Get some loctite Bearing fit compound. That will stop it spinning and can be removed again for servicing.

Loctite 641 is medium strength

Loctite 648 is a high strength retaining compound

Or if the bearing fits like a dick in a bucket, then try getting hold of some loctite 660 which is made to take up the gap on poor fitting bearing shafts etc where the bearing has spun.

The Dysons are very good vacumes. As long as you clean the filters out under the tap every now and again, they will last forever. Ive repaired half a dozzen dysons for freinds and family now, and the majority had nothing more than cloged filters causing them to overheat.

The parts are dirt cheap and readily available, with the most expensive part being the Motors, one of which I replaced in my pearents 9 year old animal. £35 delivered, probably last another 9 years now too.

+1 for the Football fans.

Typically the kind of people who would be mildly impressed at the birth of there healthy baby, or that that their fiancee said yes, both life changing amazing events, probably celebrated with a smile and a hug………..

……but get disproportionally excited about some overpaid nob they know only from the media, kicking a ball between a pair of posts, that has no relevence or effect on there lives, and yet they react like they've just won the lottery, shouting and screaming and the top of there voice or wanting to rip the head of the oponents suporters with as much hate as that you'd show somebody who just slapped your mother. WTF are they on???

You can use flickr to search for photos taken by various cameras, including phones. Perhaps have a look at the pictures the phones your looking at can produce using flickr and base your decision on that if the camera ability is one on of the things youll mainly concerned with. 🙂

I'm glad you dont live next to me. 1 in the afternoon is a perfectly reasonable time to make a little noise. You wanna learn to be a little more tolerant.

Stevo – seriously, did you make money off the back of your family & friends attending your own wedding?
"but we charged a few quid to people who wanted to stay and it made it pretty reasonable."

I bet he didnt "make money" 🙄 I'm guessing he just asked for a small contribution towards a room for the night. If ive ever gone to a wedding and stayed over i've always paid for my own room. TI29er, are you seriously surgesting I pay for all my guests acomodation? 😯

Ive got pretty bad pompholyx hand eczema unfortunatly, and hard water really isnt any good for mine either. The syptoms you describe are fairly typical, with the red bumps/swellings around knuckles sometimes ending in split skin. You still need to get down the doctors though, as it may be a secondary infection.

Theres little point in me recomending things that help, as everyones different and theres loads of websites with good info that you an google up.

Look at your bike, any nuts? or is everything cap hear allen keys? Chances are youve no nuts, so you really dont need an alien multitool with a bunch of pointless ring spanners to lug around.

Better off with a topeak hex or crank 19 or something similar and a leatherman with a pair of pliers is always handy.

I suffer quite badly from eczema and the thing that helps the most for me is to keep the area covered stopping the wind drying the skin out. A good greasy moisturiser is esential and bath ointment like oilatium may help sooth after a ride too.

The best product ive found to ease the actual itching is E45's Anti Itch cream. Does what is says on the side of the tube 😀

I'm glad Padowan finaly pointed out that the better designed frames that are built to use air shocks from the concept have a changing compresion rate as the wheel travels through its arc to take into consideration the rising rate of the shock.

I'd have also thought that you need some element of this non linea compression to stop you blowing through the entire travel on big hits whilst giving you a plush ride over the smaller stuff?

WHAT ELSE CAN THEY DO?….They could clear the frickin car park CHB! It wouldnt take them long between them.

My only way in to work on tuesday was on the bike. The only three staff who made it in to work before lunch were all cyclists. I was quite smug about that little fact. However, when I came to ride home again, I realised that without the tracks left by the odd motorist who had ventured out, it was a hell of a lot harder going if not just imposible.

I like the topeak stuff, but the alien is just overkill. Have a look at your bike, if its made this century then odds are there's no nuts on the thing, just cap head bolts that require an allen key set. So why lug around an allien with an asortment of usless ring spanners intergrated. I've got a mini 18 thats never let me down, and the hexus look alright.

I would recomend a small set of pliers as timpol surgested. I carry a leatherman crunch which has a little pair of mole grips come pliers. come in most usefull on several ocasions, including the time i bent the wheel rim lip over on a rock.

Urgh, cheap gits. I cant see any advantage of a press fit BB over a threaded HT2 jobbie? why on earth have they turned to these at manufacture? theyve got to be cheaper. I quite fancied a zesty, but not bloody likely now.

That said, ive been jet washing my bike for the last year or more, no probs with any of my bearings. but then again, I know how to service them once in a while.

I have the Pearl Izumi Cyclone gloves and highly rate them. click here

no lining to pull apart, wind and waterproof, and surprisingly warm for such thin gloves that allow you to feel the bars and controls properly. good long wrists too.

It was -2ish the other day, and they kept my fingers pleanty warmer than my poor toes! lol

The 360 can decode and play divx itself. All you need to do is put the movie on a memory stick and plug it in the xbox usb slot. It will run off an external hard drive too.

You can stream it over wireless if your 360 has an adaptor, but its slightly more complicated to set up and a little slower to fast forward etc due to the obvious band width restrictions of wireless.

The only thing the 360 cant play is some of the larger MKV files.

Can you be more specific about the question? Are you asking if we can drive/ park/ handle a car better than the 50th percentile, or are you asking if we remain perticually safe/ cautious/ risk free whilst doing so. Some people will regard an accident free motorist as a good driver, whislt some poeple will see them as a menice to the road. My mother hasnt had an accident in over 30 years, but shes a god awfull driver.

Oh my god you are….What about Deisel spills or somebody/thing runs across the road, etc etc. Do roads have DEISEL SPILL AHEAD written on them so you can "read the road" ahead? errr no.

Sorry took the bait,

leaves room and shuts the door.

Drac, your taking the micky right? I will assume so, as you can’t be that incredibly naive.

😀 Ive just been teaching my fiancee how to control a skid on the local deserted car park! Most fun indeed 😛 substatially cheaper than a skid pan, and just maybe one day it might come in usefull, but here's hoping she never needs it.

We went up there last year when the weather was like this. The fire road up through the forest was just sheet ice and absolutly leathal! If was fun in a stupid ideotic way. you couldnt dismount either, as youd slide back down. Somehow the tyres had far more traction than scate shoes, and as long as you got used to slidding around on two wheels, it was great fun, until you had to actually turn a bend…. Anyway, as we got higher the snow got deeper, and you couldnt really ride it, just too deep along charity lane. Even if you stayed in the motorbike tracks, your cranks couldnt be turned. Still good fun though. We decided against the full loop up to the fiddle, and just came back down to the forrest. Just be prepared that if it snows a lot tomorrow, its gonna be very hard work on the tops.

And there was I, trusting the local family run bike shop that have been building bikes for generations, when I could have gone to one of cytechs top 50 and let some spoty 18yr old whos done a weeks course service my bike. 🙄

Love this thread, just shows what you can bosh together out of old bits to make a perfecty functional tool with somewhat limited resources! Proper British garden shed engineering 8)

I had the luxury of a small machine shop to slap some bits of old scrap together to make mine, so its a kinda cheat, but its still made from recycled bits so a little less went to landfill and I have a perfectly good wheel trueing stand. The DTI gauge really makes things that bit easyer and faster too! Theres a second one normally fitted to the lower arm for the circumfrential adjustment but I made it quick release so I can leave the tyre on.

Onkyo CR525 with a pair of wharfedale diamond 9.1's here. Tryed it next to a denon, but this sounded better to me. Personal preferance and all.

slight sore arm for me, no other side effects.

Yea, but its just another hardtail frame. Well built maybe, but nothing perticually different or special about it. Cant see what all the fuss is about.

Looks like any other hardtail to me? 😕 two triangles in a conventional pattern, Can anyone tell me what I'm missing?

lmfao 😀

The opportunity to work short hours at a non-job with many meetings, attendance at a lot of 'personal development' courses and little accountability. Generous, compulsory sick leave entitlement. Having the opportunity to file official grievances against management at the drop of a hat that will allow me to be sent home on full pay during the investigation.

-I know that not all councils are like that

Just 99.9% of them. Perfectly summed up!

You could add "Because I cant get a job in the private sector where my incompetance and stupidity isn't tolerated"

Quite simply, myself and a very large number of the population are still rather intoxicated at that hour of the morning! 😛 We work hard all week, party all night, then need a little sleep in the morning before going for a ride to burn off that dirty kebab! lol.

Of course, if your in your more senour years and stay in on a friday night in you slippers and dressing gown, you get the pleasure of being up at 4am to ride the trails pretty much as you spent your evening, nice and quietly if not alone…

Ive had a set of each, Both well built, but one of the wheels from merlin did need the spokes tweaking after a few rides, the CRC wheels have been maintenance free. If you want them quick, go with CRC as merlin can drag there heals in my experiance.

Most tools are only as good as the person using them. And buying into the mythical snap on quality vibe, wont make you a better mechanic. The Halfords stuff is fine, but as with any tool, start sliding scaf pipes on the end it anit gonna last long.

29, electrical/mechanical plant maintenance engineer.

Just bought a Marin east peak frame from the classifieds section. The chap I bought it off was a legend. Although he lived in London, he was visiting leeds and swung past Manchester on his way back down. Frames mint, well chuffed, and at a sensible price too 😀

Fantastic! Thanks pal! 😀

As above, slightly higher revs with light pressure on the throttle is far better than straining the engine in too lower gear with the throttle wide open chucking fuel in. Genrally speaking, as lower revs as pos without labouring. But the rule isnt bullet prof. for example, my 2.2 petrol gets better economy in 4th at 60 than in 5th even though the engine dosent struggle at all in 5th at that speed. Its all down to the torque curve of the engine as mentioned above. The rev range that returns the greater torque is where the engine is most efficient. Stay in this band perticually when accelerating and you should save more fuel.

whoever sais they are good for constipation is spot on. i eat a maccy d's within 20 min im shiting! i swear to god, reliable as the tide.

A whole new meaning to the McFlury 😯 😆

http://www.decathlon.co.uk/EN/600ml-rockrider-17253063/

Big Hammer, and a small hammer,kettle and biscuit box

Percussion engineering at its best!

What perticular tools are you looking to get. Theres certian stuff you should spend more on than others. Park do some good quality stuff, but for some things you really just dont need to spend that much money to get a perfectly good tool.