Completely agree. He signed-up to classified data handling rules which he has willfully breached. The punishment is punitive.

Punitive or tantamount to inhumane?

The bit that really annoys me is that some people ‘work from home’, yeah right, they send one email at 4:55pm to show how hard they have been working all day.

Meh.. I work from a serviced office, on my own, remote from the rest of my team and my clients.
The only differences when I work from home are a smaller desk, less hardware, better coffee, better screen and a comfier chair.

personally I think its a bit OTT, but happy to spend another day ‘working from home’

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@ Atlaz,

I don’t think Bradley Manning is having much fun right now:

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/12/14/manning/%5B/url%5D

If he wasn’t a suicide risk when he was first locked up, I would imagine he might be by now.

Another myth/rumour to attempt to dispel is the one about all the mass being concentrated at the end of the bike affects handling etc…

Except IMHO it does. I have an alfine equipped cannondale badboy that I commute on every day and the concentration of weight at the rear hub is definitely noticeable when bunny hopping up kerbs or over speed bumps.

Don’t get me wrong it’s still a fab choice for commuting though, especially in this sort of weather.

Sadly Bradley Manning isn’t.[/url] 🙁

This suggests they are 130mm OLN:

http://forums.roadbikereview.com/showthread.php?t=115942

Is a swear word? Anyone want to report it?

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Bought a pair yesterday morning and they were delivered first thing this morning! great ebay seller.

Me too.

The position a road bike puts you in is the main thing that makes it so comfy and fast.

My road bike is by far the least comfy bike I own, apparently it’s the correct size etc but anything over an hour and it’s numb hands, painful back and aching neck.

Same problem on my iPad.

Long photo captions (eg. in the “olympic course revealed” news item) get truncated when they reach the right hand column.

Safari 5.0.1

Blue seems better now – ta.

You need to use a customised default.css:

The day I have to start producing my own customised style sheets to make a website usable is the day I stop bothering with the website entirely.

The first rule of adblocking on stw is that you don’t talk about adblocking on stw

LOL. Funnily enough it wasn’t something I ever contemplated until the “new” site redesign, now though…..

Also far too much white space in between the elements above the actual text of a forum thread, I barely get the first couple of postings on the page when I first visit a thread, most of the screen is taken up with white space and banner stuff which I don’t care about. IMHO – obviously

Blue is just too pale against the white background on the forum topic listing pages, it’s like squinting at text through the fog…..

Is that howies one waterproof?

You ride on the road with a peak on your helmet ?? The horror !! Do the other roadies throw stuff at you ??

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Hadn’t thought of removing my helmet peak – good idea.

Riding on the hoods most of the time. Stem is as high as it will go and flipped up so 6 deg positive rise, saddle is nearly as far forward as it will go.

Sounds like I need to try a fitting. Not sure I’ll ever ride road often enough to just adapt naturally.

Failing that, a large dose of Toughen The **** Up should sort you out.

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Not much use when I can’t use my hands to change gear, unwrap food or grip the bars.

Don’t live anywhere near Southampton.

Or failing that at least seek some advice from someone who knows about such things (LBS, cycle club etc). There’s loads of good articles online as well although about a million different methods and measurements that various people swear by.

Not to keen on taking my cheap mail order road bike into the local roadie shop for advice, feels a bit too cheeky really. I thought I’d start by asking on here in case there were people who knew about such things. The lack of consensus over methods and measurements seems a bit odd.

Never had a “proper” road bike before so nothing to compare with. I wondered whether the numb hands was due to too much weight on my hands which was why I raised the bars as much as I could and moved the saddle forwards. Mind you iamsporticus seems to be suggesting the reverse?

Hmmmm, bike fittings, always seems like a bit of a contentious subject; different methodologies, lots of folklore etc..

I’m 6ft1 and got a large with a 100cm stem.

What’s wrong with latex gloves? Seem to recall a long thread on here about what people carry when riding their road bikes and they were a popular option?

Disposable latex gloves will keep your hands clean when fixing mechanicals…

I’ve got one and hardly ride it at all, for some reason it seems to be the most uncomfortable bike I’ve ever owned 🙁 After about 45 mins my hands go numb, then my neck starts aching and finally my back starts aching. Can’t manage more than about 90 mins before I have to stop. It must be something about the riding position but I can’t work out what. It’s the correct size frame for my height and I’ve played around raising the bars and moving the saddle forward but to no avail…. Which is a shame as they seem to be excellent value for money.

Is it me or is there also a massive crack in that rotor?

I dont see it.

Near the rotor bolts…..

One of the chief joys of the internet is the way it has liberated millions of anonymous hecklers, strikingly few of whom had hitherto risked sharing their coruscating views in public because people tended to yawn, or ask them to shut up, or physically attack them. Suddenly they had an outlet, and before long, a vastly inflated sense of self-worth. They could pop up, courageously tell a blogger that she was fat, and disappear into the night like Raffles the gentleman thief.

Charlie Brooker

My wife is a Bafta winning and Oscar nominated vfx supervisor and reckoned the effects were by and large average but extensive, and she should know cos she did some of 'em.:)

So not your typical "punter" then 😀

I understand that apple have sold and continue to sell a faulty product, what I don't understand is how gullible people can be to have one even though they know its faulty

See you obviously don't understand, if you did you'd realise that the issue is not that clearcut.

Oh and I love the way that you accuse everyone who buys one of being "gullible".

Android malware and googles response:

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/06/exercising-our-remote-application.html

Some comments on the android market:
http://nanocr.eu/2010/06/27/googles-mismanagement-of-the-android-market/%5B/url%5D

Chris you sound like an utter **** I'm afraid.

Thanks for that, does it make you feel a bigger man insulting people from behind the safety of your computer screen?

If you actually bothered to read the whole thread, some people clearly agree with me, others don't. Hardly clear cut enough to warrant this kind of abuse. 🙄 Maybe you should stick to the classifieds, which judging from your posting history, seems to be your only real interest in this site.

weird reducer (1.5 to 1 1/8)

Weird in that it uses unusual 45/45 degree bearings and a very short cup insertion length, not just a bog standard step down headset. Apparently the version used in cannondale alloy frames won't work for this reason.

Biggest problem at the moment is finding replacement headset bearings. The oem headset is a weird reducer (1.5 to 1 1/8) with very short insertion depth, it takes Tange Seiki 4T5-5 cartridge bearings (41mm od, both chamfers 45 degrees). Nobody seems to sell these or list them as existing. New Cane creek headset would be best part of £90. Standard 36/45 degree ones don't fit, campy 45/45 are too larger diameter <sigh> 🙁

Good idea, might try that – thanks.

Fair enough, I should have examined the frame more closely when it first arrived, my mistake – I just started sorting it out in a fit of enthusiasm. This is a mistake I won't make again.

My intention with this thread was NOT slag off the seller, nor to identify him in public, nor to go through all of the various issues raised in my dispute with him. All I wanted to do was to try to establish whether the damage was significant (and thus by inference whether or not it met the sellers original description).

To be fair the consensus on here appears to be that whilst the damage doesn't tally with the description, it probably isn't structural enough to worry about.

Hora – stop pratting about. I really don't want to get into a whole mud-slinging, name and shame, load of crap on here. My original intent was merely to try to find out whether the damage was significant enough to worry about. Although I think the argument that the frame is not as described does hold a lot of weight.

I did open an ebay dispute in the end just to try and get this resolved, is a paypal dispute different then?

To be quite honest the whole thing is actually a bit more complicated because I had already started servicing the bike and swapping a few bits around before I noticed that second bit of damage. So technically the bike is no longer in the condition it was when I bought it….

Ho hum.

Well it's kind of reached a stalemate with the original seller (waves in case he's reading). His description was:

This bike is over 12 months and shows signs of general use i.e cable wear, small scratches and chips. However there is no serious damage, cracks, deep scratches etc.

None of his photos showed either of these two areas of the frame.

So my motivation for posting this thread was to get some second opinions as to whether either of these two marks were serious enough to worry about and therefore whether or not they were contrary to his original description.

The seller is sticking to his guns and refuses to admit there was anything incorrect in his advert. So now I'm stuck 🙁

LOL.