I won't be impressed unless they do it on a rigid single speed.

It's part of being alive. Enjoy it while it lasts!

XTR chainset?

Am I just misreading the UCAS tables?

http://www.ucas.com/documents/tariff/tarifftables2010.pdf

Looks like an 'A*' at GCE A level is worth 140 points.

Diploma in "Fashion retail" 'distinction' gets you 160.

Diploma in "Foundation Studies" (art, design, media) is worth a stonking 285!

Got to wonder if the people at UCAS are perhaps a bit rubbish.

Brewing.

Endless potential and dead easy.

The ignomini 🙂

No !
That was my point 'about the sky channel'. It used to be named 'sci-fi' but now they changed it to syfy. It's a bit like lazy text speaking ! That's how it looks to me anyway. Duh I give up.

Some shockingly judgmental peeple would say that poor punctuation is a bit like lazy forum posting 🙂

The pH of stomach acid is pretty low – Wikipedia reckons 1-2. If you had diarrhea I suppose it could still be pretty low by the time it came out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastric_acid

Don't worry, the problems you get with teenagers are far harder to deal with 🙂

Maybe I'll just cable-tie a couple of malt loaves onto the bars?

EDIT: I think that might actually work.

Close to the bone.

Can anyone translate what retro83 just wrote – is it Olde geekspeak?

Back in the day, you had to really want to use Linux. You couldn't buy hardware without consulting a list of things that might actually work, configuring the display resolution and refresh rate (or just making any kind of graphics work at all) involved hacking monstrously complicated and fragile configuration files, nothing worked with anything else, and you could completely forget about word processors unless you wanted to use LateX.

These days it's a lot more straightforward. It's still different, stuff won't work quite the way you expect, but if you get a recent Ubuntu, it will usually be just fine.

I could drone on about xorg.conf a lot more, or OpenOffice, but I won't because it would be a bit dull for a cycling forum.

it also disables youre existing antivirus software.

Oddly enough, so does Linux 🙂

Been using it since about 1994 (started on kernel 2.0, IIRC). Never once had a virus.

Fantastic film.

Those garden gnomes. The mystery person in the photo booths. Utterly brilliant.

But I always worry seeing them at the end without crash helmets.

Install Linux!

http://www.ubuntu.com

I'm using ordinary Maxxis ardent and crossmarks on Arch rims with just the yellow tape, ghetto-style, with JRA wheel milk. Seem fine so far.

Hit by pizza delivery driver who was turning right from a side road. Bruised ribs (which really hurts).

"My people, they say, Romano, you are fast but safe."

(To be fair to the guy he gave me a pizza, plus the council had installed special bike-hiding railings nearby).

It's a useful wake-up call to all the idiots people out there with unsecured wireless networks.

We should thank Google for this.

Mostly psychological probably.

But also in theory you are stretching the chain around the teeth less (bigger diameter) so less of your energy is going into heating up the chain.

However, the amount of difference it makes is surely miniscule, given that chains are pretty efficient in the first place.

Maybe the old chainring and sprocket were worn down and that somehow makes a difference?

Pull out of Afganistan ( it is not our arguement and when was war declared anyway)

And send out a clear message to all our potential future allies that when the going gets tough, we'll quit and leave them to hang out to dry?

We're stuck there now for the duration, even though when it first started we *could* have just ignored it.

£157Bn, split between about 20M tax payers.

Works out at around £8K each, give or take.

Per year 🙁

Come the next election both the Tories and Libdems may have damaged themselves considerably.

Two birds, one stone.

Didn't Mervyn King, Governor of the BoE, just after the election but before the coalition formed, say that the economy is in such a mess that whoever got into power would have to make such savage cuts and tax rises that they would be out of power for a generation?

Scorched earth policy from New Labour. Trouble is we all get to pick up the tab afterwards 🙁

Tax increases, spending cuts, economic downturn are all just around the corner.

You can either buy it now, or wait ten years for the economy to sort itself out.

In between you will be grateful for every penny you can find just to keep a roof over your head and food on the table.

There's some surprisingly nice stuff up towards Cromer. Get an OS map and look for the bridleways and the contour lines.

Around 10.

But hasn't been an issue since going tubeless at the beginning of this year.

Midges with some nice bar tape. Multiple hand positions.

Which tyres are best for this?

Oy. Shut up. Some of us are weeping inwardly.

A dog chases a bike, keeps up for a while then drops down dead?

That was not an old dog with a heart that had come to the end of its natural life.

That dog had been OVERFED by its IRRESPONSIBLE and ultimately CRUEL owner.

The owner bears all the blame for this. They probably gave it little "treats" – a bit of chocolate here, a saucer of beer there, a few chips mixed in with the Pedigree Chum. And ultimately, when that poor innocent animal was doing what comes naturally (chasing cyclists, biting them and getting caught in their wheels) it paid the ultimate price.

We should all mourn that animal, for it was a victim, killed by the person it trusted the most.

Two minutes silence. Again.

And relax.

Maybe as a mark of respect we should have a 2 minute silence on this thread.

Please all bow your heads now.

Don't worry about the poor little chap.

He's gone to a happier place now. And one day his owner will join him there.

Rainbow's Bridge

<waving back> Hi!

Now I'm definitely hallucinating.

drill?

Home made mayonnaise. Yummm. Got to make some more.

Would be awesome with some roasted snarpips.

Liver.

Need to make sure it's still pink. Then it's delicious. Overcooked it quickly turns to leather.

Oysters

Raw. A squirt of lemon juice and fresh black pepper. Instant taste trip to the seaside. Fantastic.

stewed prunes

Had some once, high up in the Pyrenees. The only food my friend and I had was prunes, Emmental cheese (which had been sweating all day under a hot Spanish sun), bourbon biscuits, and fly-filled macaroni.

The prunes were easily the best part of that meal.

And you were actually prepared to put that in your mouth?

I was much younger, and visiting my sister in Greece with my (then) girlfriend. It was some kind of village festival. I think I was probably a bit drunk as well.

It looks exactly like you would imagine brain to look like, and tastes sort of soapy and generally nasty. I can't think what Hannibal Lecter saw in it, tbh.

Roasted parsnips are fantastic. Put them in with a joint of lamb and leave to slowly caramelize.

Marmite? Olives? Not even close.

Fermented prawn paste is pretty vile. You get it from Thai supermarkets (at least I did, until Tesco's closed them down).

I've only ever managed to smell Kimchee.

PIckled and sliced Goat's brain is pretty nasty.

Didn't they have an accident at a refinery in Texas in 2005, killing 15 people? Do Shell have this kind of record?

Send me the email address. Email in profile!

Tyre threads are never boring. How can something which makes such a huge difference to the way a bike rides not be of perpetual interest?