You need a shorter stem.

Dehydration?

wise and mechanically competent ones

By rights this should be a very short thread. 😀

If he’s travelling by train he can afford a nice bike.

Meh – just ride the thing – the crown race will settle in pretty quickly. As above – it’s not the best job, but it’s reasonably adequate.

Is Pob left standing?

I did it for 4 years. It’s not a bad commute as they go.

The thing I liked about it was that you have a couple of options to ride part of the way back. Canal passes close to Croy and Falkirk High.

You would also have the option of taking the route that goes via Bathgate – that has a nice cycle path which runs along side it for long sections.

Cowboy train?

Yip – slow, rickety and goes through bandit country.

The bus is pretty cheap and if you start early enough you dont get stuck in traffic. 1hr10 ish from Haymarket to Buchanan street. Bus is fairly quiet and you can just put he seat back and go to sleep.

I think George Galloway is one of the outstanding politicians of his generation. I only wish there were many more like him.

He’s probably the best politician to come out of Scotland ever. Better than Salmond, but not as popular.

Physio must be manipulative ( not machine led) to free up muscle spasm and improve mobility,

There is no evidence to support this.

glupton’s

you should be so lucky.

Synopsis? 😉

Failing that – pinch the side plates together and use a set of snips like you’d use the tool.

Same as a Sram one.

That looks like some decent housing for it being housing association. There appears to be at least one person ripping the arse right out of it too.

Dammit. Friends with benefits moved too quickly.

I’d like to see them try and enforce that.

Not quite – it relates to a restriction of blood flow to tissue.

achoo.

There’s a thread close to this one which has the title “Slapped Arse”…

That needs to be below this one in the list of threads and someone needs to take a screenshot of it.

I think it’s quite funny.

Love it.

But how would I know I’m not making it worse?

Your body would soon let you know if you were making it worse. Trust me on this one. Your thought pattern is very common and is one of the biggest hurdles I face when treating a patient with pain such as yours.

Moving around might make your back worse in a very small number of cases. However, not moving around will make your back worse in the vast proportion of conditions.

Only taking the pills when it gets too much is a good way of making your back pain issue worse. If you take them regularly you’re more likely to keep active or not avoid activity, thereby treating our own back without knowing it.

Meh – just do the physio, find out why your disc has become damaged, try not to do it again. Stats for low back pain resolving through physio are really very favourable. Your treatment will be movements based at getting the gunk in the disc to go back into the middle; getting fitter, moving more, and education on aggravating factors. Not all that much to worry about really.

No it isn’t, it’s in the Borders Region.

I was only a couple of Km out. Oh well.

VED would mean you need to have some kind of registration plate to identify the bike it applies to. Which means ownership documents and a registered keeper. How does that work for hire bikes or people who swap frames around?

Frame number? Or just put “bike” in the reg number place.

Pointless bureaucracy which would cost millions to the tax payer and ultimately discourage people from cycling.

Away and shite.

Depending on what Hassan Rouhani does in the next few years it could be him.

Nothing is ever free, so who is paying for it? Are you suggesting raising taxes to pay for a sticker?

What he said.^

Or indeed a penny onto the price of a litre of fuel.

Ian Munro – would you be happy to put a VED sticker on your bike? Free sticker, small enough to wrap around the seat post.

The debate about compulsory helmet wearing is a stupid one, there’s no way it would be enforceable.

The debate about seatbelt wearing is a stupid one, there’s no way it would be enforceable….

Remember that?

See when you’re trying to win a battle it’s always better to have an elevated position. Make helmets compulsory, take the high ground, THEN go after the muppets in tin boxes. VED stickers for bikes would be a good start too.

£36 http://www.wiggle.co.uk/castelli-squadra-long-waterproof-jacket/

Newcastleton, is also in Dumfries and Galloway – you know that?

Aye – that’ll be the beer kicking in. Wrong World War.

What war continued after VJ Day?

That would be the Russian Civil War.

Arrse says 1968 is the year for no British combat deaths and they should know .

Contrary to popular belief there are places in the world which are not classed as Britain.

Which side is the creature known as Simon Cowell on?

Would the Pax Romana be the last time there was relative peace?

Was their username soldierspy1982?

Or if you don’t mind a 15 minute walk park on the road that goes round Arthur’s Seat for free.