As in life, be very careful about the company you keep.

Well the property market in any areas you would actually want to live and raise a family is utterly distorted. So yes. Open days and silly over asking sealed bids stuff. So London, 2 years ago.

I always felt that the A6 was the nobber sweetspot, but I’m happy to be corrected.

My aunt (by marriage) hated mushrooms as a child, as did her sister. She was forced to ‘clear her plate’ of everything at mealtimes. She told her parents she would be sick if she ate mushrooms – they said she would have to eat the sick off her plate as well.

She ate the mushrooms, was sick, and was forced to each the mushrooms and her own vomit until the plate was clean.
She’s a bit funny with food now.

I feed my 3 and 5 year old a balance of proteins, carbs and veg. Sometimes they don’t eat it. I don’t really care. My best friend ate only white bread and martmite till he was 10! He’s a food writer now…….

Forcing your children to eat anything is wrong. Requesting that they try things is good. It can take a child 17 tastes or times to ‘like’ a different food remember.

A man yelled out:

“Keats! Byron!”

At his children in a sports club soft play the other day.

I had to stand up to have a look.

He didn’t look like a fan of the young romantics poetry movement, it has to be said.

There’s a very good documentary on Netflix called ‘Perscription Thugs’ about overperscription of painkillers in the US.
Quite eye opening and there’s a great twist in the second act!

Is there anyway to clarify where the issue is?

Well – can you try another rear wheel? If it creaks as well……

For context, my bearings in the admittedly notorious Novatec hubs lasted just 5 months of winter riding.
The Ezo bearings had no grease in them or it had been washed out.

I just bought new bearings – it was easy to change them.

Compare that to my last Shimano Ultegra hubs cone hubs which lasted 8 years 🙂

Is there anyway to clarify where the issue is?

Well – can you try another rear wheel? If it creaks as well……

For context, my bearings in the admittedly notorious Novatec hubs lasted just 5 months of winter riding.
The Ezo bearings had no grease in them or it had been washed out.

I just bought new bearings – it was easy to change them.

Compare that to my last Shimano Ultegra hubs cone hubs which lasted 8 years 🙂

Rear hub? Either bearings in freehub or bearings in main body might need renewing.

A vile creak started in mine and I thought it was the BB.

I like them.

Why, this is strange.
I just changed my BB on my Giant TCR!

How about trying the fit without? I don’t think mine had the sleeve.

thomthumb:

Set of JIS screwdrivers for shimano mechs.

This guy knows what he’s talking about. 🙂

As many sage others have said: very clever marketeers.

I bought identical Kinlin Rims (30mm or so), Novatec hubs and Sapim C-xray spokes direct from Taiwan and bulit myself for about 2/3rds of the cost from Bdop. I appreciate that that is a hassle for some though.

The rims are def. rebranded Kinlin though – which is not a bad thing by any means, but the overbearing imagry and marketing is a bt de trop.

I am regretting my novatec hubs as the rear needs new bearings and is chewed up a bit after 6 winter months. They have a rep for this though 🙂

The OP asked about age gaps – not wether at 60/70 you are still driving sports cars and feeling fit as a fiddle as some posters are bashing on about.

8 year age gap is big – almost generational. I was close in age to my sibling, but my best friend had a 8 year gap to his older brother. They are not close. He’d left home for uni when he was 9/10. Sample of one, admittedly.

To give my opinion of having a baby later in life….respectfully OP – at 50+ as your wife will be, she is too old. Sorry- but that’s what I think. 40’s ok. 50’s, it’s too late. I felt like I was too old having two in my 30’s.

I appreciate other opinions will vary 🙂

I was on an evening road ride with a friend who I had been on a few rides with before. On our way back into the city, we were about to cross a large bridge with tolls. He sprinted away as there were no cars coming, past the empty tolls and across the bridge on the wrong side of the road.
I asked him what the hell he was doing. He replied, airily: ‘Strava segment’.

I like Strava as much as the next person, but I just thought: ‘idiot‘ and actually never rode with him again, now I come to think about it.

Can’t you just take them to the pool and teach them yourself? Go when you like that way, don’t think swimming lessons existed when I was a kid, dad just took us.

I’m with this guy.
I taught both mine to swim. I mean, they’re not going to trouble the olympic selectors, but whatever.

I figure, if they’re into it when they’re older, they can join a swim club or something.

Too much is outsourced these days.

Another thought…..
Isn’t it just advertising ‘I have bikes in my garage/shed’ to thieves?

Two neighbours of mine on a very quiet street had theirs on their cars constantly, parked outside. Mysteriously, both sheds were broken into and bikes stolen.

Probably coincidence.
But just a thought.

MrBlobby

I built my own:

Kinlin X31T (31mm rim) – These are the rims Hunt uses, but rebranded.
Novatech Hubs – 20 / 24 (Again, Hunt uses another Taiwanese brand, but no better and these have same Japanese bearings)
Sapim CX Ray spokes
Sapim Nipples

And a few tools.

It came as part of a kit from these guys in Taiwan.
http://www.bdopcycling.com/DIY%20Alloy%20Road%20Wheel%20Kit%20III.asp

£260 (plus 20 customs) – might be more with Pound weakness.

Took a week to arrive. Longer than that to build!

But great wheels.

DCR wanted £480 to build essentially the same wheelset…..

I don’t know much about bottom brackets but…..

the the shimano BB86 has been on my Giant TCR for 7.5 years now. It’s my only road bike and ridden a lot in all weathers. Thousands of miles a year. It’s still absolutely fine.

I don’t know if this means anything at all.

Sorry – I can’t deliver good news either.
Our 5 year old is ok now (i.e. stays asleep) but CAN wake at 5 if she feels like it.
But our two and a half year old…..has probably slept through the night 7 times in her life.

She just doesn’t. We’re up 3 times a night. Hopefully it might get better at three, but I’m not hopeful.

It’s just one of those things and you do get used to it.

This is why we are designed to have children at 18 or whatever and not 40.

Just…don’t bother changing tyres?
ie, just use the road ones.

I’ve been using my Schwalbe ones outside and on my turbo this winter and, frankly, the wear is not that bad.

If they do wear, well I’ll just buy another….cheaper than a wheel and less faff changing tyres surely.

DC Rainmaker agrees…..

Thank you for the insight, Kryton – that seems very sensible.
Did you ever do the base plan?

Could I ask you chaps for some advice?

I’ve had trainerroad for about 6 months and have been doing 1 x session (sometimes a sweetspot or a Sufferfest) during the week and then a regular Saturday morning 50k chaingang with the club.

I’ve just decided to do the Sweet Spot base plan, which is 3 x sessions per week. Here’s the thing – do I just do the two sessions on the turbo then ‘count’ the 90min session as my chain-gang outdoor ride?

Or do I do the three in the week then THEN the outdoor ride?

For context….it’s a quick ride 4 laps of a 10k loop with long flat and then a climb. It’s quite ‘competitive’ shall we say 🙂 and I like to be fresh for it.

I know it’s a bit tricky to say, but if any of you have done the same thing it would be god to get advice.

I’m sorry man, you sound like you’re having a tough time. It’ll get better.

For what it’s worth, I agree with those that speculate it’s more work related than not.

I too was in a job that I had been in for a fair while and got to a senior-ish level like you. And then new management (american – but oddly they were not the problem) and the nature of my role ‘evolved’ from operational to sales based…..it happens. Well, I was still responsible for ops too…. 🙂 (Of course)

And it became unbearable, but not so unbearable that I couldn’t do it day to day but it was taking it’s toll. I don’t suffer from anxiety, but it made me feel bad. I found a way out eventually.

Sorry for the ramble, but what I’m trying to say is what you are doing now is maybe not what you want to do, even though the money is good. And it sucks when you work somewhere and you feel ‘trapped’ maybe?

Good luck though.
It’ll be ok.

🙂

Another Croyde one.
Very clean and big about 12 years ago. Offshore….I was with my friend who was a bodyboarder. I had my misgivings as I walked down. More uncertain as a chap with a cut head and half a board walked out. It was low tide of course. I knew Croyde well as I had grown up surfing there. Dry hair paddle out. Sat out back for ages. A wave much larger than I was capable of surfing arrived and I took off on it too late. It was probably not enormous, but certainly head height plus. It felt like standing on top of a building and then a similar feeling as I crashed to the bottom. My leash was ripped off the board (board end) and I was stuck in the white water. I thought I was drowning. It was frightening. I made it out and a nice man had gathered my board.

I did it again next week 🙂

Oh – one more. Some sort of massive ray (sting, manta?)appeared next to me and some american girls I was surfing with in Maui many many years ago. It was really quite a shock as there had been a few Tiger shark attacks around the island at that time. They were not impressed by my high pitched British shriek and I didn’t get off with any of them, later in the bar.

He’ll probably have a classic narcissistic personality type, with a strong leaning towards the exhibitionist tendencies inherent within this personality strata.

He’ll have very much enjoyed you looking at him, I’m afraid.

Stoner:

Dirt embedded deep in leeks from the garden
When coffee grounds escape around the edge of the cafetiere press

This chap has it right.

I thought it was just me!

Kryton, you should buy it.

However, it’s all getting a bit pistonheads in here, isn’t it?

Can I start with the ‘bingo’ words that we may or may not get:

“Epically fast”
“Lovely place to be”
“Mile muncher”
“Boot swallows anything”

It’s terrible, rubbish, same old same old. Simple right wing telly for stupid Brexiteers. Sexist throwback to the 70’s, this sort of thing should not be allowed on tv.

Did I miss anything as I’ve not actually seen it.

😆

Is it 300 ft up a hill?

I don’t like to be the voice of dissent and maybe an anomaly…..but the Revenant lenses for my Flak Jackets (1.0) absolutely did not fit and basically just fell out. They were visibly thinner than the OEM Oakley lenses. Er….so I just bought originals.

tell her to prepare a ppt presentation for the family, milestones are important here it shows commitment.

Quite.
And if she comes up short on the ‘funding’ – perhaps a shade under the agreed 2k, terminate the project as breach of contract. Tell her it was purely a ‘business decision’ and that she can ‘learn from these things’.

Valuable.

Good going, mate. And impressive weightloss…..I bet you notice that on the hills.

I second the turbo thing…..I just used to ride the club ride and then it all tailed off once children came along. I got a turbo this spring (and trainer road) and the improvements you see are quite remarkable. I did try zwift but I have a Cyclops Fluid so would consider it more with a smart trainer.
You do have to be a certain type of person to go into a garage or whatnot and smash it out on the bike attached to a machine. I can see why it’s not for everyone. But if you do want to grind your riding buddy into the dust…..
🙂

He is just not fit for high office irrespective of what I think of his policies. He is petulant, self absorbed, prone to outbursts, acts without thinking, likes to bully and throw his weight around and he has very few morals in the pursuit of making himself richer and more powerful.

Junkyard, do you think his behaviour(s) might…modify in office?
I don’t know.
Rhetoric is one thing when grabbing the job but when in the job….?

Whilst I will make no secret of my contempt for the man, I’m not convinced that the end of the world is just round the corner, as many would beleive. As a previous poster as already alluded to, I’d rather have Trump in the office than that religious nut job Ted Cruz, who in my opinion would have been an even bigger disaster.

That’s an excellent point.

My god, it just gets worse for STW’ers everywhere.
First Brexit, now Trump.

It’ll be a sad, ruminative drive in their Audi A6 S-Line (Black version) to the office and then later, as they bring in the two year seasoned ash for the log burner and watch the news, maybe a small whimper.

They’re loving this on Pistonhheads, I’ll bet.

‘Psychedelic Pill’ was surprisingly good. Well, 4 of the songs were 🙂

Does his return have anything to do with his recent divorce? That must have been pricy.

Christ, it’s not thatbad here and now.

I’m guessing you were not of working age in ‘the 73 / ’74 three day week or even ’79 and that barrel of laughs.

Stay or go – it doesn’t matter. Your kids will probably be fine unless you f*** them up in another way.

Miele cat and dog!

I don’t have a cat or a dog, but it’s a good machine.

I used to have the extraordinary situation of working in a Central London Office (just off Oxford Street), in a converted townhouse…..but no fibre. The best we had for YEARS (till 2014) was 2mb up and down via SDSL. But, we managed. There were at least 25 staff using it concurrently!
You could not get fibre there. Maybe this has changed.

At home I get 175mb down on wifi (with kids currently streaming netflix) and 12 up…..Virgin.