The wife had picked up a bottle of the Rioja in the Co-op and it is very nice indeed.

I’ll be going to gripshift when I replace the drivetrain on my hardtail. I’ve been using a Rohloff changer for the last 5 years on another bike and think it’s a much better way of changing gear.

It’s about the same pressure as when I hit my thumb with a hammer last week.

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It’s the last thing I look at before going to sleep and the first when I wake up.
My girlfriend absolutely hates it!

She needs to upgrade.

Perhaps we should watch it and then have the debate?

For what it’s worth I think the premise is that the 3 minutes is all one needs to get the health benefits associated with exercise, not to produce an athlete.

This has been posted several times recently and looks pretty good value on paper.

Mine have just turned up 20 hours after ordering – pretty good, look very nice and they are marked as by HT.

Thanks – just ordered some.

165 on one bike and 170 on the other and I notice going to 165 if I’ve been riding the 170’s exclusively for a while but not the other way round. My knees don’t like 175’s if I ride long stretches of road where I’m sat down not moving around.

I’ve got a rapid 1 hour charger from Maplins and it’s pretty good. It also has a discharge and re charge option which is much slower but batteries put through that cycle last about twice as long in my camera.

It’s a stupid way to do it,

So utterly stupid it worked. 🙄

big hotels with the crappy interactive TV services of an ‘adult’ nature lose out big time

av techs have never paid for those TV services. 🙂

I’m about a month short of being here 16 years and I haven’t had my 3 month review yet, I’m just keeping quiet and hope no one notices.

And why on earth in this day and age you still have to pay for chuffing wireless when the likes of blinking Travelodge do it for free is beyond me!

I stay in a lot of hotels all over the world and the general trend is that the more expensive they are the more you pay for wifi. This is because the more expensive hotels have a higher proportion of business travellers and conference attendees who can put the charge on expenses along with their mini bar bills.Radisson is one exception as they offer free wifi in a lot of countries.

I worked and stayed at The Midland in January and it’s good for such a big conference hotel.

I’ve just finised David Millers autobiography, and he’s using one

Too many drugs to fit in his pockets?

Sainsburys often have those Red ones (brand not colour) for that sort of money and they are pretty good. I bought one as reception in our area was patchy and I didn’t want to spend much on something that might not work. It does work though and well enough for me not to think about buying anything better.

I’m also in Brighton and if I ride over the Down’s and down the other side I just think oh dear it’s all a bit flat and then ride back up again. Lewes to Forest Row is pretty quick and a nice enough drive.

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Nice for a walk or a ride.

I was pretty limited in choices when I went to Polytechnic, there were only 2 degree courses in photography in the country where I could get a grant and no local BTech options close enough to home.

I’d liked to have done a more practical course but I ended up in a job I loved for 7 years from it and that led to the job I’ve been doing for the last 16 years.

Drag is minimal on my SON hub and I’ve never noticed any vibration. It’s 5 years old now and has done the last three winters on my off road commuter and has required nothing doing to it. I’ve got a Supernova E3 triple and it’s great not having to faff around charging batteries.

Supernova are doing their own hubs now as well.

It’s not tremendously clear who gives way to who there is it!?

I use squirt on the hardtail which I tend only to use when the weathers good and the rigid hub geared bike which gets used off road every day in the filthiest conditions gets whatever is lying around used on it. Currently that’s gear box oil.

personally I don’t really have any.. (don’t often wear a helmet, never wear gloves, always wear skate shoes and keep at least one bike in the house ready to ride

Yeh but you’re a superhero who HAS to be ready at a moments notice to ride over to your keyboard to do down the mere mortal.

Do you also have a fantasy in which you sleep with a loaded 9mm under the pillow?

Jesus wept man, get it cleaned up a bit before posting on here! You’ll be savaged

Well it looks like he’s at least cleared up the used needles.

I read that the NEW tyres cost £155 and the old ones (that weren’t set up properly) were refunded at £115 – which I imagine is what they cost.

This is no place for people who read things properly and think before posting.

Erm if you paid £155 and got £115 back that isnt a full refund in my book.

Or his typing is as bad as their tracking.

I do quite the opposite. Much better that you be the one who chooses when to do the disturbing IMO

As do I.

Luckily on long haul I don’t usually have to mix with inconsiderate riff raff. 🙂

16 years I’ve been flying regularly for work now and I still don’t sleep well even on the flat beds. Noise cancelling headphones or ear plugs are good for long haul flights.

Crucial Three

There were big stretches of clear ice like that on my commute on Monday, horrible. I managed the uphill section getting off several times to negotiate the worst bits but once I reached the highest point I gave up and walked off the downs to the road. There was no way I was going to try and ride even the gentlest downward slope on it. I was having enough trouble just standing up.

aracer now known as Imelda

I spent 25 years off road with toe clips or SPD’s and only gave flats a try at the beginning of the winter on my rigid bike. I’m wishing I’d done it years ago and I’ll be buying some for my hardtail soon as well.

For me I just feel more comfortable knowing I can get a foot down more easily and without giving it conscious thought. I thought I would end up putting a foot down more often although in reality it’s the opposite. I also thought I’d be constantly worrying about my feet slipping off the pedals but so far using some very ordinary shoes and only the very cheapest pedals with only small “moulded” pins this hasn’t been a problem. And that’s riding off road every day to work and back through the whole winter.I also find moving my weight around and controlling the bike in that way easier.

If I were a more skilled or confident rider then the advantages of SPD’s might make me stick with them, but the simple fact is that I’m not and I’m enjoying riding more and that in the end is the only criteria that counts for me.

I’ve only owned the hexagonal ones, have tried the ergo ones and didn’t like them

I use the ritchey’s and was pleasantly surprised at how good they were, mine have the bulge which I really like..

I’ve got the ones with the bulge and only realised after a couple of rides I had one on the wrong way round. 😳

They are very good, either way round and I’ll be buying another set for my rigid bike which needs a bit more comfort at the front.

There isn’t a key clip

Actually that is the one thing that lets it down.
As for the pump I prefer to keep it attached to the bike along with the tools as I prefer to have squidgy things to fall on rather than hard things.

It needs to be a routemaster so you can swing dance on around the pole at the back as someone drives it flat out.

Another user here – I much prefer it to a conventional pack.

Before a sixth form field trip to Morocco many many years ago we were sat down and made to watch Midnight Express.

If you’re going to combine a playroom and cinema make sure you go for a ceiling mounted projector out of Lego range!

I can’t help but be careful. I’ve stayed in hundreds of hotels all over the world and have never ever been in anything as bad as a hotel I stayed at in Dover, can’t recall the name but it was one of those right by the port. I didn’t have a lot of choice, I was travelling back from Berlin in a truck and the driver had run out of hours so we were stuck for the night.

Is there any point in offering advice to someone who on a public forum makes a statement saying that he’s agreed a deal with a tradesman to evade VAT and almost certainly income tax. 🙂

Of course he could ask to get the thread deleted but then the mods will also be complicit.