Or it might work, like it does with lots of kids.
Not everyone has a mental problem FFS.

Average labour charge in the UK is £85 an hour so it depends on how long it took to fit really.

Early 90’s Spesh bikes are legendary for being indestructible touring bikes. I converted my Kona to a touring bike for a couple of tours and it was brilliant, so much so that when I bought a “proper” tourer it really wasn’t that much different.

Was the £300 the full bill including the MOT/labour or just for that one part?

Glad to see I’m not the only faint voice crying in the wilderness hereabouts, with my usual response to any “Who gives you the best sound?”-type questions.

I think most people have music on in the background nowadays rather than actually sitting down and listening to it, so they don’t care or don’t know what sounds better anyway.

I used to have a Denon stereo amp, cut down on features for best sound quality. I replaced it with a Onkyo cinema amp and when I found the “music optimisation” button it sounded pretty much like my Denon. I reckon if you buy a decent cinema amp from a main manufacturer like Yamaha the music will sound good as well as the cinema sound. Miles better than one of those crappy sound bars anyway, even a really cheap cinema amp.
Richer sounds are knocking out descent amps from £120 and ones around £200-300 have networking stuff on them too.

Personally I’m hoping this drop bar off road thing disappears up its own back end this year. Unless you are John Tomac on a carbon Raleigh USA with a Tioga Disc Drive it’s just wrong.

Maybe a central standard

LOLZ!!

Bit of advice if you’re buying a retro. Don’t try to make them into a modern bike. I’ve tried wider riser bars and suspension forks on my Kona plus other stuff and it just doesn’t feel right.
Some people have modified old steel frames with disc mounts and that’s probably worth it but it’s an expensive journey.
Anything which changes the geometry tends to mess things up. I’ve got some 640mm bars on my Kona and a slightly shorter (but still a Velocity) stem and that help with the front end control but after trying other things I have reverted back to just those changes.
Just enjoy the bikes as they are, a lot of them (Kona especially hence why they are expensive now) ride really well.

I’m a bit of a retro addict, currently wondering how I can get the early 90’s Saracen Kili Flyer with Middleburns I agreed to buy for £20 back home.

I can see someone coming out with a bike with 1.95” tyres and flat bars and a lightweight frame and non-slack geo (basically the next step on from that gravel bike nonsense) and not a single person noticing it’s basically a 1994 Kona Lava Dome.

Says the man from Planet X. A company still owned by and run by Dave who started it from his mums shed.

Yeah well Marks and Spencer started from one shop/stall, but it’s not really the same now is it??

Even the Wikipedia page for Planet X says it doesn’t operate any normal shops. The one it did have away from it’s distribution centre it shut despite it being in a very cheap out of town place.

What a muppet.

and all I can say is that I hope her mum realises that on her death bed, or I’m going to tell her.

Maybe if she is told now then a better relationship could start and in her remaining years she might be less nasty to her daughter. She might not realise.

Her mum is just horrible and puts her down at every opportunity. Of course I couldn’t say anything (or Christmas armageddon would have ensued) and Mrs Squad just disappeared into the utility room and burst into tears.

To be perfectly honest I think you should say something! If anyone upset my wife, even my own family, they’d get an earful. No one speaks to my wife badly and gets away with it. I promised to love and protect her 15 years ago and that includes verbal insults!!
It’s amazing how many mums can be so mean to their daughters – how does this happen?

Don’t. I have a table saw and have just bought a track saw – it’s much better.

I already have a circular saw I can set up as a track saw, a table saw is much more appropriate for what I want to do.

I got a huge one from ikea some years ago.

They are ok but the ones I’ve seen won’t fit a decent sized centre speaker.

I have a similar problem, I want to get a 55” TV and put it on a stand (don’t like wall mount and it wouldn’t suit room) but all stands look modern OR don’t have a space for a centre speaker.

I’m actually thinking of buying a table saw and making my own TV stand because of the dead end I’m in.

Don’t buy electronics and gear, it won’t make you any better, spend time playing with others. Maybe spend the money hiring somewhere to play with them.

In my experience of investigating companies pretty much every one which has folded and had been trading up to the fold day has been in it for themselves, taking money off as many people as possible while they can. I’ve had company directors/owners say to me directly that it was so they could transfer their busiensss to a relative so they could stop a soon to be ex wife getting hold of it. They didn’t care that people would go without wages or that suppliers wouldn’t be paid, they saw that as a bonus to make a clean start. Most times they started again the next day at a slightly different address to repeat the cycle, and st the same time the new company mysteriously bought the assets of the old company.
Very common in building and small scale manufacturing IME.
I’m not saying this is the case here but IME they’re all crooks with no morals at all.

Wouldn’t say it’s ugly, I would say it doesn’t look any different from 95% of the full suss bikes already out.

There’s no way we couldn’t have given her one at that age

Rubbish, says more about your ability as a parent more than anything else. You are the boss, you tell them what they can and cannot have.

22 pairs of socks. Yep, 22.

That is quite a lot.

I don’t know why people turn their noses up at Lynx, it smells ok. I’m not spending all the money needed to use fancy perfumes every day.

I love getting sprays and fancy shower gel for Christmas, they tend to last ages through the year and I always think back to who bought me them when I get a new one out. Plus it means I don’t have to buy them!

At least all this stuff is useful, so many presents aren’t. I got a new dressing gown and slippers for Xmas which I had asked for and are fab. It’s not all about how much money you spend.

PAAAAAAAARRRRPPPP!!!

I didn’t get an upgrade, mines at 37mb at the moment (fibre to the box on the street I think).

My NHS wife gets shift allowance for nights/weekends I get nothing. As for the pension I pay over £460 a month 14.7% of my salary for the privilege of my cracking pension.

£38k? Awww diddums about your shift allowance.
I’m also a category one responder like the blue light services, I’m on 2/3rds of that and our pensions were changed dramatically a a few years ago. But that didn’t get in the news because we aren’t the brave firefighters (who I’ve worked with plenty of times). I also get essentially 20% less than I did 10 years ago because my pay has been restricted to a max 1% increase for as long as I can remember. I’ve been assaulted in my work too.

£38k? I’ll sign up for that even with the “crappy” version of the pension.

I most certainly am I the fbu pete I’m no scab

:rolleyes:

I do some work with kids ranging from 7 upwards to about 25. The reason why they are drinking a lot less than their parents is because they can’t see the point of it. They still meet up at each other’s house or coffee shops and don’t feel the need to have alcohol to have fun.
As far as I’m concerned pubs are a dying industry and that’s no bad thing. Overpriced, dirty, full of crap music and shouty drunk blokes. No thanks.

I’ll raise your dog and weird cat and give you my new (to me) proper cat. 😉

I don’t know how normal people can afford to go to the pub a couple of times a week for a few drinks, the price now is bonkers.
I don’t mind driving most of the time but it is also annoying that I can be spending more on a pint of Coke than a pint of beer.

I love the fact that this guy spends months designing a device to such precision and thought (designing and printing a PCB, lots of software, 3D printing etc etc) just to throw glitter on people.

It’d have to be a very special bike for me to have to pay what shipping across the pond costs nowadays, there was a big jump in cost a few years ago when I was on Retrobike a lot, you used to be able to ship either way for £40-50 insured but it just skyrocketed.

I don’t think it’s meant for parts to be handled at all. Occasionally touched as in a dashboard but outside and being grabbed I don’t think it would last five minutes.
Flocking was used on dashboards to reduce the sun shining off hard plastics for race cars, not for any durability reasons as far as I know.

Grarea- I have the same problem! 5’7” and short arms and legs.

I’ve got the same phone and it seems fine, although I might take up Apples cheap replacement battery offer to make it last a lot longer.

The bike mount goes on a tube, any tube, and the device attached to it any way so you can have it portrait or landscape so it should be fine.
My bike mount is attached to my stem.
I would say though attaching it to your top tube might not be practical as it might be too far back to read easily.

I’ve been using Quadlock stuff for a few years after trying a couple of other options that really didn’t work too well.
It’s pricey but I reckon it’s worth it. I have a Quadlock case for my iPhone which seems to protect it pretty well and the mount is unobtrusive on the back. I’ve got the bike mount which doesn’t rattle and I can pick my bike up with the phone without the mount shifting.
I also have a more protective case for my phone with a Quadlock adaptor on the back which also works really well.
In the cars I have Quadlock sticky mounts (not the car kit) to mount my phone on the dashboard for sat nav duties, takes less than a second to mount the phone and it’s reallt unobtrusive.
I wouldn’t have kept with the system if it wasn’t good and so far I’ve been really impressed – people keep asking me what system it is when they see it.

5lab +1

I bought a £400 Dewalt twin set and I’ll protect the impact driver with my life if I have to! Mine is an all metal brushless model and I am constantly amazed at how long the 2Ah batteries last – I think the brushless motors use less energy.

Mine has 3 torque settings, the lowest I can put platerboard screws in and the impact action works very slowly in that setting so I know 3 clicks and the screw will be in perfectly. The middle setting is what I use most of the time and the highest setting is only for really big stuff.

I’ve renovated a whole house and I know I’ve used over 3000 screws for various applications. I think I’ve cammed out one or two screws in that time. I always use the correct bit size for the screw and always use Screwfix turbo gold or Spax screws. Tried some cheaper ones – never again! I think about 95% of the screws were PZ2 size but I’ve only used about 3 or 4 bits in that time, and only because I lost them – not through wearing out.

What I did for a friends kid was buy a decent second hand bike and respray it in a colour he liked with some personalised decals on it.
Cost about £50.