If I was buying now I think that X-dome would be top of my list. Freestanding and looks like it can be pitched in all configurations, inner first, fly first and all together. And from the website it seems they are planning a shorter set of poles which will make using it with a bike easier

What’s up with a choc-block and loads of insulating tape!? :-)

When I was at the MOD we’d end up with 4 or 5 such repairs in a mains cable running to our camera shelters as they were repeatedly hit by fragments of whatever we happened to be blowing up. It was incredible the difference between explosive safety and electrical safety. Once we got contractorised there was a sudden concern for it and I spent a long time photographing all the many faults on site

First thing is I’m sorry to hear what you are having to deal with. I think I’d just drop the price and be done with it, why have this hanging over you and your sister when you don’t have much time left with your parents

I always wanted one of those, take my money!

edit: actually liverpool state the difference between the jerseys, looks like it is mainly just fit

Think of it as the difference between a mountain bike jersey and an e-mountain bike jersey :-)

Another who still has one. I’ve also still got one of those Muddy Fox handlebar pouches that were designed for twin stems. It was only in the last couple of years that I saw on the label it was made by karrimor

Carlos Sainz only missed one F1 race when his was removed earlier this year. He’s probably fitter than you though and has better doctors! :-)

When mine was removed in my mid 30’s the consultant told me Pat Cash had gone to Wimbledon and won the tournament 2 weeks after having his out.

I’ve just caught up with the first one. I really liked it and I quite liked him. Sure he must have been infuriating to work with but he never blamed others for his mistakes which is why I guess his contactors have been able to work with him for years.

Someone on here had fitted a Rohloff on their Kona A, quite fancied one myself as I already had the hub

I guess you’ll never be a dancer reeksy :-)

You took fitness equipment into a lifestyle shop of course they didn’t want you in there :-)

2x £25 and 2x £100

I just sold some door handles

Have you got any fork handles lurking in the garage by chance? Asking for a friend, I think that’s what he said

That’s why ‘dead mans cars’ are the best

Surely that depends on how he died….

“When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.”

But what about the tool for measuring your arms to make sure they are the same length?

How does Zelensky

Sells him the story of how he can be the us president that defeats Russia without losing a single American life.

Interesting they feature the Americans who probably had the worst system [recumbant].

More aerodynamic :-)

I’ve mentioned this before on here, but in a another life I was an “ammunition technician”.

I was at AWE Foulness in a previous life and one thing that was taken very seriously was the storage and movement of explosives. There really is no comparison between how we would store them and how the russians are storing them now as you point out. However I don’t think even the Russians would choose to create these very large piles of explosives next to their permanent stores of nuclear weapons. Much more likely they’ll stick them in a random field surrounded by villages!

But how would the Ukrainian army know that they didn’t have any nuclear weapons stored there?

Why would anyone store nuclear weapons amongst a pile of high explosives? I’m not even sure the russians could do anything that daft.

We got a new frying pan from Asda recently. I wasn’t involved but understood it was something very cheap. It’s sturdy and has one of those ceramic nonstick coatings which seems to be absolutely incredible. Nothing sticks, nothing. How it will last I don’t know, although come to think of it, it must be over 6 months old already and it’s brilliant.

I got the same one recently and yes it’s brilliant. I’m not sure what more you could want from a frying pan

We were above to get a couple of Bromptons for the vans, now in 2 minds what to get. It would have been 6 speed c-lines but the alfine and the disc brakes would be great to have. Just concerned about how big the g-line is to lug around. I think what I’d really like is a c-line with an alfine and disc brakes. I suppose that’s doable by going to kinetics

its the only time I ever use bing!

So why has Israel decided to do it now, are they about to launch a full-scale attack?

Because you need to do it quickly, enough time for them to be distributed but not so long that someone curious has one that isn’t working and decides to take it apart to see if they can fix it

I wonder if they intercepted them on a truck and swapped them out for the ones they had put the explosives in. Only need to get to one driver potentially and you’d want to use the option that involved the least possible amount people.

newhaven has a great pump track btw

And a sandy beach, you’ll just need ropes to get to it! :-(

I’m sure he’d of felt more comfortable in a segregated part of a prison than walking down the street as a convicted child sex offender in possession of a face recognisable to most of the country. He’s effectively under house arrest for life. He’s not heading to the pub to celebrate with his legal team

It’s not accuracy you need it’s consistency. As there isn’t a specific pressure that is “right” so you always find the best pressure for you by trial and error and the actual number doesn’t matter.

I have a specialized track pump I’ve had for years but use an accugage 0-30 to measure tyre pressure as most of the track pump gauges have a very wide range which makes it a lot harder to read

causing dampness in the body and that is the root cause of many health problems

Shit, I’m about 60% water, damp, I’m bloody sodden!

I always liked the look of the head shock, would be a very neat solution to gravel bike suspension all these years later. I guess though that the cost and servicing issues and the fact that no one else would be using them means it’ll never happen

i assume you’d have the hoop inflatable as well in your design

avdave2 – up on the Kingston Ridge?

@susepic Yes, I live in Saltdean and have been riding up along there for 40 years now! Nearest bit of the SDW to me

2023 Pro ltd, one of those sod it I can’t not buy it at that price moments! haven’t had a full sus bike since I bought a Marin East Peak in 1998 and I’ve been riding rigid bikes for the last 10 years so it’s a bit of a change. This was my first ride on it as stock.I’ve swapped the bars out for some Salsa 17 degree bends cut down to 700mm with ergon grips which has helped with wrist issues I was getting. My rigid bike has 27 degree sweep Ritchey Kyote bars for the same reason. I think the ideal for me would be 20 degree backsweep which would let me go a tad wider on the bars. Not many options with that backsweep in carbon which is ideally what I’d like. There is the Protaper 20/20 Carbon Bar but that doesn’t seem to be easy to get hold of.

Walking into the Vasa museum stopped me dead in my tracks, stunning and not to be missed

I recall once riding with a friend 40 years ago when his chain broke. i can’t for the life of me remember if he had his own chain breaker with him or used mine. So possibly once possibly never

Marr’s concerts are great, often in smaller venues or at festivals, and cheap. No one needs a high ticket price Smiths semi-reunion.

I saw The Smiths at the Dome in Brighton in 1985 and I saw Johnny Marr there a couple of months ago. It was every bit as good a gig and for me a Smiths gig without Rourke or Joyce wouldn’t be a Smiths gig anyway.

For me it would have been the early 70’s watching films on tv, there was a run of classic sci fi and the 3 that I still recall are Them, The Village of The Damned and The Day the Earth Stood Still.

Did they remember to take away the first number they thought of?

I suspect after Prigozhin it may be downgraded to a bus first…

Single decker for extra safety, wouldn’t want to fall out of an upstairs window in a freak accident when going over a speed bump

A promotion opportunity to lead the team I currently work in has arisen and I’m not sure whether I want to apply for it. It’s been strongly hinted at that I would be the preferred applicant but the role would mean a change in day to day work from technical to more managerial with the added pressures, responsibilities and stresses that brings.

Sounds like the position I was in nearly 30 years ago when I was a photographer at the MOD. My line managers manager told me that his job was mine if I wanted it as he was retiring. I said thanks, but no thanks. I’d of been giving up doing a job I loved to be a manager and there was no way I wanted that. Alec had loved his time when he was a photographer but work had no joy for him anymore as he never got out and do what he loved.

Well there were many but I had Wacky Races wallpaper so I’ll go with that. before that at our previous house I’d had Hector’s House wallpaper but that was puppets so I guess that’s out.