I spy, something begining with T.

Possibly a shorter game than usual.

http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/speeding-vehicles-on-fire-roads-at-glentress-forestry-commission-response

Not saying you would be speeding, but this thread is a fairly good discussion of the relavent traffic laws.

The shareholder votes don't count for anything when you're making day to day decisions, like paying bonuses, as they effectively vote for directors to take decisions on the shareholders' behalf. It's kind of like a general election where you vote for the people you want to run the company/ country then to a large extent have to leave them to it until the next election.

Perfectly true. So why don't we (taxpayers), the majority owners, say through own elected representatives that any director who does authorise such payments will not be re-elected? With a 70% stake we have the power of veto over the election of any director.

[Edit] Google has just told me that 2/3 of the stake is ordinary shares and 1/3 preference shares so we have 2/3×70%=less than half of the voting rights. B*gger, it appears the gov't has bought the 'wrong' shares and Goan was right.

if they don't pay bonuses, their talent will leave for places where they can be paid more

Would the banks be any worse off without these people? Nothing against paying a bonus to those who have done a good job, but if the bad ones leave then so much the better surely?

Also, will this tax effect for example, Barclays or HSBC? As far as I'm aware they have received no gov't help but their employees will be hit by the same tax.

Outside, none really. Inside, loads.

removed to avoid confusion.

Will seems more sure of himself than I am.

In that case I shall ask a different question.

Why did the government do this? The least we should get for our money is some say in how they are run.

Got some Shimano ones years ago for about £20. Very good, recomended.

I genuinely don't.

Please don't tell me my last paragraph is actually true?! (yes, I know the bit about pensions and gold is) FFS, what were they thinking.

I was expecting an answer about an obscure EU law which prevents governments from directly interfering in the day-to-day afairs of part-private/part-nationalised companies or something similar.

last winter, i chickened out of driving to work, i figured i would stand a better chance of making it on my single speed with mud tyres on, and if i DID crash, it wasnt likely to cost any money.

rode past lines and lines of traffic, all sliding into each other at low speed with expensive sounding thuds and cracking of glass.

I did the same this morning, even down to the detail of riding a SS, by far the best way of getting around. Came home the ungritted way for extra fun. Roads were fairly quiet too.

With regards to the video, the person filming it should have warned the traffic. If people are driving stupidly and endagering themselves then let them. If they are driving stupidly and endangering those coming the other way they need to be stopped.
They were a) driving stupidly, some people got round the corner OK, so it's not just down to the road and b) endangering others, there was a mini-pile up at the end. If I was the driver of the oncoming car and saw that video I would be &%$*ing furious.

Hairy, if yours is a V8 with LPG conversion you have my dream car…

Pics of mine to follow once I've got roind to building the bed and bike rack. It's bit different, but built on a budget (when fully loaded the bikes inside will be about 4 times the price of the truck)

Took a frame and a headset into Leslie Bike Shop, fitted there and then (cups and crown race anyway) for nothing, so I bought a pair of tyres from them. Bike shop at Glentress wouldn't even lend me a headset press to do it myself, being miserable bu**ers lost them a sale of some tyres.

Nothing but praise for Leslie Bike Shop (LBS, took me a while to realise what LBS meant when I first started reading stuff on here!) They have always been very good. Sadly, I now live 300 miles away.

Can give you a long list of cr@p ones though, CRC at the top of the list, their lack of help with faulty parts has lead me to avoid them for the last 5 years, Wiggle are much better, couple of 'above and beyond the call of duty' stories about them too.

Don't want to spoil it for you but he dies at the end. (although there may be a twist in the plot)

My dad had (and still has most of) a Triumph Stag. Had endless arguements in the playground about whether it was faster than my friend's dad's Datsun 240Z. I think the Stag won eventually because the speedo had a bigger number on the dial…

The French army have a new kind of tank, it has 14 gears! 13 of them reverse.

(they fitted a forward gear just in case the enemy attack from behind)

Friend of mine gets car-sick when traveling in the rear of vehicle with tinted windows (I just get embarassed, think the tints make you look a right t*t. People with tinted windows usually drive around with their foglights on too)

Are people more prone to get car sick if they can't see out as well or is it down to the driving of the owner of the car in question? He's a 40 year old policeman FFS, not some 15yr old chav, don't know what he's thinking of.

How many Frenchman does it take to defend Paris?
No-one knows. It's never been done.

Bu**er.

What's red and sits in the corner?

A naughty strawberry.

Apparently 'all gone' is hippie-speak for 'very good.'

What's red and sits in the corner?

A naughty strawberry.

Apparently 'all gone' is hippie-speak for 'very good.'

I've got an integrated seatpost, even less adjustment than you have. Raising it requires the insertion of some spacers, lowering requires a hacksaw. No problems so far.
They claim it is stiffer, but to be honest I can't tell any difference. Managed the DH course at Inners on it.

I've just got mine a pink Chris King headset…

Swing a hamock from the ceiling? Being bikers you will both the skinny type and it should easily take your combined weight.

Either that or just drug the housemate as and when required.

Only 2, and one was a time-trial bike off ebay.

But the other was a 19 and a bit pound Yeti ASR-Carbon :D Bought it in March but still paying off the overdraft…

Avoid stupid-steep hills.
I remember trying to rescue an auto Clio that couldn't drive up a slip-way. My manual diesel Mondeo rescued it in the end, but by then something had gone horribly wrong with it, engine would still run but no drive, only reverse still worked. Decent clutch control eliminated that problem for my car.

Also be warry of it changing gear mid-corner. My girlfriend crashed hers last Jan, I suspect it may have tried to change gear on a patch of ice on a tight corner, wrote the car off, she was lucky to escape with just a dodgy shoulder.
And of course they will drink more than an equivelent manual.

I will never have an auto.

Pics?

A hippie goes into a bakers. He asks the baker if he has any doughnuts. The baker says 'they're all gone.' The hippie says 'excellent dude. I'll take six.'

If no-one else has explained it I'll do it tomorrow.

LOL at "drunk this through thoroughly"

He's not nearly as think as you drunk he is.

as it starts fine when warm, both ambient temp and block temp

Glow plugs deffo.

If it is glow plugs when it does eventually start from cold after a lot of cranking you will get a cloud of smoke out the back.
When starting from hot it will start normally with no smoke.

You did right with the Shimano ones. Always worth a try, you aren't going to make any worse.
If the FSA ones were only two rides old you may have just voided the warrenty…

Kemback's alright, albeit small, if you don't want too much travel.

All European bikes are left-hand drive…

A man walked into a bar.

It's not a joke, he just didn't see it.

Was invited to see someone I'd never heard of many years ago at a gig in Oxford. Didn't go as I had a race the next day. My friend went with someone else instead. Said the band were very good, and as there were only 12 people in the audience took them all down the pub afterwards.

It was The Strokes.

I can think of nothing worse than being stuck on a long-haul in the seat next to a small child.

Please don't do it. I'm with Lee on this one.

I know people say 'oh but mine is lovely'. Children are like farts, most people can put up with their own.

Knock knock

I did Plymouth to Fife on one tank in old diesel Mondeo, at motorway speeds, 80-ish. Fuel light came on at Kincardine bridge but no problems.

I use 105 10 speed shifter and XTR Shadow 9 speed rear mech (10 speed Ultegra cassette) no problems.

Girlfriend's sister bought a bike from them for comuting. Nothing special, £80 steel job. Should have have been fine for 2 miles each way.

1) Bars would turn independantly of the front wheel with a good heave.
2) Both brake levers pulled to the bars
3) Skipping gears. She took it back, they changed the whole rear wheel, cassette, tyre, everything. Tyre is now a knobbly to compliment the semi on the front. Neither of which were fully inflated.
4) Gears still skipping as new rear wheel wasn't put in straight
5) Non-drive side pedal not screwed all the way into the crank. Wobbling a bit but luckily not damaged the thread.
6) One brake pad rubbing on tyre sidewall. As mentioned in 2, this didn't really slow the bike down very well.
7) Not set up for her at all. Only took me 10 mins to set saddle height, fore/aft, stem height (quill), stop brake levers pointing at the sky, etc.

She rode it once, then pushed it home. Took it back for the aforementioned wheel change. Still didn't work properly. I have now taken it completly apart and then put it back together. Works now. Not a bad bike for the money, I just suspect the car-stereo salesman had put it together.

johnners – Member

Should motor vehicle drivers always be to blame for accidents?

No, and I don't believe anybody ever suggested they should be. It sounds like some Fleet Street distortion of reality you've bought into.

I hope you are right Johnners. I've had a few coming together with cars, some my fault, some not.

Got hit by some pillock turning left in front of me at a roundabout as I was going straight on, substantial dent in her rear wing, no damage to my bike so we let it go.
Clipped by a wing mirror on an A-road. I was doing 25-30mph, car was doing upwards of 70. Hurt (a lot) but I stayed upright, driver didn't stop. Very scarey.
Hit a wing mirror as I was riding down the middle of two rows of traffic. Didn't break it but I stopped and appologised.
Rode into the back of a car stopped at some lights. Smashed his rear windscreen and broke his spoiler. Trip to A&E for some stitches. He was very nice about it and my insurers paid for his repairs.

If the rumours about the mad idea are correct that last one would have been legally his fault and I could have sued him for my injuries! 8O

What really pi$$es me off is people who don't dip headlights for me, almost all my riding is rural roads with no street lights. New big light seems to allow me to fight back, keep turning it up until they do. Whilst I'm on the subject, what is it with stupid people and foglights? When I'm driving I flash my lights at them and they just flash back, they still don't get the message when I flash my fogs at them. Had a near miss on the M3, middle lane hogger with his fogs on, everyone else taking it for brake lights and taking avoiding action. And don't start me on middle lane hogers either. When one has been behind them for a while and a they still haven't got the message after a couple of hoots, am I allowed to undertake them? (technically I think to be classed as an undertake I would have to come out of the middle or outside lane to the inside, go passed them and them return to the middle or outside, whereas I go from inside to middle, give them a hoot and if they don't move over go back to inside, go passed and then stay in the inside)

Rant over.