Main dealers do more.

Yeah, keep telling yourself that, you might even believe it.

Always done Presta for road, Schrader for MTB, never had any problems with either.

Presta is too delicate for MTB and there aren’t any advanatages in using it for MTB, but is ideal for road as its easier to get higher pressures in.

Mind you, saying that, I did used to run 120psi in my BMX tyres when riding flatland…… 😯

Balls, broke my foot

Well you shouldn’t swing them around so much then!

😉

Best reason to go for petrol? They aren’t diesels. Hateful nasty crap things, I have to drive a TD Ford Focus for my work, lovely car and handles very very well but the engine is beyond crap.

I gladly use my other turbo petrol car and swallow the petrol costs, which are significant being as it does 18mpg round town….

Ok, had a really good look at the listing and here’s what I have..

Kitchen
Ceiling looks stained
Kitchen is very dated, style of cupboards, glass display unit, non-integrated appliances, cheap too as it’s got older worktops with metal joints….
No dining space (yes there’s a table and chairs but no space to use them really as they are space saving type ones)
I can see damage to the worktops in the poor quality pic so in real life it probably looks worse.
As you walk into the front of the house its straight into the kitchen. A lot of people with families want a kitchen out back so mum can see the kids in the garden. Even if people don’t do that much nowadays its still what families look for.
It’s the FIRST room they see, they need to be impressed. Even if it’s an older kitchen you can do a lot to freshen it up. Remove some of the cupboards around the dining area end to make that area bigger, make it look good with fresh light coloured paint (use Dulux Timeless instead of PBW), repair the worktop, put new sealants in, maybe new door knobs.

Lounge
Wonky light fitting
Stairs in living room – does put a lot of people off.
Not a lot of space for furniture as the stairs and doors use up a lot of space – think about moving stuff around to make the best use of the space. Walking in through kitchen door into the back of chair won’t help. Bold wallpaper may be making the room look smaller than it is, its a bit dated now maybe? I was selling that wallpaper 9 years ago in the DIY store I worked in and fashions move fast.

Double bedroom.
Looks ok at first glance apart from being a bit pokey, but careful look at the pics shows scuffs and marks on the paintwork and paint on the window, just looks scruffy and uncared for.
Other rooms
Odd shapes and hard to see them working other than an office or a toddlers room – that bed looks small and I couldn’t see that a full single (if that one isn’t one) would fit in.

Bathroom
Looks ok actually….. but if the kitchen and lounge have put people off then the bathroom won’t rescue the viewing.

Garden
Best feature? Could be BUT the borders are overgrown, there’s a weird big conifer at the bottom hiding what appears to be a scruffy shed? Again, says not looked after. You appear to only get the view from upstairs so it isn’t something you can bank on. Perfect time of year to cut the grass, make some nice borders with a few bedding plants and get rid of anything that doesn’t make the grade.

Roof – looks older than neighbouring properties. Guttering looks wonky and different from neighbours too – older stuff?
Stuff around back door and blocked up door looks poor. Just render the concrete blocks area.

Wouldn’t cost more than £300-400 to completely transform how the house feels to a potential buyer. Probably less than that in reality but more time and effort required from you more than anything. There’s some stuff you can’t do anything about without spending massive amounts but make everything else look awesome so they can look past the negatives.

My house I sold (very similar to yours) I spent very little on before we sold it, just repainted rooms to brighten them up and get rid of bold colours we liked. We had an older kitchen worse than yours but I spruced it up for a few pounds to show that it would be ok to use for a while until they could afford a new one. Repainting out kitchen and putting a new blind in and tidying up made a huge difference.

Mr Smith. I thank you for your input. On the whole, you come accross as a clever fellow. But please piss off and don’t come back. Ta.

And thats why you aren’t selling your house. You’re a know it all whose house stinks of fags and wants more for it than its worth. I bet you’ve discarded all advice you’ve been given so far…… the agent will probably be glad to lose you.

Settle in sunshine, you’ll be living there for a while longer.

Do you smoke inside? Smell of smoke puts a lot of people off, especially as they go to visit a house which admittedly looks good enough to move into then find it stinks so they’ll have to redecorate, new carpets etc.

Looks quite nice inside but when you get to the pic of the front of the house….. wow it’s not a looker is it??

A huge thankyou to Newrobdob for contacting Exposure on the back of my original thread. I have had an email regarding my Joystick and they are willing to fix it as a gesture of goodwill. Big shout out to the bods at Exposure, Thankyou all.

Yay! I didn’t post on the original thread about this as I didn’t want to say something then Exposure not come through for you.
Yet another reason to use Exposure for your lights everyone (like you needed an excuse!).

Dangerously overpowered cars. Far too fast for the public roads, no one should be allowed to own or use one outside of a race track.

Are you on crack dude?

I’d made sure he was right behind me then braked hard. Either crash into me or go in canal. 😉

its a bit of an initiative test to weed out people who are really interested, whilst at the same time ensuring you actually have a very basic life skill for virtually any modern job (IT).

Job didn’t ask for ANY IT skills, couldn’t be much further away from needing them. I have loads of IT skills and I couldn’t get their stupid application system to work.

how about looking for opportunities at the newly reopened Piece Hall in Halifax. Her arts and retail experience would be a major plus.

Nowt there, have checked. Thanks anyway.

T). Did she really need to buy equipment? Could she not have used it at a library, Internet cafe or a friend or family member’s house.

Eventually we decided the best way was to do it outside as it’s an outside job and it would add interest to the video and make her stand out. Spent ages setting it up to get a great picture and background. All goes ok until halfway through when the app goes all weird and the video recording goes all off focus. No chance to record again and not the fault of the phone as I had full signal/wifi on an iPhone 7. All practice sessions were fine. Total rubbish and we’ve written it off now. 🙁

Company strikes me as one who is using tech to make them loook good or maybe save them time but the app was total garbage and their website they used was contradictory in what they asked for (said in one bit to have a blank background and in a quiet area then next said you could use an Internet cafe). The app used the phone camera but in a really odd way which throttled the data steam somehow and automatically reduced the video quality down to 1995 standards. I can stream HD with my phone connection so it certainly wasn’t my phone.

Why are the seat stays dropped like that? Looks stupid and can’t be very strong.

Weirdness just to be different I reckon rather than for any benefit.

Handling dirty crap all day is never going to be but those guys in the kiosks just look like they’ve given up.
How do they make any money at all?

We used to have a guy trying to sell double glazing at the front of the big DIY store I worked in. Nice enough bloke but that had to suck. He explained he got a few quid for each address he got for someone to follow up and a bit more if they made an appointment. Did it for ages at our store so must have paid a wage but I just couldn’t do it.

I did a summer job in a local factory who made the cream cakes for Tesco (very very clean) and worked in the packing dept for a day. One of the ladies there said she’d been there 8 years or something. I was bored sick only doing their job for one day but when she said “only 36 years to go!” I stopped feeling sorry for myself.

It’s not the job itself, it’s the absence of hope that does it. But I’d do any job rather than be unemployed.

The last place in the universe I would look for a job is Facebook.

Honestly, I’d rather look under rocks than go to Facebook.

To be honest I’ve not been on long and I was of that opinion already…

Via Facebook or similar, see if you can find someone local looking to gain experience as a life-coach and looking for suitable candidates?

I’m not very good on Facebook to be honest as I’ve only just signed up to use it for the first time for this sort of thing so not sure how to do this.

Can I just say that if newrobdob stands for President, PM, leader of the literary world or anything I’ll vote for him. Well said – you can take your wizards, dragons, runes, magic, spells and shove it up your Fantasy aisle. Keep it away from SF.

You can be Chancellor if you want….. 😆

I used to love them. Didn’t do the most extreme ones but pretty much everything else.

I particularly loved Rita Queen of Speed at Alton Towers, my all time favourite. Then one day I went to Alton towers and went straight to Rita so I could have a couple of goes before it got busy.

I was so excited right until it launched, then I was absolutely terrfied and didn’t enjoy a single second. Totally rattled me and I didn’t go on anything else but Air that day, and I haven’t been to a theme park since.

I’ve no idea why it changed, but it did.

Problem is that I’ve been on a jury, did a few cases, and I know how people see these things. I’d say the majority of people would consider the case carefully as we’d all want them to do, but maybe 1/4 to 1/3 will just have a snap judgement which they won’t sway from. Add in a dose of anti-cyclist sentiment and the “no brakes” issue and its hard to see how he’s going to get off.

Hopefully the legal points will be well presented and he will get a fair judgement on the facts, I really hope he does. But nothing will raise the victim in this case back to life, which can overshadow a lot of good arguments, even though it shouldn’t. 😕

I’ve read a lot of the arguments above and they throw up some very important stuff.

However it’s hard to see that even a reasonable non cyclist person wouldn’t find him guilty. Bloke goes out on a bike intentionally having no brakes and hits someone crossing the road and kills them. That’s what it boils down to and the defence would have to be very very convincing to get a not guilty charge.

Signed up for Facebook (we don’t use it normally) to see whats on there. Seems to be mostly jobs in pubs and restaurants and “earn £500 a day with 1 hours work!!!!!” type “employment”. 🙄

Update – we’ve started looking and she is going for a job with a very big regional company as an apprentice. However the application process is a complete joke, the IT to use doesn’t work and they expect you to buy IT stuff just to complete a job. Basically if you don’t have a PC at home you couldn’t apply for it, very bad I reckon.

Not had any luck anywhere else yet. Nothing at Canal and Rivers unfortunately.

I HATE the way sci-fi books are lumped in with all the fantasy crap in book shops. Because of the success of the fantasy stuff on TV and films the sci-fi stuff has been pushed out of the way in most shops, their over bloated tomes full of stupefyingly complex character names and weirdo plots dominated the shelves.

Sci-fi is as different to fantasy as crime is to horror, so why are they always puts together? I’m going to open a sci-fi only shop and if anyone comes in and asked for Harry Potter, GOT or anything even remotely wizardy, hobbity or dragony they will be executed on the spot. 😆

Surely you could move nearer Leeds but not in the centre? Hardly anyone lives in the centre so people would still have to travel. You’d get issues about parking provision too – believe me if you don’t provide the same amount of parking you do now they’ll be mutiny.

I would just say to them, yes we’ve considered it but as rents are so much higher it would restrict our financial position to give pay rises in the future and you would find it expensive to park etc..

I had the Thule rigid armed one (9104 like this one) and while the initial set up was a big faff it was ridiculously easy to use after that, incredibly rigid and sturdy and no straps needed on the car. I solved the scratching issue by putting small bits of helicopter tape on where the mounting points went when I first set it up. It had the added advantage of showing you exactly where to place the rack to get it central too. No scratches on car when eventually sold.

My next works lease car probably won’t have a towbar like my current one and I’d not hesitate in getting another rack like it again.

By all accounts Bruce was a real professional, used to practice and practice and prepare till he had it perfectly. Bloke on R4 this morning said as much, but he also had a genius of being able to ad-lib on top of all that practice.

The big names put in huge amounts of time polishing theirs acts, especially in the early years. It’s not easy.

Bloke on R4 this morning said it just right – he didn’t want to be famous, he just wanted to be an entertainer and worked very hard at it. He was always very surprised he had been so successful – more people could have that sort of outlook!!

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@newrobdob they look like my sun tour xc pro shifters! Love them still but modern Shimano are nicer I’ve had to reluctantly admit. Same goes for bigger wheels, wider bars, shorter stems and 1×11. Still love riding my old Kilauea but more for the reminiscing now than because it’s better than my new bikes

I ride with my hands on top of the bars a lot when touring so thumbies make so much sense. The “click” when shifting on the Dura Ace units is almost addictive……

I also have some thumbies on my Kilauea……

And my Dave Lloyd…

And my GT…….

😳 😀

I have 9sp Dura Ace bar end shifters converted to thumbies using Paul Components shifter mounts on my tourer. I absolutely love them to bits!

1990 was the start of underbar shifters. Unless you count those that fitted there thumbies upside before that.

A lot of people, myself included, swapped early STI’s for thumbies as the early ones weren’t very good at all. Best was chopping off the shifters off XT Servowave STI’s so you got the best brake levers but adding the now legendary XT thumbies.

I find 6 point great when you’re dealing with stuck bolts/nuts which might be a little worn. 12 point can be easier to get onto a nut or bolt in a tight access situation and are fine for most nuts and bolt in good condition. I’ve only had to resort to a 6 point a couple of times on my 20 year old car.

I’ve got the Halfords 60 piece pro socket set and it’s done most jobs on my car without breaking a sweat. I’ve added onto it the ratcheting spanner (why did I not get some of these years ago they are awesome!!), a long breaker bar and a couple of extensions. I also bought a couple of single torx and hex sockets for individual jobs.

I had one of the ratcheting spanners break on me and when I went into Halfords they gave me a new one before I’d even finished saying hello! Replacing instantly no fuss, no receipt asked for!

Maybe they should be reminded of their waste disposal duty of care. It’s ok to recycle packaging but that’s disposing of trade waste to the consumer.

If I had 5k I would satisfy my hankering for one of these…

https://instagram.com/p/BJr_2mcBcvI69W5J7MWZJfrTBaYx5NafYvxlz80/

Once upon a time I ground down a large chainring to make a DIY bashguard/trouser guard thingy. Wasn’t pretty but worked really well and wasn’t sharp once I’d filed it smooth.

That’s awesome!

I just sold my 64gb iPhone 6 for £200 as a good example.

If you can start making chain rings like the original Onza Buzzsaw for geared use they’d sell well.

I don’t know the answer or how to figure it out but it is an interesting question!