If you want food and not walking then magpie fish and chip shop or bothams tea rooms for an olde fashionde victorian type afternoon tea.

Or you coould spend an hour or two walking and looking for fossils on the beach (the one below the cliffs on the Abbey side) – plenty of ammenites to find.

Some good biking on the moors as well.

whats a maxle :oops: is it just a fatter stronger quick release? Not sure i ride that gnarly to justify that, i’ve never broken a normal hub or anything.

according to the website, the current ones just have RL shock, not RP23 as standard

they’re mostly rocks, they’ll be fine :D

Damn that steel hearted cow, she ripped the heart out of the kids ice lolly industry too!

i’ll have another look see if i can clamp lower down, i think i tried this but frame bulges a bit more lower down due to large BB area (carbon frame) and theres also the exit ‘bulge’ where the internal cable routing for the front mech leaves the frame.

db – moving the arm mount didnt help because the horizontal distance between the ideal downtube clamping spot and the front hub (which is directly above where the wheel tray strap tightens) remains constant even if i move the arm along the rail.

Unfortunately for my road bike the front hub (and therefore the ratchet strap position) is nearly directly above the arm mount on the tray of the carrier, so even if i move the arm mount i then have to move the wheel holder and it ends up in the same position.

Probably not the best explanation!

I just wondered if there was some other adjustment on the carrier i was missing. I’ll try clamping in a different position on the down tube.

Does it matter if the wheel strap is a bit forward of the front hub? Doesnt look as secure to my eye when i do this but i’m not sure how much load these straps really take, i guess they are just to stop the bike lifting at the front or back and stopping it coming out of the try.

Edit – you beat me to it db!

Beresfords, up the hill a bit from bowness (or down the hill a bit from Windermere :-) )

If you go before 7 (or might be 6) theres a cheaper menu deal.

its my local restaurant, never had a bad meal there yet.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Beresfords+Restaurant+%26+Pub+Ltd,+Beresford+Road,+Windermere&hl=en&ll=54.366771,-2.916055&spn=0.005601,0.013797&sll=54.367946,-2.913888&sspn=0.005913,0.013797&z=16

Its not actually where that map pin is, its on the corner of the main road and beresford road.

is ‘scale ivy intake’ (where video says it was filmed) up on Claife heights somewhere? I reckon thats where i’ll go to watch it.

not sure of times yet, i havent seen a programme yet either. It’s flying at the Southport airshow on sat as well at 4.20pm so i’d guess it’ll head there straight after windermere… so sometime mid afternoon for the windermere display probably. (Unless it does Southport first!)

theres just been a Jet Provost looping round over the lake for about 10 mins, must be getting their routine ready for the weekend!

i found the garmin routing to be a bit strange, was a few years ago, but it seemed to pick odd ways to get to places which were a lot slower than the more obvious route. (even with changing the settings to quickest route etc). Tom Tom routing seemed much better (in my opinion)

what about orange 5 or Blur LT?

ernie_lynch: current owner has died, and estate is being sold by his son who doesnt really know!

PeterPoddy: So how do i know if it needs emptying, do i just take the manhole cover off and see how full it is? I’ll probably get it emptied anyway if its not too expensive, then at least i know its sorted.

C02 inflator always seats my tyres, cant do it with a track pump.

Van Halen –

any idea of the cost of a domestic asbestos survey? (3 bed bungalow, garage underneath) £250, £500. £1000?!

Hmmm.

Was just wondering about options for a house i’m thinking of buying. Its on oil at the moment (no mains gas anywhere near) and i knew there are grants / RHI payments available, but just wondered what total installed costs could be.

Anyone know if LPG is much cheaper than oil?

i’ve found in general that aftermarket rings (used FSA, midleburn, TA) are ok for outer and granny, but for the middle ring nothing shifts as good as shimano ones. Maybe its because the middle ring has to deal with shifts to and from larger and smaller rings.

mc – yeah its for a wood stove… i’m guessing willow spits a lot then?.

Timber – cheers, i’ll look into Ash and sycamore as well.

thanks for all the other replies as well, there’s no end to the fountain of knowledge on STW :lol:

if your mech wont take the cassette, just fit an mtb rear mech (doesnt need to be 10 speed, as the indexing is all done in the shifters)

cheers everyone :-)

oops sorry i meant dry cleaners place not laundrette! Its not dry cleaned though just put in their massive machines. Washing is the easy bit, its the drying that is key, need a big machine and takes quite a while.

Was only £6.50 at my local cleaning place, a bargain and much easier than doing it yourself.

laundrette for me as well, came back good as new, still lofts really well and toasty warm.

are the Lavazza / illy espresso coffees ground fine enough to make espresso with a nice crema at home?

I want an espresso machine but cant afford that and a decent grinder at the moment. I know it wont taste as fresh if i use the preground stuff but just wondered if they still give ok results and a nice crema?

lol @ captainflasheart

edric64 – yeah that sounds a good answer to me! The things you learn on STW :-)

big tall jug, put kippers in and pour boiling water in, cover with a plate and leave for 6-7 mins, then pour out the water and eat :-)

Might need to do the boiling water bit again after 5 mins if you have lots of kippers in the jug or if they are really fat ones.

Stops the kitchen smelling of kippers if you do it this way.

cheers.

looks fairly straightforward. Is there anyway apple can find out a phone is jailbroken, eg through itunes next time i sync?

And if there is an iphone operating system update, can i still do the update? I guess i then need to wait for a new jailbreak for the updated apple software?

its on a PC

hmmm dont know if i need an unlock. It’ll be on Orange but i only want to jailbreak it so i can run a better homescreen with appointments etc showing on it. I’m not planning on using it on another network.

Do i have to unlock it first before it can be jailbroken? Is there a good site for info, i found one a few weeks ago which had loads of advice but cant remeber what it was now!

well the sites i looked on said that there was quite a bit of orange stuff that couldnt be deleted, and that these use up quite a bit of the internal memory. Also they said quite a lot of orange stuff is constantly running in the background and slows the phone down (+ battery life reduction) compared to a normal one.

Most of the people posting on the phone forums though are pretty techy geeky types (not being nasty there, just trying to describe them!) so i’m not sure if the branding is an issue to normal users or not.

I’m just curious as i’ve had a heavily branded orange HTC phone in the past where they basically turned a nice manufacturers home screen into an ugly mess. It was possible to revert to the manufacturers screen though, and i’m wondering if you can do this on the Desire.

No they don’t. Winter/snow and mud tyres by definition have much deeper treads with wider grooves than normal tyres. When cornering on snow free roads these treads will flex significantly reducing your actual mechanical grip. Amount of mechanical grip is directly proportional to amount of tread in contact with the road

ah but the rubber in normal tyres hardens with cold temps, whereas winter tyres use a softer compound which is more pliable at low temps and grips better. Well thats what a lot of the literature online says! I dont really rag it around in winter or summer though so i cant say i really notice the limits of cornering grip so i might be wrong.

When the roads you are using are clear, winter tyres are noisier, increase fuel consumption and reduce cornering grip

i’ll agree with the first two points (but only marginal increases) but in cold temps on snow free roads i think winter tyres give more grip.

I’d love to fit a 2nd set of wheels with snow tyres to my car but at the moment its cost prohibitive (£1400 for wheels then another £1200 for winter tyres )

r-kid, have you priced steel wheels instead of alloys? look on mytyres as they do tyre and steel rim packages, and the steel rims work out pretty cheap. Obviously depends what car you have though!

a few things i’d point out (some already mentioned above)

– snow tyres are better in general once temp gets below 7 degrees, ie more grip on cold dry roads, cold wet roads and snow.

– for the UK i’d get a winter tyre that scores well for all round conditions (see tyretest.com or tyrereviews.co.uk) not just excelling at snow

– although you have to buy an extra set, it saves wear on the summer tyres for 4-5 months so the extra cost isnt really that much

-an insurance claim (excess + higher premiums) or even a slight dent fixed in a bodyshop as a result of a snowy slide will probably cost you nearly as much as a winter set of tyres.

– If you have big alloys with lo pro tyres its best to go down a size if you can. See mytyres for rubber on steel rims. The rims + tyres i got for 16″ were cheaper than just the tyres for 17″!

– get them now!!! The prices on mytyres have been slowly increasing over the last few weeks. All the european countries will be buying tyres now, and the best performing ones get snapped up first. Leave it too long and you’ll pay much higher prices for the popular ones, or be left with crappy far east budget versions!

i wish the iphone had something that would let you see appointments / to do’s / memos on the home screen.

My HTC typhoon (windows mobile) i had 4 yrs ago could do that, as can my cheapo nokia now. But on an apple iphone? Sorry no can do unless you jailbreak it.

I think the iphone smart bit of kit with a great camera and design, but without that feature or other homescreen info widgets like the desire they will probably lose a sale from me. (am currently undecided iphone / desire but now leaning more towards the desire)

I would love to rellocate (not as straight forward as it should be) but have never quite got my head around what people do to make a living in places like this (aside from being involved with the tourist trade).

well apart from the tourist stuff like B&B’s, outdoor shops and tourist attractions theres all the nomal jobs – police / fire / ambulance, teachers, chefs, architects, designers, forestry workers, stone masons, quarry workers, doctors, dentists, engineers, IT workers, etc etc. Obviously not as many as in a big city but still all the normal jobs / trades

was thinking if i’m just after a coffee and browsing, or waiting at an airport / station for a while. I could browse on 3g, but its less frustrating on a faster wifi connection.

cheers everyone, i’ll go get a 2nd chain today (just put one on last month) and try the chain swapping thing then :-)

i tried windows movie maker but the final image quality wasnt very good wheni played it back on the tv – Much worse than if i stream from the laptop or plug the camera straight into the telly. Trying to make one for my mum n dad as they arent very good with techy stuff or computers, so they could just put the dvd in and see the pics of the grandchildren on the telly.

Maybe i need to play around with the settings on moviemaker, but i saved it as high quality Pal… althogh there were a lot of other ones i could have tried. No dvd option though, just save to CD or as a wmv / avi file for computer playback.

i sometimes miss the quiet and isolation of riding in northumberland too :-(

Is that 'Middle route' in the pics (alwinton, clennel st, middle hill, then back along the stream and over that steep climb Pass Peth)?

id reccommend:

montane featherlight (as others have), or

Gore Ozone jersey (the short sleeve jersey with windproofing on the front)+/- arm warmers as necessary, or

Gore gilet (the meshed back one not sure of its name) +/- armwarmers

you can use 112 (and 999 in the uk) if you have no signal on your network ,as long as other networks have coverage.

Also works in a phone with no sim in, and will work even if the phone is pin locked, just type 112 as the pin and dial.