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#2956305 18-Aug-2022 18:07

msukiwi:
Just tried telling them that one of the signs has had the "Flooding" Part stolen!

Only a big "!" now! The other sign is still complete.

Answer from the CCC call centre - "The job has been closed!" It beggars the mind!!!!

When's your next inorganic rubbish collection?

Also, if they job was closed maybe they removed the "Flooding" sign and forgot the "!" bit. So if I were you I would print up a big "Zombies" and hang it where the "Flooding" used to be.

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#2956521 19-Aug-2022 11:24

neb:
msukiwi:

Just tried telling them that one of the signs has had the "Flooding" Part stolen!

Only a big "!" now! The other sign is still complete.

Answer from the CCC call centre - "The job has been closed!" It beggars the mind!!!!

When's your next inorganic rubbish collection? Also, if they job was closed maybe they removed the "Flooding" sign and forgot the "!" bit. So if I were you I would print up a big "Zombies" and hang it where the "Flooding" used to be.

Brilliant!

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#2956534 19-Aug-2022 11:43

Well I suppose the Large "!" is correct now.

It's warning that the sign itself is a hazard!

(Still there!)

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#2956566 19-Aug-2022 12:50

The price of bike parts - in particular Mountain Bike parts.

Took the son's new (used) bike in to have the dropper post serviced as it wasn't staying up.

It's a Rockshox Reverb - so notorious for having pressure issues. Local bike mechanic, who knows us well, called me - it's uneconomic to refurbish as it'll cost around $500 and there's no guarantee it'll last a long time.

Like-for-like replacement - $680 on special. For a seatpost.

Other option - another brand, that's good, but not great. $320.00 including remote.

Yes...seatposts can cost anything from $200-2000 depending on what you buy. Outrageous.

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#2956608 19-Aug-2022 15:57

On my day a bike seat post was just a length of tube. Got any mates with lathes?

I assume it's not just a piece of tube so costs more...

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#2956623 19-Aug-2022 16:32

Handsomedan:

The price of bike parts - in particular Mountain Bike parts.

Took the son's new (used) bike in to have the dropper post serviced as it wasn't staying up.

It's a Rockshox Reverb - so notorious for having pressure issues. Local bike mechanic, who knows us well, called me - it's uneconomic to refurbish as it'll cost around $500 and there's no guarantee it'll last a long time.

Like-for-like replacement - $680 on special. For a seatpost.

Other option - another brand, that's good, but not great. $320.00 including remote.

Yes...seatposts can cost anything from $200-2000 depending on what you buy. Outrageous.

I know what you mean.

I used to repair my own bike, they're a bit more complex today and you need special tools too.

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#2956720 19-Aug-2022 19:00

I still do repair and service my own bikes. Spent way too much updating the brakes and drivetrain on my 24 year old Mongoose downhill bike that was converted to be effectively an enduro bike. Finally bit the bullet and upgraded to a current spec bike then spent the first week swapping parts since some of the recently upgraded parts were higher spec than the ones the bike came with.

Now I have two functional bikes. :-)

Yeah, they are more complex in some ways, but about the same in others. They've always required special tools for a lot of things so that's not really anything new. I just treated it as an excuse to update my toolbox as well. :-)

Plus, there isn't much about them that you can't find multiple youtube tutorials on and so much information on setup etc.

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#2957186 21-Aug-2022 08:22

The unwritten journalistic rule that says if you quote a sports statistic provide the bare minimum.
Eg they are only the second team to achieve this in history but you won't mention the name of the first.

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#2957208 21-Aug-2022 09:31

Manufacturers that release software updates with absolutely zero supporting documentation.

Should I update? What will break? What has been changed?

Perhaps I should ask on their support forum? Oh, that's just a facebook page. Grr.

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#2957231 21-Aug-2022 11:09

Ge0rge: Manufacturers that release software updates with absolutely zero supporting documentation.

Whaddya mean zero documentation, it says "addressed various issues". Are you expecting source code diffs or something?

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#2957263 21-Aug-2022 13:41

neb:

Whaddya mean zero documentation, it says "addressed various issues". Are you expecting source code diffs or something?

There will usually be a big long line as well about how it fixes some random edge case that noone would ever encounter unless doing something stupid with it. Looking at unifi for notes like that...

Heres from the last one.

Improvements

[USW] Improve Network connection stability.
[USW] Improve LCM firmware upgrade process.

Bugfixes

[USW-PoE] Fix "PoE Power Consumption / Budget" missing occasionally.

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#2957272 21-Aug-2022 14:10

Ge0rge: Manufacturers that release software updates with absolutely zero supporting documentation.

Should I update? What will break? What has been changed?

Perhaps I should ask on their support forum? Oh, that's just a facebook page. Grr.

By policy I don't install updates if they don't say what's changed. You can thank Fitbit for that, maybe five years ago, when an update described as "bug fixes" completely changed the user interface.

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#2957347 21-Aug-2022 17:02

geoffwnz:

Spent way too much updating the brakes and drivetrain on my 24 year old Mongoose downhill bike that was converted to be effectively an enduro bike.

And I thought my 99 FSR was getting old! I should put it in the other thread actually now that I've finished my resto-build.

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#2957356 21-Aug-2022 17:25

Those stupid SUVs and Crossovers that people like to buy. Are they too big for standard parking spaces or are parking spaces not keeping up with what people like to buy? Either way, my VW Golf only just fits between the lines at the Pak n Save. So the challenge then is trying to find an empty space that isn't bordered by two overgrown hunks of metal. This reminds me why I prefer to do Click and Collect. That, and supermarket people in general.

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#2957361 21-Aug-2022 17:43

Journeyman: That, and supermarket people in general.

I have an extreme dislike of supermarkets. Not the idea, but people in general.

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