Mine have put me on a very low dose anti-depressant, I’m not depressed but apparently it’s so your brain tells your body that your not ill so it recovers…or something like that.

I know of a couple of people who say they have done well on ‘subtherapeutic’ (for depression, that is) doses of Amitryptiline. As a nurse I am ashamed to say i can’t remember why it is it should help, but I seem to remember oldskool amitryptiline (as opposed to newer SSRI/SNRI’s) making sense. Plenty of ME sufferers websites out there will probably tell you though.

Remember you might feel depressed because of the huge change in your life rather than the neurological impact of the illness. Keep talking! 😀

akira +1

I am 5’11 and often wonder if i would be happier on the next size up on my yeti. It has an 18″ seat tube but dropped top tube and lots of standover, and whilst great fun on twisty and downhil pointing stuff, it feels a bit short on climbs even with a 100mm stem, or ’tiller’ as they seem to be known round these parts. The next size up on that frame is 19.5-20″ iirc, which if i didn’t think about top tubes and stem length I would never have considered.

terrahawk – Member

perhaps. But I won’t ride the Piglet in my team kit ;0)

sponging-machine is a one-mountain-bike guy so when he finally coughs up for an xc race he will.

Nah, it’s just rough as rats where he lives.

I am a lovely peaceful non-fighty person and I fully expect to get into some sort of hopefully non-bladed trouble if I commute by bicycle for long enough.

Calling people idiots or worse doesn’t get anyone anywhere.

Green looks nicer, but ivory goes better with your team kit.

As ever, being the authority on errrr, lots of things, sbz has a genuine point. I like to think that I would do just what he suggested if that sort of thing happened to our family.

But in the spirit of arguing on stw and that Fast-Show fighty clip Woppit posted earlier on:

a) she’s 14. If she is old enough to take herself to and from school with her own key to the house, when should she start thinking about locking a garage even if she thinks her folks are staying in? (Seriously, my eldest is seven. I don’t want to start her checking over her shoulder too early: what have other parents-of-teens done?) My wife lived minus either parent in a rented place (no garage, mind) shortly after her 16th birthday. At what age do we think policemen should start reminding young people of the need to lock up behind themselves?

b) this is hardly the moment to bring it up. Of course this challenging folk on the internet business is all a fun game to sbz, who often reminds us he is found by real people to be much nicer than this in real life, but it’s not really a game right now to monksie by the looks of it:

No one else to talk to at the moment so you lot will have to do.

grum, I am ‘grooming’ him to get a proper mountain bike so maybe he will crop up on here sometime. He is also doing interesting things as an engineer in the ‘stupidly-hi-spec-bearing’ industry now, so i look forward to him engaging in some entertaining argu-fests on here. 😀

My little brother did. About 5 years of in bed a lot, occasional ‘Andy Pipkin’ moments where he did loads of stuff really quickly in a couple of hours and then crashed for a week afterwards. Intellectually he was well ‘foggy’ for most of that time, he still had all his wit and faculties but a bit slow like when you are hungover and can’t think too clever even though you know you could. He recovered, did some access courses and just got a first in his B.Eng. You’d never know he was ever ill these days.

[edit] If you do turn out to have ME, having an understanding GP being able to stand up for yourself or having a partner/relative who will is very helpful. A friend has recently moved house and therefore GP’s, and is having the ‘there’s no such thing as that’ conversation with new doctor. There was a pretty good thread about this on here last year sometime, with a lot of interesting experiences and ideas about treatments/therapies, though i can’t remember what the title was if you wanted to search for it.

There is a notion out there (i forget who said it first) that insanity is only insanity if it bothers other people. (Otherwise it’s just part of life’s rich tapestry innit.)

Is anyone bothered?

Air: yes. But you’d need to get some travel spacers and have the air spring out and in bits.
Coil: nope.

hit the gnarly option lines.

😆

Interesting to see them ruling out a front derailleur altogether in favour of the ‘right’ geometry and tyre clearance.

‘House modifications’ soon to overtake job loss, death, divorce and moving house in the ‘stress charts’.

A mate’s recently had similar mind-changing and extraordinarily deep footings etc in his extension, cost about 35% more than planned in the end, most of which went to builder and kept him gainfully employed for an extra 3 months. His builder and his building standards officer/inpspector know each other very well from local boozer. 💡

It is all a conspiracy to keep estate agents (if it puts you off) and builders (if it doesn’t) in business. 👿

OMG.
Where shall we start?

I’ll start with the Daily Mail. 😆

I recently revived one of these for a mate:

You can’t really see in the picture but the ‘aerospace contour’ spoken on the frame stickers is that the (steel of course) seat tube is a bit squeezed in the middle. My mate’s also had a gold space shuttle on either side of the seat tube. I’d have bought it from him if it had been big enough for me…
[edit] isn’t flickr great? 😀

Oooooh, sit down Kebab dinner Elfin, get you with your posh city ways. 😀

Is/was there a kebab van at Silverstone? (I’ve never been.)

http://www.canfieldbrothers.com/the-chris-canfield-fund

(shamelessly lifted from a proper thread about him on the other side, made me think of this thread.) Didn’t see a Dan Atherton fund/appeal last year. 😕

petrieboy, cool as **** 😀

bikebouy – Member

Repeated thread, you know, the one that got closed down a few days ago..

I liked this thread when it was still about parents blacklegging a teachers’ strike. And to a lesser extent whether the good parentfolk of STW will be more annoyed about their children missing a day of education or their parents missing a day of free ‘childcare’*. (*wording of the chap the government wheeled out on radio 4, not necessarily my opinion).

Why do they always congregate around one table in a pub no matter how many of them there are?

Nurses do too. We are also plotting to undermine the fabric of society. HTH.

NUT chap on radio 4 this morning was suprisingly un-ranty. Particularly liked his response to the NUT’s strike ballot respone/turnout being akin to the AV referendum, (but with 92% ‘yes’ vote).

No mention of CRB/liability implications (discussed earlier in this thread) from the spokesperson they wheeled out cos Mr Gove was too busy. In backing up the parents-comeing-in-to-help idea he did however describe the functions of school as twofold, 1) education and 2) childcare.

I bet that will go down well.

“…could get passed further legislation…”

mmmmm, is this some sort of veiled comment about the coalition? ie conservatives would pass it themselves but they will have to win over at least one other party first…

I think the answer is “get further legislation passed”.
One gets one’s trousers mended by one’s tailor. etc.

I thought the diversion on skyline was like a very straight-line Swinley-on-a-damp-day. But free. 😀

Oooooh, big society in action innit?

I am assuming Mr Gove is referring to the small number of parents who already have been CRB checked to help out in the school: you are supposed to have a crb for each new ‘role’. I have an ‘enhanced’ one re-checked yearly and I work with some of the most vulnerable and messed with/up kids in the south west. But that doesn’t mean I can just show it to the headteacher of my childrens’ school and then volunteer there. And in the same way the headtecher can’t just turn up and mind the children where I work either. Last time I looked a CRB check (even for someone who has five or six clear ones from other jobs/roles) cost about £70.

Shimano or sram?

Only reasons I would consider 10 speed on a new build would be if the frame didn’t like triples (eg on-one whippet) or if I wanted shimano on a full sus with less ghost shifting (they didn’t make a song and dance about it presumably because sram have been doing it ‘right’ for years, but the cable pull ratio is now 1:1 on shimano 10 speed moutain bike shifting)

I still have 8 speed on my bullit beacuse its cheap and I don’t really pedal it all that much anyway.

yes, they are absurdly heavy. Mine was also great though, when i sold it on for some much lighter xt’s (I am not a breaker of components) the bearings were still well smooth and there was loads of lovely clean blue grease behind the outer bearing covers never mind worrying about the seals on the actual cartridge bearings inside.

Had a look at the bearing sizes? (wider than usual ht2 types iirc) You might be able to press new ones into the cups, a lot of your absurd replacement cost will be for outer seals with the stubby aluminium rings on, the cups and that mofo of a spindle, all of which are presumably fine on your broken one.

You could ask that ace rawk covers band to do ‘Welcome To The Jungle’ during the competition.

Oh, and yes. 😀

Berm Bandit – Member

Whereas, look how well we’re doing with all the ones we’ve elected instead

Agreed apart from two important points:

1) when we elect them its our decision
2) when we get it wrong we can change our mind

and:

3) Lahnderners seem to have elected Boris fair and square. The rest of us didn’t really elect the current lot though.

*runs away from thread and hides under ‘yes campaign’ duvet cover.*

deadlydarcy – Member

I have more respect for a nurse.

8)

[edit] did you have a particular nurse in mind? TJ is one too y’know… 😆

8 bearings iirc. Or what he said^ Given a healthy amount of time for disassembly, reassembly and headscratching, that’s still about 15 minutes to press each bearing out. 😯

Were any of the bearings falling apart? Even so, you’d have thought a bike shop would have a blind bearing puller for such eventualities.

Zulu-Eleven:

2 million students…..there’s about 2.5 million unemployed

….as i mentioned earlier, if NarrowMindedTrackWorld is the arbiter of objectivity, it is highly likely these 2 groups contribute a great deal in alcohol and tobacco duty. 😆

Should you be daft enought to both smoke 20 straights a day and buy it all in the uk, then my back of a fag packet sums (did you see what i did there?) suggest you contribute about £1100 per year to the government. Whether you happen to be on the sick, retired or a higher rate income tax payer. Lord knows how much per year a 30-40 units-per-week alcohol intake contributes, I guess that would vary wildly on how you buy your booze (duty varies on abv and booze type iirc) but this will also be the case regardless of how worthy of free health care some folk on this thread seem to think you are.

Unhealthy health-service-costing lifestyles are already quite well taxed in some areas, it’s just not been spent (by any government whatever flavour 👿 ) in the right places.

highly likely thet are all from the same factory just painted a different colour.

FWIW I have had good ssc pads and also falling apart ones, and similarly falling apart ‘imperial’ branded ones: I expect there was a bad batch from which both brands pads were made, and I wonder whether quality is exactly the same on every production run when you are building to that price.

Any chance of getting anyone else to babysit? (i suppose the only reason we get out together a bit more often than you is the abundance of folk we can ask.)

I hope my MIL doesn’t read stw, she is babysitting so we can go to a gig soon. Not Take That though!

I have a morvelo t-shirt (the glow in the dark moth one) in large that covers my large size belly in much the same way a large gildan or fruit-of-the-loom does, if that’s any help.

I dimly recall SBZ having posted a few other ‘I don’t get on too well with my mother-in-law’ threads before. Do you have a history of sorting things out with her? How have comparable ‘issues’ been resolved/not resolved before?

No advice to offer that hasn’t already been posted, but how different would the replies be if SBZ had just said ‘gig’ rather than who the ‘artists’ are? 😆

BTW, 4 years, 😯 .

how many of us pays £2000 a year in total taxes ?

Heavy drinkers and smokers, easily, without bringing council or income tax into it.

Despite my bleeding heart leftism, I still quite like the idea of having personal responsibility in what your life choices are likely to cost in terms of health care.

Why not tax the crap out of unhealthy life choices for a start? Ie drinking, smoking, road traffic collisions and drugs. Oh, that’s right we already do on the first three.

Duty on alcohol, tobacco and fuel is already huge but most of it ends up nowhere near healthcare (or indeed the safety/quality of roads and policing their safe use). Wouldn’t solve the defecit but would mean booze duty pays for the illness it caused etc. (I mentioned taxing drugs but that is a whole other debate!)

Genuiinely interesting points re: ‘tailoring’ your cover depending on what you are or aren’t likely to need treatment for, so i guess if you don’t have children and live a very healthy ‘straight edge’ lifestyle you don’t need to subsidise fat, boozy or smoky folk.

LHS has managed not to mention the money that US medical ‘invests’ in loss adjusters, whose work entirely consists of trawling through patients/claimants policies, personal and family histories with the express aim of making claims ‘ineligible’ and not paying out for their treatment. These people are not employed to make sure the premiums of honest (as in when they apply for insurance with regards to their medical histories) healthy folk are kept low, they are employed to maximise the profits of the insurer.

Don’t get cancer, type 2 diabetes, mental health, respiratory, heart, liver or kidney problems as these people will work day and night to find a way of not paying for your care.

It’s a few months since I took tools up against my mate’s lyric, but i seem to remember the foot nut on the damper side being the same size as on the 32mm forks. Might be worth borrowing one from a recon/pike/reba/revelation to see if it fits.

[edit] or take geetee up on his kind offer ^^ and check the springy ring thing on the foot nut, which if too loose will let that one fall off too…

don simon – Member

Sadly, julianwilson, there is no irony.

indeed.

1) Someone posted an article from America on here a few months ago about how we support who we support whatever happens. (bit blunt, but the idea was that basically if you are raised a lefty you will always find fault with the righties and default to voting lefty because at the very least you consider them the best of a bad lot.)

So by that reckoning, Cameron would have to be outed as the leader of a crypto-fascist chicken-worrying ring before you get put off voting Conservative. (Or against Labour under FTPT 😉 )

2) There is a lot going on right now that wasn’t in Lib Dem or Conservative manifestos just 13 months ago. [edit] I will not be at all suprised when someone posts up all the things noolab did ‘out of manifesto’ within a year of election/re-election, they were just as, errrr, ‘driven’. [/edit]

I wouldn’t bother reading the manifestos next time either: just vote with your heart. 😕

on yeti asr-sl with rp3, rarely, and often forget if its on or off.
on sc bullit with dhx5, never.