Oh goody.
It’s time to sell off my extensive collection of redundant frames before Mrs M divorces me.
One BMX / 4-cross,
A Dragon Kaffenback,
A Norco Bomber from ’98,
etc
etc

Real, please. Mrs M is not well-blessed there, but she suits what she’s got and that is fine by me. Overlarge tits don’t do anything for me.

I use variants of either postcodes or vehicle registrations (not my own) which are semi-random and not too long. So far I’ve not knowingly been hacked.

The ‘hardy souls’ thing was in jest as well wasn’t it?

No.
Could you do it?

well, I did the Lyke Wake when I was 14.
What happened to the idea of a few sandwiches & a flask of coffee? Isn’t that enough?

A couple of points: there’s nowt to stop you from parking on the road just by. The walk goes a couple of hundred yards from the pub anyway.

And I don’t much like the Ribblehead attitude to cleanliness or welcome, either. If ever a near-monopoly was abused, it’s there.

and apparently the US was responsible for a Russian gas pipeline blowing up, & the Russians blame them for the recent loss of their new airliner.
Cyberwarfare may get very sticky soon.

Are there any other forks going cheap at the moment?
I’m looking for a pair for a 29er.

Scaredy, I wanted a Jack Taylor too. I went to their works where I was about 16, & still get narked that my dad wouldn’t buy me a 2nd hand tourer of theirs, with 15 gears, 3 x 5. He saus that no-one needed that many gears…..
I’m also ex-Stockton. Thank god.

The Rainbow Pig.
Actually a 1998 (probably) Norco Bomber in bright orange. Horst Link suspension, Risse Racing shock and a design that meant the seatstay cup split after a couple of 1000miles. They gave me a new one for free, but the shock blew & was irreparable.
Bought 2nd hand from a shop in Whistler before everyone had heard of the place, 1999.

I think the bike was the only one which made it to the UK, it was before Norco had an importer here.

Are Haro Marys (Maries? ) still available? One of them plus a set of 29er forks would work well.
Being a cheapskate I bought mine 2nd hand and like it very much. I plan to put sus forks on, but missed the On-One cheapness sale.

Flirting is like trying on clothes or testing electronics.
There’s no harm done so long as you don’t get them wet.

There’s the FB group, of course.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/12587800214/

I presume you’re looking on Gumtree and other flatshare sites?

It sounds as if you’ve missed the mid-life crisis and have turned into an old grump already.
A decent MLC involves staying up all night, being inappropriately young at heart, cheap dates and expensive toys.

Why didn’t you go home last night & leave your wife to enjoy herself?
There are taxis, you know.

Same here, I’ve a good shelf-full unread, or started then discarded in favour of something else.
Mrs M recently found some books which have lain undisturbed in our attic for about 30 years: anyone for a 6-volume mid C19 line-engraved “Chemistry as Applied to the Arts & Manufacture”? , chemical engineering for Victorians
When the apocalyse comes, that will be the reference book to own.

The thing is, we ‘re an island so much of our water runs out to sea in small rivers & streams instead of forming large rivers which can be either dammed or be extracted. Damming small valleys is expensive.

We need to move water around – there are canals between London & Llangollen & Lancaster which could be used if a few pumping stations were installed. It’s not happened, though.

Pehaps we should install some hole-in-the-floor loos, in that case.
Much more hygenic and more difficult to break. I’d use them.

Fiat Ducato camper van here, areodynamic as a brick with roof windows, awning, etc> 31mpg on a longish run.
Not much worse than the fat blokes SAAB I used to own.

To add to this, most scientists I know (and I know plenty) think that current science’s job is only starting, let alone “nearly done”. We hardly understand how biology works at a molecular level, epigenetics is turning 50 years of DNA research upside down, and new materials are improving electronics and photonics at a massive rate. It’s a good time for science.

Ah, time to dig out my second spectrum theory…..

So, once upon a time, before Isaac Newton and Galvani took their parts upon the stage of the Renaissance, mankind’s experience of the electromagnetic spectrum was limited. We could see (visible wavelengths) and we could feel the warmth of infrared from fires and sun upon us; we could detect static electric charge from fur and other fabrics, but that was all. The rest of the all-encompassing electromagnetic universe was hidden from us. In the few hundred years since then, we have detected and found how to use wavelengths from gamma-rays to radio.

Science explains nearly everything we experience. That’s a “nearly”. Many people have reported phenomena that are not explicable, however. Coincidental dreams, premonition, animal behaviour before earthquakes, synchronicity. I know that I have experienced my own share of events that are not explicable nor at all probable. So here’s a hypothesis: there is a second, parallel spectrum of radiation which is transmitted and vaguely detectable by humans under certain circumstances. Think of feeling warmth from a distant fire as an analogy. It happens, we just cannot explain it at present, and we have not invented the instruments which could isolate and detect this vibration in the ether. That’s why humans adopt a consistent posture of worship in most religions: we give ourselves the shape of radio aerial receivers as an unconscious effort to improve our ability to pick up the “divine”. Conversely, transmitters of magic or healing in most cultures make pointing gestures to maximise their ability to radiate.

That’s the hypothesis. How could it be proved or disproved without instruments? How could we design detectors or transmitters without the knowledge of what comprises this second spectrum?

Lindt chocolate bunnies, bought in boxes of 60.
The young ladies will eat them, the older ladies will take them for their kids.
Don’t forget to leave your business card with your private number!

Try parcel2go.com
cheap effective & easy
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The Who.
Stockton-on-Tees ABC, 1968.
🙂

Most of us liked your mum.
🙂

I should add that I did buy some other stuff this week, tyres & tubes, & everything arrived as ordered, very quickly. I likes ’em, I does.

My only beef is that their sale prices end, but I know that it’s unreasonable for them to keep them low all the time.

I have been havering over the purchase of a pair of 29er Reba forks for a while, but when the price bounced up this week by £100, from £300 to £400, that put me right off.

No matter, I’ll ride rigid.

Yay, if someone else is paying.
I do like a big bit of dead pig.

Can you back up your contacts to the PC, then sync the Nokia with your PC ?

Start by looking on the BBC Languages website, there’s lots there. Listen to French radio instead of whatever you do at the moment. (I like Beur FM, but the accents aren’t exactly French.)
Be careful about learning while driving. I tried that & came close to several accidents through concentrating too hard on listening.
French films are good, after a while you will start to pick out phrases.
I’d also recommend going to classes such as the Alliance Francaise, for the chance to practice talking

I blame Thatcher!
For a) kickstarting the whole “housing Ladder” thing, by encouraging purchasing and the selling-off of council houses. If it’s a ladder, it should only have 2-3 rungs.
and b) removing the recommended living area regs. to which older houses were built (hence the larger sizes of pre 80s houses), and implementing minimum standards, to which so many 80s-90s rabbit hutches adhered.

How is it with emails?
I thought it could only get those if you have a BB phone already?

Thanks so far.
Yes, we have a Campy hubbed wheel with small block, and a Shimano-hubbed wheel with 12-32 or so. I need to alter a the chainline too. Thanks for the tip about Parkers

Stoner – will do. I’m likely to see BD tonight as well
Mail in a mo.

On Friday evening, I hope.
Stoner – I’ll buy you the drink I reckon I owe you, if we meet.

The royal coat of arms retained the fleur-de-lys for centuries after we lost our French connection; there’s no reason to change the flag if we don’t want to. I say we: Northern Ireland will be part of the reduced UK, too.

Midnight, possibly, but (for instance) Hawaii has kept its early version of the union flag for 200 years. I think that it has a pre-Irish version, just England & Scotland flags combined.

I’m a regular exhibitor at medical science & similar conferences.
The giveaways have two purposes: to attract people / business cards to the stand, and to make the company memorable.
A raffle giveaway is the former. A Kindle with Amazon vouchers for downloading stuff fits the bill. We’ve used that very successfully. How about 1 x Kindle and 3x runner-up bottles of good whisky?

For stand traffic, chocolate / free drinks seem to work best.
Pens can just be grabbed without stopping.

For “memory” giveaways, Post-its and rulers seem better than pens where the logo is invisible most of the time.

monkey, how did you get your name?
Yes, I eat fresh food in season. Chard from the allotment yesterday, for example.
Nuts are imported, yes, but are generally not flown in becasue they keep well. That’s why squirrels hoard them over winter, that’s why they are still good to eat a year after harvesting.
Fruit is OK in moderation, strains of high-sugar fruit are likely to give the insulin spikes which current thinking suggest are bad for you.
Tell us, monkey, how do Inuit get their Vit C when they don’t eat any fruit? It’s from animal products.

It looks more like a marmot to me.
Where’s your mate just been on holiday?

is that the result of a bike mating with a frog?

The LW / Ashton Court / 50-acre complex has constructed trails that can be as fast / fun as you want to make them, if not particularly technical. There are still plenty of semi-cheeky routes as well, enough to keep you happy.

I’m old and slow and crap, so I really like what’s been done.
Yer Tiz for beginners