This is good

tesco do 'em, might only be in the Extras though.

I'm running this, holding the sprocket in place with part of a deodorant can and an old derailur cable-tied in line.

It's fine.

…but if I wasn't a penniless student I would do it properly, top-tube intimacy is best avoided.

Frame off ebay for £16
Forks were ~£15
Other bits from an old supermarket special and spares bin.

It's also a bodged ss using half a knacked derailur and a lot of cable ties…

The blue collar definatly goes on the top side.

This[/url] might help you, look at the pictures lower down.

Remember the loading bolt that sits above the stem needs to be done just right, and don't tighten the stem bolts 'till it's sorted.

Caused me trouble on a be-one build too, but don't think there's anything missing there.

Hope that helps.

In my defence it’s not my argument!- that’s out of Branson (’89), I’m still a student so I’m not allowed to have opinions of my own :cry:

You might think that picking up the slack in the economy would be a good idea though… ?

Also economics wouldn’t be any fun if it wasn’t complicated, admit it! :-)

if a commodity is scarce, doesn’t it command a high price? Conversely when there is a plethora of a particular commodity, it’s value decreases doesn’t it?

So if we manufacture 2 Trillion pounds sterling, doesn’t that devalue our currency?

If businesses have a weaker unit of currency, don’t they have to put their prices up?

The net result is that our savings and income will effectively shrink.

Money Supply up shifts LM out, r2 achieved through multiplyer (intrest rate too low to appear on my diagram) but rises to r3. New equilibirum in IS/LM means Agg Demand (AD) shifts out, prices rises (inflation) to p4. Real money supply now decreases, so LM shifts back but because of wage stickiness, menu costs etc the labour market won’t respond perfectly. Result is higher employment (N4).

Combined with the increases in gov spending and the tax cuts (which should both shift IS out) it doesn’t seem like a bad plan (for getting us out of the mess we are in… whoevers fault it was).

Caveats: degree of wage/price stickiness, flex xchange rates, elasticites, ricardian equilvilance and effect on real wage rates unknown (nominal up but so are prices).

I am not an economics expert

Indeed

Length and descent stats please

Have a look!

Brilliant climb, only gets tough after the right turn on the ridge and even then isn’t too bad. The last few feet tho… ouchy.

Descent is fine/fun unless you’re rubbish like me, at least I gave the walkers something to watch!

Must go back someday *sigh*

Definitely grease up; Not only are hobnoby ones quite dry but as you’ve been holding back (trying to avoid the inevitable) it can be a painful experience letting go.

And for those with the ‘go before you leave’ advice, just you wait. One day…

Happend to me 3 times, hobnobs usually to blame.

Not my proudest moments.

Pain to get up tho, and you’d come down rangers anyway…

It does slightly pish me off that when they do repair the bridleways they do make them much less accesable to bikes. Helvellyn, Snowdon and Cadiar Idris have suffered from steps and drainidge ditches.

I wouldn’t want to see what they’ve stuck up Skiddaw anywhere else tho.
But there’s got to be something in between!

From this:

To this:

Took me one chomp with a pair of bolt cutters to get through a fairly chunky cable lock when I was reclaiming a bike…

Don’t like leaving mine unattended, but use a chain + padlock when I do.

Not sure I understand the question though?: If you’re at a trail centre can’t you leave a big chunky D-Lock in the car/round a fence?

I weigh 10st and have 210/190, yet get 4/5 months out of a set of pads?!

Maybe I don’t go fast enough!

The Great Bicycle Adventure
by Nicholas Crane

The best book I ever read.

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