aracer because the safe gap they have left is opposite a side road. That should make you think shouldn't it?

The point isn't whose in the right or wrong the point is who is going to get hurt.

Well there an opening then

njee20 when you see a gap in the stationary traffic ahead of you and it's opposite a turning you can be pretty sure that the car at the front of the queue has left that gap to allow others cars to leave and enter the side road. You can also be pretty sure that other drivers will avail themselves of the courtesy and will not look properly if someone has waved them on or flashed them. If I do undertake then it's very slowly and I never undertake a proffessional driver!

Dava Sobel – The Planets or Longitude

The Age of Reason – Jean Paul Sartre

My third or fourth attempt at this over the past 20 years and this time I’m really enjoying it.

Oh so I paste the quote in the brackets.

[/quote]FYI I found worn chains which skipped badly on a derailleur would still give another 6 months life with my Rohloff – so I suppose the same applies to a singlespeed ?

My chain on the Rohloff is 3 years old and still going.

Good – they just work. Had mine a year and done nothing with them and I commute year round off road. They seem happy to go where you want them to go. They often don’t seem to be there, in that the bikes rides the same with them or my rigid Pace forks, it’s just a lot more comfortable.

Bad – they are heavy. At 60kg even with the softest spring and no spacers I can only get 50-60mm travel out of my 85’s riding cross country.

I’d say they were ideal for a single speed if one of your criteria for riding a single speed is low maintenance and if you want a fork that makes riding what you ride on a rigid more comfortable without changing the overall feel too much.

Our eldest is Lucy and we let her choose the names for her brother and sister when they arrived as twins.

Another thorn one here and never a problem in 3 years.

I’ve never realised how proud people are of what they haven’t done.

I built the floor up as I prefer the look. Your not supposed to do that as in theory if you derailed a door it could fall on you.However I wasn’t using any glass in the doors and they have safety catches which should stop them derailing so it didn’t bother me. Oh and I’d already built the plinth before the doors arrived!

Another never seen Star Wars here as well.
I did try a pot noodle once – it won’t happen again.

Rats
Sinking
Ship

When I was commuting on road I used inboard mounted bar ends which offered some benefit on long runs into headwinds. I personally prefer flats when riding in traffic as well.

Are you trying to adjust it by hand? Can’t budge my inboard adjusters without tools.

helmet when swimming – that’s new.

Orbit XLII

Mine 3 years old used all year round on an off road commute and it’s as good as new.

what about this

I don’t think they are right on the pricing but you can get it for around £1050

Isn’t that new Meridia sub 1KG carbon frame guaranteed for 5 years for people who would need to be winched on to it?

I went straight from rigid to hardtail and it was only 10 years later, last year in fact, when I got a hardtail that I realised I’d never needed full suspension.

I’ve not managed to wade through Sartre’s The Age of Reason. Had a few goes at it but it beats me every time. The Rainbow started off well but that beat me as well. The Catcher in the Rye has to be read at a certain time in your life otherwise it just doesn’t work. I read it in one sitting overnight but I doubt I’d go back to it. Ian Rankin’s Rebus series starts pretty badly but gets a lot better by the 4th or 5th one.

Still remember all these bad books are a lot better than most of the rubbish on here. :-)

Thanks mods for dealing with my incompetence.

Use the Nitromors in the yellow tin rather than the green. It’s the liquid one rather than the gel and I’ve always found it better. And as others have said wire wool.

Via the ring main might be an option. something like this

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I think my parents generation, born just before and during WWII have had a pretty good run. They have lived during a period of generally increasing wealth, left school when you really could decide what you wanted to be, saw great cultural changes through the late 50’s and 60,s and are witnessing the huge changes brought about by IT developments, retired with final salary pension schemes and are growing old when medicine and medical care have made great advances since their birth, and before the NHS completely collapses under the weight of self inflicted illness.

I recently listened to a man describe how he had watched the moon landings with his grandmother who as a small child had survived an attack by native American Indians which had killed many of her family. That would have been an interesting life history.

For me it probably has to be ancient Rome, which I attribute to the wonderful writing of Robert Graves.

Whatever it costs It’ll be cheaper than going ahead with it. :-)

I noticed the other day that I’d somehow managed to reverse both my Fire XC’s. Needless to say I discovered this by looking at them not by riding on them.

All Governments restrict how many people they allow into their country. The BNP just happen to want to use race to determine who can come in and who can’t which most of us find objectionable. But I suppose the only real moral response is to say that all migration should be unrestricted. I don’t really think that is workable and if I’m honest I don’t want it because I don’t really want to see my standard of living drop which I feel it might do in those circumstances, at least in the short run. We all quite naturally want to keep what we have and if we want to give it away we want to decide who we give it too rather than feel it is being taken from us and given to someone we feel no affinity for.

And lets not forget that with the way the worlds economies are going it might be our children and grandchildren looking to migrate in the future.

Doesn’t always work properly with all sites. As an alternative have a look at Returnil. It’s a freeware program that when activated runs your pc in a virtual mode so that when you restart the pc is in exactly the same state as before you activated it. Do some checks on it first, I’ve used it for over a year and had no issues with it but someone here might be able to tell me it’s sending all my bank account details to some Russian mafia gang. I think I found it at download.com. It’s useful for surfing and for testing software especially if your wanting to compare a few alternatives and don’t want remnants left once you’ve uninstalled what you don’t want.
just remember not to download your e-mails or photos when it’s running.

Of course the real fascists are the Greens….

I’ve had a similar problem in my big toe. Exactly the same problem that my mum has had for as long as I can remember. It started a couple of years ago after running and stupidly I kept on with the running. It got so painful I could barely walk on it. Anyway I stopped the running and gradually the episodes of pain began to get further apart. Like you I also started using glucosamine to see if it made any difference. About 3 weeks ago I hadn’t had any pain for a long time so I’ve started running again. So far just once a week for 20-25 minutes cross country. So far so good there has been no more pain. I’ve no idea at all if the glucosamine is of any benefit all I do know is that it didn’t make it worse. I too wondered if it was gout but as I have a near vegan diet I thought that unlikely.So the only thing I can say is that for me it did get better with rest and maybe the glucosamine is also helping, but it has taken a long time.

Usually c or a and never b professional drivers

I think I’ll stick with my hub gearing.

Lot of BA employees on here aren’t there. No wonder they’ve lost 70 million. :-)

Italy £600 return, so is that a cheap flight or a flexible one or in fact is it neither? :-)

SFB
“I have 170 left and 175 right – can’t tell the difference”

So which one hit the deck? :-)

CaptainMainwaring you clearly work for them or fly less than I do with them

This is why BA are doomed unless they quickly decide if they are a low cost airline or a premium carrier. They don’t know what they are and neither do their customers. You would expect the response you got if you’d flown with a budget airline but you expect better from an airline that at least used to promote itself as a premium carrier. At the moment they seem to be undecided and so they offer some cheap flights and sometimes they offer customer service. I think your actually being reasonable, your accepting your mistake and are not looking for any compensation for it.

And he just nipped up Everest to take in the view.