prepare for the possibility that you might have to spend further money enforcing the debt even if a court order is made.
my brother had this problem against an ex landlord.

bloody global warming? I'll believe it when I see it!
Brrrr….

"godda problem, pal?!"

iain, oh i see what you mean now thanks. The gate where he rides through i recognise just didn't recognise the first bit problly like you say 'cos of all the snow!

excellent.
can't quite place that gap in the wall that first appears at about 3:30 and is then gone through….how do you get to that? I know the bit of trail that is on the other side between the wall and the trees, however we normally get to it by going from cutthroat bridge to here and then taking the track that goes north from there, is that not the way you went?

ok, good point about the GT85 displacing water. i do normally use that when I haven't left it over my mate's house.

does anybody else employ the method of putting a carrier bag over the disk rotor to protect it ?

cable cutters are useless for it, as i found out. finished it off with a sharp scalpel, much better.

it's menna be ok down to -40. Sure it's the actual screenwash freezin and not just the nozzles? If it actually is then just make it stronger.

compact means you can have sram gears, which rule

It could be said that if you're driving then it's immoral going to work, because you're blocking up the roads for people for whom it's more essential that they get to work.
People don't understand the meaning of 'only drive if you have to'. They consider that their journey is essential, even though it is only essential TO THEM. The employers are to blame just as much (if not more) than the staff, for making people take it out of their holidays etc.

I should add that i'm probably being fairly hypocritical, 'cos if i was on hourly pay, then i would try to get in if i thought it was physically possible and not dangerous
BUT i'm one of the lucky ones, i can work from home (and am going to tomorrow), I'll probably in fact get MORE done, as i won't be being talked to at.

"Even if she has the right to insist on the main dealer fixing it, which I doubt, then there is the premise that you can't be made to pay more than you can afford"

Not in my experience.

No, I think you're missing my point.
You will always have to pay the full amount you owe *eventually*.
I didn't mean (as it appears you've interpreted my meaning as, please correct me if wrong) that he's allowed to say "no I can't afford a grand, YOU'LL have to find some backstreet place that can do it for £300 'cos that's all I've got"
I meant that legally, if she sues him in court for the money, a court order will be made against him, but the court can not order him to pay more than he can afford, and it will take into account his income and expenditure in determining how much he can afford – so it might be £200 a week for 5 weeks, or it might be £20 a week for 50 weeks. Trust me, I know.

A lot of people seem to think the terms "owes X pounds" with "must produce X pounds immediately or die" are synonymous, which is wrong. Also refrain from confusing the moral perspective and the legal perspective.

The lad in question has said he'd pay. Are you suggesting he should duck/dive his way out of paying and a innocent woman foot the bill out of her pocket when it wasnt her fault?

Dont drive or ride into my car please. I'd expect you to pay for any scratches/damage.
I'm talking from a legal perspective, not a moral one. The legal perspective is that he has a debt to her, but *legally*, she has no right to force him to take out a credit agreement in order to settle his debt to her. You may not like the implication of that, being that it just *might* not be possible for her to get her car perfect-looking again *immediately*, but it's fact.

Morally, it is up to him to restore her to the position she was in before the incident took place.

However, if we're talking morally, it's also immoral for him to be pressured to pimp out his family, go to a loan shark with gold teeth and a band of heavies and take out a loan at a very uncompetitive rate of interest, or start dealing drugs to fund it. :wink:

No – seriously – I'm not suggesting that he duck and dive out of it. But it pisses me off that in today's world of want-it-now, instant-gratification consumerism – his first thought is of recourse to the old flexible friend. Wrong, IMHO.

flamethrower/blowtorch? that'll melt the snow fast. failing that hairdryer on full blast but it may take a while, i wouldn't know

Go for FSA.
I've got that same frame and forks – the stock planet x headset didn't last long – it'd been clicking for a while and eventually started knocking, so I replaced it with
http://www.planet-x-warehouse.co.uk/acatalog/info_HSFSOCE.html
which has been fine so far

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Even if she has the right to insist on the main dealer fixing it, which I doubt, then there is the premise that you can't be made to pay more than you can afford.
Hence, if he is going to have to put the whole lot on his credit card, he obviously can't afford it.

She can make you pay reasonable cost of repairs IF YOU'VE GOT IT, but she can't FORCE you to take out credit in order to get it fixed.

What I would do is, get reasonable quotes yourself, in writing, and offer (Again in writing) to pay the cheapest one of them yourself, in instalments.
Then if he gets taken to court he's got evidence that he's done what he can reasonably be expected to do.

Heard of the infamous case of barclaycard suing someone because they wanted him to pay a tenner a week and he insisted he could only afford a fiver a week? The court made him pay them a quid a week.

I'm normally an avid snow hater but had a really really good fun ride round the peaks yesterday, all in often fairly thick snow, after not being able to get to the lakes, so i'm some (not all mind) of the way to being converted.
Basically if the snow's powdery and it's sunny, cloudless, and still, like it was yesterday – then bring it on – but if it's cloudy, windy, rainy, slushy, and more ice than snow, then it can naff off, as far as i'm concerned.

as bigyinn says (must be in that order), but another tip is set the lower limit screw too tight when putting the cable on, then when the cable is on, back it off. That way there is still that little bit of tension in the cable on the small ring position.

On a more practical note, I'd also heard the advice that voicing opinions like "if he wasn't guilty, he wouldn't be here" in front of the defence team tends to get you excused from parade.

yep, agreed. best way out of it is to get yourself chucked off – you want to get yourself back to your life. Although if it's something like a minor theft, just sit it out and agree with everybody else – you may find yourself out of the frying pan into the fire – apparently they try you on a few different ones if one doesn't last long – don't want to get yourself put on a complex murder with ramifications going right to the heart of society.

edit: just read another post that alludes to the fact that you're there for two weeks minimum. So ideally you want a cast that will last exactly two weeks, no more no less. So a minor shoplifting is probably going to be done and dusted before you can blink and you'll be waiting around again, but equally you don't want a massive great murder either. Something intermediate like grand larsony that's got a lot of gravity but that's obvious-ish due to fingerprints, or something like an armed buggering.

never done it but from what i've heard it's a thankless task.

I normally w**k for 8 and a half hours a day, but today being christmas eve I'm probably only going to be w**king until about 1pm then call it a day – that said I have already been w**king hard for nearly an hour solid already.

careful peeling out the little insert that goes in the end of the hose, i found it tried to pull a little bit of the inner lining of the hose out, anyone else found this?

never mind red or green – has it got any colours of routes at all? The first (and probably last) time i went, i couldn't see any waymarking at all – I just kept getting to crossroads … :|

saris are good.
having known the stability of a towbar mounted one, I was a bit suspicious of putting two MTBs on a mere clip on rack when I went to cyb with a mate earlier in the year.
But they were surprisingly stable, it was very good – felt pretty solid. NOt only that but his car actually died about 5 miles from home and had to be loaded onto the back of a tow truck so was having to put slightly more faith into it than normal what with them being high up on the back of a truck trundling through the bumpy streets of sheffield, needless to say it held up fine, they were still fastened tightly on at the end.

i can hear a clicking noise coming from the magnet area, but i'm not sure whether it's just the magnet moving down, or the magnet moving down AND the pin moving towards it. if that makes sense?

as in: it's stuck in the down position and i can't make it go up at all, rather than it *sometimes* gets stuck in the down position but i can make it go up eventually

can you loosen the collar when it's in the down position though?

done the ones on the seat stay of my hustler using a dremel with a tungsten carbide cutter (just 'cos it was the right shape).
the hardest bit is obviously orienting the drill in the right position at the right angle without it catching on anything else. This is why a dremel is handy as it's smaller.

penmachno and llandegla were fine when i was there last weekend, llandegla quite muddy on the last bit (including a diversion) but other than that fine.
was expecting penmachno to be worse but it was totally fine

hope. Easiest to bleed, look the best, made in england, best customer service.

I've just ordered one, hopefully going for a blast round dalby for its first outing at the weekend :D
I was inspired by the fact that it's apparently just a mechanical spring (so no seals to replace?)

I have tried a crank bros joplin before and found it crap. Didn't like the way it could still go up on negative pressure differential when it was the low position – i like to be able to pick the back end of my bike up by the saddle. Didn't like the potential for faffing and not knowing where it is at any one time that infinite adjustment gives either. Add to that the fact that it is hydraulic and pretty complicated, so there is quite a lot to go wrong – the bloke in the shop i got it from said crank bros have got something like over a 100 patents for it, that's some seriously complex engineering going on there.

Saw a couple of blokes with GDs at CyB last year, and was quite impressed by how simple and strong they looked, have been umming and aahing ever since. Decided to treat myself to one for xmas… I'm hoping the fact that it's simple in its design will prove it to be long lasting.

also worth noting CRC do shims from 27.2 to pretty much any other size of seat post.

I thought 1:1 meant that if the shifter pulls through X mm of cable, then the mech moves that same X mm.
But i suppose you've then got the question of 'yeah but which bit of the mech moves Xmm'…

it was almost like it was too tight to begin with – i had to actually slacken off the cable in 9th for the shifter to be able to pull as much cable as 9 shifts pulls.

Guess i was just slightly confused to find sram road shifters actually pull different amounts of cable to sram mtb shifters.

My route guides have this, but only on the actual track, using data from my GPS. As far as I know OS and Google don't yet supply altitude data, but as soon as they do I'll add it

I was thinking you could do it based on the contour lines on the OS e.g. if you move your mouse over contour lines, the number goes down – 300ft, 200ft, 100ft, so you know the path you're moving the mouse down is a descent.
but thinking about it for more than a second a whole host of reasons why that's impossible come to mind.

what would be even better is a constantly changing number that represents the elevation of the current location of the pointer

that's great! :D

IN all seriousness, it's probably worth me saying that I don't particularly rate ANY bike shop that highly in all areas. They all have their strenghts and weaknesses.
For instance I would consider my LBS to be JE james, but although their products, store layout, general sales knowhow/friendliness are much better than halfords, I woudn't buy anything from there unless i was confident about not requiring any after sales service, as after sales service is a particular weakness of theirs IME.
Every shop has its strengths and faults. Halfords strengths are that it's open longer than most other shops, and in more locations.

It's all very well crying "witch hunt" when the hunted ISN'T a witch, but halfords *are* a witch. :wink:

just what exactly ARE those animals at the top of crookhill farm… bisons? yaks? (bulls?! )

Firstly i hate christmas,and all the comercialised trappings.I have no family,or kids.

This year a freind and her family,want me to spend Boxing Day with them at an up market hotel,for Christmas Lunch,cost about 36 quid upwards,which they are paying for me,as a Christmas present(but i dont believe in wasting that amount of money on a meal when there are people sleeping on the street,and going hungry),and dont want them to pay for me,so i have said i have other plans.

This seems to have caused a problem for them.

So should i go and accept their very kind hospitality,and possibly be upset because i no longer have any parents,and no kids,and cant do the happy families thing.

or,
Should i go and try and enjoy a free meal,be chatty and funny as per usual even though deep down im really depressed at Christmas.

or
Should i refuse,appologetically and go for a ride.
I think you should get things in proportion. There's a wagu beef sandwich in london for £84. A SINGLE SANDWICH.
No single starving person is going to be more likely to die because of you going to a hotel and enjoying a £36 christmas meal. If you think otherwise, then go to the hotel, put the meal in a bag, package it up and send it to 'em.

Isn't it amazing how you always feel the need to reduce the complexity of what you're asking until they can answer it?

You didn't want slime! But you ended up wondering whether that would do…

…Until it reduces to "do you know what day of the week it is"?

just order some PIAA ones online. As long as you order the right length they come with all the varieties of fasteners you might need.