Hmm Diana Rigg 😈

The only good thing about myspace is that Murdoch paid $580 million for it 😆

Campag Delta Brakes – Beautiful but apparently not very good

The burser at my school had one in navy. It was a thinkg if beauty. She also drove some sort of Aston converted Capri as I recall which looked like a capri blinged out by a james bond obsessed teenager. (Tickford?)

I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about 😕

Any road levers. They pull less cable than V brake levers.

I have a Salsa Mamasita and I will never buy another 26″ bike. Simple as that. I am 6’3″ and a 29er feels like it is a better platform for someone my seze and I love the way it rides. It could be because I am a bit of a roady, I don’t know, but for me, it’s 29er all the way from now on (until something better turns up :lol:)

Fine now but it will never look like that again after you’ve used it once.

Guitar.

I started before Christmas and really enjoy it. Relaxing and entertaining. Try justinguitar.com to get you going as well.

Club la santa is a default for that kind of thing and there is a new place who sponsored the Saxo Bank cycling team last year but I can’t remember the name

Some nice choises there guys

Today I am wearing this

Changed my mind

I am certain that Schrodinger’s cat is dead by now.

Our young kids would miss the bath, but I guess that will pass in time. I wouldn’t want to be without a bath until the kids are 10ish, but as said above, it’s not difficult or expensive to get one put in if there is space for it.

I’m running a drop bar version with avid cable discs and a 1×9 setup. I use if on and off road on fire roads and the odd bit of single track and find it to be fine for all of the above.
My only gripe is that I think the cable discs are a pain and wéigh a ton. If I were to start again I would either go with a flat bar and hydraulic brakes or more more likely a drop bar and canti brakes to save money and time on brake pads and it would also give a lot more flexibility when it comes to getting spare parts.

This is becoming a list all the cities in Europe thread, which in turn is probably no help at all if you’re trying to think of somewhere to go.

To turn things on their heads

We wanted a city break lat spring so we just went for somewhere we hadn’t been before which had cheap flights and a good deal on a nice hotel. The location was somewhat secondary. Eneded up in Vienna which was nice enough.

Bugger – beaten to the plane gag 🙄

Copenhagen if you don’t mind the risk of bad weather.
Stockholm, Helsinki as above

We have a fancy High Def HDTV box with a USB port on the front, a hard drive in the middle and an internet cable sticking out the back. It does all sorts of clever things 🙂

Anyway, it looks like the Sony is really good, but there is a Toshiba one for less on play.com which may end up being the one for me 🙂

I already have all of the above from my HD satelite box.

My kids don’t watch mutch tv but I think they would spend more time in front of a PS3 and I want to avoid that.

It may be irrational, but I don’t think it’s illogical

Don’t want a PS3, I don’t like games consolls and I don’t want my kids addicted to them (well I want to avoid it for as long as I can)

😳

Doesn’t that sound like some serious cheapening of the whole thing.

Lets get an F1 driver to try to be a high jumper and get the cyclist riding a horse.

A bit more depth may be OK, but keep the Simon Cowell element out FFS

uncooked porridge oats (the quick cook variety) seems to work better for me than cooked porridge. (very normal breakfast here in Denmark)

Having said that I am getting fatter and fatter at the moment so perhaps my advice should be avoided at all costs.

After lunch 🙂

As for the clothes, it’s all about the shoes in my experience. As a consultant with a big company, we were told to dress to fit in with the client so it could be anything from jeans to suit and tie. However, you can get away with a lot if you have a really smart pair of clean shoes.

Jeans and a shirt look completely different with brogues and a jacket than they do with trainers (even smart black ones) and a fleece.

Isn’t that piece of string 42 inches long making 106.69cm long?

There are too many books I haven’t read to spend time re-reading the ones that I have already read.

Having said that, I can image re-reading one or two before I die (Hemmingway springs to mind)

My dad has liv ed on the east and west coasts and now lives in Colorado.

California is great, but expensive and too much traffic.
East coast is a lot like Europe – both good and bad in terms of climate etc
Colorado is fantastic and would be my choice (Boulder to be precise) but also expensive

We have the chance to move there within the next 12 months but have decided to stay in Europe becuase of the health care (we have a sickly kid) job opportunities (I am a consultant and don’t want to be away from home 4-5 days a week) and vacation entitlement added to the distance from our families.

Seems boring and I would never have expected to make that decision but I guess I am just more boring and grown up than I used to be. I have also finally learned to appreciate the good things about living in Scandinavia 🙂

aero bars are supposed to look better and make less noise. I suspect that it is 90% of the former and 10% of the latter.

I have never noticed if mine are straight or not.

I don’t have nightmares, but I often find that agonising over bike parts stops me being able to get to sleep at night.

I think it is really work related stress, but it manifests iteslf as bike anxiety!

Agree with DD, get the anual cover and the you don’t have to think about it.

Tartanscarf: I’d be interested in hearing how you get on with that. I am doing the beginners course ATM.

Mrs OJ has already got a surprise for me. If it’s another bloomin’ baby then there’ll be trouble 😈

Maybe I am paranoid, but do you really want your car numberplate published here?

Very nice bike BTW except for the spacers.

Had the last shaped one and it was OK, the fuel economy was nothing special (1.6 petrol) and it was a bit noisy but it was super practical.

I would probably not get another because I do a lot of motorway miles, but for the odd journey it was great.

We ‘re fine with the situation at the moment and we can see that he is a lively and outgoinng little boy who appears to be just as intelligent as his “normal” older brother. I was more concerned about the physical development as he gets older.

The only “challenge” that we have at the moment is that he is not really talking yet but that is not too much of a surprise as he is bilingual and has spent time in hospital which causes setbacks on it’s own.

Thanks for the comments though 🙂

Lessons are the only way to go I’m afraid and if she wants to be any good, there are many hours of practice ahead as well 🙂

I just bought my first “real” guitar this week. It’s a Morgan (no not the Canadian ones, it’s Norwegian! and I can’t find out much about them but it sounds good to me) I like it and it was cheap for a hand made guitar

My first experience of going into a music shop on my own to look at guitars scared me off rather a lot. I thought bike shops could be bad, but this was dreadful.

I am just learning to play and realised that I wanted/needed a steel stringed guitar and not some cheap old nylon stinged classical guitar that someone gave me. I was just completely intimidated and ended up leaving with a set of strings for the guitar I was hoping to replace 😳

The problem now is that I don’t think I’ll be allowed to consider getting anything else until I am at concert standard 🙂

can’t be arsed to read all of that but here in Scandinavia everyone uses them and they make a really big difference.