I gave up on ebay after the fees got silly. A lot of it is leaving stuff on there till someone who wants it comes along. Ebay shop or relist fees make this rather difficult.

Someone on here recommended Discogs[/url] and I have done pretty well on there. It is a bit slower than ebay but you get more for your time and money in the end. Listing is quicker and easier, and there is no fees until you actually sell something. And the final value fees are still cheaper than ebay. You can see what other examples of your records have gone for and use that to set your price 'or best offer'.

mrs j has a bb7 on a post mount manitou fork with 160mm rotor. No mounts, just the cup'n'cone washers straight into the post mount on the fork. (you need the washers otherwise the calliper will be too close to the axle). HTH

Been watching this thread for a while.

If mental health nurses were american ww2 bombers, I would have about 500 syringes stencilled down one side of me, and 500 packs of steri-strips down the other. And probably a little dog with a neckerchief as a mascot or something.

Yet, still I found that the biggest factor in my decision to have it (and yes I will for the first time have a 'non-compulsory' vaccine from work) is that I am really rather scared of having receiving injections…. :oops: :oops: :cry:

Drac – Member

I've now had to turn the heating on in my dining room since you fixed this problem, can we have them back please.

that is the first time I ever have chuckled at a computer/IT joke. I must be spending too much time on here.

From the telly it would be the falklands. As a little boy fascinated by space rockets, I also remember the challenger shuttle disaster better than most tings from round that age.

I just about remember my dad being very upset at a singer's death: I later surmised it must have been John Lennon.
-"Do you know him Daddy?"
-"Not really?"
-"Has he been to our house?"
-"No."
-"Why are you so upset then?"

kids, eh?

Its not the tube that's the issue though, its the fork crown. On most suspension forks these are cast not machined, (though yes my surly rigid fork is very crisp at the crown…) and in the case of all my other forks seem to be powder coated or painted. Add to this the methods most of us use to remove old crown races and you could have a recipe for a crown that is slightly off 'exactly perperendicular' to the steerer tube. When you're dealing with the tiny ball bearings in cartridge headset I think its conceivable that it could make a difference.

Mind you, I have had a steerer bind a little even though I thought the crown race was on properly, and after hefty re- malleting of the crown race (I use the inside tube of a car axle stand) it was gone.

Anyone know if a front end impact could bend the steerer/crown join and induce the same problem?

if i could find a picture of mine I would post it up but my azonic sabre with 66's looks just like ken's old one (but it isn't actually his old one, its dave h's iirc) -atomlab wheels, much lower saddle, chain device, saint brakes and big wiiiiiide diabolus bars. It weighs a ton but it's a real talent compensator!

It must be catching. The other week I joined a 15ish size group (mountainbike) night ride that a couple of my friends go on weekly: a couple of them started the wavey things on a cyclepath. Having eliminated all the probable reasons and moved on the the improbable, I think a side to side wave by your bum must mean 'stinky dog ahead'.

I'll be waiting,
with a gun and a pack of sandwiches

juan – Member

It's the same with brakes. Right hand rear, means you're queer.

Or continental/american (but I concur it makes more sense if you are right handed to have it british way)

Juan swapped my brakes over when he borrowed my bike/trailer/daughter combo at the BBB. Perhaps he thought that as well as having had mrs wilson take a shine to him, he could turn my head too?

(bisous envers Juan)

11 posts and no one's said MBR?
'on topic' though, my NHS trust's training department has the Health Service Journal in the coffee room. Lordy, its dry!

Its funny that with credit card companies looking after your money in so many other purchases (bigger ones have whole departments that delight in hunting down dodgy salespeople etc), they can't/won't do something so simple as stop their equivalent of a direct debit. Particularly since its actually a bit of a faff (relatively speaking) to set up a 'proper' direct debit but you can cancel it online without even speaking to someone, yet you can 'accidentally' get these ones on credit cards (eg the original poster's one) and then spend all day on hold trying to speak to someone to cancel it…

Anyone have an explanantion for us mere mortals as to what the difference is and why?

If i was a more cynical person I would say that the credit card companies do too well out of the increased balances and more revenue (particuarly if you don't notice it for a year!) through interest to want to do anything major about it. Ooops, I just did.

They do 'A*' at university now?

It was all firsts and seconds when I was a student.

einsturzende neubaten
kraftwerk
jon spencer blues explosion
corrosion of conformity

oh and I used to be in a band called The Liquid Silk Explosion 8)
(minor geek points to anyone who knows where i stole it from)

go on fmh, post a photo of one of your amazing ingrowing hairs! That'll give them something to worry about…

A few years ago I stayed in a chalet at the top of the Wall in Afan, and in the next door one to us was a bunch of girtls including Tracey Moseley and Rachel Atherton, fresh from winning the junior world champs at Fort William. I think we borrowed a spoon from them.

My absolute favourite though, was squeezing past Gary Wilmot in a lane near Wembury, south Devon. 8)

Such are the options available, they usually build their own bikes to order ie only when you have ordered it.
Not sure about the 'overnight delivery' on a built to order bike though…
£30 post for a bike isn't outrageous really though is it? Thats about what you would pay to courier a bike if you sold it on the classifieds. I think a lot of shops' 'free' delivery on bikes must just be absorbed somewhere else in the retail, errr, process.

CaptainFlashheart – Member

REAL men wear pink shirts. I have many of them from my tailor. Pink shirts are a good thing!

Flashy's wardrobe last week (pink shirt rail just out of shot)

(oh, those square exhaust pipes on vectras btw.)

Flashy's wardrobe last week (pink shirt rail just out of shot)

(oh, those square exhaust pipes on vectras btw.)

yes. Your hardest gear will still be the same (if you have 11t smallest sprocket) but the narrower gear range will probably just mean more like the 'right' gear for your legs on long rides. I have an 11-28 on mine, ride up a bastid hill to work and I don't miss the 30 or 32 one bit.

Nike, and the 'like Nike but more Rad' Nke 6.0. Blegh.

And sorry Cove, lovely bikes (a few mates have one or other of them) but I just cannot have a bike with a rude word on it. Imagine me turning up to work with my vulnerable/upset/abused teenagers on a handjob or a stiffee…

….he could drive an empty minibus for them same daft reasons and not get in trouble though….

from the station? How helpful of the seller to meet you there!

U.S.E. sumo?

There are also plenty of good bits in French films which my wife and friends do not get, or even good puns that get badly translated/subtitled. Worst of all is an untranslate-able joke that just gets glossed over via the subtitling with something banal because it doesn't work in English.

A parallel would be the Astérix books, where you often get a completely different set of gags and cultural in-jokes in each language its translated into.
The fun is trying to work it all out.

the 8th photo: is that the road near Bridestowe? I love those trees.

wow, you could become the new Andy@CRC of the hifi forum world…

all the best with it. :-)

Funny that, I am loving the new super furries album!

Spotify is a wonderful invention, I have saved lots of spending and/or downloading by finding albums less than good.

Recently I have been disappointed by the new Plaid album. And also despite being a huuuge fan, I wasn't that taken with the new Muse one either :(

aaaaah, STW. The only place on the interweb apart from a hifi forum where you could get 6 pages of posts on cables…

I love you guys!

my old 1985 metro had five different speeds of intermittient wipers as well as normal and 'disco'.

I really liked that (Devon has at least twenty speeds of drizzle or rain!) and have never driven another car with it. Presumably a cheap and simple thing, (it was on a Metro!) -did they stop doing it because other people found it really annoying/pointless?

Houns would reply to this thread but he is screeching his sports car round to defaultslipper's house with the Customer Service Confidentiality Clause.

:wink:

Silentnight memory foam one here. It was £250ish from TJ Hughes about 6 months ago and has been fine so far. Very different from a sprung mattress but I really like it. The kids can still bounce on it albeit in a rather 'damped' way!

And no change either negative or positive in our, errr, 'performance'.

It's made of kinesis alloy tubes, but not necessarily by kinesis. (Their own frames usually look a bit more adventurous in terms of tube profiles or hydroforming, and have paint and logos on them). It is not a bad price but neither is it worth lot more than what they are asking for it. You would get the same sort of thing second hand on the classifieds here for half that.

Having said that my brother has an old (kinesis tube sticker on it) merlin malt one which looks almost exactly like that one, cost about as much and its fine; lightish responsive and sensible handling with a 100mm fork. Sentimental value to me too, as it was my first 'proper' bike build. :-)

Well go back and read all the posts crying tears of pure envy over the public sector not suffering duly for the private sector's mistakes.

Glad someone else also thinks they are not our (I say our as in the public sector I work in) mistakes.

Is it just me, or does anyone else wonder if the Taxpayers Alliance is full of people with very creative acccountants who really should be paying more tax?

nice to see the Hound of the Basket Meals in there!

A friend who worked in a skate shop once gave me some DVS Ozzy signature slippers:

very manly!

eh? I'm not quite sure who you say is crying there BBF.

I wonder how much of the funding increases from 1997 onwards only served to mitigate some of the damage done in the previous decade? As mentioned earlier in this thread, healthcare suffers from the law of diminishing returns: you spend more and more money eliciting narrower treatment outcomes from the illest of patients who you would have just lost 20 years ago. Bit like spending £500 to lose a couple of pounds from your 22lb hardtail.

Also they forgot to start the vertical axis at 0: this graph looks to the casual observer like despite huge increases in funding, productivity has dropped by half in 11 years.

Bit harsh, that.

Scream for me LongBeach! Scream for me!

:lol:

I looooooove 'In the hell of Patchinko' by Mano Negra.

Tax Payers Alliance

..that name tickled me. :D