the saline thing doesn't work, it's a fallacy that my mate (registrar) had a sensible explanation

back to the OP, he'll stop spewing soon, drink water and go to bed with a bucket in case… and cereal the next day not fry up.

I'm getting a rear built for my commuter for about 15quid ish labour and the same 15 quid for plain gauge spokes, double butted spokes were in the 30quid region, thats about 45p for a plain gauge spoke and 94p for a butted.

however consider the quality of their building skills vs mine given that they would build/true one a week probably and I would do mine once every 3yrs (and the cost impact of buying a truing stand..)

are you fully hydrated before you go out? sounds like a lot of fluid….

and yet the tooth fairy buys for a quid…… :roll:

what's on the cassette ??? I bet with some juducious surfing you could find it somewhere

set the stw massive the challenge :-)

life on mars (don't bother with Ashes to Ashes)

I would hope I never give up even if it's pootling to the shops… I'll just get a bigger spread of gears (actually I may even get gears!)

crusty old cyclists are to be wary of, they don't bother sprinting but have gazillions of years of conditioning, and can hold a tempo. Whenever my uncle Dennis (GB tricycle TT champion in the 70s, which is technically a world champ as anyone was welcome to enter :-) says 'oh I don't do racing or anything like that any more' I never believe him, he'd still hammer us all

I agree with tails, bialetti every time… less faff and a hell of a lot less expensive

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afKUsnPlyc4

unnh!

acers are decent, as are HP – lenovo are good for the money

don't rule out budget stuff, medion are decent as all the boards are much of a muchness regardless of the brand on them (exception to this rule is dell stuff which is all made inhouse in china and it's all nonstandard stuff, so if it goes wrong it's bin time)

oh yeah, don't partition windows, just install ubuntu, it's mature enough to work fine for the uninitiated now as long as you take the time to not just give up straight away just cos it isn't windoze :)

get a fury, so much money for the bike, you may even get a grey 2009 one with the tora fork (better than the epicon imo) they're not a skinny racer but they are surprisingly versatile

check it over before you go out on it, the assembly skills of halfords staff are variable (mine were rubbish, some are decent)

1400 quid for a steel singlespeed just cos it's got colnago stickers???

400 quid ish gets you a mtm bob jackson frame, you could get some really nice wheels, wouldn't need to skimp on chainset or finishing kit and still have about 600 quid left over…..

swimming with dolphins in the wild, red sea

sorry to hear that you've had no luck, I think that you've been unfortunate with that bit of chorlton

I live in prestwich, I know that it's the other end of manchester but come and have a look anyway ;)

I bet that this guy is a complete headcase and known to the police, and that this is the first thing they have pinned on him, so they are waiting for him to step out of line again (which he probably will) so then the CPS list everything in order for him to do a big stretch

Wasn't George Orwell a cyclist? I seem to remember him saying something profound about being reminded that the world isn't a bad place whenever he sees someone on a bike?

Iris Murdoch

http://bikesocial.blogspot.com/2007/11/iris-murdoch-and-others-on-bicycle.html

songs in A minor was full of rip offs imo

fallin is a straight rip off from Mans Mans World by james brown for example

…. still would tho

why not get a single speed conversion kit? on the first of November, switch the 456 to a single speed and in February switch it back…

I can understand having a full sus for the big stuff as well as an HT, build a bouncer out of the bits currently on the inbred?

cheers rusty! I might just treat myself anyway….

ok :-) The Loire is a good idea as aP said, there are vineyards and also a lot of chateaux (chenonceux etc) and great towns. friendly people too

http://www.veloventoux.com/index.htm

never done it myself but if someone asked me this is the big one for me, if he's into road bike racing and the age he is he may well know the Tommy Simpson story?

….broken the cycle with that 'put a ring on it' song by making the video

for about £15 it would seem… and start dancing, mime to the music… and we're done

wot the others said about the botty cream – assos or udderly, apply liberally to all moving parts!!

and decent shorts, I have some castelli, which I would recommend

http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/man_unable_to_wear_nice

sometimes the simple ones are the best :)

unobtanium was used by oakley for one of their products – the grippy stuff on the arms IIRC

ok, hilariously bad line…

'Put the bunny back in the box' ladies and Gentlemen, the one and only Con Air

wiki's right about it being a kid who committed suicide, although the phonics are from aberdare, I knew someone who went to school with both kelly jones and the kid in question

can't see any reason why you should need 32s unless you have a hell of a lot of stuff in your panniers, 28's will roll faster too

I have gators and they are decent tyres

my Zonda is struggling a little in the snow at the moment

I'm still riding in, 4 miles from Heaton Park to Manchester, easy. on the mtb with michelin 2.0 xc at's

ooh kirk precision – my cousin had one of those, we used to refer to it as 'the fridge'

I've got a Carerra Fury, that's ugly and chav

fury

on the internet you'll never get folk to agree on this on, if there was a consensus there wouldn't be 2 options on sale!

my take is get the compact, you'll be fine.

on a mountain bike you need the inner ring and the largest sprocket to ride very hilly squidgy bits and you very rarely use it. On the tarmac it's negligable, and most importantly triples look gopping

32mph – about 130ish rpm and that was my gear maxed out…

here's a better dieting method

anyone said Where Eagles Dare yet ?

saw that when I was about 14 and it's just stayed with me…

ride faster, get warmer :-)

it's always difficult getting the mix of enough layers vs getting sweaty under them

I'm still looking for the holy grail of breathable and waterproof….

Jelly, there's a really straight forward way that involves doing what you do now with no extra effort

tapeworm

I think (hope) we may get a full on hung which would be great – force the big 2 from being so centrist and trying to nick each others policies.. and the Lib Dems could end up a lot stronger as a result

meh, here's hoping… in vein…..

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/ene_oil_res-energy-oil-reserves

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction#Nuclear_weapons

I lived in Salford for about 4/5 yrs, when the next door neighbours in a secure block of council flats broke the door down and stole stuff and the security guards let them take all the stuff away out of the front doors in front of the guard, that was the point I decided to move…. (this was after a car being stolen out of a secure car park and also a knifepoint mugging)

I'm glad someone else out there thinks the same as me when it comes to the Sex Pistols – just another boy band put together by a manager to cash in on a trend

I don't agree that Cream or the Arctic Monkeys are rubbish but I conceed that some people go too far in thinking that they are minor deities (anyone ever heard that song by Dan le Sac and Scroobius Pip? 'just a band' :] )

ok, here's some more over rated's

Blur, one or two good songs (i.e. one an album) but a lot of filler in the albums and all that fake cockernee bullsht
the Cure, boring
metallica, crap
Guns N Roses, the big singles that still get played on the radio are showing their age and the rest is all toss
Paul Weller's solo stuff after the first 2 albums (Paul Weller and Wildwood are decent enough the rest are all dire and get progressively worse)