There is an almighty amount of bollix spouted on here that is promoted as fact.

So your statement might be a fact or it might be “bollix”

I tech I’ve worked with once took a dump in a rival companies ohp when working in a hotel. Imagine what the combination of a 400 watt lamp and a powerful fan can do.

Isn’t the advice only insure what you legally have to and what you couldn’t replace.

And when I say replace if I can afford to replace an expensive bike only with a cheap one then the expensive one doesn’t get insured. The house on the other hand does get insured. I’ve never inured anything but houses and cars.
The slight problem with the postal service is that the risk of someone claiming something hasn’t arrived is different to the risk of it actually not arriving.

I needed to get an outside mount for mine to fit Avid Elixir brakes. The finish is pretty poor but I knew that when I bought it and at £250 I wasn’t too bothered.

Web – mostly for the fact that I can get anything, in any size and variety. I’m not sure the plethora of standards within the bike industry is helping the lbs – harder than ever to keep a comprehensive stock of parts and kit.

Someone bought doughnuts yesterday – I didn’t eat any
Someone else bought doughnuts today – I haven’t eaten any

Was it difficult? – no

Am I a smug bastard? –

One of the exhibition stand builders I work with has an aversion to the toilets in exhibition halls, on one occasion he saved it up for when he got back to his hotel but unfortunately the lift broke down with him in it resulting in a messy accident.

On another occasion while working on an exhibition at The Palais de Congress in Paris all the water systems failed meaning none of the toilets would flush. I will never forget walking into one trap to see that the mountain of shit had cleared the rim by some distance. I can’t imagine just how desperate the last deficator must have been to hover above a pile of others shit and add to the pile. Luckily I knew a shortcut into the hotel next door.

Well I hope it gets you home ok but if it doesn’t you can also draw the curtains and

“self excite”

Tons of historical stuff, depends how much depressing holocaust stuff you can take – the holocaust memorial is very moving in an extremely bleak way.

The installation “fallen leaves” at the Jewish Museum is a far more powerful and moving monument in my opinion. That’s not to say that holocaust monument shouldn’t be on your list.

It’s my bat and my ball and I’m going home. 🙂

They are trying to steer a bike use a moustache.

Goes away to contact Ritchey to see if they would like to sponsor mine.

I’m still using curtains from the 70’s as dust sheets.

Make them boomerang shaped then the thrower has the risk that if they miss it might come back and hit them. That’ll make them think twice.

There is no scheme. The company buys the bike, you deduct gross the value of the bike from pay monthly over a period of time. You just do a letter to the employee stating you have altered the gross pay. Thats it.

As above, the company can just buy the bike. The only thing is the company is then responsible for the bike being in a safe condition. I appointed myself “bike safety officer” 🙂

I reckon there’s a good chance the original owner has shoved it up their arse at some point. Good job it was snowing as you’ll have been wearing gloves.

I suppose they might, but i dont know a veggie who would.

Then let me introduce myself. Hello Junkyard my name is Dave and I’ve been a vegetarian since 1985 and I’m very pleased to meet you. 🙂

If you told me then I might eat them, it’s not a religion to me not an absolute that will see me burn in hell for ever if I somehow ingest meat. I haven’t eaten it for 28 years but if I want a steak tomorrow nothing is stopping me, I feel no compunction to remain a vegetarian it’s just that in all these years I’ve never felt the desire to eat meat or fish. I only rarely consume any dairy products as well. However having spent the last 17 years travelling all over the world for work I can be pretty sure that I’ve eaten things that have probably had pretty close contact with sausages.

I took one off a few years ago double wrapped it all and took it to the local tip which had a dedicated skip. lifted the lid of the skip to see that mine would be the only wrapped stuff in there.

Make sure your letter of resignation makes it very clear that you are not leaving the company you are leaving your manager. I’ve done a lot of work in the past for the CIPD and it’s very clear from their research that in fact most people leave companies for exactly the same reason. So big up the company and nail the bastard that’s made your life a misery.

Babies are pretty easy to hide in a suitcase.

Wet wipes

A pair of gloves – it’s minus god knows what in st Petersburg and my thumbs are in agony as the blood is starting flow again now I’m sat in a nice warm hotel with a coffee.

It’s pretty easy to spend £100 on a standard seat post.

I bought a set of forks from them a couple of years ago and they cut them to length and fitted the star nut for me foc and delivery was quick too.

I had a Roberts white spider in 88 would love another custom built fillet brazed frame if I could afford it. Actually I could afford it I just don’t think I can justify it. Maybe when I hit 50.

Star Wars

South Downs way might be your best bet, being at the top of the hills it drys more quickly. Brighton to Eastbourne will make a good ride and you can take a diversion to Friston Forest though I expect that’ll be pretty muddy. If you don’t fancy the ride back its easy to get the train back to Brighton from Eastbourne.

Don’t calculate what you can afford on today’s interest rates, they may not last forever. I would say buy the best you can afford with a decent safety margin. I went above what I needed but well within what I could afford when I last bought 12 years ago and would struggle to buy the same today if I’d gone for a cheaper option earlier. In your position I’d also calculate the potential rental return on whatever I was buying.

footflaps you need to invest in some 3 tier bunkbeds for that garage of yours.

It’s the bike right at the top of my wish list. I had a custom built fillet brazed frame many years ago and though there’s no rational argument for one I’d have another tomorrow given the money.

I commute off road with hub gears all year round. The chain gets a wipe over with a rag occasionally and more gearbox oil added. The last chain and sprocket lasted 4 years. The bike is rigid so apart from an annual oil change for the hub and changing pads it’s pretty close to maintenance free.

If I ride my bike with 170 cranks for an extended period then ride my bike with 165 cranks then for the first few minutes I can feel a difference. It doesn’t seem to happen the other way round. 175’s on a previous bike were ok off road by my knees did not like them if I was riding a road section where I wouldn’t be moving around on the bike.
I’d have 165’s on everything by choice.

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My singlespeed only gets cleaned when it goes through a puddle.

My hub geared bike gets similar treatment although I’m a little more diligent and ride mine in the rain for that as new look. I just plaster the chain with gearbox oil. The last chain and sprocket lasted 4 years.

Winter tyres stay on my rigid bike all year round and I think it probably did more miles than my hardtail last summer!

Pilsner Urquell in Prague airport.

My chain had probably doubled in length after 3 years ! It still worked perfectly well.

Edit. Just looked again at how long the last chain lasted and it was 4 years. Then again I’m a proper vegan – 55 kg and often too weak to get out of bed 🙂

Many years ago I did a conference for southern water who had been bought by Scottish power iirc. The sewage workers were none too impressed with the lovely new boiler suits they had been issued with that had Velcro closures.

The only real advantage I can see that a belt gives over a chain with hub gears for off road riding is a bit of weight saving. My last chain and sprocket did 3 years of all year round off road commuting with no more than an occasional wipe with a rag and some more gearbox oil added. I replaced the chainring, sprocket and chain for £70 in December and expect to get another 3 years out of that set up and at that point the chainring will be reversed and I’ll only need a new sprocket and chain.

I ran my rigid bike as a 69er over the summer and it worked very well, noticeably more comfortable. I changed back to a 26″ wheel for the winter as that wheel has a dynamo hub but I’ll go back to the 29″ wheel once the clocks go forward.

I have had one for 5 years and been really happy with it. I looked at the Kangoo etc at the time but the Fiat came up with the fewest issues so that’s what I went for. They are also marginally bigger.