Having been interviewed by a number of drones up to this point for a job in a small bio-tech firm, the MD decided to conduct the final interview herself. I’d performed well in the previous rounds, and it came down to me and this spotty oik who had much less experience.

It was pretty much in the bag, she was impressed, I was happy. I stood up, shook her hand, as I walked out the door thanking her for the time, promptly fell over the knee high filing cabinate and landed in an ungainly heap on the carpet.

I didn’t get the job.

I found the crank brothers speedlever about the best thing to use to get tyres on and off my 5.1

It looks a bit fragile, and there are loads of reports saying that they break easily, but I’ve not had a problem in over a year with mine. I think people who break them must apply a force further down the stem which looks a weak point rather than just behind the head.

Thanks for all the help.

Got a CO2 canister, and the tyre popped on in seconds. It was amazing (if that sort of thing excites you, or you’ve spend a fruitless evening battling away with it!)

Doing the sealing now, so fingers crossed all will be good with the world and my first tubeless outing 🙂

Not sure about anchovies though. Not a massive fish fan.

cheers for the suggestions.

No sealant in yet, was trying to get the tyre to seat into the rim.

Off for more washing up liquid, so will report back later!

Help!
I think I’m doing something wrong.

I’ve got my rim, put the yellow tape on, stuck the valve in, put a tyre on, soaped the gap between the rim and the tyre, and sweet bugger all happens when I try and use a track pump. I get lots of foamy bubbles, but it never gets enough pressure to pop the tyre into the bead, so it’s not forming anything like a seal.

I’m guessing that’s why people recommend a compresser to blast the tyre into place? Is there anything I can do with my track pump to get this to work?

I found my nobby nick on the rear snakebited like a bar steward.
Went back to kenda nevagals (Or whatever they’re called) and didn’t have a problem until I tore a hole in the middle of them 😳

I’m not using tubeless rims though, so I wonder if it’s just the tyre?

Bugger. It was a natwest cheque, so that won’t help speed things up.

I need a new bike, I’m going nuts commuting on the bus!

Another option that might recover some space if you’ve installed Win 7 SP1 is to make it a perminant installation.

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Do you use the hibernate option in windows 7? If not disable it and it will delete the hyberfill.sys file.

disable hibernate mode in cmd with powercfg -h off

Cheers.
Just to check I’ve got this right, I apply the yellow tape to the rim, put the valve in, stick the tyre on, add the sealant, and inflate?

Just thinking about all the “my helmet cracked” an “I split my helmet In two” comments….

Arent lids supposed to compress and deform in the event of an impact rather than split? If they split have they have failed to absorb the force of the impact properly and therefore “Failed”?

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don’t think it it matters whether it’s dot 4 or 5.1, but I wouldn’t mix them, that’s just me though…

The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog perhaps?

I fix Schindler’s lifts.

I was in one of those the other day, in a 3 story building. It had buttons up to 9. I was confused. 😕

If my moggy had a thing for mice, and cat food manufacturers came out with “Pan fried fillets of house mouse with catnip and hairball jeux” at least I’d know she was getting stuff she apparently liked.

I’ve always wondered why they don’t do mouse or blackbird flavoured catfood.

Our cat never had a hope of taking down a whole cow, so how would it know, or care what beef tasted like.

I’d like to say it knew how to take down a mouse or bird, the best the lazy fluffbag ever bought home was a slow worm.

Although I’d be better off in getting the back pay, if I’d been paid the correct grade from the start I would never have gone over the 40% threshold over the 5 year period, so, in my example above, I’m going to get taxed at the 40% rate on £45K worth of the £50K back pay.

It just seems a tad unfair that I’ve done the job for the past 5 years, not been paid the right amount, my employer corrects their mistake, and Mr Tax man takes a chunk he shouldn’t have had.

Sorry, I wasn’t very clear.

Say (arbitrary numbers):

I started my current role in 2006 on £20K
This role should have paid £30K I won my appeal 5 years later and was awarded a pay increase to £30K

If I get back pay its £30K – £20K = £10K difference over 5 years = £50K
My taxable income for this year is my salary £30K + back pay £50K = £80K

The 40% tax bracket is £35,001+ this year.

I’m a research technician so don’t earn quite this much (sadly) but the numbers give a good idea of the problem.

a spring fork is superior to any air fork

That’s a matter of opinion….

Whilst springs have a more linear compression, which some people like, air have a more progressive stroke, which some people prefer. Air forks will also more likely be lighter than their spring counterparts and more easily fiddled with.

Another issue you may have, that i’ve found, is that with windows 7, you “need”* a user account with the same name & password on both machines for them to share drives

* by “need” I mean – it’s the only way I’ve got it to work. There’s probably a better/easier way

I reported a dangerous driver after he had a go at smearing me all over the pavement. Greater Manchester police said that they’d keep the record on file and if he ever had any further driving related issues, it’d be bought up.

The pictures are taken at different angles, the bikes are the same, apart from the bottom on is cleaner.

You can make out the front mech over the largest chainring on the top picture, and you can just make out the red stripe around the tyre, but it’s more pronounced on the lower image because of the more sideways on angle.

Worst: Ethanethiol.

They put it in gas so you can smell it. They dilute it heavily.

I had to move a bottle of the pure stuff between fume cupboards. Everyone else left the lab. I threw up.

Best: That smell that scaletrix cars give off if you hold them in place and rev the tits out of them

I suffer with bad motion sickness in cars and on my bike at times.

I found if I was pretty rigid on my bike, even though I was looking ahead I would feel sick, but moving around, and leaning into bends seemed to lessen the sickness thing.

Iso-propyl alcohol

I wouldn’t waste beer on my brakes 🙂

When I changed from Avids to SLX I thought it was a massive step up. When I changed from SLX to K18/24s, I thought it was a massive step up again.

I seem to recall reading that formula rotors are thicker than other brands, so even with the pad clearance dialled all the way in, some rotors may still be to narrow for the brake pads to catch on efficiently.

Swapping from an oldish 160mm Avid rotor to the formula version made a big difference on my setup at any rate, though that could possibly have been down to it being a clean new rotor (though the old one was cleaned with IPA before trying the brakes the 1st time)

I’m using a shimano 180 post adaptor on the front with mine, and haven’t died yet.

I did have to use the formula 160 IS adaptor (which has a very pronounced curve in the middle) as the round portion of the calliper body wouldn’t allow me to use the one that came with the SLX brakes I had on before.

Hope this helps.

As far as I’m aware, you have to be able to establish that the goods purchased were “not of reasonable quality”.

With big ticket electrical items like TVs and consoles, it’s generally agreed that they should be of reasonable quality to last 5 years. If it breaks down after your initial manufacturers warranty, the burden of proof on the lack of quality falls to you, the consumer.

If your PS3 failed because of a “yellow light of death”, and is an original “fat” model, you’d probably get away with whinging to a retailer that this is a known fault etc and get it swapped. If it’s anything else, you might need to get an engineers report to prove that the item is faulty due to not being of sufficient quality at the start.

From the fault you described previously, it sounds to me like it’s trying to update with a corrupt update file, and I would try the hard disk trick mentioned first before trying to get a refund, as any refund will be for a bit less than you could reasonably get a good condition 2nd hand one from.

14. Spin densities and population distributions can be measured quantitatively by neutron diffraction.

… apparently 🙂

Just one more thing….

You won’t be able to recover the contents of your existing hard disk as suggested above, as the drive is encrypted by the PS3

This would be a suitable hard disk as a replacement Aria – Samsung 320 GB 2.5″ SATA drive

Each hard disk is locked to a particular PS3 unit, so unplugging it, and sticking it back in does nothing. The PS3 will only ask if you want to format a drive it does not recognise it. (i.e. it’s a new drive or has come from another PS3)

You should try and get hold of a 2.5″ SATA IDE drive (whatever size you want – bigger is better but more expensive)

Stick this in, and the operating system on the PS3 will see the new hard disk, and prepare it for use. You may need to have a new version of the firmware on a USB stick to get it to update, but if you have one of the old “fat” consoles, you should be ok.

Someone I have to work with, when making an appointment insists on saying “I’ll ink that in my diary”

I want to hit them in the face with a frying pan every time they say it. I can almost here the “SPANG!”

I work as a researcher in a lab with very big magnets. We look at the electronic configuration of materials for various reasons.

It pays the bills

You can get a special tool for removing headsets, it looks like a metal shuttle cock. You’ll need to hit it with a metal headed hammer to get it to ring, as I found without the vibrations, my headset wasn’t going anywhere.

If I were buying 2nd hand, I’d expect the matching crown race. How else would the fork press against the headset barings?

I have to say that I think AVG is utter pants as have seen friends machines compromised without AVG blinking.

I use Avast and as yet have had no problems.

Slightly moist with occasional crusty bits.

There’s something uplifting aboput taking a dump to chariots of fire…

I tend to hear the theme from dambusters in my head when I’m straining to drop the kids off at the pool.

It might be worth getting your moggies hormone levels checked by a vet. It’s possible that a bit of ovarian tissue was missed when she was spayed and she’s giving out signs like she’s in heat (hence attracting the lads)

I’ve been to some amazing places biking, but oddly, think the best ride I’ve had was just popping over chinley churn after work one night with a mate. Sun coming down just as we reached the gate at the top, and everything took on an amazing orange/pink glow as we rattled down dry dusty trails to the TV transmitter.

It’s either that, or the one the other weekend where I managed to fit in 2 tea and cake stops (could probably have managed 3 but it was going dark) in 5 hours of riding.