I’ll ask my Portuguese friend, she should know.

Another one conquered by the collective. 😀

Ring donut, still warm and fried in ground nut oil with no sugar for me please!

Deeeeeeelicious. 😛

sp654233 – Member
I know you said best of the best but clapton’s solo on crossroads is awesome. Also maggot brain by funkadelic, only for the first two or three minutes mind.

You’ve got excellent taste sp654233 😀

Oh what about Django Reinhardt? A guitar legend of the Jazz kind.

Also how about some Funkcadelic?

Anything by Yngwie Malmsteen.

Turn it up to 11 and rock out with your c*ck out.

am I missing something?

An increased chance of getting Diabetes is the only thing I can think of.

If you are a serial tube repairer/miser like me (record: 13 patches on one tube ) then proper old fashioned vulcanised ones all the way. The pre-glued ones are great for a quicker fix on the trail but i find they don’t stay stuck on forever and have had slow-ish punctures that turned out to be the old glued patch.

I’m finding this, especially on road tubes that have a higher pressure. I can see air bubbles appearing under some older patches and its only a matter of time before they work their way to the end.

So I’ve gone back to the ‘old ways’, replace the punctured tube and repair the punctured one when I get home with rubber and a patch.

BTW Ive use/used Park ones.

As others have said, resist long walks for the first 6 months or so and don’t start her running with you and the bike for at least a year. Be mindful that they are very keen on rummaging through hedgerows and so if they have a full tail this can/will get cut quite a bit. Daisy has a full tail and its her most common injury. She gets plenty of injuries.

True, Alice the intrepid explorer she is has got herself caught in Brambles and had to be rescued (by my wife) luckiing one of the people she was walking with had a torch and a knife (this in North Wales and not the mean streets of Leyton).

She’s also ripped a hole in her chest on barbed wire last summer and at christmas she manage to slice the fornt leg open on god knows what. It didn’t faze her one bit she was running around with a 4 inch slit on her leg with the underlying muscle and tendon on show for all to see.

Both the above required trips to the vets and the chest gash required an over night stay.

When we walk her in the woods she can often been seen running around dragging buts of shrubbery that have caught up in the tail feathers.

On the positive side that big hairy tale does make an excellent fan in summer

Rear one was £70 used on the classifieds here, front was free with forks form Merlin nearly 2 years ago
Rims were just under £70 one from CRC one unused off the classifieds
Spokes about £40.

Bargain

Erm ok, you didn’t specify the monetary value you’re seeking a discount on.

Quite a few here, if the other ones don’t work

Get your CRC voucher codes here

I’ve never had a dog before but my wife grew up with springers. So when we (she) decided we wanted one it was the default breed to go for. We ended up with Alice, a King Charles/Springer cross (the KC got lucky). 😉

I have to say she’s brilliant and was quite easy to train, she’s still learning as she 3 in April. She can walk to the park of the lead now, which I think is pretty good as we live in London.

She’s also fantastic with kids (other people’s ours is due in a week) we had a party with all our friends and their kids (6months -10 years). Alice really worked the crowd, getting pats and playing with the kids, sampling their cakes. The whole day went without incident. She does get a bit kicky sometimes but she was great.

Her one bad point is she’s greedy, but she’s so lovely she can get away with it. She doesn’t steal food she’ll just stre at you until you cave in and give her some.

As for exercise, we don’t think we’ve found her limit yet.

Your going to have so much fun, post up a pic when you get him.

Coed y Brenin, loved it every time I’ve been.

PP if you don’t mind me asking, where are you buying 240’s that cheap?

And out of interest, how much would a pair of 240’s/717’s or Crests built by you cost me?

Email in profile if you prefer.

We took our Spring Charles for a test run at Thetford last summer.

She followed for about 20 meters then would catch a scent and run off then catch another one then another. We’d hear her barking in the distance and when we were fraught enough she’d come back, follow for another few meters and bugger off again.

Not taken her again, she’s got too much adventure in her to run after a boring old bike.

Shame though she loves to run, just not after a bike. 🙁

Do you mean Gethin woods?

https://maps.google.com/maps/api/staticmap?size=300×300&maptype=roadmap&sensor=false&markers=color:red%7C53.610711,-2.11657&client=google-maps-sharing&signature=Bw_UpQIT35HVnddUKBY0E3lNJoQ=

One of these, stealthy huh?

Rorschach, which shop do you work at?

Here’s my Sunday best, in fact it’s my everyday best.

One day I’ll have a fancy plastic bike.

joao3v16 – Member
Surely the Pakistani guy was being xenophobic rather than racist? Seeing as “Polish” is a nationality, not a race.

I did say you can’t say that as that’s what everyone probably thought about us when our lot moved here. But he said ‘no that was different, we didn’t smash up the houses, fight outside and have the police around all the time”.

Personally I don’t know if it was racism or not, but I did know it was wrong. The shoe was well and truly on the other foot.

BTW I think he referring to the noise and damage rather than it being about race. Unlike my Ghanian friends parents, they left the country because they didn’t like the ‘immigrants’ at all. 😯

I got turned down for an interview once at a local company in Rochdale, I rung them in the summer holidays to see if there was any work going, the woman said yes there was asked my name, I told her and she quickly changed her tone and said there wasn’t.

Before putting the phone down she commented on how funny it was hearing an asian with a Rochdale accent before she put the phone down. Imagined if I’d have got an interview, awkward or what?

It’s not even the ‘unwashed’ or office workers who are at it.

Here’s 2 examples;

A friends parents decided to moved back to Ghana. A deciding factor was that they didn’t like the type of people who were moving into East Ham.

I was in our local chippy and started chatting to a Pakistani bloke in the line, he started complaining how the area was going downhill as there were loads of Eastern Europeans moving in to the area. “They’re verys noisy, they drink a lot, there’s always trouble and there’s loads of them who live in one house. He was considering selling up and moving to a Wanstead where his brother was as it was a nicer area.

readikus, I grew up with asthma, from the age of 3 or 4 due to a bought of pneumonia, so I’ve had it all my life.

To make things worse I smoked from my late teens to my early 30’s as well. After university I moved to London to work, smoked, went out ‘on it’ at weekends (so 20+ fags on an all nighter, then weed, booze and more fags for the remainder). The one positive thing I did was commute to work by bike wearing a Respro mask. I rode the main roads from Tottenham to Oxford Circus 8/9 miles each way so they were plenty of exhaust fumes.

Within 6 months I stopped using my inhalers, still smoked etc but when I drew a breath I could feel my lungs filling with air (you know the good strong pulls you get after your inhaler kicks in). I’ve had stinking chest colds, pleurisy over the last 15 years, but never had to get a prescription for inhalers. I’m sure it’s down to riding with a mask and the extra work my lungs had to do to draw air in.

Apart from ride with a mask I did everything that would increase the use of preventative drugs. I lived in a huge dirty city, smoked, spent my weekends in night clubs/pubs and generally abused myself as much as my mates.

So I can’t vouch for powerbreathe but I know that restricting my airflow and making my lungs work harder certainly helped me. They just seem like they could work, the same as wearing a mask did for me.

But as you’ve said everyone is different, so what worked for one may not for another.

You could maybe try exercising your lungs these are meant to be brilliant.

http://www.powerbreathe.com

I’m not exactly sure what the term lifetime refers to. Mine failed at the dial so I called Evans and Blackburn who were very unhelpful.

CRC have a pretty full range of spares.

I’m using avid rotors with my RX’s and I’m not dead, at least I don’t think I am.

I had to shim out the front caliper a bit as Avis is 183mm and Forumla are designed for 180mm. It’s weird how there’s a few different sizes of 180 rotors but only one for the others.*

*Waits to be corrected

Never ever ever ever – you’re vulnerable as it is.

I wouldn’t be comfortable not hearing anything approaching, no matter how dull the ride was.

Not sure I’d consider the one ear approach either, but that’s just me.

You’ll be fine, just gob where you want.

They couldn’t make people pay for dropping litter in Waltham Forest so I doubt they be any more effective with spitting.

http://thebicycleacademy.bigcartel.com/product/practice-makes-perfect-jersey

Brilliant, that’s the first time I’ve seen a discount card.

One order out of the two I placed yesterday come before Midday.

Utter ***t, I hope they get who ever it is, crush their car with them inside it or at least ban them for life.

We’re driving to Morzine on the Wednesday, to arrive Thursday for a bit of a practice (not been to the Alps before). Then do the Passporte friday, ride some more on Sat then return Sunday.

As for accommodation, if we can get an STW Morzine collective together maybe we could rent one of the big Chalets, that way it’ll be much cheapness for all involved.

Chalet and flights already booked, can’t wait

Now that’s organised.

Ordered some bits yesterday, got a order despatched email a few hours later.

They must be a bit quiet.

Which is good for us 🙂

Booked for Morzine on Friday! 😀

Took quite a few attempts though.

Manhattan Portage, reasonably priced but sadly not made on the island anymore.

The yellow labeled, tarp lined ones are brilliant. I’ve had mine for 10 years+ and it’s still going.

As mentioned above Chrome is very good and pricey to match.

There’s bagaboo which are a hungarian copy of PAC designs, both are cheaper than Chrome but still not that cheap.

Then there’s Ortlieb their messenger bags are very waterproof, basic and well priced for what they are.

😯 Stainless! How much £800?

PP very nice, what year is it? It’s got a fluted DT so I’m guessing 93/94.

How is it suck good condition, have you resprayed it?