Virtually everyone I know who has bought anything but a new house has had major problems and outlay fixing mulitiple issues that were not spotted by the surveyor.

I’m not very experienced in this matter, so could someone explain what they actually do for the fee? Is it just a valuation exercise to keep the mortgage lender happy?

Don’t the Spanish have 2 hours in bed every lunch time?

# the sun’ll come out manyana…#

Actual photo of Binners in the Rose and Crown last weekend

I lived on an island when I was a kid that had a bridge over to the main land. You could climb up and get onto the girders underneath and we used to try and get out to the middle of the bridge…as you got closer the spans became bigger and there was nothing to hold onto so several 10 year olds walking along something a few inches wide and very high.

I went behind the barriers on the same bridge once to get a better view of a raft race, the barriers went down and the counter weight started crushing me against the railings. A bloke spotted me and lifted me out just in time.

Driving home on a dual carraigeway in cumbria, it went round a sharpish bend and went down to one lane. I was motoring along in the outside lane like I always did and for some reason thought pull over, just before a pensioner came round the bend on the wrong side of the dual carraigeway.

always been fine in my experience

I regularly ride directly underneath some large turbines.

A car going past at 40mph makes more noise than a working wind turbine.

People will moan that they’ll never replace conventional power stations, which is true. However, when the wind turbines are spinning it means less coal/oil/fuel rods are being shovelled into the other stations.

I bought new bulbs for my mazda 6, thinking it would be a simple job.

Wrong

official instructions involved removing the wheel arch lining FFS.

How can such **** designs ever get made? I know space is limited, but bulbs are a consumable and as such, replacement by owner should be easy.

Ramsbottom – great riding on and off road from the front door, so much so, I hardly ever drive anywhere to ride.

Pours down constantly though.

My wife says I “over-analyse”

One tip to try and reduce this is to focus on others, in this case your family. I suggest you could apologise to your daughter, try not to get upset and replace her magazines. The other thing is to think about 1 issue/problem at a time and rationalise how you’ll deal with it in isolation.

Drinking does make you feel better – the big problem is that this only last for a short time for the 1st drink or two and then there is nowhere to go – you either stop (unlikely to happen by the sounds of things, but then we don’t always make the best choices after a few beers) or carry on, which creates horrible situations. I stopped drinking because an hour of feeling good was not worth the hassle and hours of feeling rough afterwards.

The good thing is, the longer you stay off the booze, the less you’ll want it.

MG ZR

Nasty little chav car that I was given while mine got fixed. 60 felt like 100 and it could turn through 90 degree bends without any braking. If I didn’t have to drive lots on the motorway I would def get one. If you let it get over 4000 rpm it was like the jump to light speed in a 1.4 petrol.

ours had a brake and it got Daughter Lazarou used to using it before she progressed to a big bike.

so if given the choice I would say yes, but plenty don’t have one and it’s not really a big issue.

I don’t think the crap summer has helped, it’s been not far off 12 months of wet conditions so the amount of bike maintenance has gone up.

I struggle to fit riding time in around family and work, I certainly don’t have time for spending hours in the garage every week keeping bikes going. As such, I’ve been doing far more road than MTB over the past few months just cos it’s less hassle.

When we’ve washed our cats we’ve just filled the bath up a bit with soapy water, got the cat in the bathroom, door closed and let the cat wander around all unsuspecting for a then scoop it up and drop it it the bath.

our cat seems to be able to do that cartoon trick of spreading it’s legs so far that it’s impossible to get it into anything, it can also semi fly by wriggling through the air and if you try and, well, throw it, it just grabs your clothes and skin so you can’t get rid of it. All while biting.

I would say you need to remove the sudocrem ASAP before the cat licks it off as I can’t imagine that doing it much good.

In our case that would involve me getting into one of those chainmail suits used by shark feeders and attempting to bath the cat.

Maybe speak to a vet for advice on whats best to use – there may be cat shampoo available. Our 14 year old cat would kick my head in if i attempted to shampoo it.

he should pay for damage caused if it was clearly his fault

the club should do something about his riding, have a word or kick him out

if neither of the above occur, leave the club

Not always easy though – my advice with riders like this is, where possible, keep them well in front so you can keep and eye on them and they can’t slam into you from the side or behind.

I like the suggestion Wiggo has a mild obsession with Tesco, to the degree he’s popping down there on a MTB to get a few extra club card points.

take the blue pill and wave kansas bye-bye

I think you’ll find the correct term for such publications is art pamphlets

fingers and toes crossed for Obama

GrahamS – unfortunately, amongst some other stuff, the stand out prediction was that my best mate would die suddenly in the near future.

But everything you said is also true, so well done.

When I was younger my mum was a home help for an elderly lady who did readings using normal playing cards.

I went round just for something to do on a break from Uni. She told me a long list of stuff that had and did come true, some of it terrible.

I would never go to one again on the basis that (i) I don’t want to know and more often (ii) it’s bollocks.

Is there anyone outside of America who thinks a President Romney would be a good idea?

Crown green bowls for Cumbria. (once)

Won a BMX race. (once)

it’s public transport innit and the public in it.

yuk.

new white trainers
gold
stella at 6.30am because “I’m on holiday”

crap pedals shimano make

which are those?

On a recent bike holiday I went on, one guest had a CB stem that wouldn’t hold the CB bars in place properly. Quite special to be that bad – £70 bikes in halfords mostly have bar/stem combos that work.

Adult balance bikes:

– no chain suck
– easier cleaning
– singlespeeders can peel stickers along the lines of “gears are for ****s” off the bike with one gear and put it on a bike with no gears.

The more I think about it, the better it seems. Like a cross between fell running and DH.

fat bike = single speed (10 years ago)

Mark my words – at some point people will be mountain biking on adult size balance bikes and I don’t mean gravity bikes just for DH, I mean scampering up and down hills, probably wearing a one piece waterproof romper suit.

Merlin are one of the best mail order – fast and cheap.

Always been good dealing with question and returns IME.

nice one

not read through all this – how many riders can go on during that 1 hour session?

one bought a kettle from comet

got it home and realised the one on the shelf didn’t match the sign on the shelf

Took it back to same store 2 hours later, unused and with receipt, yet they wouldn’t exchange it for the right one*

Never ever bought from them again.

*I forced them to exchange by leaving the original kettle and £5 price difference on the counter an walking out with the right one saying “call the police if you want”.

tin of fruit flavoured hard boiled sweets in white powder AND/OR extra strong mints.

a tub of wet wipes only for emergecy use, they’d been there so long they dried up.

a small chamois covered sponge for removing condensation from the inside of windows.

heaters that only emit heat after ~ 1 hour of driving

foot operated high/low beam button on the floor next to pedals (morris minor)

Kangaroo making duck noise you say?

We had a Rover with a fan belt that sounded like a canary, I called Rolf Harris and then saught psychiatric help.

story from codybrennan on the 1st page of the above thread made me shiver

there was a thread on this a few weeks ago.

The answer seemed to be yes…but mainly on Anglesey.

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/spookystrange-encounters

Someone I know constantly posts pictures of butterflys with some text along the lines of “we are free to fly at birth, remember who you are and blah blah blah”, which translates as “I am…”

1. Mental
2. Fat
3. Have issues
4. All of the above.

just ignore

i got oneS upgarde from a sensation recently.

the sensation was a good phone, the one S is better – faster, lighter, just all together a slick piece of kit.

“If you’ve got nothing to hide then why do you care if I read your emails?”

becuase it:

1. is rude
2. demonstrates a lack of trust
3. isn’t healthy

He explains that the drugs don’t make an ordinary rider a champion.

No. He said EPO could turn a donkey into a race horse and one of the reasons he retired was the ludicrously high speeds of the peloton towards the end of his career.

It does seem a bit of a double standard that LA is now a pariah whereas Merckx, Hinault etc are lauded as titans of the sport.

Agree with that. If LA wasn’t such a ****, I could almost feel sorry for him.

I like Greg Lemond and how he’s stood up for his principles, but he blatantly cheated himself. They reckon those illegal tri bars he used in all the time trials of the 1989 tour gave him and overall advantage of ~45 seconds and he only beat Fignon by 8 secs. Only 3 points of contact allowed, hands, arse and feet. Tri bars include a forth so Fignon was robbed.