Here have your **** hospitals you godforsaken plebs!

I mean, what’s an overweight 40 year-old, with 3 young kids, who doesn’t have time to ride a bike, going do with a skateboard???

Handy for moving washing machines if you don’t have any other means!

They do have some play in them from new! It’s a bit more than I’d like in an ideal world, but liveable given they are cheapish and reasonably reliable compared to other, often more expensive offerings.

I don’t think there is anything better at the price (usually on sale for 80-90 quid) and it’s been that way for a few years now!

I ground down (to make thinner) a Decathlon pedal wrench, much betterer! TBF their proper cone wrench is alright as well.

Edit: As above I use standard 1/2 inch wrench/spanners on the lock nuts.

@ tomhoward

A man of discerning taste, I salute you sir.

I wonder if those blue rinse Tories were told of the state pensions in Germany, Spain and Greece? £186 pw at 67 in the UK vs £500 at 60 elsewhere

And look at the French, you know the ones who shrug their shoulders and smoke a Gitanes. At least they bother to fight their government, upping their retirement age from 62 to 64.

Over here it’s going to 68, the date was set, then moved forward 10 years! Suppose it’s best to close your curtains and pretend it’s not happening or find something pointless to protest about, Trump or some other distraction. Best not give the French protests too much news coverage in case our plebs get any ideas!

Good to see the snivelling toady British shysters (I’m being polite) leading by example.

Sir ****

Troy Lee makes ugly clothing for red necks

Get the **** out. Most eye catching and innovative more like. You can keep your black and shades of grey!

Who doesn’t like multi colour fade leopard print, polka dots or doesn’t want to be “worlds fastest”

Boom

**** yeah

Not quite 2019 but…….

You’ll like this. Not a lot, but you’ll like it!

Whoever it is will get mauled and held to one-sided standards, verging on the immaculate conception by the predominately right-wing print media regardless. You know the stuff people read on Sundays with a cup of tea, so they can pretend they are erudite and informed!

They didn’t really have much dirt on Corbyn but harnessed the power of suggestion! Labelled him a communist straight off the bat and twisted details of his associations. Went to town on his unprofessional bumbling appearance, nailing his hat on within days and it stuck. Remember other Labour leaders, Miliband his communist Dad, bacon butty and tombstone. As pathetic as it all is, it coalesces in peoples minds!

At this election they offered too many policies, that seemed on the face of it expensive and unachievable, pretty much confirming the communism jibe and high taxes/borrowing planted in the minds of voters. Every small business owner I met thought they were going to be taxed to the hilt and expected to pay a ridiculously high, already resented, minimum wage. TBH most small business owners I know view their staff (and some of their customers) with raging contempt and would be ecstatic to regress back to something resembling medieval slavery.

Forcing Labour to be the conduit for remain (second ref) was fatal, as proved at the previous election when the only mainstream remain party got hammered. I suspect they would have done better competing with the Tories as an alternative leave party, but would have still lost because of the other failings, some of which Corbyn just didn’t deal with.

Dianne Abbot should have been shuffled to the back of the pack, she contributed to an air that became a stink of incompetence.

How many hospitals are we getting?

Twelvety garden bridges brought to you by Carillion and G4S in northern cities as thanks!

Looks like I backed the wrong horse. Should have gone with this for Christmas number 1.

Fox hunting replaced by ne-er-do-well hunting.

2021 Ne-er-do-well Hunting biopic starring Matt Damon as BJ sweeps the boards at the Oscars.

I ****ing loath the Tory’s, but I hate the bunch of utter clowns that have turned the Labour Party into the joke it is today and has gifted the Tories everything they ever wanted

Really it’s what Labour voters said they wanted.

The long standing effective smear campaign and offering an option to remain will cost them this election IMO.

Seems the remainers weren’t wrong, then.

Some of them are racist and xenophobic but being right won’t change the results.

As soon as Corbyn declared he’d do a second ref it split the working class Labour vote. That’s why the Tory’s and right wing press were so desperate to get him on record as remain leaning (not ruling it out) and nail his colours to the mast.

The gob shites have pissed in their own shoes and contributed to a done deal.

The impression I’ve got from people I’ve met, those that go on about it anyway. Is they are looking forward to ramming home the message to apoplectic remainers who insisted they are all Nazi racist thick **** and those they perceive as left wing thought police telling them what to do. A doubling down voting Tory!

All to a man repeating Corbyn is useless, a communist, gonna let all and sundry in and is gonna cost them a fortune in taxes for fanciful giveaways to entitled snowflakes.

Looks pretty grim TBH. Mainly working class with very working class jobs if that makes any difference.

Bit of a boy McQueen back in the day. You won’t get bored of this:

C’mon guys it’s all going so well, happiness everywhere you go, it’s wonderful.

NHS no waiting and fighting to get basic treatments. Ditto almost all public services, some of which have been reduced to shambolic levels, so the private sector can swoop in and save the day like they always do. Choo choos dirt cheap, no hassle or jumping through hoops. Lecy and gas too cheap innit. Violent crime that’s going down isn’t it. Who doesn’t like working harder, longer, for less with no job security to keep you malleable, it’s brillliannntttt. Tax shmax, let the little people pay it, at source, out of their wages. I mean why should anybody own anything, when we can rent it to the clowns and enjoy perpetual growth.

I think they were right a bit of austerity has been good for the country. It’s going down well across the continent, they love it too!

Ordinary people do remarkable things.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-47675381/children-s-joy-at-seeing-dolls-that-look-like-them

It’s almost as if giving people a bit of financial and employment security and the right to be more than a corporate battery is actually a good move for everyone.

We seem to be being pushed down a road toward bowed head corporate slaves in surveillance states/cities. There seems to be attempts to tie people in knots financially so they are desperate and can be more easily manipulated/divided and taken advantage of.

Who can blame people for taking justified action when reasoned discourse isn’t working.

Pretty good for bailing these ones due to zero ventilation.

I could have all that and STILL have to use a random socket to knock out/in a bearing

I’ve used all sorts. Including an alloy torch hack-sawed to specific lengths, because the diameter was perfect and the old bearings themselves to press the new ones back in!

Frank jealousy is such an ugly trait.

21 of Shimanos finest gears spread across 3×7 (yeah that’s right fewture mate) a high quality lock with mount, robust mud guards and high-powered radioactive lights thrown in to sweeten the deal. Bargain at 228 nicker to you old boy.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MOUNTAINBIKE-FAHRRAD-26-R-TYPE-MTB-21-SHIMANO-GANGE-DISC-BRAKE-NP-399-90/283071694513?hash=item41e86346b1:m:mCDkth8Qd8H6OI67JqHQaIw

I’ve heard the redacted bits of the American trade deal discussions are Britain being sold to Trump in order to convert the country into gigantic high speed rail connected golf courses. With the rest of the country a Victorian theme park and hunting grounds.

Did some MF say jungle drums.

Colour Him Farther.

I know there’s quite a few who are keen to get in on this deal before they’re all gone! So here’s the link for the helmets.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Unisex-Mountain-Bike-Cycle-Windproof-Bicycle-Helmet-Adult-Outdoor-Safety-Helmet/274088929013?_trkparms=aid%3D1110001%26algo%3DSPLICE.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D40732%26meid%3Dce247d7399aa4c3bb6c4e3c242592a73%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D12%26mehot%3Dco%26sd%3D143347560523%26itm%3D274088929013%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2047675&_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851

I’m impressed with the suggested activities in the pictures. The steely eyed manikin looks well up for it.

Are go rallyeing?

Was aiming for jockeying maybe a touch of Jocky Wilson.

There’s a rather fetching version with yellow trim. It is sold as a bike helmet though.

You cannot be serious!!? Have you gone mental?the sooner Boris is in office the better roll on the 12th.

Not Corbs you silly sausage. Christmas number one.

I agree a lying former journalist seems the logical conclusion.

C’mon guys I’ve got 50p each way riding on it.

Member most STW’ers live a semi-rural idyll. Moving away from cities and major towns to commuter villages when you got houses free with a four pack of Breakers. They have forgotten what it’s like mixing with the animals!

It’s a combination of:

And the staff lining up like Victorian servants to greet them when they arrive at work in the morning.

I’m not usually a corporate fanboi but Decathlon for sure.

It might have a budget image but some (not all) of the stuff is pretty decent, no nonsense and durable. You do have to shop in other departments, hiking and Skiing to get the best of it clothing wise.

Some of their workshop tools aren’t bad, hydration packs alright for the money, inner tubes cheap enough. You can pick up reasonableish priced tyres (Majic Mary soft and Hans Dampf), when stuck, off the shelf, which is often hard to do in bricks and mortar shops (Halfords and Evans for example) that usually charge full RRP for shit versions of tyres nobody wants. They stock Shimano sintered pads for less than most bike shops sell them for!

A mixed bag for me. The BBC can appear to be quite even-handed (for a state broadcaster) in some respects but in others is so biased it’s ridiculous. The bias toward US news, including the unquestioning, follow my lead US foreign interests is disturbing.

I also agree with:

The BBC is no more than a branch of the Civil Service and so upholds the Establishment. Church, Royalty and the continuation of the “British way of life”.

To me when you look at mainstream media, particularly published media, partially reliant on advertising revenue and circulation numbers. There appears to be significantly more representation of right wing ideals. Walk into any local newsagent and take a sample for yourself!

It’s market driven by nature and for the dailies in particular, there has to be constant churn and eye catching content to keep people buying. There’s more money available from and for individuals, enterprises and organisations who exist by and promote these ideals. Not to mention people love scandal, a bit of escapism, celebrity title-tattle and perpetually changing sports news. Combine these ingredients and you can see why the best selling dailies are what they are.

I did it years ago with the same mech but used a RAD cage!

It worked perfectly with the RAD cage mod and was as good, dare I say better than Shimano 1×11 teamed up with a decent shifter (XT and above) that drops two gears at a time.

The RAD cage made the jockey wheel cage stronger and better than 11 speed mechs, with their pressed tin cages, you can bend with finger pressure!

Selling products that are virtually guaranteed to fail within the warranty period doesn’t seem like a very sustainable business model so I’m questioning if it’s actually true.

You tell SRAM that, doesn’t seem to have stopped them!

Early adopters of the Rockshox Reverb can atest that this is not true. I got 3 of those for the price of one, seemed like everybody did.

Don’t forget Monarch shocks as well. The warranty department must have been snowed under, busiest in the industry! The design team responsible for those two **** ups need their arses kicking right out of the building.

IMO with kneepads, unless you want to wear them under other clothes, bigger is always better. The daft “kneewarmers with squishy bits” like Gform don’t offer much protection, and mine were actually warmer and less comfy than my big bulky 661 Rages (because the big ones can be soft and loose and have opening and good knee-forming shapes, while the minimal ones have to be tight and enclosing)

^^^^ Spot on. No point **** about when there’s so many decent proper pads to be had.

I’m currently using RF Ambush.

Yup got my vote as bikes with the biggest discounts of 2019 through to 2020!

Them Lapierre Spicy 327’s (sold out now) were one of the best bargains I’ve seen in this round of sales. 1400 quid for a 160mm RS Yari and RS coil shock seemed reasonable. Again it’s not the nicest looking bike in the world, but I would have snapped one up for that money, had I not been in possession of perfectly adequate bikes.

Sightseers
The Cable Guy
Groundhog Day
+1 Bad Santa
+1 Burn After Reading (it’s an acquired taste though)

Maybe Falling Down. Not sure it’s supposed to be funny but it is.

I posted up a how to years ago. Can’t be bothered to search for it!

The actuation pin (a silver pin) under the lever gets filled with gritty water and seizes into the post, hence you probably won’t see it! After you have fixed it fill the channel above the lever with silicone so it doesn’t do it again as easily!

You will have to fill the hole with whatever spray lube you’ve got, leave it to soak then use a mallet or other soft faced hammer and bang on the bottom of the post to free it up. It might only move a fraction at a time. Don’t go mad because the post is soft alloy and will crush! It’s a combination of smacking the post on the bottom, squirting lube in and pulling at it with pliers, hahaha sounds good right!

I’d happily have paid 200 quid for a jacket as good

@Nobeerinthefridge Would you, did ya, why!?!