I need a new pump too, I was looking at the Topeak Mountain Morph which I’ve heard good things about.

the laptop scene lolz

I went from M&S to Greenbee (John Lewis). Also considered Hiscox who offer great cover but with quite a high excess. All our rich friends use Hiscox

Oooo them chumbas are lovely

I was banned for linking to a video full of swearing (every single swear word in every single episode of the Sopranos ). At the same time another video was linked featuring “Sony’s new piece of s**t” (from the Onion) also full of swearing which wasn’t banned. Go figure

Chrism – why do the conventional stations have to keep running when there is sufficient wind blowing?

Lets just say we have a maximum generating capacity of 20% wind driven, say it’s working at that top capacity why can’t we turn off say 15% of the conventional stuff. I mean weather forecasts must be able to predict wind capacity, when the forecasts predict a drop in wind capacity switch all the other stuff back on again.

Unlike molgrips I am a simpleton so feel free to condescend to me all you like.

Superstar sintered seem to be lasting quite well. Certainly better than Formula’s own sintered offering.

The nightmare stuff of my childhood

Yup. They go straight into that category of “how did I ever manage without one” (Ans: I didn’t and spent ages bodging)

I’m REALLY starting to like Cannondales

Cor there’s some proper bile in those definitions

It’s funny cos it’s true.

I’ve got a specialized air tool sport too. Cheap and still going strong after 3 years

Couldn’t help feeling a bit sorry for him at the end, KM had it bang on at the start when he talked about a rich man’s folly (was that bit done later maybe?). They had the look of people who’d woken from a dream/nightmare at the end of it, they had everything (and more) before they decided to build and I guess from the (lack of) furnishing and the rather truncated house visit don’t have much (cash) left now. The house would have been much nicer had they made it 2/3rds the size.

Personally prefer the green/sustainable/self build projects to the “rich folks spend large” ones.

I like my Endura Singletracks (except for the little belt things )

What advantages do they offer over aluminium?

Though I do have a sneaking suspicion Ferrari were throwing their spaghetti around and trying to think of a way of stripping Mclaren of their points…

I love the fact that when those non cheating non lying nice chaps from Mclaren get found out there always seem to be a conspiracy theory convinced it’s Ferrari’s fault.

Changed the rear numberplate bulb on Ford Focus. wooo for me!

Yeah a massive fan. Had a back problem which would debilitate me for a few days at a time 3 or 4 times a year which went on for about 10 years. The osteo treated me for 2 “incidents” and I’ve only had one very minor episode since. He blamed scar tissue from an old bike accident.

Another for Iron Maiden here – Beast on the Road tour, Bradford St George’s Hall, 1981 I think. Or ’82. Aged 14 – was the scrawniest, youngest kid there

Good lord a snap – except it was at the Hammersmith Odeon for me – 82 I thought.

a/ Yes. My old man worked in Moorfields (eye hospital) for much of his working life and his tales of seemingly innocuous events leading to catastrophic eye injury has scared me into it. Besides which my specs cost north of £300 so I’m not going to wear them, lenses + Specialised singletracks for me.

b/ na

c/ Hit by flying mud/insects regularly.

d/ 1% maybe

Had a P&T’s for 4 years. Fitted into the boot of a mk 1 Focus easily. Absolutely battered it for 3 years, but didn’t really use it for the last year or so. Managed to sell it for £160, better condition ones sell for more, so while it’s quite an outlay you do get a fair chunk of the money back.

I think Mini may be suffering at the hands of the Fiat 500 which seems to be selling incredibly well

The best (only?) argument for a constitutional monarchy imo.

Can’t disagree with that. I know it’s a bit MBR/WMB but how about Stumpjumper vs Fuel vs Orange 5/ST4 vs something Canondale vs something niche

Heard about this new seach engine, Wolfram Alpha[/url] a few months ago. It’s meant to be revolutionary or something but I can’t remember why. It’s not actually live until May. There are a few articles on it

Here’s one

I was thinking about one of these but was put off by numerous reported problems (some on here, I seem to recall somebody saying that he looks after a Touran fleet and had to replace most of the gearboxes?)

Honest John has the skinny on most cars

Touran 2003

Mine fell off on the way to work one morning :-S

Oh noes, does that mean I have to add a fk off 8mm hex key to my burgeoning trail pack?

Square taper why did I ever forsake you?

Bimbler, getting the cranks on may be a piece of piss, getting them off is a whole other story, so many threads about this.

Oh blimey :( , what happens to them?

I’ve just installed a set of GXP cranks. It’s a piece of pss. All you need is an 8mm hex key to get the cranks off and if you need to take off the BB cups then one of these fits the bill.

GXP Overhaul Video

Yup got one just like it. It’s absolutely fine, does what a workstand should do.

I followed the Superstar advice I made about 10-15 hard stops (luckily I live on quite steep hill, getting back up is a nice warm up :-) ) then sprayed the caliper with water for a nice sizzly/steamy finish. Feel great so far have to say, admittedly after one crappy ride.

A friend got the Bose sound dock thing for his Christmas present. I’m gobsmacked at how utterly excrement it is for the price. The performance of a £40 boom box wrapped up in a piano black finish for £200! I see there is a Mk2 maybe that’s better because I struggle to see how it could possibly be worse. Avoid imo.

Post-rock is the place for “weird” titles

Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven – Godspeed You Black Emperor

Born into Trouble as the Sparks Fly Upward – Silver Mount Zion

Not that many individual dwellings are architecturally significant on their own though – Frank Lloyd Wrights and Corbusier’s some of Arts and Crafts stuff (Mackintosh – your chap from Glasgow School of Art). It’s not a great example to compare them to wacking great public buildings that cost (or would today) many millions of pounds.

It’s just a house in the same way that the Georgian terraces are just “houses” whether it is architecturally significant or not in 50 years is up to posterity, it may be lauded as a perfect example of early 21st century design, who knows, probably won’t though. My original point is that an architect can’t design anything to be architecturally significant in 50 years, they just have to design something for the now. When Frank Lloyd Wright did his prairie houses he wasn’t designing them to be “architecturally significant” for the future.

The bath georgian terraces not architectural highpoints – lolz.

I find it frustrating that people would waste so much time, effort and money producing something with no thought as to whether or not it’ll be architecturally relevant in 50 years time. It won’t, and if that’s the legacy they’re going to leave behind, I for one wish they wouldn’t bother.

Relevant in 50 years? The architect isn’t using his crystal ball. The neo-classical architects of the Georgian terraces of bath must have been rubbish as 50 years after they had been built they were decidedly out of fashion in Victorian England.

Saw them at the Marquee in 1984 – totally awesome. Changed my life too. Saw Slayer there too in 85 and that was even betterer. \m/

Greg’s hungry

Chomp