Dissertation saved.

No one who has their dissertation in only one place should ever be awarded a degree. 🙂

Just started The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

There is very little to match it, it’s without doubt one of the best books I have ever read and his other work is pretty special to.

Wolf Hall – brilliant

I’ve used inside built in wardrobes which suffered this problem and it works very well. However on walls I think it’s very likely to look very tatty very quickly as it doesn’t take very much pressure to dent it.

A guy was killed in Brighton a couple of years ago after using a communal bin to sleep in. Not a nice way to go. The binmen are meant to check them before emptying them but the time schedule they run to makes that impossible.

I much prefer the look of fillet brazed steel frames.

Read this maybe.

Clunker is that a White Spider hiding behind the D.O.G.S B.O.L.X ?

Yes, Rigid with a Rohloff hub and mud x tyres Son dynamo hub and Supernova Triple E3. It gets me to work and back off road all year round whatever the conditions. It never gets cleaned and is about to go into it’s fourth winter of off road commuting having done 2 winters before that on the road. It’s on it’s second chain and rear sprocket and other than oil changes and changing brake pads I’ve done nothing else, even the Rohloff cables are original.

Once I began working as a photographer I began to take less ans less pictures for myself. I’ve been out of the industry for 17 years now and don’t take many pictures anymore, mostly just family stuff and pictures for clients in my present job. I’ve never really understood the huge numbers of amateur and hobbyist photographers who spend most of their time taking shots that are indistinguishable from commercial photography, for god’s sake do something different, the pros are taking these pictures because they are paid to not because they have any great merit. I still really enjoy taking pictures while both fulfilling a brief and trying to look at things a little differently if I can. I’m not being paid specifically for the shots which gives me a lot more freedom.

Anyway in answer to the question by all means pursue your hobby as a career but expect your relationship to that hobby to change. It won’t necessarily be better or worse just different.

I now do a job I’d never thought of as a career and really enjoy it. The hours can be long and unsocial but I get to travel a lot and see a lot of places I wouldn’t otherwise get to. I’m spending this week in Vienna and I’m just back from a trip to Rome, Moscow and Paris. And I haven’t taken a single snap of anything other than the exhibition stand I’m looking after. If i want a nice picture of where I’ve been I’ll look on line where someone will have been kind enough to wait hours and hours to get a very nice shot I can look at. 🙂

Your cables may have stretched a little as well. Don’t use the cable adjust to move the pads in though,only to adjust the cable, use the dials, 2 clicks on the big dial for each click on the small dial if they are set up properly to start with (the rotor does not sit in the centre of the pads IIRC it’s 1/3rd from the outer pad and 2/3 from the inner. or the other way round 😕 ). I’ve found the inner adjuster can sometimes be stiff and it’s easier to adjust if you have the little torx key to adjust it.

A week in Dubai!

Don’t take anything sharp or any pills or medicines. Leave your belt at home and take only slip on shoes. Ask for a room on the ground floor. Good luck. 🙂

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can anyone some up why a 5 ft bird can and should ride a regular size bike and where this is all going wrong (cos im struggling too!)

From your attitude I assume you have tried slapping her?

I’ve just bought the AM41’s and am liking them after a few rides. The sole is nice and stiff which is what I wanted and they offer decent grip even on my off road commuter fitted with the dirt cheap Welgo flat pedals that came with my Boardman. They haven’t got wet yet but they certainly can’t be worse for soaking up water than the old Specialized shoes they replaced. I’ll be using them with sealskinz for the winter.

That’s very nice. I had a Roberts White Spider made back in 1988, you can’t beat having a frame made from scratch to your exact specification. It’s utterly irrational and you could buy a fantastic bike for the price of a frame but if you can afford to do it why not. I keep thinking maybe I’ll go back to a custom frame for my 50th.

We went back to Blackpool for my parent’s 50th wedding anniversary a few years ago and they’d hired one of these for us to all go and see the illuminations from.

I ran disk front V-brake back for a while on a frame with no disk mounts

I’ve been doing this for years with no issues. In fact it’s quite well balanced when you apply equal pressure to both levers.

Sex

You mean you only use free porn sites?

First Light – Geoffrey Wellum

Here is worth a trip and even better if you can get out to Lidice.

What do you want to the tyres to do?

Go round, stay upright 🙂

Where do you ride?

South Downs

What sort of rider are you?

Rider is pushing it, wheels on the ground xc, less than 60kg never break anything

What conditions do you ride in?

All, every day all year round (off road commuter)which is why have a rigid bike with Mud X permanently attached for when it’s wet.

The Mud x are good and I could move the worn ones to the hardtail for dryer weather but I’d prefer something with a little more volume.

Well I’m prepared to accept that they do everything I want very well but are some people then telling me that for xc riding there has been no advances in tyres in the last 10 years or however long these have been around!

Do you not realize that I need to believe that if I buy something different I’ll be better.

So I’m questioning myself if I need suspension with the comfort of a 29er.

I’ve gone from a 26″ wheel at the front of my rigid bike to a 29″ wheel and there is no doubt it’s more comfortable. I wouldn’t equate it to suspension though. The nearest thing to it I find is getting to the end of a section on my hardtail thinking it was a bit bumpy and realizing that’s because the Rebas are still locked out. In other words I reckon it’s similar to having 20mm or so of movement

Being 5’5″ I’m not likely to be buying a 29 suspension bike but I would now look at 29 rigid specific bikes if the current frame ever needs replacing.

The Jewish museum is a must.

Terre a Terre thirded, went with a friend who’s a devout carnivore but his idea as its his favourite restaurant.

Mines a pint of HGH

my bike has a 29 front and 26 rear

wherever I ride, the front almost always arrives a second or so earlier so I’m with simon67

I also have a bike with this configuration and so have to be be careful not to ride for more than a couple of hours otherwise the bike will stretch and snap in the middle.

What did we learn from the race up everest or the race to the poles, not a great deal..

You are clearly ignorant as to the scientific research undertaken by Scott’s final expedition. Half the men on that trip were scientists and the data they collected is still used today. The pole was an objective but only one of many.

It’s a pair of breasts ffs, what’s the excitement?

what’s the excitement? It’s a pair of breasts

I can’t help but think of the parallels between this and Scott and Amundsen. Like Scott he suddenly found he was in a race that he wasn’t expecting and like Scott that may well have pushed him to cut corners in his preparation. If that canopy had been designed to lock down and be water tight in it’s stowage position he would almost certainly have made it just as Scott would have done had he pushed one ton camp further south as Oates had wanted.

Did it look like this?

I have one I run with 100mm forks and a slackset as an xc bike and I’m really pleased with it. All the parts came off a Boardman hardtail and I now have a bike that goes up and along the flat just as well as that did but is better going downhill. I quite like the long top tube on my 16″ but I’ll swap the layback seatpost for an inline one at some point. I also find it more comfortable than the Boardman, I still find myself checking the rear tyre thinking I’ve developed a slow puncture and I reckon it’s as nice as my steel framed bike to ride. The only slight downsides with it are the durability of the paint finish and the cable guides don’t seem the best thought out. For what it is it’s light, strong and cheap which you don’t often get all together.

Dear Santa mummy says I’ve been a very good boy this year please please please bring me a machine to destroy everything.

A divers knife in the sea at Seaford when I was about 8, I’ve still got it.

A live mortar round which brought out bomb disposal to blow it up along with a couple of others and a hand grenade they found while sweeping the area.

A shirt that was in a suitcase that some guys with big moustaches were going to blow up as part of a training film we were making. I grabbed it from them and told them there was no way they were blowing it up.

A tortoise in the park.

I have one and live in Brighton. I like to live dangerously 🙂

Drugs beat cancer 🙂
Drugs beat everyone else 🙁

We used to in our old house but that was because the ceiling was only 6’2″ high. I never found it a problem. We now have wall units but it’s a big open kitchen dining room which opens on to a lounge as well. We have big south facing windows and patio doors so it’s very light. What I do like though is the under cupboard lights, I find we use them to light the whole area when we’re not actually cooking. The biggest area of worktop is also 900mm deep and comes out from the wall so has no worktops above it.

Run in your bike helmet, it would be very easy to trip over running in the dark. If your worried about looking weird just keep shouting “come back with my bike you thieving scumbag” as you run along.

The enjoyment pretty much solely comes from exercise, being out in the countryside, and whizzing along quite fast.

Exactly that has kept me very happy for 26 years.