Used to have a small swiss army knife, one blade, corkscrew, bottle opener. Forgot it was in my rucksac and had it confiscated at Girona airport.
Seemed reasonable to me, didnt those chaps hijack the 9/11 planes with box/stanley knives?

If I had to take over a plane I would rather have a pen knife than a bottle of water.!

Dooplication :)

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I think it’s called Cafe Latte and it isn’t latex based . No idea how well it works though .
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Cafe Latte is what youll get in starbucks. Fairly certain its latex, whatever it is it works well.

Caffe Latex recently seems good.

Bloody hell Im obese!

Wasnt really worried, he’s an old boy whos had an undoubtedly good innings. After reading this thread however I hope in lives on at least long enough to see Junkyard, AA and Elfinsafety peg it unhappily.

What a miserable lot.

MotionX Gps, thats all.

OS maps from GB Outdoors.

Just had a great quote from Direct Line, seems too cheap reckon their calculators broke, still itll do for me.

I get the point about the wealthy avoiding more tax than is overpaid in benefits but isnt that another subject ? Star another thread.
It does seem that housing benefit has supported the house price bubble. As someone whos works pretty hard to pay a mortgage of a few hundred a month it seems incredible we cant limit housing benefit to £500 a week.
Either those people are living in mansions or the landlords taking the ****.

Wouldnt capping the bens serve to devalue the property?

Yes and send me a tenner for my advice, you’ll still be £16 better off.

Clarkes XTRalike set from Halfords £8.99.

2xptfe coated inners, 2m lined outers, properly sealed ends and ferules.
Why pay more?

Dont they eat dogs somewhere, that may sort the problem out.

Piers M, same as last year.

Used a half link chain for a while but it seemed to stretch every ride. Now in the parts box for a cheap supply of individual half links with achieves the same result without the weight or stretch.

Flash Gordon, The Lone Ranger, Why dont you? It aint half hot mum and Some mothers do have em.

So .. After 6 pages of web waffle I shall still be hoofing any snappy dogs as far as I can and no Im not a dog whisperer and have no intention of becoming one.

Fed up with dogs, considering their habit of eating children and crapping all over the gaff Im amazed there not restricted to pooch parks.

The spec says guides for full outer gear cables, doesnt sound like it has though, can anyone confirm?

Mmmm.. Not sure, can I wear marks’s socks with Clarks shoes?

Can we offer some kind of cash prize for the first built up photo?

Original 26″ Scandal, love it but may be tempted by the new 29er.

Yes, Euro mk1’s history.

B&Q clear £4.99 yellow £5.99, dont always wear em but its best to I think.

Just the Scandal atm.

Ive been riding a slot dropout scandal for a year now and cant see why you need the complexity of sliding dropout. It runs gears perfectly , removing the wheels a doddle. It runs singlespeed with enough movement for 15,17 and 19 tooth sprocket on the same chain. Only down side is a need to adjust the caliper for a different set up, hardly the end of the world.
I really think sliding dropouts should be the norm.

Only request would be removable gear guides, guides for full length outers as fitted are better for the uk and if I could take the gears off without removing the outers and inners even better. Small request though really.

Cheers Brant and Co probably the best bike Ive owned ( and theres been a few ). :)

Did the same with a one day old Nobby Nic, dont think its a tubeless problem although a ripped tyre is often still inflated with a tube as opposed to tubeless.
When tyres get under 500g there gonna be a bit fragile imo.

Worth mentioning on one were fantastic when i rang them even though the tyre may not have been faulty, great service.

Got some Sony sports jobbies from Tesco £15 wrap around your ear rather than stck in allowing a bigger sound part and much better sound than any in ear design Ive tried. Most stable on your ears too never feel loose.

They always start the conversation ” do you know why I’m stopping” in the hope youll admit to some indescretion avoiding them the trouble of providing proof.
He didnt need to say nothing just admit to nothing, it wouldnt have gone anywhere.

Cleaning with water is very bad for your bike and even worse for your self respect, dont do it.

I have been riding SS for a few years now mostly in the winter, its simple , reliable, looks better and allows you to get on with riding the bike not thinking about all those gears cables etc. Its easier for me though cos I live in Suffolk :).

Yesterday myself and a buddy went to the chilterns to try SSing a few hill, after much delberation I put three sprockets on the hub a 15, 17 and 19 with 32 on the front because it works with bash plate.

After starting on 17 and finding it hard going I swapped to 19 but found it little easier than 17 and lost out on momentum on the flats so went back to the 17. I normally have 32 15 in Suffolk and reckon that would still be ok. My mate rode 32 17 all day and only had to get of twice on bits that would probably had us off with a full set of gears.
We are both over 40 and Im certainly more into beer and pies than cycling so no whippet.
Conclusion is, we decided, singlespeed is fine in the hills and just ride what you brung.

Im happy with a hope 2 and a helmet light if im on my own, in a group I need a small floodlight to avoid being in shadow.

Once a year it gets a proper clean …

Ride, wait till it drys, brush it off, lube chain, pump up tyres , ride again.

O and just for the benefit of anyone i have discussed europe with in the last 10 years …. Told you so!

What we need is a political party called the ” geeksquad” strapline : ‘we’ll get the bankers lending’ . Gives us the option if we dont like the look of em and we all end up making widgets for the chinese weve only got ourselves to blame.

500 quids worth of a drug research company based in Cambridge that proceeded to relist itself on several exchanges until it was worth nothing. Got a lesson out of it.

Changed a bit now with aSus fork and some more bling, still balanced to my eye.

On my second set so must like em but they are fragile. Ok for in Suffolk, theres no stones, just miles and miles of loamy singletrack and rigid single speeders in which case the big volume paper thin tyres are the dogs do daass.

Any rocks though and I would have the snakeskin version or better still some nice high rollers gnarr tyres.

I found it following Radcliffe and Maconie over from R2. Since discovered Jarvis Cocker still has attitude, Garvey on the tranny and my love for the welsh accent (as spoken by Cerys) is not just because thers trail centres in wales.

Makes working from home even nicer, just gotta sort the car out.

Literal when it suits this thread. We are not likely to see euro notes fail to be euro notes. The implementation of a single currency has failed though, In that it would be easier to start again than fix the mess its in now.(not that thats likely.)

On that basis its has failed and as pointed out earlier the eurotypes are showing the true colours even more clearly.