Wow that looks pretty good!

Now looking for one myself…. need a folder but refuse to pay Brompton prices.

It looks pretty long – I’m only 5’7” do you think one would work for me?

What are the tyres you used?

As an ex manager, the scariest people to have under you are the people who think the H&S rules are rubbish/don’t apply to them.

In places I’ve worked blatant disregard for H&S is gross misconduct.

Remember it’s not just for safety, it’s for your health that they have these rules.

I’ve eaten bacon. So I’m really happy. If you had never eaten bacon, or it’s been a long time since you did, you may start questioning things.

Life is an opportunity to eat more bacon.

Not eating your own food in someone else’s cafe is very very standard across the whole country, why people are thinking it’s weird at BPW I don’t know – have you never been out for dinner?

That warning/disclaimer reads really well and is quite nice I thought. Remember there are probably thousands of people who’s first go at a trail centre might be BPW. “Bike Park? sounds like fun!” they might be thinking, having only ridden a £200 Carrara before. The warnings are to those sorts of people who make up the vast majority of MTB riders in this country. People riding £1000+ MTBs, easpecially downhill and jump capable bikes, are a very small minority.

I have a Park PCS9 and I love it. Stays in the workshop most of the time You can transport it but it’s sligtly awkward so not suitable for doing it often.
I would echo the above and say it’s rock solid, good on uneven floors and I never adjust the height and not felt I needed to. It hasn’t got a QR clamp but I like this as I do a few different bikes and it’s quite quick to clamp on those different sizes – the handle spins quickly and it doesn’t take much force to keep things solid.

Just to make you sick I paid £50 for mine from Go Outdoors when they had a 50% off all bike stuff!!

I’m very disciplined with my cards but have been sooooo close to extravagant purchases for myself with them (E.g. new TV) it’s scary. I can totally see why people get carried away with them.

One good way of practising being disciplined with them it to get one on 0% for a single purchase and Cut up the card as soon as you’ve made the purchase

I did this with car insurance – total was £400 but paying monthly to the insurance co added a fair chunk of interest. Putting it on a 0% card and paying it off over 3-4 months meant I wasn’t paying it over a year and I had saved a decent amount in interest.

Or do you all have a spare couple of grand for this?

I don’t earn much but I do, yes.

It’s a sad state of affairs that people who are sensible are branded sanctimonious or “virtue signallers”. But then that’s how the CC companies and other lenders like it, isn’t it? People being sensible doesn’t line their pockets.

Because it’s not just as reliable, and you don’t have warranties to fall back on anything major that goes.

Not in my experience! Had 3 new cars through work (need one to do job, isn’t a perk as such). First one needed a £3k new gearbox, second had loads of small bits done, my current one has had issues too. None of the cars I’ve ever bought with my own money have ever broken down or had big bills – but then I get Japanese (Toyota/Nissan mainly) and search round for a very good one. Most I ever spent was £2.5k on an 7 year old Corolla which was actually virtually new – 17k miles will full Toyota history and garaged it’s whole life.

Usually by the time you’ve saved up the want has passed

This x10000. I recently saved up for a new TV – got to my goal of £600 and the effort of saving it up when I got thee had the effect of stopping some spending the money on something I already had (just wanted a bigger one) and spent some of it sorting my bike out as that would have a better effect on me (been off bike a while due to injury and was lacking motivation to restart).

Have only had them to take advantage of long 0% terms but only had them for 3 or 4 months. Lived for 10-15 years without them after leaving Uni.
Got 2 at the moment which I use for buying things for the house I’m renovating but I have the money in savings to cover them, it’s just for the insurance/payment protection thing really.
Get one when I go abroad which doesn’t charge anything for using outside the UK – again have the savings to cover it anyway.
Never paid any interest on any cards but I must have had about 15 of them over the last 10 years – made about £250 in cashback for applying for them though!

I’d never buy anything, apart from a house, if I had to borrow money to get it. Always saved up and bought cars, why pay hundreds a month to get a new one when you can get a 10 year old one which is just as reliable? Won’t win me ina a battle of the Jones’s I know but I’m not paying for that dubious priviledge.

My steel Kona (Tange Prestige Ultimate) is still running just fine and is probably worth more now than when I bought it in 1994 (the frame and forks might fetch £250+).

I saw a Quattro lurking. That’ll do.

Probably one of the most boring and crap to drive in that whole collection. No idea why they are so sought after when so many many cars are better.

£3k is nowhere near Bangernomics territory. Plus I reckon you’d be better with a sub £1k Honda (pick any, Accord petrol will be amazing, just find a nice one) and saving your money for fuel and any work that needs doing. Spending £2k more won’t get you a more reliable one.

Small communities, in general, dont like new people and will give a “nice but keep your distance” vibe. The bigger the town/city the less likely it is for that to happen.

What utter utter crap.

I’m in Hudds, will gladly sort it for but I’m on hols this week until Saturday. PM me if you want.

I’d back the school up, there’s obviously a good reason for it. If she’s done nothing wrong then she can hold her head up high knowing she is ok.

Quadlock.

What are the AMD processors like nowadays?

Just because it’s harder for some people to stay a healthy weight, it doesn’t mean that they then have an excuse to be an unhealthy weight.

This x1000.

I’m overweight by 2-3 stone. I find it very hard to lose weight even with careful eating. Doesn’t mean I shouldn’t try.

I think this new trend of bashing anyone who “fat shames” people is very dangerous. No you shouldn’t abuse people because they are fat but it has spread to such extremes that I can see a time where they are telling doctors and other professionals that they can’t tell people that they are fat or they are living unhealthy lifestyles or they are at risk from heart disease etc.

For all the work I’ve had done I’ve not got more than one quote for each work area. I’ve got people who many people I know have recommended which is always the best policy.

I really liked QoS, really stylish film and the baddie was great.

I can’t help thinking that massive wheels with huge tyres and monster cassettes are in some ways a step backwards – you’ll never get them light unless you spend a lot of money and they end up being fragile.
I still think the 2.3” tyres on my 26” wheels seem pretty big and fine in the rocky terrain I ride on. Maybe it’s becuaee I rode rigid bikes for so long when before suspension started becoming useful and I like to skip over stuff.

If you make a huge tyre light it’ll be fragile, same with rims. But smaller can be reasonably tough but without the weight penalty.

Mattyfez – is the “Intel i5-3470t 2.9Ghz 3rd gen” one I linked to ok then?

The processor naming is just bonkers, I just can’t make any sense of it.

Just general office stuff, like Google Docs etc? Surfing?

I need a hard drive, I have looked into those options but they won’t work for me.

Sorry my last post was meant to include this link. https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F223336726208

You might find that if the spark does some work on the ring main coming from that box that he might have to replace it anyway to ensure it’s up to code.

If it was me I’d have a new modern box in (they aren’t expensive) and metal clad sockets around the room on a proper ring circuit. You can surface mount the cables as far as I know so it’ll be very easy.

What about something like this with the 8gb ram, SSD options selected? £166 with Win 10 and WiFi.

The small size is a big bonus.

Pigs in blankets. Pork wrapped in bacon.

It’s the pinnacle. And a mighty fine one.

Add up the cost of the new bits or bits you paid for then find typical costs of buying the second hands bits you already had – add those on then take 20% off because a) you’ve not had to list the parts for sale and b) he’s a friend.

Of course that’s while trying to do the day to day jobs too.

Surely fixing tech stuff is their day job?

For petes sake just ride the bike you have and stopping fapping over geometry. I get so sick of people thinking a degree or two of head angle will make everything all right. News flash it won’t so if you haven’t got great big wads of cash lying around and you’re stuck with what to do with it just stay with what you have.

I think it’s bonkers that people can spend thousands on a 2nd hand bike without inspecting it first. It’s worth the money in fuel to go and check it – yes you could post it back if it wasn’t right but you’ve got the hassle of waiting in for it to be delivered, the eBay dispute process, then the hassle of sending it back etc etc. It’s a faff even if the seller is helpful and refunds you without quibble but there is often problems….

Literally just signed up for virgins £60 full house movies bundle with £220 cash back from quidco. Sky can go swivel, have never recieved any kind of offer from them in 3 years.

Wait till you get to the end of your contract with Virgin. They absolutely refuse to do any sort of deal to pursuade you to stay nowadays. Their broadband isn’t that great (I supposedly had 100mb but very rarely got that, popular times it was always around 30mb max)
I went to sky and found every aspect was much better than Virgin, the V box feels like it’s 10 years old compared to the Sky one for a start.
Apparantely Virgin are losing customers really fast – I can see why as their service is nowhere near the quality you used to get 4 or 5 years ago and the recent channel loss debacle was just a joke. It’s a shame as I’ve been a customer of theirs pretty regularly since they were NTL but it’d take a lot for me to go back.

but its handy for listening for axe murders creeping around the house.

You make it sound like a common occurance!! 😳😳

Over the next 10 years, my £500 overpayment will save me £23500 in interest charges. I’d never earn that much in any isa or pension account

I agree. I also think there is something special about paying a mortgage off, so while there might be a slight advantage doing things a different way paying a mortgage off earlier would always be my first choice.

I have to say it sounds chuffin lovely, even if it had modern prices.
Simple menu, simple descriptions and probably nothing served on a sodding slate or half a log.

It wasn’t long ago that interest rates were higher and if you’d have asked someone if a 2.5% 10 year fixed was good value they’d have slapped you and asked why you hadn’t already signed up for it….

If you have no plans in moving I’d fix for as long as I could with the rates they are at now. As long as you can do overpayments then you’ve got lots of flexibility within the fixed period.

That sounds quite cheap to be honest.

Drac he certainly did claim exactly that

Oh please shut up for once.

i’ve just done the most marvellously long trump

Now that’s something we can all aspire to.