As my post in the classified says:

Hello. My Dad is selling this bike and I’m posting it on here for him. All questions etc should be directed to him..

Except if you are the mate of the bloke who bought the bike off my Dad who has been emailing him and making abuse phone calls, I really would recommend stopping on that front.

You have no need for my contact details and before you start, I’m not getting dragged into an arguement about it on here.

don’t buy it…it’s easier to resist buying in the supermarket than to drink on a friday night. I take this approach with chocolate hobnobs.

Rapha Cuppuccino Cup Set

Has this guy killed anyone by driving his Ferrari at 150mph past a primary school only to get off with it thanks to some high profile slime ball solicitor who specialises in this field?

I thought that was a rite of passage for premiership footballers.

I removed an isis BB for the first time last weekend. Shimano tool will work fine, I just had to take a little washer off the axle first before the tool would clear it and locate correctly.

My advice would be to take this opportunity to bin the Isis (which is *** and don’t last) and replace with something else.

I just rang boots and they gave me the PD from when I bought specs from them a few years back – result.

I’ve tried the new specs on in a shop and with high index lenses, coatings, etc, the online price was less than half the high street price. I’m all for supporting local shops, but not paying over £400 for a pair I can get online for £175. Will take a punt for that saving and worst case, get them reglazed.

….but if you really think running events is a license to print money then why not have a go yourself?

It appears to me that a small number of event organisers, both MTB and road, do consider them a licence to print money. I’ve seen a fair number of events with no food on food stations, very poor organisation and/or very little in return for quite high entry fees. Let’s take the food station thing, you get the same number of bars/cakes as there are riders and let them have 1 each…not difficult.

Like has been said above, there are lots of great events and many of these are run not for profit – the Rough Ride is a good example. BUT there appears to be a few who see the increase in popularity of cycling over the past few years as an opportunity to fleece people.

Pupil Distance (PD) is the thing that’s stopping me ordering at the moment. Most opticians won’t tell you this as a way to try and prevent patients going elsewhere and online. I have a current prescription from Spec Savers, but it does not include PD. Seems like a swizz to me, if they have this data on you, are they not legally obliged to disclose it under data protection laws?

Things I’ve learnt about doing my own work:

Bike fixing job duration is inversely proportional to the available time.

Only put things down in predesignated lay down areas (usually the lid of a quality street tin)

SIR Mark Thatcher, the perfect Tory.

From Wikipedia:

On the death of his father in 1992 he became ‘Sir Mark Thatcher’ when he succeeded to the Thatcher baronetcy, a hereditary title which had usually been given to his father in 1990 (this being the only such baronetcy created since 1964).

His early career in business frequently led to questions being raised that he was benefiting from his mother’s position, notably in relation to the Al-Yamamah arms deal. In 2004 the Sunday Times estimated his wealth at £60 million, most of they suggested was in offshore accounts. In 2005 he was convicted and given a four year suspended jail sentence in South Africa in relation to the 2004 Equatorial Guinea coup d’état attempt. He left the UK in 1986, and since then has lived in the USA, Switzerland, South Africa and more recently in Monaco, Gibraltar, Barbados, Guernsey and Spain.

Have you ground all your teeth away yet?

I think the best outcome would be complete calm and very poor turn out, so illustrating how out of touch the Tory’s are in throwing a big party for their hero.

A £10M send off – austerity for all except their own, this is the true Tory way, perfectly illustrated for us all to see.

anita gresham-hale on Twitter @Forestfilly

[smokescreen]”the NF is a great place for a bike ride over 100 miles of cycle track”[/smokescreen]

Not sure about this really..

On one side – events like the cheshire cat, 3600 riders on open roads. Lots of congestion with a large profit going to the organiser.

On the other side – you could ban any mass partipation event that people travel to. Music festivals, football matches all cause congestion as most people drive to them.

So I’ve answered my own question. It’s NIMBYs moaning and the events should be allowed to go ahead.

Thanks

I saw a kid ride past on a Raleigh Team Burner when I was a kid and it was like I’d just seen Jesus.

Honey is bee vomit???

8O

“If God didn’t want us to eat animals, he wouldn’t have made them out of meat”

Awesome. Homer Simpson I think.

Top end Sram RED front mech with Ti cage too flexy to shift well on a compact.

Ford SMax – handbrake like an aircraft throttle that traps fingers. Rear seats that require two cords to be pulled at the same time to fold down, positioning your head perfectly for a blow so powerful when they spring down it knocks your specs off.

Airports – designed to trap humans for enforced shopping. Why not sort out check in/security/passport control in one go, rather than make people just join a series of queues for 3 hours. Full of people in new trainers drinking lager at 6am.

Question is I might have the opportunity to go field based with earning potential to increase by 20-40%. This obviously comes with added work and pressure but much greater opportunity.

does the increase in pay push you into a higher tax bracket? If so, you could well end up getting half of what appears to be a 20-40% increase for a whole lot more work. IMHO, there is more to lfe than £. Once you are comfortable, why sell more of your time just to buy stuff you don’t need? Each to their own though, people have different motivations.

running through fields of long grass in the sunshine with my family

I’m really not sure why people spend so much on bikes.

I bought a road bike at the end of last year in the sale. It weighs 14lbs, cannondale will be using the exact same frame and newer version of the same groupset in the TDF this year. It lost less than £3k. I could put some cosmics on it for a true pro build in every way and it would still come in at ~£4k.

Anything over £4k for a bike? Not even with the money available to do it.

Incredible. You’re paid to work not go to hospital, unless you work at a hospital

Not incredible. I consider employment to be give and take, as in, I don’t mind doing extra to get the job done as long as it works the other way at times. If the employer is unreasonable, then I am unreasonable in response. By the logic in the above statement, if a person was admitted to hospital for a period of time you would extect them to use holidays?? That’s incedible.

When I have been in staff positions in the past, hopspital appointments have always been booked as sick leave.

there is probably some expectation that doctors/dentist/opticians appointments should be done in your own time, as far as possible.

If they make you take leave, I would have a day off sick some time when the weather is good to claw the day back.

there is an enormous fat bloke in our office who appears to be short sighted and so sit’s in his chair with his body slumped on the desk in front so he can tilt his head up to look at the screen – so displaying about a foot of builders bum.
He stinks, breaths like a walrus and goes for sleeps in the bogs, during which he snores loudly.

there is a side road off the A666 near Belmont that always has lots of single blokes sat in cars next to some woods that appear to be heavily trod. I’m keen not to get a flat riding through there at night dressed in lycra.

OK, sorry the photo is a bad example and as I said in the OP, not taken by me. The lane(s) I’m talking about have the same positioning and a bike symbol painted in them.

Apparently, she has just been found fit for work.

One hour til this thread’s closed.

Can I have 19 minuites in the thread closure sweepstake?

Shocking photo of the aftermath of a very sad incident.

I think the solution is known as “gentlemen’s relaxation”.

Bunnyhop’s loft earlier this week…

Poor NBt is having to do 2 jobs just to pay the ‘lecky bill.

i had a dispatch email from merlin within 15 mins of making my last order

wiggle 2nd fastest

CRC still quick.

[mtfu]20mph easterly winds and zero degrees for the past week, bloody freezing. Give me -15 in a ski resort over this.[/mtfu]

Nobody questions the commitment of Mountain Rescue which is staffed by volunteers.

err, because they do it for free to save people rather than as employees of a company do it for profit.

Its a good thing that all the advantages claimed for any service about to be privatised always materialise without a hitch. And that prospective bidders don’t make unrealistic claims during the bidding process, that then fail to materialise, or cost considerably more than first suggested.

^^^^these were pretty much my thoughts on hearing about this along with….

‘Tories want to privatise everything, Dave won’t be happy until the NHS is in private hands

Bristow already provide SandR services in a number of countries, including Holland and Australia so I wonder how they’ve performed there?

I’m sure the grumpy as **** staff in the woodbine will be pleased to give everyone a warm welcome.

dhb here – slight fleece back but not as much as endura.

had them ages and have performed/lasted well.

My mum knows the (lady who voices) the aubergine on CBBC show Mr Bloom.

Back on topic – lets say some famous person posts on here cos they like biking and can use this as a way to talk normally with people without being fan mobbed, then they are hardly going to out themselves are they?

Hello Cameron Diaz!

But if people buy for “able to pay plus +20%” then this is the market rate as that’s what they are willing to pay.

and hence the price is artificially inflated by 20%

Negatively equity in the future is always a potential, no matter what price you buy at.

correct. But negative equity is far more likley if the house is bought under a temporary scheme which bumps the original purchase price up by 20% and/or only applies when the house is brand new.

How can the value of property be falsely high? Something’s worth whatever people are willing to pay for it, high or low.

Because under the new scheme, the value of the home will be whatever people are willing (able) to pay for it +20% from the government.

People will end up in negative equity, especially as the scheme draws to a close.

this will push new build house prices up