No im going to donate it the local dogs home buy a yorkie with it!

Turns out ParcelFarce is actually £12 plus VAT direct. I have always just used Parcel 2 go, seems odd that they wont do it to this address.

Anyway, alls well that ends well, clearly P2go aint as good as they used to be

dream on sister. They charge by volume these days.

Thats irrelevant anyway as even a shoe box would cost the same, plus they never check sizes IME

Its a place called Mallaig, parcelforce dont deliver there according to Parcel 2 Go, its Yodel or nothing.

So in short, i put up whatever i charge people for postage on the off chance that someone in the sticks buys something, thus making a profit off everyone.

So im really being unfair asking for the COST price (well less) for postage. Its not like ebay has an option for UK, Europe, ROW and the sticks is it?

Right take my word on this as were on twin buggy 3!

They are massive, and i mean massive!I gave mrs B the free reign to get whatever she wanted, so long as it was secondand! Knowing it would be unused and hated and i point blank refused to waste £600+ on one after just buying a £450 single one the year previous.

The first one was a double where they sit next to each other, it was frikking huge and the seats didnt fold up. It completely filled the boot on my Accord Tourer, you couldnt get it in or out of the house and needed a garage to park it in! Sold that for £20 more than she paid so no loss there.

Number two needs to be a one where they go one infront of another so she settled on an Obaby Zoom (they are actually called a few things as they keep changing distributors and are just cheap chinese tat like 99% of whats available. Again, massive, like steering a barge, and pretty much filled the boot again.

Then i basically just told her to get a mclaren (i should say at this point that she didnt want a one of them phil and teds ones where one drags its arse along the floor as they look to be a pain and big one (14 months difference) would not sit there happy)

The Mclaren doubles are great, they fold small, go anywhere, are cheap (relatively) and both get to see where they are going. Oh and the obaby pile of tat sold for £90 more than we bought it for, and i found a used once mclaren one on ebay for £100 so it was free in the end.

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To summarise……..Buy a double Mclaren Twin Techno Buggy!

You can get a quotation from two shops and send that in for a cash alternative with M & S, just make sure you get full RRP on the quote, new for old etc on the quote. Wheelies havent a clue, they do too many bikes for insurance companies to be arsed about ordering bits and bats, just take the cash!

There are a few posts recently about it on here, maybes search for wheelies and it will bring loads of threads up about it.

Totally agree with it getting out of hand though, and people please think twice before carrying bikes on the outside of your car, get them inside under a sheet – out of sight, out of mind has always been my motto!

650B, a response to the mass rush by people to buy 29ers by the mid sized bike companies..

They are all just a result of high end bike sales flat lining and the big guns needing something to rejuvenate sales as oppose to just upgrades!

God i hate 29ers!

Treat insurance companies like mushrroms, in the dark and fed on shit!

Their latest one is replacement windows. They agree a bulk purchase price, add some on to the policy to make up the difference, then charge you £75 for a replacement (which is more than you can get a std windscreen fitted for if you shop around hard.

Then they have the cheek to ask if you have had a windscreen claim – Get Stuffed.

They dont exchange info either, not between underwriters for sure as its commercially sensitive information, so thats all bull too.

Whole thing is a joke

Same thoughts as i have been having over This

Would be ideal for a B&B to keep Mrs B busy but squirm at renovation costs

Seatpost are the frames internal diameter.

Font mechs are the outer diameter of the tube its clamping to.

Top and bottom pull refers to where the cable comes from, i.e. if its routed beneath teh bottom bracket its bottom pull. However i think most are for top and bottom now.

Best just post what you are after and what frame you have and someone will tell you

I dont think you can convert any shimano hubs can you, definitely not Deore anyhow.

15mm stiffens things up somewhat, just a pain with having to buy new wheels. If you are getting new forks id say it is worth doing, but really depends on your riding TBH, if you are just pootling then stick with 9mm qr, if you are thrashing the peaks then 15mm will flex less and track better etc etc

The XT’s will wort tirelessly though, you wont boil them, they feel lovely etc etc.

Again not tried the Formula ones but cant fault the XT’s at all

Right that answers that then, cheers

I’ve just got a renewal through Chris Knott brokers. Better than any of the other comparison sites. I used to have a diesel Accord Tourer and really struggled to get a decent renewal price. Now I have a 2.2 petrol Alfa and it’s much cheaper. I have heard that Honda’s are more expensive.

Get signed up to the typeaccord.co.uk forum, that’s how I found out about Chris Knott. There are also links to getting discount genuine parts and service kits from a Honda dealer in Stoke, they’ll post things out.

Cheers craggyjim, thats the sort of info i was looking for

if there are no alternatives then there are no alternatives, i just hoped there were!

Moving house is number one priority, unfortunately its not proving easy as no one seems to bother going to work these days!

Tallboy LTc, that’s my next bike

Ive told you if you buy a 29er you are not welcome riding with me any more!!!

He seems to have sold at least 4 bikes in the past 6 months as he uses ebay to buy his courier service from and that leaves a trace, unlike his bike sales which he clearly invites offers on and ends them early so that they dont show on his feedback history.

You could politely contact someone who looks legit who he has bought something from and see if you can get his address from them and then send the boys round.

Added him to my dodgy sellers list

Wrong forum, leave and do not pass go!

Its getting better.

Lets face it, for CRC to take a show from a whimsical dream to screen in two weeks in the face of a profit warning due to the advertising Wiggle were getting from the TDF coverage is pretty impressive!

Everyone is aware its fully funded by CRC arent they?

This ranks among of the most pointless down grades i have read about in a long time, but hey whatever floats your boat, ill give you £10 for the old ones as spares!

Instead of buying outdated narrow Mavic rims you could just have done and get the £200 Superstar deal that they have on their hubs laced onto stans flow rims.

I always stuck with Mavic but the width is way out of date, infact all of their rims are pretty identical to what they were 10 years back and the price is ridiculous!

Yeah XTR or nothing IMO, anything else is just trying to be as good. With XTR levers and good blocks they will be ace in the dry…

Coming from a recruitment background and with experience of finding myself work my approach has always been do as a rec con would and approach the person who hires directly.

research who you want to work for and keep in contact regularly, suggest meeting up for a coffee etc and just keep going till you meet them or until they need someone. Recruiters will prefer this as it makes their life easier and saves them a recruitment fee. This works in the real world however may not be much use in the civil service, however if they know someone is there that is good for the job who they like they will do what they need to internally to get you in.

The whole application process is there to infuriate recruiters and keep human rights staff in work simply.

You could improve it by removing anyone on a singlespeed, a brompton, vegans, lesbians and tweed wearing twonks.

Oh wait, that would mean changing the name to critical less too! Hmm, leave it with me

Wheelies prob come across unhelpful as they turn over around 800 bikes per week on insurance replacement! Hence if you want something swapping they tell you to go swivel.

Which from their part is fair enough really, they will be selling bikes to insurance companies at massive discount so fine tuning each order is totally impractical.

All you need is a friendly person in a bike shop or two to do you 2 full RRP quotes on new for old and then take the cash settlement. The crate of beer you take along will pay dividends when the cheque lands!

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Should have said that we planned on going to ADH and 2A on the trip but decided against it as there was so much still to do on the doorstep that it seemed pointless (and i have rode at both a few times previously so had something to compare it to)

Just back from a week in Les Arcs riding a 5″ bike after 3 years of road tripping around a different resort each day in an LDV and numerous years before that in Les Gets.

Les Arcs was great, really nice place to stay, quiet, great views, great lifts, loads of trails and easy to navigate and to find snide trails. We based ourselves in teh camp site at Bourg Sainte Maurice and had two days in La Thuile which was awesome and did a day guided by steve from the white rooms which took us from the top of the Col D’iseran back down to Bourg. The other days we stayed in Les Arcs and one day we went over to La Plagne way but gave up as the lifts mainly closed the week previous.

Morzine is good for a first experiance but otherwise pretty stale. The riding is mainly on blown out featureless tracks littered with braking bumps, and this makes injury far more likely for inexperianced riders as clinging on to the bars becomes the priority over actually riding your bike. The weather is really hit or miss here too and queueing for lifts soon becomes tiresome (as does the ego there)

Id look at Les arcs seriously as there is a massive amount of riding to be had in teh valleys around it and from the top lift you get circa 1700m of descent.

Steve from the white rooms really knows his stuff too so id look at staying there where you will be guaranteed hassle free riding on trails you wont essentially find impossible to find, but you will find it time consuming and difficult to get to with your own transport.

unless you are all experienced in alps trips too, herding 12 around will be hard going as someone has already said.

Personally i wouldnt go back to the PDS, but i have seen what else is on offer, maybe do the PDS first, realise its crap and then next time go somewhere with real riding.

Think of it as going on a trip to the Nurburgring but stopping at the go cart track on the side of the M20 instead. Never really going to be as good is it!

Cheez Pleez, all new handbuilt wheels will ping when you set off riding for the first time. You can put lateral stress on them when they are built to seat everything BUT even £1000’s worth of handbuilt wheels will ping, thats no bad on superstars part.

Regarding your forks, dont get hung up over 10mm, it will make the square root of **** all difference to you, you wont notice it, if anything it will improve the ride of the zesty.

I have just thrashed my flows on SS hubs for a week in the alps riding rediculously hard and they havent faulted, great wheels for the price, so good a friend is selling pro 2’s on 819’s as they are lighter, better rim width, better tyre profile and better for using tubeless.

Also go for the Merlin £300 revs RLT’s, great forks, again duly thrashed and still ace!

I have been told its the compressor disintegrating! Great news!

It will need to be next to the frame

Use Chrome and translate it!

Its handy to have all of the information in one place, there are some gems in there wher you can guarantee a full day with the lifts to yourselves.

Take Vars and Pra Loup for example, really fun tracks and empty!

Definately one for the DH road trip if thats what you are planning!

Its the same with any big chain, bigger they get teh less control over things like this they have. The will have 50 bikes with a suitable chainset on which could be directly swapped or upgraded to get you the bike but they wont be able to take anything off a bike to do it (as staff will have done this before and not replaced it or followed up the warrenty claim).

If they are so proficient at managing this then just wait till you crack your frame and need a warranty replacement!

There are videos showing you how to do all kinds of forks, just give it a go yourself, its not rocket science

Chicagos in Mossley know bikes well and charge buttons

We should just club together to buy this and share it out, its just what they do!

Feel free to add whatever food colouring you wish, obviously not pink, green or blue as we have had all of them colours.

I never got mine either!

Bump bump bump!

Can anyone help?

Off in two weeks but rode 20+ other places in the alps and all i will say is that once you have experienced what else is on offer you wont want to go back to the PDS.

The main differences between the PDS and everywhere else:

No queus at lifts
Quiet trails
No braking bumps
less annoying twa%s
Trails which still have features left in them
and the further south you head the better the weather gets

Im currently spoffing over the 60km guided route were doing with 45km of descent on back country singletrack from the Col D’iseran to Bourg Sainte Maurice! You dont get that in the PDS

Hold that thought, came home to a card from the post office saying i owe £1.09 on a parcel! It could be a chain ring, who knows! (It has taken from the 23rd July to arrive)

Hes redeemed himself.

Apologies if i jumped down your throat, it just seemed like a lot of strange consequences occured, different name on Paypal account, stories about wrong stamps, other threads saying you were going to cut another scammers balls off.

Anyhow, refunded, ta!