Nope. Not insured.. Not normally left out of my sight either. Was out for a quick lap on my 2007 Anthem at the time. So I’m not left bike less.. I was well aware of Cannock’s reputation and even had a pretty bad feeling about parking where I was, but I was also in a bit of a rush, so headed into the first parking spot I saw.. Just wish I hadn’t now.. :(

I don’t live anywhere near Cannock – so if anyone spots anything looking like my clothes dumped somewhere out that way I would be grateful. The bike I can just about live with, replacing my whole wardrobe is pretty much impossible.

They took the acoustic ‘space’ between sounds, as used so effectively by Talk Talk, and turned it into modern day pop music with soul.

Guy Garvey seems a very decent bloke.

And I saw them in Sheffield Uni Student Union in 2010, along with about 50 other people.

They can do no wrong in my eyes.

But I can understand the backlash happening, given their ubiquity and how comfortably middle their music appears to sit now.

It’s a ball-ache.. been coughing like an emphysema sufferer for the last week. Really bored of it now.

I failed to follow my own simple rules, before a staff-leaving cake-ceremony at work the other week: obsessive-compulsive hand washing.

Ha ha.. You sound like an exagerated version of me OP. I have nephews too..

Hate the buying presents part of Xmas. Pretty much hate the receiving presents part of Xmas too. If the presents bit would just bugger off, the rest of it would be great..

3×5 then… 3×7 then… 3×8 then… 3×9 (and 2×9) currently for me.

Have 9 MTBs with 3x set-ups, so I’m fairly well committed to 1900s chainring and front derailleur technology… ;-)

Nothing practical about it at all though, probably… save the opportunity to let rip on the fire road descent three times a year at CyB Beast. It’s probably pretty well all fashion (and economically) led for me.

Triple ring bikes just look ‘right’ to me – and changing the front ring feels good – the mechanical punctuation point between the grind to the top of a climb and the beginning of a fun descent.

I’m awesum.. 8)

I’ll admit it. I’ve never given this thread much of a look in, guessing it would be full of tedious Amateur Photographer style moonlit landscape bollux, and photos of autumn leaves. And so it was…

But the diptych of your parents on the bed by geetee1972 is genuinely moving and awesum. Great photo(s).

Love it. (and I even got to be quite artsomely pretentious and use the word ‘diptych’) :lol:

Hope so.. I might be able to get on with some work.

Can someone explain to me what the difference is between Jivebunny and Jamba(fact)?

I don’t really follow the corners of STW they lurk in too closely, cos they seem quite tiresome places to be. But, from a vague distance, they seem to be one and the same entity. Even have usernames beginning with J.

It does make me think.

Okay, she’s looking a little more rad here:

Plus that bike’s too small for her.

. How did the left shifter make your right thumb go numb

I wondered that. Interpreted it as ‘right thumb on left hand’.

Must have two thumbs on his left hand, I guess.

Phish Food tends to be a bit lighter than Chunky Monkey, IMO.

Dude, you sound depressed, which is no reason to sell a nice bike! I have ten nice bikes sitting there doing nothing most of the time (I can only ride one at a time). Looking at them, indoors, makes me excited about riding them again. Bikes are the coolest bit of inspirational decorative art a house can have. They are great, even when they are doing nothing.

Keep it. :)

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I thought VWs had already had their ’emissions’ fixed, there was a big hoo-ha about it a year ago.

Sorry, should’ve put a winky.. ;-)

J.o.k.e. a.l.e.r.t.

….. aaaaaaaaaahnd then you’ve got to fit it / them. 8O

Good luck with that. By the time I got to step #32: reassemle all 17 fine needly grommet bits back in the right order, without losing them, or sending them pinging off under cupboard…

I realised this was not a service for me.

Your fine motor skills may vary.

I thought VWs had already had their ’emissions’ fixed, there was a big hoo-ha about it a year ago.

Can’t they just have podium guys for the ladies cycling events..? Sod it, they could even be oiled up and wearing thongs for all I care.

I think the whole cycling podium girl thing is, just a bit cutesy, and French. More like a joyful fun celebration… but then I’m a dreaded male-person, white as well. I may as well shoot myself.

I’m not a female lady-person, so who knows… maybe they find the whole podium girl thing totally degrading?

If so, then fair enough.. I guess time to move on.

^ yes, but man wants new bike.. :wink:

Test rode both Mk1 Solo / Branson jobbies a few years back. Solo seemed eminently capable. Very capable in fact, Bronson seemed like too much – albeit amazingly capable – bike, for my xc-mince style of riding. T’was at Afan.

Both seemed very ‘neutral’, which could be a good thing, but I found them both a teensy bit dull. Well, especially, for £9k worth of top drawer Enve equipped bike anyhooo.

Trek are pure Evil.

… so all that suggests you would be better off sticking with the Solo and getting a dropper. :lol:

It’s borked. Needs a full stripdown and service. £100 ish from TF tuned.

I’ve found that my recently built up (5 months after purchasing) eBay frame has the same problem.. :(

Sad that some sellers aren’t able to reveal crucial bits of information like this.. Hey-de-ho..

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V nice… 8-)

Brings back memories…

Miss it.. :(

Jura Asda is too common and attainable

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A good squirt of Fairy liquid neat onto the stain. Rub it into the stain for a bit. Leave to settle for 30 mins.

Wash on the hottest wash the garment can take – preferably with an extra rinse setting.

You will need to re-proof the jacket after this.

I’ve got a real soft spot for them. Used to ride bikes, so I am pretty well smitten with Honda anyway. But I also like performance, handling and vivacity in motorised things.

My GF’s Mum has a 2009(ish) Jazz. I’ve driven it a few times and absolutely love it. It feels a bit like a space ship inside. The steering feedback is very taut and ‘poised’ – for what is supposed to be a sensible granny car. And the 1.4 VTEC engine is very rev-happy. Really good fun to drive – for what it is.

Practical, reliable, economical. I’d happily own one.

I’ll add my tuppence of conjecture…

I suspect that silver bit is factory sealed to the bit you unscrewed. To replace it – you have to replace the whole hose – with a new factory sealed silver bit fitted.

This is how Shimano hoses appear to me to be anyway – you adjust hose length at the lever end and leave the caliper end alone.

I could be talking bollux though.

Lennon… McCartney… Harrison… Probably Lennon’s the worst offender though.

Renault’s what? His brother Marcel?

The guys I suggested will apply for a multi-entry version of the electronic pre-approval letter (for a charge of something less than $20).

I used these guys last year to apply for an electronic ‘pre-aproval’ letter.. Then hand over passport at immigration on arrival and pay $30. No problems at all.

http://www.visa-for-vietnam.com

I got stung (under the helmet, missus) by a half-asleep-half-dead one a month or so ago. It was like a pathetic joke.

Got stung – again under the helmet – by one in full summer rage mode back in September and it turned my head into a puffy mess.

Wouldn’t fancy being attacked in bed though..

Is this thread actually for real..?

Been seeing these out in Sweden for years. Not quite sure why everyone appears to be going crazy for them now. Nothing special, apart from the typically pragmatic conservative Scandawegian design approach and decent build quality. Perhaps people would rather embrace these jackets than those detective-style knitted jumpers? ;-)

(qoute-of-quote) old school natural xc orientated rider like myself who likes riding uphill (/qoute-of-quote)

Finding it hard to comprehend how you didn’t instantly fall in love with 29er.

I love riding uphill, often as fast as I possibly can, just for fun. But am completely ambivalent about 29ers, after demoing a half-dozen. I can see why they are good at what they do, but what they do (IMO) is make things faster, somewhat easier and, overall, MTBing less-engaging.

If I was regularly riding marathons, 12 hr backcountry epics, or new to MTBing, I could see the point. But I don’t/ aren’t.

Luddite 26er to the max here :lol: , 3×9, 32mm forks, tubes, narrow rims, 2.25 tyres, 69-70 deg head angles. It’s a wonder I’m even able to enjoy myself on a bike at all… ;-)

I used one in my office every morning last autumn. It was REALLY gloomy this time last year – and definitely got on top of me. I can’t remember which model or brand it was though. About £35 on eBay reduced from about £60 rrp.

You have to REALLY dedicated using it though and follow the instructions. Needs to be around 30cm from your face and blasting at you for a solid hour (and a bit) in the first half of the day. I used it beside my computer monitor, which was quite alarmingly disconcerting for my office mates.

The diffuse light lamp is SUPER bright. Painful-to-look-directly-at, bright.

Does the trick though..

60 day returns on all items – as it says on the back of your receipt.

No worries.. :)

If you can’t sing the notes, or don’t sing the notes, you’re off topic. Go home. If you don’t want to sing the song that someone else wrote, write your own song, don’t claim to sing it and then sing all around the notes. Gah!

Try telling that to David Bowie.. ;-)

I think ^this^ sounds dreadful, by the way..

Yes. You can. Just do that, it’ll be fine. I’m guessing you need more like at least a 1:1 ratio of oats to yog though.

I do overnight oats with milk and water for my porridge in the morning – then cook it as usual. Makes it extra unctuous.

Simply amazed that mikewsmith hasn’t popped up on this thread to tiresomely eulogise about how amazingly super awesums Aus and Tas are.. ;-)

They aren’t, by the way.

They’re not baaaad. But not amazing either.

Weird Science…. did very, very odd things to me and nearly blew my head off in a way that I almost couldn’t quite understand (at the time).

The Name of the Rose (Great Umberto Eco film)

Close My Eyes (Great film, incidentally, with the late Alan Rickman)

…Aaaaahhhhnd something about a bunch of female tribal women in the Amazon, who wandered around the whole film with their tops off.

Edit: found it! Emerald Forest (1985)

All late nite VHS recording from the TV that my Dad had done (apart from Weird Science), probably for the same cheap thrills reasons that I liked watching them.. :lol:

Them’s were the dayz.. :lol: