Thats nice!
The frames he makes are absolutely exquisite.

Absolutley tipping it down in Leeds right now!

Cold stewed steak is a delicacy. Thought it was just me!
YUM.

Lots on at cinema: go get drunk then watch terminator.

I have a green job. Though not in the narrow sense of “job created because of a green revolution”.
I am responsible for several million pounds worth of packaging for a UK food/drink producer. Me and my team spend a huge amount of our time working to reduce the environmental impact of our packaging. This includes reducing weight and selecting materials that are sustainably sourced and are more energy efficient.
We have had huge successes over the last 5 years. We are now researching the pros and cons of bio-polymers.

Yes you are missing something! :wink:

Use Finishline lube, teflon spray, or silicone spray. Do not use WD40 or any really low viscosity penetrating spray.

Doh: In answer to the “two is too many”, progress and technology has given us the answer : CAKES AND BISCUITS.

You see, boffins have discovered that by adding CAKE and/or BISCUITS into the tea situation resolves this dilema.

On average folk can drink 76.3% more warm beverage when these are available. Please spare a thought for the waistlines of those that researched this.

Trout, hadn’t realised you were in Yorkshire! Which bit?

I think folk need to support cottage industries and blokes with passion and a lathe!

For that reason, please add me to the list for a light later on this year.
I think that I will get the MOFO bar mount with 1500+ lumen.
Though the 3LED 1000lumen above would be nice too.
Will this be dimmable so that I don’t get shunned by fellow riders?

As for price, there is a big thing in the US with folk turning out custom flashlights for stupid high prices. As you say you are a bloke with a passion doing this (at the moment) for beer money. If you can do a hope/USE beating product and not be ridiculous on price then I hope the good denizens of STW will support you.

Oh…and get that helmet mount sorted

;-)

fairly crap in the same way that frankie and bennies are (same chain).
Prefer ASK or Nandos for that type of thing.

Apparently Gordons not so clever?!

Well found John!

If anyone can’t buy decent tea in the supermarket next week, its because we stopped our factory for 4 hours for him to perfom live!

oh…my local PCSO in South Leeds is giving them out for FREE!!

Got to love Yorkshire!

its not microdots, or little RFID chips.
It’s more like DNA.

It applies like nail varnish.
If you then imagine that that nail varnish has say 20 separate chemicals that may or may not be added to the product. That gives you a 20 string binary number to play with by adding or leaving out each component.

The varnish is also uv reactive to enable location on your property under a standard black light.

I think that plod scrape a sample off your recovered goods, run the scraping through the analyser and that gives the unique binary combination of chemicals that identifies your bottle.

(I made up the number 20 as I don’t know, but it sounds a sensible number to give enough combinations).

On the road you need every ounce of hearing you can get.
Riding with headphones just increases your chance of not hearing a boy racer (or in Harrogate mad Audi driver) approaching from behind. The engine noise from several hundred metres away can tell you so much about whether the driver is a nob or not and means I can leave space as appropriate.

Riding with headphones is Darwin at work.

NZCol, thats a real shame because in NZ you have the worlds supply of lamb/mutton for making good curries!

Severely borked on both work and home pc for me too.
trys loading, locks up, and then unfreezes 30-90 seconds later.

While STW is doing this I can happily open another browser window and load BBC or Google, so its not the PC locking up, just Singletrack.

Bloody hell, thats sounds scary. At least you didn’t need a bath that night ;-)

Kashmir review:
Just back from Kashmir in Bradford (yes the downstairs bit).
It was good food and after a long period of staying away we will be going back.
The meat buhna for £5 was as good as ever, dry with tender meat and half a well cooked tomato in it. It also included the obligatory 3 chappatis!
Sons prawn korma was very average. Daughter loved her chicken tikka and chips for £3.80.
The staff were a little surly, but I there was a staff member (owner?) that turned up and started ranting in a drunken manner behind the scenes. He was like a mix of Oliver Read and Omar Sharif, with the manners of Rab C Nesbit.

So we went for a curry and had a stage show!

Sadly the vinyl table cloths and plastic chairs are long gone, though its hardly posh.

ditto.

Thanks.

Brant…you missed the plastic wicker type plates to serve the chappatis. Surely a pre-requisite for a proper curry house.

Been working on MrsHB since last night to go for a curry today… Likely Kashmir this evening.

Andy – Nazams, thats the one. Nicest staff ever, and they do something unique to their Nans that makes them really nice (I think they add milk to them?).

Well done Gordo…5th!

Right…Kashmir it is!
I assume we are all talking about the same Kashmir?

It’s just that its a bit like reviewing “The Kings Arms” pub…. flippin hundreds of em!

funniest advert ever!

Though war is often truly terrible, we do seem as a species to be at our most inventive when trying to kill each other.

humdred = hundred + cava + eurovision

Thats the one! Shish Mahal, havn’t been for a few years though, but excellent whenever I did.

So come on Kashmir Bradford…is it good again?

Another favourite of mine was in Headingley (woodhouse)…past the Uni towards Hyde Park pub. Turn right at Hyde Park. Curry house was a few humdred metres on right, opposite some working mens club. Best nan’s and Dopiaza in Leeds.

So Kashmir in 2009…any good?

I can feel a CHB family visit coming on tomorrow!

I need your (recent) reviews.

Another good curry house is the one opposite Vue cinema in Kirkstall road,Leeds.

On a related curry note in the Yorkshire area…
Aagrah in Garforth is brilliant. Tried the Thaal in Knottingley last week and it was expensive and took mediocre to the same level.

When you folk say Kashmir, I assume you mean the one up the hill from the Alhambra?
Used to go there with me dad 20 years ago when it was only full of locals.
Stopped going about 10 years ago as the food was nowhere near as good and it was full of “tourists”.
Can those that have been more recently advise if its worth a revisit?
Used to absolutely love their chicken tikka!

Just not Mumtaz, its overpriced and full of poseurs.

Planet X Sportive:
http://chb.fotopic.net/c1505118.html

took me about 2-3 months for it to feel normal

sanyo eneloop.

I have a phase I, 1998 V40 2.0 CD.
I have had it for 6 years and have driven it for 98000 of its 151000 miles.
Absolutely the best car I have ever had.
The sports suspension is overly firm, but the quality of the build is better than any ford I have owned.
The car does about 30mpg typically, but does 35mpg on a run.
I would not go for less than a 2.0 engine, as my cousin had the 1.6 and got less MPG and it was dog slow.
I do a lot of my own work on the car, and they are well put together.
The suspension is getting a bit tired on mine now (top mounts need replacing after 10 years), but the exhaust is still original, and the door seals and other plastic/rubber bits are showing no signs of aging.
If buying again I would get a 2002/2003 car with as many extras as possible. They are an under-rated car in my opinion. Owning this has made me want a volvo as my next car. Either a V70 or XC90, funds permitting.
First though I need to wear out the V40, and it is showing no signs of packing up!

discs

trout…if you build it, they will come.

I have a makita li-ion one that I got from B&Q for about £45.
It has a impact driver function that really helps. great piece of kit.
It’s a pistol grip, but hinges to either pistol or straight.

Christ, theres some odd responses there! Paint a bedroom blue and suddenly I am an 18th century gender stereotyping mysogenist.
Flippin tenuous links or what!
Knowing the kids gender helps a little.
No I would not want my baby boy to be wearing pink, mainly because you spend all your time explaining to folk that this androgenous looking lump is actually a boy, despite pink clothing.
Yes my daughter is good at science and engineering and plays with boys toys and fixes bikes. She also likes frilly dresses.

We found out with both ours.
Glad we did. It allows you to think of names and paint the bedroom the right colour.
Also tail/no-tail tells you NOTHING about personality of the baby or whether they will have their uncle sidneys nose. So even knowing what flavour you are getting leaves so much to be a surprise when the little tyke pops out.

eye, good ride.
Just hope those Wilsons pork pies were fresh, otherwise Ian and me will be on the slimfast diet.