Firstly, have you had the material tested? Some stuff which looks like bonded asbestos isn’t. You can’t tell by looking at it or the age of it (wasn’t banned until 1999 IIRC).

I’ve commented on the sticky thread, counting down to when I get told off or banned or something. 😂

You’re right Cougar, only a month to come to the same conclusion as those that have been here for years, you may have discovered a genius!

More of a genius than you, tried reading my reply to Cougar? No didn’t think so. 🙄

Blimey just took me 10 minutes to post that last post ofmine “sigh”.

Interesting comments from someone whose account is a month old.

Used to have an account a long time ago but didn’t have details of it so after a long long break I started a new one.

Was going to get a P but issues with the site have put me off to be honest, and has been stated above it seems a lot quieter than a few years ago.

until things are fixed

LOLZ!!!

This is why triples are still a good idea for quite a few people. Closer ratio cassette with the extra smallest front ring giving you the lower gears you need. Probably lighter adding on another chainring than the dinner plate size rear cogs.

I had an Ultegra 30/39/50 (IIRC) triple on my last bike coupled with a 12-27 cassette. Could winch myself up the steepest West Yorks climbs with that but still have close ratio gears with the middle and outer rings.

This is what happens when people complain about the site, loads of people say exactly the same thing then Mark very occasionally pops up and comments on one tiny thing (autocorrect this time, we are lucky he’s here at all) while ignoring the huge issues that are making the site a complete joke to use.

So don’t expect any changes, they were there when they changed the forum, looks like they don’t care.

But wait – we have a new classifieds section!! We should be grateful yes?

Err no because it’s rubbish and no improvement on the original. And no-one uses it.

Had a go on a fat bike once (an expensive one) and really couldn’t see the point at all. The added negative of tyres costing so much and having the carcass made of angel tears put me off even more.

Tried a 27.5 plus bike and they are better but the weight and drag are just too much in steep/rocky terrain for me.

I’m all for reusing stuff but you can pick up 1.125” stems for peanuts so hardly seems worth it.

Something’s broked.

Tech are on it now.

Can you get them to sort all the other problems too?

I got a 3 seater sofa in my Volvo. And I mean in, boot and doors shut. 😃

what did it come with? rigid p2s?

Yes, the triple butted ones. Anything low to mid range came with the straight gauge/double butted (not sure which) P2’s which are a lot heavier and feel a lot different.

I have a top end 1994 Kona. Rides beautifully – if you’re on smooth twisty single track there’s nothing to beat it.

I did put wider bars on at 600mm and a slightly shorter stem and it handles even better – don’t go any wider though as it messes up the handling. I also tried some 80mm travel forks on it and it felt terrible. Stick with what it came with and they are brilliant.

Yes of course when it gets really rough and rocky or big drops/drop offs a modern bike will beat it but that’s not the point.

Banning nuts anywhere isn’t because the “fun police” hate you, it’s because nuts are a major allergen that kills people. 

But for the vast majority of people they are a harmless food stuff.

I can’t see how this ban would be practical. Someone could go out on their dinner time and eat something nutty, not wash their hands (I don’t after I eat everything) and unknowingly shake hands with someone they hadn’t met in the company yet and inadvertently kill them.

Would it not be better that the person who has the problem be identified so that people who work around them can take appropriate measures? It could be used to promote some learning of allergies and everyone would benefit and the person affected would probably be safer than banning all nuts and not knowing why or for whom.

Could that person also work from home? In reality you aren’t going to make a huge workplace safe no matter how hard you try unless you ban all food from the building and people have to shower and wear matching protective suits.

Just bought the 1600 light and remote for £40! Bargain!

For a nice secure fit is it best to get the hope mount from CRC then? Not fussed about the light being out front so to speak.

They value your privacy.

Yes ive heard about that. They keep telling me.

Maybe they could add another one which makes the site work properly, you know, like all the other website forums don’t seem to have any of the same problems. 🤔

Look into a cows eyes and you can see a juicy steak,

FTFY

some people have demonstrated it so often on here its etched in my memory for  ever.

+1

Wow – CynicAl and TJ in ultimate forum hard men bellendery competition – who will come out on top?

Our plasterer asked us to leave our new plasterwork at least 2 weeks before painting and preferably with no heating on.

Starting a fire in 4 days was madness.

The problem is that the blown bit is probably only part of what is affected now. You could find bits dropping off later on as the heat has affected the bond between the new plaster and the substrate. Much the same as if you don’t prep with PVA on high suction areas – the moisture has gone so the bond might be affected.

If it was me I’d take the chimney breast plaster off and re do it, I would know for sure it was ok then.

new classified section

Where is it? Hang on…

No disadvantage whatsoever in Verstappen letting him past. What bizarre driving

I like his driving sometimes but he drives me up the wall in that he never thinks anything is his fault, blames his problems on other drivers, the team etc.

Unless he takes some responsibility he will never become a great driver, just one of the “never proved his potential” many.

The mods will defend, the owners make excuses, but the forum is a complete mess and I’d be embarresed to have it ok my CV if I was a web type person.

For me:

Forum reloads every time you go back to the thread list. Every. Chuffin. Time. And it’s incredibly slow to load. I went to my local newspaper site and it took less than half the time even though it’s a typical click bait site with a million adverts on it. I sometimes have to click on a thread 5 or 6 times to get into it as another bit of the page will load causing the click to go somewhere other than intended

No search facility. I mean come on, people were doing this well and often 10 years ago.

People still have problems copying and pasting.

Find an older thread, open it up and all the posts are jumbled up. I know nothing about web programming but surely every post has a time stamp so all you have to do is set it so they display in time order. How hard can it be?

if I thought a P would help I’d get one, but if the techy people can’t even get the basics right then I can’t imagine having a P will make a world of difference – or does it make all the crap programming go away?

then drive at him momentarily.

That was inexcusable. I’d have put him at the back of the grid for that. Lack of respect, disregard for safety etc. If he’d gone a couple of feet more he’d have knocked him over which who knows what sort of injuries.

Local bearing shop, SKF for me every time. When the bloke behind the counter recommends the SKF as they are miles better I’ll go for them – he sells thousands a week so an up sell from £2.50 to £4.50 each for 2 bearings isn’t going to make any difference to him.

When aire Valley cycles closed down in Keighley a couple of independent bike repair shops opened up in the area.

Aire Valley really annoyed me. They used to have an ace shop, sold all sorts of bikes to everyone (I’ve bought retro MTB’s on more than one occasion with their dealer sticker still on) and had a half decent unit near the centre. Proper family bike shop.

I went in one day when they had moved and it was all higher end stuff, the staff seemed aloof and not interested in talking to me. I needed a fairly standard at the time 27.2 post, nothing fancy just a Kalloy or Ritchey one (which most shops had on the shelf) and they just turned their nose up at me and said that they didn’t sell stuff like that. The parking was hard to figure out and it was a more out of the centre. No one to blame but themselves in my opinion.

There’s no point in doing anything until you service it. Oil could be manky, filters clogged, plugs crap etc etc.

What should I do?

Service it?

You don’t measure it.

You go and ride your bike and have fun and don’t think about it.

FFS what is it with MTBers these days.

Dont really want to spend Hope prices if I can get them cheaper. Anyone got a link?

Go to your local bearing stockists (one in every town) and they’ll sell you some decent ones. I get SKF bearings which cost me £10 from a local place in Leeds recently for the 2 main bearings in a rear hub.

I don’t get why a street when it goes from mainly owner occupied to renting can go downhill so much? It happened where we used to live, loads of terraces and a nice community but as the older people died or people upgraded to bigger houses when they had more kids more houses went to renting. Somehow people who rent “tend” to stray towards being crappier neighbours but why is this? It’s not a hard and fast rule obviously (I was a great tenant!). is it the tenants or the landlords that cause the issues? Just a bit weird – it can’t be only that owning a house makes you a nicer more understanding person.

Most people who found it would probably have binned it as most people won’t know how valuable it is or really care. I’d be tempted to do the same….. but would probably inform the police that I’d found it

eBay will place a bid for you then if anyone else outbids you at any time it will bid again just a little bit more until it reaches your max amount. It won’t wait until the last minute.

Somtimes what people do it get someone else to bid their item up if you’ve put a bid on to get as much as possible (shill bidding and not allowed but hard to stop). If you look at the bid history and there are loads of small incremental bids from someone this may have happened but it’s not a hard and fast rule.

You can use a 3rd party program to bid for you and they can do it in the last few seconds – this can often make sure you get it at the lowest price but can’t help you get outbid by a previously higher bid.

Fact of life though, as I said in that other thread.. £5k take home amount ain’t a lot to live a family on.

What crap. You can’t really believe that can you? It really isn’t a “fact” is it?

Or potentially throwing a career away that you’ve spent years building and maybe throwing future money away?

What rubbish. A proper parent looks after their kids first and thinks about themselves afterwards. And looking after doesn’t mean treating them with stuff, sending them on expensive trips and lessons and stuff.

We didn’t have an awesome house, we didn’t have a car for many years, I shared a bedroom until I was 17, we never went abroad on holidays etc etc cos my parents made the choice that one of them would give up work to look after us.

Kids really don’t care about how much money your household has.

however it has damaged the car as others have said.

Well that’s your mistake to be honest, I used mine for 4 years and with just the use of a little bit of protective tape (4x 3x3cm patches) on the paint and careful installation each time I managed zero damage.

I had a Thule 9103 and apart from the slightly fiddly first set up it was amazing. It had the metal straps and two huge clamps that clamp the whole thing to the car. I could pick the back end of the car up with it. I loved it but then got a car with a tow bar and went for one of those type next.

To avoid paint damage I use some helicopter tape where the various bits touched the paintwork. This had the advantage of marking exactly where the rack needed to go each time it was installed. I used it carefully and there were no marks on the car when I returned it to the lease company.

I’ve recently got a new works car I can’t fit a towball to and the roof option is really ugly (no mounting points or rails and I don’t use it very often) so I’m going to buy another 9103/4 (whichever fits my car).

Try borrowing Dracs phone.

Eh?