Yorkshire bridge inn on the road back towards the Snake pass, over Ladybower is always a safe bet.

Pimlico, before 1pm?! Shirley a sick bird of prey manouver?

Baker St

After having my lights nicked off my bike once (stupid me for leaving them on though) was told to cycle home on the pavement by the police.
It was early evening, still fairly light and I was dressed in high vis stuff so I wasn’t difficult to spot, so not sure why they made me cycle on the pavement.

Some swordtails could be a nice addition too.

I dont get why people get so angry with companies like bt. They clearly state how they intend to screw you in the t&cs, so why the suprise and animosity towards them when they do what most businesses do and attempt to stuff you? Give them some credit, at least they generally stick to thier own policies rather than make them up as they go along 🙂

Does no one read the small print any more?!

Every ADSL package will advertise it’s speed as “up to” with a variety of disclaimers saying that you wont get this speed because you live to far away, to close to, at the wrong angle to, to high up, to low down to the exchange that you wont get maximum speed.

Read the small print!

You’ll probably find if you read the terms and conditions you’re not allowed to host your own ftp or web servers. They’ll make it harder to do this by not providing you with a static IP address

I don’t see how this is dishonest. It’s in their t&cs. When you visit the site it clearly states that there is a fair usage policy.

It states that if you select options 1 or 2, you get limited bandwidth, and only option 3 is unlimited. All plans will undergo traffic management at certain times.

Seems fair enough to me.

In the past I’ve made a lot of my friends birthday cakes. I also tend to do most of the cooking in the house. It’s not that my girlfriend is a rubbish cook, she isn’t (and might read this!) it’s just something I prefer to do. Playing with heat and “implements” makes me feel all manly!

Hitting a puppy will not solve your problem.

You feel like a complete knob when you do it, but letting out a very loud high pitched yelp (like a puppy) every time it chews to hard on you will sort your problem out.

Also just getting up and moving away will teach the dog that if it chews you “play time” stops, so it’ll learn not to chew on you if it wants to keep playing.

Dogs are very simple creatures, loosing your temper or being violent towards them will not solve behavioral problems, being completely consistent with them will.

My girlfriend suggested either black beauty and rocky…

You could try cleaning it?

Pop a Steradent Denture Cleaning tablet into the bladder. Add some near boiling water and give it a good sloshing. Drain some of the liquid through the bite valve to get it into the tube. Leave overnight and Robert’s your mothers’ brother.

Sometimes I shout “Weeeeee!” Sometimes I actually wee. It depends on the circumstances and as to whether I packed my balls for the trip 🙂

Sorry, that should have the hoses.. I’m used to good old fashioned V brakes, and these new hydraulic thing-amy-bobs are leaving me confused 🙂

Its the tora Sl, I think it’s just a coil.

The disc brakes are juicy 3s

Thanks for the reassurance 🙂

I had a load of birthday cards stolen last year. They came from all over the country, and had been posted a couple of days before, so I’m guessing that the place they would have all come together was in the local sorting office for delivery. And it’s here that some light fingered person decided to half inch them, along with the cash and cheque contents.

Raised a complaint with royal mail as did the people who sent them. Was told it would be investigated. Bugger all happened. I guess if you practically have a monopoly on sorting and delivering mail, you can do what the hell you like, and f*ck the consequences.

I have a pentax k100d (which is an older model)after having started with a fully manual film k100 a few years ago. I loved being able to use my old lenses (and the handy light in the viewfinder that comes on when it thinks you have perfect focus!)

Most of the photos here [/url]were taken with the kit lens, or something picked up from fleabay for less than £30. I’m no great photographer, but at least the pictures are of reasonable quality. You can probably ignore any noise you see as the sensor on the K2000 will be better, but at least it gives you an idea….

A while back when a particularly tiresome kn*b had spent about 3 miles trying to occupy the same point in space and time as me on a ride to work I was ready to ram my entire bike down his throat when he decided to turn left across my path to pull into a side road to park.

Once I’d stopped shaking at the near miss I went down the road “Have words” but could only find his car. I asked some builders nearby if they’d seen Mr Tw*tfeatures as I wanted to use his head a novelty bike stand. They offered to be witnesses to anything he’d done.

I left a note saying that I’d be ringing the police about his dangerous driving mentioning I had a number of witnesses who saw his speshul manoeuvre into the side road, and left my number in case he wanted to speak with me.

He rang me back later and was very apologetic saying he was late for a meeting, didn’t see me etc. all the usual crap, so I rang the police afterwards anyway. They weren’t exactly interested in my rant about his dangerous driving but it made me feel better.

What would you recommend as a fork upgrade to the Commencal Normal disc 09?
RideOn could do me the bike and a Rockshox tora sl soloair for a tad over my budget.

Much arse!

Having checked, it seems about the only two bike shops around Manchester that aren’t part of the scheme that the University is in are Evans and Edinburgh!

Just a little bit. £600 is kind of my maximum I’m afraid