I’ve got an addiction to Findus lasagnes but after this I’m afraid I’ll have to rein it in a bit.

Thanks for the comments.

From previous camera threads you’re a Olympus fan aren’t you Molgrips? 🙂 What have you got?

The new ELP models look nice but are quite pricey.

I guess I do really need to try and hold some different models. To me the best camera is the one I’d use or have with me the most and I wondered whether an SLR would be too cumbersome, hence the Q’s regarding CSC.

The only possible issue is budget. It seems you can get a pretty decent starter SLR 2nd hand (maybe D3000 or Sony A55 – that sort of thing) but the CSC’s aren’t too common on the 2nd hand market.

Well I popped into the Camera Centre (in the Morgan Arcade) on my lunch break today.

I wasn’t in long but the chap seemed very helpful. Explained I was going to take a camera course but wasn’t sure whether I would use an SLR much outside of a course due to the large size. He suggested CSC or 4/3rds (same thing?) as alternatives, and in particular the Lumix or Sony models over the Nikon due to a larger sensor size.

So far so good on the advice front?

Sorry Gunz couldn’t resist 🙂 Always makes me chuckle when I see random answers on the wrong threads.

Likewise ned, I’ve high hopes for Crutchlow this season and with a bit of luck we’ll often see him on the podium. I hear he’s been practising his waves in preparation.

Given that they are both quite close, your best bet is to go into both, ask the same questions and see what you get. And then come back here and tell us what they recommended, we’ll let you know if it’s good advice or not

Ha ha yes, not a bad shout 🙂 Going by first impressions and other internet reviews the first shop you mentioned seems a bit haphazard but I’ll scope them out. Being a bit of a camera novice I’m wouldn’t necessarily be able to pinpoint if I received bad advice or not…

I’m based fairly central (Canton). Not managed a lunch time ride yet as usually take a half hr break but generally free all other times. Still need to try my hand at night riding some point too…

How about a narrow boat holiday?

Not a stag do but a group of mates and I did a long weekend on the Birmingham and Worcester canal. It was great fun and you can stop off along the pubs on the way and have a night out when you moor up for the night if that takes your fancy.

I’ve always fancied Oktoberfest too.

Jeez! The truck cab doesn’t look too pretty either given it was a relatively slow speed tip over.

Pretty heavy rain in Cardiff atm. If it speads east might help thaw Cwmcarn out a bit. Maybe 🙂

I have Exlxir 5’s on one bike and SLX on another. Whilst the Shimano work fine I probably prefer the feel and definitely the lever shape of the Avids.

The Avids also work great and seem very powerful though I am running a 203 rotor which is probably a slight overkill.

Not had cause to bleed them yet so my opinion might change…

When we had the last heavy snow back in 2010 I went up there. It was only me and one other chap and it was quite a laugh* so that’s why I’m tempted by this weekend – just don’t want the car to get beached anywhere.

*despite not being able to make it up the fire road climb without spinning out every few yards!

Hmm, was planning a ride up there on Sunday. As Cardiff is pretty much clear of snow I naively assumed ‘just down the road’ would also be pretty thawed out by now. Guess not!

Wonder what the road leading to the car park is like?

Very good. Glad to see the Welsh have a good sense of humour too 🙂

Whatever the cost (way out of my league) its a great marketing video by SC. How many riders are going to watch that and immediately *want* that frame ^^^ 🙂

Jaguar XJ220. Perhaps already there?

Central Cardiff no snow as yet.

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A friend has a 3Gs and whilst the OS updates are still available a group of us tend to use the Whatsapp App – he can’t anymore and they’ve updated to a new version that apparently doesn’t work on his phone.

Not sure if there are other apps no longer supported on a 3Gs or whether you use apps much even.

As a non parent myself take this with a pinch of salt but if the rest of their diet is pretty well balanced and they’re not excessively overweight then a few small treats around Xmas probably isnt going to matter too much.

I suppose if you took the hard stance then one outcome could be by banning the treats you end up making them covet them much more. Think Amsterdams stance on cannabis! (v tenuouos parallel I know).

From my own upbringing my parents never really had much in the way of fizzy drinks or sweets in the house but never went ott strict if I ever wanted them say around Easter or Xmas. What they did enforce though was to make sure I wasnt a fussy eater and ate loads of fruit and veg. Now pretty much the only 3 foods I can’t bear to eat are rhubard, turnips and parsnips. And even then I’ve grown to like the taste of roasted parsnips over Xmas.

Shame your not based in Central Hampshire otherwise you could be CADsWallop. 🙂

‘What a CAD’

I’m sure that’ll buff out.

My old car (mk1 Laguna) was broken into once outside my house. Well I say broken in but I could have left it open as there was no sign of forced entry.

Anyway, someone went through my glovebox and emptied its contents onto the passenger seat but nothing was taken. Not even my cd’s – I was actually a bit offended by that 😀

edit:

Just remembered my first car, a Fiat Uno. My friend in school had one two and one day we discovered our keys would both unlock and start each others cars. Being old I guess the barrels must have been worn?

I was quite amusing going for a spin at lunch time only to find your car parked in a totally different spot to where you had left it.

Ok so its not a car and its not for sale, but as this is STW how about this?

http://www.greatbritishsportscars.net/xj220-transit-van/

At the risk of tempting fate or having missed another thread, any news…? 🙂

Fitted the 26 x 2.3 and it clears okay in a 2011 Reba, but then I think the clearance on this fork is fairly poor, well compared to my Fox Vans anyway.

For a 2.3 it looks to come up quite narrow and isn’t far off the 2.0 The Captain I’m running on the rear.

Will be giving it a proper test this Fri.

Not really a classic stage in the strictest sense, but I just love the panning camera shot with Cav exploding on the outside to claim victory.

Enjoyable reading that. Very jealous 🙂

There was one common theme though and that was the lack of any sunshine in your pics, which just serves to remind me what a washout the weather was this year 😡

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Is there any superficial damage to the box?

Well I got the AP reference even if no-one else did!

Compared to some of the stories on this thread mine is more disturbing than dodgy, but anyway here’s mine.

Whilst working for Local Government in a large (approx 200 staff) building we had some rather strange posties that would deliver the internal mail.

One particular chap was commonly referred to a the whistling postman. I discovered the reason for this upon walking into the men’s toilets one day, where I discovered him stood at the urinal, both hands behind his head and whistling loudly while having a wazz.

Now luckily I had the option of using the cubicle but he did join me mid flow on more than one occasion when its a lot more difficult to escape.

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The script is nearly word for word

You’re not wrong there. In the episode I watched they substituted the popular ‘bus w@nkers’ phrase for ‘bus t*rds’.

Didn’t tranlsate well at all.

Got my included with our contents via Endsleigh.

I’ve heard good things about Sainsburys (for cost not claiming mind you). I tried them for a contents quote and seemed pretty competitive and limit on individual items was quite high – way more than my bike anyway.

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FFS its not like he had a gun and a stash of amo hidden under his bed.

Or spoke French in a library.

Perhaps naive of me to think this might run on and on. Instead a bombardment of complicated (to me) maths has answered the question.

STW does amaze me sometimes 🙂

I think the original Q stemmed from too much red wine and watching the programme where China (or was it Korea?) are knocking out those mega container ships at a ridiculous rate of something like every 3 weeks. I couldn’t quite comprehend the scale and speed of production of something so vast.

Edit: And why is it Wales is always used as a SI unit? Surely other principalities exist? 🙂

Theoretically yes, but not in a way that anyone could measure as the sea has a habit of moving about a bit round the edges which would make measuring such a small effect impossible.

Sneaky edit there 😉

Anyway, I thought global sea level change was measured in m so why not?

But if you put them all on the land, would the land sink?

Hmm, good point. I seem to recall something from a geolgy lecture that referred to the weight of mountains pushing down on the earths crust. So maybe…?

ell_tell – I run a 2.2 purg with a 2011 Reba and the clearance is pretty tight but it does work. So long as your wheel is true and you don’t mind the odd scratch to your fork arch you’ll get along fine.

Don’t know about the new 2.3 Purg’s though, someone said they were the same size but I’ve not tried one yet.

Thanks for that 🙂 I might take a punt on the 2.3 then. If not I’m sure it will be fine with the forks on my HT as the arch clearance is much better on them.

Rubbish pic but have we done this yet?

Slight bump but thinking of getting one of these for the front of my Camber.

Does anyone run one with a Reba fork though as clearance looks pretty tight with the ‘The Captain’ I’ve been running?