Don’t!

gt85 is baaaaaaaad for your seals (or at least it is on dot systems, makes them swell and fail.)

3 options (all of which to be done well away from the removed pads!:

1) Shimano brake fluid: dribble a bit on and push the piston out, get the edges of it wet with oil and push back in, repeat till it behaves like the other one does. You may need to block the opposite piston somehow (I ziptied a metal tyre lever over the ‘good’ piston) otherwise all you will do is pump the good one out whilst the stuck one stays stuck.

2) silicon grease. Same as above. You can get it in sachets in bike shops at an extraordinary markup compared to a pot of it from a plumber’s merchant, which will last you a lifetime’s biking.

3) A friend has also had similar results with red rubber grease though I don’t know where to get that from.

Happy spannering.

Compliance.
13 Tzameti.
Calvaire.

BTW – lets take the piss out of silly ideas but not about someone’s appearance – that’s poor.

+1

He scrapped “Every Child Matters” the day after he came into office. And just four years and one election-a-looming later, he wants schools to provide wholesone and character-building activities to fill those 10 hours of the day. (keen watchers may recall that for many schools, this was one of the things lost with the scrapping of ECM) Smooooooooooth. 8)

Hah, if you find a riding jacket breathable, you aren’t riding hard enough. :P

The new stuff is rather competitively priced, innit!

Just had a look at t’wife’s hub. Once you pull off the outer plastic sleeve, the disc side bearing cover comes off the normal way (ie anticlockwise to remove) and should have some spanner flats on it for a 32mm spanner but the flats are only 2mm deep. Good sharp edged (machined not just cast) spanner would be advisable but perhaps the previous owner mashed yours up with the wrong size or a cheap adjustable wrench. Or cross-threaded it reinstalling, and mashed it trying to force it round? Threads are a nice fine pitch.

That said this bit was not too hard to remove: it has an o-ring st in between the threads which accounts for the resistance in unscrewing it and also means when cleaned and regreased you shouldn’t need to do it up too tightly again: o-ring seems to be for ‘not rattling undone’ rather than any sort of sealing. I would get some molgrips or a stilson wrench on it and then file some useable spanner flats back onto it before refitting. (but I am a cheapskate!)

(Disc side also has a cover over the cartridge bearing that undoes anticlockwise as well, but circlip pliers or really fine pointed pin spanner to turn it this time.)

Mano Negra: “in the Hell Of Patchinko” is one of my favourite records ever.
Also despite the mixed reviews I like “stage” by Bowie.
And the first side of G’n’R’s ‘Lies’ of course.

I saw some wheels on ebay (taken off a new bike) the other day with green salsa branded formula hubs: I doubt you can just buy the hubs just like that but that direction may be worth a look. (for the hubs and spokes, not the rims!)
[edit] found it, but the auction runs out in 2 hours and the front is 15mm. Ignore me! :oops:

ninfan – Member

its entirely sensible that charities and others should not be able to exert undue political pressure in the runup to an election – in just the same way that TV companies have to portrey balance, and political parties have restrictions on how much they can spend.

:lol:

Not followed this one closely then?

eerrrrm, that is one thing, but it’s not what the Transparency of Lobbying Bill (aka the gagging law) is actually about.

Self-promoting linky.

But yes, effectively it has gone through as of two evenings ago. But no the ‘gagging law’ wouldn’t have made a difference either way to the guardian’s Snowden laptops.

rob81 +1 -my local chinese does that black pepper tofu (but call it salt & spicy beancurd) and it’s well nice.
Otherwise, I have been veggie for 15 years and never found much else yummy to do with tofu besides various permutations of wet or dry stir fry.
Bit I might have a go at this soon. :D

Julian, that must’ve been 26″ bikes as my 29er barely goes in with the seat pushed right forward.

Ah, these car companies really need to try harder and keep up with new wheel standards. :D

I bought some Mecca Cola[/url] in Toulouse a few years ago. Does that count? :D

[edit] zomg, now they do energy drinks!

What have they done to the interior on the mk2? 8O
I fitted 2 wheels-off medium size hardtails and two 5’11” men in my ‘old’ new mini (2004) with the back seats folded and the passenger seat a bit (but not ridiculously) forward, and my full sus went in similarly fine too, although I can’t remember ever having a second bike or passenger in there with it.

Yes. fozzybear +1.

Plus seller also selling four other very expensive bikes with ‘message me for b.i.n. at £1000), and they range from tiny size to huge, with photos in different locations -you’d expect at least a couple of them to be the same garage/garden etc. IMO seller’s account has been hijacked by scammer who does not posess such bikes and nicked the images, and is hoping to close an out-of-ebay deal using an email which is not the same as that attached to actual ebay account, with vanishing paypal etc in order to rip off buyer.

Great PSA! Cheers LMTTM!
Mrs and I have ordered some hi-viz baselayers. I have just recced my new/forthcoming 19 mile commute, and even outside work/rush hour times there was some heroically bad driving on display, so now have hot weather clothes to match my hi-viz jacket.

How much seatpost will you have showing OP?
I have a 27.2 post which at 350mm and about 220mm of actual carbon shaft showing means you can see it flex a tiny bit just sitting on the bike. However: steel bike, curvy seatstays and 2.1″ tyres at 40psi probably make more of a difference than flex in post.
Wife has a 31.6mm post on her road bike with about 100mm showing, I reckon that makes a whole heap less difference to hers!

iirc tj’s tandem had a marzocchi 4x or dirt jump fork. As above you will struggle to find a hardcore fork with a proper lockout, (let alone a remore one) even on the lyrik.

Best compromise for me would be an original RS pike ether with coil u-turn wound down to 95mm (but you will also need to find at least a firm if not an x-frim spring, as the coil ones seemed a bit undersprung at the time) or a dual air with travel spacers to space it down to 100-110mm. They were the reliable fork to have (barring the air-u-turn) when marzocchi went to the far east and went all rubbish fr a couple of years. All options of the pike came with remote lockout as an option (I certainly had one with a bar-mounted lockout), and if you only find a crown-mounted lockout, the MC damper is a five minute job to swap out for a remote lockout/poploc/pushloc damper from pretty much any 32mm RS fork from that time.

[edit] oooh, also i forgot that if you can stand the crazy colours they came in, and you had a fiddle with the oil heights in the damper side there is no reason why you couldn’t fir a remote lockout motion-control damper to an older RS argyle (this was rather like a cheaper simpler 100mm-only pike) if you found one cheap. Again, you’d also need to worry about spring weights and availability for a tandem though)

Public service so of course 1% pay rise since 2009. So to frontload the positives, my actual gross pay is 1% richer than it was.
Of course the contributions to my gold-plated nhs pension have risen too so take home is less. And never mind inflation and the rising cost of pretty much everything since then.
On a course with health workers across the south west at the moment: those that under the preset present (ooh, a typing freudian slip!) government now work for the private sector not the nhs but doing exactly the same job have had similar non-pay rises and are waiting for tupe/goodwill to run out before they get pay cuts or significant changes to job descriptions/responisbilities/working conditions ie more work for same pay.
On the other hand, a friend of a friend (who is high up/director level somwhere in nhs at the mo) is being headhunted by various private sector providers at the moment: given the pay offers he is getting I expect that somewhere at the top 10% of private healthcare provision there might be some people now on say £90k instead of £70k. :?

One of these days I am going stop posting what I actally think or believe, and start posting faintly comedy responses to what I see as entrenched and extreme (but in reality usually libertarian or lefty) opinions on stw.

IIRC this was his 2011 MO/manifesto as elucidated to us by ninfan labrat z-11(ah, whatever he was called back then, you know who i mean) when everyone got together and apologised to each other on the huge “omg they banned tj” thread.

Well, either that, or he just really really wants his handgun back. (did you see what I did there? ;) )

I hope I have surmised the following correctly from listening to Farrage’s interview yesterday:

“our 2010 manifesto was a load of cobblers that I never read and just wrote the intro to and signed the end.”
“the man that wrote it was a complete idiot but it’s ok cos he left and joined the conservative party”
“lets (with limits) legalize handguns”

Truly, this man is the comedy gift that keeps on giving. :lol:
I begin to wonder whether the purple party has no real supporters as such, just a huge network of undercover political activists working hard at setup/front to make the red and blue ones look credible and acceptable in comparison.

Hopefully the £1750 iphone is like that time a few years ago where this forum got wind of a ‘fake’ bike and 2 people used disposable ebay accounts (i see the winning bidder also had no feedback) to bid it up to a price no genuine buyer would ever pay. :D

Or it is someone generating their own glowing positive feedback for high value items using multiple acounts, to give genuine buyers more confidence in the next scam auction. :(

No one buys new iphones in Plymouth either: just go to bleddy cash converters, innum!

So this autism specialist said that autistic people either poo or don’t poo when you douse them in warm water?

Really ?

No.

my words were ‘some sort of link’.

And your summary is not what i meant earlier anyway (though looking back i could have worded the post a lot better)

IIRC the detail was that it was far more likely that these two things (esp consitpation) were linked to the two young men’s autistic spectrum disorders than to any other undiagnosed health problem. That does not mean it will happen to everyone: the autistic spectrum is huge (as i suspect you know yourself from the rather alarmed tone of your post), and while many symptoms and behaviours are common to most with a diagnosis, there are also many that are linked to the autistic spectrum but by no means universal or even unique to autism.

oh in fact i have thought of a third chap who by the age of 16 was chronically constipated (mega-bowel was the proper clinical term) and this too was attributed to his (moderate to severe in his case) autism: so much so he had to have a rather complicated warm water enema with a couple of tubes and a 3 way valve (I learnt to do it but it was years ago now) to get him going three times a week. Another needed a nice warm bath to get him going before a critical ‘window’ in which to actually get him on the throne.
Don’t just take my word for it though:
http://www.autism-help.org/family-constipation-autism.htm

Back in the noughties I became aware (professionally aware, again) of a man that lived in a small west Devon village in the catchment area of my (back then) team; this man would deposit a turd on a different neighbour’s doorstep in the wee hours (see what I did there?) of each morning. Enough houses in the village that you only got done a couple of times a year though :lol:

Blimey, its another world! I would at least be insisting the kids worked the yard themselves not the live-in yard staff (as is the way at nearby Duchy and Bicton colleges, where the horses are for learning not for fun. Having done equine/businessy things at Duchy, my sister worked near Chequers in a high end similarly specced stable as live-in yard manager. The fees just for the horse livery were huge, never mind what it would have been for keeping your child there too!

You’d hope that the more sensible parents would be sold on class sizes or smaller houses/better pastoral care than a stabling/livery facility! A cbeebies puppet opened my kids’ refurbished school library which also features an indoor treehouse, but i don’t think that was quite as much of an ‘investment’ as stables…

Thankyou thm for your, er, thanks. Some other folk on here past and present, left and righty, would have acknowledged such a ‘comedy dismount’ as mine by posting a gif of a boxer knocking someone out, or something equally “booom!/kapow!”. Or that bleddy star trek double facepalm photo. so cheers.

On topic now, in terms of op’s “worth it” question, do we know if and by how much school fees have risen relative to disposable income or I suppose average salary? ie is it improving because more money is being spent or money spent more wisely? And how much is it like bikes: law of dimishing returns?

thm: crossed posts -please see humble correction above.

Would be interesting to know if

Over the period, percentage of student in private education fell from 8% to 5% and then recovered (excuse the choice of phrase) to 7%.

means “uk students” or “students carrying out their studies in the UK” and if this drop in numbers was offset by large rise in numbers of foreign students coming to uk in more recent years.

all clarified above with figs

[edit]
Great, you’ve more than made the point that it is a roundabout 50% increase in overall spending not 300% of overall spending budget and no one especially not me is disputing that.

but I don’t know how else to articulate this!

What does %age of gdp spent on state schools have to do with the sucess or otherwise of fee-paying ones? You never made a link with your first statistic and you still haven’t now. You just alluded to fee paying schools “thriving” as a contrast to state ones.

How did your correcting your figures on state schools also make fee-paying ones any less thriving? Are we talking numbers? (fall since 60’s then a rise again according to your last page) or quality of education, results, life experience?

Actually for the sake of clarity I will leave this in for future reference and humbly correct myself: if a “thriving” charity is related to numbers and so financial turnover then yes if overall numbers of UK population has fallen then thm may have been right to correct his initial comment about a thriving sector. On the other hand if his son’s peer group in which a third of his peers are foreign s representative however, then it will be interesting to know what impact that had on overall numbers of students irrespective of country of origin and therefore overall health of the sector. Not to mention success of a charity being the quality and reach of its work as well as financial turnover and numbers of individuals.

Photos and Bristol stool chart rating required. Also iirc if the crime is serious enough the police could get a dna match from a jobby. Finally OP, do you work in IT or somewhere with numbers perchance? I know (professionally) of a couple of high-functioning autistic spectrum young men who have had similiar (one) and identical (the other. in the shower. a few times. always denied it was him.) reactions to being doused in warm or hot water. As i recall the autistic spectrum specialist we asked (not just about the poop bit) said there was some sort of link. Usually it is constpation but much less often this is reversed by bath/shower time. 8O

It gets better then mike. State schools perform better than private ones.

I thought that you thought (irrespective of rise in cost of stae education in recent years) that fee paying schools were “thriving”? In what way does a non-profit making charitable organisation thrive, apart from the number of people it helps and the quality of help those people get?

Give me a nudge when we are back on topic.

Original post reads:

bernard – Member

Has anyone got kids in a private school , interested in your experiences. Worth the money?

So yes, after pages of interesting experiences of our own or our childrens’ experiences in various schools (and in some cases our experiences as staff), arguing about social mobility, life skills, exclusivity and exciting journeys through stats (disapointing lack of actual clourful graphs this time) THM’s (retracted-though-editing-something-slightly-different) assertion that in our lifetime, fee-paying schools have thrived and yet continue to receive undue and unfair criticism in spite of this is, curiously, rather close to back on topic, ie given the cost, is it worth it?

Phew! Considier yourself nudged, thm ;) :D

teamhurtmore – Member

I would like it pretend I understand all that. But will leave it there. Give me a nudge when we are back on topic.

thm: an hour ago:

So it’s good to see how we sweat on the small stuff!!! It makes a great diversion though as all these pages show!!!

c+ for attention span.

I can summarise the last post but afraid (as in ‘worried’ not false regret) that it won’t come across as polite.

??? Hardly hidden Julian, come on. I posted figures about 4-13% and commented on them twice. They seemed strange so I rechecked them and realised that I had made a mistake and posted that clearly with the correct data. I would have been disappointed (having made the effort to be accurate) if no one had noticed. Play fair….

Who said anything about hidden?

Play fair….

I think I learnt this one from you thm, ‘play the ball’ -the ball in this case being that you seemed to be questioning where I had the notion (from you) that fee-paying schools had thrived (and that n spite of this they were being laid into), and that just because the rise in spending on state education had not risen as much as you had originally said (note my acknowledgement of this in my own edited post) this does not now mean that fee paying schools hadn’t thrived after all, that they might not be subject to undue criticism in spite of this, or that you hadn’t said it. I can’t be responsible for your poor editing but forgive me for not joining up a change in the understanding of funding and the perceived success/failure for one sector (state) with a change in the relative/perceived success of another one (fee-paying).

Or is it up to Sir who gets to sweat which bits of the small stuff?

Not in forensic medicine, no… but a useful tool in my job is indeed “sweating the small stuff” as you put it. with my systemic hat on, I am also trained to be curious and ‘circular’: why did you edit that bit out, and especially given your own forensic examination of others’ posts here and elsewhere, did you really not expect anyone to notice and mention it?

teamhurtmore – Member

Have they thrived? They educate less of the UK population that they did in the 60s.

You alluded to thriving, yes (I cut and pasted it up there^^),

so let’s attack the one small part that has thrived over the period instead????

although i can’t seem to find it in your posts any more.

Yes I was saying fee payers spent on better boarding: I wouldn’t want people thinking a rise in fees for boarding schools necessarly meant more investment in the education side of the whole package.

So overall, and boarding fees aside, are fee-paying schools (through fees and charitable donations) better off per student than they were in whenever-the-beginning-of-our-notional-lifetime-was? And if so how much? And does this explain why they have thrived? Also if many of these schools have expanded, what did economies of scale bring to the quality for each individual pupil?

It’s risen strongly in absolute terms and in relation to other types of spending.

Thankyou thm, yes that’s just what my complicated and probably unnecessary use of multiple clauses and nested parenthese was trying to show i was curious about. :D

[edit] just seen your edit above. Much easier to see where 50% hass gone than 300%! See below..

What changes are people really disappointed about with education?
Class sizes? Safety? Safeguarding? Governance? (as opposed to governments!) real world vocational training? (as a sometime arts graduate who has used these skillz for maybe 40 hours of my career since I finished the degree) I agree with JY about the absurdity of there being far more degrees than jobs that need them though) Computer literacy though? According to ceops and most IT teachers, what teenagers can do with computers today is totally beyond the understanding of a majority of the population over 35.

fwiw my own bugbear is the expense of inspectors/regulators who are burnt out teachers (same follows for medicine and social care imho) and the money that goes into preparing for and ‘responding to’ inspections which didn’t go all that badly, and meaningless kpi’s and figures. It is also still too hard to sack underperforming staff and I honestly believe that we (as in public service all over) could learn much from private enterprise about this: only thing worse than out-of-touch HR is a slow, toothless and timid out-of-touch HR!

so let’s attack the one small part that has thrived over the period instead????

Of course that thriving part wasn’t funded by taxpayers (well, apart from the parents!)

-so some data would be very welcome about the relative changes in school fees, and any financial implications good or bad of their charitable status (including, if significant, changes to and if so financial changes from the delicate arrangement between the tax some of the parents pay elsewhere, and the usefulness to their personal finances of making large charitable donations from time to time ;)

-of course any increase in money spent there also should be adjusted for the considerable and welcome investment in improving food and living conditions for boarders since the 60’s!

Est-ce que j’ai raté le bus pour le forum Francais?

Threefold, wow! (Is that a basic percentage or are we adjusting for and comparing to expenditure in other areas, I am specifically thinking justice/police and health (also more) and defence which if we are talking lifetimes that began in the 60’s would be way less)

Also I put forward that class sizes, vocational training in fe rather than simple apprenticeships, choice of subjects and IT were major components of this rise, but nevertheless worth it.

I used parcel2go with parcelforce worldwide as the carrier, but for muxh less than it would have been if I had just taken it to the post office. Presumably they give you their business rate plus a couple of quid middleman profit. You need to print the labels yourself iirc, and if it is a frame then getting the dimensions of the box down is key as the “volumetric weight” will be far more than 2kg frame and packaging. So a few years ago i sent (to France) a medium fs frame and a few bits in a cut down frame box. Volume-versus-weight meant I could be very generous/careful with the packing and padding and it was less than £30 for 48hrs fully tracked and insured up to £500.