Bought myself a Global TS 1 frame from the classifieds and built it up last weekend, wanted one for years and nobody else was going to buy me one. Also a bottle of my favourite port to celebrate not being back in work until January. So great purchases really, pic of the bike but the bottle of Port is emptying itself rapidly into my glass.

I’d be riding in lancashire but also west yorks and cumbria so a 40tooth extender might be required.

Thanks for the info ajantom. Have you got it set up 10 speed, what cassette range and chainring are you using?

If you are working in walking distance of either of the stations in Bradford then Saltaire, Bingley, Steeton/Silsden and even Skipton are good along one train line. Ilkley, is pretty good on another train line. Alternatively Mytholmroyd and hebden are less than 30 mins away on the train too. World is your lobster.

I find, now that posts don’t get emailed to you, its best to email and stick a ygm post on their thread. I tend to get better response times that way. But I never need to buy that bad I’ll chase up after a message. Heck they are the ones trying to sell and after money. I guess there aren’t many STW’ers working successfully in retail.

If you gently rub it any fluid in it could disperse, assuming there is still a hole in it from draining.

or alternatively ‘Hit it, hit it, hit it’

Had one for about 2 years on my left wrist, I’d broken it a few years earlier playing football. It went after i took a tumble in a park in York in torrential rain and smacked my wrist on a stone slab. Not come back after 3 years. Old wives tale that you hit them with a bible. They supposedly go after a while on their own accord.

Mine was about £2500 with the stove. It included ripping out gas fire, removing gas pipework, capping off the pipe and a drop test on the pipe. Then opening up the fire place, fitting liner and new pot on the chimney. Also rebuilding half the stack. Then fitting a stone hearth, lintel, and plastering the chimney opening. Finally fitting the stove, taking away all the rubbish and supplying all the required certificates and sorting building regs. It took two men two days of real hard work. I think your quote is probably about right once you think about all the materials and man time.

Its pretty obvious the place is over priced if you’ve had such little interest, or you need to market the place a heck of a lot better. Perhaps find a better agent to sell the place, dress it better for photos etc… Or accept a lower price if you really have to move. You could get a nice new car for the other half to take the edge off the extended commute and stay put and hope the market keeps on the up till the place reaches the value you need.

Assuming the four of you are meant to be working as a team you could all pull together to make your branch successful. I’m sure you can steer your team in the right direction by working closely with your manager to help them make the right decisions. Greasing the wheels is a much easier way to make things work the way you want than fighting against things you don’t agree with when you have limited influence.

Just because the majority see a behaviour as being acceptable doesn’t mean I have to follow that behaviour. I sleep easy at night and if my example inspires others to alter their behaviour all the better. Don’t try tarring me with the same brush that’s been liberally applied to you as a means of legitimising your choices.

It’s very interesting how social morality allows people to pick and choose the laws they like to abide by. I’m sure they are very keen on the one’s that protect them or are advantageous to them. But a little law that they choose doesn’t apply to them anymore, or doesn’t matter if they break, just once or twice, can easily be ignored with no feelings of guilt. I wonder what other laws will start falling into this bracket, because we are above the law and so can pick and choose them. After all i never crash my car so do ,”I” need insurance. I have access to red diesel so must i pay fuel duty. After all I’ve paid for them for the last 10 years, surely that’s enough so I’ll opt out of those laws please.

If you don’t like the laws then move somewhere with laws you like, easy.

Perhaps I’ll try some different types of hard wood. The door seal is good but with the secondary air vent as closed as it will go I still have a vigorous burning flame, but the SE doesn’t let you close it much. Perhaps too much draw. I’ll see what it does for a bit then call in the hetas man.

I was loading it with the biggest logs that would fit in, with hard wood. Funnily enough I don’t live in a smokeless zone, just have an SE stove.

Try teaching, do a pgce and get into a school and inspire and be inspired. It should pay enough and the kids will make sure everyday is different. Do you want to be challenged?

I don’t teach this is just from my experience working on educational stem courses.

Who won it last year, where are they now? Who should have won it last year and where are they now? Perhaps its not worth winning or even competing on this show if you are serious about music.

So if the repository doesn’t go near the majority of our waste we are all happy with transporting it across country by rail for a generation? After all rail accidents never happen, and rail lines pass nowhere near urban centres.

We make waste to generate power we all use, its time we took responsibility for immobilising it safely to protect future generations and produce a safe ultimate disposal route if nuclear does become a fuel of the future.

It seems 10% minimum deposit at the moment but this isn’t your only cost. You will need to pay the convayancing, about 1500 as you’ll be under stamp duty. You’ll need a decent survey, but the mortgage provider will want a valuation as minimum, 300-500. Quite probably an arrangement fee on the product about 500. So you need a deposit and another 2500 quid basically, maybe a few extra hiden costs too.

A good rule of thumb is 50% of new price, minus 10% for each year and depending on condition minus another 10%. So if it cost 2500 new, and is two years old with a ding in the downtube, then 1250, -250 for age, – 100 for condition, so 900 pounds seems a fair price for seller and buyer. Just a rough rule of thumb though.

Thanks for that Brainflex

Well I’m interested in the general feel of the place once the sun goes down and also what mix and quality the local shops have. I know its a little close to burnley, a place i’m not a huge fan of so i’m hoping its nothing like burnley.

Don’t think a job in a bike shop would be nearly as entertaining as it looks from the outside. Probably not pay all that well either, just keep it as a dirty habit for quiet windy dark evenings.

I have been known to run a beer for truing arrangement with friends, make sure to get the wheel done before giving me the beer though as I stop seeing straight.

I have noticed this but work on the premise of ‘if it ain’t broken don’t fix it’ and V12’s work so well.

I’m old school with flats so will say Dmr v12’s every time for me. Mag if you are weight conscious.

To my knowledge of the classified you describe some parts you have to the best of your knowledge and give a good history, plus answer any questions. You come up with a price you want and a buyer agrees a price with you. Once sold you are not obliged in any way to pay for repair work that wasn’t needed to your knowledge when sold, they are used and offered as buyer beware at a price that reflects this. You should not mis-represent your items, and assuming rob has not done this, which it 100% sounds like he hasn’t then there is no reason to give the buyer money. If you feel particulary nice you may wish too but there is no rule saying forum users must always be nice. Otherwise most of us would have been banned at some point. This thread seems to have been started purely to dirty someones name and try and pressure someone to pay up to the buyer.

It could be seen as bullying via peer pressure. You didn’t discuss and agree the sale in this open kind of thread so why use it to discuss a problem with the sale.

For about 4 years I lived in a house with a solid fuel burner with back boiler, so it heated up three radiators upstairs and the hot water tank without being too hot in the room it was in. I ran it on coal, about 200kg a month for 6-7 months, going evenings and weekends. I used fire bricks to reduce the harth size and keep it burning strongly as not to soot it up. I’d recommend the back boiler option to get the most out of the heat you’re producing.

I have cinders on two Crest rims with no problem at all, maybe a little extra sealant to keep them up. However I recently put a cinder on a thrid wheel with a crest rim and I don’t think I got it seated perfectly and had the same experience, a big bang at about 35-40psi and a mist of sealant. I topped up the sealant, re-seated the tyre on the rim and re-inflated, its been fine since. I’d suggest you just try repositioning the tyre on the rim and go to 30psi, and seal the sidewalls, then go up to 35psi if you want to.

I’d give it till this time tomorrow. People have a lot going on in their lives, don’t always get to their computer everyday and are often blocked from numerous sites by their work IT. Did the emails you sent, after you’d been half paid back really require a response, they could have just been waiting for the chainset to make the second payment and not wanted to get involved with back and to emails. I’d give them a bit longer

I recently built up some dt swiss 240s hubs on stans crest rims with revolution spokes, come in at less than 1400 grams. My wheels are very strong and I run 2.2 tyres on them happily and i’m sure they’d cope with 2.3’s, very good for xc riding and can be set up in various bolt through arrangements. Do you really do 5 foot drop offs as its not really xc wheels you want for that.

It comes across that you aren’t fully experienced with wheelbuilding and are gathering skills, you surely wouldn’t charge a stranger to build wheels for them when you aren’t all that experienced so it seems off charging a friend for the pleasure.
It doesn’t sound like the spokes were properly stress relieved and re-tensioned over and over until it was no longer required so after a bit of riding it would only take a few spokes close to each other to loose tension, through settling into the new hub and un-twisting, and the wheel would be all over the place.
You could offer to have a go at truing the wheel, he is your friend after all, and offer him the £10 back so he can put it towards getting the wheel fixed by a professional.

Having owned avid juicy brakes they are great until they start locking on the rotors, then you find yourself bleeding them almost monthly to keep them going. I replaced the seals in the lever and caliper which fixed it. However I swapped over to hope mono mini’s and they are much easier to work on and don’t need as much attention. I’ve just gone to shimano Xt and they have a very good feel and power, they are also simple to bleed.

Always has been DMR V12’s for me, Mags for some weight saving, fully servicable, always grippy, well sealed, you can’t go wrong with them.

You could trying cutting a channel across the head of the bolt to allow you to undo it with a large flat head screwdriver, a dremel is good for this. You can also buy screw/bolt extractors where you drill a small guide hole into the head and then screw the device into the head, it has a reverse thread so as you screw it in the bolt/screw is unscrewed. Or you can hit it with a mallet, won’t work but you’ll feel better.

Your definition of bullying is excellent, well the dictionaries definition is, but all you have to do now is define what or who ‘weaker people’ are.

I’ve had the same problem this year. I hadn’t used it since November then won an item on ebay in January and tried to pay for it and paypal immediately put my account in limited state so I couldn’t pay. I jumped through all their security hoops, confirmed phone number and ended up sending a copy of a domestic bill to further confirm address. Not like I’ve lived here ages and fully confirmed all this before. So after 48 hrs it was re-instated and the ebayer was understanding. So I didn’t use it for another 3 weeks and someone transferred money into my paypal for a bike part, and they put it in limited state again so I couldn’t withdraw the money. Sent them a constructive critical email, took them 5 days to re-instate my account!! They are a shower of ****, but there seems to be no alternative, they have the monopoly when it comes to ebay payments.

Takes me back, think I’ll put my slippers on, make a hot chocolate, spark up the pipe and reminisce 🙂

Forgetting about the likelihood of your headtube seperating from the rest of the frame, I’m surprised it hasn’t thrown your handling. I briefly tried a 130mm fork in a 100mm specific frame and other than when it was pointed downward it handled like a dog, went straight back to 100mm.

I tried 2.35 Kendas for a while and found anything they gave me on the downhills was taken away and more on the flat and uphill (plus they can’t do muddy, they squirm), went to 2.1 and it just gives a better balance over the whole ride. I used to use 1.8 panaracer fire xc’s ( which probably measure up to 1.65 in real life) on my 1997 heckler, back in 2002 (4 inches travel but that was big back then), and it was fast but I did buckle a few rear wheel rims and spent some time fixing snakebites but maybe that was just the tyre.

I found Feathers razors sharper than Derby if you want a real effortless close shave. They’ll take the eyelashes off a bee, pinning it down in the first place is the hard part!

Dr Baronspudulike, material sciences/radio-chemistry, currently working away in a related industry after a short while post-doc’ing. Still don’t know anything it’s just people think you do with less persuasion now.