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If you are doing hills, you will be better postured with a road bike because it puts your back more in the sport position and it will be easier to pedal uphill. A sit-up-and-beg positioned bike, like you currently have, is hard work on inclines.

You might be 'sure', but Xalatan knows the current state of applicable knowledge. Evidence trumps gut feelings, every time.

Does intercourse affect testosterone levels?

Yes, nice colour Sirona... I painted one the same but with silvered forks. Here's my steed. I love riding it now it's got the bits on that suit me ergonomically, like the seat (Selle Royal Respiro) , grips (Ergon GS3) and pedals (Halfords brand). I don't know if you know, Sirona, but comfortable seats, that you can sit on for hours, have a groove down the middle to take pressure off the perineum. Mine is designed so that air moves under that area as well. There's a vent at the front for airflow.

Stimulus-wise, how does it differ from intercourse; the mechanics is the same? Does ones genitals know, or care, how it is stimulated. No. Historically, it's probably all housewives tales based on religious/moral grounds that forbade it. These were fabrications intended to instill fear in the ignorant community.

I remember a PM a conversation with Dr R. He said he was an expert in only a very tiny area of physics... by his standards of what constituted an expert. When one listens to people like him, yourself, and others of the same level, for a while, one realises many people are quite naive what it takes to make a dent in the modern scientific knowledge base.

When you get to your level, the area of expertise becomes smaller and more specialised, doesn't it? It's unlikely you can venture far, at the same level, into other specialties.

Well, means what he says, doesn't he? He found the easier way to do it.

My apologies, Sensei. I take it back.

This is the main mantra of the "natural is better" quack medicine industry. There's a, supposedly, massive Big Pharma conspiracy to stop people from accessing cheap, natural, medicine.But if one gets off ones backside and does an elementary check on a few supplements of the available research about them, they are, invariably, found wanting. Natural supplement shops are like betting shops... they just want your money. They exploit the fact that fools/ignorants and their money are easily parted.

I think you're right, on reflection.

That's a gay (bright, cheerful, showy ) looking seat. The whole bike looks much better quality than mine... it's only a 300 quid one, and I've spent about £250 on it so far. I don't mind ending up with a bike that proves much more expensive than buying a whole one new. I need a new hobby, and agonising over each piece, how it works and what I want it to do, is part of that process. It's final value is irrelevant because I never sell anything; I buy stuff because I want it... there is no eye on future value. The activity is more important than the thing. I notice your stand has a similar base to mine. It is very fussy about placement location, otherwise it's unstable because there is no gap underneath to compensate for ground irregularities. I punched two marks through appropriately placed tape (to stop it slipping) on each front leg, then drilled right through at the punch marks. I then inserted two old, even, brake block units in them, put a brake spacer on, then the bolt. You can use the spacer, if necessary, to act as an additional adjuster next to the brake block. It's much more tolerant of surfaces now, and nice to work on the bike without worry of it falling over. Make sure you drill vertical. I found just two front supports is fine, and actually compensates for the forward forces of the bike, with the stand leaning back ever so slightly.

The forum programmers hadn't thought of that, I would imagine, and just made it global.

Very Zen statement, Ed. When one is too busy, the life around you is passing by.

How much do you call high end? I put Ergon GS3 Grps on and Selle Respiro seat which was 100 pounds. Noticeably better riding experience, I did think they were a bit extravagant but they've proved very comfortable and the bike is a pleasure now.... no numb gonads or handache. I always thought it was the cold draught causing numbness but it seems it's actually pressure on the perineum, I found out recently.

The forum admin agrees with you, it is not allowed for the reasons you state. Any questions of a medical nature must be presented.in an academic manner, not related in anyway to making a personal diagnosis or treatment recommendation..

Absolutely, I visualise a poster derived from what, and how, they post, not a picture. My avatars are just flavours of the moment... they don't mean anything. Real likeness photos are different, some like to be open about who they are and that's fine. I just think "It is what it is".

Because they're drug pushers.

Do you have an issue with transvestites? The whole discussion was about assessing people on their avatars... it shouldn't matter, but it does to some. Avatars reveal something about the poster, which may not align with their physical/visible attributes. Swansont, for instance, could just happen to like Jessica Rabbit and have nothing to do with him as a person.... that's OK. I liked having that Daphne Blake avatar for itself, but took it off because it was just an experiment and this is getting old now... my motive had a shelf-life. Also I did it to make a point, and don't need it anymore. I shall do it again, in some different way, but it will be because I want to. If it makes me a transvestite, or whatever, so be it... I don't believe any person is all man or all woman, anyway. All you can really say about an avatar is that the poster likes it, in some way.

I've ordered Zinn and the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance, Imatfaal. Thanks for the pointer.

If I am walking down the street and bump my head on a lamp post looking at the person across the road, is it their fault? You have nothing to explain. Everybody here with a brain knows that. C'est la vie.

I suppose what one is essentially doing, as a reviewer, is highlighting the faults or findings in a paper, so that the research might later be refined by the author or others.

Could it be that gravitationally captured objects will always form an elliptical orbit; the direction of the longest part of the elliptical curve is roughly the line of capture? Also, in the case of coaelescing matter around a planetary body, it will never do so in perfectly balanced way, leading to an elliptical orbit?

Here's a pdf download link about putting together the discussion section of your critique: http://www.sfedit.net/discussion.pdf