No expenses system is in place. They’re Sheffield bike stands. I can’t think for the life of me how you could prevent anybody else from using one.
Not giving in. A huge injustice. It’s the principle. The whole department needs a rocket. I’m not bothered if I walk away with a flea in my ear or a kick up the arse. I’ve seen them not hand over a parcel because “It’s out of hours”. People track their deliveries and leg it to Reception to intercept their parcels rather than run the risk of dealing with them. Nope. Not giving in.

The situation is ridiculous and it can’t carry on like this.

Update (now I’ve been reminded). The guy has now decided that he is going to remove a fence panel at 8:00am each weekday morning so that we can step over the concrete base to get in and out and he’s going to put the fence panel back at 8:00pm each week day evening. We are to knock on his back door between these hours if we need help to lift bins over etc.
Weekends will be “During the day”. He’s making it harder for burglars apparently. High Peak council were not interested. One of the care agencies for a very elderly neighbour are looking in to what they can do. I get more annoyed every time I look at it.

edited. I’ve answered my own question.

Cookeea. Not are you only making huge assumptions (which are wrong) but you week to be making up your own little situation and are replying to it❤️😀.

I hadn’t “gone and left 120 quids worth of stuff lying about outside for four months on a business park and I’d say it really is quite surprising that they’re no longer there.

They were I n use, by me, 5 days per Week. They were locked (clues in the name) to a Sheffield bike stand. Same as many others. I was forbidden to return to the site by my manager when it was announced by my employer that the whole site was closing immediately. Without warning.

No business park. Just a very large, very secure building with a huge car park. No other business anywhere near.

I knew full well * what * exactly was not a good idea? They were good quality locks. Securely fastened to a bike stand I use almost every work day. By definition, I assumed they’d be OK as they were good, substantial things ‘locked’ up securely. They must have used full bore angle grinders to break them.

Why would I take them home every night? *They’re heavy. They’re secure. I needEd them exactly where I left them the night before….

Sorry that real life doesn’t match what’s in your head.

* or they were

Thanks to everybody for the comments. My blood pressure, I suspect, is up at the moment and I will only feel worse if I don’t do my best to get my locks or there replacement.

I swallowed my tongue when they decided that my locker should be their locker and moved my stuff (full change of clothes, shoes, wash kit, towel and kindle) out and put their stuff in. I couldn’t say what thief stuff was as they changed the combination. Not only that, they pissed about trying to remember which was my new locker that the cleaners went into the shower room and I had to stand outside for 30 minutes in my bike gear until they had finished!

Ps. Thanks for the free legal advice Jakester.

I hate injustice. It’s part of my make up. The locks combined are going to cost around £120. I’m not giving up. It’s the principle.

Please…leave me alone TJ. I have enough to contend with 😂

What recourse? Seriously? It’s not obvious to you? Giving me my ‘intact’ locks back, providing me with similar replacements or reimbursing me if I have to go and purchase replacements.
They’ve removed my belongings without permission or notice where I had a legitimate reason for leaving them there which is in a fashion of common practice! Is this a surprise to you, TJ?

Leaving my locks attached to the bike stand, as does everybody else who rides in every day. It’s common practice. Even at train stations. They have been removed without my knowledge, permission or attention. I’m pretty sure they’ve not been nicked. One is a Kryptonite, the other a big thick motorbike security chain with a huge padlock. To nick them, I would hope they’d have to be attacked with an angle grinder. They couldn’t have given me notice as the whole building was shut down and then slowly reopened at a rate of 10 people per week, from a list of 800, over a five week period.
You think I’m NOT on solid ground?
I suspected I’d been wronged and I had recourse. Most of you kind people have convinced me.

Not SSE. A different one. Close to the M60. Nowhere near M6. No dress code to speak of. Nobody wears a tie.

Are you sure it was 70mph? Could it have been nearer 55mph, you were driving along the M60 section past Bredbury that has permanent 3 mile speed restriction and then opens back up to National Speed Limit again?
Phoning home seems a bit odd.

I’m pretty convinced, backed up by the sane, or at least the voices I agree with that I have been wronged and I’m pretty determined to get either my locks back or the cost of replacement.
I hate injustice.

Reverse parking or you get a very difficult to remove ‘sticker’ on your rear passenger side window, a very public tannoy with your reg. number and a 1 week car park ban.

Not SSE. Another one. Quite near the M60. No ties required. Not even a dress code anymore beyond “no beachwear or similar”

Retrogirl! Did they pay up?

Abandoned? Hahaha! As if! We were told, in no uncertain terms by our respective managers that *nobody* was allowed on site at the beginning of April. The very large automatic gates were locked and only 2 security staff were on site between 7am and 7pm.
There has been a gradual return to work with very strict conditions for around 50 people. This company is so risk adverse that you get hauled in by your manager if you’re spotted not using the handle rail on the very shallow, not many stairs on to the mezzanine.
Apart from clearly being in very good condition and used almost 5 days of every week, why on earth would they assume they’ve been abandoned?
“Left at my own risk” surely doesn’t absolve them of helping themselves, in one way or another, to my locks? If that’s the case, they could also help themselves to my bike!
Thanks for the sanity check.
I’ve had a reply from somebody in facilities. “Don’t know” was the gist of it. As expected. I’ll keep at it.

Thank you. They wouldn’t have been able to know (or even care) who the locks belonged to and up until 4 weeks ago. Only my manager would have been able to contact me by text or phone. I have a company laptop now so I work from home. It’s a huge organisation. 800 people in our building alone.

It must be a prerequisite Sharkattack. You have to be a complete arse to get the job.

He’s blocking 9 of us in while he has gated access to his own garden.
Fossy’s idea might be a good short term option but I can’t see it fixing the problem long term. I suspect my bins will get relocated in a neighbouring county or even a waste skip…or both.
My bikes will need be taken through the house too

I’ve been interneting. Sawing it is criminal damage. I would love him to take a swing at me. I will very definitely be giving him a week off on bed rest if it comes to that. I had to keep my hands in my pockets when I went round.

Oh dear…..

To be clear, locking of the gate will be immaterial. There’s going to be a 6 foot fence on “our side”.

Sometimes, I really hate people….

They are very aware that what they’re doing is illegal. Joyce next door heard the joiner tellling them they have to allow access and the very same joiner now doing the work is keeping his head very much down through fear, I suspect that his job may come to a very sudden end.

This is a fight I could do without. Consultation and Fire And Hire is being waved around like a Bhudist prayer flag. I could be very skint in 6 months if the cards fall against me.

No joy on the “Please don’t do this. It will cost us all time, money and aggrivation just to end up with two gates, not one and the same access we all had yesterday”.

“If you throw a pebble into the pond, it will cause ripples”, a shrug of the shoulders and a closing of the door. Mint!…..

Lots of curtain twitching along the row and I suspect “Charlie” will be round in a minute to see how I got on.

Can we get our (or I suspect my) money back if this gets legal people involved?

Thanks for the info. Her uni is BIMM so not an ac.uk address and no free access to Microsoft. I’m sure she can manage for now with a reduced access version.
Thanks again.
Nearly forgot. Music Management.

Should you find yourself (well, your son) in need of an 80mm stem, 720mm flat bar, 27.2mm seatpost and Selle Italia saddle (brand new or very lightly used – just waiting for the new bar to arrive on Monday or Tuesday), you/he can have mine. I can’t be bothered selling them. All (apart from the saddle) are branded Promax.
I’ll post them or ride over with them – you’re North Manchester aren’t you? Assuming you want them, of course.

Oh. Any tips as to what problems? It’s going to be a bitch to get off again.

It arrived. I had to tap the sodding thing on with a hammer. I’m guessing as it’s cheap Chinese carbon, the diameter was a smidge out. It sits ever so slightly higher on the head tube than I’d ideally like. An o ring would have been perfect but now it’s on I’m not taking it off. I’ll squeeze some grease in instead of an o ring to try and keep water out. It won’t be going anywhere near a jet wash.

I have an up date of sorts: Wiggle are looking into it with Mavic for me. Quite out of the blue so I’m h ok ding my hand up and apologising for going sour on them when I just needed to be patient. I hope those with difficulties get sorted quickly.

Claimed height is 5mm. It arrives tomorrow. If it doesn’t work, the 15mm that’s currently on there will be staying on there. I’m not buying a whole new aheadset. The bikes only 3 weeks old. It’s not even got wet yet. I’ll update how it goes. Just in case somebody searches the internet for this stuff, if for nothing else.

I bought this

Does anybody know if this https://www.cannondalespares.com/Cannondale-Road-Headset-5mm-Top-Bearing-Cover–KP253/product_detail/3-40270 will work in place of a conical aheadset spacer on a (non Cannondale) tapered steerer / Integrated aheadset?

No good at all at jumping.
Average at holding on and not falling off.
Pretty good sprinting and climbing steep and short at a reasonable pace (I have oddly big thighs for my size).
Better at going long distances.

Thank you. 8.5mm is the smallest I can find. That might have to be the one.

Found it! This one

Bugger! I’d have been really interested in those but I’ve just bought some that I found.

9 degree sweep I suppose. Not really sure what the minimum sweep would be.

That’s a great tip. I’ll do it this morning. Thanks

After much research and help from you guys, I’ve concluded it must have been the Syntace flat force which is way beyond my sensible budget so as also suggested up there, I’ll get a high ride stem and turn it upside down. Thanks again for the help.

NO reply from the seller (Rhymes with Giggle as somebody guessed up there ^). I’m jut going to ride them and fight it out IF a warranty needs presents itself. Thanks for all the help

Sorry. Not those. The Syntace is almost exactly it but the drop is not so severe. Are they available in different angles? I’m in a meeting so searching on my phone is tricky. I realise that head angle will make a difference but this is a pure XC race bike. It doesn’t have any slack about it.
If one of you geometry wizards want to do some maths?…
Happy I’m not the only one who’s seen one.

“It lowers the bars without being an obvious negative rise”
“Any stem with a positive rise flipped upside down.”
Thanks anyway.
Thank you for the suggestions. The stem I’m thinking of runs just about horizontal to the floor and clamps below the top of it. I know what I mean. This could be a purely cosmetic requirement and it may make my bike ride like a donkey…….

Thanks again everyone. I’ll wait to see how I get on. Definitely not OEM.
Thank you very much Jules. That’s really kind of you. I’ll maybe just keep riding them and see what transpires. My only concern is the warranty. The wheels are great and completely unmarked. I wouldn’t have any idea if I hadn’t had to register them with Mavic.

Thank you for the helpful replies and general discussion.

For the benefit of hols2, I was looking to see if anybody had been through similar or maybe had words of comfort or tough, take it on the chin which leads me nicely on to:

“I wouldn’t mind betting any warranty is voided anyway as you’ve ridden them before registering them.”

Maybe I have inadvertently null and voided any warranty anyway and quite by happenstance brought about my own resolution. In which case, c’est la vie but I shall also chase it up with Mavic if needs be.

First world problems……

“Ummm, wait till you hear back from them?”…. That sounds like a plan. Thanks for that.

I did Bsc Sports Science with Biology as a mature student. I had the intention to go into teaching at High School level. Tried it. Didn’t like it (started PGCE).
I’m not in touch with anybody from my course but I was for around a year after graduating, kind of.
Nobody that I was aware of from my Sports Science group had managed to get any meaningful career started that involved any great degree of Sports Science qualification requirement.
Biology was tough learning. Sports Science kept me awake at night. That was a whole new level of hard.