ah skin tags it must be then….

so do i walk round the office with cotton tied to my face then? now my face will get laughed at (even more!) 😀 😀

its the ones that grow right on where the hairs come out, look like worms about 2mm+ long

i do/did get salt spots called em “white heads” and pick them out with needle too.

@samuri please no more links i get paraniod that my eye will fall out!!! 😀

Be Rude Not Too, a great trail. (it was when i rode it anyway)

+1 on the dont leave valuables/bike unattended, NZ aint crime free.

bike rental from the car park was rubbish i have to say, worn pedals, leaking forks and bald tyres.

other than that, its all fun fun fun

spiderman outfit

and on the weekdays

1 x saddlebag = 2 tubes, 2 levers, patches, pain killers. multitool with chain breaker
AAAAAAAAAAAND a sliced up piece of tyre to repair serious tyre issues.
pump on the frame
clothes at work

for lunch i decided to get a big tub of lean protein mix and some cuppasoups (i dont mix them together!)

ive had a few merino and bamboo, and have to say i prefer bamboo by quite some margin….

pumps eh… you always love the look and style and weight of the small ones – then curse them when you try and get your roady up to 100psi…

i like the look of the ones that are mini track pumps , larger than normal pumps but when commuting into work for a meeting and BANG…..

EDIT: lezyne FTW!

doesnt matter who the new Dr is , its the storylines that count, some have been pretty dire in the new series.

i do wonder what the BBC thinks it is, 30min show and the BBC news full of it….its getting so USA these days

free berries on the side of the road where i ride.

thanks @boblo

to semi-erect this thread.

what BB does the frame that comes with a threaded bb take?
I have a shimano 6700 bb 68mm english
tried to find something on the webby but nothing so far.

cheers !

@hora, liverpool *MAIN* dealer, although subclassed as Inchape, and although i took it to another Official Merc dealer, they said they could do no work on it, because it had to be part of the Inchape network “for accounts purposes”, unless it was considered an emergency repair . could be bull***t and they just didnt want to touch the car.

interestingly i had to get it serviced in Italy (before the rust appeared) and the Merc dealer there didnt blink an eye lid and did everything they could under the warranty.

keep away from RUSTY YEARS!!!!

i fell into the rust trap, 2001/2 C230 , and even though i bought from a dealer i got shocking service, first the rear diff broke coming out of the dealer when i picked it up, it had no oil in it despite the 100+ point check, then the exhaust came loose, then the screen wash motor stopped working, then the air con stopped working, and in replacing that, they broke a bit of the dash, but didnt change it, until i told them –
then the rust began to show on the arches and they told me it wasnt within the warranty by x no. of months and please go away now. had to get the arches done myself.

i often wonder these days if i would ever buy from a dealer, and instead not pay the premium and go private and just put some money aside if it goes wrong.

i found i could ride less, and run more and my riding fitness would not suffer. if i did it the other way round, my running got really bad.
put in plenty of off road run hill intervals, easy on the joint, great cardio and run fitness.
dont overdo cramming in the training of the different aspects, reduce the time of doing them, rather than getting to the stage of skipping them due to injury…
good luck and enjoy!

i found it a bit of snorefest !

every serious car enthusiast gets an Alfa at some point, its a love (then) hate relationship. mine was a love to drive, a hate to maintain and spend cash on it, usually every 4 months!!!!

get a Golf

…oh and this has the best coffee on all of the islands.
they even list the single-origin coffee’s each day that they use!

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just come back from 2.5 weeks there.

loved everywhere except Lewis and Stornoway,
although sick for 2 weeks of the holiday, walks in the wildflower meadows were superb and the beaches were great. plenty of history to visit too, and walking on harris.

In the 2nd week though (Harris) the place was heaving with Motorhomes, and they took up the campsites and the wild camping places too. hard to find anywhere without crowds of motorhomes.
most places were full and to be honest was not impressed with the Harris campsites which could not seem to cope.

Barra/Uist/Benbec. were all lovelly and campsites were 12quid for a wee camper with brand new shower/toilet blocks/fridge/kettles…

i’d certainly go back as a cycle tourist but miss out lewis.

great thanks stoner

hey as an aside, i just read on that you can get an RHI grant from the governement if the wood burning stove is your only source of heating for the home, as long as its MCS accredited and Installed…
hmmmmmmmmmmm

+1 on l/sleeve rash vest
+100 on sun cream on the back of the legs, especially where it meets the shorty (if you wear one)
+50000 on jetski’s alert!

ok , downloaded
– Night’s Dawn trilogy
– Iron Druid

looking at the weather, might be out riding in this “heatwave” coming ! 🙂

long distance:
+1 pearl izumi
+1 assos.

commute/short
i have some really cheap basic pad ones too – nalini – that i use for commuting and for < 40K rides, are ok and hold up well to washing almost every day

quick (stupid) Q, just noticed after looking at stoves on Ebay, you can get OIL ones…. with back boilers…. are these to be connected to an oil tank outside then?

@sharkbait

we are about to get a new Clearview 500 with a back boiler, we seen them in the flesh and look really tasty. colours are also quite subtle and nice.
looking forward to using them this winter.
have you used coal in them?

Dear TriAthletes
you dont need 2 full bottles of carbs on the back of the seat and 7 squeezy’s on your frame for your cafe ride of 30mins each way.

dats a 2009 google map though, may now be different.

3 weeks in Reading. lol. i didnt realise it when i posted ! 🙄

thanks for all the info. i’ll trawl amazon now 🙂

cool ta.

awesome !!!!!!! thanks for sharing
i wish i was you 🙂

IMHO, a mediocre driver in a better car he deserved with flashes of brilliant drives, but mostly mid field battles and hasty badly timed overtakes that usually involve front nose wipeout.

he’ll probably get a job at the bbc or sky.

and enjoy ice cold snacks too

agree with simons, my hopes have been on my mtb for 6+ years and keep on trucking in all kinds of terrain, and its been dragged around on the back of a car for a few months straight and still are ok.
that doesnt mean i’m disagreeing with other above, quite the opposite, because lets face it, you get what you pay for.
buy cheap, expect cheap.
you dont expect cheap clothes to last all year use, rain and shine, without problems, why wheels?

happened to me in london in old Citroen, they came back the next night to steal the jack they left. ended up just keeping it in the boot.

if it aint Dom P, its P… 😀

so, why did they not let all the other teams but mercedes use current drivers as well at the Young drivers test, then it would have been fair?

no decision until tomorrow anyway.
if i was a betting man

1) Mercedes points from races following the tests dismissed
2) company fined X,XXX,XXX dollars for breach of FIA rules
3) company on suspended 3 race “yellow” card
4) Pirelli – no case to answer for, but must clearly submit to the FIA all testing with any F1 team in the future.
5) Brawn will leave Merc within the next 2 races
and continuing the future path :
6) lauda takes direct control of merc team
7) pirelli leave F1 at end of season
8) next years merc team and engine is a dog
9) lauda blames time and drives
10) lewis moves to ferrari, nico moves to RBR
11) merc team sold at end of 2014
12) brawn buys merc for 1quid
13) hires Schumacher and Button
14) wins 2015 WDC and MDC
15) i marry kylie minogue

its kind of a semi rural road which has marked lanes, 2 cars can pass ok, anything more requires a bit of savvy. some very long straight sections good visibility at all points.

no other oncoming cars were involved and on a straight section.

for the family the terrible thing was when they first tried to revive him, it did not go at all well, and had to repeat putting him back into a coma!

EDIT: removed.

Merc will get some kind of suspended sentence, there is no way the FIA will ban such a big player/money maker.

Brawn though could be on his way out (pushed out!). although with everything going on at Merc and the Management, i think he was going end of this season anyway.

I used a HTML/CSS dummies guide and found it really helpful, then progressed to using online resources when i could successfully google what i wanted to find, and finally let JQUERY pretty much do everything i wanted. 🙂

at christmas i’m sure we tried M&S extremely chocolaty varieties, and my they were good, especially dunked and held in tea.