You can tell this is a cycling forum.

Would this be the cheap resurfacing by gluing gravel chippings to the old surface?

Nothing to do with driving carefully to avoid stone chips from all the loose grit then? Just done loads of roads near me and even with the lines back, the traffic has been slower right up until the point the loose chippings have stopped pinging the underside of the car, driving is back to it’s usual ignorant standards now.

Maybe I’m just a little cynical. 🙂

This thread needs two Aliens quotes:

Did IQs just drop sharply while I was away?

I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.

David Icke… jeez…. seriously????????

Worked with someone who used it a few years ago, they stayed fat and on checking the ingredients of the “tea” powder she had it appeared to be mostly caffeine.

I live on an island with a choice of ports all the way around the coast, yet a kerfuffle in Calais means the national haulage industry is gridlocked down in Kent.

Lance Armstrong……

…..I’ll get my coat.

Just paint over the chips and ride it.

Remember someone I rode with years ago with a Zaskar LE that had two v shaped grooves in the stays from some huge (at the time) Tioga tyres.

There are a lot of fake cards out there, usually from the cheaper than looks genuine shops on eBay. It’s normally knock off low grade memory with counterfeit packaging.

Go for SanDisk, Kingston or Transcend and buy from a known name. Amazon are usually pretty OK as long as you go for stuff direct from them rather than Marketplace.

Q1, Fizzy Juice.

Q2, I’ll have to ask the missus later.

Q3, Scoofie

Aberdeen is weird.

Diet coke provides exactly the same insulin spike/crash profile using sweetners

I call bullshit… based on the fact that as a diabetic who drinks diet coke\pepsi and have the blood glucose meter to prove the effect.

I can assure you diet coke has cock all effect on insulin and blood sugar 🙂

Interested in this one. I get pins and needles on the road bike, also changed shoes for some with laces rather than straps. Tried different cleat positioning too and still get the pins and needles after 30 minutes or so.

Wondered if it was general old age\crap circulation. If I unclip and shift my foot about it seems to improve.

Second the GP visit.

I used to get migraines quite a bit, they stopped when I got diagnosed with diabetes and got blood sugar back under control. I’d gone to the docs as I was sleeping badly, always tired and feeling dehydrated.

I was active and normal build at the time but given family genetics I had an idea what it might be.

Chances are it’s not the same, but there are other underlying causes and GPs are a bit better than internet experts 🙂

I’d avoid EE at the moment, Leeds City Centre last week was network congested hell. Picked up occasionally but mostly awful and patchy.

Over the past year I’ve had increasingly worse coverage with EE, almost as if they’ve simultaneously switched off masts and oversubscribed.

Not sure who a good alternative would be as poor performance seems to be common across all the networks.

Sounds a bit iffy to me… but I’m not a doctor so probably not qualified to guess.

I’m not a Human Remains vampire either so can’t really condemn someone for being lucky enough to pull a sickie for a week 🙂

Got some elbow and knee, worn them a couple of times. Should wear them more as time off work for sports injury is not paid, but then again I ride too slow anyway.

I would like some decent, light shin guards as lower leg cuts take forever to heal with me.

Sounds a lot, I had 8 windows done on a 1940s semi for £3500 with a local company. I got a cheaper quote than that but went on the installers reputation in the area – the did most of my neighbours replacements.

I also managed significantly higher from certain TV advertised chancers.

Unless it’s a tricky job needing scaffolding or really complex bay windows it does sound a high. I did have a house with sash windows done quite a number of years ago and they were a pig to remove and made a hell of a mess of the interior decoration so that could be a factor in the higher price.

Possibly a daft thought.

What size rotors and what terrain? If they’re huge rotors, you could be glazing the pads on the less hilly terrain, when you hit the long downhill they start to work properly.

You can get a seamless setup but it’s normally on the high end business kit.

Most of the home gear is separate wireless networks – even if you use same SSID and password. I’d just go for separate SSIDs and use a WiFi scanner app on an Android phone to see what shows up in each area and set the channel to the least congested for that area.

I use the SRAM mount but have mounted it so it’s to the side of the top cap\stem.

Didn’t like the screen angle when it was over.

Seems alright so far, lasting well and I’ve not died yet.

Oh and OP, bloody well go for it. If you get the chance before there are any ties just do it 🙂

Not wishing to wee on the Three Fishes fire.

I know a bloke who bought a camper, said bye to the rest of us wage slaves and went on a round the world trip because he was a free spirit.

Reversed the camper into a ditch in northern France in the first week away, had to be dragged out by tractor to find he’d trashed the rear axle and couldn’t afford the repairs.

At least he tried, he was a bit of a smug tw@ so we laughed. It’s not always the most intelligent fish that makes the first move.

Bionic pancreas.
Some semblance of balance on a bike.
My hair from when I was 20.
One of the new carbon GT Zaskars to sit next to my 1998 one.
Extension to the house to allow the new Zaskar to sit next to the 1998 one.
Lottery win so I don’t have to work and can ride a bike more.
I’ll have one of those monkey throat things above as well now I’ve seen it.

Grew up in Leeds and now I don’t live there I like it that much 🙂

It’s not bad as cities go, most of the nice bits have horrible bits nearby. West and North tend to have more nice bits than South and East.

If you’re planning on working at Leeds University and can’t wangle a staff parking space forget the car, even with parking a commute to where the University is will have you bald and insane within 6 weeks.

A commute from north of York will not be nice, York itself is pretty much gridlocked on a morning and the A64 isn’t the best once you get to Tadcaster you can normally hit a clearish run onto the A1\M1 and down to Garforth where you can get a train into Leeds.

If you’re moving into the city with no ties I’d probably recommend somewhere out of Leeds to the East where it’s flat, decent links to motorways and there are plans for a major Park and Ride improvement around the Micklefield area in the next few years which should make the commute in better.

Yup, it’s complicated.

Eat what you want and learn to watch for the signs. A few years ago I was falling asleep a lot on the sofa. Home from work and out like a light.

All part of getting older, except when it was the first signs of diabetes, along with a couple of midge bites that took months to heal and restless, jumpy legs. Since getting it I’ve learned that the TV and Media portrayal that diabetes is a big fat biffa watching telly thing is fairly misleading.

If you’re unlucky enough to have the genes for a pancreas that gives up in your 40s then a high carb diet will be bad no matter how active – although being active you’ll probably fair better.

Had clutch issues on a diesel Fabia. Clutch down, into neutral and car was still in gear, horrible slipping clutch smell and an AA call out.

By the time the AA got there it worked but they could smell there’d been a problem. Diagnosed as probably the slave cyclinder, get it to the garage. Skoda dealer chain in West Yorkshire were less than impressive and failed to find an issue. Had it back a few times, no fault found, next morning fault would be there.

Eventually traded the car in for a Peugeot and will never buy a Skoda again… or at least while I live near the shite West Yorkshire chain.

One Drive’s pretty good. Not had any problems with sync between a phone, laptop and desktop. I use it with Office 365 so get the online office apps and a locally installed copy. After using Google Apps for a couple of years I was surprised how much better the M$ offering was.

If you’re using it for business then best get into a backup routine pretty quick off the mark. Online storage is great but if you delete or update the wrong file, it happens online too unless you can go back to a backup.

Shoot me – Kwik Fit Mobile.

Got some Continentals last year, about £5 more than Black Circles were charging, didn’t have to find a garage or sit and wait while some spanner monkey wasted my time spinning the job out.

Van turns up at work and does the fitting in the car park. If the price works out I’ll do the same again next lot that need changing.

Always ended up back with Finish Line Wet all year round.

Squirt seemed good at first but after a few months gunked up my chain so the links stopped moving freely. Nearly binned the chain but it was salvaged by a couple of white spirit soaks and a toothbrush.

Currently about 122/74 with a resting pulse of 65ish.

Diabetic so I get told off by the nurse if it goes much higher than that, keep getting threatened with Ramipril if the second figure creeps over 80.

Gives me an excuse to go out on the bike more 🙂

Anyone using a comparison site do a double check. I happily plugged all my stuff into the Meercat one, got a cheap quote that looked brilliant. Checked the small print on the insurance and I would have been covered for standard bike cover upto £1000 in value only, the additional bike information hadn’t been passed through.

AXA’s wording was tricksy as they quoted a total value that could be claimed but limited the individual value of each bike within that total.

Cycle specific seemed a better option just for not having to dick around in the event of a claim.

Still riding my 1998 Zaskar. I could sell my full sus tomorrow and it wouldn’t be half as gut wrenching as if I’d have to get rid of the Zaskar.

Shame that GT messed up the current ones.

One thought, it’s not a Thompson Elite Seatpost is it? They seemed to be common on 5s at one bit.

I’ve nearly gone bald tracking down a creak on my old Zaskar, even thought it was that final fatal new frame time. In the end got shut of the Thompson Creakpost.

No idea where the creak came from but doesn’t happen with an Easton post.

£79.99 a year for Office 365 Household – 5 users.

I didn’t get the subscription idea until I noticed that each user gets 1Tb of OneDrive space. Not many online storage options that cheap.

Last week of my notice now, made sure I’d got another job before moving but I was on the verge of just ditching the job and had even done the maths to see if possible.

Small Telecoms company, passive aggressive and paranoid director, dodgy (barely legal) sales, clients leaving in droves (faster than new ones appearing).

There are a few long term staff who are mostly stupid white trash with leanings towards BNP.

It’s doomed to fail but will probably just phoenix under a slightly different name as happened a few years ago.

Sounds right, best thing I did was take redundancy from I’m Badly Motivated a few years ago.

My first “on boarding” meeting was a conversation with a long termer who’s advice was stick it as long as you can and build up service then take a payout.

Huh? As opposed to the BTP letting the cyclist negotiate the junction and then moving around them?

…opposed to designing road junctions better to avoid this kind of thing.

Leeds City Centre, heading out to Burley Road. Bloody awful junction in a car. Lane priority is too vague, would be safer if the two left lanes were for the slip road to the left and the right hand for straight ahead only.

Not the best way of dealing with it from either party but probably both handling a badly designed junction the best they can.

A simple Yes or No from the cat owners.
Is it acceptable for your animal to foul in someone else’s garden?

Your garden? Hell yes, I think if I was one of you neighbours I’d be carefully removing the cat nuggets from the litter tray and slinging them over the fence on purpose just for giggles.

Don’t post on here often but seriously, 3 pages on cat shit? CRC & Wiggle have a sale on, maybe they have a life going cheap for you 🙂

Usually browse and don’t post but this one hit a nerve.

3 years ago I wasn’t that active, I had an OKish diet – pasta and rice featured a lot. The bike was gathering dust at the back of the garage. I’d been getting tired and achy but at 40 you expect it. Eventually booked a docs appointment, I wasn’t the normal shape for Type 2 Diabetes but they did the tests and found my fasting blood sugar was 15. After meals it was coming up in the mid 20s.

So now I’m on a low carb diet – zero bread, pasta and rice as they’re terrible foods for me.
I’m on Simvastatin – cholesterol was 6.5 docs want it really low as I’m now a high risk category.
I’m religiously back on the bike but it’s hard work. Somedays it all comes together and it’s a pleasant ride, others it’s a struggle to get any energy. I ride pretty much solo now as group rides got silly will the apologies for being crap.

Physical damage is done, circulation problems, I’ve started with retinopathy but didn’t realise until the first scan. Now getting monthly injections in my eyeballs to stop going blind.

Not the same as heart attack territory, but if there are two things I’ve learned.

1) See your doctors and get the tests, if I’d realised 6 months or a year earlier I may have saved a whole load of complications and possibly the fun of having needles stuck in my eyes every month.

2) Ignore the internet, most of the health advice in internetland is garbage. Some of it could make your health worse.

Thanks for the post milky – back home now and have the details to post. Here’s a couple of recent pictures of my bike, it was a 2012 Giant Anthem X4 Medium.

Distinctive upgrades from the standard were the Hope X2 brakes with silver braided hose and the silver Spank 777 bars. I’d also replaced the outer ring with a bash guard.

I’m keeping an eye out in the usual places, if anyone spots anything please call the police direct as it’ll be quicker. Use 101 and select Gloucester Police. Incident number was 545 on 19th April.

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