130mm would be too much , my mate had a sub5 that he ran with a pair of 150mm drop offs until the downtube snapped at the swingarm pivot!! , don't do it.

Buzz , at the price he can spend(mum has an iron grip on the finances) this is about the best bike he can get + you can't get a £400 bike with forks suitable for a 22 stone+ person.

dano surely it will be cheaper to spend £20ish on an extra firm spring that I'm more than capable of replacing? the bike will probably see more canal towpath use than anything else.

according to my sister who works for the vampires(national blood service)the fluid taken during a full donation is replaced in about 24 hours , the red and white cells/antibodies ect take about 72 hours so you should have your 15ml back in an hour or so.

One of my mates moved out there 5 years ago when his long term relationship fell to pieces, initially on a 12 month work visa but his intention was to get a job , make himself the bosses best employee and get the boss to sponsor his permanent status.

lucky for him he walked straight into a job that he knew inside out including methods his employer had never heard of and the rest is history. He says that nothing would entice him back to the UK .

I used to have a Viscount frame years ago , it had pressed in bearing cups running shimano ax cranks which despite being crap were years ahead with self extracting bolts in the arms and a splined crank interface.

would've thought the press in cups should be avilable somewhere , have a look on retrobike see if anyone can help.

IIRC viscounts were reasonable bikes at the time.

http://www.autow.co.uk/snow_chains/shoe_chains_prices_253.html

These are what royal mail supply to us for winter , they seem pretty grippy except for when you pop into morrisons for some milk after work.

Crikey have things gone up that much? , we only got married 8 years ago and only spent 4K on the wedding and honeymoon. It would've been about £700 less but our original booking for the meal and night do went up in flames 5 weeks before the wedding and it was a mad dash to get things sorted.

See if there's a local rugby club that would host your reception/night do

last nights shepherds pie in a toasted sandwich.mmmmmmmmmmmm

get your wife to try both women specific and small mens bikes , in general women have a longer leg length than men for their given height but a shorter torso therefore women specific bikes usually have a shorter top tube length ( as well as shorter cranks ,softer forks,thinner grips ect).
for what it's worth my wife has a 31" inside leg the same as me but is 5" shorter at 5'5" , she rides a mens extra small Cannondale.

I've no worries , she told him exactly where to get off and that he should stay away for a long time for obvious health reasons

Nice mate.

EX MATE!!!!

Fiancees brother!

My brother in law was my best man and made a fantastic job of it ,he'd known me for 14 years so knew enough to embarrass me and also his sister.

I was also his best man after he was let down by his lifelong best mate(since they were 4 years old)

Couldn't choose the lad who'd been my best mate of 18 years as he tried it on with my fiancee about 12 months before the wedding , what a c*ck!

Jaime Murray everytime , she's lovely!

MountainMutant – Member

mine go into my pocket

Along with my post

Been watching too much 'despatches' ? , do you believe everything you read in the papers too.

Don't tar us all with the same brush! , mine go into my pocket :D

Plus the real cost of processing a 1st or 2nd class letter is more than the cost of a postage stamp anyway.

yep where there's blame……………..

We toured the south west of France , beautiful countryside , vineyards , glorious beaches and exquisite food.
I'd do it all over again we had an excellent time.

http://www.rushcycles.co.uk/products.php?plid=m49b108s292p813&rs=gb

I've got a previous version of this one and have trued 26" wheels with 2.5" tyres on it.

Is this the first instance on here of forum posties giving it the 'who's got the hardest walk?'
( anyway, I'd win!

No you wouldn't , mine's really hard! :(

Due to health and safety law we (postpeople) are not supposed to put our fingers past the outside flap , bloody ridiculous I know but having seen the results of a new letterbox with a strong spring I can understand why.No excuse for leaving mail hanging out though.

On my round last year the local council replaced the doors on all it's properties and I had a few close calls till the springs were broken in.

I've managed to get to work all week no problems despite loads of snow in Leeds , it's been bloody cold though at least a couple of degrees under 0 at the start of the delivery.

I'm going to try some of those speed kings , I had a pair of michelin 2.35 at tyres and wasn't that impressed with them but different tyres work better for some than others , I really get on with panaracer fire xc pro's but know people who don't

I'm still delivering peoples letters in shorts , if I wear long trousers I get too hot.

Loved this bike for years I cried buckets when I had to get rid of it.
(not this exact bike , this is just a pic I ripped of t'interweb :twisted: )

not quite the same thing but in 1997 I was cut up by a car on my commute home , Hit the car doing about 25-30mph(fitter and thinner than I am now,lol)and my left knee shattered the rear passenger window and ruptured my patella tendon(big one between kneecap and shin).

After surgery I was back to work on crutches after 2 months , but it took me another 2 months before I got rid of the crutches.

In 2001 mrs carlos and me were touring by bike in Brittany , all the roadside ditches were pretty full of water and we saw an otter from about 100 yards , it suddenly realised we were on the way when we got about 20 yards away and splashed into the ditch and dissapeared.

easyrider007 – Member

qwerty – Member

i Have the panaracer rampage and they are a cracking all rounder. Not much to compare them to but they roll well. grip like a bugger when u need them.

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I think this would suggest their performance is very similar!

nuke – Member

We love the Lego series games in our house: Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Batman…all great fun

+1 I fight over the DS with my 5 year old , we just got an(ahem) copy of Lego Indiana Jones 2

900cc Fiat Siecento, 39bhp screamed at me to stop at anything more than 85mph(saw over 100 down a hill on M62).

Crackin little car though got 2 f/s bikes and a weekends tent n kit in it.

N95 into the setting sun.

We upgraded to sky+ 3 years ago .Tried to reason with them that a new customer would get it free/on the cheap so why not a customer who'd been with them for 15 years, they quoted the company policy crap so I said fair enough cancel my contract with you I'll go to virgin.

They u-turned so quickly that they nearly got whiplash , and I got a free upgrade and installation :D

mmmm , just got a new hd telly wonder if it'll work again for a +hd box :?:

Simple , tell them you were sick before the holiday ended that way you may be able to claim some holiday days back?

Cornwall , 1 week in june and 2 weeks in august.no busy-ness just chilling out with my family

There's a group of scum that live down on the Hawksworth estate that rob bikes , a mate at work was offered a Marin that obviously was robbed last year when at a mates house(with his own bike) , his friend who lives there said the same lads were always on different 'quality' bikes.

I live near the train station and will keep my eyes open round here.

I'm the same age (nearly 40) and height and weight as you ,average days intake is :-

4am
slice of bread with jam
8am
saus + egg butty
1pm
ham + egg salad
6pm
proper dinner i.e. lasagne/shepherds pie and a pudding.

All spaced with drinks , mainly coffee throughout the day not much alchohol though, even though it's always in the house we just don't really drink it.

I have to admit that I don't eat small portions and look quite big but only start to have problems if my weight goes over 15.5st but anything under 15 feels ok to me .

And I don't feel the cold.

I've got Toyo cf1's on my rover75 in that size £52 a corner , they've been cracking tyres all summer sticking to the road like glue in wet and dry conditions, can't say what they're like in snow and ice cos it's only been a day.
Had Pirelli p6000's before and liked them but not as grippy as the Toyo's

Dad always had bikes up till me being 6 in '76 , always Triumphs or Nortons.
We moved back to Leeds and he bought a mk2 Jaguar , after this he had a mk2 Cortina that he'd shoehorned a V6 engine into then uprated the brakes and suspension added a front and rear spoiler and wolfrace alloys , wot a 70's chavmobile but it went like stink.
Then he's had a couple of lada riva's a lada samara , ford focus and now it's a kia carens people bus.

https://www.lfw.co.uk/diageo/flavourmap.html

have a look at the flavour map and choose something different to his norm from the same area.

Looks like she got punched in the mouth!

Apart from that she looks ok to me.

IMO despite the 'things weren't like this in my day' lines that a lot of older people spout a great deal of them are rude beyond imagination.
A few weeks ago I was in the queue at costco and felt a nudge from a trolley ,I ignored it but it was followed by another 2 harder shoves , turned round to be facing a 70(ish) year old , I told him loudly that 'excuse me' was the normal request when polite people wished to get past ,all he did was mumble and groan . Good for him he wasn't 20 years younger or his wife would've been picking him off the floor.

If the bearings have got as far as creaking have a good check to make sure they don't need replacement , mine started to creak just before they started to collapse.I thought the cones were loose but it was the swingarm moving :oops: