All the Voodoo frames are named after Voodoo deities – I spent quite an interesting lunchbreak finding out what they all were.

As fast a rolling tyre as you have. I usually use Bonty XCRs which are spot on

fennerhorne YGM

How about a service whereby police officers could drop round and give you practical advice on how to make your storage area more secure? They do a similar thing in many ares to help prevent burglary.

I also heard that most high end bikes stolen have the frames dumped as the serial number is traceable. How about suggesting looking at serial numbers on forks as well as these are one of the parts most likely to be sold on if the bike is stripped.

Maybe a space on the local police website where the details of stolen bikes can be posted – well meaning people would be less likely to buy questionable bike bits if it could be shown they were taken from a stolen bike.

Suggest he cross reference details of bikes recovered / stolen with other police forces as they will not all be sold on in the same area.

fennerhorne – I’ve got a 1996 RM Hammer frame resprayed powder blue for sale. It’s 18″ and v-brake only. Hows about £130 and I’ll chuck in seat clamp, seat post, front mech, v-brake and headset?

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My Girlfriend is the literacy co-ordinator at a primary school and is responsible for deciding what they’re all dressing up as this year. As a bit of a comic relief tie-in, they’re all going as comic book characters. I suggested she go as Mystique from X-Men but she didn’t think it would be appropriate.

If a long-time lurker, he may have set up an account specifically to sell the bike. The fact that he’s not posted before doesn’t mean he’s definitely on the fiddle (I’m not ruling it out though)

Main areas of Manhattan stay busy through most of the night, so are quite safe. We found ourselves wandering into Harlem looking for a bar late at night – not a good idea!

You’ll hear both good and bad things about Fox forks. (I’ve had 4 pairs with no probs at all).

If they won’t requote, sell them on here or ebay and use the cash to buy what you want.

Smashing Pumpkins “The end is the beginning is the end” on the first trailer, not sure of any other tracks. I rather like the song FWIW

Buy the XT and use the extra money for a new pair of shoes / camelbak / helmet etc.

I’ve got a Kryptonoite ground anchor and a New York chain. It has withstood two attempted robberies. On the first they used a saw to try to cut through the padlock, which just removed the rubber coating. The second time they tried cutting through my RM Blizzard frame with a pair of branch loppers – this mangled the frame up a bit (replaced on insurance) but again they got away with nothing.

Lesson 1 – Unless your thief is brighter than the scallies where I live, they ain’t getting through the locks.

Lesson 2 – Put your worst bike at the front in case they go medieval

I was reading this thread thinking everyone is a bit uptight and needs to just accept that people will drive badly / use bad grammar etc when I saw this:

3, Inanimate objects behaving with a mind of their own

YES!

Bloody cling film! Bloody bastard vacuum cleaner! I shout at inanimate objects that are clearly conspiring against me. I also (occasionally) throw them down and leave them as a punishment, before returning some time later to see if they’ve had time to think about their behaviour.

I noticed before reading the other post too. All on my own and everything

holy crap – negative space between the E and x is an arrow. Is that it?

I think some people get all their opinions from MOTD – like getting all your bike opinions from MBUK

Calm down, we can’t understand what’s wrong

Hmmm. Comparative squad costs (from bootroom.com)

Chelsea – £200.7m
Manchester United – £189.65m
Tottenham – £187.2m
Man City – £166.6m
Liverpool – £140.6m

Squad cost isn’t the be-all-and-end-all. Also, there’s a difference between selling and buying (United) compared to just buying (Chelsea)so net expenditure may be lower than the figures above.

Also

He’s cracking up,
He’s cracking up,
He’s cracking,
Rafa’s cracking up!

:op

I’ll be riding my Dawg Primo for the first time at Llandegla on Sunday. If I weren’t excitied by the prospect of riding my new bike, I’d ride Llandegla on a hardtail every time.

Depends on the faffiness of the job:

Fit a headset to your frame for free – fine
Remove your headset and fit a new one – charge

Fit new cassette (if charged full price) – fine
swap cassette, tyre, tube, rim tape onto new rear wheel – charge

This beeeaaauuutttiiful Voodoo Sobo which was stolen after I’d ridden it once (not very far either). It weighed next to nothing too.

the black packaging is their ‘Specially Selected’ range and you can’t go far wrong with any of it.

Romagna stone baked pizza
Chocolate brioche
fudge
range of pesto
beef wellington
stilton burgers

The whole lot!

Whoah! Didn’t mean to offend anyone, I was in the cadets for several years. I just missed out on Chipmunks and flew Bulldogs instead. I also did my gliding scholarship and flew solo. I just couldn’t see that it looked like a tutor, that was all.

printing on lower weight paper won’t decrease the price that much – perhaps a few pence per issue. The cost of printing comes from the printing process, trimming, collating and delivery. The price of the paper is a fraction of the whole cost

Something used but good? How about a Canon 350D which can be picked up for under £200 on ebay

If I remeber correctly from my learning to drive days, sidelights aren’t for driving with.

I was a little underwhelmed with this month’s, although I haven’t had a really good sit down with it yet.

Obviously it’s a bit of a balancing act getting the right amount of reviews / editorials / ride guides etc in and what pleases some one month won’t please others.

I’ve subscribed though so I must think that more often than not they get it round about right and for every mag which makes me go meh, the next one will probably get read from cover to cover.

uplink – you, sir, are a genius of the highest order!

Call off the search

Mister P – That sounds about right – I’d even go as far as to describe them as black plastic ‘sleeves’ with slits and a flange at one end.

I_Ache – funnily enough I had a couple of the Kona c clips, just not these sleeves

Hmm, could be a go-er. I’ll give it a go and let you know.

I may start selling them if there’s such a demand!

Do you people have co-ordination difficulties or something?

I’ve bashed my gentleman’s area and that’s about it.

I’ve made a mess of my knuckles changing chainrings / disc rotors though

Not quite wwaswas, there are guides on the frame, but they require the plastic thingamybob to keep the hose in. As I said, it works really well when you’ve got the plasticy bits.

Peter – I’m planning a trip to the LBS on Saturday but I’m not holding my breath. Thanks for the help though.

Could do, but the plastic doo-dad I’m trying to get hold of solves the problem perfectly. If there’s no joy I’ll go for cable ties

BTW the Rocky Mountain Hammer frame and forks (and heaset, seatpost, f mech and v-brake) in the background are now for sale.

I like it, as a piece of packaging it’s quite good. It doesn’t stray too far from the original brief or say anything profound though (‘spose it is Metallica)

I love my Blizzard.

This pic is deceptive and makes it look a bit high at the front. I think the back wheel is slightly further away than the front one.

Aah, they used to be punk. Pre-Dookie is good too, try “409 in your Coffeemaker” from 1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hour

The last series where they were on Red Dwarf was a bit pants. I hope this is more like series 1-5

Team Amputated Thumbs

and it appears that STW has failed me too