You lear to pedal smoothly when you own one of these:

Followed by one of these:

And one of these:

Then one of these:

And one of these:

I dont have to worry too much about that now though as I have one of these:
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Things started getting a lot better from the subfive on. The subfive had a lockout, the five had a swinger and worked quite well. The SL had an RP23, the flux has an RP23 but doesn’t need pro pedal

I went for the standard MacBook as it is still user serviceable. In standard form I didn’t think it that quick. Changing mem to 8gb and the drive to SSD it is now much quicker – although no better than a similarly specced windows machine. Its plenty small enough to be convenient on the move and not too shabby to work all day from.

If you go for an MBA you will not be able to upgrade it. I’d suggest getting one with 8GB mem.

I’ve been down the amplitude/peavey ampkit route and didn’t like it. Still have the adaptor somewhere. An annoying fellow called Larsen kept having an effect.

I’ve also got a pocket pod and a Pod HD 300 i need shot of. If anyone in the south east wants either give me a shout and let’s commence haggling :)

Conclusion. I dont like playing with headphones :(

Have you dabbled in Djent at all? Periphery’s self titled debut and follow up albums are worth a listen.

OP – have you tried Sylosis?

Id recommend cheap ones. There are better things to spend on than posh sun blinds.. Jnr will want to be looking out the window in a year or so anyway.

When stopping. Stop. No need for anything else including extra food. I found the Allan Carr book useful. I’ve been stopped now for 6 ish years and haven’t missed it at all
I put on a small amount of weight to begin with as I began to enjoy food but would rather that than smoke. Just don’t go silly.
Back to the OP, yes I coughed a bit – probably a few months as my lungs began to recover and clear. Coughing isn’t bad – your body is expelling all the shit – embrace it and enjoy your riding more.

nealglover – Member

It would mean keeping the same width but I could add more length.

I get emails offering that every day

My width is and length are adequate, I’m just being greedy ;)

I’m liking the idea of blocks on paving slabs. My FiL built many an outbuilding that way

Thinking about it, I don’t want to dig a foot down, get into hardcore and concrete if i can avoid it. Apart from the environmental impact that’s a lot of soil etc to shift. I also don’t really want to break up the old base as I think it’s going to be like the rate my brikkie chaps base (probably at least 30cm).

What about a hybrid approach. The new extended area would be ala mcmooter posts with the other ends laid on the old concrete perhaps?
It would mean keeping the same width but I could add more length.

Evernote for work stuff across iPhone, iPad, MBP and PC

What is it you were buying? I’ve a ton of baby stuff to get rid of – including a very Gucci Mamas and Papas travel system ;)

And +1 for chilling. It’s ebay, I thought this was expected?

Douglas Hill is excellent, I thoroughly enjoyed his books

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/h/douglas-hill/

Simple Sainsbury’s recommendation – Taste the Difference Cote du Rhone – has to be the M Chapotier (sp?) one. Picked it up from a wine guide a few years back and remains a good affordable example.

Having skimmed the thread I’m surprised to see no one mentioning the wine society. I started off with Virgin/Naked wines etc and then joined TWS.

I’ve been very pleased with what I’ve ordered, good wine at a fair price.

(I’m no cork sniffer, if it’s nice I’ll drink it)

I’d go with the wll art suggestion if I were you. I think you’re looking at around £200 for the lot on a good day, the second hand market seems fairly flat unless you’re prepared to sell really low.

I wouldn’t bother doing that if I were you on the off chance you’ll want to play later on. No point taking a loss now then having to buy more kit later. If you like the guitar, definitely keep that if it plays nice. Amps have moved on a fair bit so you could do a lot better than what you have.

Feeling rather pleased, ’twas the element so a nice cheap fix :)

Checked temp by melting sugar which was a new one on me.

I think retina is non user serviceable – RAM etc soldered onto the board to help reduce the size. Bit like the MBA. Worth double checking but I remember this being one of the reasons for picking a standard MBP

It’s a single, low level oven. I’m going to try changing the element as I think that’s the bit that has failed.

http://www.chealwatch.com/

Repaired and serviced my watch with no fuss and at a good price. It’s still working and keeping good time so would use him again.

I found my new MBP performance disappointing compared to my old W7 self built PC until I put 8GB and a fast SSD in it. Now it nips along very nicely indeed.

For Northwave shoes I sized up 1 size (to a 47)
For Shimano boots I had to size up by 2 sizes (to a 48)

Your feet need to be able to move and breathe. Also, tight boots are not warm boots. The straps and heal cup keep them firmly in place. I’m normally ~11 1/2 UK.

HTH YMMV etc etc

Kryton57 – Member
Indeed doosuk – same issue for me despite they are less costly than people think.

And btw – when do I claim this – as per self assessment (ie January)?

You can claim via SA if you already do one or there is a standalone form for MAR on the HMRC site.

Edit form P87

IIRC you can back date MAR 7 years if you have good records.

That’ll be a virtual pint you owe me then ;)

Google “mileage allowance relief” and therein lies your answer

I prefer nutty oaty muesli to the fruity type. Keeps me fuller for longer.

As with any cereal. Leave it to soak for at least 30 mins. It will keep you fuller for longer and make it taste sweeter. There may also be some science* that says your body utilises more of it which is why you feel fuller for longer.

Only heathens, blaggards, the uncouth and salad dodgers do not soak their cereal :)

*or not.

I didnt say it was a good idea :D

Cloud?

If its for streaming I’d look at sonos or squeezebox etc.

My AE can be problematic at times. Either stuttering mid tune or failing to play all together. Only solution seems to be either a reboot or an airplay disable/enable. Neither a quick option. I wouldn’t buy another.

Both are excellent bikes…but the turner wins on the maintenance front having zerks.

As long as you don’t have to drive anywhere, I’d drink whatever you feel comfortable with. Just ensure you can think straight, keep cool and not slur. The advice I had from my boss many moons ago when first going on call was whatever you do, don’t slur :)

Thankfully not on call anymore. Longest stint non stop was 36h – by that point you may as well be drunk. I’d not have wanted to have started those types of calls pished….

piedi di formaggio – Member
I really feel that my living room would benefit from having this added to it. I supect Mrs Feet won’t share my enthusiasm

You can do better than that :)

Try one of the 1 watt amps or if you need more look at the DSL or JVM series. Both work well low volume and loud.

Take a while to bed in (prob due to v long service interval). Once bed in, feel very good. Very stiff. No issues here in 18 months use. Not yet changed the oil in the lowers – will do that in the spring and check seals etc.

Running XMM 120s (the twinshot) on a flux. They dont collect mud in the arch and tend to not get as much aropund the seals as other forks do.

Shop around and you will get excellent VFM

Recommend either the N300 or N600 Netgear router – reliable connections, does everything the average user would need and more.
I do a lot of voip through my WNDR3700 (I think its that one) and get very few complaints over clipping, connected from either a Lenovo or MBP on 5GHz. 2.4Ghz seem to works well for streaming music through Airport Express.

Post it on here, gumtree and music radar.

Price it sensibly if you really want to sell it. You may get more for it on ebay.

If you need front rings, I’d go for either 22-34 or more likely 22-36, with 11-34 on the rear. that’d keep your low gear for tired legs and give you more at the other end.

I dont see the benefit in changing to 10 speed for me but for all I know you’re an olympic athlete where 1/zillionth of a second counts. :)

It’d also be way cheaper to stay on 9 speed. You could use what you save on lots of beer or other naughty things (just in case you are not an olympic athlete you understand)

Machine Head – Aesthetics of Hate \m/

jef – the reason i went for the MBP (not the retina or MBA) was because it was user serviceable. To get the smaller form factor of the retina and the MBA Apple have saved space by soldering memory etc direct to the mobo.
As Rachel also points out above – only the MBP is user serviceable – always research before purchase. The advantage in this is not only upgrades but fixing it if it goes wrong at a later date.

I thought the stock MBP pro was pretty crap before I upgraded it. 8GB is plenty for me as I’m only running one VM, one RDP session, one citrix session and the usual iTunes, Mail (and office 2011), web etc. If you genuinely need 16GB it’d probably melt the table anyway :)

If you’re coming from a windows desktop, one word of warning – MS office doesn’t have feature parity between the win variant and the os x variant. O2011 is very limited in comparison, with none of the nice plugins to evernote, drag to calendar, todo bar etc (unless anyone can point to a reliable applescript)?
(applescript is pretty cool)

Dont get me wrong, i like my MBP, it’s a nice piece of HW, works ok but couldn’t describe it as more stable or faster than a well built win system.

Buy the cheapest in the range and upgrade the HDD to SSD and increase the memory yourself. Without SSD and 8GB they’re not really that quick IMO.

I put a Vertex 4 SSD in mine with 8GB for approx £185. Way cheaper than speccing it from Apple in that configuration.

I’ve got some tinsel for your plastic kazoo John :D

My goggle fu isn’t up to it – I can’t find album sales numbers that I’ve any confidence in being accurate as they’re not consistent.

Yes. STW is full of nerds.

/Raises hand :)

This

mikey74 – Member
Seventh Son…, Brave New World, Dance of Death, A Matter of Life and Death, and Final Frontier all say otherwise.

Plus, their live shows have never been in doubt.

Not this

johndoh – Member
Mikey – I really don’t agree and neither do album sales.

And I *am* a fan – seen them about 10 times over the years (Beast on the Road tour was first, saw them last year). I just don’t think any of the later albums are that good. Saying that, Fear of the Dark is one of my fave tracks by them…

There are still those that think anything post dianno isn’t worth listening to….

I’ll take each album and tour on it’s own individual merits. I think they’ve still most definitely have it.

Now if this debate was about Metallica or Megadeth, as much as i like em, they’re in need of some interesting material.

YM obviously MV ;)