just5minutes – Member
Next time the security services don’t catch 9 people intent on blowing up transatlantic planes we can all give thanks for the likes of the Guardian and Julian Assange exposing the inner workings of how intelligence is gathered and putting the lives of those that work in an admittedly grey area at risk.

Personally I couldn’t care less if my emails are read and Skype calls are intercepted – the small likelihood of someone looking at my web browsing history of the niner and stw websites or reading order emails from merlin cycles seems like a fair deal if it means that those who would do my friends and family harm are identified and dealt with.

but the only people we have caught are the ones that screwed up in some way, bomb didn’t go off etc.
no-one has been caught through this mass data trawl do you really think anyone plotting anything is really on single-terrorist-world chatting about “what bomb for 747’s”

you may not be bothered about people intercepting your mail etc but where does it stop – excuse me mr 5mins can we come round and check you are not a terrorist when you are not home but if you are at home you won’t mind us looking up your families bums as well because after all if you have nothing to hide….

just5minutes – Member
So anyway, turns out that David Miranda was carrying “several thousand” classified documents when he was detained at Heathrow on Sunday – it appears that his detention was a pretty fair cop – the only question for me is why they let him go.

ah yes the doc’s that prove illegal,unethical and immoral activities carried out by the government. best to keep quiet about that eh.

very orwellian to use the terror laws to terrorise the populace.

if there was a threat to national security in some far fetched plot that a real terrorist could have got hands on classified material why did they wait till he was in one of the most secure places possible before intervening.

there is due process to be followed, this law allowed them to side step that. a clear abuse.

if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to worry about.
if you tell the world about what we hide you and anyone you know should be very worried.

force 10 helium, cheapish, 1kg, had 3 years use out of mine in some pretty bad weather with no issues.

orcadians = bunch of soft southern shandy types.

i’m from shetland.

utterly tragic for the girl and family but in no way should these sites take the blame as long as they do something about it once reported/complaint is made. and what would you like to see happen to the perp’s remembering they are probably teenage girls themselves??
at the end of the day no-one is forced to visit these sites.

the reason these sites are so popular is because they are largely adult free so the kids get to say what they want without much chance of mum and dad finding out they are talking about cider/sex whatever with their friends.

this knee jerk reaction has went the way of banning buses cos someone wrote summit bad on a bus stop.

iainc – Member
Could be the demise of a few other nearby shops….

wouldn’t like to see anyone going out of business but the other shops in the city centre are not somewhere i’ll spend my cash.

fabsil gold

lots of the older style truvativ (hussfelt-holzfeller) cranks should fit the bb no prob, got a brand new 32-22 set off ebay for £60. £20 for an e-type mech and used an old shifter. job done in less than an hour.

my fatty has coped well with all conditions but the granny ring has helped me get to even more places.

a 1*10 fat bike is like having a bmw x5 (other soft roaders are available) , it will get you more places than a normal car but is not the same as a proper 4*4 with low ratio gearbox and locking diffs. more for posing really 😉

could get my 1*10 fatty up most things but with the granny the things it will climb and the goo you can cycle through is astonishing, surely part of the point imho.
i’ll keep any chelsea tractor comparisons to myself 😉

i’ve heard the fiats are good fun but a bit new for my budget ta anyway

Like my lusso’s more than my dhb’s cheaper as well

Love mine but it would have helped to have someway to easily stick a front mech on. Other niggles are component choices but that’s another thing. £500 for rolling chassis seems very good.

I know a guy like that and he kicked off when we started calling him “joe” as in joe Swanson from family guy

They are not like half a set of forks. NO damping rebound etc so why not priced like half a set of cheap forks?

Dunno if tesco still do the £40 down bag? Been using one for two years and it’s been very good

on the road bike cycling along quite happily doing about 20 down a little hill when i noticed one of the bar caps had popped out a little. obviously i decided to bash it back in. i just managed to control the wobble without falling off.

cheers khani that looks the ticket. just need to find where to buy one of the buggers now.

Cheers all

Exped synmat ul gets my vote packs to size of coke can. Not the lightest or cheapest on the market but found it more comfy than the thermarests and doesn’t sound like a crisp packet

Look what we found in with the tinned curries etc
Only ever camped in the wilds of Scotland so the nearest stream is the normal source of water

ASDA are doing “look what we found” meals for a quid at the moment, use by dates are well into next year so have stocked up the cupboard.

Try Stirling bike club(google I can’t post link here) where in the shire you living?

Vango helium, 1kg and has lasted through some quite awful wind and rain perfectly

Had the bolt burst through the self extracting cap, had to dremmel out the remains then use a normal crank extractor.

a 98 or 99 stumpjumper fsr, the bike and the dealer put me off spesh bikes forever. the only good thing was the avid V’s.

vango helium 100, been using one for 3+ years and has held up to some pretty bad scottish weather, packs small and just over 1kg for the 1 man a bit heavier for the 2man helium 200.
should pick them up for 150ish brand new these days only prob is it’s not much good if you over 6ft.

when i was there the tramp watching was really good, I’m from glasgow and they put our tramps to shame. if you go up the tower you can see tramps for miles around.

get a car and head out into the unknown it is an amazing country to see from the comfort of a car. the homes for sale lots where my fav. whole houses to buy and drive away on a couple of lowloaders amazing 🙂

it’s coastkid from here, also been in the scotsman recently. think he organised the forthfat gathering in north berwick this weekend.

ta much

a morbidly obese ex work collegue of mine always used to make a big deal of it when i cycled to work always banging on about how mad it was to cycle in general and have a bike that cost £500.

he stopped after i pointed out he spent more a year on his sky tv and same again on a gym memebership he never used

done it on a blur xc and a rigid 29er, more fun and felt faster on the rigid.
might try the fatty this year 🙂

cheers bigG

DickBarton – Member
carron Valley.
last i heard, 4 days ago, it was snowbound…

have the fattybike so thats what i’m after rich.

yeh saw the youtube of boarding up there few days ago, was wondering if its been hit much by the thawing.

at a gig slighty drunk ex radio 1 dj emma b tried to take a bite out of my burger. i’ve never hit a woman but that was probably the closest i have ever come to doing it.

TuckerUK – Member

The US would win eventually.

What, like they did in Vietnam and Iraq?

and erm..korea

done it in a kite buggy a couple of times shell island to barmouth and back should be ok for bike, does get pretty rocky round shell island though.

the only thing i have read about sweeteners (aspartame) that i have seen some slight evidence to back it up is that they can decrease the uptake of phophorous in your body leading to slightly weaker bone structure over time.

i’m sure your body doesn’t “count” drinks as calories, thats why its easy to get fat drinking mucho alcohol/sugary drinks. welcome to be proven wrong on that though.

read once that diet drinks have much more caffeine than the sugary ones and that is why they are more addictive and people end up drinking tons of the crap (me included)