Sadly, I woke up at 1am local and the jet lag is real. Coffee is the order of the day now that I have my snowbaord. Tomorrow we’ll be out at Lake Louise

The hard part is finding somewehere to have breakfast before the first bus, although the day lodges at lake louise and Norquay are both good, and open before the lifts

but seeing as they’re opening for bikes?

Does the Carte Neige cover you if you’re on the bike? it’s cracking value in that case

just pedal faster

When I lived on a cycle path with a good variety of natural/sneaky trails within 10 minutes i would have undoubtedly said yes. Now I’m a city I’m not so sure, running a car to and from the trails adds a massive amount of expense. I still enjoy it, but i cant help but wonder if i wouldn’t be better off with gym membership and an additional cheap ski holiday instead

I’m only home about 20 weekends a year though, so that kind of skews the balance

Until the panels get a lot cheaper the payback periods are going to be too long for most adults/mortals to consider them an investment.

decent outer cable and the right end caps are pretty important – you don’t have to go super expensive, just not the very cheapest stuff.

a hacksaw is as good as anything on brake outers.

where did you buy it?

Do I sense a “What outerwear for riding DH in the Alps in December” thread.

I’m not sure i can see the benefits of opening some of the lifts to bikes at this time of year, it has to be a bit of a slippy gloop fest, bikes are a fair bit more expensive to hire than skis, and i don’t think you average skier is ready for just how rough a DH crash is likely to be.
If you were a really enthusiastic DH’er you’d probably be at home doing uplifts on you own bike or in Spain enjoying sunny trails

What an assignment! I know nothing whatever about these matters

Possibly the last time a politician told the truth.

Buy2Let’ers to buy in the cheapest areas (up north) as it will be more tax efficient to buy say 2 x £50k houses than 1x £100k?

Yields will still be pretty appalling and growth pretty much stagnant I reckon half of all northern BTL landlords are people who’ve been forced to keep a house that’s in negative equity and let it out to service the mortgage.

holy thread resurection!

Just got a mkVI Golf hatch and I’m weighing up my options. I’d prefer to go down the towbar route but this might prove a little costly for the 5 or 6 bike trips a year it’s likely to get used for.

If I use a Saris – do i need any extra wiring for a lighting board?

change your wifi to a hidden SSID and change the password? got to be easier than constricting what devices you can use and safer than keeping a 3G/4G connection ticking over by your side all the time

We can afford anything, all the numbers are made up bullshit

Where does all this money they spend go? On wages. They don’t burn tenners to get these things in orbit. So the money just goes back in to the system

As stated most space missions ultimately only throw a few hundred pounds worth (scrap value) of aluminium, batteries and electronics. The money goes into making these incredibly strong, light powerful and resilient and eventually this knowledge will benefit us all (i’t not just material science – it’s certainly helped push the development of microelectronics and telecommunications. The missions by their very nature throw up a lot of difficult technological questions and the money is spent answering them.

Are there more important challenges? (yes improving female eduction in the developing world is well regarded as our best hope of a better future) and is it a little carbon intensive? (probably not comapered to something like videogaming). But it’s sexy science, it attracts the best and the brightest, it certainly has its place.

What is the benefit of landing upright?

You don’t dunk a lot of very expensive engines into the sea. Fuel is cheaper than engines. I guess it sacrifices a proportion of the payload but it won’t require a massive amount of fuel compared to the launch

I’m quite impressed – looking forward to seeing the falcon heavy in action.

I wonder if Spacex will buy Sealaunch?

I had one of the guys at work asking if I had a special round allen key for those bolts.

Can’t go downstairs until the alarm is deactivated.

Santa doesn’t go until it’s light

I’m going to try one of the home easy wireless PIR’s and use that to switch on/off the 12V PSU at the socket. Fingers crossed

Or you could just set up your AV properly, much cheaper.

at the time Snow leopard was £100 cheaper than 64bit windows

Winsxs is a horrible idea, i particulry like waiting fro virus scanners to churn through it all. Another reason i went to OSX

I’m just waiting for an oil company to go directly banzai against the Saudis

I had to get up early the other day to build the new cross trainer before I went to work. That felt properly festive – putting something together while it was still dark outside.

A sled ride wouldn’t bring much glee
on the rocky roads of Galilee

The camel and the Christmas tree
basic inconsistency
mulitcoloured fairy lights
aren’t like the stars on Christmas night
When they sang about the manger bare
they meant there were no baubles there

could be the same person? forget it, block them, move on. If you start worrying about things like that you’re basically putty.

The first 10 mins of Up is another one

Especially if you wiffe is called Ellie – Wah!

I don’t know why they don’t go after peopl who don’t report their dividends – that must be a much more widely abused loophole the IR35. Oh wait I bet that;s all your basic toffs..

“get it fixed or expect a solicitors letter” along with a couple of phone numbers for reliable plumbers.

Or call a plumber, pretend to be him, and book an appointment when you know he’ll be home?

Sounds like you’ve done okay with the premium, but if it had been a massive hike it might have been worth getting new quotes once she had 6 months experience

wasn’t there a thing about using your avios to fly aer-lingus to the US, mitigating most of the taxes, plus clearing us immigration in Dublin? seems like a decent call. Flyertalk have loads of info on this kind of thing

The nativity is very much the bibles own “Phantom Menace” anyway

In my last primary nativity I played santa, explaining the story of the nativity to some aliens.

We didn’t have the vicar stand up and say that all of that was true.

I don’t really know what the solution to religious education in primary schools is – it’s like science in that you have to tell a few fibs to explain the easy concepts and let them worry about the more complex truth when their a little older.

Top marks if you get the kids shouting “Liar!” at the vicar every time they see him. Even if it is pretty possible some kid was once born in a stable.

generally whichever goretex ones txmaxx have in, or at least a decent branded pair at a good discount off rrp

two £25 pair of gloves is a better bet than a £50 pair IMHO

I don’t think you’d slow the belt down because the energy transfer isn’t there

Once you add incline it’s effectively speeding up the belt, it’s more about trigonometry than energy diagrams.

Still not going to be too difnified when you roll off the back of the belt, whatever the reason.

Can you file a large piece of metal square ?

Mill it square and file out the machine marks ;)

I havent reconsidered my postion on wether or not women need calendars, but I have come up with a more nuanced view on what this calendar means and why it’s disappointing.

I think the back-street garage comparisson is the correct one. These calendars are only likely to “publically” end up in workshops, tea shacks and other places where women, while not specifically excluded, are not expected to be present. It suggests that an exclusively male environment exists.

The question is not who would be offended and why, but is it acceptable for a workplace or shopfront to have that whiff of inconsiderateness?

It’s one tiny rock in the pile of things that keep some women away from the sport and the industry, but it’s keeping up the debate.

As for the calendars that end up in teenage boys bedrooms…

MPS should be chosen at random from the electoral roll

Easy

Women are omnipotent enough not to need calendars so I don’t see what it has to do with them.

The real question is – why will a calendar with scantily clad women make more money for charity than just some pictures of tyres?

If i wanted a fence up, Id put one up, you can wait forever for people

If you were riding on a treadmill or conveyor belt set at a constant speed, and somebody increased the incline, you’d have to ride faster to stop you going off the back, the force of gravity really does come into play in this situation.

if you elevate your front wheel on rollers, all you achieve apart from perhaps more comort, is having to move the back rollers forward a bit.

Try looking for GJD stuff. 12v and very reliable.

Pretty looking detectors – but not quite what I’m looking for – if I wanted a seperate control box I’d probaly head down the raspberry pi route.

But for the other 15% of the time?

There’s a van hire place in the village :D