He might be boring to you. To me, I dont know, never spent enough time studying him to find out! If I were a public figure I’d probably make sure as little of my private life were on display as possible. By their very nature a politician HAS to appear to be boring or he’d be a target for the opposition parties. Being abusive about him being boring in your view isnt too nice!

The un-boring politicians (boris) get slagged off left right and centre and not taken seriously – damned if they do, damned if they dont!

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You’re using their service. They wish to make money from you. Maybe one day they decide they can offer extra safety (by stopping people signing up and withdrawing instantly) but they can also make a little extra cash at the same time. If you don’t like it, dont use paypal – find another service that works the same but is cheaper, or pay cash/cheque – its a bit more inconvenient but you dont like them having your cash for its interest for a couple of weeks so its worth it right?

Companies in payment for services offered shocker…

Looks fine to me. Not my choice of books but then I dont judge people by what they read. Or by what their kitchen looks like!

Looks like we have our own bunch of :

Given the prevalence of numbskulls wanting to take out cyclists I dont think I’d want my kids near a bike and a road until they were aware enough to take their own evasive action!

I got a CD with my new tacx TT so I’ll see if i can dig it out tonight.

thats all from todays chemistry lesson !

Sounded remarkably like physics to me :)

LL has always been expensive and not overly helpful, for as long as I can remember.

Sylar doesnt appear to posses a monobrow. Otherwise very similar.

Easy way to work it out, torque = force x distance from pivot…
1 bag of sugar is 1kg. = 9.81N force under gravity.
1 m is 1m, or 3.3ish feet.

6Nm is 2/3 of a bag of sugar on the end of a 1m pole or
6 bags of sugar at 0.1m (9.81*0.1=1 roughly, multiply by 6).

Good hand tight with a normal allen key.

Is fresh water less “bouncy” then?

Yup. It generally doesnt have 6ft waves on it :)

You can get half-links for 3/32 chains, as I mentioned earlier :)

I dont get all this. I’m a proud lancashire lad but to be quite honest I couldnt give a flying tat about yorkshire etc. Mind you, I hate team sports and the whole rivalry thing anyway.

Those kiddy seats look vastly uncomfortable.

All air based shocks will leak slightly over that period of time, you just tend to not notice on a day to day basis. I’ve a similar rate of leakage from my rear shock too. I think thats why the manual suggests checking it from time to time. It also depends on the volume of your shock, smaller volume shocks will lose a larger number of psi, for a set amount of air lost, than a larger shock.

You can’t tell the tall ones on here. (but i would love to guess who the really short people are on here!)

Lol we should do a height guestimation thread. Or I should just get on with work.

They attract a proportion of people wanting power. I know of at least one PCSO that likes to pretend he is something considerably more important.

Depends entirely on what speed you’ll be driving at, on average, and your vehicle (oddly). At low speeds <40 average your roof rack will make very little difference as the added drag is minimal. Spend lots of time on motorways at or near the limit and you’ll notice a couple of mpg gone roughly on an average sort of car. A family member owns a hilux surf and very little affects its mpg – it sits at 25-26 regardless of whether it is in 2wd or 4wd, whether it has roof racks on or not (with and without canoes – never tried bikes on it), whether it is fully laden internally or not – I can only conclude that the majority of its fuel use is in inherent drivetrain loses! I’m not sure what my 306 estate would get, but its unimportant as I put all my bikes inside it.

Got to say I always preferred my towbar mounted racks, less fuel use, bike hidden from direct blasting of cack into bearing areas at speed, all extents of vehicle visible in mirrors and not having to lug bikes onto the roof!

All the Glasgow people I met a few months back were really nice. Some a little too fast. Some skitted my retro T-shirt and my retro full sus. Pretty much as per online. I’ve not really met any of the more controversial members in person, so hard to say more than that!

Tenmen – you see loads of cars pulled up by unmarked cars on “stop – police” and “the UKs wildest chicken runs” documentaries? They even go hunting for stolen cars in them? And I’m fairly sure my dad has been pulled by an unmarked green car.

And realistic looking blue grille lights can be had for £15ish.

Still, i’d be wary of pulling for an unmarked car, I’d probably wait until I was joined by a marked one which wouldn’t be too long I’m sure! Might be a whole heap of trouble by that point too!

yuk

and

Get the route on Bikely so we can all see your trip! (and steal it for our own uses!)

Battery is dead when the battery is dead, if that makes sense. If it doesnt turn the car over enough to get it to fire up, or if you cant leave it with its side-lights on for as long as you need to, it’s dead. Until then its dying. Batteries are dying from their first day, just like us :)

Usually with an older battery, one run-flat instance is enough to trigger more rapid decay, just keep an eye on it and make sure you change it when struggles to start in the morning. Remember that cold temps upset batteries as the chemical reaction inside doesnt work as effectively, so if it warms up for a bit you’ll have more life yet.

If they used the flashy lights as a way of pulling you over and extracting cash from you then that would make sense but just to pull over to shout **** off seems strange to me.

A couple of acquaintances of mine have fake blue lights under grille that they use to a) clear traffic out of the way when wanting to get somewhere at high speed and b) scare people into pulling over when they’ve pee’d them off. Dont think either have actually stopped and got out, but give them a few years and high blood pressure and I’m sure they’ll progress to it!

I think he was using the forum to avoid his apparently stunning girlfriend with expensive tastes.

Thats an informative profile page!

Is all this really just about that disc brake thread? Good lord!

I doubt it, I’ve seen a few of ros posts which went along the lines of an insult machine with tourettes – “normal conversation…..normal conversation….insult…..insult…..normal conversation, me insulting? nah its you lot”.

Just a stab in the dark (based on problems my missus is having with her megane) – check where the water drains from the windscreen. In her car half of the wiring goes via a connector and fusebox directly where the water gathers under the windscreen (near the battery) before it drains into the inner wing. Smart renault designs. On her car it is well known to cause dash problems and just needs a strip down and clean. Would have thought renault would pick up on this, but I dont trust garages.

Us ‘brown-skinned’ people don’t really like to be called ‘****’

I’m english. I have, on several occasions, been mistaken for an australian. Doesnt bother me. Never even set foot in Aus. As mentioned in a post above, the use of “****” as an insult or in a derogatory fashion (labelling anyone not white as “a ****” for example) is a different kettle of fish.

“a little disappointment” – yes, ro was.

Not entirely sure how, during a perfectly reasonable and open discussion, ro throwing in completely random and pathetic insults constitutes “productive and entertaining” as ro so obvisouly thought he/she was. Either way it’s no loss here. Had the same opinion and comments as other peole, but was more insulting – didnt really add much.

Mate of mine has similar problems, he went through about 5 tubes in a week in the alps. Can only assume its the rim/tyre combination. Try spraying coke or maybe some spray-tack around the bead?

Who cares? Inbred toff shown to hold childish racist views

:lol: oh the irony.

I suspect ro doesnt ride, he just hangs around spurting strange sentences into conversations looking for a response. Damnit I gave him a response!

I have the same issues, trying to lose weight but if I exercise at all my hunger goes on for days and is almost unstoppable, counteracting the point! I notice I get HUGE sugar cravings too, other foods just dont cut it.

davidtaylforth – I think you’ve missed the point entirely. As aw says, SS means your legs get stronger as you have to climb (assuming you’re not easily broken and dont just get off) and if you’re riding along the flat spinning you’re using fitness and not strength. Takes the same amount (give or take) of energy to get from one place to another, all you’re doing with gears is changing the manner in which you apply the torque your legs can produce. I suppose it all depends what you mean by “fitter” in the end, SS takes you across a range of high speed spinning to low down grinding – much the sort of training you see the pros do.

I’d like to add one point. I’m good friends with a dog behavioural specialist (of very high qualification and repute) and she tells me its the owners problem as the dog needs training properly. I tend to trust her over random dog owners and people with an opinion, as she does have a lot of experience in the field. While knowing how dogs react is helpful when dealing with badly trained ones, it’s ultimately the dog owners problem to train it. She also points out that 99% of dogs are perfectly trainable to the degree we are discussing (if the owner knows what they are doing or bothers to train it correctly).

Blow torch attached to a 20mm bolt-through axle perhaps?

Anyone at Fox reading this?

Think you’d need something considerably more than a blow-torch :)

The only concerning thing about the video is that it appears the guy he was calling a **** was asleep at the time so you can’t see his reaction and you have to take it from reports that this was an ‘affectionate’ name for the guy rather than see his reaction had he been awake.

Must admit I did wonder about that myself.

IPA to service a shock?! Would have thought something more petroleum based and less alcohol based would work better at removing oily deposits (being careful about seals etc obviously).

Something tough, I have ripped a hole in the sidewall of two front tyres at Marin!