No pictures. I started to get the phone out and he reversed back to ask “are you taking pictures of me. With 4 in the car I decided the correct answer was no.

Gave my number to the walkers but didn’t get theirs. Will see if they get in contact later.

TBH, it’s the destroying the moorland aspect that I’m interested in reporting. I’m sort of used to people driving like dicks.

Nothing interesting found on google…

cut gate is all or nothing. wonderful in good conditions, godawful after rain. save it until it’s either frozen or dried out. Somewhere on this site is a wet weather dark peak route though I fear it included rushup edge 😥

2 sausage, 1 egg, 2 bacon, 2 black pud, 2 spam, 1 burger, mushrooms, beans, toms, 2 fried bread.

you do realize how bad bread is for you?

I’ve got an ortlieb velocity backpack. I decided it was worth the money and it’s been great but I’m sure I didn’t pay as much as they are now on wiggle.

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so you’re saying a STW shop voucher is borderline useless?

EDIT: just looked at the shop and seen what £10 will actually buy you so I agree with the description

I got one of these signs for my French teacher mother when she owned an unhinged dog. Probably not much use to the OP (unless he lives in France).

just remembered a workmate’s story of when he was a student and had a summer job in a rendering plant. He said his mother used to turn the hose on him in the garden before he was allowed in the house!

wear baggies over lycra and strip to the lycra before entering the house. Tiptoe gently to the shower depositing dirty kit in the washer on the way. It helps if you have a garage joined to the house but works even if you don’t (one of my group has a short sprint to the house, performed in shorts only in all weathers).

Obviously you still have the challenge of getting into bed without disturbing your wife but you’re going to have to figure that out on your own…

I’d expect floorstanders to be much more stable than standmounts. Biggest risk is probably getting the cones poked in. They seem to be irresistible to small (and not so small) fingers.

the risk with furniture (bookcases especially) is that it looks like something good to climb up. And it is good to climb until it becomes unbalanced with a child at the top.

I have no kids but I’m looking round my place at all the stuff that will have to be secured/removed once my sister’s kid gets mobile. Currently it’s probably a death trap (if only because damaging my stereo is a capital offence).

I’ve been using an 810 for a while and had no problems. Auto sync generally works fine (I think the times it didn’t work was because I left the phone at home and it didn’t have time to pair up after I got back). Not tried the course following, should give that a go. It is a big thing to have fastened to the bars – I’m happy with it on the road bike but I’m sure I’d break it on the mtb. It does find satellites quickly after I turn it on. Much quicker than my other (runner’s watch) garmin.

your toddler(s) or someone else’s? if they’re only a temporary addition to the household you might take a different approach

more here

While amusing, it doesn’t seem like the sort of thing Mr Nice should be saying.

Don’t tell anyone, but it’s not my real name…

if you want to know how tough road bikes are go and look for videos of Danny Macaskill (sp?) and others doing trials and tricks on them. Frame/fork breaking is a long way down the list of reasons it’s a bad idea.

while waiting to see if I also need to apologize for being a nob….

You’ve not said if this is an illness or medication issue but garage-dweller is right that the people treating you will have seen others in the same situation and can give better advice than the rest of us.

iolo – is it hugely offensive to make a smartarse comment about how you don’t need to drive if you’re an ultra rapid cyclist?

NB. Please tell me to **** right off if I’ve crossed the line – you have 15 minutes to allow me to pretend it never happened 😉

AlexSimon’s pic is my wallpaper. I’m happy with man-made slabs when they’re gritstone and look like they’ve always been there.

give DCC a couple of years and this’ll be the best we have

One inch of fork length is meant to be ~1 degree of head angle so the handling will be a bit twitchy but you won’t die (probably). TBH if you want a road bike you should get a road bike not some bodged up frankenbike.

EDIT: having actually looked at the link it says they’ll work with 100mm suspension frames. This supports the hypothesis you won’t die but it’ll still be an mtb with rigid forks and not a road bike

look for any of the threads started by jacob46 when he was looking for a commuter bike – lots of good advice. Whyte have a range of suitable bikes (I just bought a Suffolk as a winter trainer but it would make a good commuter).

is it allowed to count individuals who’ve done lots of good stuff but with different bands? If yes, then Mark Lanegan.

Teenage fanclub maybe?

everyone else I thought of is already mentioned.

I have your teaching schedule for the next week:
history – siege engines
CDT – building a trebuchet
PE – use of trebuchet followed by a cross-country run

Or mudshark’s idea…

it’s possible it’s moving coil but they’re usually more high end kit (expensive). Some MM cartridges are louder than others so being quiet doesn’t necessarily mean it’s MC (if you know the model then you can check). If volume is a problem you can look at the amount of the gain the phono stage gives. That’s not usually down to cost (my current phono stage cost more than the previous one and sounds better but is slightly quieter).

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More realistically, I noticed on my crosser that the big steerer bearing is the one on top, so expected tapered steerers to turn the other way up sometime soon.

would that not cause some problems with fitting the forks?

[tries to find that picture of a bike with the forks on upside down]

and to add to stumpy01’s comment on modern amps not having phono stages built in: even when they do have one it’s often crap (I’m looking at you, Arcam). Even basic external phono stages sound OK and they aren’t expensive so you’re better to just include it in your amp budget.

the small wire is the earth. It doesn’t affect volume.

does the new amp have a turntable line in? TTs are quieter than other sources so you need a phono stage which can be built in or external. I’m guessing the old amp had one built in but the new one doesn’t. Maplin or richer sounds will do you a basic one.

you don’t sound like you’re getting great quality information if you’re finding out things now that you could/should have been told before the surgery. Keep asking questions of them, especially if you don’t like the answers. Unfortunately medicine isn’t an exact science and even the best doctors can’t know everything. Does sound like time for an open discussion and maybe that second opinion though…

Drugs get licensed based on risk-benefit ratio, i.e. if it has nasty side-effects it has to be doing something pretty special to get approved. If your doctor thinks the benefits to you are worth the risks you should understand why he thinks that before taking any decision. As usual on these threads – go talk to the doctor and if you don’t like what he/she says get a second opinion (from another doctor not from the internet). And good luck, I hope you find a solution you can live with.

EDIT: unpleasant side effects doesn’t equal dangerous and toxic – both things to be avoided but they’re not the same [/pedant]

I’ve got some endura windproof gloves. They don’t keep out the water if it’s raining hard but they stay warm when wet. I will need something more insulated when it gets really cold but they’re great in current conditions

long wheelbase didn’t seem to slow richpips and minipips down on the pootle (they’re on the right)

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It ain’t your helmets fault, it’s your maternal grandfathers.

a special prize to JCL for being first to note it’s not your dad’s fault as this particular gene goes down the maternal line.

I spent years knowing I wouldn’t lose my hair as my paternal grandfather still had most of his into his 80s (I never met the maternal grandfather). About 10 years ago I discovered the facts and went to find a photo of my mum’s dad who I now realized was a baldy. I think my hairline started to go the next morning 😥

I believe he’s hiding pooks dog

and a spade

FWIW bog standard SKS guards fit fine, work well, and look OK. Not quite as neat looking as the whyte ones but they’re mudguards for god’s sake.

Can’t help about the rack but I will continue watching in case someone else can actually answer the question…

bean chilli as I’m doing the iDiet thing currently
random plonk (red) earlier but peppermint tea now
country music on BBC4

living the rock’n’roll lifestyle here… 8)

Been trying to think of climbing stories for gravity-slave but the climbing world is sufficiently small that there are all sorts of random encounters you can make the most of (e.g. I climbed with X when actually all you did was fall off the problem he’d warmed up on one-handed).

One of my mates (no, not me) was the subject of disparaging comments from Ron Fawcett while sat by a boulder smoking. Getting told off by his hero was not a high point 😆

EDIT: I’ve got another one – my workmate’s husband pushed Steve McClure’s daughter on a swing…

Musical connections first.

My schoolfriend Emma is now known as Scout Niblett and has recorded with Steve Albini and Bonnie Prince Billy. Tony Soprano’s daughter Meadow had a poster of Emma on the wall in her college room.

I was also at school with the bassist from the Darkness (not the original one). I’m less proud of this.

What are you eating? I need to knock a few kilos on the head and I’ll try most things short of Picolax.

calorie restriction works
iDiet / slow carb / 4HB works
5:2 works
plenty of other things work too

Pick the one you find least unpleasant and thus easiest to stick to. For me it’s slow carb but YMMV.

I successfully lost weight when I stuck to it. I stopped being so rigid when I was at a weight I was happy with and I didn’t immediately regain. I only regained when I threw it completely out the window and ate far too much rubbish without riding it off (mmmmm… greggs custard doughnuts). Now back on it and will try to find a happy medium once the belly has gone.

geetee1972 / johndoh / ton – congratulations

edukator – I am starting a new logical fallacy bingo card in anticipation of more contributions from you. Keep ’em coming!

@piemonster – it’s undergraduate psychology stuff that

There’s a simple experiment you can do:
– Draw up a questionnaire about belief in conspiracies or other “alternative” belief systems, e.g. the supernatural. This allows you to score participants on how sceptical (or not) they are.
– Then draw up some questions to assess participants’ ability to estimate probability, e.g. how likely is that your kid would share a birthday with another kid in their class (it’s more likely than you’d think).
– Now compare the scores. What you typically see is that higher levels of belief (you could call it “credulousness”) are inversely correlated with ability to estimate probability, i.e. people who believe in conspiracies aren’t very good at estimating probability.

The accepted explanation is that human beings often over-estimate how unlikely things are, i.e. they see a coincidence as indicative of some deeper structure or meaning rather than what it is, just one of those things. I think that’s usually due to not taking into account how many other situations did not result in the positive finding (sampling bias).

A bit more reading on statistics, particularly w.r.t. observational research, and a bit less obsessing about alien lizards would be of great benefit to some people. Mind you, it would also make for a very boring thread.

A bit late now but I have a suggestion. When reviewing “packable jackets” and discussing how having more features makes for a bigger packed size, take photos of the jackets packed so the reader has some idea of whether they meet his/her definition of packable. A pack I accept in my camelback might be too big for a jersey pocket.

argyle always used to be a heavy fork for jump bikes and big impacts – am I out of date?