scotroutes – Member

“Oumuamua”. Shouldn’t they have called it Rama?

ERANU

I’ll raise you an UVAVU

Joe cocker only rode with 5 bolts and he is alright………

He was is definitely gravelly.

Healing vibes to you funkmasterp.

In other Top Trumps Stress news, I’ve been dealing with surveyors and tree surgeons today after some pretty mahoosive branches come down on our house from a neighbour’s tree – due to weight of snow. Nobody hurt and damage much less than it could have been

Helicoil won’t work as the bolt hole has split through to the edge up to half way down. Nowhere for the split to run through to (except all the way to the back) – but it can’t run to the hub body.

I’ve got the old bolt out – but the top half of the thread is farked – about two/three threads remaining at the back side and a bolt has gone in and tightened.

So I guess I’ve got 5 & 1/2 bolts

Bolt and nut would work

But I think it’ll be fine

Wife has already bought me a Planet X Full Monty frame and forks

I’m desperately trying to buy/beg/borrow/steal all the other bits I need to ride it Boxibg Day

Looks that bug me? Any of the ‘Rap’ poses, examples below. Makes you like like a ****t. Or maybe I’m just old

Indeed it is most excellent. Same guy (Hans Zimmer) also did soundtrack for Dunkirk which is also superb

CycleSurgery have Mavic Crossride 29er wheels, £50 FR, £63.50 RR or £113.50 for the pair ( :wink: )

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Ta, got a linky?

My Googlefu has only turned up the reverse adaptor

I’ll be up for the first hour or so.

TOJV is right and first hour is crucial

I listened to TMS on the wireless till 1 am last night

Does that count?

What would you take at lunch?

60-2?

Thanks all, some helpful advice

Joemmo – wife has ordered me the PX Full Monty (fir Xmas). Took the plunge as frame and fork was available for £180 so it’s a cheap way to ‘test the water’

To be fair, what the **** where you doing in a Farrow & Ball shop anyway?

A cheese thread and no mention yet of Roquefort? Tut, tut

Despite being French it’s still the king of cheeses and divine with a sweet pear. Fruit IN cheese, on the other hand, is plain wrong

30T with 11-42 at the back

Low enough for me around the Chilterns

that’s a newsboy cap, I like it

Well, I am effortlessly cool as f***.

Don’t copy me.

I’ve been wearing something that looks very much like this for many years

So has Brian Johnson from AC/DC.

:D

As I read that, I thought it was going to say ‘Brian Johnson from Test Match Special’.

It keeps my head warm and hides my thinning scalp – so all good

I’ve been wearing something that looks very much like this for many years – and well before Peaky Blinders was born. It doesn’t have razor blades in the peak and my trousers are not ‘half mast’

Whooaah, that’s a hell of an episode and ending

Back with a bang!

Six; three of mine, three further for wife and two teenage lads

Five more in the shed in various states – from frame & fork only up to just missing pedals and seat.

I also appear to have 50% of Europe’s front deraileurs

Gnar, rad, shredding et al

Kryton, can’t help you with any info on the drugs but I do sympathise; I haven’t flown for 8 years and I’m not sure I’d be able to handle it if asked. Is it worth a trip to one of the drop-in (not free) G.P. services?

What I will say is that some of the reaction to Kryton’s post is pretty Neanderthal and (to put it mildly) unhelpful. I guess those posting have no weaknesses or faults at all.

Pesky Blinders then Detectorists

Tomorrow is sorted

It is possible to eat very well for not that much.

We do around £100-£120/week, family of four with two 17 year old boys. That includes stuff like washing powder but NOT beer and wine. We could pretty easily knock 20% off that with a few sacrifices (fresh orange juice being top of the list at ~£8/week)

Everything cooked from scratch apart from the odd pizza to keep in the freezer for that quick, easy ’emergency meal.

Key to keeping cost down is menu-planning and bulk purchase of ‘dry’ foods. And never go to the supermarket hungry.

I think you can take out the damper and remove a spring from it – which eliminates the need to use any cable.

That was the case with a pair of SIDs of mine anyway. Could be different on a newer fork

Introduce them to a text considered ‘serious science’ and ‘fact’ in Europe, namely:

‘On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life’ by a certain C Darwin.

Although perhaps use the abbreviated title as the full one my provide unwarranted justification of their current course

No, not me

Your mission is to represent us fat-bikers (and possibly fat bikers) with distinction and honour. Which basically means enjoy it and who gives a stuff where you finish.

Mainly to keep me from bed and put off work a little longer.

And stolen bike recovery threads:

Rusty Spanner – Member 
Right, having had a think and a nosey through the records, I’m going for Stairway.

Controversial!

I detest ‘The Lemon Song’ from Led Zepp II, an album I otherwise love

My ‘auto-skip’, ‘I Want Your (Hands on Me)’ from Sinead’s Lion & Cobra

Great news.

I think that’s the second bike recovered in the last 6 months or so after posted here.

And a good excuse for blinging your bike to make it identifiable

Fat recumbent?

Sounds utterly daft but the detectorists is just as effective at calming my mind as 15mins of Transcendental Meditation, an utterly sublime programme

Not daft, agree totally

It just quietly pokes you in the ribs. Lovely.

Anyone else here suffer with that cheese OCD thing :oops:

and a 10 min drive does not take 30 mmins to ride unless you are either a really slow rider or speed furiously all the time inyour car

That’s horseshit. I live 1 minute drive from the M40, 9 mins on the motorway and I’m 10 miles from home at the next junction. Would take substantially longer than 30 mins to get to the same place by bike.

To answer the OP’s question
About 20% rides from home on local trails
About 30% – short drive to better local(ish) trails
About 50% – longer drive to Swinley or FoD

Wetherspoons: So long as you avoid the ones which are booze dens full of drunks they do a very good job. Not saying they deserve a star or rosette but I can take my 2 lads, we can all have a burger, me a pint (usually decent and something new) them a coke for just over £20. Can’t argue with that.

Burger King does a couple of decent burgers

McD – Quarter Pounded is okay and decent value. Their shakes are also a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine.

Greggs – baguettes are pretty good for the price and of course steak bakes. Not sausage rolls – just ridiculously salty

There’s a butcher in Thame that does fantastic sausage rolls for a quid

The rest you can keep

Here’s the rub. She drives more economically than me too and can average up to 5mpg average better than me. Not the best experiment because I’m not always trying to drive economically in that particular car, but still the smoith and gentle 2, 4, 6 approach mostly trumps my ham fisted 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 technique.

Presumably she’s under revving it in 4th (compared to using 3rd) rather than over revving it in 2nd. Under revving will have less of an impact than over revving on fuel economy. My wife’s car has a little arrow that appears on the dash telling you when to change up for max economy; I’m always surprised how early it tells you to change.

While we’re on this subject my wife rarely uses 1st or 6th when she drives my car (not sure when she’s in hers; we rarely travel together in it).

This causes problems as comments along the lines ‘How about we give 6th a go’ or ‘1st is good for starting’ tend to be received badly

Not something I’ve ever come across before. I do miss gears out, dropping down the box, but never going up.

Likewise. I think I’d find it awkward to go 2nd to 4th to 6th. The ‘muscle memory’ of up and down the box is too ingrained

I’m guessing being >3L it’s got mountains of torque – in cases where 3rd is ideal, I’m sure it’ll happily pull from 4th. Similarly from a stop in 2nd.

It is a bit odd though!

At least if she wears them out she’ll be able to swap to 1st, 2rd and 5th