <p>Roads a little greasy and the road down to Harperig that had not been gritted a little frosty.</p> <p>Fog lifted but was colder heading back east. Still chittering.</p> <p>Summer shoes to me are just the ones with the big cleats that are hard to walk in that really lock you into the pedal. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20419#post-340919 Sun, 29 Nov 2020 11:10:41 +0000 wingpig 340919@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>What are 'summer shoes'? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20419#post-340893 Sat, 28 Nov 2020 19:35:02 +0000 dessert rat 340893@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>after years of wrestling with neoprene overshoes, which never seem to last more than a year, I tried something like these <a href="https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Cycling-Over-Shoe-Bicycle-Shoe-Cover-Protector-Bike-Overshoes-Cover-0117/323534672789?hash=item4b542b5395:g:oXUAAOSwO8pcBhUT">so much easier</a>. Cheap as chips and a million times easier to get over shoes etc... annoyed i wasted so much energy&amp;time on the rubber nonsense things. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20419#post-340884 Sat, 28 Nov 2020 17:01:03 +0000 I were right about that saddle 340884@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>If you carried a decent toolkit you could have cable-tied your shoes to the pedals. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20419#post-340877 Sat, 28 Nov 2020 13:18:50 +0000 gembo 340877@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Struggled to get my winter bootees over my shoes this a.m., also their zips need wd40</p> <p>Then because of the bootees I cannot work out getting the cleats into the pedals.</p> <p>About three miles in I have to stop and check</p> <p>I have somehow put my summer shoes with the big cleats on</p> <p>They don’t fit my winter pedals</p> <p>This is not great</p> <p>Struggled out to Harperig. Glorious day for the paddle boarders </p> <p>Back into very slight easterly (had been very slight westerly on the way out)</p> <p>Could have been worse </p>