yes, now back in the real world, i would rather crash quickly on a wet road because of oil than crash slowly. speed means sliding rather than broken bones.

Glad we live in different worlds.

You are right it’s the stopping quickly that hurts but sliding quickly on roads surrounded by walls, lampposts, buildings and populated with cars and lorries is not something I’d want to do.

Started commuting on my Merlin Malt 1. Put slicks amd mudguards on it. It was OK but eventually got fed up of swapping tyres and taking rack/mudguards on and off so got a cheap second hand road bike and much prefer it.

Most of the people who use a mountain bike for commuting end up turning it into a proto road bike with slicks/mudguards and solid forks.

How can a mountain bike set up like that do what the OP’s MMbop will do on the trails with 150mm forks and fat tyres?

What about any linking road sections? Wouldn’t 1 X 9 or 10 be massively undergeared?

The original Fox forks on my Trance X had a 230mm steerer.

I put some 150mm coil uturn Sektors on it and really pleased with them.

A bit heavier than the originals but I’ve not really noticed it and you can wind them down to 110 for the climbs then wind them out to 150mmm for the downs. And got them for about £260 delivered from here:

http://www.bike-components.de/products/info/p25685_Sektor-RL-U-Turn-Federgabel-Modell-2011-.html

Pedalon in the UK do Giant spares

http://www.pedalon.co.uk/acatalog/giant_spares.html

Don’t list what you want but worth an email to see if they can get it?

“Consultancy skills” isn’t that an oxymoron?

How tall is Mark Twain?

The answer is 12 feet, now work it out.

Misleading question – it should be ‘how deep..’ [/quote]

I know but that makes it too easy.
Just say you can work it out when you ask the question.

How tall is Mark Twain?

The answer is 12 feet, now work it out.

Only spots for two motors at our house, one for the van other for the car! I only drive the car at the weekends and the odd rare evening, it still gives me a buzz and I’d happily jump in it and just go for a meaningless drive somewhere but FD says no!!

If thats what you are using your “fast” car for just get a bike and learn what acceleration really is :wink:

Serious question to the OP, where can you really use the potential of a fast car on UK roads (unless you use it on trackdays)?

When you’re stuck behind some fanny in a Kia doing 43mph through both NSL roads and 20/30mph villages, maybe?

Know what you mean but driving like only eases the frustration, it doesn’t save much on the journey time.

Serious question to the OP, where can you really use the potential of a fast car on UK roads (unless you use it on trackdays)?
Seems to me you are either stuck in a line of traffic or constantly on the look out for speed camera’s.
So I reckon as long as what you get will keep up with the flow of traffic and provide all the versitility you want you will fine.

carrera fury , despite what people may say its a great bike with good kit.

+1 My son has one and it’s a hoot, good kit amd can easily take forks out to 140mm if you want.

They will be fine. Let us know if the world ends though.

I used 2.1 innertubes in 1.5 slicks and the world didn’t end.

Local authority standard is for the employee to have to give either 1 or 4 weeks notice depending on whether they are paid weekly or monthly/4 weekly.

The authority usually have to give the employee a minimum of 4 weeks increasing by one week for every year of service up to a max of 12.

If she looks at her contract of employment it will all be in there.

If you can’t get the beads to seat then putting a tube in is a good way to get them seated. Break one bead to remove the tube and then go for full tubless. Taking the core out of the valve can help getting the bead to seat first time as well.

+1

Doing it this means one bead is already seated so much easier to seal the other

Young woman goes to see her chinese doctor about a problem she has. She tells him that she is successful, has a good job, her own house and car and has wide circle of friends but she says she cant get a date and tells him her sex life is nil.
He asks her to take her clothes off so he can examine her. He walks round looking at her carefully and finally asks her to bend over. As she does so he looks intently at her behind. Finally he asks her to get dressed and tells her he has diagnosed her problem.

“You have xackery disease” says the doctor.

The woman had never heard of it so asks him what it is.

“Problem is face look exackery like arse”

Not had this with dates but had the same issue with numbers. Some numbers in a column came across as numbers and some as text and the format option wouldn’t changed the text cells back to numbers.

Got round it by using the left and right text functions to split the cell contents up then the concatenate function to “reassemble” the numbers stored as text. After that was able to convert to numbers.

So I would try changing the format of all dates to General (which should display as a number)then convert them all back to the date format you want or try multiplying every cell by 1 to convert to a number then changing to the date format you want.

I’d also be worried about the rear dropouts on the GT. You’re asking them to take a load they were never designed for.

+1

It’s the joint between the dropouts and the bottom bracket that I would be worried about, can’t really see how you could make that strong enough, either vertically or laterally.

Brilliant idea though and make sure you get a video of the first ride.

There are two issues here, conviction rates and length of sentence once convicted.

Nobody can argue that conviction rates are too low (what you do about it is another matter) but there is a debate to be had about length of sentence. That’s what KC was talking about and to assume having that debate means he thinks conviction rates are acceptable or that rape is not a serious crime (when he said just the opposite) is wrong and dangerous.

Unless of course you are an old right winger like TJ who believes in fixed tariff sentencing :wink:

PeterPoddy – Member

basically forced him to crash

No he didn’t. He passed him. Pedrosa bottled it, let off the brakes and stood the bike up, and clipped the back wheel as he did so.

Yes, it was a hard pass, but if Pedrosa only has himself to blame for crashing.

Yes he did.

If you watch the replays Pedrosa’s back wheel it came off the ground at the point Simoncelli was alongside him. He had to let off the brake but Simoncelli had cut in and given him nowhere to go.

rainbow – Member
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxA6HE23fZ8

Here another crash the dirty Sic nearly killed another rider.

Simoncelli fell off, bike spun on track, following rider didn’t see it.
How was that dirty?

Ok, so if i went for the Giant, how much would it cost me extra to upgrade to the 140mm susspension then?

Got some 150 mm coil uturn Sektors from here:

http://www.bike-components.de/products/info/p25685_Sektor-RL-U-Turn-Federgabel-Modell-2011-.html

300 euros delivered. Good service and really pleased with the fork, wind it down for the ups and out for the downs :D

You mean tubeless?

Just had the same problem today with a RR on the back and a Nobby Nic on the front. Neither bead would seat on either tyre.

Got round it by removing the tubeless valve,fitting an innertube and blowing it up so that both beads were seated.

Let the tyre down and carefully break the bead on one side only. Remove tube from that side, refit tubeless valve, “refit” the bead. Went up straight away with a track pump because one bead had been seated by fitting the tube.

Good luck.

Go Primal , eat more fat and less carbs

http://www.marksdailyapple.com/the-book/success-stories/

I think I’d go classic, maybe an old Lotus Ecalt / Elite

+1 for the classic but a Corrado VR6 is what you want.

MAVIS

Middle aged vixens in shorts (or maybe something else beginning with V :wink:)

or

MARG

Middle aged riding girls

Test rode a KTM supermoto a fews years ago and found it a bit tall but manageable. I’m 5′ 10′ with 31 inside leg so make your own judgement as to whether it’s to tall for you.

But loads of bike that will fit you or could be made to fit, sit on some and find out.

My aunt really thought Glen Cambell sang “I’m a right strong cowboy” :-)

If it’s a hope pro. 2 you may need a second chain whip as the sprockets can cut into the freehub body so you need to tug them anti clockwise to get them off!

Or remove freehub complete with stuck cassette hold the freehub in a vice and use chain whip to tug the cassette anti clockwise.

Assuming you have only one chain whip but a vice as well.

Charge Juicer?

Got the Hi and really pleased with it. Bit heavy but lovely smooth ride.

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/charge-juicer-hi-2010/

York Dungeons are good.

Re-enactments of of all sorts of gruesome and grisly events, my kids loved it.

Great filming but all the speeded up footage just reminded me of a Benny Hill video!

Google is your friend

http://www.mtbthedales.org.uk/

The bridleway across Barden Moor is good, so are the routes over Weets Top, lots to choose from.

If you want a steel framed road bike have a look at the Charge Juicer. Wiggle are selling off 2010 bikes

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/charge-juicer-mid-2010/

I just got the Hi version and really pleased with it.

do it properly – 700c x 25 and drop bars.

plus 1

Either of these from Wiggle are a bargain.

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/charge-juicer-mid-2010/

Or

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/charge-juicer-hi-2010/

Just got the Hi and it’s lovely :-)

To answer the OP’s question

Anyone else like to ride like this ?

You just need to count the number of posts on this thread compared with the number of posts talking about going to “1 to 9” or “Double and bash”. I think the answer is very few :wink:

Mine stuck and it wasn’t the cable. Easy way to tell is disconnect the cable and manually turn poploc. If it springs back it’s the cable. If it doesn’t it’s something internal, probably the return spring getting dislodged, thats what happened to mine.

Have a look at this thread

http://www.thehubsa.co.za/forum/topic/43425-poploc-on-new-reba-giving-hassles/

Not read all this but Bradford (or Bratford as the local would say) has to be at the top of list.

Big hole at one end, soon to be piddling little pond full of empty stella cans and used durex at the other. Only shops are pound shops and full of crap curry houses. No contest really.

I have a set on the bike I bought from Planet-X. I have been very impressed with them. They have survived a battering over rough roads and have stayed totally true. The bearings have lasted well. For the money I don’t think you can go wrong.

+1

Got a set for about a year ago. Used them for commuting over some pretty rough roads and still run true and spin really sooth and I’m no lightweight.

Not sure how tribunals work in Ireland but in England once the case goes ahead the tribunal will award compensation if you win the case, there is no haggling.

The haggling comes before the tribunal and it’s between you and the employer. If you think you have a strong case haggle hard and follow TJ’s advice.

It will be up to you whether you accept their offer, if you don’t the case will go ahead and if you win your case the tribunal will make an award. Have a look here to see what you might get :

http://www.jobrights.co.uk/unfair-dismissal-calculator.htm