I recently bought a bumbag in Halford’s for a tenner.

It holds enough for most eventualities, and I can tuck a raincoat into the under-the-seat wedge thing.

Keeps my back from being all sweaty and horrible which is what I find happens to me with a camelbak.

Obviously it makes me look even more of a total wally.

Better hope there’s no-one from there who’s also on here. Still, it’s nice of them to pay for an extra day’s holiday for you.

Shouldn’t you have posted this in the “tea leaf” thread?

I’ve got a Superstar ISIS BB.

Too early to tell as it’s not yet seen any really nasty weather, but it’s survived about 500 miles so far. It’ll be interesting to see what it’s like next year.

Is this about Dusk-to-Dawn?

Bump.

Drill it out? Won’t be able to reuse it obviously.

ygm

wtf does this mean?

Edit this EMPTY file :

$sudo gedit /etc/hal/fdi/policy/shmconfig.fdi

Bring up a console. Then type that command (but without the “dollar” at the start!).

(I can never quite recall where the console lives in Ubuntu’s menus, but it’s in there somewhere. It’ll get you to a command line after which you can do pretty much anything).

Does this article help at all?

http://www.ubuntu-inside.me/2009/03/howto-disable-touchpad-while-typing.html

I haven’t tried it, but it looks similar to the random things I had to do with Debian to turn off the <expletive deleted> touchpad.

EDIT: way too slow!

JRA have a normal 29er Schwalbe tube. Could get the Schwalbe ones with removable cores and squirt some slime in?

http://www.justridingalong.com//shop.php?product=110

Though tubeless is much nicer and better, IMO.

Yes, it is isn’t it. I guess I should have put some random chemicals to clear it, although I would have thought it ought to clear somewhat anyway. The elderflower certainly did.

Worst case, I’ll distill it 🙂

Bottled it.

Started at around 1080 (bit low I now realise) and finished a bit below 1020. So I guess it’ll come out weak and sour, just like …

Anyway, it’s still live. Amazing stuff is yeast. We’ll see what it’s like in a month or so.

Ton – exactly right.

Except croissants rather than porridge (it’s my wife’s birthday today and she wanted croissants).

I’m hoping my motivation will get a bit higher and I’ll be able to go for a ride this evening.

Shiny bike!

I’ll be SS’ing on the Swift.

Metcheck forecast is for rain next Saturday though… certainly won’t be anything like last year!

http://www.thetfordmtbracing.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=69

There is a marquee for solo riders to use so you can set down bottles, anything you need for the event, no outside assistance outside this area, this is your feed zone/tech zone, you can also leave and return to the course at this point aswell as the team change over areas, you cannot leave the course at other areas and re join at another place.

It’s not like the days of British Rail were some lost bygone era of cheap, timely, clean trains.

They were grubby, late, expensive, unreliable.

Perhaps we’re just not very good at running trains in this country?

Which in turn is perhaps because if you’re important in this country, and could actually make a difference, you go from A to B in a car. Not a train. Or a bus. Or a bike.

vlc?

Quite a few people from here did the Kielder 100 single speed.

Didn’t the forestry commission spring from the need for vast quantities of wood for the trenches in the first world war?

So it’s actually a part of the military-industrial complex, albeit a pretty one.

Makes as much sense to keep it as it does to replace Trident.

I prefer my rigid SS 29er to my rigid SS 26er.

But how much of that is down to it being a much nicer frame (Singular Swift vs Inbred) with much nicer parts (lighter wheels, nicer cranks, etc) ?

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Rigid SS FTW.

IMAP?

Sounds like you need a new motherboard 🙁

Very long shot: have you taken the motherboard out completely? Perhaps there’s something shorting it out underneath?

Yes, most of the grapes did get the squeezing treatment. Just the few leftovers I found afterwards got chucked in skin, tannin and all.

They’re pretty sweet anyway tbh. I think they’re actually regular dessert grapes.

I’d go easy on the camped tablets at this stage as well, you could kill the yeast.

I think I’m finding wine making is actually more complicated than bike maintenance….

Well, for the benefit of anyone trying the same thing…

The natural yeast got going pretty quickly and was happily fizzing away, but the smell was not right at all. Possibly there was nothing wrong – I don’t know – but not wanting to end up with 20 litres of chain degreaser I chucked in some campden tablets, which slowed it down a bit.

Some packets of yeast arrived on Tuesday, so I put one of those in. It now smells a lot more sensible. A sort of yeasty, slightly alcoholic grapey smell.

I chucked in some more grapes that I found on the vine, which is why it looks like alien brains.

@Torminalis – would that mean then that if you ever tried to claim on your company health insurance, or death-in-service benefits, that the insurance company would refuse to pay out?

Nokia N8?

Quite a bit more pricey. 720p video recording and 12Mpix camera though.

Been abroad? Stayed in dodgy hotels? Bed bugs came home with you?

You’re using WPA right? It’s not just wide open or using WEP?

Did GT red on rigid 29er single speed. Didn’t feel especially underbiked. Was a lot of fun. Dunno what the black would be like though.

Well, it’s started fizzing.

But it smells of pear drops. Probably v. toxic.

Did you manage to measure the PSU voltages?

At the last place I worked, our tame electronics guru took a bog standard PC PSU to pieces. He was trying to figure out how they could build them with such cheap filtering capacitors.

Well it turns out that the capacitors are massively under-rated, with far too much current going through them, and should only be expected to last a few months of continuous use.

Wouldn’t be the first time though that some obscure corner of science had been massively over-hyped in a (perhaps subconscious) bid to increase research funding.

Y2K, BSE, triffids, etc. All turned out to be not nearly as bad as “they” claimed.

So the telegraph network in the 1850’s got fried? How relevant is that really? That network was designed for essentially DC voltages and probably had little in the way of surge protection.

But I still think it would be prudent to buy a few more bikes, just in case.

How we will laugh when all the cars stop working with their fancy electronics permanently fried.

Time to start stocking up on bikes right now I would think. Can’t be too careful.

The delivery is now 9am tomorrow morning and the indians are working the weekend.

Unless it’s a completely trivial piece of software, it might be wise to upgrade the hardware your bug tracking software is running on….

Vinegar is usually a caused by a lack in cleanliness or not keeping your vessels full & sealed after ferment.

Yup, that was the problem – it was only about a third full. Newbie error.

EDIT: btw, I’m guessing you’re not an IT manager…. ?

Crushing grapes with your (carefully cleaned) feet is quite something….

I’m attempting to make wine with the ones from my garden.

Last year I ended up making vinegar. So that means I know at least one recipe that definitely doesn’t work.

But how hard can it be?

Ok, I’ll order some proper stuff and chuck it when it arrives.

That worked fine for the elderflower, where I gave the natural yeast 3 days to get going and then chucked in the wine yeast.

I have got a mountain of grapes though. Who’d have thought one tiny plant could go quite so berserk?