Planet x whiners…grow up just because you haven’t got your own way mistakes happen, though to be honest they haven’t been on one for a while here

I can supply halfords tool boxes complete with tin foil hats for the paranoid.

£350 each

EH!! As opposed to just buying 2 FOR THE PRICE OF 1 = a grand sum of 300 quid from Halfords?

Bargain

she might easily have been able to dismiss you immediately for gross missconduct.

Really? simple matter your leaving , they know it what is there to do?

References are only any use if the person giving them is held in any kind of regard

Colin Chapman must be doing about 9000rpm

Chuckled

Transition/Banshee/Cove/

Just google shopping and those frames all seem to be 1600-1800 rrp quid, I’m amazed people pay that for an aluminium Taiwan frame when you can buy an entire Taiwan Giant for similar

Eh – it’s half that price for the Rocket!

The guy at Swarf mentioned 2500 quid a frame at the LBS ,

The BTR kickstarter mentions 2500 quid a frame

Honestly I thought the Rocket was closer to 1800 quid not 1350 which makes it the bargain (if you can call it that) of the bunch

Value for money if you wait for Pauls cycles on sale offers

Considering the made-in-britain aspect I also think it’s good value

Wow , this is a USP? 2.5k for a frame puts you in Santa Cruz carbon territory

Lilly Allen in dividing opinion horror…two pages though

How dare you question my opinion yunki I listen to nick grimshaw and was only given some vinyl the other day

In your edit….

Yes I’m slow at typing on a mobile on a bus

Yeah see whiny cockbag might have been a better title

However the observant might have noted I covered the irony of the post

An LBS near me charges 1.5 X the normal hourly rate for labour when they fit something purchased elsewhere………..Is that common practice

Hopefully it is true and they go under because folks have the common sense to go elsewhere….some shops buy from CRC also

As for other LBS stories, im no expert but would it not be a good idea to offer discounted repairs and service on any bike bought through the LBS? Perhaps increase all workshop services by 5% and offer a 10% workshop discount on all bikes bought through the LBS. Effectively giving everyone who has bought a bike through them a 5% workshop discount on current workshop prices. LBS have a massive advantage in being able to offer workshop services to people so you may as well play on it. If possible I would also try and offer a discount on replacement parts when the bike is being serviced. This also gives an advantage against workshop only competitors and generally increases loyalty and repeat business.

Is the complaint not then that people aren’t prepared to work for free wages to pay buisness to run etc etc

Bluntly if you can’t compete your going to lose anyway to the big fish that’s the monopoly they might eventually get if largely based on price.

In fact I might wonder if some of the bigger companies with supposed poor service as advertised on here can actually afford to stick two fingers to the customers who do actually take up more time than they are worth ,sales and profit for time spent and all that

You are a troll and I claim my £5.

You will need the 5 quid to spend in a shop that hasn’t realized that the marketplace is competitive

Ribble tend to buy abroad and avoid the main UK distributor (very naughty in the case of something like Shimano, where Madison is the official sole distributor), and their frames are not great quality.

Err think you’ll find this is perfectly legal according to the EU despite distrubutors throwing their toys out the pram

Bike shop owner/employee having to work for a living and not getting a sale shocker, what is it you expect some given right that everyone through your door abandons their freedom of thought

If you dont like the game!!!

that you think all the parties on the form are a crock of shit with no comeback is something else entirely.

i think ill write this next to the box I’m going to create

Maybe you could enforce some kind of voluntary ban on your wife voting for parties that you don’t like?

no need i told her the polling station was atop snowdon

At least hes gone after the Americans international hes like the man from Del monte

Anyone in insurance know if Neils comments RE insurance being more pricey in America are true? read the comments at the bottom

Superstar Brings Manufacturing in house with new I/O Chainrings and Bash Guards

Exactly! It’s annoyingly busy on foot in peak season let alone trying to squeeze a bike past everyone…

If they were not there some days and returned the considerate favour it would be a blast eh? only its not a favour is it ?

I kind of wish there was a black or gaty MTB delegation …you know an exclusive kind of club …………they would whip this into shape

ps lets not forget that country where different coloured folks werent allowed to use the same toilets too!! ffs dont use that mountain its for walkers only they have rights ….pot bellied laugh

pps stupidest comment on here but it is welsh half term obviously.

nesting birds or completely due to rare flora and fauna

all without a doubt worthwhile causes and bans rightly so, no environemt should be sacrificed for fun

walkers, hmmm? not sure how much value they bring to the eco system

Hold on a mo reclassifying bridleways as footpaths,the only error in that thinking is that horse riding groups carry more weight than any flask carrying group out in the wilds, horseriders get uppery and don’t take shit

A good idea is to make it scientific and ban each group for x months in summer to see who actually causes the damage

Its a non issue for now , who says other great riding in the area or even in other parts of the country won’t become subject to being made to volunteer

Also if you set off from surrey to ride your bike make sure you know your banned from that hill for now

We will just have to wait till the government says to reduce accidents on the road and after consultation with motoring groups riding on the roads between hours of …am and ….pm a voluntary curfew has been put in place

That’s shit stirring

Meanwhile public trespass gets wooly sock wearers…..well pretty much anything that feel like

Genius offer some crumbs

Has Harriet Harman’s paedo in the party been done. You would think? something slightly more important to deal with than the call for sacking of a BBC journo ,even if he has tiptoed over the line

Weren’t the ace components on the front page of STW recentley only 25 quid ?

I was told by someone who had been to visit they machine their own stuff now and had lots of Haas machines whirring away as opposed to being just an import box shifter.

Nope, London is a nasty dirty smelly ****hole and for that reason alone i’m out.

Not where the show was held it wasn’t, was there Friday judging Train to Stratford then 5 minutes walk to the velodrome in glorious sunshine in very pleasant surroundings.

The AMRC don’t have a metal printer the mercury centre had it up to last month.

The new 3d printing place on the same site is also without DLMS at this time and from what I heard direct from renishaw 3d print consistency still remains troublesome to the point they have software that checks as it builds ,kind of like live NDT

Interestingly though the new rapid prototype centre is offering 2 days free consultancy in RPT for SME’s if anyone’s interested, and no I don’t work at that site

seriously send all your old parts ill reverse engineer them and send you some back for half that

For investing in their production facilities

Lets for a moment just fix this shall we

Cotic does not own the production facility, Cy is a partner in it and he owns Cotic and also BML which is a subcontract manufacturing company .

Are you saying you are a 50% partner and the other partner changed the locks where you work?

I believe tried or asked before finally deciding not, I just dont understand, before this there had been a dissagreement , I basically steered clear to avoid saying something I really would regret or even as far a coming to blows, the other partner tells me that because they couldn’t contact me they thought they should change the locks.

something not quite right? and its weighted heavily enough for me to say enough

A fifty percent partner shouldn’t be doing this without consulting the other 50% unless there is some other underlying info we dont know ie that 50% is doing all the work, even then its wrong and should be handled differently

I can’t connect the two myself at the moment as to what makes someone think ill change the locks and I actually do the work at the lock change site.

Someone must think I’m going to clear the place out or am mentally unstable.

Could anyone point out what they would do or what the legalities are of a 50 percent partner changing the locks on a premises or even why they would do this

I’d say getting screwed over was putting a year of sometimes 16 hour days and 7 day weeks into a company.

Video just been posted on the RS youtube channel (wagon wheel content):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsbjxE_YUZE

In reality its aimed at the recreational couple then ?

Do you have children?

When I stopped my little girl was the main reason I want to see her grow up. Stopping smoking increases that chance.