Pipe insulation!

Ulster isn’t part of GB.
Northern Ireland (a subset of Ulster), however…

No they won’t! Unless you have the proper install media – usually the discs supplied with a mac only work with that mac…

I’m 5’4″, and riding an MK1 small PA. They’re fantastic! Mine’s the incredibly over-engineered one with the brace across the front, but I love it. I run it with a 130mm travel Revelation, but its old and never sits at 130, so you should be fine with the rebas.

If they’re cup & cone you can just tighten them (regrease whilst you’re at it maybe)

That’s really cute 🙂 I am envious of the kid, and the adventure she will be privy to (even if she sleeps through them)

Can you send me a picture? How small does it fold down?

Soft padded bike bags are just the same – you just have to hope the throwers don’t put your bike in first.

Not a great photo, but it’s Gee!!

No joy hearing back from them yet. 🙁

Hairychested* now has a 29″ SS in Ireland

* Unless that’s who you were referring to, his adopted nationality is certainly English!

I have written off to the media relations people in Garmin, maybe they’ll provide her with a unit to review. She’s about to depart on the ferry, so she wouldn’t be near an LBS that she could pop into – and it might be an unusual request in a non-LBS ( hi- you don’t know me, could you give me one of those Garmin yokes, to borrow….)

I was hoping they might consider doing a cost price cycle computer even. I guess they have quite a bit on their plate with sponsoring the pro teams!

The router might take dd-wrt, depending on the version : http://www.dd-wrt.com/site/support/router-database

R.lepecha, it definitely wasn’t the 29er tube that did it…

If I were you, I’d both give him the money back and try to fix it. By fixing it you might be able to find out what was wrong. I don’t think it’s fair to say you earned your 10 quid by taking the cassette and chain off and putting them back on another bike, etc. In this kind of situation it’s much more important to prove you’re a fair person to do business with than to earn that 10 pounds (and you might get more jobs coming your way if you can fix it and the person is happy with your work) And don’t jump on the wheel this time! It isn’t meant to withstand 60kg in that direction on the rim! (Kneel beside it and push down with your upper body weight)

@jackoinmoss VFR ftw 🙂

(just spotted this thread looking for something else!)

@hairychested I’d like to point out that I made it back too 😛 I went over in the snow/freezing fog and back in 40degree heat.

I’m 5’4″, selling the bros as I’ve just bought a vfr750 – i wanted something with a bit more wind protection, and got three times as many horses in the process.

Being of a shorter persuasion, I find it difficult to walk the vfr forwards and backwards (walking it backwards is slightly easier). The bros was fine though, as it has a lovely low seat. There’s a lowering kit you can get for the vfr for about 400dollars or so, but I just bought boots with a bit of a heel, I’m not even sure they’re necessary.

There are disadvantages to having a motorbike though – you’ll never be able to sit in a traffic jam again. I even find queueing in a shop difficult. Once you own one, you’ll probably never be able to get it out of your blood – each springtime you’ll feel the urge to take off on one. You’ll always get people asking you about your motorbike, and telling you tedious stories of their own motorbikes.*sigh*

Has it been pulled ? It’s not loading for me … http://vimeo.com/23308149

I also found it weird that he was holding a cigarette.

Tobacco advertising is so last millenium…

I’ve had a aldi one, and a cateye one – the cateye is a million times better. Not least because it switches itself off (I’m not sure if the aldi ones still don’t do this – mine didn’t)
GPSs are very good at this kind of thing also – but if I recall, you do have to switch them off when you stop…

I would recommend the cateye strada.

For any advantages you might get with straight, they are negated by the difficulty of finding replacements… J bend spokes can be found everywhere.
Unless you plan to carry a full compliment of replacements everywhere you go, get j bend!

If I were you, I’d check out who paid up for the ash cloud losses, and go with them 🙂

Is it along the manufacturing line? (the ridge where they join the rubber)

Funniest thing about suspension components, is that they used to have the little stanchion covers on them, then somehow that became unfashionable…
(happened with motorbikes too)

It’s now fashionable to have easily scratched (and eventually retired) components…

I’m only alive today because our house had the ‘lectrics done… We’d had ground fault protection put in about two weeks before I nearly fried myself…

Hehe. Been there, dun that – (Dunwich Dynamo 2/3 yrs ago – done fixed with a 5 led front light – hit a pothole I couldn’t see so hard nearly crashed and lost the ability to procreate)
Put gears on my bike shortly after…

Macs run windows now 🙂 You could dual boot, or install windows as the primary OS.

There must be some other laptop manufacturers that do 16×10 screens, but it is rare. Even for monitors it’s quite rare to get 16:10 now (and when you do find them, they’re pricy).

Macbook Air 13″ has a screen res of 1440×900, I run eclipse, ff, chrome, safari and sometimes virtualbox. All browsers with a minimum of 10 tabs 🙂
And when I’m at a desk I power a HD monitor and have dual displays (not mirrored).

Highly recommended.
It’ll be interesting to see if the 2gig ram lasts the test of time…

13″ MBP is also good – slightly smaller screen res perhaps? It was when I bought the MBA.

Mac are one of the few manufacturers that still have 16×10 ratio displays, so you’ll be hard pressed to find someone else (but that is what you’re looking for)

I hadn’t used my CC for a month previous to that…

CRC transaction last week. CC stopped today 🙁

CRC still haven’t fixed it…. 🙁

OMG. That’s awful. It just means it’s a broken link, but it really should crash nicer than that!

broken link

I really don’t think wordpress and bbpress are up to the job of hosting this website…

Check out Salesforce.com… It’s a very good system, but I’ve no idea how much it costs…

I’ve got a Honda Bros, and I did think it was about 65mpg, but I’ve just looked at the conversion chart into UK mpg, and it seems to be less than 60mpg!
Here’s the graph if anyone’s interested:

(red is imperial, blue is US)

I get about 250kms/12l = 21km/l

I’m surprised how inefficient they are, given the power to weight ratio.

What kind of hard case?
Shipping in Ireland is expensive. If it’s somewhere that is convenient for Northern Ireland you’d be best off trying Royal Mail (I posted a bike from the UK to Spain for about 50pounds)

Also – the reason I ask about the case is that if the case itself weighs quite a bit, that will add to the shipping. A cardboard box would be better.
Also, consider that flying over and getting the bike yourself will probably be about 100euro!

I’ve ran over one of those!
Was it the rear wheel? Usually the front end kicks them up, and they stab into the rear wheel.

On a similar note, I also ran over a screw – which was worse. It upended itself and stabbed straight into the tyre – hitting the inside of the rim, right through the tube and out the other side… and I had to unscrew it from the casing of my conti gatorskins. I still have that tyre on my bike!
I’ve taken about 20 shards of glass out of each of those tyres, on a regular basis. Not the heaviest tyre either – worth it for how puncture proof they are…

ryanair.co.uk has a banner ad advertising “flights to the home of cricket”

Duffman – I’d love to know what the bag packs down to ? I’ve considered getting the Ground Effect one myself – as I hadn’t heard of the Stealth, but the postage is restrictive.
Pics of the bag packed down, and with a dismantled bike inside would really sell it to me 🙂
(If you send me a bag I’ll happily take the pictures for you 😉 )

How about Ground Effect’s Tardis?
http://www.groundeffect.co.nz/product-detail-TAR-BAG.htm

If you put a kettle load of boiling water in the bath it probably would have been ok… 😛

I have a sony too, but it doesn’t have a “stitch” mode? I think my old canon compact did however…

I made a few more, including the “Polar Distortion(Planet)” effect: