Upload speeds as opposed to download speeds are often wildly different.

Isn’t it actually ‘unbreakable’ because Guinness refuse to accept anymore attempts at it as it is so dangerous?

A few people have mentioned the disabled right click issue. If I want to open a new window whilst keeping the page I’m on open, I use Ctrl + left click, hth I had no idea it was an issue tbh.

First pitfall in web development – assuming someone knows some strange keyboard combo will fix the issue. If you have to explain something to someone then it’s not working. I’m a web developer and I don’t use the ctrl key. Remember that some people on your website would probably struggle with the concept of the ctrl key at all, let alone how to use it.

I think there’s some great constructive criticism, nobody is slagging the site off per se so I think that’s positive.

Not sure my Garmin would complete a long audax before running out of juice!!!

And if you can, it might be worth getting some free site analytics – Google Analytics is free and fairly simple to plug it. It will give you some stats on how your pages are performing – are people actually looking at the gallery – do you need to make the link more prominent etc., bounce rates etc.

Its really hard to think what people get from your site without some cold hard statistics.

For gawd sake lose that no right click malarky. It’s not big and it’s not clever. It’s annoying me and I’m just looking to help you. As a customer I might want to open the gallery up in a new tab at the same time as looking at the prices. Hey, so someone uses a photo of yours. The right click doesn’t stop them anyway. And I can’t get to hairy dog site either without leaving your site (i.e. customers leaving your site..).

Yep, loose the furry hat. Don’t necessarily have to have a suit and tie kinda picture but I think it comes across slightly ‘crazy’ – will he or won’t he turn up for my wedding.

Daft point – if you’re hoping for Newcastle weddings potentially maybe less Sunderland Stadium of Light photos – could be putting the poor diddums geordies off, they’re not that bright. 😛

Consider getting a pause (even if just hovering over the image) on the slideshow – let people see each image rather than having to wait for it to come round again. Just imagine some bride getting the groom to look up from the footy to see a nice photo on your site, and it’s gone.

Don’t use the title as your keyword spamming tool – it should be something like “Top quality wedding photography with Emerson Photography” or something. I’d suggest also putting “Emerson Phographers – ” as the first text on all your titles. Meta name description probabaly needs a makeover too.

Put a few more uses of the word ‘wedding’ but be subtle. Maybe “I’m Jamie Emerson, a wedding and portrait photographer based in Houghton-Le-Spring and covering weddings in the whole of the North East, including Sunderland, Durham, Newcastle and surrounds. I will also travel throughout the UK if required. “. You have the word wedding just once on your landing page. Check out http://www.takingthepic.co.uk/ (taken at random) – Google robots are more confident this is a wedding photographers because it mentions weddings a lot more. Though don’t go over the top!

I’d also lose the “please look at my ‘why I’m good page'” aka Why Choose Emerson Photography off the intro text and I’d be tempted to move the first paragraph from your ‘why us?’ page onto the homepage instead. You need a bit more density of wrding on the homepage for the search engines to pick up on and decide what you are about. Alas, photos are nice but Google et all can’t see them and know you are a wedding snapper.

On your about page the last line paragraph caught my eye – just the words ‘my hobby’, I’d either hide it more in the wording or maybe flip it round to say “professional photography is still my hobby…” or those kinda lines.

And I know ‘I enjoy shooting…’ means taking pictures but maybe a different phrase?!

Personally, I’d be tempted to combine the about us and why me pages as they are doing the same job. Maybe you want to change ‘about me’ to ‘about you’ and do some slushy prose about how you look after the bride and groom, and how special their day is blah blah blah.

Your main selling point is not even on the navigation – Gallery link needs to be on your main nav. I’d probably go to the gallery first as a punter rather than find out you like guitars and ride bikes.

And I don’t think it’s ‘properly insured professional photographer’, maybe ‘fully insured’?

Despite what I said above, it’s a nice site. Don’t think I’d be paying megabucks to SEO experts (they’re rarely that). Skim some of the relevant points people have said here and it’ll be slicker. 😀

Get the keyword density up a bit and it might help the google rankings.

I went the Phat wrap gel route a while ago. I’ve got big hands but the bars just felt massive.

Ended up putting a (Velox, I think) adhesive cloth tape on the tops (useful to fix the gear/brakes cables onto the bars too) then a set of Bontrager Double Gel tape over the top – perfect for me.

tubs on a clincher rim?

Well, no, obviously 😀

Tubeless clinchers seem a compromise in the pursuit of ‘ride quality’ that has a solution (albeit equally as expensive) tried and tested. Not sure I’d really like to pump something up to 100+ psi reliant on a dodgy fitting bead and a splosh of gloopy glue inside .

Surely at this point you just go out an buy tubs instead of clinchers, no?

Well, if you’re thinking of getting an outer chainring guide/bashguard then you won’t need the shorter chainring bolts.

I’d be tempted with a chainring guard/bash thingy and a jumpstop to try first before dropping a lot of money on fancier stuff.

if they hadnt said it was ‘unsinkable’ i doubt whether any of us would have heard of it.

Sadly that quote is an urban myth not said until quite a while afterwards by the media to hype up their coverage.

They stopped the Asda ones in our branch a while ago as some bright spark had realised the self service tills took any “10p off” kind of vouchers regardless of if you had the actual items in your bag. People were just scanning an entire booklet in and getting their shopping for next to nothing!

Could be worse. I bought some Sticklebricks for the little ‘un a while ago using the Argos self service. I was actually directed by the machine to a proper till half way through to ‘prove’ I was 18. Some data entry error must have made it think I was trying to buy a knife or something…

Ask Mr Dyson if you can keep an idea (even with your 273+ patents…) when other bigger fish decide its a good one and just start using it….

Labour have to be really careful. The North has traditionally voted Labour, and I’ve seen plenty of examples of fathers pretty much forcing sons/daughters to vote Labour at polling booths when I worked them due to ‘traditional’ values. The thing is those traditional values have almost been long forgotten and it won’t be long before the next generations question the ‘traditions’. A lot of Labour voters I’ve dealt with hold almost diametric values to the Labour party.

Strangely a SRAM/Shimano KMC link works with my Campy 10speed chain, but the ‘proper’ KMC Campag one never fitted.

Using that fairly loose logic your SRAM powerlink ‘might’ work. If you’ve got one spare worth a try maybe?

Specializeds top bikes were always a ripoff. On a very long rainy afternoon I worked out I could buy all the kit on their top of the range full suss (you could buy the frame seperately anyway) just using CRC and still get it cheaper.

Been a while since I did the Reivers. If I remember it’s not as challenging as the C2C, not as many climbs but it’s a bike ride so can’t complain.

The normal trick is probably been mentioned already but….

Initial £1500 is interest free for, say 18mths. You see a nice shiney frame for £500 and buy it on the card.

Whatever you pay off the card is coming off your interest free ‘bit’. So your £500 part is getting 20% apr applied every month until you pay off the £1500. That can ramp up pretty quickly. Even if you pay in £500 you think is covering the frame transaction it won’t be.

Use it once, then never use again if possible.

If you’re picking World Traveller Plus for legroom then it’s better but not amazing. You could take the risk and try and get bulkhead or emergency seats down the back, but no guarantee – airlines often keep bulkhead seats in case people turn up with babies that fit in the basinets on the bulkheads.

If you don’t go for the upgrade you might get offered it for a ‘reasonable’ fee when you go to checkin online, but again it’ll depend on how full the flight is.

It’s always worth at the gate smiling nicely at the checkin person and asking if there are any spare seats with a little more legroom (don’t ask for an upgrade….), maybe throw in the honeymoon angle.

Even if you don’t get pushed to the First Class cabin they might find you some decent seats or an empty row where you get all the seats for yourself.

For info, PE and econ get same entertainment and food, though you probably get first choice of beef or chicken in PE

Think what you’ll find when you try and ‘use’ your now sharpened bar ends is that they will dig in, flip you off your bike and throw you under the HGV tailgating the car that did you an unjustice.

Good quote from Roger Russell – a former engineer and speaker designer for McIntosh Labs – that works quite well with MTBs too:-

“The strategy in selling these products is, in part, to appeal to those who are looking to impress others with something unique and expensive.”

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What DT78 says, just cut through the standard crown race. Watch your fingers, it’s not as easy as you think, those races are pretty tough metal!

I bet that’s because they had the directional Monster cable pointing in the wrong direction 😛

Well, in theory you are going outside of the eBay ‘rules’ by accepting a cheeky bid outside of the auction.

If no-one is bidding already on your wardrobe then you could add a buy-it-now price and do it all legit, but to be honest I’d just do as everyone says, leave the auction running until you get cash in hand.

Though I do seem to remember you can’t pull an auction 12 or 24 hours before the end so beware if you’ve only got a day or so left – someone might bid properly on the auction then leave you neg feedback if the wardrobe isn’t available.

As people say, it’s a nightmare – hundreds of email clients that may/may not render it properly – you need a text only version too if you really want to cover more bases – that’s why you always get link saying “Can’t see this email properly” and have a proper version on a server. Avoid if you really can.

A bit left field maybe, but how about dropping a 28t front chainring on instead of the current 30t? Will probably get the gear ratio close to the Tricross and it’s less than a tenner for an inner ring to try it out. Shouldn’t even need to change the chain either, though the front mech might need a fiddle with.

I hope and pray that everyone sits down and comes up with ONE standard so we don’t end up in yet another standards quagmire:
centrelock vs 6-bolt
IS vs post mount

I can see that meeting happening – Shimano won’t admit 6-bolt are better than centrelock. If SRAM decide to use centrelock is saying Shimano are better. Don’t even get Campagnolo started!

Crown race idea probably wouldn’t work – you’d either strip the thread on the top cap or it’ll pull the star fangled nut (or equivalent out) even if you could get it to push the race on squarely.

Get a hacksaw, cut a slot in the crown race – it’ll seat on easily, and pop off quickly too if required. Never had a problem doing that with any headsets if you clean the edges of the cut.

My thought with disks is some joe public guy ants to make his new disk braked road bike lighter. Fairly simple, stick a set of 140mm disks on, jobs a good un.

Might not stop his 18st on a downhill during a sportif, but hey, his bike is now 100g lighter so it must be better. There’s nothing really he can do to rim brakes to make them lighter currently.

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Thats before you factor in higher pro cycling speeds…..

Oury are nice, though quite thick if you’ve got smaller hands.

I’ve got a Myford lathe with my name on it. I think my Uncle bought it off the company he worked for during the war and he still uses it today, I’m getting taught in the dark ways of old skool manufacturing from a 93 year old!

You’ll get spots in places you didn’t know you could get spots.

Amen brother, I remember that vividly….

Bank transfer is big in Germany. Will give you as much cover (i.e. none) as Paypal Gift. Not sure on charges though, might be a touch cheaper.

Any reason for the 1.5″ requirement?

You can get get tiny digital amps these days (google “TA digital amp”) that could drive speakers in a separate room if your current source has a source out connector. If you don’t want room B playing don’t turn on the amp, though it’s downside it you can’t play room B only.

No problems with using paypal, I tend to use it, like others, for websites I find things on but maybe wouldn’t want them to have my c/card details. Though you would need to make sure that you have the option of credit cards as not everyone has a paypal slush fund.

The linky thing is a no-no though, I’ve seen plenty of small sites go through straight to paypal so I can’t see it being a massive issue.

When we’d finished with ours’ I just took it down the recycling centre, and left it with one of their guys – good condition so I guess someone used it.

I’d not be too sure about that – it probably got the plastic hacked out of it for recycling, that’s all.

I did sell a car seat on eBay. it was a decent/expensive one and I wouldn’t have sold it if it had ever been in an accident. Don’t think I got a huge amount for it (they are heavy/bulky to post) but I suppose if you’re on £42000 a year and they’re gonna take your Child Benenfit away you have to slum it somehow….

I do see a lot being passed around friends and family these days.

Ah, the joys of threading hydraulic hose through a frame then having to bleed afterwards!