New BSO long-term test!
#1076
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episode 215
stats:
3820km/2374mi
£567.12/$714.63 total
£0.1484/km
€0.1639/km
$0.3010/mi
£2.637/commute
€2.926/commute
$3.323/commute
seems that my bike computer is on the way out as it gets more smashed up down here with all of the people/bike at work (OK with me ... I bought it to use it).
stats:
3820km/2374mi
£567.12/$714.63 total
£0.1484/km
€0.1639/km
$0.3010/mi
£2.637/commute
€2.926/commute
$3.323/commute
seems that my bike computer is on the way out as it gets more smashed up down here with all of the people/bike at work (OK with me ... I bought it to use it).
#1077
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episode 216
stats:
3825km/2377mi
£567.12/$714.63 total
£0.1482/km
€0.1639/km
$0.3006/mi
£2.626/commute
€2.903/commute
$3.308/commute
stats:
3825km/2377mi
£567.12/$714.63 total
£0.1482/km
€0.1639/km
$0.3006/mi
£2.626/commute
€2.903/commute
$3.308/commute
#1078
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Exactly my thoughts. You had something else in mind?
@acidfast7 - just joking, no harm/insult intended.
@acidfast7 - just joking, no harm/insult intended.
acidfast7 is playing this pretty close to the vest.
#1079
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juxtaposition of edwardian cornices and steel beams.
#1080
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episode 217
stats:
3830km/2380mi
£567.12/$714.63 total
£0.1480/km
€0.1631/km
$0.3002/mi
£2.613/commute
€2.800/commute
$3.308/commute
stats:
3830km/2380mi
£567.12/$714.63 total
£0.1480/km
€0.1631/km
$0.3002/mi
£2.613/commute
€2.800/commute
$3.308/commute
#1081
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: New York, NY, and High Falls, NY, USA
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You're always moving at 0 km/h.
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New York City and High Falls, NY
Blogs: The Experienced Cyclist; noglider's ride blog
“When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments.” — Elizabeth West, US author
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Tom Reingold, tom@noglider.com
New York City and High Falls, NY
Blogs: The Experienced Cyclist; noglider's ride blog
“When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments.” — Elizabeth West, US author
Please email me rather than PM'ing me. Thanks.
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#1083
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episode 218
stats:
3836km/2383mi
£567.12/$714.63 total
£0.1478/km
€0.1625/km
$0.2998/mi
£2.601/commute
€2.858/commute
$3.278/commute
stats:
3836km/2383mi
£567.12/$714.63 total
£0.1478/km
€0.1625/km
$0.2998/mi
£2.601/commute
€2.858/commute
$3.278/commute
#1084
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episode 219/220
stats:
3854km/2394mi
£567.12/$714.63 total
£0.1472/km
€0.1613/km
$0.2985/mi
£2.578/commute
€2.824/commute
$3.248/commute
stats:
3854km/2394mi
£567.12/$714.63 total
£0.1472/km
€0.1613/km
$0.2985/mi
£2.578/commute
€2.824/commute
$3.248/commute
#1085
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update:
Bicycle was thrown over a tall fence at a BBQ/house party. Thankfully it didn't end up in the sea as people were getting kind of rowdy
The bell housing was destroyed (it was plastic) and I have to change my cheap CR2032 battery as it's already empty. So, I'll adjust the prices today.
A few more scrapes/scratches but such is the life of a BSO.
Bicycle was thrown over a tall fence at a BBQ/house party. Thankfully it didn't end up in the sea as people were getting kind of rowdy
The bell housing was destroyed (it was plastic) and I have to change my cheap CR2032 battery as it's already empty. So, I'll adjust the prices today.
A few more scrapes/scratches but such is the life of a BSO.
#1086
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episode 221
+12.5p for a new cheap CR2032 battery
stats:
3860km/2398mi
£567.25/$730.35 total
£0.1469/km
€0.1611/km
$0.3045/mi
£2.566/commute
€2.815/commute
$3.304/commute
+12.5p for a new cheap CR2032 battery
stats:
3860km/2398mi
£567.25/$730.35 total
£0.1469/km
€0.1611/km
$0.3045/mi
£2.566/commute
€2.815/commute
$3.304/commute
#1087
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episode 222
with a guest bike that someone gave me so that I have two extras to ride to the beach when guests stay for a few days ... I guess this is how n+1 starts
3872km/2405mi
£567.25/$730.35 total
£0.1465/km
€0.1597/km
$0.3036/mi
£2.555/commute
€2.785/commute
$3.289/commute
with a guest bike that someone gave me so that I have two extras to ride to the beach when guests stay for a few days ... I guess this is how n+1 starts
3872km/2405mi
£567.25/$730.35 total
£0.1465/km
€0.1597/km
$0.3036/mi
£2.555/commute
€2.785/commute
$3.289/commute
#1088
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just a couple of house renovation updates for those so inclined:
1. removal of crumbling plaster down to the bricks in one bedroom
2. removal of lath-and-plaster wall in another bedroom as it was too patchy to skim over (found some horsehair)
2b. seems that we need some work done to the brick mortar prior to the new basecoat going up
3. sanding of original floorboards in two bedrooms ... will install column radiators after plastering the wall and seal the gaps between floorboards then lightly stain
4. window replacement in progress, triple-glazed windows be assembled in Germany and shipped over (8-week lead time)
5. preparations for wall removal and exposed intumescently painted steel beam insertion in progress
6. winter is coming so I should try to get this crap done.
interesting times, but a professorship just opened in a part of Germany that I would like to live, so I'll throw my hat into the ring ... thus I might end up moving again in about 12 months (takes that long for a final decision).
1. removal of crumbling plaster down to the bricks in one bedroom
2. removal of lath-and-plaster wall in another bedroom as it was too patchy to skim over (found some horsehair)
2b. seems that we need some work done to the brick mortar prior to the new basecoat going up
3. sanding of original floorboards in two bedrooms ... will install column radiators after plastering the wall and seal the gaps between floorboards then lightly stain
4. window replacement in progress, triple-glazed windows be assembled in Germany and shipped over (8-week lead time)
5. preparations for wall removal and exposed intumescently painted steel beam insertion in progress
6. winter is coming so I should try to get this crap done.
interesting times, but a professorship just opened in a part of Germany that I would like to live, so I'll throw my hat into the ring ... thus I might end up moving again in about 12 months (takes that long for a final decision).
#1089
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episode 223
3878km/2409mi
£567.25/$730.35 total
£0.1462/km
€0.1596/km
$0.3031/mi
£2.543/commute
€2.778/commute
$3.275/commute
3878km/2409mi
£567.25/$730.35 total
£0.1462/km
€0.1596/km
$0.3031/mi
£2.543/commute
€2.778/commute
$3.275/commute
#1090
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I was a bit curious.
I've been spending nearly all of the last 80 weekends doing all of the little things on my apartment (~1880). Mostly related to the bathroom, which was added about 100 years later. At this point, the only part left to do is pay someone VVS qualified to replace the floor drain, remove the plastic floor and re-tile everything. Or, do I (easily) remove the walls and make the floorplan make more modern sense...
My oiled oak herringbone floors show some character and sound like death, but nobody lives downstairs, so I'm not about to sand them down for the umpteenth time in 130 years.
I've been spending nearly all of the last 80 weekends doing all of the little things on my apartment (~1880). Mostly related to the bathroom, which was added about 100 years later. At this point, the only part left to do is pay someone VVS qualified to replace the floor drain, remove the plastic floor and re-tile everything. Or, do I (easily) remove the walls and make the floorplan make more modern sense...
My oiled oak herringbone floors show some character and sound like death, but nobody lives downstairs, so I'm not about to sand them down for the umpteenth time in 130 years.
#1091
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I was a bit curious.
I've been spending nearly all of the last 80 weekends doing all of the little things on my apartment (~1880). Mostly related to the bathroom, which was added about 100 years later. At this point, the only part left to do is pay someone VVS qualified to replace the floor drain, remove the plastic floor and re-tile everything. Or, do I (easily) remove the walls and make the floorplan make more modern sense...
My oiled oak herringbone floors show some character and sound like death, but nobody lives downstairs, so I'm not about to sand them down for the umpteenth time in 130 years.
I've been spending nearly all of the last 80 weekends doing all of the little things on my apartment (~1880). Mostly related to the bathroom, which was added about 100 years later. At this point, the only part left to do is pay someone VVS qualified to replace the floor drain, remove the plastic floor and re-tile everything. Or, do I (easily) remove the walls and make the floorplan make more modern sense...
My oiled oak herringbone floors show some character and sound like death, but nobody lives downstairs, so I'm not about to sand them down for the umpteenth time in 130 years.
The current place was built in 1909 and we're doing some initial renovations:
New triple.glazed windows, new plaster down to the brickwork, walls coming out / exposed steel beams going in, fireplaces getting restored, new kitchen, etc, etc...
Here (UK), the working class had wooden planks with some fitted rugs, nothing fancy like herringbone (although my original flat had that).
Getting that Swedish PVC flooring out is essential. I'd move some walls if you're allowed (is it a bostadsrätt? or so you have a house with a "freehold?"/land?)
Good luck, if you were in Stockholm, I could make some suggestions or connect you with some people.
#1092
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episode 224
3883km/2412mi
£567.25/$730.35 total
£0.1460/km
€0.1591/km
$0.3027/mi
£2.532/commute
€2.759/commute
$3.260/commute
3883km/2412mi
£567.25/$730.35 total
£0.1460/km
€0.1591/km
$0.3027/mi
£2.532/commute
€2.759/commute
$3.260/commute
#1093
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Also, while completing a home renovation is one if the few times I wish that I wasn't car-less. The waste builds up until I pay someone to pick it up and dispose of/recycle it.
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You could always buy a cheap(-ish) child-trailer-shaped-object to attach to your bike and calculate how long it takes you to pay that off as you use it to haul off your waste...
#1095
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Nothing is inexpensive with these renovations.
Gotta live somewhere I guess and the mortgage is actually less than renting a one-bed flat.
#1096
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guess I shoulda figured as much when one compares average wage (pre-tax) to house prices in each area. In SE England, one is looking at at least 10 years of average pre-tax earnings for a house (probably 30-40% of the English population). Luckily, I snuck into a cheap coastal area. I don't remember it being this expensive in the US, when I left in 2007.
Interesting splits there.
Interesting splits there.
#1097
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I recently did some camping in the US with a couple of colleagues from NZ and the house prices there are crazy as shown by this chart, however, we need to consider each country differently as explained by the text that accompanies the figure:
Institutions Matter: The Cross-country Dimension
On the first, we can summarise by saying that institutions matter. Country-specific features are very important to housing outcomes, including the outcomes most relevant to monetary and financial stability policymakers.
A range of institutions determine the idiosyncratic risk that households face, and thus the credit risk they pose to lenders. These include labour market institutions, the funding of health care, and the structure and generosity of the social safety net.
Geographic and other factors determine the urban structure, which in turn affects the relative price of housing. We know from economic geography that as city populations rise - and the amenities that go together with that - housing prices rise even relative to the higher incomes that often go along with big-city living. So urban concentration affects macro-level variables, like the ratio of housing prices to household incomes, as well as individual-level outcomes, such as people's lifetime housing experiences.
The structure of the mortgage market matters, for example whether fixed or variable-rate mortgages predominate. These features are in turn affected by a range of tax and other institutional factors. An example of a feature quite specific to Australia is the popularity of linked offset accounts. These change the interpretation of debt data that do not adjust for balances in these accounts. They also change assessments of the resilience of the household sector to various kinds of shocks.
Taken together, these factors suggest that we can't assume a single value of any particular macro-level ratio exists that is 'right' for all countries or for all time. It depends. We can't assume that a particular level of debt is always and everywhere sustainable. It depends on who has the debt and what kind of credit risk they pose. We can't assume that a particular level of prices is 'correct' or 'sustainable' in all circumstances.
What we can do is get some sense of the relativities between countries that you might expect, given those institutional and other differences. For example, we can reasonably expect that countries where much of the population lives in smaller, cheaper cities will have lower national aggregate ratios of housing prices to incomes than other countries. That might partly explain why the price-to-income ratio for the United States is relatively low (Graph 1). By contrast, Australia is somewhere around the middle of the pack of mid-sized countries on this metric.
On the first, we can summarise by saying that institutions matter. Country-specific features are very important to housing outcomes, including the outcomes most relevant to monetary and financial stability policymakers.
A range of institutions determine the idiosyncratic risk that households face, and thus the credit risk they pose to lenders. These include labour market institutions, the funding of health care, and the structure and generosity of the social safety net.
Geographic and other factors determine the urban structure, which in turn affects the relative price of housing. We know from economic geography that as city populations rise - and the amenities that go together with that - housing prices rise even relative to the higher incomes that often go along with big-city living. So urban concentration affects macro-level variables, like the ratio of housing prices to household incomes, as well as individual-level outcomes, such as people's lifetime housing experiences.
The structure of the mortgage market matters, for example whether fixed or variable-rate mortgages predominate. These features are in turn affected by a range of tax and other institutional factors. An example of a feature quite specific to Australia is the popularity of linked offset accounts. These change the interpretation of debt data that do not adjust for balances in these accounts. They also change assessments of the resilience of the household sector to various kinds of shocks.
Taken together, these factors suggest that we can't assume a single value of any particular macro-level ratio exists that is 'right' for all countries or for all time. It depends. We can't assume that a particular level of debt is always and everywhere sustainable. It depends on who has the debt and what kind of credit risk they pose. We can't assume that a particular level of prices is 'correct' or 'sustainable' in all circumstances.
What we can do is get some sense of the relativities between countries that you might expect, given those institutional and other differences. For example, we can reasonably expect that countries where much of the population lives in smaller, cheaper cities will have lower national aggregate ratios of housing prices to incomes than other countries. That might partly explain why the price-to-income ratio for the United States is relatively low (Graph 1). By contrast, Australia is somewhere around the middle of the pack of mid-sized countries on this metric.
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#1099
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also, the full pier is now open and I run down to the end every morning
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seems that I lost a plastic screw for my Crud Roadracer MK2s ... so I bough a package of spares shipped for £4.50 ... it was an upper screw holder the fender arm to the fender ... must have been broken in the communal bike rack ... it's wild in there
episode 225 (+£4.5)
3890km/2417mi
£571.75/$732.10 total
£0.1469/km
€0.1595/km
$0.3028/mi
£2.541/commute
€2.759/commute
$3.253/commute
episode 225 (+£4.5)
3890km/2417mi
£571.75/$732.10 total
£0.1469/km
€0.1595/km
$0.3028/mi
£2.541/commute
€2.759/commute
$3.253/commute