Michelin City MTB £10 ea @ CRC.

Maybe they are going to start hiring out 250’s in the near future.

Those Revs are definitely the type of fork I’d be looking at but have a tapered steerer so would need a Cane Creek XX 44mm headset. I ran Z1SL’s on mine usually at 130mm but upped to 150mm for Alpine and AM duties,

Or should that be smoke me a Herring in case there are any pedants reading?

[Super pedant]The Herring is northern hemisphere fish.[/Super pedant]

Pretty much every business these days accepts payment by card

Would passengers be willing to cover the credit card charge, the extra cost of a data call from the cab to check card validity and available credit plus the cost of installing all the equipment in the first place to solve a problem that just doesn’t affect the vast majority of customers who have weekly passes or concessionary travel cards.

I doesnt help the Mrs Spider but weekly tickets can be bought with a card at PrePay/Paypoint shops. They won’t do daily ticket due to the credit card charges being such a high percentage.

Prepay travel cards are slow making their way into the industry which solves the issue of change however they are currently only in limited areas. Some areas also do tickets for 10 or 20 journeys with a long validity.

Don’t have crap bus fares – try £4 instead of £4.10.

I would definitely be booking a holiday when fares go up.

How much to Somewheretown?
That will be £3 please.
But it was only £2 yesterday!
It’s these new non crap rounded to the nearest pound fares some customers have asked us to use. :roll:

Taxi drivers always seem to be able to cope with giving change.

Taxi drivers don’t have several hundred fares daily and can pop into shops/garages to get change between trips.

Ask for a combined sponsorship for the two? Half to each charity.

Why a media center PC if your going to be using an X Box. Just run a DLNA server on one of these. Mirror a couple of 1Tb drives for redundancy. Add an auto logon and lockout script and your away. Second the seperate tuner, we’ve got a Samsung LE40C650 with built in DLNA/iplayer client so no XBox plus Sky so lots of bases covered.

Added bonus is I can access it all from my lounge PC/laptop so SO can watch one thing whilst I watch another plus my parents living next door can access it and if we ever decide to put a TV in upstairs it will be easy to run some cat6.

Companies providing services are supposed to make an effort to make themselves as useful as practicably possible to their customers.

But anyways my point was, if they can’t manage to give out change then come up with a solution that doesn’t involve turning customers away and making them angry…

We will take a name and address and they can then pick up the change from the bus station the next day. Inconvenient but passengers get to where they need to go. Other companies also offer ‘change tickets’ that can be used for your next fare. However sometimes the driver is just being a knob. Like I posted above, complain if it’s for a £10 note. For a £20 your on a hiding to nothing ;)

I don’t know – all this guff about change. If you went into Greggs the bakers is it rude to use a fiver for a 58p sausage roll ??

Greggs the bakers doesnt have hundreds of shops in each town. I would also refuse to carry any more than £10 float on the grounds that it would increase the likelyhood of being robbed as I travel to and from work.

Cheapy’s went by the by when conductors were replaced with revenue inspectors although there is some discretion allowed as long as a ticket is issued.

So would £10.10 be acceptable for a £4.10 fare? I’m not trying to be funny here but where is my wife supposed to find £8.20 in change every week when most payments are made with plastic and cash points pay out in multiples of £10 notes?

£10.10 would be better as it’s full pounds rather than 90p of silver as you can be struggling for small change just as often as full pounds. Better yet would be a fiver or even £5.10. We have travelcards (Oyster type cards) that even give a 10% discount but most people just get a weeks ticket as they use several connecting buses to get where they are going.

I even had a bus driver telling me I should have given way at a roundabout when I was coming from his right – why, because he was diving a bus

“Report me to the police then!” would have been my answer.

Practice track stands in the garden with your left foot forward and front wheel turned right for ten mins every night. Once you’ve got that dialled start to go round in circles to the right as tight as you can. Don’t pedal in circles to do this, push down a little on the leading for then ratchet it back up again. You’ll be wondering why you ever had a problem with right hand hairpins by the New Year.

OP – Yes it is unreasonable paying £10 for a £4.10 fare. If several passengers do it near the start of a drivers shift then the £10 change float drivers are given goes pretty fast leaving no change for those passengers considerate enough to bring roughly the correct fare. Later in the day £20 notes are fine just expect the change in coins when drivers are trying to lighten their bags.

And yes I am a bus driver. Most passenger buying a £16 week ticket on our route either bring £16 or hand over a pound coin with their £20 so I can give a £5 note back rather than £4 change out of my float.

Our policy is to offer the passenger the opportunity of picking up change owed up from the depot the next day. Other companies will give credit tickets. If you start letting passengers travel for free because you have run out of change, guess what percentage of your passengers will be bringing large notes the next day. Some days we take over £600, you really would need to be a bank to carry that much loose change.

Like any profession there are good drivers and knobs. Shutting doors in peoples faces is unacceptable however once they are shut you and start to move off you are not allowed to open them again. Some drivers do but this encourages passengers to step in front of you or run alongside the bus banging on the doors which isnt exactly safe.

Single fares are pretty expensive but it is seen as a fair charge for occasional users. Regular passengers buy day tickets which often cost less than a return. Week tickets bring local travel to under £2 a day. A Northwest and N Wales area ticket which covers from Preston to Aberystwyth only costs £16 or around £600 for the year. How much is tax and insurance these days?

There is no excusing drivers who try to run cyclists over and I would urge anyone to report them. It will go on their file and add to any previous or future incidents. There are also many cyclists who I am convinced are trying to kill themselves. Riding out of side roads expecting a bus with standing passengers to slow or even stop like a car, red light jumping as you enter a junction from another direction and riding up the inside of a slowly moving bus with it’s left indicator on are all frequent examples. There are also bus drivers who get wound up by matchbox drivers and cyclists as a group in the same way that certain other road users lump bus drivers together.

I’ve had a bloke that was riding along the pavement ride out onto a zebra crossing directly in front of me without looking over his shoulder when I was doing about 30mph. Luckily he was crossing from the other side of the road and saw me before carrying on in front of the bus as there was no way I could have stopped. He then started shouting and bawling at the next stop as to why I failed to give way. Go figure! I just drove off as it’s just hassle you don’t need.

Anyway, queue bus driver abuse!

Had the LE40C650 since it came out earlier this year. Picture quality is as good as any plasma I’ve seen at this size plus SD upscaling is exceptional. The 100hz sorts out the motion for sports. I don’t have a PS3/X Box so also wanted the DNLA and HD iPlayer playback. 1080mkv playback is pretty damn close to Blueray. Running media off a server is much easier than burning discs or transfering to USB stick.

The server is tucked away in another room so no annoying fan noise to spoil quieter sections of film plus my parents live next door and have a similar TV and AV amp linked to the same network so there is always an eclectic choice of music when we go round for an evening.

Review here with some decent suggested settings in the comments section.

Yup should finish in the next 24 hrs.

Steaks on the BBQ, beers are waiting in the fridge.

Plus a glass or two of wine in break time is pretty much the norm. Love to see the QC figures to compare morning to afternoon quality issues.

I don’t have any upgrades. I was just suggesting to BigG why his boat had gone haywire whilst he was away.

Check the SO (Bog Standard) standings here.

Picture here.

No XTR sails on my boat.

I’ve read on the forums to turn off your angle of wind steering for wind changes and to use nav points instead if you have to be away from the PC for several days.

Just realized, they’ll probably restart when the real race does. :roll:

12th December apparently. Mrs is going to love me over Xmas.

[Deploys anti torpedo nets]

Currently fighting it out for a top 200 SO finish 8O . Anyone know when the next leg starts?

Got some Enduro rims on Switch hubs that I’ve been running for DH duties on both a big FS and AM on a 456 since spring. No issues so far and still true with no adjustment. Hubs seem pretty well made and easy to service.

Thought I’d try and pick up the stuff at the south, then realised I would effectively have to go below Africa and sail back up.

That’s what I’m doing. Should be in Capetown by Saturday morning. :D

Get away for a week in the Sierra Nevada with Switchbacks or another operator.

And the weathers changed again :(

Looks like my trek almost all the way to S America is about to pay off BIG time 8) See you all in Capetown.

Forgot to start the Rhum Baa Baa Route race :( Joined late and both vessels are at the back of the flotilla in around 65,000th 8O

Should have the Spinny out by tea-time tomorrow. I’m still hoping to get across to the back of that low off Rio as it weakens before the window shuts then be low enough (40S) to ride the front of the next two all the way to CT. :fingers crossed:

Ghetto Tubeless Guide. It is very similar to a car system but with a few mods due to slight differences in wheel design. Have a read as it should give you a decent feel for the whole tubeless concept. Rimstrips stop the air leaking through the spoke holes. Proper tubeless rims don’t need rimstrips as the rim bed has no spoke holes. Sealant is optional but helps keeping pressure in the tyre when using normal tyres and rims.

Very.

Wonders the same thing about a 456 with some rigid forks.

There’s always Rossett Gill too.

Add Rossett Pike/Rossett Gill and Stake Pass into the mix for an epic summers ride. A bit too much for me on a short winters day however.

I’ve got loads of nice Lancaster Uni memories swimming around my head now.

Keswick – Legburthwaite – Sticks Pass – Grisedale – Helvellyn – Matterdal Common – Old Coach Road figure of 8 for a legal classic or back up Keppel cove switchbacks after the Sticks Pass descent for a shorter route. All weather dependent of course.

Seatoller – Honister – Scarth Gap – Black Sail – Sty Pass packs a lot of technical descending into one days ride IIRC especially if you head over the top of Fleetwith from the top of Honister.

Scarth Gap Pass – Ennerdale – Buttermere – Gatescarth is a slightly lower level option should the weather gods be against you.

One of the main reasons I’m so far west is to hopefully avoid all the tacking as I only really have a couple of VR ‘windows’ per day.

No more watch twiddling on the yearly Alps trip.

Put us onto CET. Job done.

Stevo, cheers for the bump up the SO standings ;)

You’ll get an even bigger bump up the overall when those east o you hit that still air. The guy in 1st place is already down to 8 knots with those just behind on around 10. They havnt even hit the slowest air yet! The forecast for 36 & 48 hrs looks a bit grim for those guys.

I just hope you haven’t stayed too far east.

Blade. Time lapse, Pump Panel remix of Confusion by New Order, ‘Bloodbath’, what more could you want?

bigG, better pass out of arms reach or I’ll strap a huge magnet to your keel to fox all those automatic gizmo’s your utilizing and spray WD40 all over your posh XTR running gear so the squeaking keeps you awake all night. ;)

Never hit one on a bike but I’ve hit 5 in one go in the bus.