Can he push the budget a couple of hundred quid? If so, the Radon Slide Carbon 8.0 is a good spec for the price, and carbon framed. If not there’s the Slide HD 9.0 in alu on budget, which beats the 2×10 Capra on spec in a few places (X0 mechs and cranks, guide RS instead of R, lighter cassette etc).

Musette, I’ll give you. I does indeed mean bag.

Actually it means nosebag, museau being muzzle/snout.

Pretty sure the 42t means this is intended for the road, to beat the big brands to the fat gnarmac or “fnarmac” niche.

I use this: http://www.hemashop.com/gb/shop?fh_location=%2F%2Fgbhema%2Fen_GB%2Fpgb_product_type%3E%7Bshop%7D%2F%24s%3Dtape&fh_secondid=pgb_81010104

If you just need to cover the spoke holes it’s great.

If you can push the budget go for a Moto X 2nd gen. Reduced because the new one will be out soon, better spec and build quality than the G and has loads of extra features (gestures, always-listening google now voice control etc) that IMO make it worth £100 more. It also runs stock android and gets firmware updates pretty quickly, in some cases quicker than Nexus devices.

MoreCashThanDash

I have no idea who his boss actually is after 4 months! Civil service HR are sod all use at anything to be honest.

Some good advice in here, but we seem to have glossed over this, and for me it’s the most shocking part. You seriously don’t know who your the boss of your boss is after four months there? I’d be on the phone to HR demanding a name, immediately, and then straight on to the employee grievance process if it’s not forthcoming. It’s absolutely unacceptable for any company, public or private sector, to not let you know who your manager is reporting to. Otherwise who do you approach with any authority over him if he pulls the kind of stunts yours has been?

The policewoman killed the day after the charlie hebdo attack was directly outside the window of my office at work. I still look out the window at the tributes left by the side of the road every day.

Is this not something the lawyer handing the sale could sort out? As in the vendor signs to say they’ll sell to you at an agreed price dependent on the planning application and subsequent mortgage going through, and they’re only allowed to pull out if one or the other doesn’t go through.

I’m not sure this is actually a thing btw, just would have thought it was a possibility.

Here’s the original which the BBC copy and paste onto their worldwide site: http://www.topgear.com/car-news/motorsport/video-rhys-millens-1368bhp-electric-car-conquers-pikes-peak

1) Nairo, my girlfriend is Colombian and he’s the reason she keeps making sure we’re leaving the 26th free to go to the Champs. Seems nice in interviews too, would love to see him take the yellow jersey.

2) Don’t care, beyond a vague “Sky are British” leaning.

3) Nairo Froome 1-2 in either order would do me. Albert the Accountant to be the early cobbles casualty. Cav for green.

We’re moving out from our Paris apartment a few days after the final stage to go and live in Bogotà for a year, so a Quintana win would be ideal.

Accept that however good you get, people who don’t know you (waiters, people in shops etc) will always speak to you in English.

Another +1 for Duolingo, except if you have an underground commute as it needs an internet connection to mark your answers.

Once you get good enough to understand, try watching Norwegian TV with Norwegian subtitles.

Two men, one with his trousers round his knees, the other timidly fondling his flaccid penis.

HR meeting today featured “we need to make sure we can chew what we bite off”

I’ve got a career break planned with my employer starting in August for a year. I’ll be off to live in Bogotà, where my other half is from, so that she can get some work experience in her own language and not have to bother with visas for a year or so. I’ll be going back into the same job I do now afterwards, but back in the UK rather than here in France.

I’ll be following this thread with interest to hear others’ experiences of career breaks. Has anyone else agreed one with their current employer and gone back to the same role?

Thanks for the link Jimbird

Rats, my secret identity has been revealed…

Definitely agree with jaffejoffer on good tequila being a million miles from the pound a shot stuff from your uni days and what’s available in most supermarkets. It might be worth getting some decent stuff to let people drink neat (not a shot!) if they want to. This would be a fairly good, fairly low budget shout if you want to go that route. If you want to go higher budget you’ll probably need to do a bit more research to steer away from the stuff that’s way overpriced (Patron, Don Julio etc). Personally I like Cazadores and Herradura for the price, but there are many brands that are well-liked that I’ve not got around to trying.

For bulk production of margaritas for people who may well be completely indifferent to the quality of tequila that goes in, you can’t go far wrong with this one for the price. Cheaper than José Cuervo and certainly no worse.

As an avid tequila fan, IMO it’d be a waste to put the good stuff in a margarita. As said, get Jose Cuervo or similar, stay away from that stuff with the plastic hat for a lid and you’ll be good. Maybe try Costco for bulk purchasing.

I work in English and French so we’re supposed to use plain English too, but a few do slip through the net, and a few are exacerbated by the language differences.

The worst one for me is the concept of “ownership” being used in place of “being responsible for”. We even have a department called Owners’ Engineering, which just means engineering contract management. I think it’s because “responsable” can be used as a noun in French, meaning the person responsible for something, and no one can be arsed thinking of a better translation than “owner”.

Acroynms on the other hand are rife, and made even worse by the fact that half of them originate in French and are unchanged for UK projects, so you can’t even have a good guess at what they might stand for because you don’t know what language to guess in.

IMO if it’s just a commuter go as cheap as possible unless you’ve got a long commute, in which case get a proper bike. Mine looks similar to that but came with racks, full mudguards and built-in dynamo lights, no claims of fancy tubing it didn’t have and I paid 40€. A few niggly problems but with 20€ spent on it it’s fine for my 5 mile commute.

If they’re two separate equations, no iteration is needed.

c= 150b
c= 200+b

Therefore 150b = 200+b

150b – b = 200

149b = 200

b = 200/149 = 1.34228…….

c = 200+200/149 = 201.34228…..

edit: too late 🙁

how long is the steerer on that boxxer!

The one with the waggly tail…

IGMC

I used to get free Bolles from work, but since I moved off site I’ve also switched to Decathlon’s cheapest and they’ve lasted a couple of years. The plastic hinges go eventually but for 4 quid they’re pretty good.

This is the most elaborate stealth classified ad we’ve had in a while…

This thread reminds me of my huge disappointment when I found out a strip mall isn’t what it sounds like…

I lived in Lyon for two years, where their bike share scheme is called Velov’. I couldn’t figure out what the apostrophe was for and it wasn’t until after I’d left that a French person informed me that it was supposed to be a pun on the word love. They thought cos you don’t pronounce the e you could just get rid of it. Apparently all French people get it instantly.

Because fish have eyes and will be frightened away if the see a bloke trying to catch them?

Last night I tried to explain to my girlfriend in my sleep about the roads made of minced meat. I even remember her waking me up, and I was convinced that she was being deliberately obtuse claiming to not understand the simple concept of all the roads being made of meat. I tried explaining that if you take some of the bread crumbs off a Scotch egg, in the shape of roads, then that’s like the world with the meat roads all over it. She’s Colombian and doesn’t know what a Scotch egg is.

I bought it when I saw this on HUKD. Gameplay is great, the controls are really intuitive. Also worth noting R-type and R-type 2 are 9p each at the minute too.

So don’t bother spending between £133.33 and £200 on tools from Superstar, because £200 or more would work out cheaper…

E – Smoked-then-fried chicken with beans and garlic bread
D – Frogbeer London Porter (local microbrew)
L – GF speaking Spanish on the phone to her dad while I browse STW

YT being so #enduro, I had just assumed it stood for Yellow Trousers.

Fleshlight

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/travel/cheap-travel-money

Cyclist went past and the van instinctively tried to run him over?

You can get great quesadillas here, although according to the website they’re currently offering a “Pig Slaughter Menu” too.

RSP Carbon Ego DH at 760 and 5mm rise, £65.

People who say “different tact” when they mean “different tack”

Add people who say “mute point” when they mean “moot point” to that list.

When my girlfriend says something along the lines of “can you help me clean the kitchen table?” when she means “can you clean the kitchen table?”

People who say the word question before asking a question, mostly Americans.

From the independent article:

Its report suggests that typical incomes rose after the crash and peaked in 2009-10, before falling until 2011-12. They have since recovered and in 2014 were approaching their pre-downturn level. However, the scale and length of the living standards squeeze and the pace of recovery varies widely across the UK.

This suggests that under labour post-crash people were better off and then they’ve been worse off under the Tories since, only recovering to pre-crash levels now, but not back to the peak levels at the end of the last labour government.

This may be the same routine referred to above, its quite tough to get through the whole thing but having done it once and ridden last night it has definitely helped and I’ll be doing the routine again.

The other thing to consider if you really want to lose the bag is a kit tub that fits in a bottle cage, which will usually fit a bit more in than a saddle bag small enough for a dropper.

Depends what you mean by decent position. I’ve arrived at Champs-Élysées Clemenceau metro station after the start of the stage and still been only a couple of people back from the barriers by the time they were going past. If you want the best possible position then you need to be there much earlier before they barrier off all of the best bits. There’s seating near the finish line, but I’ve never been early enough to see if it’s a free-for-all early on or if you’d need tickets anyway.