I think there is something like 75% of flights going. I think they're flying to all routes but maybe a reduced number of flights a day.

If it's out of Gatwick then IIRC most of those flights are okay.

It's brand new, but you've built it up and ridden it.

Riiiiiight.

If you're bored you can download each tile
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etc. and stitch 'em together

I imagine the postage cost for weights might be a hefty amount!

integrated stem & steerer

Thankfully that was one that quietly went away and died in a corner.

Personally I don't think the Pace did much apart from a few wild ideas that never caught on (you can't say it was a paradigm shift otherwise we'd all be riding square tubed fixed stem mounts).

S'pose it's claim to fame was it brought the idea to UK that you could drop a couple of grand on a mountain bike and probably coined the phrase "How much? You could buy a car for that".

My old council at Sunderland has just spent £70,000 putting some concrete blocks into a playpark for the kids to play on, replacing the more traditional swings etc. – they looked like a fractured skull waiting to happen.

After complaints they've been removed.

Make a shopping list BEFORE you go shopping. And stick to it!

Definitely worth listing everything spent. I asked the other half how much she reckons we spent on the credit card for shopping etc. every month – she guessed about half of what it actually was. Though she said half the stuff was 'one-offs' – car service, etc. etc. but when I said every month had £x of 'one-offs' she started to realise you need to include them in totals.

A couple of tough months, then if you can get into a position whereby you pay off the credit card in full (you can set the DD to take the full balance a month which focuses the mind…) it'll be better.

If you can give up work and retain ownership of your key assets (ie house) then you are middle class.

Woohoo, I'll be middle-class in a couple of years when the mortgage is paid off……

Macavity – the Campag one is the ISO one. The JIS is the Shimano flavour of taper.

There is mix and match options (think Sheldon explained it).

Ritchie_b – they are a few other bbs that are compatible, but I'd stick with Veloce or Centaur (yes, Chorus/Record is 102mm). £15 for 15000 miles is a pretty good return, don't think it owes you anything!

I suspect Willie Walsh has been brought in for this as his sole job – sort out the union issue. He may fall on his (golden) sword once everything is settled for the good of the company.

BA is different from Virgin et al – it's the equivalent of an old nationalised company – with the old working 'practices' and union ties. All others are pretty much fresh start-ups compared to it. IIRC there's a little political manoeuvring going on in the union too – I think one of the two joint-leaders of Unite will be the general secretary next year and BA-bashing will be high on their CVs.

25lb bike. Lose a lb off with nicer tyres – seems a lot

Stick 180 lbs of bloke on it. Saving minimal really.

Suppose you could argue that the less good you are more stop and start your riding is, so technically rotating mass becomes more important.

In practice I don't think it really matters. You start worrying about grams on tyres, get the lightest you can find, than daren't ride the lines you were doing on the big ruffty tufty ol' heavy ones thus self defeating.

Did have a boy at our school who second name was Urin.

He was rock hard mind, so nobody really called him the obvious…

Admit to doping + say you're going to repent + write a book about it = probable minimum interest.

Admit to doping + say you're going to repent + write a book about it + implicate Armstrong = probable bestseller.

Kerrrr-ching Landi$.

And probably not covered by either house insurance or car insurance….

Not really bothered about speed, just think it may be a bit more comfortable over the potholes…..

As Bristolbike says, will be less comfortable over the potholes. Tyres give, wheels don't.

Chunky 26" slicks are the way. Maybe Schwalbe Supremes? Or something cheaper.

I was waiting for the first MTFU!

It's the Cyclone up in Newcastle. He's getting the miles in but not hills – I've already done the route a couple of times so I think he's in for a couple of shocks halfway round. Suppose even if he gets off and pushes the odd hill he certainly won't be the only one.

Unwritten rule #187
If you're going to blast past me on the road/trail at least try and get 20 feet in front of me before you blow up spectacularly after expending all that wasted energy looking 'good'/'fats'/'fit' (note: I'm not of them)

I tend to either a) have a rest behind them or b) turn down a sidestreet pretending to be home or c) feign a mechanical

Yep, sintered.

Nope, not pulling lever back to the bar so I'm assuming not air in the line.

Always pretty careful with lubes and I've given rotor a good dose of disk brake cleaner (maybe that's the problem….).

Looks like I'll try another set of pads (maybe organic/resin).

Presumably there's nowt much you can do with contaminated pads? Assuming the 'stick 'em in the oven' routine doesn't do much.

Ta chaps/chapesses.

So, do you think you could put the gel INSIDE the cake and make it more like a jam donut (patent pending)?

Open up a Halifax Reward current account. Pay in £1000 a month then pay it straight out again into your proper account – it'll earn a fiver a month doing that.

If you've got a bit of cash do the above and open up a Santander account that is giving 5% on balances up to £2500 and just bounce £1000 between them each month.

Planet X Uncle John? Think that's got rack mounts. Not sure about the matching forks.

Banff is a nice place to visit.

Think we ended up flying to Calgary and driving from there. The main 'road' to Banff is some little twisty thing so don't overestimate your travelling times based on our motorways doing 70. Much of their roads are 55ish, as the police explained to me is because everyone is looking at the scenery and dangerous to drive any faster.

Oh, and we ended up doing 5mph behind a copper car who was following a bear meandering up our equivalent of the A1.

Think Talke started using the ponce word repeatedly again IIRC in some thread last week in a 'debate' with someone who obviously supported the Tories.

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Depends if you've cash to spend. The Sonos stuff is pretty cool and the unit would just connect into the Arcam no problem. Bit expensive though.

OP if you came to me as aa seller with that line you would be quickly advised of where to go and how.

Quickly followed by an eBay dispute raised by the buyer I suspect….

I'd say you've got a case for refusing them because they were described as Kiss Off hubs and they patently aren't.

You've got no comeback on the 36h thing. Don't mention it at all otherwise the seller can claim you're just rejecting them because of that.

Just explain to the seller you came in late to the auction, saw them described as Kiss Off and didn't have time to do any investigation on Google. Frankly I don't think he'd have a leg to stand on if it came down to a dispute. Ebay won't look at the picture and go "that's obviously not a xxxxx", they'll look at the description. That pic may have been the 10th of 15 pics and you never noticed it.

You won't get negative feedback as sellers can't give that these days, though they can (and should) report non-payment as this is the only way they can get their eBay selling fees back (which could be a fair amount to him/her). You'll get a black mark against you (not literally) and some sellers can set up that they won't accept bids from non-payers.

Whether it's morally wrong is up to you.

Isn't that the problem though – how could you actually give out your parties manifesto? You could promise to, say, raise income tax threshold to £10,000, but by the time you negotiate the policies with your other coalition members that might never be acted on.

Surely you could never promise anything again (not that I believe everything in manifestos of course).

I'm not naive enough to believe the horsetrading doesn't go on in the FPTP system now, but surely it becomes almost a requirement in PR coalitions. Could that make the public think they are even further away from the 'system'.

Could be a new dimension to the Lab leadership race. If they find grass-roots members oppose the coalition will they come out and say it as a way of securing the popular vote yet dooming the party to another election (assuming a LibLab pact)?

TJ – I do agree, say, dropping IDs cards or some other legislation might be a good facesaver for the Labs, save the money and just shrug their shoulders and say it was the 'price' of power.

Wonder if there'll be any new polls out seeing what party people would vote for if we did the election again this Thursday knowing this result. Would it swing more to Labs or Cons or just stay the same?

Add to that list Trident and ID cards.

Damm, too slow, someone got there before I could post it!

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Hold on, nobody has mentioned the 33% of people who didn't vote at all. Do they get included in the Labour total of people that 'clearly' didn't vote for the Cons?

Or do they form a coalition with Cameron so there is now a popular mandate of 66% of people who didn't vote for the LibLab pact?

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And Lab plus Lib seats still don't equal the Cons total.

yes they do

I stand corrected. I'm sure I saw somewhere they didn't. Sigh, just goes to show having that degree doesn't make me any brighter than a slug.

They could have considered the passengers a bit more by scheduling the strike further in advance

Unions aren't thinking about passengers. Short notice of strike action means less time for BA to organise replacement staff/planes.

Could be interesting, BA have trained up a lot of volunteers to be cabin crew from other areas in the company. If they flew almost a full schedule of flights then in theory the cabin crew could strike as much as they want. All the cabin crew would be doing then is losing a months pay.

Lets be frank – Labour have had 13 years to give us PR, so they can't say Lib + Lab is 5 million votes more than Cons. Votes are (in the current system) irrelevant, it's the number of seats. And Lab plus Lib seats still don't equal the Cons total.

If all parties stopped spinning stuff so much then maybe the populous might engage with politics some more.

To be fair Molgrips, I'm sure the Cons feel the same about Labs staying in and shagging the country.

GB has been dead in the water for a while. Labour loses and he'd have to resign. Libs go for a lib lab coalition and he'd have to go. Still, I've not yet seen his definition of a stable government so he can resign, so he may cling on quite a while yet

It may polarise the vote though – certainly people may think twice about voting Lib if they associate them with Labour all the time. There must be plenty of Libs that favour the Cons rather than the Labs.

And if Scotland get their way there's a big chunk of red gone too…..

PR has issues but its strength is that every vote counts and I cannot really see how you can be opposed to that just becaus eyou dont like how some of the people vote

Well you certainly wouldn't get the opportunity to vote out your unpopular MP (like Portillo, Jaqui Smith, Blears etc.) – they would be high up the list to get seats, you'd just dump the poor sacrificial lambs at the lower end of the list. And unless there is some complicated way, you'd lose that idea that an MP represents your area (however naive that is anyway…).

Maybe the populous would like to see 'cooperation' in action before they decide that PR is good.