I thought it was because one of them seems to have 2 heads.
I like the bright greeny turquoise mica lakes round our way.

The planets were certainly in alignment for a couple parked up in a minicab that we stumbled upon on our night ride last tuesday!

On a more serious note, the moon does indeed mess with your brain 'fluids' just as it does with the high tides. Not quite sure what the evidence base is for the gravitaional pull of the stars, mind…

well the other people in the room seemed to like it…

Evolution of the language, innit? 'Podium' has now become a verb as well as a noun, if that makes the er, wrongness feel a bit more balanced.

I quite like the unforgettable fire. It also coincides with the peak of Bonio's mullet if I recall rightly. :D

A little while since I knew any 'proper hardcore' practising cathiolics, but in confession do you still get the 'Say fifteen hail Mary's and a half a rosary my child, then the Lord will forgive you'? If so how many for that lot?

8O

You were either pre-destined to be 'cold' or you weren't. Drugs could exacerbate this or they couldn't.
Its very unlikely that drugs on their own would cause any human being to be 'cold'

(Mental health nurse writes)…. I mostly agree steve-austin, likely not to be drugs alone, but depending on what age you are and why/when you used them. The notion that people are born to be emotionally 'cold' is pretty much dead, the debate is to what extent people are genetically loaded for some mental illnesses, how people become autistic/aspergers, but that your early years as a child and teenager count more for anything in the development of the 'counseller-able problems' spectrum.

If you had a long enough patch of your life early enough, where you really couldn't even leave the house in the morning without a cushion of drugs then its quite possible you missed out on or 'un-learnt' some of the useful psychiological processes that usually rumble on unnoticed in 'well' people. That's not to say you can't re-learn them later though. Bob etc, your own drug use may have been of a nice happy and recreational nature. Or you might just be luckier than Mr Nutt. He does mention the 'while experiencing emotional pain, violence etc' which is of course a hugely unqualtifiable factor and also afected by one's own relilience and the availability of support from parents/family.

There is also a relatively unresearched so-far notion that prolonged use of amphetamines might frazzle so many neurons/connections/receptors in your brain that you become a bit 'wooden', in a similar way to untreated psychosis or dozens of acute psychotic episodes might do. Trouble is, so many of the potential 'research group' in this case may have been using amphetamines to 'self medicate' that it is hard to tell whether its the drugs or the illness. Or if the drugs also made them ill.

Finally there was also 10 years ago a relatively unresearched worry that we may be on the cusp of a lot more pre-senile dementia (ie alzeimers-like but in your 40's) from lots of use of 'proper' ecstasy in the late 80's. I've not really encountered any more cases like this recently than I did ten years ago. By the sounds of it many of those people are fit and well, riding mountain bikes and posting on 'drugs are ace!' threads on here. Phew.

…mentioned earlier in the thread already, but he was one of our best Argyle fans too. I feel the only way for the FA to recognise and remember his contribution to the Green Army (he was on the board for a few years and all) is to give them a season in the premiership. :D

ScottChegg – Member

Who uses cables on brakes these days?

….I feel another Avid BB7 love-fest thread approaching. :lol:

We could have made such beautiful (insert nature of workplace's business) music together…

3rd for sanderson. Can be found for about £250 and they are ace. Nice welds and dropouts if you like that sort of thing, and not too heavy. I think their small is 16" and 21"-ish top tube.

…didn't you have a perfectly good Cove for that sort of thing Juan? …..just get another on second hand?

Turbo trainer? Comedy motivation for you in this thread from a while back. :D

Honey. Not long been 'cured' actually! :oops:

It's all very well for the relevant local Strategic Health Authority to comment like they did, as if they have no part to play. No mention of their role in passing on the enforced savings down to that hospital that all health authorities (not just theirs) have to go through: 10% 'efficiency' (CRES) savings over next three years. I don't know about anyone else, but my unit's 10% (well, 3% then 3% then the rest over 3 years to be fair) will all be coming out of nurses and doctors, ie the numbers of them. :(

I use a small hammer to tap a couple of (sharp) stanley knife blades in each side first, much easier and gentler way to get somthing bigger like a screwdriver in, and by then with most steerers it just pops off. Can't take credit for this; I think I probably heard to do that on here at some point.

it looks like the BR thread had 8 pages (though it will only open the first one).

Does that mean they win?

even the elite riders pushed up ankle deep muddy climbs on today's soggy bottom xc race. I am proper knackered!

I'd be pretty suprised to walk into a single enormo-brand bike store and not find a full range of hangers from their single brand of bikes. A quick tootle through the BETD range would suggest that there are only about five diferent variations of hanger for the brand in question. How hard is it for a shop that size to have a dozen of each of such a small range in stock? Compare this to the poster earlier who sells several different brands of bike and keeps £1000 worth of loads of different hangers as stock. Just no excuse IMO.

fwiw, my local enormo-brand concept store does seem to be very well stocked with small spares for their enormo-branded frames, shoes, bearings etc. Between my riding mates and my experience we have always been able to walk out holding the random spare part we needed.

midgebait – Member

Robdob, I take offense at the French remark. No pieces of trim have come off my Berlingo yet which I haven't been able fix back myself!

…a small piece of trim has come away from my very non french and rather german caravelle (c/w sliding door) which I can't seem to fit back on myself. If that's any help.

Oh, caravelles are ace if your mrs wants something that is a bit comfier like a car inside. And the mercedes vito traveliner/combi vans seem a bit more like a car to drive too. (a tiny bit smaller too)

funnily enough i 'backed up' my original boosh cd's. email me if you if want them cheap…

druidh – Member

Lunch break???

+1 :(

still, spending the taxpayers' money wisely, eh?

Mrs Julian has one of the last lot of slotty ones (green).
-rack mounts: yes, near the top of the dropouts, and either side of the fatter tube at the top of the seatstays. (you will find it easier fitting a rack too, as the brake caliper mounts inside the rear triangle). Nowt for mudguards though as it doesn't have 'traditional' seatstay or chainstay bridges as such to put mounting holes in.

I like 'Tundra'. Little bit of everything in that epsiode, great for the uninitiated.
-Dixon Bainbridge
-Gary Numan
-Glam Rock Ski Suit
-Silly song
-and the immortal lines "the wind….my only friend" (wind whispers "I hate you")

a small thing but i read that an astonishing amount of high-end nascar and indy car parts are maniufactured by specialists in the uk and shipped over to the states. Not that I would be mentioning that too loudly in the stands at some oval in the midwest!

I also love the beeb and the music.

Oh, british people invented looooads of sports as well, non?

Some caffs get their eggs already scrambled in bulk, which i cannot imagine does anything for the flavour/freshness. The giveaway is that they do scrambled eggs and omelettes but do not serve fried eggs cos they are already mixed up before they get them. :?

Bastian Schweinsteiger (of Bayern Munich and Germany Fame) sounds great to our ears, but his surname roughly translates as 'pig-mounter'. :D

4th for the 525's.
I 'upgraded' from m525's to saint m800's on my 'trouble' bike and barely noticed the difference. They are cheap to buy new, and my old set is still going very strong at six years old on a mate's bike. Never needed to bleed the back one, only bled the front cos i had to replace the hose. Pads are cheap and if you set them up and bed them in the pad wear is just fine.

i'd split it: you'll get more for all the parts individually and its easier to post a frame, forks and wheels than a whole great bike box ofr bike.

CaptainFlashheart – Member

Instruments of anal torture.

During a house renovation once, I politely enquired what one of these was for, to be advised the very same. :lol:

there was a thread about this recently in which the Dude Of Sensibly Priced Steel Frames assured us he never treated any of his own personal ones. So I am trying not to worry about mine.

"they are just carrera though really arent they?"

More or less, same factory etc. Which is good, since today's carreras are also brilliant for the money.

don't worry, I am sure the 'carrera and boardman' factory also turns out much trendier and more expensive bikes too :)

2 or 3 years ago Dirt mag reviewed a 69-er from on-one that was just made from a 26" frame and a 29" fork and they raved about it. Assuming it wasn't an elaborately worded april fool, perhaps Brant will pop along and tell us about it.

what's the hub? It is quite straightforward on shimano or pretty much any budget cup'n'cone'n'loose bearings hub.

classifieds/ebay mostly here. Though I did buy a new sanderson frame last year that was the forst new one out of the last 5. I haven't bought a new fork for 5 years either. Time consuming but no way i could afford the (low to mid range mostly) standard of parts if i went into a shop or even got it all from crc.

one of my mates commutes on his (05/06 rigid one), and really loves it Now it has a carbon post he says its well comfy (but a bit harsh for his tender lower back before) and great fun to ride.
Personally, for canals and work I would go for something which you can at least put full mudguards on, can't remember if newest badboys are drilled etc for this.

…the word 'straitline' seems to add a 40% premnium over what you would expect to pay for any other boutique brand. Is the pound really getting that weak??

Hope make their own stuff in house in the western world with humanely treated and paid workers and still manage to be both the industry standard for many of the parts they produce, and also significantly cheaper than straitline. I really can't imagine how they justify the price in any other terms than what someone will be preared to pay to have something a bit different.

I have a 'hot desk' shared with two other people (I spend maybe 7 hours a week sat behind it) but mostly i work in a hospital unit.

agreed, Tinsy, eta/lockdown is very underrated. One of the reason i knocked my reba teams down to 105mm was the wandery front end on climbs, but it would fly back down if i had a bar mounted 'launch control' like pace had, and could pop it down to 90mm for climbs and then back to 120mmm for everything else.

I've had three u-turn forks and a mantitou equivalent and the windy business is just a bit of a faff, I just ended leaving it all the way out most of the time. But then I have bolt-up seat collars and never move my saddles so what do I know? :lol:

'question pour un champion'. It's like going for gold except its still on telly, and yes there is a more irritating presenter than Henry Kelly. Me and mi' nan loves it!