Actually, scrub that – both are going to north of £150 a pair, with the colours adding to the cost.

Condor had come of their 'Uno' wheels reviewed in the comic a while back that looked interesting – not sure if the colour options included blue at the time.

Halo Aero Road rims come in (pretty much) any colour you like for £30 a pop, weigh a about the same as an Open Pro, but that doesn't leave alot for the rest of the wheelset on your budget.

I win!!! 😀 If you have the data electronically, Excel has an absolute function, so you can sum the column/row as-is or sum the absolute values and then see the difference

summation of the absolute values?

The Hatchet on rock night (most Fridays and Saturdays TBH) can be mental…. and the separate club/bar upstairs is nice when they open it for club nights. Oh, and as per local legend "…the front door, beneath the paint and tar is covered with human skin…".

All good advice above 🙂 The Hatchet by the ice rink has a lot of 'character'

So flame me, but what PP said, pretty much to the letter 🙁

I can't decide if those '28' jerseys are going to be the weekend-pro-warrier's clothing of choice now, and so be sold at a premium….. or be so hyper-niche because they were only on screen for about 10 minutes on the live coverage, that even the above-average-joe has no idea what they are, that they're next to worthless ❓

Dragon Workshop in Clifton would be my starter-for-10 – he may not be able to do the watch repair himself, but I'm 99% sure he'd 'know a man' who does.

What wwaswas and akira said – the vast majority of the forum dwellers from shops on here are (fairly!) discrete, helpful, offer advice and contribute to the community (I hate that phrase, but there you go) without it simply being a guerilla marketing campaign. The eedyat acting as a one-man cyclelife/Raleigh marketing vehicle ticked precisely none of those boxes.

You are Tyredocter and I claim my £5……

^^^^ agreed

BBB – In my eyes at least, that's different…..

<zombie mode> …must….drink….Slurm… </zombie mode> 😉

Well, at least the mods will get at least two 'recommendations' then, rather than a generic one line response linking to some cyclelife/EBC/Raleigh product… 😉

wwaswas – "…consider it done…" 😉 Really getting on my teets as well…. 😡

elliot) – fair enough, but I don't think going for a fixed wheel 'cause it'll be cheaper than geared (which it may be) is a good justification on the terrain you are likely to find around Whiteladies road – esp if you are used to a) two brakes and b) a freewheel (…and c) you like your knees as they are and don't want them to explode any time soon under massive loads up hill or 4-figure rpm's down the other side….)

Tyredocter (sic) – make it more subtle or stop the Raleigh/EBC adds. Thanks.

The first rule of fight club……

Above and beyond 'is it big enough', that looks like it has all the robustness of something that the three-little-pigs would live in. Would keep the rain off, but would pose little deterent to a tea-leaf (unless you go for secondary measures as well, like ground anchors).

Surely the cheapest solution is to fix the puncture (yourself!) and if you're no spanner-er, get a shop to look at the gears – that'll be way less than the cost of a new bike…..

especially living in bristol where the roads are so bike friendly. anything i should be looking out for in particular?

Bike friendly, er, yes, but if you're going anywhere near the north of the city the one thing you should be looking for is a bloody low gear!!! As tommid says – why the desparate need for fixed?!?!

Dangerboy – ta.

Yeah, sorry, I was kind drifting off-topic into my own problems asking about the BETD upgrade 😉 As Clubber says, can't see you'll do better than £13 from Wiggle with free postage.

For that BETD replacement service – is it £20 PER CUP or £20 PER PAIR?? It's not immediately clear?

OCB – you are not alone…. I was running bodged Deore mechanicals on P2 before the BB7 on DC19. Pompetamine frame arrived last week. Still waiting on a few bits to build it…….. liking the pics above – mine's white too 😉

Parkers will do you a Ultegra/6600 for £16.95 – you'd have to make up the order to £20 for free postage mind. Can't definitely say the 4500 BB will be OK, but can't see why not.

Others will along shortly to nod sagely or flame-away……

You don't need a solicitor. If you can, take the paperwork direct to the family courts each time you need to submit/return things. They gave the forms a quick scan each time, pointed out where I'd put things in the wrong place, let me correct it there and then – all went through first time and I never had to speak to the b!tch again the amicable settlement was resolved in double quick time 😉

Quirrel – (almost) same boat as you, but then discovered I was outside the prescription range that Oakley will cater for and immediately felt better knowing it was 'impossible' 😉

Have a look here also. http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/presciption-oakley

Alpkit, waterproof and great value

It's a dry bag, with some straps stitched on. Cheap, yes…. comfy, no (IMHO)

I wore out a Bike 1 and replaced it with another as well. There was a thread the other day covering similar ground

http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/new-bag

White Line's look a steal and bombproof…. but are nudging 700g a rim……

I think I'm going to end up with some Halo Aero track rims, and 25mm Schwalbe Marathon+ tryes through the winter to achieve a puncture resistant (if a little dead) ride (for about the same price as just you Arch rims, including rim tape and tubes ;-), and swap to, say, GP4000s in the summer to make use of the light rims. Not ideal, but as you've found, nothing is…..

Had my eye on the Alpha for a while but it was a long time coming and I got bored of waiting. Also, I don't want a braking surface as I'm running discs

Same here, oh, and….. £85 a go!!! 😯

If you wanna go down the FE/CFD training route, have a chat with NAFEMS – you'll get generic advice/training, rather than costly/specfic training from the code suppliers which may not ultimately fit with the code used by the business you end up in. The flip side is that A. Company may be specifically looking for experience in ABAQUS/Ansys/Nastran/Fluent/StarCD/…..the list goes on…..

Ken – just after a rear hub. Going to be built up with 700c rims to go in a Pompetamine. Thanks though.

Tyredocter (sic) – do you have an 'automatic-reply-generator-machine-thingy', as most of your posts seem to take on a very similar format, not always completely relevant to the OP…. none taken…. 😉

I think the one thing we can conclude is that they certainly divide opinion 😉

The thing with the Gatorskins is, for me, a) they seem to remain puncture free until the surface rubber starts to cut and allows flints to act directly on the kevlar breaker layer. This usually gives about 9 months/~3000miles of life and once they start to do this and puncture it's time to bin them. b) the Gatorskin side walls seem pretty good against abrasion, but any kind of sharp object will cut or puncture the side wall relatively easily.

Having said that I have had a couple of tyres that ripped/cut and had to be binned after only a few weeks of use and that's just bad luck. But with a bit of shopping they can be had for ~£17 so it seems like a reasonable compromise when admittedly better tyres, like the GP4Seasons, are going to start at £25/£30 a tyre.

I am very reluctant to have someone round as I fear being told I need new boiler, system, anything else etc etc!

Get three plumbers in to have a look at it – you don't have to accept what they say…. but equally if they all say you need a new boiler/system flush/whatever, they may have a point. What have you got to lose from a no-obligation quote, other than being able to pick their brains?

The deuter Airflow-thingy-system spaces the pack off your back by 20mm or so, and the two vertical strips where it touches seem to be well positioned. Some sweaty-ness seems inevitable but it works OK for me, even when really hot.

He he 🙂 Perhaps it should have had a disclaimer/warning – you can play for hours on this free version before 'winning the first town' and then either stopping/paying