Footbeds made a massive difference for my boarding comfort levels. Cost a fair bit (about €90 in resort 4 seasons ago) but in their second pair of boots now so have been a good investment.

Feet still scream if the inners are done up too tight though, especially if on long/icy first-run-of-the-day type stuff.

^^^^ this, but probably a bit under medium too

Joy King Lau if you want good food (see above about Chinese diners…), Imperial China if you want something a bit more fancy. Both good though.

Joy King Lau does the best dim-sum if you’re heading there of a lunch time.

Stage 1 – Skipton, followed by multiple beers with my bro in Embsay
Stage 2 – Bolton Bridge (hopefully after taking the steam train from Embsay)

In London at the moment, seems far to quiet compared to Yorkshire…

In the park – part of the cyclefest thing this time:

http://www.qecyclefest.co.uk/%5B/url%5D

Hargroves demo weekend too…

Me too – number 34 on a smurf-blue Five :-)

First night ride in a long time, definitely not expecting to be anything approaching quick! Looking forward to it though – the daytime one last summer was great.

Not sure about parking, am camping on Sat night so assuming not.

Not really a toy but is pretty cool in geek terms. AWS CloudFormation…we can bring up a whole infrastructure stack, including machines/networking/storage/security, in Tokyo, at the click of a button. Then do it again in San Fran, or Sidney. Magic I tell thee, magic.

Went the PX 50 tub route last year after same concerns with the Chinese options (plus they were £300/pair…). Quite happy with them thus far, despite aforementioned tubular horribleness.

Did ours recently – had a few months to gather the bits needed which helps. Took advantage of various offers (like Bathstore selling Kaldewei steel baths in a 20% off weekend thing) and a couple of eBay bargains, then had a known good fitter come down and do the actual work (linky[/url]). Best purchase (if a loo can be classed as such), RAK 600 toilet…about half the price of the equiv in B&Q, really good quality.

In! Now the (im)patient waiting begins :)

+1 for La Colombera! Stayed there couple of times – great place, comfy apartments, quiet but as Chipps said it’s only 1km from the water. Pop up to Arco if you get chance, some great food to be had. Garda’s one of the most beautiful places we’ve been, love it.

Sorry for the highjack…in a similar boat – insurance replacement for my O2 iPhone4 arrived the day before I switched to EE (and got a new phone), the plan being to give the now shiny handset to the missus. Called O2 as soon as I’d turned it on, they said they had no record of the IMEI on their system…am guessing it takes 24 hours for their end to update or something. By that point i was on EE, so have no contract with O2 :(

Also tempted to try with a PAYG sim.

Trying that again…

The only car rather than the fun car, still makes me grin every time I get in it :-)

Agree with growinglad – Prince2 and/or ITIL foundation would be the way I’d go, then look at jnr service delivery or project management roles. Any technical knowledge you can pick up will then be an added bonus, rather than being up against seasoned techies for hands-on roles.

Mind you, ultimately it depends whether you want to do more management/overseeing work vs coal face, technical stuff.

826, happy days :)

In + paid x2, got confirmation mails at 1804, registration status page looks like it’s been flattened now though. Hoping news of the payment’s actually made it to smartdata before it fell over…

slowoldman beat me to it ;)

If you open Displays in System Preferences, does it show anything different with the projector connected/not connected (and/or the displayport adapter plugged in/not plugged in)

Does the projector have multiple inputs, if so can you cycle through them? Would have thought it’d autodetect an active input, but you never know…

dupe post

Hmmm – few of us entered rd3/Afan early doors on Sat, seemed to be tickety boo on the BC site. All bar one of us (strangely the latest entry!) got “your application to ride in the following event has not been accepted by the event organiser” mails just now.

Ar$e.

Similar thing here – single glazing, converted Victorian flat, lack of ventilation.

Borrowed a Delonghi Dem10 for a bit – worked well but noisy as. Ended up buying an ecoair desiccant thing on Amazon, quiet enough to have near/in a bedroom, works well. Eats more electricity though.

Seem to remember having 180 psi with the med spring in mine, but this ^^^^ is your best bet :)

There are fools using every form of transport…after 14 years of London commuting I’m no-longer surprised by anyone else’s behaviour on the road (stupid or not).

Wouldn’t go as far as saying the ‘majority’ of cyclists are doing us a disservice though…

^^^^^^ this :)

Interested in the A-C @150mm too, looking to pick up a pair at some point soonish

Bought a Clubman S/JCW as a ‘cherished’ second hand last year…love it, properly nippy, about 40mpg on a decent run and enough room for 2 bikes in the back (just…usually end up on the roof). Took it to Austria in the summer, twisty alpine roads were a lot of fun :) That said it’s had it’s fair share of niggles – timing chain replacement at 30k being the most annoying.

As wingnuts says stay away from the bigger wheel sizes, tyres end up pricey and the ride’s harsh (even without runflats). And definitely steer clear of sports suspension if you like comfort – likely good for track days, not good for speed bumps :(

Been using a Bryton 20 for a year or so + rate it. It’s tiny, cost £80 and will talk to ANT+ heart rate/speed+cadence sensors if needs be (speed+cadence being useful in wooded areas/valleys, found distances wrong due to dropped signal otherwise). Had ~20 hours battery out of it before.

Seem to remember spec-wise being somewhere between a Garmin 200 and 500…

+1 or Wagrain / Saalbach, spent a week in Wagrain at the start of August – great area, loved it. As Suggsey says plenty to do outside when not riding, we saw the Werfen ice caves which were pretty cool (excuse the pun), and only an hour from Salzburg. Longer drive from the UK than Cham but easy to break it up (we stopped in Germany on the way down/back). Good times :-)

QECP Gravity Enduro on Sunday, proper good it was too :D

Transition stage was a bit, um, toasty…

+1 from here too – top day was most definitely had :)

Pete (#123 – howdo Dez!)

Another 16L Enduro here – as honourablegeorge says thought it looked mahoosive at first, but fits well and air flow on the back is pretty good. Nice to have room to carry munchies/gopro/extra layer/spares without it being full to bursting.

Back protector’s handy, don’t like the thought of landing on me back with a camera/tools in the bag with nothing to protect me…

watched Argo the other day. was good.

Proper good blast round a very sunny Gisburn yesterday afternoon with my bro – well overdue (both Gisburn and catching up with the folks).

Good times :)

got a 36 on mine, good amount of clearance

spoke with orange when going 2×10 – their line was it depends who did the weld on the swingarm + how much weld they used. some clear fine, others don’t

bought a cheapy cheap deore 36t ring in case it didn’t clear (has stayed on :))

Not IIS-based, but Confluence is worth a look. $10 for 10 users (unfortunately then gets a bit spendy for >10, though they do have a SaaS/subscription version).

Atlassian Confluence

Not sure if they’ll be open yet but the beach bars behind the east side gallery are cool (was there mid-April and they’d opened a couple of weeks before). Neues museum is a must, as much for the building itself as the exhibits. As SaxonRider says, head east and you’ll find some hidden gems…favourite city in Europe :)

Hans Dampf front, UST Rubber Queen 2.2 rear. Grippier than a grippy thing in the wet yesterday, rolled well.

UST cos I couldn’t be bothered getting a Protection to seal.

Another thumbs up for Clubmans here – had a Cooper hatch before and no, wouldn’t recommend for kids (or any regular need to have passengers in the back), just too small. Clubby on the other had has plenty of room, boot could be a bigger but way more practical than the hatch’s. Most fun small car around imho (granted mine’s a jcw :-))

Not sure on price, but Ted James should be able to help. Top fella to boot :-)

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His workshop’s just off Brick Lane…