Bucks Off Road thingy?

You can do a request total thing, or something through ebay.
Should be on the item screen iirc.

I’ve been thinking I might do it, looks like it’s too late to enter online now though, so it’ll be a turn up on the day thing if it happens.

hmm, that’s not too far off, I could well be tempted.

Cane Creek own the patent and no one else wants to pay them to use the design.

Could have sworn a few other people did them, I know I’ve seen Hopes with them. And the Cane Creek C2 certainly doesn’t have one…

I’d kinda been pondering doing that myself.
Guess I will in future, it’ll save me a lot of effort :)

I quite like the one that’s opposite the youth hostel in Edale.

It’s pretty basic, there’s not that much in the way of facilities (there’s a shower and a washing up sink), but it’s pretty cheap and generally quiet.

I like them, annoys me that more headset manufacturers don’t do them

I’m happy enough with the fixing mechanism, it’ll only be on road, and I only have a few light things to carry.

Just wondering if it’ll be big enough for a t-shirt, windproof and a few tools.

Wow, now I remember why I don’t do roadie stuff

My favourite comedy SPD moment is from biking in Italy very shortly after first putting them on.

Carefully unclip right foot, nearest the pavement…
… and then automatically lean to the left.

I run presta valves everywhere, but I don’t think there are particular advantages to one or the other.

You say that like it’s a bad thing…

Admittedly, space is becoming a bit of an issue

So where do all these old bikes go? I’ve only ever sold bikes on, so do people take 2004 S-Works Enduros to the dump? Do they fester in someone’s garage for the rest of eternity? Go abroad? What happens!?

I only ever buy bikes, then I like them too much to sell them on!

Why not just do a link to google maps with the marker in it?
Or display it in one of those frame thingies?

I’ve just started (second day now), about 17 or 18 miles each way.

Loving it so far really, much more peaceful than being on a packed commuter train, followed by an even more packed central line tube.

Apparently if you deflate the tyre, you can sometimes slide them off

There are a few independants that do them, but it does tend to involve programming the key into the immobiliser for any modern car. Independants do tend to be a bit more cost-effective.

It’s still not cheap, whichever way you get it done – but a whole load cheaper than getting a replacement sorted when you’ve lost your only key.

Yes.

I only read the title, too.

What I want to know is why he doesn’t park on the drive rather than the road. There are LOADS of people on our estate who insist on parking on the road rather than their perfectly good drives. WHY?

This drives me insane. There’s a load of people around here who do the same thing, and parking on the road is at a bit of a premium. The only thing I can think of is because they want to keep their driveways clear for the odd case where they might have a guest or something – which just makes life annoyingly difficult for those of us without drives.

bikely?

They didn’t used to come with the kits, I’m not sure they do now (The FAQ on their website seems to indicate they don’t).

Should be pretty easy to find them in most outdoorsy places though.

I’ve bought one pretty recently, and I like it so far – although I’ve not had it long enough to discover all the niggles that will annoy me.

Pedals up things suprisingly well, and is pretty good on the way down, too :)

Only things to note are that it’s a short bike, I’d’ve thought you’d want to be looking at a large. If you can’t try one before buying then compare the top tube lengths with your current bike at least.
Also, headangle on mine (’06 frame) seems pretty steep, I think they fixed it for later frames though.

And yeah, as others have said, Iron Horse are no longer – so you might have warranty issues.

I enjoy working on bikes when I don’t have to do it :)

Can get a bit frustrating messing with them late at night so you can ride the next day, though…

I’ve been plotting a 17 mile (34 round trip) commute in now it’s gotten lighter.

Don’t think it’ll be too bad, despite some of the comments here – I’m looking forward to it, anyway :)

You have some of the picture…

In a system free of resistive forces (air resistance is the main one in this case), objects will tend to accelerate at the same rate, regardless of mass.
There’s a greater force of gravity acting for more objects of higher mass, but there’s a correspondingly greater force required to accelerate.

Effectively, you freewheel faster because the air doesn’t slow you down as much.
There’s a similar air resistance acting on you both (you will have similar cross sectional areas facing the direction of motion), but it takes more force to slow you down by the same amount (because you’re heavier) – as you’re slowed down less, you roll faster :)

I kinda like this idea in a lot of ways.
However; there’s already a lot of animosity between pedestrians and cyclists in cities, with red lights being run often cited as a reason. I wonder how much, and in what ways this would affect that dynamic.

Headset press, homemade or otherwise (although people will be along to tell you you can do it with a big hammer and a piece of wood shortly).
Bottom bracket tool
Cassette tool
Chain whip
Suitable set of spanners/allen keys to use previous tools
Some grease and threadlock

Just buy tools as you need them to do what you need.

There’s little point buying everything right away.

As brakes, I’m nearly in North London, have a shed and a garden – yet everything gets done in the living room :)

Epping forest?

They aren’t mine, it just seemed like a fun game :)

hmm, it was at £320k last year, and now prices have gone through the floor, they’re after £600k?

How does that work?

Surely which (hot or cold water) freezes first is irrelevant in this situation?

We aren’t trying to freeze water, we’re trying to melt ice.
Presumably a sufficient quantity of water is used to prevent it freezing before the ice is thawed. Given this, surely it should be fairly self evident that the warmer water will thaw the ice faster?

People who live in the same cul-de-sac demonstrated outside Mr Edwards’ house with placards claiming his business is affecting the prices of their property.

Of course, it’s the porn that’s making their house prices drop!
The whole banking crisis has nothing to do with it!

Oh, reread your original post.

If they want to skip out on the last month’s rent, and expect their deposit returned, then yeah, I’d agree that’s out of order.

I’ve done that. Except I’ve not asked beforehand.
Would do it again, too.

Landlord had made it very clear to me that he wanted me out of the house before the end of the contract, but without any intention of ending the contract early (he still wanted rent paid). Coupled with the landlord’s particularly poor handling of necessary maintenance, I don’t feel that this was unreasonable at all.

Afterwards, it was made pretty clear that they still wanted the final month’s rent, and had no intention of returning my deposit afterwards, without providing any justification.

mboy, I suspect you need to review your grasp of probability.

The subtley lies in that the children are not the same child.
By the question “is at least one of them a girl”, you allow for the chance that this could refer to either of them. We aren’t dealing with probability of future events, as in your coin toss example, but of a predefined existing situation.

If we only knew that she had 2 children, we’d have the following possibilities:

Boy/Girl
Boy/Boy
Girl/Boy
Girl/Girl

As we know that at least one is a girl, it rules out the Boy/Boy scenario.
Of the scenarios we have left, two involve one boy, and one girl. Resulting in a chance of 2 thirds.