The reactor hanger is Pilo part number D1239

I’ve read that the bolts and other bits of hardware are made of cheese so I’m a bit more reluctant to touch them now that they’re no longer easy to replace.

I’ve had a couple of sets of replacement Oakley lenses from Fuse – http://www.fuselenses.com

I’ve even used them for hassle free warranty replacement after I used a mirror glaze pair in seawater a few times and the coating failed.

Never even bothered to play with the flip chip. But like you it’s on the large side for me.

I’ve been on a completely fee-free period on ebay – from February until today. I guess it’s seller specific and usually I’ve had the 80% offers but this it was completely fee free, even with stuff that gone unsold then relisted automatically a few times before eventually selling.

Consequently I’ve been going hog wild selling old stuff, like literally walking around the house, shed and garage looking for things to flog.

Now the offer has ended for me, back to selling virtually nothing on ebay.

Guide RE is just a guide lever with a previous gen code caliper anyway.

I bought a pair of these for my daughter to use on the shotgun pro.

https://scooterearz.com/

Didn’t even have a scooter at the time. She does now and we swap them between as required.

Bought the Dell laptop I’m using now from CEX, along with the docking station for it etc.

Was listed as B grade but in all honestly if they had called it A grade I wouldn’t have quibbled.

^^^

Have you got that wrong way round? I’ve got the shotgun pro and the saddle is just a miniature version of a normal saddle. Not tried the mac ride but from what I’ve seen, that’s the one that has the horse saddle-esque seat?

The shotgun pro is a nice all round package. Very adjustable.

Riding with your kid telling you to go faster daddy is so much fun, you’ll love it.

‘Fart-arsing around’ was common where I grew up.

I’ve had an original X2 for over 10 years with regular use. Battery is still going fine although the duration has dropped off a bit.

Only thing I’ve changed is the wiring loom on the head unit a couple of years back – supplied a new one by mtbbatteries for a few quid and soldered it myself.

Been very happy with it.

I’m in Clevedon, couple of miles away. Nailsea is a nice area. That and the fact that it (shared with Backwell) has a train station straight into Bristol means it’s a bit of a commuter town and priced accordingly. Naturally I prefer Clevedon, but if someone forced me to move to Nailsea I wouldn’t be devastated. There’s lots of riding from the doorstep or a short drive from either place :)

For sure it seems renting is pretty hard around here, my sympathies.

Oh, and my missus works at Langford vets school too.

Just to update on this in case anyone else comes along with the same question:

In the end I went for an XL. Apart from having a 213mm travel dropper, of which I use only about 150mm, the XL is perfect for me, really comfy riding position.

I’m at Arctangent again this year. Been to every one so far.

Anyone who thinks it won’t rain is deluded.

spacemonkey – Member
I recently screed 15m2 of utility room/ WC using Arditex NA (powder and latex mix). Recommended by a couple of builder mates. Brilliant stuff. Easy to mix and levels out nicely with a trowel and spiked roller. Also sticks to anything below – no need to prep/seal beforehand.

Will be laying the laminate and vinyl this weekend.

Cheers, but I think that’s more of a self levelling stuff?

At this point I need to fill in a shallow pit and also I don’t actually want it to self level as I’m forming falls to drain for a shower.

This Arditex stuff may be good for later on when I lay electric UFH and use liquid screed to encapsulate it and form the top surface to tile on?

Thanks both, so I don’t need any reinforcement fibres or additives etc in the screed? Would either be beneficial at all?

Can I use an additive to make it harden/dry faster?

I don’t have any of these in my house but would happily bin them from everyone else’s:

1. Twigs in a vase

2. Sticky vinyl/stencilled messages on walls – “live laugh love”

3. Those wooden letters or complete words saying ‘relax’ or ‘home’ or some such crap sat on the mantlepiece

ArcTanGent. Now in its 5th year, it’s a permanent fixture of my calendar. Absolutely love it, there’s nothing else like it.

One of my colleagues commutes in one of these (flevobike Orca) 25 miles or so each way.

Thinks it’s great, biggest issue for him is all the other cyclists going the other way on the cycle path have their lights pointing right into his eyes.

Both Lidl and Aldi where we live, do basically all of our shopping in them, rarely venturing to Tesco or ASDA.

I slightly prefer Lidl. No particular reason really, although our local one has a better dairy selection than the Aldi.

The high speed bag packing is a sport. Preparation is key.

1 – If you have the option, choose a checkout where someone is already being served. This gives you time to put all your stuff on the conveyor before the till operator starts on it.

2 – Pre-segregate your shopping on the conveyor with clearly defined demarcation breaks. cold/frozen stuff, produce, dry/ambient, toiletries/cleaning. Heaviest/hardest stuff in each section first. One category per bag.

3 – Prepare your bags for life opened up and sat ready in the bottom of the trolley.

4 – position the trolley next to the checkout in the little nook, at a right angle so you can reach all the bags. Fill from the bag at back of the trolley forward, so it doesn’t slide backwards and collapse your other bags.

5 – Game on. Your move, till operator 8)

On another note I’ve been using one of these on one of my bikes for years now…

RSP Urban 8

Cheap as chips, the batteries seem to last forever, it seems impervious to wet weather and it has LEDs actually pointing out the sides. Excellent.

I’ve also got a Blackburn Mars 4 somewhere but stopped using it as it drains the batteries when switched off. Have to take the batteries out during the day to ensure they still have power in them come home time.

I bought the Aldi ‘eye burner’ / Moon Nebula rear light recently, haven’t ridden with it yet but if it survives the winter I’ll be very surprised.

The micro USB charge port is just covered with a little rubber flap, not even tightly fitting. Maybe it’ll make it but I’m not holding my breath. The box and receipt will be kept in a safe place.

What size is it? Medium?

As a long time fan, the last series just didn’t do it for me.

I think the thing that made the older series so good was that behind the gags, each of the episodes usually actually had quite a decent sci-fi story driving it along.

The last series was just the same old gags with no real story. Look at Lister! He’s such a slob! And Rimmer, what an anal jerk! The cat’s really vain and stupid isn’t he! Oh, and what about Lister – look how much a slob he is! and so on.

Actually that’s one of the other things. Since about the time Kochanski came on the scene in an earlier series, they made the cat really stupid. He was never stupid before that. Vain yes, but not necessarily stupid.

This is all useful info for me too! Off to California for 3 weeks end of October doing basically what the OP is contemplating. Slightly different route/order though.

And So I Watch You From Afar – Oct, Teregram Ballroom, LA

I had the same issue a couple of months back.

Ended up rummaging and finding a T nut with the right thread (M5?) and cutting/filing the flange square. Still in there now, nice and tight.

Bit of a joke yeah.

They’re reusable though, just file off the locking tangs.

Knipex Cobra!

Not to be confused with generic versions of a similar type. These are awesome.

As a 36 year old who remembers coldplay when they were first coming into mainstream popularity with ‘yellow’ and so on I thought I was supposed to be part of Coldplay’s main audience demographic, and assumed that younger cohorts probably regarded it as dad music.

But coming into work at the start of the week it turned out lots of the graduates had been to Glasto over last weekend, many of them on a Sunday day pass specifically to see Coldplay. So I was wrong, it’s not dad music and they do have wider appeal. Fair play to them I guess.

Connect the minidisc deck to the computer via optical/Toslink and capture the digital directly from that?

Post break up compilation from Reuben – ‘We should have gone to university’

My Moto G has FM, admittedly it’s 1st gen, no idea whether the current one does.

Yeah, I was kind of hoping someone might have one kicking about that I could buy for significantly less.

£9 essentially for 1x 0.05p nut, screw that. I’ll send the shifter back and get a bar mount one instead if nobody has a spare nut.

chakaping – Member
FWIW I’ve discovered that you can scratch, scuff, chip and grind carbon bars across rocks and they won’t fail. It’s not as fragile as some people think.

You can chip and scrape the ends as much as you like and be fine, do it right at the root next to the clamp and let’s see – maybe it’ll be fine. Do you feel lucky?

The trouble with cheap carbon stuff is that its performance is entirely dependent on the manufacturing standards and consistency from one batch to the next. So your cheap bars might pass the ‘bend over the knee’ test, but how will it fare in a crash? On a rocky downhill? On a jump? Rigorous destructive testing will reveal the answers but having confidence that the next one off the production line will have the same properties requires stringent QA processes.

Is the material batch up to snuff? Has it been laid up by trained personnel? In the correct clean environment? Has it had sufficient consolidation? Have the ply orientations been designed carefully and realised accurately and consistently? Has it undergone the correct cure cycle? And so on. The reputable big brands will be able to say yes to all of those, and probably have a papertrail to prove it.

A cheap no name (or knockoff) Aliexpress item laid up in a backstreet shed by whoever they could drag off the street that day, not so much.

monksie – Member
“tend to fail catastrophically”

I keep reading this but I’ve yet to see an explanation of what it means or see evidence of it.

It means carbon doesn’t really fatigue so you don’t get a gradual degradation of strength. It’s just there until you overload it to failure, then it’s suddenly completely gone. As in fractured, zero strength.

Really depends how handy your FiL is… if he’s made a right hash of the actual build then it will be worth virtually nothing.

Even if it’s built impeccably, as a model it’s nothing special, certainly no more desirable than dozens of far east import Almost Ready To Fly models available off the shelf.

In favour of CI. As long as it’s paid for by a commensurate Land Value Tax and other taxes such as income tax are done away with.

We have Virgin cable 70meg broadband (including a phone line we never use) and their TiVo box for the base TV package because we don’t watch much TV.

We have no issues with the broadband and have never had to use customer services.

However I have to echo what others say – we hate the front end on the TiVo. If we had an aerial fitted here, I’d chuck the virgin box in the cupboard and go back to using our BT youview box which we used in our old place.

birky – Member

The ford common rail diesels are pretty poor.

Mechanically the same as Peugeot HDi engine, but they got rid of the fuel injection system and fitted their own awful version.

OP mentioned the 1.8tdci, that’s a Ford engine not PSA.
I’ve got a 57reg 1.8, bought at 26.5k, now on 105k. It’s been fine.

The 1.8TDCi is probably even worse.