Not unlike someone with an Apollo slagging someone with an S Works bike

😆 I’d say s-works = M3 not 335d. Yours would be about ‘pro’ level in specialized money, nein? 😉

Shirley the dambusters music is ‘Daaah’ or even ‘Baaah’, not ‘Naah’?

nice quiet sunday for you then Drac. 😆

LoCo, that video is ace: he even has full mudguards and a basket. Rad!

Yes and no:
-if they invoiced you through paypal and you paid the normal (ie seller has some fees to pay out of what you sent) then you do have some protection. There are plenty ‘legit’ transcations that have nothing to do with ebay and still take place using paypal, (i use ‘proper’ not gifty paypal for selling records on Discogs for example).

-but ebay get very funny about sales outside of ebay; if they find out the sale was inspired using ebay but conducted without them creaming a further 10% off in final value fees then the seller will have some very difficult questions to answer, if notyou as well for agreeing to it.

However if i was going to circumvent ebay final value fees by going outside ebay, I would not dick the buyer about for fear of getting ratted on to paypal/ebay and getting my ebay account suspended.

So on balance, i wouldn’t worry. Some sellers are honest but just not on the computer all day or even once a day…

I thoght this was going to be a thread about pasties (for this is what ‘Vitamin P’ means down here).

That is a marmite of a colour, psychle! Personally I think its ace!

-1 for applewood too. Double gloucester and red leicester will also be unimpressive to a Frenchie.

+1 for some nice welsh soft goats cheese. I proper loves it!
This ‘ere Berkswell cheese also looks really nice.

Rindy sheep cheese, mmmmmmmm.

Alas, I found out about Berkswell on my favourite totally unbiased cheese-opedia http://www.univers-fromages.com which also suggests that you will never win a cheese-off against The Motherland France. 😈

Well obsolete here.
Gears: 3×9, 3×8, 1×8, 1×1.
Cranks: ht2 xt on 3, and square taper on 4th.
All headtubes are 1.125″. Oddly, the oldest one is the semi-integrated one.
I have never even sat on a gravity dropper seatpost.
Forks: 09, 07, 05 and rigid.
Brakes all circa 2006 apart from ancient v brakes.
One bike has an oversize stem/bars, the others all obsolete 25.4mm.
Inner tubes throughout.

It makes my bikes, oooh, 2-3lbs heavier than their new equivalents in terms of price and ‘purpose’, but also made them and spares for them affordable. Basically if I tried to keep right up to date with latest bikes and technologoes with my disposable income, I would have a crappy commuter plus one xc bike as opposed to fs xc, singlespeeed and freeride bikes I have at the moment. This way works for me.

pound a pint nights were de rigeur when i was a younger man.

Cheapest proper (ie not watered and served in a glass glass!) pint in a proper pub when i started drinking would have been about £1.35 for courage mild in about 1994.

My lovely hall bar at leicester uni still used only pint and half pint mugs when i lived there. Nobody liked guinness extra cold when it came in iirc. (95-96).

I heard that the hologram band thingy can improve your winningness in this field of competition by up to umpteen percent.

bazzer – Member

Dirt is OK sometimes, again sounds like a porn mag though

indeed; my subs copy comes in the post in an opaque grey wrapper with just my address, subscriber number and ‘dirt’ written on it. I bet genuine grot-by-post also looks just like this to the postman. 😕

Wolves, innit.

And Plymouth Argyle away kit from a coupkle of seasons ago:

Bed (and tools!) in Plymouth right near sustrans network and main road here Nick. I might even be tempted to ride/heckle a bit with you. Plymouth to Penzance is a loooooong and hilly 120 miles to try in one day though!

Yum! Its a USA Highway One Telecaster, as opposed to the more expensive USA ‘standard’ telecaster. Ebay completed items search would suggest they sell for £300-400 and don’t sell if you ask £450+ for them.

If you are a very beginning beginnner, get someone who knows how its supposed to play and sound to have a look with you. As electric guitars go it will be easy to fix but, every so often you come across one that someone has set up to play like a rusty banjo…

Used to hear Concorde same time every night in Devon too. Quite a boom to be heard from Bristol Channel but then quite an aircraft i suppose.

I am sure that the Big Society will lead to a car sharing utopia in the capital where the benevolent rich will relieve the strain on public transport by picking up their less fortunate brethren in the is400 and dropping them outside their workplaces. It will all be fine!

I think ernie was being ironicalist.

MH rehab patients sorry, customers will be the last to complain about the rubbish deal that happens to their services (often because the insight they don’t have into their lifestyles means they don’t always believe that they need them) and the last in the queue for the polling booth to vote for change about it. All too many people that needthis sort of help are ‘dealt with’ by the criminal justice system or rough sleepers already.

+1 to all the above. Social work is in no way compatible with current local authority cuts or indeed nhs ones if you end up in older persons or mental health. Pay, caseloads and stress will only get worse for the next few years.

Volontary sector ‘social care’ (as opposed to training as and being a social worker) may not be as bad and quite rewardingn in comparison, but be prepared to be at the mercy of numerous changes in funding, commissioning, legislation and indeed the changes to statutory health and social care funding and and administration over the next few years too.

Still, the big society will sort all that out won’t it? 😕

mates’ specialized epics (yes 2) came with juicy ultimates, x9 shifters, x0 rear mech and a deore cassette. Any weight saving from the first three parts immediately scrubbed out by the fourth then?

£30 for a day of non-medicine physiological/psychological stuff? Maybe.

£30 for a vaccine? No way!

Mrs Julian and I would have entered with our fab idea of spending our daughter’s birthday with her and then doing the torchbearer as a pair after she went to bed.

But no torchbearer this year. 🙁 🙁 and furthermore 🙁

Alfabus, this is how i feel about casualty and holby…. 🙁

How long before they make an on-the-fly adjustable version you can move in and out without stopping? 😆
Yes this is daft, but how daft did some people think gravity droppers were at first? And bionicon bikes?

If i thought a 100mm forked stiff as hell arse-up race bike was the alpha and omega of mountain biking, I would probably give up and get a cyclocross bike. A scale may not be everyone’s cup of tea! I think if he sells it to fund a steel hardtail or trail centre mountain warrioring 140mm flux/helcker/five he’ll fit right in here 😉

mrs wilson was waiting with a chilly 66cl peroni on the finish line of the one i did the other week. 😀

collection also means cash and so no paypal fees. And the buyer can moan about the condition of it whilst its in your house not after the delivery men or buyer’s toddlers have ruined it!

thanks for bringing it up though, most relevant

the stars’n’stripes one was a monster old thread, did you really think no-one would remember? 😆

I reckon you could do a lot worse than digging about a bit to find a cheaper shipping method which is also secure for the seller (ie tracked and insured) and suggesting it to them. As with your shifters, a saving in shipping to you is also a 5% saving in paypal fees to the seller too ie damage limitation if they thought they would get more for the frame.

Might be worth bearing in mind that we might enjoy better value for money on parcels etc here than in switzerland. (£30+25 insurance for a spangly frame from here to switzerland comapres with 80 euros th opoosite way round.) Every so often I get international buyers query my overseas post, and I have to link them to the relevant royal mail page to show them I am giving them a genuine postage cost.

-It may hurt.
-It will be very very muddy indeed.
-Drink lots before and after race, it would seem that drinking during is not cool 😕 (i think gels are ‘allowed’?)
-Look up running dismounts online, and practice them in the park.
-don’t expect to be able to ride everything, sometimes its easier and fatser to get off and run.
-the racing line is often the one with the most traction and least gloop even if it is not the most direct way round.
-expect to come last, everyone will be well fit, most of them are roadies and have fitness at the expense of a life 😉
-bring your bc licence and pay a bit less to enter usually.

Psychle, I hope you’re taking the pee:

Have sent the buyer an invoice for payment, £129 inc £40 for DHL Europlus insured to £200… he’ll have them next week, fingers crossed they’re going to a good home…

recent shipping quote for screaming bargain ebay retro loveliness. Only your oops, that one was probably a quarter the weight, a quarter the price and a twentieth the parcel size.

If you really want it stop moaning and cough up.

[edit] 3 thoughts:
1) shoulda negotiated shipping before you bid? Especially on a something as large as a frame.
2) was it an auction? Was the seller hoping for a little more?
3) is this seller also used to one method of shipping and hasn’t really looked at all cheaper options?
2)

Mitch, once you’re admittted, just walk round reception area with ‘little Mitch’ on display and you’ll get a single room to yourself too. Seems to be the order of things in our local unit. 😆

no sarcasm smiley needed grum, I took it as intended.

Just explaining the reality behind the spin. No cuts to the NHS is a breeze if you farm most of it out to social enterprise/local authority managment isn’t it?

Surrounded By Zulus – Member

Do they not have to place you elsewhere in the NHS?

None of our local mental health sevices will be NHS come April. Yes, we will have an NHS logo but funded/managed very differently.

No cuts to nhs is a complete myth.

There have always been cuts planned, the breakup of the Strategic Health Authorities and Primary Care trusts was on its way beginning of this year regardless of the outcome of the general election, and there is also a further (Con/Dem) white paper on ‘restructuring’ (ie cuts) which is going through at the same time. The timing of the breakup of PCT’s and the ‘streamlining’ of services at the same time is complete madness and would be a far better use of your taxes if they were done at least a year apart, but this is un-newsworthy, so therefore is quietly batteld via high court challenges from the (shudders) unions rather than making the papers.

I feels for barnsleymitch, having had my old (NHS mental health) service closed with five days notice even back in the ‘well funded’ days of the early noughties (i was redeployed thank goodness) this is a hugely uncertain time, but there will be hundreds more similar teams and stories in the coming months.

There was a thread somewhere else on here the other day about your seller treefingers. Just do a search on his name. It reads as though he is slow rather than crooked, if you know what I mean.

Oh and if it is the same as my £35 one and you want it for bike things don’t bother, it only ‘goes’ down to 5nm on the scale and feels veeeery loose and probably incaaurate for anything below 10-12nm. I only use mine for crank bolts and car stuff now.

Further to the cable cutter thread, i wouldn’t be suprised to see that the aldi £12.99 one was the same as other rebranded £30-35 ones. Which are still bottom of the range, granted….

[edit] oh, just had a look.

It looks identical to my icetoolz one from crc which was £35-ish a few years ago. Except it comes with some extra bits/sockets.

Shimano model numbers end in a 0 for low clamp and 1 for high clamp.

Pictures are usually angled the right way to tell as well.

Clockwise from top, low, e-type and high mounts.

I find yellow is best for me in low light as opposed to dark. Never worked out why, (surely it should be darker if any light whatsoever is filtered out by lense colour?) but in a back-to-back swap round in the woods its definitely nicer than clear lenses or none at all.

Nice glasses for the money too.

cynic-al – Member

poof

Aye.

I rode my sks’ed up commuter down a horse-churned bridleway recently, it was ace how dirty i wasn’t at the end.

mate of a mate got rage waiting for his kids procrastinating about going out, shoes, coats etc. Took a kick at the miniature toy dyson vacuum cleaner, which suprised all present by breaking through the sliding patio door window. Now a well known phrase amongst our collective friends is ‘to kick the dyson’ ie to lose your rag.

My aunt nearly got run over/into on a zebra crossing and smooth as you like she flipped her (folded) umbrella upside down and broke a headlight on the car with the handle. Lord knows how, I couldn’t do it if I had a run up!