No link but its a cracking tune. 🙂

OH link – Mars god of war for all the petty arguing in here!

Can I have the 06 one free if he does?

Sora shifters are much better than they used to be in that now they're actually good

Epic

Nice! Thanks! 🙂

jonb – great link!

Interestingly enough I did a freedom of information request on strathclyde police after a driver wiped me out doing 30+ mph as I was stationary waiting to turn, said he wasn't looking where he was going as he was trying to read a map to the two police officers who turned up and I was trundled off in an ambulance.

The police didn't prosecute and seemed genuinely baffled that I was upset at that…

So I did some digging. I cant remember the exact numbers (this was two years ago now) and I have the letters at my parents however a significant amount (50% plus) of the cycling injury's were reported as the cyclists fault. The reasons for this included:
– Being on a busy road.
– Not having lights on during the day.
– Not wearing high vis stuff.
etc etc. The crap that you see in the news papers.

None were driver faults and the rest were undetermined.

The general attitude is one that killing / injuring a cyclist is OK as its a simple mistake that anyone can make. You only have to look at the punishments handed out for those that do kill / injure cyclists to see the general society point of view.

Until people who kill / injure with cars are treated by society in the same way as those that kill / injure with knives nothing will change.

All this crap about accepting bad driving stems from the same root cause – the general acceptance that cars have the right of way and that any negative impact needs to be tolerated.

Behavior will only change once punishment becomes significant. Punishment will only become significant once society accepts that killing / maiming / injuring with cars is as bad as knife crime. That will probably never happen however as a lot of people have an attitude that "that could be me that made that mistake" so don't push for heavier punishment.

In addition to this a lot of people seem to believe that hating on cyclists is an OK way to behave. In the environment I work in at least three or four of the "power males" (ie those in sales making £100k plus) will actively brag about driving at cyclists and forcing them off the road. For some reason its seen as macho and acceptable behaviour. Its worryingly close actually to some of the ideas in "Market Forces" by Richard Morgan. Worth a read. Anyway this is not discouraged, even after complaints to management about abusive behavior in the car park etc as, well, your a cyclist just get thicker skin.

I could rant for hours about this.

Hours.

As cheesy as it is just stay safe out there people.

dasnut (and others) this bit on the front page might be of use…

Magura Crash Contest

Samuri – I'm glad there is no video of yours…

Right these things are doing my head in – I just cannot get them to stop bouncing off the hub and floating on the axle!

I'm 99% certain these are spesh branded copies of the Shimano HB-2200 hubs from here.

Any more tips?

Thanks! David.

Karinofnine – Superb. Totally superb.

I got a whole pile from my LBS recently – 1/8th I think? It was something like £1.50 for 50 or something.

David.

Shall it be heaving with dinosaurs and ferrets etc?

When I die and go to Heaven – I'm saddling a dinosaur and riding it around. He will be called Rexy McRex and be the baddest mofo dino there.

I think I will get him a unicorn horn to go on his head and train him to use it to spike things and then he can cook them with his flaming breath (like a dragon) and toss them backwards for me to eat. Whole chickens and stuff cooked to perfection. I think I will get him lasers and stuff as well.

Infact he will look like this dude. But with flames and a horn.

How do i shrink the inner lip? Just bash the socket into the back of the dust cap bit to spread it open? Thanks for the info btw, i thought it fitted the hub, not the cone! 🙂

I got a very cheap (£20) philips mp3 from asda. 2gb and smaller than an ipod shuffle but with a screen. Very light. Does the job, holds about 8 albums at 128k… Saves you £130 quid for bike stuff. Just a thought!

110 miles in 5:43

Thats a better average speed than I can manage on my 10 mile commute! 😯

Wow SFB whats the being a bit of a cock all about? Not normally like you?

Its hard loosing a dog – its just one of those things that gets you. Hence the sympathy for someone.

Anyways – sorry about Bert Matt.

David.

Nice find!

Cool – there is a superb vid on youtube on how to bleed them.

Wear eye protection. You will be faffing around with squirting brake fluid in syringes. Easy to **** it up.

Also make sure you dont get any fluid on the pads or rotors. I found it easier to take the calipers off the bike to bleed my juicys when I had them.

Yes you need a bleed kit.

Yes they are that much. Sorry!

I use thier hayes pads, they are good. Also got some of thier rotors, also good. And use thier v pads on the commuter. No complaints. 🙂 delivery is fast too!

Tj and ton had a good fight about bashing people over the head when the law lets you down. Ton won i think on points as tj got a roasting for being a bit limp. Some nutter tried to sell bearings to us by offending us. Same as ever. Good trip?

Fit it. If they don't seem right get it faced… Same with bb threads, slowly screw the bb in and if it feels wrong, stop and get the threads cleaned…

My commuting chain has had three links in it before due to snapage… It was a kmc chain on some chain rings well past the time they should have been replaced… Worked fine. Although it seems a bit off a faff to be ready for a broken hanger. I go through more chains than hangers…

A dude at work has one. Its very nice looking! Thats all i have. Sorry.

Indeed, where do they come from? i would like one of these! 🙂

Audacity + 1.

Now thats a weird one.

I can browse to the URL and it loads: http://www.pamperedchef.com/

The IP address resolves to 12.158.13.203 using O2's DNS server. I cannot however browse or ping the ip address. Using googles DNS sever (8.8.8.8) even gives the same result.

If I do a whois I see that the domain was registered by http://www.cscglobal.com, but even if I use thier DNS server (PDNS1.CSCDNS.NET) I get the same result. It looks like the DNS record was updated on the 19th of march so its not like thier hosting ran out.

The only thing I can think of is that they have changed hosting / provider and the DNS change needs to propagate, however I dont know why I can browse to the domain name and not the IP address it resolves to. Weird.

Maybe just see what the chat is tomorrow with it?

I do like the products often but not their customer support

Interesting… 😆 On second thoughts that comes across like Im looking for a fight. And I'm really not.

I used to work where you work

Good man 😀

Richmtb is right – looking at your location do you work where I work? 🙂

Anyhows that volcanic ash message is pretty standard – I think we have stuck it on anything we can get away with.

What did you get out of curiosity?

David.

The black is balls out!

I can ride a trail center red easy. Nae bother. I can ride the Nevis DH red start to finish (with a few bum clenching moments) but I can ride it all.

The black at Laggan kicked my ass weekend before last!

I work in a call center.

Every tuesday at 10AM the alarms are rung for 30 seconds to test the system. We all sit and wait like good little sheeples.

Yes. This is a working call center.

No. They cant do it out of business hours. Thats not the process man!.

just to say they ride for a team

This would be cool enough for me tbh – it would be nice bragging rights!

The line into their jump makes little sense to me as well…

I do love the big pit dug right on the existing trail though. Makes a dull ride far more exciting I bet…

http://www.bicyclemagic.com/product/1438/DRC_26_MT19_Alloy_ATB_Double_Eyelet_Rim

My LBS always builds my 26" wheels on these – the 36H version. I am a 15 stone monster and have only ever managed to bend one and that was with a car rear ending me at 30mph.

I have killed a few with rim brakes on the commuter tho.

Although I think I only paid £25 ish for the rim as part of a build from Wheelcraft – 01360 312709.

Most modern trains are passenger operated,just realeased by the driver.

I meant the planes mate… 🙂

I dunno Mikkel, looks like is fussy and wants a picture first…

There are possibly thousands who could drive a trolley down an aisle handing out pre packaged food,it happens on the railwys every day.

Its not as simple as that claim. You have to be able to work the door as well…

If you think thats whats rubbing to be 100% sure put some lipstick or similar on it on one point, slide the forks in, rotate them, slide them out and see where the lipstick has moved too…

It would prove 100% whats rubbing where…

David.

post fail. (For the record the forum strips spaces to ASCI art doesnt work).

I lost my rag with a bus driver who did a similar thing to me recently. Ended up over taking the bus later on during my commute and he pulled out on me when there was still people waiting to get on. Clearly a total tube. So I ended up thumping the drivers window to get his attention as I went by to stop him hitting me and to have words… The windows shattered in all over him so I bolted!

I felt so guilty the next day I called the bus company to pay for the window. It turned out that the bus driver had said that a bunch of neds put a half brick through the window. I explained the full story to the bus lady and she was very interested. Basically the driver got a bollocking for aiming at the cyclist and I didn't have to pay for the window!

So yeah – tell the bus company – they are better than you would think!

I'm impressed with that!