It wasn’t specifically 1 go though, its comparing to a horse riding for the full day. So you can take breaks as long as you do it within the full day. Around 12 hours of daylight, obviously it varies but that impacts the horse we are comparing to as well. 3-4 hours of constant riding with as many breaks as you like during the day.

If you go from not biking to biking 50km good luck with not being able to walk the next few days.

I suspect the same could be said about horse riding for an entire day.

For some people that seems to be zero…

That does assume the Chinese housing market is the same as in many western countries though. But if so, bring it on.

Maybe just prosecute them for it immediately? Like how the fuck is letting that up even an option

3 hours is what Google maps suggested. For that distance then yeah maybe first time riding it will take a bit longer. Also type of bike would influence it a fair bit too.

My current bike commute is 80km a week and I just started doing it when getting the job because it isn’t that far.

Exactly, a day is a long time. You can take breaks along the way and don’t have to push yourself for speed. When I was in my teens the local scout group often went to the next town over, about a 20km round trip. No one trained for it, some people may have been a little tired by the end of it but not excessively so and it was fun.

Similar trips done both walking and cycling, of course cycling it takes much less time. Even our school ran a bike trip at the end of the year, wish I measured the distance but certainly 10s of km as it was pretty much a full school day riding. Minus maybe an hour at the start of the day to check over bikes and a bit for lunch.

Training to cycle 50km in a week? Lol wtf.

Here up to 3 miles each way is considered a reasonable distance for kids over the age of 8 to walk or cycle to school - which comes to just under 50km in total over 5 days. Above that distance assistance can be offered by the local government.

For me it was more like 30-40km from 11 onwards.

Maybe the info I found online is wrong but looks like a horse and rider can go about 50km a day. Going by Google maps that is around 3 hours by bike and their times I find are not too far off a casual bike ride for someone who doesn’t do any racing training.

If you have a racing bike and use it frequently then then you could probably cut it down to easily under 2 hours.

Bikes can typically go further than horses in a days travel. Unless you have a lot of horses to switch through and have them positioned along your route.

How shit are your roads if you are turning to horses rather than bikes?

Edit - looks like they are actually using both

And if someone forces you to, frag your commander and surrender to a drone.

FIFA, one of the most corrupt groups on the planet? I am shocked!

South coast UK here, I think the last heatwave was more extreme than the next one?

Maybe I should get an ice bath and stick it in the garden under a parasol. That could cool me down nicely after cycling home from work in the heat. Perhaps I should check how water resistant my bluetooth controllers are…

Ahh, yeah the midea portasplit (or similar models) are heat pump designs. I do have a heat pump but it’s air to water. So it does my hot water and central heating. As it’s in the UK it does make sense for that as a main one, AC is far less important here and a single room unit is probably reasonable.

AC for comfort in summer, heating to survive winter.

Can’t fit one in our living room currently because of the type of windows. But we do want to replace our windows at some point. Probably going to be a next summer thing at this point. Hopefully we have passed the worst heat wave already.

Plus when I get it I can always use it as a dehumidifier still, pretty useful when hanging clothes inside to dry.

Heat exchangers? Got any more info on that, sounds interesting.

Have been thinking of getting a single room unit just to take like 5c off the living room. But I also want efficiency with a proper unit, maybe the midea portasplit. Bit pricey. Could run it as a dehumidifier in winter too though which is useful. It’s also a backup heat pump if our main heat pump was to fail. Though both use electricity.

Destroying enemy infrastructure seems like a legit target to me.

RAF did a little infrastructure bombing in the past. See no issues with bombing a pipeline.

How do you connect it to your existing hot water system though? Already got a heat pump too, when you have the most sun the heat pump barely uses any power for hot water and don’t need much.

I have wondered about solar/fire heated pool or hot tub, but that is adding energy demands in the first place. That said with the heat lately a cold pool could be nice. Can get 5000L for just under £100, 3-4m wide. Heating it could make it usable into autumn though.