whoop whoop i’m in the pic up there.

liking it so far but not too fond of the sea cheers anyway SBZ.
at the moment it between europe and keep going or canada then through the states keeping ahead of the cold weather although i’m guessing this would be much less miles per £

cheers milkie, the icon wasnt there until i touched that part of the screen. new to this smartphone stuff 😳

if you can get hold of the dvd the commentary by the band is well worth watching

doh – just steel and oxygen don’t react very much at all, it needs water or water vapor to do the damage

where on earth could this magical oxygen/water vapour mixture that you speak of exist.

Sorry for being an evangelist about this, but I have seen what washing up solution does to bare steel… it is not good.

have you seen what happens to bare steel when exposed to oxygen… it is not good.

name that smell.

it is all tied in to how well the company done during his employment, rising share price etc = bigger bonus. was all made very clear when he took the job with not much hoo ha in the press at the time.

insurance companies make quite a bit of cash selling the details of claimants to the ambulance chasing claims companies. the resulting claims then push up premiums in general so everyone wins. or something 😕

Cut a really thick slice of bread, make a slice in it to make a pocket then fill it with cooked ham or bacon and some cheese .Then you give it the French toast treatment. Brown or red sauce to taste.

No previous exp of cx bikes but love my white cross. It was between that and the board man and I’m happy with my choice

while this reminds me can i change the bottom ring to something a little smaller on my (same) chainset without screwing the gear changes

Can’t remember where I read it but there is a bloke looking for a suitably angled slope to try a landing

viva brazil on bothwell street is very good in a posh carvery kind of way, not tried the seafood though.

wife’s “olympic -edition” sporty VAG

😆

should be celebrated but his sons look like they have the potential to be even worse.

sony use gracenote for their software but never had a prob with missing artwork like itunes. wonder where sony get the pics from?

the must have jacket for the well to-do bampot and schoolies around here, superdry are so last year. nice jackets though.

most of the crew and especially the captain seem like total asshats. the south park episode dealing with sea shepard is vv funny.

cairngorm tour, west highland way or the fort william – montrose coast to coast if you fancy something north of the border.

slightly ot but there is a very good doc about the nuclear threat in all its forms called “countdown to zero”. the most eye opening/alarming part is the step by step guide on how to build a bomb for a few tens of thousand dollars using off the shelf components, it seems the only hard part is getting the nuclear material.

Woody – Member
It makes a nice change when you get someone who knows what they are talking about. He’s a boarder too but knows his ski’s and I assume he’s only up here to train staff.

I’ll definitely be going back there to get new custom boot liners or footbeds as my boots are 10 years old, which hasn’t bothered me too much as I’ve been mainly boarding for the last 8 years

errmm. are your board boots/linings/footbeds custom? the world has changed quite a lot.
most half decent boots either ski or board have been using heat mould foam tech for several years, ie wear them for a few hours and they mould to your foot shape. buy yourself a new set of boots if needed but please dont pay for all the custom guff unless you really cant get a good fit after a couple of days. (custom fit inners cost more than a half decent pair of new boots)

CaptainFlashheart – Member
I find that S&R staff are very well trained……

not when i have been in, asked for a metal scraper at a few of their stores and been looked at like i had just requested some bum sex, also treated the same. almost as bad as ellis brigham :?. for some reason the urban dwelling walking/climbing/skiing/boarding market will pay them money for mainly crap products service and advice

tazzymtb – Member
or that horrific case where someone drowned trying to save their dog in heavy seas and lots of people just stood around filming it on their phones. We in the UK are just as F__ked

no that is only slightly below you have been framed. (=sum)dumbass1 tries to save dog that will prob be ok + dumbass2 tries to save dumbass1 + dog = 2 dead dumbasses +1 wet dog +1 one £250 video. get a grip man.

ditch_jockey – Member

There are undoubtedly people in this country who share a similar attitude, usually on the basis of ‘health and safety’ concerns, or fears about the ‘compensation culture’ – I worked with someone recently whose organisation has decided not to train them in First Aid, in order to avoid being exposed to litigation, despite there being no legal precedent for a First Aider ever having been successfully sued for offering assistance.

not going to watch the vid i have enough bad things in my head.

i have been the 1st and 2nd person on the scene to two motorbike accidents, both in west midlands and both times the passing drivers treated the scenes as a nuisance with no help and people almost driving over the injured parties etc.

in the company i work for a 1st aider was recently grilled for several hours over a couple of days by some horrible f*ing lawyers over the immediate 1st aid they supplied after a nasty accident(blood loss and comfort really). the company paid up before going to court. as a result people are now (unofficialy)advised not to apply for 1st aid training with this being used as a reason = whatever you do you will be attacked by nasty lawyers.

in summary, people are sh!t sometimes.

wont recommend a band etc but will say listen to 6 music, many shows with many different styles but don letts and guy garvey especially give me new/old stuff worth looking up. wide range of everything and anything old and new, if you dont hear something that moves you in their shows you prob dont like music in general.

TandemJeremy – Member
what about the methane formed by the rotting willow?

no rotting willow it is turned to charcoal.

thisisnotaspoon – Member
You’ve just shot down your own argument.
1) theres no money in it
2) where will you put it once it’s made? Dissused coal mines, you just said it’s less dense?
3) “large quantities”, how big a willow farm are we talking here to offset one coal fired station?

again not quite sure what you mean.
1)no money in it, well no. it is not a cash crop, it has no value. the purpose is to remove carbon. we are not wanting to sell the charcoal, dont want a penny for it. we are going to put it in a big hole.
2)old quarries, mines. storage is a bit of an isue though.
3) huge, total f’ing huge. lots of waste ground, disused farmland etc around the country that could be used though

TandemJeremy – Member
Doh – its a reasonable point but no one actually knows either the cost or the effectivness yet. Its just a shame that we potentially had a lead into what would be a very lucrative export market adn we are not going to have that advantage now

i agree that there is probably a market in selling the tech to other dumbass g’ments around the world.

thisisnotaspoon – Member

but the tech is hugely expensive to develop and even more expensive to run, iirc the co2 capture plant uses up to 25% of the plants total power output.

And? Have you seen the cost of a wind turbine/solar pannel?

and what does that have to do with carbon capture?

james lovelock(sp)suggested the great idea

That’s been costed out, and is long way from the cheepest option! Bessides, do you really think we’re not going to burn the wood at the end then claim carbon neutraility rather than positive?

Think about it, the cost of a bag of charcoal is about the same as a bag of coal, the cost of which is largely driven by energy (oil) prices. If it realyw as economicaly feasible, why dont we grow willow comercialy now and burn it rather than mining coal????

what is the cheapest option and why arent we using that then?
what are the development/running costs of tree planting/harvesting. any figures about anywhere.

the charcoal produced is removing carbon from the air, this is neither carbon +ve or neutral. removing something from somewhere generally results in a negative.

thought about it, not sure if you are making any sense.
we are not trying to make willow/charcoal into a cash crop, it has no end value other than its carbon content. it is being grown for the purpose of carbon removal.
coal is far more energy dense than willow/charcoal, easier to handle and process and is relatively easy to get a hold of in large quantities.

but the tech is hugely expensive to develop and even more expensive to run, iirc the co2 capture plant uses up to 25% of the plants total power output.
the total cost for each power station to be fitted with this and then adding running costs is ridiculous (100’s of millions per plant)especially at a time when large numbers of people in this country are struggling to pay the bills as it is never mind with the added cost of this being added to the bill. how much could we make out of exporting this tech?

james lovelock(sp)suggested the great idea of planting waste ground etc with fast growing trees/crops such as willow, this is then harvested after a few years turned to charcoal and then buried. co2 removal for a fraction of the cost of the fancy tech and you could start doing it tomorrow. straightforward and cheap but unfortunately it wont make any money for anyone and is quietly ignored.

good. a stupid idea and total waste of money cancelled.

cant see what opportunity/advantage it presented?

already got new dust seals to go in and need to buy fluid, 20odd bucks all in is as far as im going with them.

the loch chon route gets quite “puddly” as it approaches lomond after the gomer estate but it doesnt get that muddy. WHW to inversnaid, road round to loch chon then back over the hill and WHW back to rowardennan sounds like a good option with no cars involved.

is it worth the trouble of doing the nail polish trick on the pitted parts of just put back together as is.

the WHW section up to Inversnaid is a(mostly)very nice techy trail, you can also head up the side of ben lomond from cailness (big climb/downhill) over to loch chon near aberfoyle and all the trails over there. all pretty weather proof landy track.

cyclocross is on at mugdock this sunday i think

cheers thought as much, not going to spend that much on a repair. hopefully they will still work for a while after i put them back together.

gravitysucks – Member
Doh – you remember what the documentaries were called?

both on 4od, the human bird is part of the daredevils series and the men who jump off buildings.

njee20 – Member
Shimano hubs do spin freely certainly, but they’re not light

xt hubs are about the same weight but half the price as pro2, xtr are under hope pro2 weight and about same price. xt everytime for me, some people wont do cup/cone hubs though.