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Working From Home - Impacts of Coronavirus
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nctnico:

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--- Quote from: Zero999 on May 16, 2020, 11:01:01 am ---I've always found it strange why so many people have mountain bikes and only ever use them on the road. There was a craze in the 90s, with heavy steel frame bikes, marketed as mountain bikes, but were rubbish for hills, as they were so heavy.

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Modern mountain bikes are pretty light, mine was a mid range bike with aluminium alloy frame and wheels.

While they are far less efficient to ride on tarmac, they do open your options massively.  For urban cycling, curbs and small steps can be negotiated with ease, especially with suspension.  The larger tyre absorbs impacts with pot holes and curbs so you don't get blow outs, pinched tubes and buckled wheels.  But when the tarmac runs out and you are on forest trails, coastal scenic paths or gravel paths the road bikes just get left behind.

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In the end it always depends. A couple of years ago I bought a normal bike although one with suspension. It can deal with some off-road terrain but I wouldn't take it for a long tour on forrest trails. I wish it had steel rims though. I already managed to damage the rim on the front wheel but I'm not sure whether it is due to a bicycle stand where you put the front wheel in or a big hole. I never had problems before with steel rims except for a broken spoke every now and then.
nctnico:
TV series also start to suffer. Today I was watching an episode where they filled in the missing scenes (about 20%) of the episode with animations.
maginnovision:
Some productions are trying to get back to work in/around Hollywood. Not much though, still very dead.
AndyC_772:
Talking about the impact of the virus on business - according to the BBC:

"Lockdown has certainly prompted a boom in bike sales.

At one point this week shares in Halfords, the country's biggest chain of cycle shops, had jumped 17%.

The company said sales of some cycling equipment had risen 500% since the government ordered us all to stay at home on March 23rd.

Ken Foster says his bike shop, Foster's Cycles, in the Manchester suburb of Chorlton-cum-Hardy, is the busiest it has been since his grandfather opened it back in 1954.

But it has been exceptionally good weather. "
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--- Quote from: nctnico on May 16, 2020, 08:34:50 pm ---TV series also start to suffer. Today I was watching an episode where they filled in the missing scenes (about 20%) of the episode with animations.

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If you think that's bad, post-Covid Japanese anime (animation) movies will now be a static image of a character just blinking, for 20 minutes. Which isn't any different to pre-Covid come to think of it.

We may have to get used to NOT binge watching box sets, just to make the episodes last to Christmas. Sorry Netflix.
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