These foreign types don’t understand the difference between peoples names and names of places, days and everyday objects.

Said Mr WorldClassAccident :-)

I’ve got a 205 as my main navcomp; I’ve also coincidentally got a PDA phone I use as a backup – cost, batterylife and durability being the 3 main reasons it’s not on my handlebars. If I didn’t have that I’d happily just carry a map :-)

I use the 205 because it’s cheap (especially on ebay etc) and you can follow a line you draw on memorymap (save it as a *.gpx file, then convert it to *.crs online and import it to your unit). Battery life is better, it’s smaller and it’s rugged, and you just follow the line on the screen. As there are no graphics you have to keep your wits about you, but I prefer that, to be honest.

Bike is (with all due respect to them) unlikely to have a SS freewheel, I’d guess. Certainly worth trying, though.

Also not too far from Forbidden Planet is Psyclewerx on Cotham Hill, which would probably be my first choice for that sort of thing..

I suspect you’ll have to either

a) harrass the printers, or
b) hold on for a couple of days
:-)

If you think cycling is viable transport I’m not going to tell you it isn’t. I don’t think it is though.

Beautifully contradictory couple of sentences, that man!

Cool. I’m looking forward to nuclear rocket boots.

You’ll get glow in the dark ankles, mind :-)

And to be fair, Mr_A, if 5thElefant works from home and he gets his shopping delivered (so do I, BTW; it’s more environmentally friendly than driving, and I’m not cycling to my local shopping emporium for reasons I hope are clear :-) then how is what he’s doing less sustainable than the lifestyles of you or I?

Have to adjust them more often, for obvious reasons, so they need tweaking at the end of every ride (or half way round, if the weather’s bad) – but they work beautifully.

And even if you *do* use barometric measurements as well, you have to set relative values every time you go out, as the pressure in the UK varies so much.

Someone told me that the whole of the UK is defined as coastal from an barometric/air pressure fluctuation point of view as we’re so small. No idea if it’s true, though.

Best just to forget all about it and have a nice cup of tea instead.

The research was commissioned by eyecare firm Bausch & Lomb PureVision. is the key thing here. I hate scientists whoring themselves out by fabricating ridiculous “equations” to explain stuff in a pathetic attempt to get column inches.

..but your pads will last about a third of the time they normally do..

Maverick DUC32 for 29ers is 120mm, I think
The SC32 is less, though.

I could do pk-ripper but where’s the fun and ingenuity in that

Well if you’re going down that route how come you’re not extracting the caffeine from the coffee beans yourself? Or synthesizing it?

No wonder Britain’s in the mess it’s in

I’d remind you you’re getting the stuff from a dodgy company in Brazil :-)

Or ground coffee beans, of course.

I’m wondering if the sale of pure caffeine could be restricted because of health implications if you *do* overdose?

From wikipedia:
An acute overdose of caffeine, usually in excess of about 300 milligrams, dependent on body weight and level of caffeine tolerance, can result in a state of central nervous system over-stimulation called caffeine intoxication,[71] colloquially “caffeine jitters”. The symptoms of caffeine intoxication are not unlike overdoses of other stimulants. It may include restlessness, nervousness, excitement, insomnia, flushing of the face, increased urination, gastrointestinal disturbance, muscle twitching, a rambling flow of thought and speech, irritability, irregular or rapid heart beat, and psychomotor agitation.[69] In cases of much larger overdoses mania, depression, lapses in judgment, disorientation, disinhibition, delusions, hallucinations and psychosis may occur, and rhabdomyolysis (breakdown of skeletal muscle tissue) can be provoked.[72][73]

In cases of extreme overdose, death can result. The median lethal dose (LD50) given orally, is 192 milligrams per kilogram in rats.[2] The LD50 of caffeine in humans is dependent on weight and individual sensitivity and estimated to be about 150 to 200 milligrams per kilogram of body mass, roughly 80 to 100 cups of coffee for an average adult taken within a limited time frame that is dependent on half-life. Though achieving lethal dose with caffeine would be exceptionally difficult with regular coffee, there have been reported deaths from overdosing on caffeine pills, with serious symptoms of overdose requiring hospitalization occurring from as little as 2 grams of caffeine.[74][75][76][77] Death typically occurs due to ventricular fibrillation brought about by effects of caffeine on the cardiovascular system.

Treatment of severe caffeine intoxication is generally supportive, providing treatment of the immediate symptoms, but if the patient has very high serum levels of caffeine then peritoneal dialysis, hemodialysis, or hemofiltration may be required.

I seem to recall that you can’t.

Sorry, old bean.

’twas ever thus, alas.

My 2p – when I first built up a SS, I used a regilar mtb chain, and under heavy load it would jump under power initially, as the sprocket was designed for a BMX chain. Could this be the problem? If you take it easy for a while things should bed in and it’ll get better.

Why is a too-short chain “dead”? Could you not just put the remaining links on again? I always do, and I’ve not had any problems.

i have had any both at all in 7 months?

Come again?

Adjustable is handy, but not vital IMO, unless you’re running 6″ forks, which throw the front end out on climbs.

I’ve got adjustable Pikes on my Heckler, 90ish mm forks on the Litespeed and rigid on everything else, for what it’s worth :-) Fork choice is way secondary to a well fitting frame if you ask me!

Can’t see your email addy in your profile C_G, so I’m posting on here.

I’m 6’4″ with a 35″ inside leg. I have several bikes, a Heckler, a on-onme 29er, and a 1997 Litespeed. They’re all XL, 20″+, but the geometries of all of them is different, my position on all of them is very different, and (in the case of the litespeed in particular) has changed as my riding has progressed.

I’d go for a 26″ bike for more rocky, technical riding (not that I’m any good at it), and a 29er for longer distance “epic” old school XC.
Personally, I’d make sure that the TT is 24″ plus – this way he can run a short stem if he wants to without feeling too cramped.

My main feeling though is that he’s going to probably ride it for a while and then tweak it anyhow based on his preferences and the stuff he’s riding, so as long as the frame is a reasonable size he can fiddle with position, stem etc later on.

I think you’re looking at 20 or 21″ frames, personally (I’ve avoided Giant, GT and Trek 22″ frames in the past as they seemed much too big); the main thing for me is length!

Second the “chasing the threads out at your LBS” comment…

Had to put more air in my Pikes and Fox shock over NY in Wales, so I’d not be surprised.

Grauniad says that the lights in the sky was one of their journos having a firework party..

I suspect that this forum is very much a work in progress, thrown up in a hurry when the old one got hacked.

So it’ll not have many of the features that the guys eventually want right now..

But the ads, which pay for this *free to the user* service, are here to stay, I reckon.

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No, if you leave the cassette on flex in the system leaves the potential for the shortened chain to ride up the cassette and lock, or down and fall off..

That kit sounds fine, boardinbob. If you’re *really* lucky, you’ll get away without a tensioner as your chain, chosen ratios and chainstay length will give you the perfect gear without one, but it’s pretty unlikely. So yes, you’ll need a tensioner.

If you’re just commuting on road, however, you’ll pretty quickly spin out using (say) a 16t and your middle ring. Personally I’d leave your big ring on and use that instead of your middle. Not sure what the kits come with, but you’ll potentially also need some short chainring bolts to run with just one chainring.

Good luck!