The troll wants fed more!

that old man should have moved out the way faster.

Bit douchey, you need to accept people of all skill levels will be on free public trails and your Strava times aren’t more important than their safety.

My partner is very new to MTB and if you’d done that to her I’d have put you in the hospital frankly.

Terrible time to sell a bike! But Facebook marketplace is sadly probably the best place to do it, factor in time wasters and be up front that you won’t entertain giving a refund for anything whatsoever because people will try it on.

I’d somehow missed that that was the reason I couldn’t find it available, it was my go-to for a long time for fork servicing. Would definitely order if it became available again. Props for looking to continue the legacy forward.

Yeah just pass it straight to her insurer, that is what they are for surely?

TJ the limit for small claims is 10k. It wouldn’t make it very far though as presumably the second you turned up with proof of insurance the case would be thrown out as they have agreed to indemnify OPs daughter against claims.

That sounds like it would feel all kinds of ‘wrong’. You would have to turn the bars in a completely different way to normal riding because you can’t lean and wouldn’t be countersteering.

Yeah Arcteryx seems to be the next Canada Goose now in terms of the wearers of said garments.

Sounds a little glib, but what on earth is a grant of 15k going to get anyone, let alone 3k? It’s probably not worth the time alone putting a viable business case together to access the funding…

@poly it’s definitely Omeprazole, branded as Pyrocalm by Dexcel Pharma. I will see if the gp can change the prescription to one I can tolerate, the ones they prescribed were capsules and to be frank they tasted strongly of wet dog for some reason… Was too lazy to go back and ask for them to change it…

Thanks all, sounds like it’s not uncommon to be on for months or years then. Feeling reassured but will deffo start convo with gp.

Ah, I don’t mean how screwed am I as if I’ll be getting a telling off, just how much might I have messed up my guts long term. Google is full of scare stories.

Lime mortar is more porous than cement mortar, perhaps the previous cement mortar was successfully preventing water ingress which swapping to lime has now exposed as an issue?

Cost me 2k including VAT to have the mechatronic removed and rebuilt plus the clutch and DMF changed when mine kicked the bucket.

The insult to injury is the car was written off three months later so was all for nothing.

Mechatronic alone shouldn’t be more than 1200 ish.

Been given a tracking number by Evri for the ones I ordered (£27 plus postage!).

I had this exact problem earlier this year with a full new XT M8100 setup, it turned out to be chain length. It seems very sensitive to getting the exact number of links right.

Probably not a lot, your body won’t be used to it and you’ll destroy yourself for days and make yourself hate it if you go in hard.

Christ, ditch the thing off to we buy any car and get something else 😂

Does the web developer not have a test platform for the site to check if these things work before deploying them live?

Something popped up for me with a support us button and nothing else, something about being reader supported?

Exercising 100 calories off is the same as eating 100 calories fewer, ergo both are as effective as each other.

How hard or easy you find it to do either of those is entirely individual and not objectively measurable.

Don’t think a 2017 would be free road tax, i’m sure they’re £170 a year.

Rescued two Polish girls last year who had driven their brand new Golf down a green lane in the lakes who were here on a mushroom picking pilgrimage, we must have a good climate for it compared to Europe? Or they were after a specific type… either way was a bit upset they didn’t offer me any of their pickings as a thank you.

Surely rest days are as important for increasing strength and fitness as actual exercise itself is?

If you’re doing 100 days if exercise in a row I’d wager a large chunk of that is junk hours/miles/kgs.

Plenty of mid range stuff lasts a long time too, my parents’ Bosch is still going after 15 years.

The Miele thing is a nice idea but the economics don’t stack up to me and like anything these days once you start paying for someone’s time to repair stuff it adds up very fast because you’re paying £80/HR for someone here rather than £2/HR for someone in an Indian factories time.

New ones are pretty cheap, you’re not gonna get someone to resole them for significantly less than the price of new ones surely?

No sympathy, the overcharging during the COVID boom has come back to bite them, those prices were never sustainable.

+1 for battery, I had a car once that threw all sorts of oddities when the battery started to die including switching it’s 4×4 system off whenever the brakes were pressed (halogen brake lights are a massive amp draw).

Pretty normal for newly laid brickwork, you can rinse/scrub it off if it bothers you it’ll stop coming out after 6-12 months tops.

Some good numbers across the board there this week

Staying injury free will be the only thing really stopping you, although you don’t really have time to improve your time at all.

To be honest, i’m not certain you’ll really gain much from training this close to an event now as you’re more likely to just wear yourself out and get injured. If you already getting pain in your knees it’s probably just going to get worse if you try and cram more mileage in.

Might be best to do just a few km a week to stay injury free and make sure you can definitely complete the event?

I would say take him to a professional trainer, some people at work have had good experiences with this approach. A trainer who is good at what they do will teach a dog in a lasting way that will stick after the training has finished.

No change from last week even though I’ve been pretty good I’d say. Sometimes that happens though so I’m not letting it derail me.

I’ve always said some people (most?) can tolerate a boring job for as long as it takes, but others, myself included, need to be engaged and learn new things regularly and feel like they’re achieving something useful. I do admire those who can stick out a boring job without going crazy, it’s a much more healthy way to work imo.

Guys play nicely, everyone is entitled to their view…

It’s also not a choice between HS2 and ‘something else’. We can have both.

It is a choice between though, otherwise we would just do everything we need for the next fifty years all at once.

I’m against the project, especially so with the ever rising costs going into the realm of beyond ridiculous (a tenth of a trillion??). There are valid arguments on both sides but I just don’t believe it’s the right thing to prioritise now.

As has been said time and time again, *most* people in Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Newcastle etc and the surrounding areas want to be able to travel between those places more efficiently and if there is only enough political will to spend on doing that or on building HS2 at one given time, I think most would say they’d rather have improved local links *first*.

Some of the mistakes HS2 Ltd have made are embarrassing and naive, things like forgetting that 6 miles of tightly packed underground pipework, cabling, networks, water and gas supplies under West London would need moved first to build the tunnel section. It can be tens of millions just to redirect one major fibre optic cable in a densely populated city like London.

Things like passing risk onto contractors therefore getting very high prices back for work packages then realising it was better to take the risk off them but only years into the project.

Failing to appreciate that house and land prices rise over time and not compulsory purchasing everything on the route as soon as possible has meant the cost of that has risen astronomically.

Kendal mint cake was a bit of a handful for us. Very slippery

Can confirm. Body slammed a tree on it today 😂

Can’t really see the point unless you’re sure you could keep it up forever, even 12 months of sugar free will do nothing for your life in the long term if you go back to how you were after.

Any diet should be something you can sustain for the long term.

Personally I’d drive, it’s often cheaper, more reliable unless you drive a banger, it’s on your own terms time wise and you don’t have to worry about strike action. Some of the city can be a bit of a walk from the station too depending where the office is.

Dropped a kilo so pretty happy with that, suspect some of it is a bit of dehydration but we’ll see how it averages out next Friday.