Anything in particular there?

Have you seen this?

http://www.potsuk.org/doctors

A list of doctors with an interest in POTS. Just if you were still wondering what to do next

Chasing after them and distracting them.

IS. I think I’ve got it sorted. New spacer on its way from the internet. My mistake was not knowing that rotors (and by extension spacers) come in more than 160, 180 and 200mm sizes.

Yeah, I was under the impression that rotors were only available in multiples of 20mm, but it turns out that you can get 180, 183, 185, 200, 203 and 205mm rotors.

Sorry, to clarify I know it’s a 180mm rotor but I don’t know what make. I will admit that this is not my finest hour.

Just tried taking the spacer out and that won’t work. The spacer say “185” on it which makes me think their probably spacers for a weird 185mm rotor.

Annoyingly I don’t know what rotors I’ve got because the bike is second hand and I don’t have a full spec. I’ll see what happens if I take the spacers out.

Fair enough, I’ll suggest that he look again at the frame size. That said, he’s off to the on one showroom as I type to have a look at stuff so I imagine he’ll have a better idea of sizes shortly.

@longmover on a side note – why do you no longer have a blue pig? I just bought one…

I would guess about 6’3″ but I’m not entirely sure. He worked out the frame size he was after.

Does anywhere stock On One or do you have to order them online?

Yeah I like the Whyte 901 – I almost bought one myself recently, but I don’t think he can afford the extra tbh.

Re the lurcher – I can’t seem to find anywhere that sells them. Are they still available?

I had a quick look at On one’s site – do you happen to have an opinion on the In bred 29er?

http://www.on-one.co.uk/i/q/CBOOIN29FS/on-one-inbred-29-steel-front-suspension-mountain-bike

Coughbumpcough

BB?

*cough*bump*cough*

^ Mega, thanks. I’ll head up on Thursday and do something akin to route 4 I think.

The eastern moors partnership has also opened up a track on Big Moor which makes for a very pleasant loop.

Where is this?

That suggests riding Froggatt edge, so I guess it’s legit. Streetmap is still claiming that it’s a footpath, but that leaflet claims it’s bridleway

Well, that’s Thursday’s ride sorted.

Just looking at the OS now – do you know whether the path along white edge (i.e. just to the east of frogatt edge) is legit as well? Also, are the other bridleways between Curbar and Baslow worth having a look at?

@antigee – interesting (skim) reading, thanks.

As seen with Froggatt/Curbar, Longshaw, Lady Cannnings

What happened at Froggatt / Curbar? I thought most of that was still out of bounds.

would burst my nut if I had to contemplate questions like this!

Scotland?

I meant the one above the crags, not the wheelchair track. It was techy but mostly rideable and “wide” in the sense of several options. I think I walked < 100 yards of it. I’ve been (slowly) down the wheelchair track before but it was pretty busy today. (Indian summer, innit)

What is the significantly cheekier option? (so I can avoid it, obviously)

Edit: having read my original post, I can see why you thought I meant the wheelchair track. Nice = techy, wide = multiple options, slow = cos I wouldn’t have been able to do it fast, even if I had wanted to.

oh the irony, everyone on here riding round on chinese manufactured bikes bought online (typically) and then there is an expectation that everyone else sticks to buying british, even though its not british owned.

2 bikes, both British, one bought in LBC, tother second hand. Not everyone.

Possibly more helpful – the Glen Dronach looks pretty similar to the Penderyn madeira (I’ve forgotten the exact name. It’s Welsh, so it’s a bit different, but maybe worth a thought.

I managed to drop (and smash) a £40 bottle of Tallisker single malt in the co-op in Kyle of Lochalsh. The staff insisted that I wasn’t allowed to pay for it, so I just got another and went on my way. Smelt great.

That any help?

Budget is neighbourhood of £500, I think. Most of the e-bikes I’ve seen have been in the region of 2k – that’s definitely out.

The place where they live is relatively flat.

Is that a dropper post?

There are a couple of completely different anti-reflux medications to lansoprazole (omeprazole is quite similar, hence the similar name). Ranitidine would be another option which works in a completely different way and so you might get on with it a bit better. There are a couple of others as well (e.g. metoclopramide) but if you talk to your doctor and say you don’t like the side effects they should be able to start you on something else and find something that works well.

Also, there’s tonnes of information re lifestyle here:

http://patient.info/health/acid-reflux-and-oesophagitis

the lack of a robust denial does seem odd, maybe damien has a point

What’s also interesting is the way the Downing Street response has shown us a bit about how out of touch they are. Presumably they’ve not been able to focus group the question “what would you think about the PM if it turned out he’d played hide the sausage with a pig? a) top lad, great banter, b) we’ve all been there, or c) WTF is wrong with you?” so they have no idea how non-lizard human people are likely to respond. Hence the sight of Toby Young trying to claim that he “comes out of all this rather well” and “it just shows how normal he is” – they just don’t know any better.

whilst their mates stared at your bits

*photographed your bits. Iftfy.

It’s pretty tricky to make the UK look even more ridiculous overseas, but he’s managed it.

Vice did a piece asking people (well, journalists) around Europe what they thought about it. Some of them are pretty funny, but the abiding theme is “yeah, we’ve always thought the Brits are a bunch of perverts”

http://www.vice.com/read/how-european-vice-offices-reacted-to-piggate-876

Also, the standard for what’s considered bad behaviour in Serbia is epic.

Someone was asking about Ashcroft’s motives earlier. This is a fairly succinct summary[/url]:

“Ashcroft’s goal is, according to the Mail, “revenge”. In the years leading up to Cameron taking office in 2010, the tax-dodging billionaire had donated over £8 million to the Conservative Party, bailing them out of debt after their disastrous election defeat in 2005. He had worked as Treasurer and later Deputy Chairman of the party, helping to manage them back to an electable public image under Cameron. Yet Ashcroft had expected that he would be given high office in exchange for this, and Cameron didn’t pay up when the time came. It now appears Ashcroft has spent the last five years compiling his new book, Call Me Dave, in which the pig story and other damning allegations about the Prime Minister are made.”

… which is pretty shocking in itself.

Given that the “real” news today consisted of an announcement that the Tories were going to break their manifesto pledge not to stop free school meals, because of how feeding children is a threat to national security, that a coroner found that a man was driven to suicide by the DWP and people just shrug and think that’s normal now, and that the Hungarian government have authorised their forces to shoot refugees with rubber bullets, maybe people need a laugh.

That and the fact that he obviously did it.

The thing that gets me about this is how obvious it is that he did it, as in how totally plausible it is.

Just consider that for a moment – someone has suggested that the elected prime minister of Great Britain put his cock in a dead pig’s mouth in order to be accepted by his posh chums… and it’s completely plausible.

Without wanting to sound terribly boring, I’d follow your GP’s advice – i.e. use the nasal spray as prescribed and give it a couple of weeks. If it doesn’t improve, try to make another appointment to discuss it again +/- and ENT referral. If you do end up getting referred and it (thankfully) clears up before you get to see someone at ENT so you don’t need/want to go to the appointment, make sure you let them know so they can give the appointment to someone else. Hope you feel better soon.

Does this sound about right?

http://patient.info/health/eustachian-tube-dysfunction

I’ve had that before – it’s unpleasant and it can last a while but it does go away.

You’ll be asking how to keep the shed warm next..

I know an old lady who bought a bike…

Just bought a wooden shed. I’ve always wanted a shed.

I don’t live with the gf, but share a house with three others. There’s no space in communal areas and my room is up two flights of narrow stairs, so a pain in the arse to get up and down.

I’ll look into a shed. Don’t think I can afford an asgard.

Thanks guys (I wasn’t really going to hit it with a hammer)