In my case my mother-in-law, sober, during a game of the 5 Second Rule. Question was:

“Name three shapes”

“What kind of shapes?” she says wasting two seconds and then wastes the next three seconds saying “It could be ‘tree shapes'”

We’d been playing for a dozen questions already. It was probably the easiest question so far. A five year old could have got that one. Like TGA’s mother she then carried on complaining about ‘ambiguous questions’ for the rest of the evening.

Great. Just found this video which is useful in explaining things https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xH54fozbo4I

Suspect I’m going too tight. I’d not realised flipping the lever tensioned it. I’ll try again.

Thanks for your help

Thanks all – some interesting thoughts throughout. Like the idea of going into Halfords at a quieter time to see what they can do.

Will then perhaps talk to a local suspension specialist if a set up doesn’t do enough.

£1,080 in store with BC discount just confirmed in Live Chat. Very tempted.

More Cornish names with Brown Willy on Bodmin Moor and Broadwoodwidger further west

I sell/create brand awareness for safaris costing upwards of £10K (and up to £100k) at craft fairs, so I wouldn’t be too quick to write them off as not being suitable for £150 clocks. Pick your craft fair though as they’re not all equal. As others have said they’re a bugger to get into and when you’re there you need to know what to do and how to do it. Go and check out a few as a punter and talk to other exhibitors (when they’re not busy obviously).

Repeating what’s been said previously, designing and making the products isn’t the same as running a business. Having said that it seems you’ve got a good product which is half the battle. I suggest seeing if your bank’s business manager or local chamber of commerce can recommend someone to talk to (for free) who will go through the other aspects you need to make a company succeed. Most of these are things you would have had to put into a business plan, had you needed investment or a loan in the first place.

We had investors from Day 1 and they became our board, even when we were two guys working out of a spare bedroom. It was a fantastic discipline to have to explain things to other people on a quarterly basis. They were also a great sounding board for new ideas or disputes between us. Hopefully you’ll have seen the value of outside help from the excellent advice in the replies above.

Good luck.

Cornwall is England’s longest county and right now the A30 is possibly its most useless road. Where you are staying is important in recommending things within a reasonable distance.

So where are you staying?

Equally what you like to do will help. Personally I hate almost anything historic and shopping. You might love them.

@squirrelking “five mile stretch of road with literally no safe passing places” Could you link to a Google map of the road in question.

There’s a whole Freakonomics podcast episode on belts vs braces (or suspenders as the Yanks insist in calling them

How Did the Belt Win? (Ep. 221)

Thanks for these replies. We don’t have specific people in mind, but it’s a relatively small industry, so to get the right experience will likely mean someone from a competitor. The idea of LinkedIn is excellent and the webpage linked to is excellent.

Thanks

I am not an expert, but have noticed my battery dies if apps use my location or give notifications. I’d check in Settings what’s doing either of those

Not wrong to enjoy it if you stumble across it as it is cleverly addictive once you’re watching. Odd to seek it out for a second time IMO

Possibly easier to explain the basics and how you might use onei if we know what you want to do with it

My daughter is now first year of sixth form so I’ve watched a similar situation play out and then had a whole lot of new fun with the agonies of A levels, where the school really does want to tie them to Uni courses and careers.

My two thoughts are:
1. Jimdubleyou was the first to say “pick stuff she enjoys” and that’s been my advice at GCSE and A level (and will be for the rest of her life I hope)

2. My daughter did PE at GCSE (and was disappointed there wasn’t the demand to run a course at A level) and it was so much more than most will assume. As a poster above says there was a lot of anatomy, plus a fair bit of teaching theory and lesson planning. Academics may sneer, but they be wrong to.

“Most unique” as it either is or it isn’t
“110% effort” isn’t actually possible

They probably do but you don’t notice as you ride for perhaps two hours and then leave them for 18 hours. During your ride they deflate 10% ish of the amount they deflate in total

Only started as a filthy two-week cold meant I really couldn’t face normal evening drinks of wine and beer. Realised I was about 14 days into the month and wondered how it would feel to carry on – not massively missed it but suspect it helps to know I will drink again in Feb (I’ve been happy with cordial and fizzy water but sometimes I want the taste or a cold beer or a glass of wine)

One psychological help for me has been drinking my evening drink from a wine glass. Somehow even when it’s just fizzy water it feels different and special to have it in a wine glass.

Those immediately railing against mtb-ears for even considering legal action probably aren’t considering that we might be talking about someone facing life as a paraplegic because of another person or company’s actions or inactions.

Being found to be negligent has a pretty high bar, if my law lectures from many years ago have been remembered correctly:

1. Does the other person owe you a duty of care?
2. Has that duty of care been breached?
3. Has there been actual damage?

The high bar comes from number 2. In the example a previous forum member has given, it’s possibly not enough simply for the water barrier to be dangerous in itself and positioned in a position that makes it difficult to miss, but needs:

i. Riders to have hit it in the past and fallen
ii. The problem to have been reported
iii. Nothing to have been done

Imagine you hit that barrier, fell, and hurt yourself so badly you couldn’t continue to support yourself. Then imagine you find out that a number of people had done the same in the past, reported it, but the landowner had done nothing. Can you really say you wouldn’t sue?

Obviously this example is miles and miles from a rider going too fast into a corner, loses it, and heads off the trail and hits a tree, or countless other examples that might happen if you chose to ride your bike off road. In most of those situations the duty of care will not have been broken and any solicitor worth their salt will tell you that. Even the ‘no win, no fee’ companies ought not to be pursuing frivolous claims as their time is better spent on cases they can actually win.

So, in reply to the OP, I’m pleased to say I’ve never found myself in a position where I’ve considered it, but I wouldn’t ever rule it out.

On the other side of Vic Falls people were doing this

LBS gave me a ‘guide sheath” that sounds like what Scapegoat is talking about.

I’d bought cables and outer from them and then queried how to get through the frame (also an internal routing virgin)

– Loosen old cable
– Slide sheath over the old cable
– Pull carefully through the relevant section of frame
– Tape sheath in place so you don’t knock it out
– Pull old cable out
– Use sheath to guide new cable
– Use new cable to guide outer

You sir are a top man! Hope it gets back to its rightful owner.

Another vote for Shepherds – ridiculously luxurious

http://shepherdofsweden.se/en/product-category/slippers/

Generally good. Now being picky (and trying not to repeat what others have said)

– Don’t understand, or admire, the home page left hand photo, but like the other two.
– Can’t see some of the portfolio as it won’t download quickly enough before the slideshow scroll on (even here with fibre)

Good luck. I’ll be checking back for prices as I can already think of a couple of people for whom they’d make nice gifts

“Your call is important to us”

Friend in rural Kenya left car at garage in Nairobi to be serviced, agreeing to collect it a couple of weeks later when she was back in Nairobi.

When she picked it up she was delighted to discover they’d valeted the inside for free, but less pleased to find a taxi sign on the dashboard!

Hit my brakes hard yesterday to slow from a fair old speed to avoid a suicidal rabbit and discovered my hazard lights come on automatically. Thought it was clever.

As an employer looking at this, with no prior knowledge of you, and anonymity to make me tougher that I am in real life, I have to say your attitude to two long days pretty much convinces me you’re not who I’d employ. A longer way of saying what someone else said ‘Grow a pair’

It wasn’t the OP who said he didn’t have a credit card.

Longer runs I use a Camelbak* with just the chest strap done up and have no problem with movement, even on stepped descents. I only ever fill mine with water, so a rinse and storing in the freezer has kept it bug free for years. Make sure you don’t follow the temptation to carry too much water and do eliminate all the air from the bladder as it’ll slosh around otherwise.

* Mine is not actually a Camelbak and I suspect many of the cheaper versions available are very close in the form and function.

I don’t know how true that could be at this point since so much of the land is cultivated I suspect they would have been cleared – deliberately or through sad accidents. I wasn’t aware of mine warnings when we toured, as I was in Mozambique where warning signs are very common.

If I get out there myself with a bike at some stage I’ll report back on the guidebook and the riding.

Used to live in Gwd and cycled to work in Kleine Scheidegg a fair few times, but took my bike on the train much more.

To answer the OP, heading down to Interlaken on the marked trail is a combo of jeep tracks and tarmac lanes. Very pretty, but not singletrack. Most singletrack in that area is absolutely full of hikers in the summer from dawn to dusk.

Also lived in Zermatt which was a much better valley to ride singletrack.

There’s a well written article from The League Against Cruel Sports exposing the myth that controlling foxes by any method is a useful way to protect livestock http://www.league.org.uk/~/media/Files/LACS/Publications/Foxy-Fortnight/Fox-Facts-and-Fiction.pdf

Bit of plastic I found in the boot of my car came from the boot door. Not obvious for a long time as it was always above me in the air while I searched the boot for the hole the cap covered.

Lesson? Look up perhaps – hand grab things above the door?

If you’ve entered and don’t win, a personalised map allows you to:

Centre it wherever you want
Name it whatever you want
Have your own photo on the cover

All for less than 20 of your British pounds

Just did this as the area I ride midweek exists in the corners of four 1:50,000 maps and planning new routes is a pain. Loved the ability to name it and have my photo too. Most definitely not in the league of the OP but a bit of fun.

Pleased to say 7 over time

Bit of a bump as I’m catching up on this and enjoying it greatly. Have a listen if you haven’t already.

Ta

I also came to this thread expecting band chat, but at least you’re hoping someone is ‘Caught By The Fuzz’

Thanks all