*trying not to be hostile now*
Calm down dear it’s just a ghost story.

That’s not very 2013, man.

Turns out Back To Earth is pretty good too :)

WTF. I turn my back for 2 minutes….?!

Thanks for all the replies.

Naah, is a Lawson “Safety” bicycle.

Who in this thread has read this book?

EDIT: Now you have no excuse

http://www.philosophy.thecastsite.com/readings/godwantsyoudead/demonhauntedworld.pdf

Observations on Dutch bikes from a bloke with a Dutch girlfriend:

1- They are heavy
2- It doesn’t matter ‘cos the Netherlands is shockingly flat
3- They don’t get many punctures because they have an actual network of cycle/scooter roads and unlike the Brits etc don’t coat those roads in broken glass
4- There are a couple of brands that are lighter, but they don’t tend to sell well here because…
5- They spend loads on their bikes, 800 Euro is common – unlike UK commuter trends
6- They have funny big wheels – maybe they conserve more momentum, we should really look into that…
6- I can’t count. Many real Dutch bikes last 50 years due to heavyweight construction.
8- These bikes have such high handlebars that you aren’t able to stand up and push harder [n/p for the Dutch – see point 2]
9- The Dutch are mostly bloody tall – so real Dutch brands make bloody big bikes
10- We have a lot to learn from the Dutch
11- Cafe Cremers: Prinsestraat 84, 2513 CG Den Haag, Netherlands ?
+31 70 346 2346
12- Dizzy Duck: Trompstraat 210, 2518 BR Den Haag, Netherlands ?
13- I seem to have lost my train of thought there
14- Try Ridgeback’s stepthrough framed ladies bikes with Baskets, heavy duty racks and a good set of panniers to make a UK version…..

I’m trying to buy some Allison LS-120s – anyone heard them or any other Allison stuff?

Also – my dude downstairs has a Slim Devices Squeezebox, it sounds godly. You lot should really check them out.

Stuff that’s not changed: azur 540R V1/CDP-NS900v/Refoamed AE 109s on paving slabs/QED 79 Strand [It’s the odd number that makes it good, right?]/XLPS-V3/Planar 3/Ortofon 2M Red

I do have 2 new finds though:

BT 1KW mains conditioner “Property of British Telecom” £3

Mordaunt Short CS-1 £1

Excuse the mess, we’re moving in a couple of weeks :)

Bad news is I broke a binding post on the AEs wedging tinned 79 Strand in there :(

No I didn’t, I mean – don’t give up.

gavstorie
it sounds
like you have
a warranty case.
Good luck,
man.

OK
My entry:
<YehudaMoonMode>

Parking Brake. Scale up the bands if the bike is fully loaded. Touring I use a Silicon rubber wrist band
</YehudaMoonMode>

10/10 good riposte.

Wookie – brush that yard man!

Bloody awesome film.

The pace is a little uneven, perhaps, and perhaps it could have been 10 minutes shorter without really cutting anything, but the amount of work in it is amazing, astonishing, even.

The setup is pretty funny – with Pegg playing an obnoxious ass with more flaws than a cracked pint glass. His mates have all moved on and grown up, but he surely hasn’t. But, they start to go along with him anyway to see the train wreck in action. Oh, and because he’s twisted their arms, he’s not very nice really.

The pub crawl, well it’s quite the challenge isn’t it? 12 Pubs, 12 [or maybe more] pints and that’s without any shots, or funny business. They’ve got a lot to talk through, and the more you drink the more fluid the boundaries of social acceptability become – we are the self-repressed Brits, after all.

The love is there, as it always should be – Simon4Nik4eva, but the roles are a little adjusted from what we saw before – Nik’s straight man lines delivered with damn good skillz [though I swear I saw him smiling at the wrong moment al-la Spaced], yet the Tubby one still has a given talent for comedy which elude 99% of the comedy acting troupe worldwide. There is also some romance of a sort [oh I’ll never look at the disabled toilets the same] and a hundred well-observed lines on the perils of growing up, and the nostalgia of looking back from a very different view point.

Simon/Gary – oh frack he’s painful to watch. Nifty with his fists though. In fact the choreography is great, and the fighting gripping. I really noticed some difference in “flavour” in the fight scenes to Hollywood fare, I can’t put my finger on it maybe a different shot composition somehow? Edgar’s tough I think as it’s evident in Scott Pilgrim too. Oh, and we finally get to see Nick Frost really, really kicking ass – Hooray!

The other characters are all brilliantly acted, with conviction and good timing – these films never suffer from the perils of being un-funny when they think they are funny [lookin’ at you Burn After Reading]. I don’t know about you lot but I really think there was a strong resemblance between Jess Hynes and the main female character – Sam. It was a bit of a surprise, and I really wish she’d been in it…. :(

The end sequences had the whole audience snorting and laughing like buffoons, contains some killer lines and will probably NOT be what you’re expecting.

There are, of course, cameos [Michael Smiley :) :) ], nods-to the other Cornetto films and, puzzlingly – no red on anyone AFAIK!

Highly recommended, and a bloody big relief to be able to say it. To have waited 9 years for a film, and then be able to say “Awesome” is a rare treat.

Go see it.

GfS

That’s what I was thinking. Maybe it was loaded a little loose, so you put in in carefully, and then when you went over a speedbump or something it got a clout from the other bike.

Anyway, OP – see if you can petition them nicely for a reduced rate on the part seeing as it’s such a new/nice bike. You’d think they would want to keep you as a customer?!

Big M – Member
If you have greasy oily hands from working on the bike, simply squirt them with WD40 or GT85, wipe with a clean rag and hey presto… clean hands.

Sorry to be a naysayer but I really wouldn’t recommend that. When spannering I used this trick sometimes, and now have really messed-up skin on my hands – some form of dermatitis, and it’s not going away.

GT 85 is mostly solvent. WD40 might not be so bad but it’s mainly mineral oil, which isn’t good either.

Bike was in the middle of your bike rack? I wager that was where the damage occurred.

Clearly I must post harder, Drac :)

A friend of mine who codes explained the issue with captcha – you only have to write a script that rips the captcha image and displays it to another real person with the proviso that “If you fill in this captcha you can have a picture of boobies” – in 2 seconds you get your captchas solved and just queue it into the system you’ve written to submit it back to the desired page.

Set that up and all the schtickposting you like is your reward.

Proviso – I don’t know how to do this – I just write “buttocks” in one of the boxes

That looks like Mac OS Old. How’s the screen licking going?

Well, at least it doesn’t have the flaw in the captcha *ahem* forum has where you can spot the scan and therefore type eg-“buttocks” into every other field.

While we’re at it – what about introducing comedy wordfilters [seeing as we clearly have wordfilters]?

Indeed, looks doable.

Genuine LOL. Did you never mention it to her? That’s crazy badluck

Do you use a bike rack to transport it?

I have never put grass in my tyres, officer.

Hehe, I about forgot that. Maybe I’m doing more that I thought right, eh?

plyphon – dude I have tried than mantra – worked for a bit, you should have seen how fast I gained muscle when did a load of weight training!

Sadly I feel different now.

That’s fantastic and I envy your ability to switch off

Why not start here?

Just got my Squirt Lube Trial – will be keeping the bottle!

Dark choc and flavoured cream centres for me please. What a lucky break.

Clearly the last 3 posters should go for a bike ride and take a box of choccies to share [in a cool bag]

EDIT: Too slow ;)

Kryten – been on the Ultrazone again? Can’t quite recall which sweets it was?

Sadly, while I like most of those posted above, they usually contain gelatine, so I don’t buy them :(

You will need some water…

There seems to be a consensus that PC-1’s are no good. Which irks, as I’ve just bought 2.

TBH one snapped after a month.

Nearing Takeoff

allthepies – I do sometimes tickle a rabbit that is not my own

avdave 2 – I would imagine it can only be extracted thus and quite frankly I have my suspiscions that it would hurt. As I am clearly lacking in MTFU cream today, I’ll have to give a deferred donation. Do you accept Paypal Gift?

^Who her?

SRSLY – Molegrips’ words are good ones. I’ll try to keep calm, makes a few simple goals and keep ticking over. Then, if I have to do a lot at the end, it should be less than if I’d left more of it to the end.

I probably need a couple of days off –TGIF– :)

8O No not really it cannot be

1) [Well known] Never get involved in a land war in Asia

2) Only slightly less well-known is this: “Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line”!

Lummox – Member
A bic Biro lid is perfect for precision placement of ball bearings back into cup and cone hubs. Just roll them down the little chute on the inside of the pocket clip.

THAT is genius.

I do have a bit of manic/depressed side.

Never been to get my mind checked-over – maybe I should? Maybe simple steps could make a lot of difference?