Some stunning shots. These all put my effort to shame!

Beautiful pictures from Scotland – must get up there for a bit this summer…

It’s actually a Keepon, which was developed by some sciency people to help children with autism and learning difficulties become more sociable.

Shame that if it ever becomes successful it’ll always be known as the orange turd off the EDF advert.

Why does it matter if your cycling shoes are dirty the next time you leave the house ?

Not washing them. Serisouly.

Yeah fair point… I guess I just don’t like that gritty sandy muddy feeling when putting on a shoe.

Perhaps I should just man up…

Do other folk machine wash their shoes after a ride? I’ve just been using skate shoes for a while but am considering “Upgrading” to a shoe designed for flats. I just wonder how well Tevas or similar shoes would stand up to washing.

Or perhaps some suggestions of alternatives to machine washing? I cant seem to get through a ride without at least once putting my shoe in a muddy puddle…

Definitely a fledgling but I’ve seen young robins and they’ve been much darker than that.

^^^ Yes I’d agree with fledgling bluetit.

As an aside I saw my first ever male redstart yesterday while out in the peaks. What a bird!

Unfortunately my girlfriend doesn’t have the right colour nail varnish – only pastel hues… I’ll nip to the shop and get some lacquer instead.

Cheers for the advise everyone. Sun seems to be coming out here in Manchester so I might nip out on it for a few hours while I can. Will pack many more tubes today though, I’m not going to let that happen again…

Okey doke thanks for the reply – that confirms my thoughts and I wont worry too much about it.

I hadn’t really thought about the loss of value until now – that’s a bummer… Certainly adds a few months to me being able to afford a Cotic. To be honest I’ve no idea what the frame is worth anyway – probably not a lot… (But certainly more than free ;)).

Bah never mind I’ll just patch it up an keep riding instead of worrying about it.

Cheers for the help.

Ha a very good question! I just copied the link from my browser. After some digging I found this:

Photos

Hopefully that will work a little better.

By the way its an alu frame (2011 cindercone)

Actually after googling a bit, 145Mbps is still N wireless but single channel so should still have the same range, it’s just not as quick.

Also a few reports of people having trouble with the superhub at 300Mbps so maybe leave that as it is…

paulosoxo,

You will need to make the wireless settings identical – so same ssid, and same password/security settings. The only difference should be the channel it is broadcast on. Try channel 11 on one router and channel 6 on the other.

You changed the superhub to 145Mbps, was there a reason for this? I would put it back up to 300Mbps which should/may improve the range.

Tunein is a great app, but isnt DAB and relies in your precious data. Might not be ideal in rural areas.

I found this from iriver:

http://www.play.com/Electronics/Electronics/4-/15698870/iRiver-S100-8GB-DAB-MP3-Player-Black/Product.html

Which seems to do what you’re after and iriver are a decent make.

+1 for Nikwax tech wash. I use it for all my goretex stuff. Make sure you wash out the machine soap draw though as detergent stops it working (apparently – its too expensive to risk finding out the hard way).

I’ve been told that putting items in the tumble drier on hot can reproof things but I don’t have one so can’t test ot myself.

I use Xubuntu on my desktop and laptop (It’s Ubuntu with the XFCE desktop environment). I had used Ubuntu for a while but Unity ruined it for me. I’ve heard good things about recent versions of Unity though so I might give it another whirl one day.

Yeah thats no good – you may be able to change the superhub IP to 192.168.1.1. Which might be easier than what I said above but I’ve not used a superhub and I remember having trouble changing the IP of a Virgin router in the past (This was probably just a one off though and was a while ago).

If you do that, remember to change the DHCP range so that it is 192.168.1.20 – 192.168.1.255 (Not 192.168.0.1 – 192.168.0.255) or something similar. I’d start it from 20 so it doesn’t try to hand out the same IP as the NAS.

EDIT:

If you change the NAS:

Changing the NAS IP is made slightly easier now because we know the new IP address. Just set it to 192.168.0.19.

EDIT AGAIN:

So to clarify: Plug the mac and the NAS into the old router, go to 192.168.1.19 in your browser on the mac, change the IP address to 192.168.0.19 in the config. Click save and reboot. Then plug them both into the new superhub and all should be OK.

FINAL EDIT:

And sorry for making this tremendously unclear – I recently failed a job interview largely for being unable to speak to people about things like this without making it sound very complicated 😛

OK, well if the NAS has a static IP, and it’s on a different subnet to the new IP range of the superhub, it wont work – so you need to change the IP. I’m unsure about whether changing the superhub IP, or the NAS IP is a better idea. If you don’t know the IP of the old router it might be easier to change the NAS, on the other hand if you get anything wrong changing the IP on the superhub there is always the handy factory reset button on the back…

Here is how I’d go about changing the NAS IP:

First write down the IP address of the mac mini when plugged in to the new superhub (Not sure how to do that on a mac but it’s probably in system information somewhere).

Then turn on the old router and plug the mac mini and NAS into it (Don’t plug anything else in) – They should now be on the same subnet and (Hopefully) The NAS will show up again in the finder. Bear in mind that the mac wont have an internet connection now so you’ll be alone unless you have another machine somewhere which can connect wirelessly to the superhub.

Now navigate to the NAS in firefox again (It should come up this time hopefully) and change the static IP of the NAS through the web interface. When you wrote down the mac mini address at the beginning you want the new address of the NAS to have the same first 3 numbers, and something different at the end (I’d probably keep it as .19 if that’s what it was before). Click save, and it might want to reboot.

Now you should be able to plug the NAS and mac back into the superhub and everything *should* work.

Good luck 🙂

Sorry my point probably didn’t come across in that previous post – was typing on my phone so I’ve jogged upstairs to do the job properly.

First thing that popped in to my head is that you have assigned a static IP to your NAS, and this is on a different address range (E.g. 192.168.1.* rather than 192.168.0.*).

Obviously this is pure speculation. Try getting the IP of a device which you’ve connected wirelessly and see if the first 3 dot-seperated numbers are the same as the one you expect the NAS to have.

I’d reboot the nas if you haven’t already – is it connected via Ethernet too and configured for dhcp?

The new router might be handing out ips on a different address range and causing problems.

Keep an eye on the classified forum here – normally one or two Thompsons will come up every day. Should be able to pick one up for ~£30 for an elite.

Thanks for the responses.

GW:

I’ve had a look at the seatpost and I’m not sure that would work… The bottom half of the clamp is a semi-circular piece of metal that rotates in the clamp and I don’t think it would sit well if I started drilling it. Might get the drill out and give it a whirl though – not got anything to lose.

PJay:

I take it I need to email Kona to find the correct information about this. I’ve had a look at the frame and 100mm (Which is the minimum limit on all 350mm posts I’ve looked at) will go past the bottom of the seat tube/top tube weld.

Maybe I should just look out for a 400mm post and ignore the nice offers I’ve seen on 350mm ones…