The great purge? Those in the know refer to the night of the long bans but I may have said too much already…

Having absentmindedly jet washed my leg in the past I can reassure everyone that the water floss is nothing like it. I too got congratulated on my dental hygiene after buying one.

There’s another thread from a while ago if you can find it. I prefer the Philips one.

What are the odds that a story like this turns up when JHJ is on “holiday”? Makes you think, doesn’t it.

Got a few midlife crisis road riders round my way. Clipless, super expensive bike and lycra all the gear,no idea types. I love going past them on a steel SS with flats wearing baggy shorts and a t-shirt whilst saying a cheery hello

lycra and flats is an unusual combination. Clipless pedals and road shoes support your feet better which most people find more comfortable over longer distances. Personally I prefer the feel of float compared to sticky rubber stuck on pins but YMMV. I clip in for road and mtb but not on the frankenbike commuter

hmmmm…. sounds interesting. I’ve not had a puncture on a road bike in a very long time. Will consider it when I upgrade wheels on the summer bike. The winter bike can stay on burly clinchers since low maintenance is the order of the day (year).

so what’s the downside to tubs then? seems like they’re stupid light – there must be some reason we’re not all using them all the time (not trolling, I’m genuinely ignorant)

@hanchurch – fair enough. We all have to make choices. I have deliberately avoided getting into fast cars since they make fast bikes look cheap ;-) If we play the game with stereo and record collection it will look worse for me than my bikes…

@hanchurch – you deserve another bike! just use the rest of us spendthrifts as justification

someone off here has been used as a reference point by his mates who wished to portray themselves as restrained, i.e. “nosediveX has bought a Merc van, I only got a second set of wheels and I put the spares on eBay”

is it just me, or does that bike look very, very wrong? feels like looking at the aftermath of a horrible crash where some poor sod’s foot is pointing the wrong way and I want to hurl

3-4% I think for the mtb. Though struggling to remember what I was paid 5 years ago (the bike is a bit like Trigger’s broom by this time). Probably a bit less than that for the roadie (er, one of the roadies).

Mind you, comparing to gross salary doesn’t take into account what you have left after the taxman has had at you. An interesting measure might be against net salary, i.e. “of the £X,000 I had to live on this year I spent Y% of it on a push bike”. That really could be divorce-making material for anyone who prioritized carbon fibre bling over the family holiday :lol:

Totally OT but some neat tag team work by the mods up there. I’ll set ’em up and you knock ’em down etc. Do you two practice this sort of thing?

joking aside, you can afford to go to the states and you can afford to hire a sports car, but you’re bitching about $220 when non-payment could result in all sorts of immigration grief should you ever want to go back there? just pay up and the problem goes away

if b) had been ‘fella apologises, does his best humble Hugh-Grant-bumbling-brit act’, it might all have gone away…

doesn’t always work though

I thought this was the new forum :?

Edit: or was that the “joke”?

Thanks CFH. A bit llame, to be honest.

I was hoping for a better punch line than that. Surely someone can do better.

I opened this thread with a nasty feeling you were all going to say it makes a lot of difference. I like beer, and I like food. But I also like not feeling like I’m going to die every time I ride uphill…

I assume its this you saw. There’s plenty of different bits of trail in the woods there.

Signs don’t solve the problem because people think they know better. I’ve seen the queue vigilantes doing their thing as they crawl past a sign the height of a double-decker with letters 2 feet high saying USE BOTH LANES YOU BELLENDS (I made up the last bit but it should’ve done)

sugar free is your problem there. Fizzy drinks don’t work for me without a bucket of sugar in each can.

pondo – are you that cockwomble who ended up trying to ram me?

or get yourself a P (and a free T-shirt as a bonus*)

* or not, if you’ve been a long-term financial supporter of the magazine/website

when they had a lane closed near Derby there were *huge* signs saying “use both lanes, merge at the last minute” and still people got in one lane so the queue backed up and blocked the exit behind us :roll:

I nearly got rammed by a bloke who was policing the lane-to-be-closed-half-a-mile ahead

issue 7 was first for me 8)

might have to get a shirt since the last one has just disintegrated

do either of those have the alarm the OP requested?

I camped at Rosedale. The office had a big sign saying “no groups” so I expected a quiet night. Then a huge van pulled up and disgorged a gang of chavs who’d presumably hidden in the back while their mate claimed it was just him and his missus. They went to the pub and got lashed, then returned to drink more and fire up a BBQ. By 2 in the morning singing and swearing was no longer sufficient entertainment so they started fighting each other. We left early.

Icke is incredible – on the surface he’s so lucid and plausible but what he’s saying is utterly hatstand

have you made a suggestion yourself, then? so’s we can see if your musical taste is any better than ours

The staff in many Evans branches are great. I went to the Sheffield one and they were really helpful.

Of course, it could just be that one branch.

I liked this one

Your man Henderson, that boy with the glasses who is doing a PhD up here at Queen’s in Belfast
Buncrana, County Donegal

With the message inside saying “if this has arrived, you live in a village”

so we’re saying that wearing a camera is some form of honey trap… and all drivers would be considerate, calm and reasonable were it not for those camera-wearing two-wheeled maniacs trying to be run down so they can create footage of purple-faced fat men falling over?

I feel like I’ve fallen down a rabbit hole

You made the right choice. Simple and stylish versus so many different dials you can hardly see what time it is.

re Sleeper – singer Louise Weiner (sp?) writes novels. Of the chick lit variety, I think.

Hora – you have confused me even more than normal. Why does someone who liked Elastica also suggest such utter shite as deacon blue? :?

I may have posted this one before on another thread

are you jivehoney in disguise? I promise I wont tell anyone :lol:

not just some tyres

is it wrong that I want a fat bike just so I can have tyres that say Husker Du on them?

done

judging from last weekend at Llandegla, every bike requires a van to transport it. And you have a clown bike. Do you have an HGV licence?

If there are going to be people in the back seat you will likely need an estate. With no passengers in the back then a hatchback with the seat folded will do you.