cookiemonster
Squire
- Location
- Hong Kong
I've just done my Xmas shopping. Ordered a load of stuff from Scotland which always goes down well here in Hongkers.
Mundane News
- Thread starter Katherine
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fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Very wet in North Waes. Did some more clear out of the caravan yesterday, took the patio set back home (where we now have two sets). Patio gas bottle to go home today (it's full) and more stuff. Got another 8 weeks or so to clear the static before we get rid.
Gwylan
Veteran
- Location
- All at sea⛵
Reflecting on some new winter tyres for my E-Bike.
Present ones were bought in a panic. Done 2 winters and the bit in-between. Never got around to changing them.
Suggestions for sensibly priced options.
Present ones were bought in a panic. Done 2 winters and the bit in-between. Never got around to changing them.
Suggestions for sensibly priced options.
Gwylan
Veteran
- Location
- All at sea⛵
£10 buys a licence to spend a lot more getting it serviced.
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
It appears to be National Laundry Day.
Gwylan
Veteran
- Location
- All at sea⛵
Since horses are not very eco friendly, what bikes might The 4 Horsemen" choose to ride?
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Well, still very wet here in North Wales, but the CCTV tells me it's lovely and sunny at home, just 70 miles away !
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
Second cuppa went down well
Now some gardening needs doing
Now some gardening needs doing
- Location
- Next door to Mr Benn at No 54
Gravity Aided
Legendary Member
- Location
- Land of Lincoln
Hey, now. Milking cows runs in my family! And my wife's, as well.
Used up a bag of veg yesterday and unexpectedly found no new bag in the freezer so cool bag in the rucksack and back to Asda where I found it no longer stocked. At least the ebike was happy as it had a tandem for company. Transpired there is a wind. Just my yard sheltered from it by the neighbours jungle. Rather wet tyres, the local soil is clay so rainwater runs off onto roads and paths rather than soaking in. Hence every cluster of leaves was like cycling through a puddle.
Gravity Aided
Legendary Member
- Location
- Land of Lincoln
Schwinn Rocket 88, last of the Yeti-built machines. Double suspension MTB, can go through about anything.
Illaveago
Guru
- Location
- Chippenham,Wiltshire.
I've got my forlornmower to fire! It doesn't run but it will fire if I pour petrol down the carburettor. Seems like there may be a petrol blockage . The mower is a Husqvarna GX560. It has a 50cm cut .
Magpies
Senior Member
- Location
- Cambridgeshire / Singapore
Will cycling help you to live forever? 
"About a decade ago, 125 amateur cyclists from all over the UK filed into the laboratories at King’s College London. Aged between 55 and 79, they were there to participate in a long-term study examining how regular physical activity affects the ageing process.
Janet Lord, professor of immune cell biology at Birmingham University, who conducted the study in collaboration with King’s professor Steve Harridge, said the team were surprised by some findings when they examined the cyclists’ bodies and took blood samples over several years.
Her subjects, described as “very keen cyclists”, were fairly fit, riding up to 60 miles a week.
“We found things like increased fat in the body, which a lot of people tell you ‘oh, there’s nothing you can do about that, that’s part of ageing’ – just were not true. They didn’t happen in this group. We compared them with healthy older adults who were not regular exercisers. Our group did not lose muscle … and didn’t lose much bone mass either,” said Lord, who is the director of the university’s Institute for Inflammation and Ageing, and a special adviser to the House of Lords inquiry into ageing, which published a report in 2021.
The biggest surprise related to the thymus gland, which sits on top of the heart and makes white blood cells called T-cells. It normally shrinks in older people – but not in the cyclists. Its decline affects people’s immune system. “And that’s why you’re not very good at responding to new infections like Covid, or vaccines,” Lord said.
She and her team are still monitoring the cyclists to figure out how much exercise is needed, and how intense it needs to be, to reap the health benefits."
See <https://www.theguardian.com/busines...buff-billionaires-for-secret-of-eternal-youth>
"About a decade ago, 125 amateur cyclists from all over the UK filed into the laboratories at King’s College London. Aged between 55 and 79, they were there to participate in a long-term study examining how regular physical activity affects the ageing process.
Janet Lord, professor of immune cell biology at Birmingham University, who conducted the study in collaboration with King’s professor Steve Harridge, said the team were surprised by some findings when they examined the cyclists’ bodies and took blood samples over several years.
Her subjects, described as “very keen cyclists”, were fairly fit, riding up to 60 miles a week.
“We found things like increased fat in the body, which a lot of people tell you ‘oh, there’s nothing you can do about that, that’s part of ageing’ – just were not true. They didn’t happen in this group. We compared them with healthy older adults who were not regular exercisers. Our group did not lose muscle … and didn’t lose much bone mass either,” said Lord, who is the director of the university’s Institute for Inflammation and Ageing, and a special adviser to the House of Lords inquiry into ageing, which published a report in 2021.
The biggest surprise related to the thymus gland, which sits on top of the heart and makes white blood cells called T-cells. It normally shrinks in older people – but not in the cyclists. Its decline affects people’s immune system. “And that’s why you’re not very good at responding to new infections like Covid, or vaccines,” Lord said.
She and her team are still monitoring the cyclists to figure out how much exercise is needed, and how intense it needs to be, to reap the health benefits."
See <https://www.theguardian.com/busines...buff-billionaires-for-secret-of-eternal-youth>
