I caved in and bought an iPad for family use – it is a slick device but I hate the lack of flash support and the PITA of using iTunes to transfer content. The display is great though and I can see why it is successful.

Are you joking apple have STILL not provided flash support on their devices? I thought this was some kind of glitch from 5years ago? How can they release a device that does not support Flash in this day and age.

So what do you do when you land on MOST of the internets websites that are flash enabled? How does it work?

You’ll struggle for either of those things in amble’side!

The ‘season’ is now about 10months long, it’ll be rammed most places with city critters spilling cash everywhere.

If you like your ale’s I think the Golden rule is the only one that does anything, might even be a CAMRA pub, but don’t quote me on that, I tend to just pass through the place, quickly.

Chip shop next to where biketreks’ used to be is always excellent, and if you fancy going a bit upmarket but without the price, the italian on other side of road (requires booking MOST nights) is very good. Meals are £8-16 and bloody good, but not too overpriced compared to just abut everything else in town.

Hope the fella makes a full and speedy recovery!

Was out last year on road bike (spawn of satan) on one of those Evans bike shop sportives things around south lakes. A young lad came off descending east on Wrynose/Hardknott and was lucky not to get hit by a car (race rep mentioned that happened the previous year, with rider ending up INSIDE the car on passenger seat with windscreen wrapped around their neck) and had to be picked up by air ambulance with suspected spinal injuries.
I was quite worried by how long it took the Evans event rep’s to get a grip of the situation and report some decent info around the place, almost might as well have not been there.
But big thumbs up to the air ambulance crew, they landed it in a tricky place, instantly took a complete control of the situation and just got on with it, and did a little spiral above us on way back off to show the lad a view of the craggs I think! Top!

Why these air ambulances do not receive a proper and fair gov backed budget I do not know, they are saints! But in the mean time, pitch in, you’ll never know when they might be coming out to you!

Just bought a pair (of fronts, but they review better than the rears) of Fat Alberts, 2.4″, tubeless ready, light enough for £30/pair from on-one posted! ace! Couldn’t even buy 2/3 of one local for that price.

29er, there are loads of tyres of on-one for cheaps

I’ve just come back to MTB after about a year and a half of road. And instantly figured, damn, i’m going to rubbish getting back into this, but not at all.
Infact, opposite.

I’ve learned to be a lot more flexible on the bike and do more work, not just hang out and let the suspension do the work and also figured, yeah, I’m much more animated now, I boss the bike around 5x more than I ever used to before, but I still have a heap to learn.

though right now its just a case of getting bike upto a decent standard before I sort some training out.
Cyclewise fella’s at whinlatter would probably be the closest (could ride there in 40mins lol).

ah well, thats it then, if she could put up with an S2 for 10years then she is made of sturner stuff than we are giving her credit for.

Get a decent TD5 90 and a constant supply of tea, biscuits and swarfega, and she’ll be in her element.

my mates sisters an archaeologist, and is regularly given the use of a decent/recent (2006 or newer?) 110 with the monster TD5 engine in it, she has a 15-30mile commute in it from where she drops her corsa c off and runs the landy.

She hates it, its a menace to manhandle (or girly handle, and she is very girlie, and tiny, has to practically hang her entire body weight off the steering wheel to get it to turn), she literally physically cannot manhandle it into a space let alone any other factor. and once in a bogged out field, its not that much easier!

Often, unless its been raining for days she just takes the standard 1.2 corsa C and just charges the muddy patchs of the fields to get on and off site each day.

If you HAVE to have a 4×4, make sure its one she can get to grips with. Disco 3’s are nice, and bargain cheap already, early Disco3 + TD5’s are popping up at well under £10k even on dealer forecourts.

BTW.
We have 2x 3D plastic printers. They shoot out ABS or PLA material in white/black/red/clear (clear is a bit tetchy). And yes we can do small jobs. Its orders of magnitude cheaper than any form of machining, and for some smaller components you can produce ACTUAL production components direct from the printer with no faff. Tolerances are generally pretty sweet too as the bead of material is around 0.2-0.3mm profile.

Give me a shout on faster4tec AT gmailDOTZcom if you want something produced.

Generally with machine jobs like this, all the costly time is in converting the drawing, and programming it into the machine. The easy bit is slotting some material in there and hitting EXECUTE. So the price for 1x item is generally 90% of the price of at least 10x items.

+1 on anti-seize (that white/grey stuff).

As I’ve ripped paint of many frames when coming to remove them (cup grabs paint during its years on the bike, then when hammered out of frame, grabs it behind and flakes off = corrosion = bsrt£!!!d to get another one back in).

Anyone know of any wired on cameras that offer 1080p and possibility of an auto focus lens?

Its for a robotic device thats currently only got a 360p sony micro sensor thing on there, which is OK for a very small output screen, but it generates massive noise in low light and doesn’t like any form of contrasty situation.
I’m sure there is something better out there, just haven’t found it yet.

How the hell do you guys get away with dirty bike parts in the house, let alone wash down in the sink!

Yeah loads on the LFGSS.com forum buy the ebay crabones and seem to have survived, the import aluminium stuff is hideous though.

Starve them out!

Handheld (swedish) Algiz 7 – runs Win7ulimate, has an intel atom 1.6ghz processor, 4gb of fast enough ram, and its >Ip65 rated (waterproof enough to take swimming/scuba diving/kayaking), and repeated drop proof (~2m to concrete), and the screen is bright enough to use outside even in this weird ‘summer’ weather. Does about 8-12hrs on a charge too, double that if you put the big batteries in it (which double as hand warmers!).

Yeah OK, so its a work computer/device/thing of awesome’ness, but don’t really see the point in ‘tablet PC’s as such unless they are rugged as **** and for commercial purposes, or can fit in my pocket and play games 😉
Everything in between I don’t really see the point in.

+1 on leaving it short, sweet and professional. Unless you’ve been completely burned and are moving into 100% totally different industry, 100% new location (neither of which are possible as there is ALWAYS a tedious link between them, ALWAYS), otherwise it will somehow kick up a stink at a later date.

HR dept (if its big enough not just to be the woman on front desk with a different hat on) might ring you and ask why, you can give them the flack via phone, not written.

Easton Kilo!

Its big enough for 2 but has essentially no porch or anything.

950g or so, and on one were doing them for £150 a few weeks back 😉

I was so damn tempted to get one, but then car sucked my wallet dry, ARSE!

Looks like the job, but also massive!
I just got a little USB job from tesco’s and then used a spare USB lead, charges phone fine. Think it was about £8 but thankfully doesn’t have an annoying blinding LED and has some kind of cut off built in, also its tiny.

cheers guys!

had a look at devils staircase and the glencoe ski centre dh bit, but decided against it and had a potter around the witchs and ben 10 routes at fort bill, amazibgly despite the thousands that are up here already the forests and official courses were empty!
lots and lots of interesting trails snaking away which made for a great few hours

yeah get out on grass tracks, epic fun in the summer sun

4. Roadies are more polite than mtb’ers, every one nodded or said hello.

I don’t buy that for one minute.

I took up ‘road’ cycling about 18month ago, tried riding with various clubs, been dropped and left for dead by a group in storm conditions and nearly ended up with hyperthermia sheltering behind a wall on a moor. And never have I met such a bunch of whiney, bitchy, miserable, kit obsessed and dismissive bunch of wads’ in my life.

Still enjoy road cycling, but not for one minute the so called company.

MTB’ing peeps = mostly much better, but there are still a few Yeti riders out there 😉

NUUN!

I just sit up in the quiet coach as there is better seats up there, or if its mega busy, the carriage next to 1st, so when they make the call that passengers can sit in 1st, I’m right in the door lol.

FFS

price has just dropped 10p a litre here too, finally! Were paying 144.9 for unleaded about a week ago.

Really CBA’d with media blowing it out of proportion.

No they dont. Our 40 inch non LED has a power rating of 200W IIRC, peak. An electric rad has a rating between 1 and 3kW. Even our old 32″ CRT only used 250W.

Check all TVs for their picture quality, it’s so variable across types that it’s not worth making rule of thumb suggestions about them.

wasn’t talking about their consumption, but the perceived energy they give out. Our 37″ LG from a few years ago gives off a cosy 45C from the top of it, in a room thats generally kept at 18C
It gets to that temp after at least 30mins use, doesn’t use its own speakers either.

Cheers guys!

Yeah spotted the superstar ones and thought they looked/sounded just the ticket (same price as deore so can’t really go wrong no?) but they seem to be constantly sold out, I guess they are a bit of a winner for them?

mboy, message inbound!

My brother has a new set of SLX with the fibre middle ring and it seems to be holding up fine, and I’m up for a bit of fiddling

non LED lit TV’s give off more heat than the average electric raditor!

For degreaser + random fluids, yes.

I have a 1tonne mixer going. Fab’d it up ourselves here, powered by a monster 3phase motor, sits on its own cradle (bolt it to the floor) and will spin that tonne all day long. £1500
Also have a control unit that can make it do fancy patterns for mixing up.

just be aware the samsung is a great device, but samsung are a terrible company to deal with.
Don’t expect any accessories to be released for it, and the driver updates HAVE to be done via samsung kies which is THE most offensive, annoying, run time hungry, piece of excrement program I have ever had the dis-fortune to be forced into using.

Apart from that fine.
Personally I find that apple knock out lovely products, but again as a company they are a PITA, as you know they will knock out the mk5 in about 2weeks or somesuch.

Also with the samsung, I have a i9000/S1 and with the standard samsung android overlay wouldn’t even get ONE day of battery out of it. I’ve now destroyed my warranty by routing it with a developer version and a clean install of android gingerbread. Now it is quick as hell, never struggles running as many app’s as you fancy, gets a GPS fix in a matter of seconds, and battery life has gone from approx 10hours to around the 50-72hour mark, and more like 80hours+ if I have a signal the whole time.

Hope district. No problems.!
Don’t own one, but a mate does, uses it on a 15mile each way commute, he was even using it in summer in daylight (well, what daylight there was) and was getting fists from dazzed motorists.

I think you can rig a front lamp off the same battery pack/ control unit too?

my mate got run over whilst at work a few weeks back. Boss took him to hospital, was just bruised and battered and after a few days was housebound and almost rigid. A week later he returned to work. His work are refusing to pay him for the time he wasn’t at work, union boss can’t be arsed with it, actual boss can’t be arsed with it, and mate is left with a shortfall in £££ despite his best efforts to work regardless of the state he is in.
Normally I’m the first person to say ‘if you have an accident and its your fault, tough’. but in this case, wasn’t his fault and he’s getting no help. Aces.

Take up coffee instead.
Get a hand grinder, a pile of different beans, a machine or a cafetiere etc. Then instead of rummaging the kitchen looking for stuff to eat, spend the time making a decent drink.
I went through a period of about a year when I spiraled (weightwise) and just couldn’t shake the idea of every trip to the kitchen did not have to equate to food. Coffee/tea/juice, anything really, probably could describe it as a distraction, but it works for me.

Food wise I only cook every other day when on my own, and when I do I do casseroles, chilli’s, pasta dishes which are piss easy to make, cheaper than any ‘ready meal’ and will keep a few days in fridge (and generally taste better on second day anyway). Portion size is important too, I used to eat impeccably (I actually love boiled & root vegetables) but I would eat stuff in often vast quantities.

You also have to accept that the weight isn’t going to dissapear overnight, its going to take months, poss a few years to safely loose it and maintain it.

Yup, need to keep up the anti corrosion card in the back of the manual.
Also some require that its serviced with them on time for everything up to the point you claim (even though they often don’t do the corrosion card even when they are supposed to, I assume deliberatly).

We had a massive problem with corrosion with an old merc E class, 2000 W reg, bought it 2years old from merc dealer, at its first MOT (not done with merc and their stupid prices) it failed as was deamed unsafe to even bother fixing, entire area where the rear subframe/ suspension cage/ axle pivots etc attached into the body of the car was rotton in so many places that it was technically a write off.

Took over a year of battling with Merc to eventually get the money back for the car (not the whole amount, only difference between £0 and value of car at that point, so catered for merc dealer price deprecations).

Essentially car warranties = hassle you don’t need in your life. Generally even if its even a common fault you have to PROOVE to the dealer/retailer that it is a common problem then argue they have to fix to xxxx standard etc.
I just get tired of it and as a rule of thumb, generally don’t bother buying new stuff of value anymore as you often don’t get as much protection as you think you will.

riding solo is a good way to meet wildlife.

Same place, two weeks apart, ran into an owl, well 2 different owls, one was a barn owl, the other I wasn’t sure, was small darker colours.

Also deer and various large roosting birds.

These are recent I guess.

Scene of the Crime – Forges du Clabacq – Kodak Portra 160NC

Kuntrol booth – Zeche DB – Fuji Reala 100

some dogs, that right now, hum of wet’ness – digi with ancient 55mm f/1.4

dawn over newcastle – digi with ancient 200mm f/3.5

Sounds like there was probably some good riding to be had in the area, and other groups have had a good time, but unfortunately you guys have been on an odd week when you didn’t get as good a service as you should have.

Not the worst riding holiday ever though.

Went to morocco a few years ago, part of it was 3 days staying with some local peeps and riding up in the high atlas, including uplift to get the masses of climbing on roads out the way…

well. the peeps we were staying with were not farmers living off the land, or general locals, but some grotty drug riddled student hole none of the people residing at the time were known by the organisation just that ‘its a place to sleep’, would have rather stopped with a farmer & his goats personally.
Riding? Oh shit. day 1 guys pulled some 1990s low end rigid mtbs that prob cost £150 back then, and were wrecked in every sense. Both were huge and didn’t fit either of us.

So we HTFU and rode the 1st day anyway. 2hours in and my bro struggled like hell with altitude sick’ness (been up in the hills for a week by then), threw up then more, then some blood then passed out.

Guide didn’t have a clue how to deal with him, nutured him back then rode back down to the drug shack, got him taxi’d back to the hotel and others took care of him. I went back out and rode the rest of the first day, was basically just dirt tracks & roads but at altitude, enjoyed it anyway, then stayed in teh drug shack and said no thanks to the remaining 2 days.

Was nothing like it said on the tin, or from what others had described/reviewed it (they had Cube FS bikes, a land cruiser and a converted rustic farm house with pool + view), and borderline disgraceful guide (couldn’t ride and no medical knowledge).

But recognized that I was getting **** over, left, and only lost the deposit (around £40 inc currency fees) instead of paying the whole amount (£180) and carrying on with the whole sorry saga.

I can sympathize with the OP to an extent, but surely during the course of the holiday something should have been said to the level of care you were getting?

you don’t need a tool to fit them, just a blob of anti-seize on the hub body threads, then hand tighten it, slap a chain on it and ride it tight. It will move a few times under load.

Taking off, any old shimano freehub tool, 99% of LBS have them in toolbox but only a few have them on the shelf to buy.

or are you talking about the weird shimano Uni-glide cassette body? Where the first 5/6 cogs push on like a modern cassette, then the last cog threads on with a lockring?

😉

I make more journeys by bike, running or walking than ever before, but technically, per journey this costs me more.
Which I figure, many other people make the same assumption (or can’t be arsed to actually get off their arses) and then just hand over the cash.

What am I doing about it? Soon I will work in the same town (or within 5miles) that I work, and I’ll get rid of car. If I need to go further afield a streetcar like scheme or rental will do job, and TBH for the amount of use they would get vs. current set-up, would be 1x Santa Cruz LT frame PER ANNUM better off.

Don’t get me wrong, I **** LOVE cars, could talk all day about them, mucking about & restoring retro’s but at this stage in my life, personally I could do without them.
Bitchy whiney internet posts is what makes the world go round don’t you know 😉

my insurance now is MORE than it was when I was 17 and driving a higher category car.
Now have lower category car, 7yrs NCB and am over 25. But still, its more? WTF
I see why the number of UN-insured is so high. thanks to petrol cost and other things I only use my car when I cannot walk/run/cycle there. which makes the stupid insurance cost from only a few pennies a mile, to THE largest cost in my fiscal year.
AND if I ever had to claim on it they wouldn’t give me anything like the actual cost of replacing the car.
WHY as englanders do we put up with this bollocks?