"I am Hora, nuff said" should put most people off.

Seriously, if you offer a disclaimer you may actually be setting yourself up for being sued! Make no statements or promises and the ambulance chasers have less to go on. And never accept money or reward. And never offer to lead! Putting a route together and asking if like minded people want to join is a lot different from offering to lead a ride.

Or just get sued – it'd be a larf.

LOL – well a days viewing (8 properties) and clearly I am damned!

I've seen some truly awful houses today, really shoddily built, and overlooked from almost every direction.

The highlight of the day was finding a floater in the ensuite of a house on the Chells. Classy 😉

Yes – but in theory the above tab means don't play any strings whilst muting A,D,G & B……

So rather a quiet piece of tab…..

You need to "clean" the affected area. It's a grim job(bie) but you need to remove all the old sh!t.

Then slice some lemons and scatter them about, and add Colemans English Mustard powder to the area too.

Make sure you keep this topped up for about two weeks and they should start crapping somewhere else (creatures of habit).

OR – get a cat. They don't mess on their own turf and will stop other cats from doing so.

Run for the hills. I had an ex who used to smash things up – she was proper nuts.

Love hurts – but it does sound like she has some serious issues. Deal with the pain now, and don't wait until it gets worse.

I drive a Jag……

It's a pet hate. I lived on an estate of Execu-boxes once before and got fed up with transit vans littering the streets. It just turns a place where people live into a small industrial estate.

Hatfield – even I know not to live there.

And I can't afford St Albans (used to live there in a gorgeous detached house – but, as I said, the wife ran off with my money……..).

So it sounds like I need to get used to being damned again.

As for people who shop in Argos. Well, since Woolworths went bust, Argos has been the best place to go and see what people from a certain area smell like…..

Stick a capful of Milton fluid in with the wash.

If that doesn't work try burning them……

Why bother with stickers – just mount your front shifter on it instead……

Mongoloid George Michael

Brunos Bum Boy

One Careful Lady Owner

Slightly OT but Orange resprayed my old Patriot last year and put stickers on it that matched the originals

So defo worth trying them as they seem to have all the right stickers for the age of the bike

I once freaked a girlfriend out by saying I'd like Graham Norton to be my first. But the way I saw it is why go for a straight guy?

I want experience – I want to be shown a good time.

Sobered up…..

Dysons all the way.

I have three – a cylinder, an upright, and an ickle hand held one.

The cylinder must be 10 years old at least and still works great despite being used for hoovering soot out of our wood burning stove!

What I like about them is they do have more suck then almost anything else I've used (oooh-errr) and they're dead easy to take apart and clean. That's the tip for long life – a clean sucker.

I wash out the filters once a year and all of the mechanism (so the dust bin) at the same time.

And if anything does break – Dyson keep cheap spares available for old models on line and they are quick on delivery.

I will never change….

Also WTF is "IT quality"?

An impossible dream if most of my projects are to be believed…..

LOL

More photos of Bob Marleys horse please.

What's on the wall behind it?

What law does it break?

You're potentially impersonating someone. If you do that in a manner to cause offence to either the person you're impersonating or the recipient, it's a crime.

If you do it for reward, it's a crime.

If you do it and don't tell the person you're impersonating, it's a crime.

Sadly I work in IT quality and, it's a crime……

I think making music influence peoples lives is great.

I'm currently picking up on the idea and writing a song called "Why don't you shoot yourself in the face you spotty Corsa driver" for the kid down the road.

I've got the lyrics and melody 🙂

Can anyone play the drums?

I lived there for a while and it's alright 🙂

The shops are good, the theatre district has decent bars, there are lots of smaller villages around with good pubs, cabs are dirt cheap, and the street riding is good in the town centre (good for those dark winter nights).

Woburn riding has lots to offer and Chicksands is a 20 minute drive.

I lived in Walnut Tree in the south of MK. OK – so a modern box estate – but I could ride out into the woods in about 20 minutes (depends how fast I could get up Bow Brickhill).

There are worse places to live – I'm actually thinking about heading back up there myself once I get the current money pit sold.

Scaredypants has the most plausible explanation.

Apparently, ahem, there is software that allows you to spoof the "from" email address. So I could, ahem, if I had such software send an email to the Queen offering her sexual pleasures from say, Bill Clinton (if I knew both of their addresses).

It's quite easy, er, apparently.

The items will never appear in your sent items folder as they were never sent by you. To the recipient though these spoofed emails are undeterminable from the real thing.

There is substantial fun to be had with such software, but remember people, it is VERY illegal…….

I don't think it's my ham fistedness. It feels as cruddy as it did with the old bearings in.

If you remove the axle the non-drive side stays on and it feels buttery smooth. Even the drive side one when pressed out feels fine.

It just feels a tad fecked when all pressed in place. It feels very tight (oooh-errrr) but the main concern is a nasty notchy feel as the wheel rotates.

I'll have a gander at either a new wheel (this one is ancient – 2000?) or a spares kit.

The concern I have is I've deformed the free-hub twice now in this wheel – it's grown a bulge on the inner edge that has caused the pawls to get nasty. Each time I've filed it down with the Dremel – but I think now may be the time to say ta ta to this wheel……

Hmmm, it's still not happy.

I've pressed everything back into place – and again, the axle feels horrible, really nasty to turn.

I've also noticed the QR doesn't like going through the axle.

Is it possible to bend these things? That's about the only explanation that seems sensible……

All bits removed 🙂

All I need to do now is reverse the process – but the Simpsons are on and I've got a beer…..

I'm being thick – the other two bearings are inside the free hub – doh!

Cheers – I'll go hitting 😉

Top lad! That helps. But – there's 4 bearings on the picture – I am assuming that there isn't really 4 and just two?

Ta – but I'm still assuming even after removing the circlip (which I can;t see) that they will be a tight fit.

Is it a bike shop job or is it home bodgeable?

LOL – it's the spitting image of one of my colleagues…..

Walleater – it is about that far off! I'll dig a big shim out of the tool box.

It's rubbing and I reckon is about 1mm out of line even with it pushed as far over on the adaptor as I can get it.

Cheers people – I just wanted to make sure I wasn't being a mong.

I think Coatesy might be right….

The caliper moves in and out fine when there's no wheel in the bike. Put the wheel in and the inside piston simply rubs, even when fully retracted.

So what happens is the brake is applied and both pistons move at the same rate but the inside piston is pushing the rotor over to meet the outside piston.

I'll stick some shims in – just never had a problem with Hayes in the past. This is a brand new lever and caliper so was just wondering if there'd been any changes in the design.

I recently got slated

You didn't get slated. You got questioned, you explained, you were loved…..

If you want a bashring, then it's up to you.

No – it's a tidgy one. I don't know what sizes they come in but it'd fit around a hartails standard tubed rear triangle.

Works fine and keeps the chain off the frame.

The upper part of the rear triangle is still exposed – but little hits it….

LOL – looks great….

Well, it looks great in a Jade Goodie in a tight leopard skin cat suit. Nothing says "look at me" better.

I like it.

SPDs to make you go further and more efficiently, and no outer ring to make you slower. There's a certain ying:yang about it.

Perhaps I'm just old.

And I am old.

Got a lizard skin on mine – but that only covers the lower part of the swing arm – but then that is the bit that gets mullered by the chain…..

As long as you buy it airside you're fine to carry it on THAT LEG of the journey.

I do this loads.

Buy in Heathrow, carry on, no problems.

I pack it back into the hold baggage for the return leg (which is fine), no problems.

I don't tend to buy duty free in the US as, to be honest, it ain't good value. But you still can, as long as it's airside, OR, be clever and browse the duty free mag on the way out and buy on the aircraft.

And also don't forget most international terminals at Heathrow have landing duty free so you can shop once you've landed (but not with as much choice).

It's not a problem if you're sensible.

LOL – we've shed enough to make an entire fat person!

Grum Arsey would be a cool name! Just don't put bash rings on your XC bikes!

OK:-

So Yeti-Man, you've had a similarly named pre-decessor(sp).

Grumm – I still don't think there's anything wrong with what I said about YM's bike? It is my opinion. Bashgaurds aren't designed to prevent personal injury.

A troll I am not. Otherwise you'd hear more from me on every thread Hora started – LOL!!!!

One could indeed say that starting a thread about people comedy names, when your name is Grumm, is trolling?

Yeti Guy – I may be wrong (a worlds first)

But did you not frequent ChocolateFoot at one time. And also did you not ride down in Swinley at times, and perhaps meet certain CF members at the jump gulley?

If not, then you're a totally different Yet-guy, who's still got a bike I don't agree with. Perhaps it's Yeti owners in general?

I hope it's you – as you was a giggle.

No – they're for puffs. See my threads above.

OK, seriously, I've owned two bikes with bashgaurds. A Demo 8 and an Orange AM160. To be honest they had bashrings because the BBs were too low – and I get that. But I'd rather have more gears and a bike with a higher BB, hence I've stuck with me pre-historic patriot.

Bashrings on XC bikes just don't seem right. If you can't negotiate the log – get off and carry it!?

I'd rather have a big ring (ooooh-errrr) for the flats.

OPINION – mine, and it's valid………..

I'm not hilarious – I take great offence at that!!!!

Oh wait, it's fine.

I never post under my real name – here, on BaceFook, anywhere. I prefer my anonimity.

However I don't troll. My opinions are my opinions and not intended to create unrest.

But Grumm – why make a thread in my honour? Don't you think it's a bit knobish? I really don't know what's wrong with what I said about Yeti-mans bike – I have met him and ridden with him…..

As for Ernie_Lynch – it must be an anogram 😉

I've already said if he likes it it's cool with me?!?!?!?

"I can't understand his build".

**** me – it's like a 1960's love in. I just don't dig what Yeti-mans groove is with that bike baby!

It is true – I didn't understand it, but then he explained. Now – I just don't agree with it – which I think we can live with?