Well, I don’t he’ll be thought of highly because of it but that’s not my point.

All of the OP’s posts suggest he doesn’t see a future in the new role, and I don’t know why you’d want to stay there longer than you need to if hats the case… Better to get on with it in a controlled way, surely?

Unwinding your position isn’t easy, but you sound like you have no choice.

I’d have emailed a brief apology straight away, and I’d be offering to reimburse the company for their considerable spend that they incurred unnecessarily.

I’d be explaining that there’s a bigger issue that you’re going to seek help to understand,starting on Monday, before asking for a meeting to discuss it all with them (almost certainly discussing an exit strategy that works for both of you).

Good luck.

Sonos is hardly the last word in sound quality, but it’s plenty good enough. It never seems to fall over during playback and while the app isn’t as good as the Sonos/Deezer app it’s okay and never fails to connect.

If you prefer, you can now use the Spotify app with Sonos directly, I hope Deezer follows soon too.

I’d absolutely take a pair of 1s or 3s over a single Play 5. They sound much better as a stereo pair.

Global company in its entirety gets labelled a disgrace in an online rant that will never be deleted all because one or two members of one shop, in one country which may or may not be owned by the company being slandered give crap advice (who may or may not have said what is being quoted). Apparently.

Before you posted this, what did the manager of the shop say about the staff’s handling of the matter? If that wasn’t what you wanted to hear, what did Specialized customer services say when you spoke to them?

You did give them a chance to resolve it before labelling an entire company a disgrace first, didn’t you?

I don’t, and should, I’ve had a couple of walks because of it.

Once hit a rock at Kielder, the tyre burped off and it badly dinged the rim. No amount of air would help here, only a tube would have got me riding again…

Email sent. I’m 2.5 stone heavier than when my first son was born, averaging 6lb a year on.

It really has to come off now. Email sent, including spelling my own username incorrectly… Thanks for doing it.

I used to think this was a good idea, but the motorways are now so busy the last thing I’d like to see on there are learner drivers.

I don’t really see what’s so unique about driving on a motorway, it’s the easiest road to drive on once your not intimidated by the volume of traffic and speed of it.

How about needing 2 years post qualification experience on the roads before being allowed on a motorway, by which point you’ll likely wonder what the fuss is about.

After 25 years of fixing friends and the in laws computers, taking desperate phone calls when something’s gone wrong and so on I really wish I’d never opened my mouth to help originally.

I don’t know how IT support don’t throw themselves under a bus when their job is remote support with the IT illiterate. It might be the single most frustrating experience, helping family with IT.

I’ve got a 6 for personal use and a 7+ for work. Almost very little difference for me, the haptic feedback and 3D Touch do nothing for me. It’s faster, but never thought the 6 was slow.

However, the camera on the 7+ really is very good.

Thanks Drac.

I realise that Jamba, but I need access to photos to post pictures for work. I could just uses Pages or Hootsuite for that I know, but I also use the app to browse other groups which we post to.

I thought about that too Jambo, but wasn’t certain if it was background uploading them so they were visible even if you were subsequently opening the app offline…

I’m not an engineer, but we’ve installed fibre. The external cable has to terminate, if I remember correctly, within 2m of entering the property. Ours terminates after the gas seal into a junction/splicing box (CSP?), and then a low smoke flexible cable routes around 10m to the server room.

There’s a modem of sorts (not sure if that’s correct term – ONT I think) that the internal cable feeds into which then feeds the router and firewall, so four boxes before the data hits the switches (CSP, ONT, router, firewall).

You can fit the CSP and ONT next to each other, but our entry point was 10m from the server room and no option to reroute the duct. The internal fibre cable from the CSP to the ONT in our case is much more robust than the cable from the ONT to the router (10mm versus 1mm), so I wanted the thicker cable on the long internal run. Hope this makes sense and helps.

Raw, lucid and meaningful.

Everybody goes at some point, and I’m not sure it’s right to feel sad, but I am. 🙁

The tubes are really heavy. Leaning the bike over or riding no-handed was improved immeasurably once I went tubeless and lost the rotating weight. .

MrSalmon nailed it for me.

To knowingly (or purposely in CaptainS’s case) damage somebody else’s property based on a moral judgement or petty retribution (like parking badly) is an action of a pretty bitter man.

I never really understand the positions employees take on these kinds of requests, which on the surface sound reasonable and in your best interests.

It won’t be popular, but I don’t see why if they pay you a fair salary and generally treat you well why you’d want to push back on this, and cause them further problems.

If they are not generally a good employer, then you could always leave and be unshaven somewhere else.

It’s becoming an odd thread with these comparisons.

Whether a bIke shop wants to fit parts bought elsewhere is entirely up to them and their business model: that’s not crap service. Not replying to emails and phone calls, as the OP suggests, however…

A lot of bike shops/small businesses really struggle with this. I don’t think it’s intentional, they just don’t have a system or process they follow [edit] or the resource to cope with rising online/telephone enquiries

I’ve never got the ’17m have spoken’ argument. 30m didn’t vote Leave.

What price apathy?

I’ve met several young leavers and their reasons were based on their own research, and there are many valid reasons to want to leave the EU – Corbyn until recently used to iterate them for example.

I have no reason to doubt you and they could just vote Leave again. Their single vote is worth as much second time around as the first: another vote isn’t devaluing that.

I just don’t see why it shouldn’t be considered prudent for such a massive decision to have a second vote, especially when the vote was so close, and with such a large percentage of the electorate not voting. I’d probably be saying the same if it was marginal the other way…

I don’t know many leavers. Most who did, were the next generation up in my family (mid 60s). Almost without exception they have no interest in politics, and feel they were completely carried away by the romance of a dream sold by Boris and Co of getting ‘their’ country back.

Also, almost without exception, they feel that what they bought into was mostly political posturing, by people who have since disappeared, and if they had their chance again wouldn’t vote the same way…

Sorry if this has already been covered (I’m only up to page 308), but given it’s such a huge decision, the effects of which could last for 100 years or more, why is calling a second referendum such a bad idea?

It’s not unfair in the slightest: those who voted to leave can do so again. It might be the same result, but at least we’d be sure…

I can’t get my head around the usefulness of the touch bar, or otherwise. My laptop is used as a secondary display for toolbox/palettes and so on, to a larger display, and I use a separate keyboard and mouse/trackpad otherwise I’d be typing with my body twisted to one side. I cant see when I’d ever use it…

I’d be happy if Apple just produced a wireless keyboard with a numeric pad, or a wired one which worked… it’s not the end of the world, I’ve got no problem with the Logitech one I’m using, I just can’t understand why Apple have never addressed the basics of fixing their USB keyboard or releasing a wireless one with a numeric pad.

@binners What does this mean:

Without getting into the old tired Mac v PC argument, I use CS on a Mac all day, every day. Would a PC be as intuitive to use. No. Simple as that. Horses for courses.

I use a Win10 box at work and Mac at home both running CS and there is no difference in the software. Actually, not quite true, the Mac refuses to remember open/place dialogue box position and size in Photoshop on the Mac and I have to resize the window every time, very irritating. Known issue for yonks with no solution I’m aware of.

If anything, I think I prefer the way Win10 structures the recent folders in Explorer versus hateful finder. I do miss the trackpad though…

I remember a presentation from George Fistonich at Villa Maria, who asked us to consider that screw caps came first and we had to sell the virtue of wedging a lump of wood into the top of a bottle instead of a screw cap.

The screw cap may have performed perfectly, but let’s replace it with something compromised from the start instead, you know, for theatre. 1 in 10 bottles will not be the quality or taste the winemaker intended because of TCA or oxidisation through ill fitting or poor quality wood, but it’ll make a great sound when it pops out…

Weeksy, car and motorcycle dealers generally look after warranty claims if they aren’t the supplying dealer because the manufacturer pays them for their time (usually at about half their normal workshop rate). Pretty sure cycle manufacturers don’t pay their dealers to process claims, so there is no monetary incentive for them to do so…

Force teachers to do teacher training days during the ample holidays already allocated
Amputation for people who drop litter
7 days in prison practising with HubbaBubba for people who can’t eat with their mouth closed
Exportation for needlessly cheerful people

Christ, I’m going to need a second term…

+1 for Pussers if it’s dark rum you’re after. I think it’s easily the best of those readily available.

Pedantry. God’s* finest work.

* any of them, I’m easy.

^ I’m sure you’re right, I’ve always used tubeless specific rims before now so never had to tape. I’ve done a lot of swearing.

The rims were pre-taped by Trek and I reckon the problem in my case is the bead is just a bit too loose on the Chupacabras, an extra couple of layers of tape would probably be better. I didn’t want to though in case I wanted to put tyres on for winter which might (or might not) come with a much tighter bead…

If the next tyres I try are still very loose, then I’ll get some more tape on there (I’ve got some Sun 48mm tape already, mixed reviews).

@slowbloke It is the Mulefut rims.

Air/latex seemed to be holding for a day or two, but as of this morning it’s now pissing out of the holes in the rims, under the tubeless tape and rim tape. Suspect I’ll have to put more layers of tape on to set again.

Hardest tyre/rim combo I’ve ever tried to set up tubeless: tried them dry, rubbed with Stans, soapy water, re-seated using a tube and so on. I got so frustrated I went out and bought the £80 compressor from Aldi (I wanted one anyway), and I’m not sure I’d have popped it without.

Couple of points for those that haven’t done the conversion yet:

1. My rims were already taped, thanks Trek 🙂
2. You need tubeless valves with threads right to the bottom of the valve
3. I tried Stans valves, but couldn’t get them tight enough. Bought some Specialized Royal valves which have a square base inside the rim and easy to grip while you tighten the valve nut and they are only £3 each)
4. They are on now, but four scoops of Stans in each and they are still leaking from the bead. More Stans, and a few more pedals around the doors should hopefully do it
5. The tubes are seriously heavy, I reckon I’ve lost 2lb off the bike. Maybe.
6. Those Aldi compressors, in a small garage, are **** noisy

In ten years from now, there are going to be a lot of 250bhp+ cars on the road that are affordable for teenagers, which they won’t have the experience to handle or restraint not to exploit. I can’t help but wonder if now is the time to have a graded age/power licence similar to that on bikes.

I’ve got a little 135i, and as much as I love it, it’s so quick I feel like a tit if ever I put my foot down with anybody in the vicinity…

Like Houns, I really quite like nettle stings, I’m still tingling from last nights ride on the hands (would have thought they weren’t that effective by now, they were). Don’t seek them out, mind…

Got last stung by a jelly fish in Majorca a few years ago, on the arm. Hurt like **** in comparison: didn’t like at all.

Edit. Wife was also stung. She reminded my how we felt, like the pain was cold and travelling up the arm. Didn’t feel nice at all.

I had a play in the woods last night, probably the most I’ve liked a new bike ever.

It’s definitely short, but the front end comes up so easily: it feels very light and really playful. I’m sure it’s slower, but the tyres don’t feel remotely draggy. Coming in this morning, came up a climb at the end of Heaton Park where traction on a normal bike is limited. My only concern on the Stache was snapping the chain, just grip, grip, grip…

Stuck a layback Thomson on just now, prefer the extra room. See the new carbon frames are longer for the same given size. Already see a carbon frame and suspension forks 12 months from now as my main bike, will keep the 5 as a winter bike.

Just a lot of fun. Don’t think the other bikes will be out much for a while.

I came from a 705 and miss so much about the navigation around the device.

You’re right, as far as I can tell the light button only affects the brightness of the screen, but not the back light. On the 705, the little joystick used to control the backlight. As above though, I just have the backlight set to on buried in the menus, and the brightness at 60 or 70%; the battery seems good enough for that for long day (can’t remember my last long day, mind).

My biggest gripe probably only affects me, but I wish the back and enter button were the other way around. I instinctively want to press the back button when I mean enter.

It’s a great little device apart from that mind.

Thanks David, good to have your blessing (with the caveat accepted).

Regardless, despite your permission, I’m probably sticking with the Tribute 669.

VW; the least cool van, or possibly even vehicle, you can buy. Especially when fitted with alloys. Just look at a typical owner for proof.

Cool is very subjective. I said cooler than a motorhome, not the coolest thing on the road.

That said, it’s good to know you would consider a Dacia more ‘cool’.

And even more importantly, just found the Palmdale lock-on come in new Minty Green 🙂

http://www.jungleproducts.co.uk/shop/product/palmdale-grip/540/

Just picked up a 2016 Stache 5, sick of reading this bloody thread and I have caved in.

I’ve ordered some Sun 48mm tape from CRC (tape has mixed reviews), and I think I have some valves lying around. I understand you tape over the rim strips, cborrman.

I’m going to take it out in the woods tonight after dark, so nobody will laugh at me. I’m 5’10 and went 18.5/17.5, car park test says it feels as short as in like it to feel, might want a layback post (don’t think I’ll be sticking a dropper on it)…

I accept that, I suppose I’m saying as far as motorhomes go, the Cali is the least beige…

I think they would do well with a factory Crafter, was just saying this last night actually (I’m certainly not the first to say this, I’m sure)…

Cheers Mike, I’ll have a look.

We went to see a Tribute 669 last week and I reckon it’s about perfect for what we want. It doesn’t have much living space, but only weather will have us inside the van. That said, the rear lower double does fold away to convert to two sofas (albeit with limited head room) and you could also use that space as secure storage for a bike if you were walking into town…

Beds are otherwise permanently made up, limited headroom up top but the boys are young, half decent fuel economy and I can spec an auto (which I think I want). Definitely not as cool as a VW, but £40k brand new and has everything I want – the only negative is the upholstery is gopping and there is no alternative. I’d just get a little Smart car or similar for duties through the week.

If the offsite storage works, and we get proper use of it, then we’ll progress to a bigger van as the boys get bigger with an integrated garage/dirty store.

There’s a place in Aberdeen when we can hire a 669: it’s a bit of a hike but we’ll do that a couple of times over the autumn and spend some time in the Highlands.