Are they all ‘in-stock’ items?

The code I sent you is definitely in date.

Bookmarked – also planning Scotland trip.

IanMunro,

You’re being flippant. Have I really got to explain this?

An individual wearing a CH who enters a Tesco automatically & immediately invites attention. This is not what the majority of armed robbers want – funny enough. This would not be the case if they didn’t have this policy & multiple persons were wandering around wearing them.

‘single out’ and ‘demographic’ – have you been drinking!?

Seems like a perfectly reasonable crime prevention measure – particularly if you’re a staff member or customer that doesn’t want to be at the working end of a firearm.

winston,

I’ve emailed you one.

winston,

Has anyone mailed you a code?

I don’t think the show is exploitative. It sets out to dismantle the idea that some sections of the community are ‘undateable’ and confront stereotypes.

The participants don’t always meet the right person and the search goes on. Humour is inevitable, but it’s not sneering or voyeuristic. It was never going to be possible to tackle the subject without some taking a prurient or jaundiced view on the matter. The production also high-lights the importance of chaperones and minders and the effectiveness (and apparent scarcity) of organisations that can bring people into contact with one another.

The shows core message is we all have the right to love and be loved, irrespective of disability (as schmaltzy as that might sound) and I think it delivers that message in a touching and informative way.

EDIT – and I think the OP’s (perhaps unintentioned) ‘odd types’ description was an unfortunate turn of phrase.

Cheese on Carr’s Water Biscuits
Orange Squash
MotD

I think you’ve made an excellent choice – lovely bike. Burly but not too heavy, well made with a slack geo … & 650b.

I looked at Nicolai Argon’s and Curtis AM7’s before deciding on the Switchback.

We’ve all been there – horrible feeling.

I dislocated both shoulders after an OTB. I was knackered and my riding had become ragged.

Alltricks are doing them for £70.

http://www.alltricks.com/mtb/bars-plugs/handlebars/thomson-handlebar-carbon-flatrise-5-mm-318×730-mm-110-138103.html

You didn’t go for a Switchback in the end then?

I had a mate with a lairy coloured car – biggest ball-ache for him was everyone mentioning that they’d spotted him driving along the road at various times. You’re Bristol based aren’t you? I’ll look out for it around AC :D

where are the numerous posts about faulty Thomson components?

Apart from their relatively new dropper (compared to many Hope products), Thomson don’t make components with movable parts or bearings that are subject to the same levels of attritional wear – so not a particularly useful comparison.

EDIT – as cgguru posted moments before.

Lairy’s fine for a frame providing you don’t then introduce other colours and gaudy-fy the build.

Milk Chocolate Bahlsen Leibniz. A superior biscuit.

Just emailed you.

I’ve had my Hope Pro 2 hubs since 2007. The bearings have been replaced both front & rear once. The abuse they’ve endured includes full submersion in Mendip Hills mud on many occasions, jet washes and a shockingly neglectful lack of care or maintenance by myself. I have to say as a ‘fit and forget’ component that does its job well they’ve been legendary – I was under the impression Hope service and warranties were up there as well.

Yep – defo a Singletrackworlder.

Heated wing mirrors, I assume?

Oh how the other half….

Reminded me of a Viz Top Tip – AUDI DRIVERS. Save money on wing mirrors by simply getting close enough to use the ones on the car in front.

Funny enough I should be picking up a Karcher K2 Compact tomorrow. It received a decent write-up from WMB and online reviews are positive.

The K2 requires a mains power supply, but then I’m not bothered about it being portable. Powerful as I understand – care needed with bearings etc.

*puts down bacon and tom sauce bap.

You’ll be raita as rain soon enough.

Sympathies. I can only imagine the bitter disappointment on seeing the stay – such a nice frame. Hopefully a clever wielder type might be able sort it out – all the best with that.

Immediately after the off, did you do the customary thing of checking that your man-tonsils were not hanging from the handlebars before doing anything else (or am in the only one that does that) :D

On a perhaps more important sideline, could anyone who reports anything said on Twitter to the police for being offensive please be given a fixed penalty notice for wasting police time!

WPT requires DPP consent so they wouldn’t be eligible for a FPN! Know what you mean though :D

Yep – shite-hausen. And I think that’s gin on the table!

I’m also very uncomfortable with the police investigating somone being a cretin on Twitter. They’re not specific threats or incitement to violence. It’s getting pretty close to thought crime.

Base, trolling shit-stirring? Yes. Offensive? Perhaps.
Criminal? **** no.

The “offensive” bit of that law needs scrapping asap.

I don’t think she will be prosecuted, obnoxious and repugnant as many of her comments are.

If the police are considering offences under Section 1 Malicious Communications Act, 1988 (Threatening Letters or other Articles) or under Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 the wording is grossly offensive. The CPS guidelines for those offences will be subject to a high threshold and in many cases a prosecution is unlikely to be in the public interest.

In terms oh high threshold the guidelines say … there is the potential for a chilling effect on free speech and prosecutors should exercise considerable caution before bringing charges …

Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights reminds prosecutors – “Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include the freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers …”

The protagonist jumping off a fortunately positioned precipice just as a dafty fire-ball (there was nothing combustible about) nearly sears the vest off his back. Then gets up un-flustered looking into the middle distance.

I do 3000 X 550W intervals followed by three kilo tons of lunges & thrusts – this assists reducing my mid-life crisis by 1.5 gigajoules or the equivalence thereabouts.

wrecker – did you consider the 350 NCR’s at Merlin? I looked at those for my build.

Looks like a great bunch to cycle with – I see these mnpr threads and think you must have a top laugh and are fortunate to have that sort of terrain on your doorstep.

I might have to get some t-shirts for my small cycling collective!

Hardened cow pat?

… has 4000 views.

It’s going viral :D

Who are the two curmudgeons that gave it the thumbs down!?

wrecker – just something to think about. The below are quotes from Dan contained in a Stanton Bikes Facebook thread –

Too true Pete! 160 is for super steep and tec, most of the time it’s just not needed on the Switchback due to its already slack geo

130-140mm seems to be the winner, Buch from Dirt is saying the same thing!

yes a 140mm would give you the best all round, I’m running a 140 BOS Deville on my Ti Switchback Sample (when they arrive-hopfuly tomorrow) the frame is designed around 140mm so 130mm-140mm is the sweet spot!

The ‘sweet spot’ (not my words) for a Switcback is 130 – 140mm. I’d not wish to run with much more travel than that as it will obviously slacken an already notably relaxed head angle even further.

wrecker – what travel are you thinking of running these at?

Is it a marmoset monkey – responds to the name ‘Ponty’?

More power to you Marc! Looks like you were having a great time. Honest and uncontrived.

wrecker – did you go for a Switchback in the end? Is that what these forks are for?

Curry’s – not too hot. I like Masala/Makhoni/Mughlai type dishes – superb if they come with a boiled egg.

I like to hoover them up as if I were Brundlefly.

To the OP,

She said that when she talks about jihad she does not mean killing innocent people, but people who are a threat to her religion.

Chilling – It’s clear from what’s been reported*, Khan encouraged violence.

Here’s the law – look at the sections/para’s and from your understanding of the reporting, tick the ones that she’s contravened.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/11/section/2

Calling people to commit human atrocities is serious. The sentence must reflect that – to protect and dissuade.

* It will be a matter of public record.

And lo … they became police officers!

In a chemistry lesson I was asked to draw ‘the table’. I drew the wooden bench I was sat at, the stool and the gas tap for the Bunsen burner before it was pointed out by the teacher he was referring to the periodic table.

Been making myself look like a tw*t ever since.