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We had the same thing in Australia (to instill confidence in the system when it started). Think it's out of date now because, same as Canada, the system is pretty much perfect.
We're paying a lot of attention to the shelf stickers because we're not clever enough to understand this language.
Over here in Canada (except Quebec) we have the Code of Scanner Practice. For items under $10, if the scanner does not agree with the shelf, you get the item for free. This used to come into play in the old days, but now retailers seem too have the whole thing perfected. The whole scanner thing is a great boon to them, because they can raise the price of their entire shelf stock by changing one label. No pesky, and revealing, stickers on each item!
6 days agoYou should add Albania to your hiking list. And some parts of Greece. And probably Montenegro. Lots to see in the Balkans!
1 week agoThank you for the geography lesson. I've had to google maps the whole area as my knowledge of the countries down there around Greece is sadly lacking.
1 week agoLooked a bit unreal in real life as well.
1 week agoEnough that it almost didn't work any more...
1 week agoThat's a serious amount of wear!
1 week agoWoah - they're big mountains! Stunning!
1 week agoYou'll be amazed. I didn't run this one to destruction. I was hoping it would make it to Zagreb where we have a replacement waiting. I did ride on it when it looked like that for about a week (those tyres are super tough!). When the tube started poking through, I acknowledged it didn't have much life left.
Pity, the tread still had >5000km left in it!
I don't know enough of the history. One guy we met in Novi Pazar (Serbia) told us that about 2000 people, just from that town, ended up in Aus.
There are lots of reminders of the war in Kosovo - in every small town, between small towns. Graves, memorials, flags. I'm sure those that were alive (and old enough to remember) 25 years ago haven't yet forgotten...
There may be a residual memory in Kosovo of the fairly large number, I think about 2000, that came to Australia and were hosted as temporary refugees in around 2001.
1 week agoDefinitely not looking like it has much life left. The first layer of composite has separated on this pressure vessel.
1 week agoIncluding while we're sleeping.
2 weeks agoI think we got our moneys worth out of this drive train.
Maybe we could have reversed the chain ring for another 10000km. But it did a pretty good job :-)
Aarrgghh, the world is just too big!
6 days ago