Recent content by tdodd

I don't use apps for any site where there is a perfectly serviceable website solution. More storage on the phone, more needless permissions, more background battery drain, another app to update, another icon to clutter my home screen or app drawer. There is simply no point unless they...

http://www.hdewcameras.co.uk/canon-eos-5d-mark-iii-body-961-p.asp They supplied mine shortly after release. No problems whatsoever. Recommended.

I've got a Planet X Pro Carbon Ultegra and a Planet X RT-58 alloy Rival 22. Both are great value for money (at the price I paid) and good bikes. Recommended. I also have a Rose Xeon CDX Ultegra Di2 at 3X and 5X the price respectively. It's nice, but the other two run it close for comfort and...

Hiding his light under a bushel? https://community.zwift.com/news/1257-a-70-year-old-zwifter-feels-his-power

Haha! I've been buying gear since 2006. It took a while to learn that lack of equipment wasn't the problem, but lack of talent. I used to lug round two bodies and an assortment of lenses, but nowadays, on the rare occasions when I do any photography, I travel as light as possible. A phone camera...

My last photographic purchase was a Samsung Galaxy S7 (upgrade from Galaxy Note 3) - probably my only photographic purchase in 2016. I have no plans to buy anything else for photography in the foreseeable future. My needs are covered.

May I suggest you change your fiscal calendar. Why not start your next financial year from 1st March? :-) Failing that, April seems popular.

I'd use credit card for the additional consumer protection and possibly even a little cash back.

I understand the MAF bit, but if my heart behaves as though that of a 30 year old regarding max heart rate then why take it as cast in stone that my 54 actual years is the correct adjustment from 180 in order to establish my MAF. To my mind it's too generalised and not specific to each...

I'm very sceptical of a formula which uses age as a basis for establishing a heart rate figure. I'm 54, so the 220-age max heart rate estimate would have me at 166 maximum. Yet my maximum in the past 12 months has hit 190 more than once. I have also held 172 average for an hour both on the road...

For me it was like having a switch thrown. As soon as I knew how serious my condition was I set to work immediately to fix things. I believe in self responsibility and did not want to be a burden on the health service for something I could take care of for myself. Measuring and graphing my...

Thanks. 2.5 years ago I was 117kg - plainly obese - with dangerously high blood pressure (190/150), type 2 diabetes and high cholesterol. My heaviest weight on record was actually 123kg. After a temporary intervention with drugs, for about two months, changes to diet and activity levels cured me...

I'm 54. I took up cycling just over two years ago as part of a remedy for various health problems. It's worked wonders. :-)

Hah Hah! I'm retired, no kids, so plenty of time available and cycling is my main (almost only) hobby these days. My longest ride is 168 miles, circumnavigating the M25, which I've done twice, but also numerous 100+ milers pretty much once a week in the first half of the year. Last winter I...

9,169 miles ridden so far this year. For most of the year I've been well ahead of target to reach 10,000, but following a slump in late summer and autumn I'm behind schedule and slipping further away, day by day, from making my goal. The inevitable intrusion of Xmas almost guarantees failure at...