No-one else thinks it’s unacceptable to leave the bike unlocked?

I have a lot of consideration for other people’s property, I would never dream of doing that, I’d just leave a note explaining it was motorbike parking.

The Abus has secured various bikes for about 5 years, it’s survived a set of bolt croppers too at the NORMAL bike-parking area out the front of the uni. In midday. Hence the desire to park it in the secluded spot in the pictures.

OK – well if you really don’t think I have the right to give the person a bollocking for leaving it unlocked [and as noted, blocking the fire door] I won’t.

I was in two minds – hence the question.

It was NOT where it is in the pictures when I left it.

The person who unlocked it put it there. I have never left it in the way of the door, just on the ring on the wall, the far one in the top pic, leaving plenty of space around it for the other bikes that are parked there.

Sorry the OP was such a mess.

We’ll have to agree to disagree on this. I can see your point, but they could easily have left it locked.

Out of interest – how am I supposed to know this is motorcycle parking when there is no sign saying it’s motorcycle parking?

They were probably annoyed someones been using their chain to lock their bike to for ages.

I have been using the ring [usually the ring itself] around 4 hours a week for a few years. As I said – the note would have sufficed – I can put it somewhere else if requested.

That someone was you!

No it wasn’t – it was secured when I left it and someone else came and callously caused it to be insecure just for the hell of it.

I can accept I was in the wrong – though I was oblivious to the area being motorcycle parking due to the lack of sign and or motorcycles. As I said the sign was enough.

What bugs me is the notion that it was OK to leave it no longer attached to anything!

No it was not the piddly little chain – that would be daft. It was a chunky chain that is not in the picture.

It was the far ring in the top pic – of course NOT in the doorway.

scc999 – Yeah sure, on the days when i’m not up to 2am doing uni stuff and putting up websites by 7:30 am the next morning, yes.

treaclesponge
Why not just spend 5 mins to find out the cage code and park like the rest of the cyclists?

– I have to apply for permission through the central facilities and it takes weeks for a reply. Also the cage is filthy [pigeon shit] and full of bikes some of which move and some of which don’t – I won’t know which ones I can lock mine to. Lastly because I think the first place people are going to steal bikes from is the normal area where they’re locked up. The chain has been there years and never been used before.

midlifecrashes

Could you take a wheelie bin with you tomorrow and leave it in your space to reserve it?

Oh I don’t know – I just can’t understand how the hell they think it’s acceptable to leave it unlocked?!

You put your lock through someone elses lock?

There’s loads of new looking locks that are used – in three years I have never seen that spot or that old rusty chain in use. It has a padlock holding it together.

Unfortunately it would be your fault if the bike went missing you attached it to something that was easier to defeat than your lock making your lock a pointless accessory.

– I assume they had the key?!

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-750-ti-passive-cooling,3757.html

DIY is a decent option with Nvidia’s Maxwell, or wait a few months and just buy a premade one.

NB Based on my recent experience, you might want to experiment with spraying the heatsink black if the airflow is limited [better radiation of the heat]. TEST IT in your case with a paint you can remove!

@jekkyl
As Bill Hicks said, none because: “…it’s impossible!”

Buuuuut… I have found that it (for me and some others) works at the time, but afterwards can make you more touchy, and more short tempered, at least for a few hours. About the only time I am prone to temper is when I’ve hit the weed hard the days before.

YMMV

I’d avoid Weed if you’re having anger management issues, and I say that as a keen supporter of both medical and recreational use of Mary-J.

OK – I’ll see how it pans out.

Yeah – I really think it’s just STW. Does anyone else get this? Could it be a “bad” popup?

Hmm, no, sorry. Today I just have the blink. It looks a little like the below, only I think I see a window, not noise.

Oops, yeah it is only in Chrome – after I close a window – I had the wrong thing in the backround when I made that animation. sorry.

Actually, it only starts happening AFTER I have visited STW…

The wanted man was found and he is due for a hearing soon.

http://www.westbriton.co.uk/Redruth-man-Kevin-Cooper-face-trial-accused/story-20744340-detail/story.html

@Cougar
“Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations”

I wonder if it’s clicking a link in the background with a hidden Internet Ex????????????????????p???????l?????????????????????o??????????????????d?????????????e???????????????????????r?????????????????????? window?

Cougar:
1-Yes – but plugging it in triggers a whole burst of them.
2-Will do after ESET scan
3-There are a few available. Are the changes limited to the OS? Not the files I have been working on the last few days?

Martin
1-Sorry, yes unrelated but kinda cool. I suspect the rolling vortex might explain the efficiency of the swimming?
2-No, no ????olq
3-Will do but they haven’t changed.

Aaand out of stock again.

This guy clearly does not keep a lot of stock, I won’t bump the thread again – this is embarrassing.

Footflaps – I can only assume the hazard label is because high power LED’s are not a good idea to look at, especially with a lens on.

If you want a real beast – try using this as a torch?

These are back online now.

More good advice guys a girls. Thanks again.

Hopefully soon I’ll be with a degree, a better tattoo and know how to play the Trombone properly 🙂

Wish me luck!

It’s a great idea. Small frames rock, and girls like riding them because they feel more able to bail and have more appropriate reach.

Also that frame is really nice and will likely appeal to the other half.

Going to church.

However, by 18 it was all of the above, except the cars and the curtains. I liked my curtains, closed.

I still dream of this….

. Used to ride a DJ, always wanted the 4X. The Dj’s loop stays broke, and as it was a gifted frame with faulty clearcoat, there was no warranty.

It was a Medium, running 120mm Recon Airs, 3×9 and mechanical discs. Was pretty good, but did tend to fall over a bit on the climbs.

I also couriered on it, and it was signed by Nicole Cooke. Sigh…

Slashdot, Ars Technica, STW, BBC News, Jalopnik

Listened to Etymotic ‘phones once – exactly as you describe. Yuk.

Thanks all, it’s been fun!

Problems I am having:

Leakage [air] around the mouthpiece [solving this requires increasing pressure, apparently not good]

A funny smell from the bell-end

My mouth gets tired when tromboning

etc etc etc – oh man I’m still laughing after 4 weeks, hehe

Great suggestion! Thanks.

Sorry if I sounded a bit shirty earlier everyone, I was trying to type extra fast as my wonderful girlfriend had made me two veg pasties for dinner and she wanted me to stop dicking about on the forum and eat them, so I didn’t look what I was writing very well. 😳

I do realise the humor in these instruments 😉

Parp parp!

Aaaaayyy Cheers Ed! Your comment hadn’t loaded when I typed.

I am in Bradford, and am but a poor student, so a balance of good and affordable is a necessary evil, but thanks so much!

Please drop me a line at sam{d0t}firth{?t}gmail{d0t}com if you have any luck.

Danny – pBones are £120 or thereabouts – buy a new one and start again 🙂

I’m not only a giver.

Any real help or is this just what the Large Helmet thread should have been 🙄

Yeah, I deliberately DIDN’T call this thread “Tromboning” etc etc 🙄

My Sony TAFE-570r has been flawless since 2002, or something. But that’s not a statistically-important sample I suppose.

The new Sony laptops are dire, break all the time [sample of about 4 there I think].

Sony often tune their sound in a certain way though, smooth with a tailing-off in the treble, but a little peak at the very top. Suits my Technics speakers, but not my AEs.

I use the Chromebook for STW etc, and a real PC@1900*1200 when needs must.

The only way around it would be to buy a machine with a Retina/equivalent screen and squint.

Some other streaming TV requires Silverlight too. Had to install in on my PC for MissStripes

I think there’s a lot of mileage in graphics card programming, myself. HUMA etc.

uuuhhhhh… nothing on Slashdot or Stackexchange?

This is beyond me, sorry.

Entropy, I’m afraid,

http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/1257/why-do-earphone-wires-always-get-tangled-up-in-pocket

Rather difficult to avoid 🙁