is the Archbishop bringing politix into religion better or worse than elected politicians who bring religion into politix? (i’m thinking US really rather than UK.)

We need a written doctrine of separation of church and state.

Alas, our constitution is all wrapped up. Queen chooses government, is head of armed forces and head of church of England. Parish councils divided by churches not population/demographics. And I just wouldn’t know where to start with the variety of reasons people are in the Lords. We would have to give up a great deal of what we as a nation are used to in order to effectivley separate church and state.

Surrounded By Zulus – Member

It disgusts me that there is such a thing as a Christian MP Committee.

Local lore has it that the reason ‘Our Gary’ switched to conservatism from being an SDP councillor when he first stood for parliament so that he could do God’s work as quickly as possible, ie by joining the party which was most likely to have a parliamentary majority. The ironing of course being that he is still conservative despite not having a parliamnetary majority for nigh on 15 years. History points for first person to post who famously first ‘switched teams’ also for Jesus. 😀 {edited for historical accuracy, i always remembered him as a conservative coucillor round here when i was younger, forgot how recently it was he changed political flavour}

Nun of the above.

boom tish 😀

Gary Streeter was just on Radio 4 (my local my, woooh!) with his ‘Christian MP’s committee’ hat on, slinging mud back at the Archbishop. Weak party political response clearly directed by Cameron IMO.

Trailmonkey: 😆

My first thought too 😀

OP, 😯 what a nug. (the driver, not you!)

Out of interest, does anyone know whether the ‘quiet word’ from the police has to take place at the driver’s home? Of course a reg plate will only provide the home address of the registered keeper, so police aren’t going to know where else to look.

But what about people who drive company cars and vans like idiots? Vehicle will be registered to lease company/employer before you get to who the vehicle is allocated to, non? (we have logs in the glovebox for our pool cars you would have either ring the manager or visit work and look at the log to find who was driving it at any one time) I think being asked for and spoken to by the police at your workplace with all your colleagues making Kenneth Williams ‘ooooh!’ faces would be a pretty good deterrent to making a speactacle of yourself in a work/company vehicle again! And for persistent offenders with own car but workplace known to police, would you be able to speak to the at workplace just for the extra ‘shame in front of peers’ deterrent factor? (assuming your colleagues are not also macho-murderous cyclist-mowers)

this thread is useless without lanesra.

depends on the gubbins inside. But otherwise very similar. In the rather excellent sram/rockshox service manual the sections for service are with a couple of exceptions divided by gubbins (various permutations of air/coil spring, turnkey, motion control, mission control, blackbox) as opposed to size of stanchion. So should all be pretty familiar.

even sticking a curtain up behind my passenger seat makes a huge huge difference

to the handling?

To the love life. If the van’s rocking don’t come knocking.

you can’t see the angry motorists and coutryside passing sideways in the rear view mirror. 😆

my mate’s bike is always gopping: didn’t stop his juicy 3’s leaking at levers and pumping out/locking up within 20 months of brand new boxed from lbs purchase. But they were j3’s mind….

But the amount of gt85 some folk spray around their bikes its no wonder the seals go funny sometimes.

‘Old’ shape shimano: between our household and other mates’ bikes, we have never had any trouble with them. “Them” being: m525, m765, m800, m535, m585. Dead easy to bleed (top down like a car or bottom up with a syringe if you prefer) and don’t seem to have the nooks and crannies that newer shimano levers and calipers have that hide air bubbles and keep them spongey, and because they use mineral oil you only need to bother bleeding if you have to replace a part. They seem to be better on pad wear than any avids or formulas I have had.

Of course the performance is not up there with correctly working elixirs or formula, but if you want to fit and forget…

join local club = 10% discount on parts and accessories round our way, club/shop varies (ie one shop does a discount for one club and another for another and so on….)

Your lbs can order one from madison who will more than likely hold ample stock awaiting individual spares orders. It is also quite likely that the full rrp you will pay for the lever alone will make buying a whole new-but-discounted brake for the spare caliper, hose and pads very tempting too.

randomjeremy – Member

Cougar my eyes are unfortunately drawn to your witless horseshit excuses for posts, does that count?

…you missed the one where the crawling baby (I estimate only 15 months younger than your neice) took the socket blocker off then? Playdough in a plug socket will be just one of many household ‘blemishes’ when you have a crawling-or-better child in the house. Stock up on cheap dvd players and forget your carpets for a start. 😆

my daughter got stung by a wasp the one before last, and then threw up in the hire car on the way home. Do I have a claim? 😉

randomjeremy – Member

Yes it’s really likely that a small child will remove a socket blocker, have the strength and dexterity to break it, then reinsert only the longest pin to uncover the other two, then stick something in there Oh STW, never change.

randomjeremy, is that any harder or easier than bypassing the pre-existing inbuilt safety device by any other means though? I think the risk of rusk/plasticene etc mucking up the socket is prevented by the use of a socket blocker but electrocution seems an equally complex and circuitous task (did you see what i did there?) whichever way you or a toddler tries it.
However in my experience, gaps in floorboards/skirting, vcr’s and the good old catflap are far more interesting and entertaining targets for posting/gumming up behaviour.

The uk socket design blocks itself. Although not against rusk or wax crayon to be fair. The socket blocker provides the potential means to unblock access to the live and earth (ie dangerous) bits by breaking or inverting the socket blocker and using the perfectly shaped earth ‘pin’ for bypassing the earth pin safety gubbins. IIRC igm works in in the trade so i expect he has some real research/info as opposed to my own inept-dad fiddling experience.

re: sockets, it’s to do with the gubbins that blocks off the holes until the longer earth ‘pin’ of a plug is inserted. If you have ever tried putting a euro plug straight into a uk 3 pin socket (you can’t just shove it straight in) you will see how hard it is to electrocute yourself by inadvertenly putting a finger into one. A toddler will need to work out how to get something long into the earth ‘hole’ to get past the flaps to live and earth holes, and have the dexterity to do both at the same time. By using a plastic socket blocker you are doing that bit already, or providing a handy tool which can be removed and used upside down to open the flaps to live and earth (which is of course one way to bodge a euro plug into a 3 pin socket 😳 )

Google it!

(it’s ace btw)

Did you grease the pleastic spacers too? My first ht2 squeaked when it was dry and not when it was raining, took me ages to isolate and cure it. Also ‘dry’ pedal threads can sound like a squeaky bb.

The icetoolz/lifu socket one has a bit in the middle that is too wide for the left hand cup of gxp bb’s. But unlike the shimano or park spanner type ones, it does allow you to correctly torque your bb if that’s your thing. In that respect it’s actually better if you have shimano bb’s than the shimano one. 😕

…and i couldn’t work it out from the replay but Warner at one point suggested that Joost the Boost might have thrown his bike after he went down?

naaaah, watched it again, i think it was poetic licence on Warner’s part.

It was ace wasn’t it. My 5 year old opted to watch it with me in lieu of bedtime story too 😀

That crazy pass right to left (as the camera looked back up) the rock garden was awesome, i forget who that was (also marossi?).
…and i couldn’t work it out from the replay but Warner at one point suggested that Joost the Boost might have thrown his bike after he went down? ❓

You really ought to try a few on.
THE One is really really nicely made, as is the 661 evolution in my experience. (btw the evolution has a clip like an xc lid, most others have d-rings like a motorbike helmet if you are fussy about that sort of thing) I’ve never been convinced of the need for carbon over fibreglass given the usual 100% price hike for a given helmet design. Most £100+ fibreglass helmets are pretty light anyway, and i just can’t believe that carbon fibre, glue and the time/skills to work with it makes 100% price difference over hand-laid fibreglass when the inner polystyrene, pads, straps, paintjob/finishing is the same, and the overheads for transport/distribution are too. 😕

If it was me buying a helmet again, and if i knew it would fit well I would see how cheap I could find a ‘normal’ THE One out of that lot. Troy lee d2 is well nice if you can find it for that sort of money too.

Kato – Member

None whatsoever in 20 years

Maybe i’m not trying hard enough

+1. All I’ve ever actually broken was a quill stem in 1993 and cracked a rear rim on an ‘unexpected’ square edge the other week. Must try harder.

On the basis that it was a new fork and you haven’t messed with it in the 9 months you’ve had it, is it worth a warranty claim?

Is it/was it new? Have you/has someone else ever changed the damping oil?

Given that the air spring rod goes in further than the damper one, my money’s on there being too much oil in the top of the right leg. I had this on a reba once and i rode and indeed raced it about five times before i even realised i wasn’t getting full travel. 😳 Oil volume is ‘critical’ (rockshox’s wording!) on motion control dampers. Look up the oil volume on the sram/rockshox website servicing pdf, take off the right side top cap, remove the damper and empty the oil (tip it upside down and leave to drain as there may be a couple of cc lurking behind the reboundn damper seal head). Then use a syringe or similarly super-accurate measuring device to refill. Before you put the lowers back on, check to see of the damper rod goes any further in than it did before.

Excellent course as usual. That big bomhole and the curly bits after it were proper funny. No, actually the whole course was really fun.

-Did anyone else think the climbs were all a bit less ‘climby?’ Or am i just fitter this year?

Mrs J and I shouted midlandstrailquestgraham on with his shorter name (ie ‘Graham’) a couple of times, he looked pleasantly suprised that someone he didn’t know would remember the Vegan Cyclist. I am sure mrs J will talk falafel with you (and animal rights ‘at you’) next year Graham.

best bodge er, workaround i’ve seen this year, well done Rob.

thte’s that urban myth abouth the japanese fella who rode all round london between the yellow lines thinking it was the cycle lane…

Mrs julian and I will be doing it as a pair 😯 so expect to see me stamping around the transition area looking at split times on my watch and telling her off when she gets in 90 seconds late. 😆

2nd time for her and 3rd for me, even in the mud last year it was a huuuuuuugely fun course. Not much in the way of rocks, most of the climbing held up well under rain (they shut off and rerouted one 300m bit last year) and just loads and loads of fun slidey/dusty (depending on weather!) rooty singletrack. I think the year before last (when it was 100% dry and dusty) was still the best race course I’ve ever done. Ever. Lots and lots of space between riders after the first lap, as there are enough long doubletracky bits to string riders out, and the number of ‘riders per km’ of lap is still the best out there.

Proper looking forward to it 😀

1m wide bar

oh, and there is a bit near the end of the lap which you will really struggle to get through with bars wider than 700mm. Especially if its wet.

Aaaah…. “have you got any questions?” was always my last secret ‘unscoreable’ question to interviewees. And a candidate that rang to talk about the job or have a look round before the interview was always much more promising: if they didn’t have anything else to ask at the end it was because we had already talked about it before the interview.

As the interviewer I hoped to be asked about training/development and our team’s own style or technique (this would be in a beardy therapy sense for my team, but i guess every workplace/team has a particular thing for a particular way of working/technique in what they ‘deliver’ as a product or service). Try not to sound too much more clever than your interviewer if you do this though: whether they are aware of this procerss or not, a crap interviewer/boss is likely to be reluctant to appoint someone who they fear will show them up.

Good luck!

mightymarmite – Member

Cane Creek Headset £39.99 …now £156.99

Thankyou to whoever it was who posted the link on here !!!!

8)

as above, depends where you are planning on going. Blurb on Dartmoor National Park website would suggest they are fairly cool about it.

them there yellow mavic ones would set your LVIS kit off a treat 😀

But yeah, you’ll still be expected tio be a bit quick.

My mum was just like you, ie raised as own child by stepdad. She only found out he wasn’t her dad when she was 18 in a row with a cousin, her mum dad and elder brothers (well, stepbrothers) had all felt it was better she never knew. 😕

Even at age 78, and 59 years after boyfriend knocked her up and left town overnight, her mum still won’t speak about it to anyone, literally clams up, changes the subject or leaves if anyone tries to raise it. Mum found lots out from her uncles and stepbothers, but never managed to track him down. Not sure what she would do if she ever did.

palak paneer, mmmmmmmmmm….

I remember a Famous five book from my youth, where the dog was usurped by an actual fifth person, and then because of the odd number, my namesake Julian had to keep chastising the rest of the group for going three abreast on a jolly trip out cycling. So I am with Blyton on this one. 8)

1st vinyl single bought for me as a 6 year old: ‘Love and Pride’ -King
1st I bought for myself: ‘I am The resurrection’ 8)

1st Vinyl Album: ‘Rust in Peace’ (picture disc, no less) Megadeth
1st CD single: ‘Hangar 18-also Megadeth
1st CD Album ‘Badmotorfinger’ -Soundgarden
1st gig (as opposed to crap band in pub) Pantera+Megadeth, Plymouth Pavillions 1993ish.

I think I must have been a bit of a metalhead as a lad. Not really now.

captiancarbon, what clinic-ing do you do and what terrible thing did you ask your patient? [edit] oooh, crossed posts, you seem to ave replied up there^^.

Like most of the mental health workers on here, (and indeed a&e or ambulance ones too i expect) I have a sizeable list of assaults on my person of varying degrees of scary, painful, ridiculous or hilarious.

IMHO, however, you haven’t been a proper clinician of any sort until you’ve had a nice hard poo thrown at you.

I like the bike in the video.

lock looks nice too.
It would seem to be $130 delivered to the yookay plus whatever import duty though.

If their blurb is to be believed then a pretty tough lock.

Hopefully if it takes off then someone will import these rather than customs faff from USA.