Think I can beat you all:
Tesco large sausage roll- 497cals
Tesco walnut cake (meant to be shared by a family) my plan was to eat a quarter and save the rest. Destroyed the lot of it) -1200cals.

Total 1697 cals and a good chance of obesity and diabetes all for the bargain price of £1.65

I cycle a 40min commute each way so can get away with it on occasion!

I’ve just brought my first drop-barred bike (it was a cyclocross bike but think it’s still relevant) I found getting the right size a lot more difficult than a mountain bike and for that reason unless your’re fairly confident of your size I’d always go to a shop to try before you buy, I ended up with a size smaller than internet said I would.

Me and the girlfriend get through loads of DVD Boxsets, some of my favourites:

The West Wing – girlfriend loved it despite not being into politics.
Dexter
Braking Bad
Six foot under
Entourage
House

As mentioned above Homeland is also excellent.

Letherman skeletool – Kind of bike related and just plain cool. Pretty sure even non-bikey/outdoors types will think it’s cool too.

“Nurse? Fetch the wipes!”

In fairness to my local Evans(Brighton), I got them to order in a bike for me in a different size to what they had in stock to test fit, Ordered on Friday, came on the Monday just like they said it would.

Obama hopefully. Worrying how close it is considering how much of a ****t Romney is.

Logan Binggeli placed 3rd at Rampage on a 650B, that has to be the ultimate test of “hooning around”!

Agree with the above, first book is good (other two are poor), film is bad because they dumbt it down to make in a 12a, if I was making a film of the book it would definitly be an 18.

A great film with a similar storyline is the Japanese film Battle Royale- and it’s very rare that I’d recommend a sub-titled film!

Thanks for the comments, I think I’ll have to buy one. 🙂

See above, forum regular posting under an alt. Just because.

Because your wife knows your real forum name and checks that too?

So I have a hybrid 29er made by Chainreaction’s own brand Vitus, must be seriously uncool. 🙁

I have a beard and it’s a singlespeed if that helps…

Thought it was great. The plot, like most bonds, was questionable but it had everything else. Also thought that some of the scenes were superbly shot with great use of lighting (Japanese hotel scene for example, won’t say more for risk of spoilers).

I love my Santa Cruz chameleon, and its got an eccentric BB so can be run geared or single speed easily.

So after all the allegations of lying about drugs they’ve chosen a story about Pinocchio, whos nose grows when he lies, and shown him with a big nose?

To be honest he’s probably done what I would do if I ever came into earning lots of money:

1. Hire expensive accountant
2. Get said accountant to suggest how I can legally keep as much money as possible.
3. Sign on the dotted line.

I have no problem with people who work hard and try to keep their earnings from the tax man. People who don’t work and take money from the tax man are the ones we should be looking at if we want to reduce the majority’s tax bill.

if entrepreneurs applied that kind of simple maths to cottage-enterprise they wouldn’t ever start a business.

True, but surely to be a ‘business’ by definition it has to make money and the maths has to add up, or else its just a hobby that pays for itself (not necessarily a bad thing if its only a side line/start-up).

I’m just in the process of shutting down a website for a client who made handmade knitted things for kids, her main problem was that she hadn’t done the maths – profit/time taken to make. She was selling a jumper at £39 that took her ten hours to make so even before costs she it was earning less than £4 an hour, she’d be better off stacking shelves at Tesco. The problem is most of they clothes we buy are made on countries where they can pay ****-all an hour so pricing them with british labour costs makes them look really expensive.

No Issues with anodising here, but mine does have the yellow tint to the screen which is disappointing- its also having issues with a couple of email addresses where it keeps asking me for the password. Doesn’t feel like a big step up from iPhone 4 (compared to the big change from iPhone 3 to iPhone 4)

Just finished reading a book called “The Psychopath Test” by Jon Ronson, at one point in it he interviews a researcher for a TV show like the Jeremy Kyle show (it doesn’t actually name the show). Apparently one of the first questions this research would ask the applicants for the show was what medication they were on so she could work if they had the right kind mental disorder to make them entertaining!!

After reading this thread, out of curiosity I looked up Phelps World record for freestyle 200m – its 1:42.96 that’s an average of 12.8 second per 25m. He is insanely fast.

The ones where they roll are bad, but the ones where they come to rapid stop against something solid like the guy at 1:17 are really cringe inducing, ouch!

Am I the only person who cannot see the enjoyment in being that far out of control?

The enjoyments comes from being on the edge of control, unfortunately these guys have stepped over that fine line!

1. Install Hope Pro 2 or similar loud hub
2. Back pedal when approaching a slowing rider
3. If 2 doesn’t work then huff/tutt loudly
4. When finally being allowed to pass mumble “for f*ck’s sake!” just loud enough under your breath.

I remember there was a kid in class at school who didn’t have a TV, unfortunately a lot of the other kids ripped him a bit for it and he was obviously left out of any “what was on last night” conversations. Then again a lot of stuff is on iPlayer and the like nowadays so having an actual TV isn’t a necessity.

I have a plastic coat hanger in my office that I use to hang my riding clothes on the back of the door in the toilet after getting to work, no one seems to mind. To avoid cycling in wet clothes I do a rotation where I ride in on Monday morning with a dry set in my bag for the evening, leave the wet cloths that I’ve ridden to work in hanging in the office over night so I can use them to ride home on Tuesday when they hopefully dried out a bit, and then the clothes I’ve used to ride to work in Tuesday get used for the ride home on Wednesday, etc etc….

All the christmas Stollen and Lebkuchen have been in the shops here for 2 weeks.

I have no problem with this as both products are awesome, especially Lebkuchen, nomnomnom…

No problem with them selling the tat early, you don’t have to buy it. However the Christmas Music in shops is what annoys me as it becomes an unavoidable aural assault, unless I shop with my iPod on which seems a bit rude.

My Fox Flux has a good ratchet system at the back that has never slipped loose, although it does require two hands to get an even tightening on both sides unlike the dial systems.

To expand a bit on the guy who mentioned UTI from bacteria going up your johnson:

I commute everyday (only 40mins) and used to wear the same shorts 2 days in a row (so essentially for 4 short rides) I did this for a couple of years until I got the dreaded UTI – these are not fun, to make matters worse it decided to manifest itself halfway though a showing of The Lion King. I’d brought the best, most expensive, tickets for the OH’s Birthday and it was ruined by having to get up every 5 mins to piss blood and also trying to not let on to missus that anything was wrong so she would still enjoy the show! I got a week’s worth of antibiotics that started working but in the end the infection spread to my kidney I woke up one night in a world of lower back pain. This was followed by a day it hospital and some extra strong antibiotics which did the trick, but even now, 6 months later I still get bad kidney pains if I get overly dehydrated, especially with hangovers.

Sorry about the essay but the moral of the story is wash your shorts regularly!

The fact that this time tomorrow (and for the rest of next week) I’ll be chilling by the pool in Menorca 🙂

One of those things where you can be a winner and a loser at the same time 😉

Running an e-thirteen SRS (that’s essentially an LG1 and a bash ring) it’s been great so far (never lost the chain and no premature wear on jockey wheel) , don’t know exact weight i’m afraid but it didn’t feel heavy.

If I remember rightly I thought the only way a normal rider could get their hands on the Black coating was if you brought an S-works carbon Demo, I seem to remember it being one of the selling points, I could be wrong though.

Just double checked the Pinkbike press release:
“Want BlackGold? The S-Works Demo is going to be the only place that you’ll see if for quite some time.”

Not really relevant to the OP, but do much prefer the look of the older 5s before they put that ugly kink in the top tube to improve stand-over.

I had a friend who used to use it but stopped after his family claimed it made him aggressive and moody (quite a commonly reported side-affect). If your friend does start taking it I’d watch out for that.

Girlfriends Father has an Audi in “Ibis White” Looks very nice, but it does have a slight metallic/pearl effect to it so not just flat white.

Its not this actual car but similar:

Really tempted to buy one of these as a winter/rubbish weather bike as I’m sick of knackering expensive gears and suspension in the mud. Anyone know what size rotors you could put on it without losing the warranty – would normally go 180 front, 160 rear, but not sure if 180 is too much for the fork?

Thanks everyone, some of those sound spot on.

I’m 28 and want kids, 2 of my close friends have just had kids and my brother has just had his first – seeing them has really made we want one for the first time in my life.
However they all earn more than me and I can’t see me and the missus being able to afford a kid without stretching ourselves to breaking point. My other worry is that ,as much I want a child, I’m fairly sure the world is going to go tits up within my lifetime let alone my child’s, I genuinely think this recession is a drop in the ocean of what will come in the not-too-distant future. I’m seriously questioning if that is a world i want to bring a new life into. Glass half full and all that 😉

It seems the amount I spend on a bike is inversely proportional to amount of miles I clock up on it. My Freeeride full-suss is the most expensive by a long way and not ridden much at all considering the price tag, my mid-priced Chameleon sees to most of my off-road riding but my sub £300 commuter singlespeed gets by far the most miles.

Ask me how much fun I’m having when I’m riding each bike though and its a different story.

or alternatively, over 10 years of refinement carefully optimised for the 29 inch wheel fad.