Treading on lego, barefoot?

Small unit and a micro brewery?

Run as a weekend business and see if you can make something fantastic people want to drink.

Sell to Inbev for £5m in a few years.

Well, you look at the shirts,and they say “William Teddington” on the labels. Google William Teddington, and you get a tailor based in Australia, not London.

Given their economy/standards of living, I simply cannot see how they can make a bespoke shirt for £25.

I have had some shirts made recently, albeit from Liberty material. The first one was a trial at cost price (the maker was uncertain they were going to do mens shirts and so I was an “experiment”, and 3m of Liberty print material was on its own, nearly £60.

And it’s still a bit of a labour of love to cut up the cloth, to individual measurements rather than standard patterns and then spend several hours sewing same. IF we say they are using cheap material at £5 pm, and economical with the cut pattern, it’s still £12-15 for the material and a tenner to sew the whole thing up?

There must be more than a couple of hours in a sewing up a shirt minimum? Given the cost of packaging as well (not shipping, just the box), I cannot see how there’s any profit in it whatsoever, in a country like Australia.

I recognise (of sorts) the software on the site for the cuffs/collar selection pages, and the same European sites will charge between £90 and £175 for say a nice, floral print bespoke shirt.

I used Botti for my most recent shirt, but have looked at Bivolino, KJ Beckett, Saint Sens, Green & Jacks, Harrington & Thomas, in the past.

Me, frankly, if it looks to good…….

At this time of year, it may not be students?

I know from my old days that student houses used to get rented out in the summer to anyone til the students came back, if its a “uni” owned house.

Any reason why it has to be a single pedal?

I bought a used Yamaha FX550 complete with its multi footswitch for about £55 on Ebay a couple of years back. Ok, it’s 90’s, and multi effects, but with digital delay/flanger/chorus/compression/eq as well, it’s a flexible bit of kit, if perhaps a bit old hat.

Certainly it’s predecessor the FX500 I had that I gigged with about 18 years ago made the village hall come alive….

second Amico Bio! The branch in Holborn does great pizza too, which Cloth Fair doesnt. Always busy there too.

Stick a post up at Radbmx.com – I’m sure everyones got a few shonky old parts they can donate.

Guitars.

A bit like bikes really, except no one keeps changing the standards meaning all your existing guitar stuff doesn’t becoming obsolete.

What I mean, is you should go into a decent store, and try several. Try the epi. Then the budget tributes, and then finally a Standard.

You might prefer a cheaper one. Some people I know, often with Fenders especially, prefer the cheaper ones. However, MY SG Standard, which I got new in 88, is gorgeous. And unlike a bike, still useful nearly 30 years later, which has basically worked out at about £20 a year.

If you like the Standard, with its nicely finished headstock including mother of pearl holly, trapezoid inlays, and a nice bound neck, and a decent thick finish, you should treat yourself.

However, do also try others. the SG has a very “flat” and relatively skinny body, without massive contours and can be a little neck heavy. Watch SG players and some of the odd positions they hold it in. the position of the neck might not naturally be comfortable for you for your fretting hand.

Don’t set your heart on it, until you’ve played it. But in my opinion, its a far more versatile instrument than people give it credit for, it’s clearer than a Les Paul tonally, as there’s much less wood to the body. And Les Pauls are bloody heavy.

Modest update – an earlier post here, I mentioned it was the work pc that suffered running ie9, with random page crashes (it tells me the page has stopped responding). Having just bought a Hudl, I also get the issue above where you cant see the left and right hand side of the page in Android – I think it was a huge Evans ad dominating the left and right, overwriting the actual forum content to the far edges as above.

And it’s the only site so far that’s broken the Hudl.

Sorry STW.

My quick easy recipe that always works is a sort of sweetcorn chowder.

It’s basically the leek soup recipe, but use onion instead of leek. At the onion browning and garlic adding stage, also add say a finely chopped chilli – or as many if you like if you like spicy. When adding the stock and potatos, also add a tin of creamed corn and cook through.

Then use a hand blender til fairly smooth – its warm, filling, thick and can be made as hot as you like.

I think it’s deffo “old IE” related.

I use Firefox at home and have no issues, other than once in a while crazy formatting,but work pc is stuck I think in IE9, and STW kills it.

I tried last on friday, a quick glimpse at the forum, (I’d not tried for a while) and I simply got the “Something on this page has stopped internet explorer from working”, and was stuck with a dead window I could not close, till I logged of the pc at the end of the day.

I can’t use STW on my work pc, it just kills it. It’s something to do with the advertising.

It’s the only site. I’ve given up trying to access STW from work. Its the only notionally “work safe” site I don’t bother trying to access anymore.

I may have had a couple of creme de menthes. Apologies if that came across as a bit personal. Wasn’t meant to be. Plus I’m a United fan, and we’re all ****s

I didn’t realise you were from Surrey too….

Hang on a minute. Have a look at a few other squads who don’t have 25 million quid strikers up front ie: burnley for example who at least bother to turn up! Instead of just parking the bus and hoping they might…. maybe…..possibly… Mount the odd counter

Woeful! If Villa go down (next season please!!) they’ll be down from the championship the year after

Who’s got a £25m striker up front? Villa paid about £5m for Benteke, a couple of years ago, who’s been out half the season anyway. I don’t think if you count “goals against” there’s any allegation of parking any bus.

To be honest, you’re now veering off talking intelligent football conversation, into “I chose some winners when I was 7 and am better than you” nonsense.

But on your first point, what do you think Danny Ings is going to go for – do we value him on his future transfer fee, and say Burnley DO have a £10-15m striker, making your point largely invalid, or do you agree with me, his present value is that paid?

I hate Villa with a passion! As any fan of proper attacking football surely does too. At the end of every season they still squat like a festering turd at the foot of the table. Just about avoiding relegation. Again! A testament to their woeful ‘style’ of football, such as it is. It’s like they set out, every game, to grind out another spirit-crushingly tedious nil nil draw. They recently played ten whole hours of football without scoring! Or even hinting at doing so. Ten hours!! They’ve no place in the premiership. Just **** off and finally get relegated. As dirtyrider accurately pointed out, they’ll never make it back!

Any team is at the temporary whim of their incumbent manager. The last dozen games have been some of the more exciting in the premiership, with proper attacking football. Which is only what their own fans want. To be honest, outside of the usual, billionaire owning clubs, it’s much the same from most clubs in the premioership – ot’s what money has done – who can go attacking the likes of manure, the bin-dippers, chelski and Arabia City?

The “ten hours” displeased their own fans, more so than anyone else. and it’s only the last 4-5 years they’ve been at the wrong end of the prem, under dismal management and ownership, moribund of ambition. But unlike the 70-s, when the likes of Derby, Ipswich, Villa, could win the league, it’s been skewed in favour of money, locked in by the imposition of fair play rules. What’s happening at Villa, is only a lens into football as a whole. Frankly, what have the likes of West Ham, Stoke and Swansea (let alone Villa) actually got to play for anymore? 7th place behind the 4 usual champions league teams,and those with huge fan bases who have done little for years like Spurs, Liverpool and Everton? A cup run?

Your pathetic bleat would be better directed further up the food chain.

Gave up using this site on mobile and work pc’s.

Anything other than my home pc finds this site incredibly slow, clunky, ad ridden and crash-prone. This site is about the worst on the net of anywhere I go, for killing the browsing experience. It’s only on a home pc where I can control the ads using adblocker that it’s even vaguely useable.

A few ad’s fair enough, but this site’s sorife with them you can only use it by turning them all off, which kind of defeats the object really of having some ads on display.

My insurers have now started court proceedings but this could take 6 months!

The accident was only march. There’s little likely hood any insurer has actually started court proceedings yet. And if they did, and didn’t include items not covered, such as the bikes, they prejudiced his position and don’t have to pay. You can only issue proceedings once against someone – So this isn’t true to start with.

I’m 100% expecting that the bikes will get replaced but why it has to go to court I’m not sure?

You get put back into the position you were in prior to the accident, with 3 used bikes. It sounds as if your expecting new bikes here? Bikes being replaced, or a cheque for the used value of them? And you expect anyone to have an encycopedic instant knowledge of the used value of obscure second hand bikes? Your not claiming against Singletrackworld Insurance Company (SIC)are you?

The main bit that I feel is very poor is the total lack of communication, hence my insurers issuing court proceedings.

But you got an Accident Management Company representing you? They *cant* talk to you directly. *You* chose to be represented. The failure to progress is probably as much there’s as anyone else’s, but they wouldn’t tell you this, would they? I bet you don’t even know who did your repairs? Your insurer, the AMC? To issue, it’s clear the third party insurer didn’t,yet it seems despite them being the last to see the claim, only having an invoice presented after the event, should have paid already? Your so unclear I can’t make it out and I do this for a living!

It’s a fundamental part of the insurance business model to try and avoid paying out and if you have to to delay as long as possible. Sad but true.

Sadly incorrect. An open claim is one still costing in time and unknown costs, and preventing from moving on to the next one. The cheapest ones are quickly settled ones. That’s why AMC’s try to drag them out and so do solicitors. Solicitors even put pressure on to legally forbid insurers making quick “pre medical” injury offers after accident, so they could drag things out, add litigation risk to every claim and ensure their pet medical experts (who are instructed by agencies who are owned by solicitors) get to charge extra fees.

I’m fairly sure that this is all covered by their risk assessors deciding how to load policies to allow for ‘exceptional’ circumstances. If they refuse to pay out I’ll just go for the other driver, she was driving a company car so may not want someone pursuing them when their insurance company aren’t doing their job

This doesn’t even make sense. Whats “loading policies” got to do with a claim? Sounds as if you don’t even know who your claiming against either. One minute its the other driver, then in another breath, your thinking about claiming against the other driver.

I had a hire car for the period that the car was being repaired but Sun Alliance are asking if I could have afforded to fund my own hire car! I’ve said yes I could do but why should I when it’s the other driver’s fault, liability admitted. I didn’t need to hire a car until she ran into the back of mine rendering it un-driveable so the fact I can afford to hire a car seems irrelevant to me

Now, this is why your claim is being dragged out. An accident management company is billing, probably thousands of pounds of hire charges that you incurred. Its the most common source of dispute in RTA claims, as AMC’s try everything to bump up the bill, from booking cars into garages on thursdays, (so they don’t get inspected for at least 4-5 days. Your hire car may have cost more than the actual value of your car by the time they supplied like for like (its lovely to have a new car when you own was 6 years old, isn’t it!) added extras, and basically pissed about racking up the charges you don’t care about.

But at least we finally see you may be getting 1 sided info, from an AMC over who’s fault the delays are. Couldn’t be your representatives, could it?

The main bit that I feel is very poor is the total lack of communication, hence my insurers issuing court proceedings.

But you got an amc representing you? They *cant* talk to you directly. *You* chose to be represented.

To be honest, this whole thread is the usual drivel from people who don’t understand whats happening, who’s doing what for them, but just accept the one sided advice they’re given.

I have some genuine sympathy, but 53 days ago you hadn’t had the accident. In that time, the car’s gone in for an unscheduled, lengthy repair, been assessed, parts ordered, repaired, returned to you, invoiced by the garage, paid to the garage, and invoices presented to the other side for checking (most AMC’s inflate the bills). The insurers have probably had the invoice for a few days at most, if I were a betting man.

Now, if you can be clearer, perhaps someone here can help?

Who are you claiming for the repairs against? Your insurer, or the third party?

Who is representing you for this? An AMC?

Why do they say there are delays? What have they told you to evidence this? Hire charges? Did they say when they sent the final invoice for payment, and is it disputed?

Who is representing you for your non vehicle losses? The AMC? Againt whom are you claiming? Your own home insurer or the third party?

Are you aware you can’t issue more than once, so if someone has issued for a specific amount (the repairs) (and obtained judgement) you’ve lost your chance to claim?

Spent several yearsin Azeroth.

Don’t regretit, or the cost, but to be honest, it got to the point you were logged in mainly for the chat with on line mates like some sort of troll based MSN Messenger service in the end. It just got too complex and confusing with all the expansions for me.

Circa 1.6 was it’s heyday. I’d love a private server with all my friends just doing “classic” wow.

See Even 4 years ago, I would have agreed. But certainly since December, it’s become shocking. I am traveling in from Redhill. I only thank God I don’t have to use a lesser station up or down my line, (Earlswood, Salfords, Merstham)they get it worse that we do.

The latest trick is “short trains”. Yesterday was 8 carriages instead of 12. Day before, they’d cancelled a previous service so you had several stations worth of travelers backing up – I say cancelled, well, they just chose to make it run fast, so it hurtled through several stations to East Croydon without picking anyone up.
One day last week we had a 4 car instead of 12. With broken toilets. Like traveling German Railways to Auchwitz circa 1944.

Of course, if you say it’s never this bad, despite clearly no longer traveling, I must be making it up, and so are all the local papers and even occasionally national news too and you have correctly called me out as a liar. Or you could be wrong, but with your attitude of blind denial, you should work as a revenue protection inspector, you’d pass the aptitude test with flying colours.

To be honest, the Op’s point has got lost. Basically, treat people like shit – don’t be surprised when they complain. Force them into over heated, packed carriages, stress them by being late/delayed, whilst price gouging them relentlessly, treat reasonable requests with arrogance and ignorance, behave as if believe most of your customers are criminals and then wonder why they snap.

There are two sorts of people here.

Those blindly ignorant to the present, piss poor levels, largely caused on Southern and South Eastern, due to the London Bridge Closure, and how the service is visibly crumbling before our eyes, and those who don’t/can’t imagine either how infuriatingly shit its become, despite becoming so expensive.

There was one idiot, with a list of 5 options that included
1 – get an earlier train – Well, they’re packed too, and actually, the earlier service that I used to get was cancelled. It’s the one before that thats packed. The “earlier” train is no longer in the timetable.
2- Get a later train. I can’t unless I am late for work. I’ve asked work about changing my hours, they refused.
3- Change job. ABit extreme for a shit journey. Why should I have to change my job. Besides, there are few jobs doing what I do round here anymore, they all got sent to India or The North West.
4 – Move. Why – because the service has got rubbish, I need to uproot family, friends, and go to that kind of expense and move closer to London? Can’t afford it due to house prices anyway.
5- Use another form of transport. – Just not practical on my relocated route to work. Bus out of question, the routes too long/difficult., car will take too long, parking impossible the other end and is scarcely “green” in itself, and now too far to cycle comfortably,

Was a truly thoughtless response really.

The chap who mentioned the pregnant wife has got the Revenue Protection Inspectors(as opposed to the usual “Guards” who can occasionally, on some railways, but not often on Southern), are just total shits. They will wait, in a packed carriage, undercover, until the train has moved off, before fining people who are sitting in otherwise empty spaces when the rest of the carriage is packed to the rafters.

I really have come to loath the railways over the last few months. And so much of it is down to poor planning. Every day, trains rattle through my station to “make up time” without stopping, (forgetting their job is to collect passengers, rather than trying to arrive less than 30m late to avoid having to pay compensation, which has its own impossible conditions attached), daily cancelled services, and ones which just temininate abuptly or just sit, ensuring connections are missed.

Frankly, they are such a rip off, failing to deliver for the over inflationary price rises, and we are not “customers”, we are simply “fodder”. Anyother genuine competitive industry couldn’t get away with treating its customers like the rail companies do, thats why we mention aircraft. Air – No seat – first class upgrade. Rail – stand in the piss stinking swamp of the contortionists toilet or be fined if you want that chair, exactly like all the others, but with an antimacassar on the headrest and a 1 decal in the window.

I have every sympathy for the op. Since well, frankly ages ago, and prior to the London Bridge closure, and the mass cancelling of trains, travel into London at peak time (or peak fare!) was already not good.

Yesterday, we were literally rammed in so close to each other, that even when the train swayed over the points, no one was going to fall over, as it was sardines.

And the OP is spot on, the job centre remenents they call “revenue protection” behave like total bastards, on Southern. Even the boss of TFL last week called them out as behaving like the Gestapo.

You get a totally packed train, due to shortage of carrigages, cancelled or delayed services. #You can perhaps just squeeze into first class as sitting is safer than standing, and the ladies are at less risk of fainting in the heat. Then, once the doors shut,a couple on un-uniformed **** stand up and proceed to charge penalty fares, despite the fact the train is *so* heaving, they can only perform the trick by getting out at the next station and moving to the next first class spot by walking up the platform.

Frankly, I’m pretty mild and meek, but a couple of months ago, I refused to move out the way for them to get past, knowing what they were up to.

Given the service is crumbling to dust, the fares are extorionate, and we are not treated fairly as customers (see the refunds policy t&c) I’d not piss on Southern Railway, or their revenue protection staff if they were on fire. I feel differently about the drivers and run of the mill platform staff who basically share our feelings.

Op – you have my full support. But you need to experience the shite service and price gouging abuse before you really understand, so ignore the self righteous Audi drivers in IT who work from home.

I’d go, and I’m not even a massive fan of the genre, let alone them, but tbh, if you like that blues based rock, there’s not much better.

AC/DC, despite their early “image” are the kind of guitar band, that even most non rock fans can appreciate – it is just rock and roll derivative tunes notched up to 11, but tbh they lift it above the standard 3 chord 4 beat in a bar plod.

If you’re not tied to the car, Guernsey?

Flights are short – there’s loads of great sandy beaches, plenty of places doing decent food, clean, and less “touristy” than you’d imagine.

Build in a short flight or a boat ride to get that “we’re on holdiay” feeling, but with the advantage your money’s good, the language is no barrier and you can get a mobile signal (I’d recommend getting payg sims once there), its a great place – Loads of forts for the kids to explore.

Might sound stupid, but do borrow a DAB first to ensure you can even get a bloody signal.

I can see the top of Reigate hill from my flat. I can SEE the transmitter. I can’t get a signal from my pure digital alarm clock with its standard tatty bit of string aerial.

Given your DAB tuner is going to be sat in a cupboard in a kitchen, presumably with same tatty bit of string aerial, rather than a decent outside aerial they appear to really need (unlike FM/LW/MW which appear to work adequately in my flat) i’d ensure theres actually any point buying one.

Hateful technology, and the idea of a switch over to digital simply consigns me to a technological dark age.

Virgin did mine for free. They asked for an admin charge of £5 in the shop, and I pointed out what a wonderful customer I’d been for years, and surely thy’d not want me looking for a new sim myself to fit my new phone, and so they waived the charge.

A 1988 left handed Gibson SG bought from new, and a Mexican Strat. Fender Pro Reverb Silverface Valve amp from some time in the 70’s. Yamaha FX550.

Presently looking for a Rickenbacker 330/360 in left handed for a reasonable price.

The last people to visit Hull and do something constructive were the Luftwaffe.

Hateful place, hateful people (largely). If I was the Govt, I’d let the SNP stand there in the hope that someone else will take the place on.

Still stinks of fish I presume. Never been anywhere worse, except Grimsby, and even that has Cleethorpes seafront to lift it. Slightly.

I must admit, this is the only site I regularly look at, which I’ve had to more or less give up even trying to access from a work pc, due to the advertising pop ups that break my work browser. This is (and it’s not meant as a criticism, I understand to provide a free forum, money must be made) the only site I routinely access, who’s advertising behaviour is so bad that it breaks my work pc.

I got into the Beta too.

I have to say, the game was for Beta, superbly smooth on my system too. Don’t know what Northwinds pc is like, but on one of the other forums I stalk, it was much the same, several people found it ran remarkably smoothly, and one found it stuttery and unplayable.

Does tend to suggest its down to the pc and not the game.

If you have a masters in Aeronautics, then DCS is pretty good. Especially once you get into the A10-Warthog.

If WWII is more your thing, then IL2 Stromvic is now pretty easy on hardware, but the new IL2 Battle of Stalingrad is probably more taxing, as is the much modded IL2 cliffs of dover.

Although none of the IL2 series are compatible with each other –

Basically IL” cliffs of Dover was a rushed, bugged and incomplete sim, which has now been dropped, and the name sold to the poeple behind the Rise of Flight WWI sim, who have made Battle of Stalingrad on the ROF engine.

However, there is an active commnity modding Cliffs of Dover to produce the game it should have been, at the ATAC forums.

Back to the original thread though – 55 forks acvailable for the 1.125 headset.

However, my bike is only 1999, a veneralbe P7 I’m rather fond of after having it stolen and recovered from ebay!

I fancies treating to new forks. – But out of those 55 forks for a 1.125 headset, eliminate those that won’t fit a 9mm qr, and then that have a travel length of, or that can be midified economically to 80mm or less, and the choice is 0 – The standard for front travel appears to be 100mm min.

So despite the 55 forks availalbe, a 15 yo bike has a choice of nil. Does this prove the point?

Id rather go for a beer with the giver of that fantastic bottle opener than the Op to be honest.

No offence, I just recognise the wavelength of the giver rather better than the OP.

Open decent beer, or fret about your fitted niche woodwork singlespeed fridge-track-world.

No one mentioned C&N in Redhill yet?

I’ve only ever had great service from them. I think they were in some sort of top 20 of independent cycle shop list fairly recently.

Don’t understand –

Heavy granite plinths, but they just sit on flimsy wooden bookshelves – so all your doing is tranfering energy at a different audio range into the system – and the cartridge is so close to the speaker that negative feedback is almost certainly occuring – the car will be influenced by the speaker output.

Put the speakers on stands, with nowt between them, to get some semblance of a sound stage, and ensure the tt and amp are a distance away and out the direct sound path –

If you think that they’re your parts, and that the Police hold information which may be helpful to YOU in court proceedings, say to have items returned, then you send a Section 35 request to the Police -this is a specific request provided for by the DPA.

The Police should be well aware of this, they deal with it all the time. Its just the usual lazy plod fobbing you off.

Of course, you can’t smudge it out in real life – so what was the point?

Or will people on the street be obliged to wear blinkers when they pass.

I hate to break it to you but I bet £10 that’s NOT a courtesy car. Thats a hire car, that someone, the hirer, ie your missus, has signed that she accepts the charges. They will be about £250+ a day.

Thats a car from an Accident management Company, the vultures who add the £kkkk’s to all our premiums. They just turned say a £2k claim, to a £5 claim, minimum. Bet it got hired out on a friday too – just to maximise the time in for repairs.

Hopefully, given the age of the vehicle you have in for repair, the insurers will dispute the charges. The supplier hire car company (and as it’s a Merc, probably a bunch of pond floating scum called Accident Exchange, will be left well out of pocket. (I think they also have BMW and Mini signed up, in a back handed “you buy the cars from us, we’ll pass the referrals, saving us the cost of a courtesey fleet, and gouging the insurance industry for it instead”.

I bet it was a “non fault” accident. Had it been fault, you’d have got a Corsa.

Of course, I might be wrong, but almost certainly no insurance company gives these out to fault victims. I’d check your “credit hire” documents carefully. If it’s disputed, you may have to go to court to give evidence you were aware of the charges, demanded like for like hire and state your reasons.

But AMC’s dont tell people this at the outset – like claims for whiplash from Claims Management companies – “It wont end up in court”, as the truth is bad for the business model.

I think there’s a basic truth that I know now if I buy a bike, the industry won’t let me upgrade it. By the time I want new forks, the headtube will be wrong, seat tube obsolete ect ect.

So why not stick with what I have, given it too is obsolete, but at least lasted me 10+ years, whereas this years new model will be largely obsolete in 5 if the current trends persist.

Greedy manufatureers, looking to bolster mature markets by introducing the one thing that was constant, ie standards, are to blame. I’m also a smaller kind of guy – 26 make sense to me in a way new ones dont. You can always make a small bike bigger. (stem, post) you can’t make a big bike smaller without taking lumps out of the frame.

Greed killed enthusiasm with see through marketing ploys. We’re not as daft as the manufacturers would have us believe.

Try Chillblast – always well recommended in the mags.

If my prices were too high I’d expect people to comment

We’re not allowed.

See there’s a Dialled PA frame, and the guy’s asking £10 more + postage, than Mike was selling them off new for. Would I have been out of line in pointing this out, and making a low offer? Or would that have been seen to be “spiking”the ad?