Stick some 10 speed gears on?

I’m sure 11 speed road stuff needs a bigger freehub on a hope but 10 speed should be the same size.

Have a look on Sportsshoes.com, loads of choice and they always have offers on.

I must admit that I enjoy Christmas, I always have. The one thing that pees me off though isn’t the shops starting early it’s when you see people putting their trees up in bloody November.
They’re the b******s who are ruining it for everyone else by not making it a special holiday and dragging it out just so they can brag they put their tree up first.

A friend of mine restores old jukeboxes, he did it as a hobby for a while but rented a unit earlier this year and went full on as self employed. I never realised but there’s some serious money in that game!

Anyone else get the Mens Health popup when they first visit the site? That’s getting annoying here as you click back, wait for the page to load and it send you to it again!

@kinda666 was an email direct from cyclesheme

I don’t see the problem, I’ve had my email through offering me the 3yr hire for £67 where at the end I can either keep the bike or return it and get the £67 back, buy now for £240 or simply return it.
I plan on ignoring the email in the hope they will forget me and not ask for anything! ;)

If it’s free and the frame is the right size for you then I’d say yeah why not. At the end of the day it’s a never ending game of upgrading and should the time come you can always get a new frame and swap everything over.

Also Blood Diamond by Mark Keating

My cousin has recently released a book on Amazon, I’ve not had a chance to read it yet but might be worth a look as it’s only £2, called Ruric by Rico Larsen.

I’ve got a pic somewhere of one we made from an old wooden slide a local playgroup were chucking out (about 16-17 years ago)

My three for this year, 7yr old son designed the little one for his baby sister.

Bike factory in whaley bridge, uselessness

Gutted that I’m stuck working as I could have sorted most of the bits for my Dad’s crimbo present build. A friend of mine went last year to Sheffield and built up a half decent hardtail for just shy of £100!

That you’re too old!

I bought one each for the kids bikes when they chain them up to the racks at school (there’s a CCTV camera pointing directly at them and they park outside the school office so not really needed) to get them into the habit but they were crap. Both ended up jamming up badly so the key started to bend when trying to unlock, resulted in me having to cut one off (very easily) with a normal pair of snips when the key snapped inside.

From Hope’s website

With XTR groupsets now following road groupsets to 11 speed there has been some confusion over upgrade options and compatibility on older wheels and hubs. Basically, unlike road groupsets, the new XTR cassette is the same length as the earlier 10 speed cassettes. Therefore if you have an existing 10 speed hub or wheel you can install the 11 speed XTR cassette without alteration.

A guy I work with went in a LBS to get some shock oil to service his forks, shop owner refused him saying he wouldn’t be able to do the job himself and his only option was to bring them in so the shop could service them properly. Not 100% on the guys name but I think it rhymes with Ted Gammon……..

I pretend I have automatic wipers by simply turning the wipers on when it starts to rain

The joy of being a signaller is that there’s never a point where everyone is off work at the same time!

@tinribz that was one of my first thoughts but unless they like climbing trees to do so and stay out all night (the latest we ever did was about 00:30-01:00ish) it can’t be. That’s the mystery, the fact there’s nothing behind the trees. Mentioned it to the day turn man when I got here earlier and he said he’d seen it when he was on last week.

I think next time I’m doing a Sunday day shift I’ll go up the road and have a proper snoop around to see if I can find the cause!

Are some of you guys signallers cause the comedy here is almost as good as on the Network Rail internal chat forum

Nope, literally like a bright bike light/heavy duty hand torch

I’m at the signalbox you can see next to the track under the bridge and looking up at the line of trees to the left
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Buxton,+Derbyshire+SK17+8TQ/@53.2766137,-1.855219,16z/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!1m3!3m2!1s0x487a31ed2f8200cf:0x34b9226b0d822b09!2sBuxton,+Derbyshire+SK17+8TQ!3m1!1s0x487a31ed2f8200cf:0x34b9226b0d822b09

(when you switch to satellite view!)

A bright light

I don’t ride, I just own 4 bikes and pretend that one day I’ll use them

I bought a pair of dhb active thermals in October last year and they have served me very well. Were excellent for the 5am -5° commutes in the rain or snow and they’re only £20 at Wiggle.

The bloody KFC ricebox one that pops up on every single programme you watch on All4.

Must admit to enjoying the Tango 5 stages of tang ad and the Doritos one with the geek sumo wrestling and whatnot though!

Saw one a few weeks back, it then saw the dark end of a shotgun barrel…

I’d stick with the SLX personally. I’ve ran MT2’s on my trials bike and whilst the power isn’t bad the lack of adjustment is a pain and I’ve seen quite a few leak.

Stan, all the way! http://www.tartybikes.co.uk/search.php?keywords=stan&

I can only assume Take That’s performance was Mark Owens way of coming out the closet??

As far as the french windows go I personally would fit them myself (assuming you’re competent) and not say a thing. If it ever comes down to you selling the house then as far as the buyer is concerned the doors were fitted pre 2002 when the building regs were introduced.
It’s pretty much just another tax for the government to cash in on, glazing companies have to pay a fortune to be Fensa registered and there’s no formal assessment (at least there wasn’t for the 5 years I worked for a window company) it was just a case of the company signing up.

Only a grade 1 or possibly 2 would get less than 29k. I’m a grade 5 (it goes to 9) and I’ll probably be looking at 55-65k this year with minimal overtime. We do 12hr shifts and only work 2 weeks a month one of which is a whole week at a time.
Spend the rest of my time at work sitting on here and other forums or tinkering with bikes and I’ve just started a part time Open University course, best job in the world!

My son has had numerous pairs from the local swimming baths (mostly due to me losing them) which I think have all been Zoggs and I don’t recall a single set having an adjustable nose bridge. He absolutely loves going underwater and never seems to struggle with leaks.

If he wants to earn a tonne of money and have a bit of variety he should look into being a signaller!

Lol, it sounds good when you read “train driver for £45k” but when you see the reality it’s not as good as it seems. First off, if he isn’t already he’ll be grumpy as f*** within a few months moaning about everything. This will be down to not only having to do stupid shifts like booking on at 2:15am but not making it home on time due to being sidelined for late running passenger trains which get priority. There will be potential for overtime (I’d assume) but it will take a while, route learning is a long process and they tend not to bother teaching the routes which are well manned so he’ll probably get all the crap jobs for the first couple of years. It is no way an exciting job, get stuck shunting in the yard for 12 hours and you’re basically sat on your arse occasionally moving the train 20m whilst a shovel driver loads you up, you might get lucky and not have the shunter stuck on another job whilst you sit waiting to brake test/run round the train and there’s the high possibility of encountering a suicide (loads down the Hope Valley round here)
At the end of the day his objective should be to get on something like the Virgin Pendelenos (spelling?) as that is where the real money lies in driving.

Out of interest, which company will he be driving for and whereabouts?

I’d go with a Road Rat for sure!

I heard Chuck Norris was the inspiration for the film Highlander and he actually invented the kilt.

Link to the brief writeup my mate did including a few pics along the way if it helps in any way http://www.trials-forum.co.uk/topic/180815-post-a-pic-of-your-non-trials-bike/?page=27#comment-2633803