If you get someone being a dick about letting you merge in, I find if you get in front of them and then leave a huge gap for lots of others to merge sends them from irate to apoplectic

If you were merging properly there wouldn’t be a huge gap for you to leave at the front. You merge at the end of the lane. Maybe they’re annoyed at your inability to use the lanes properly.

Unless you were born in the 90’s and never bought petrol until last month Diesel has pretty much always been ~10% more expensive than petrol. It’ll go back again too.

Yes I know that but the difference in putting a full tank in is minimal anyway, maybe £3 max, hardly a game changer is it?

Why do people do that?

I presume you must know why people do that, unless you’re a bit dim, so a rhetorical question. But britsh folk like to queue and you’re a queue jumper so get to the back sonny.

extra cost of the diesel fuel

What extra cost? I have a petrol car and a diesel, I don’t find one has better ‘drive ability’ than the other. One is more fun but thats because its a small car with a 2 litre engine.

can you unplug teh lead from teh back or is it hard wired

No, cable is hard wired.

Trout liberator on the bars, solarstorm with smudge battery on the helmet. Which reminds me I need to order a new battery for my trout light.

just plug in a portable booster aerial not an option ?

That’s an option I’m looking at trail_rat but I’d also like to be able to stream to it so if one device did all then that would be the best option.

But as I said above looks like an aerial/apply tv is probably the best option.

It’s got hdmi but I don’t want to sign up for anything monthly. I’m thinking that plugging in a decent quality aerial might be the best option and an apply tv to give smart tv options.

Yes there is wifi, that’s why I want some sort of streaming device 🙂

I have a Bird Zero and I’m really, really happy with it. Its my first new mountain bike for a long time and I though the relatively long travel fork, wide bars and 650b would take some getting used to but it just felt great right from the first ride.

I even rode it 20 miles to work a few weeks ago (I was getting picked up straight from work to go away on a weekend’s riding) and with the saddle up to full extension and tyres pumped up hard I was only a couple of minutes slower than on my road bike. So in its current format it’s no slouch.

Is it Hannibal lecter

Never liked her.bad attitude foul mouthed drug pushing grass.she needs to be carful as once all the drug Lords are released after she grassed them up she’ll be in trouble. 1m in cash and enough smoke to keep green peace smashed for a decade and she got off on house arrest followed by a new York state sit in. She openly admitted to grassing shame she can’t back that big mouth of hers up.

You gonna pop a cap in her ass Big-Bud for squeeling on your home dawgs?

Do you live with your gran?

Bit of a faff to fit, although most guards are.

I fitted a set last week, much less faff than sks.

Trying to avoid this. Want something that I’m going to want to get out and ride.

Yeh its great for an hours blast to and from work but I wouldn’t fancy 4 hours on it.

We just use the term ‘version control’ rather than some management w**k speak.

30-40 tops really

Ignore my ‘back of the windfarm’ route then. The alternative eaglesham/a77/mearnskirk/clarkston should come in around that.

Although if you head up to glennifer braes you can ride as far as you want on wee country roads.

If you’re on the A77 I’ll give you a wave as I ride home 🙂

I’ve got a Dolan Preffisio, it’s a very nice bike – very nice to ride and doesn’t feel that different to my light best bike

I’ve also got a Dolan Preffisio and yeh it’s okay. It’s a cheap aluminium frame and it doesn’t come close to my Sunday best bike.

I bought the frame for £99 for a cheap summer commuter build, it’s great for that but it’s pretty harsh.

Didn’t read the bit about high blantyre but yes heading out towards the windfarm is a good call. There’s a lovely wee road at the back of the windfarm that eventually takes you to Galston if you really want to go that far. Or head through Eaglesham, over the moor and onto the a77 cycle path, down to the next junction, left towards galston, you then meet the same road that runs round the back of the windfarm – you’ll be looking at roughly 50 miles for either of those routes though.

Or eaglesham, over the moor, next right down a wee road after the long descent, right onto the a77, next right heading for clarkston then back to high blantyre from clarkston.

Head through paisley and up the big climb to glennifer braes. Either keep going straight on and off into the countryside or turn left near the top of the climb to head up to the top of the braes – as you turn left make sure you’re in your prepared for a beast of a climb.

foot of the climb

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What makes you think you have the right to tell someone what to do in this case

I must have missed the bit I was telling the OP what to do. I also can’t see the difference between this from me

I do hope that if you are named in the will you don’t accept any part of the estate that comes your way.

and this from you

Just remember its your choice though and dont listen to someone on here who doesnt know the details.

Apart from the bit where you are actually telling the OP what to do! 🙄

So what bottle cage…?

I’ve used a few and Arundel Dave-O matte black (either 3k or uni weave depending on other bits on the bike) are the nicest.

What I want is a continuation of the past 25 years – nothing, which is why I’m looking to walk away from everything.

Ignore the communication the, if they can’t afford the funeral themselves then its not your problem.

I wouldn’t put USE on my road bike or any bike for that matter, I’m still emotionally scarred from their crap alien heads.

Accept, sell, donate proceeds to Bullheart.

Or give it to the rest of the family who still had a relationship with him.

I would hold out and await what you get from the will.

This will all come out during probate but I do hope that if you are named in the will you don’t accept any part of the estate that comes your way.

pebble – did he tell you what the actual discount would be?

Not in percentage terms but he said it was about £140 on a MacBook Pro, and yes the free headphones are included. And they’ll be going straight on eBay.

They’re really short for a start and I couldn’t get comfortable on them

Did you buy the right bar shape? They have 3 choices don’t they?

Just spoken to a very helpful guy at apple. I need to order via telephone to get the full discount then send his acceptance letter after I place the order.

Is it not best to wait too to make sure an Apple is what he needs instead of a £300 laptop ??

He’s got a Mac at home so a macbook makes sense for him.

I could wait but this is for his birthday which is before uni starts.

Those educational discount prices available on the “easily accessible” site aren’t the same as those available to people accessing from a .ac.uk domain – on laptops/desktops the discount is actually around 15% as someone else pointed out.

My son is starting uni in September and I’m buying him a macbook for starting there so we can’t buy through an education domain. I thought he would just register to get the discount. Is that not the case?

Fizik is nice kit, and you really can go match crazy – shoes, saddle, seat pack (if you must).

You don’t see it often, which is good.

Ritchey WCS always looks good (had matching forks, stem and bars.

I have Ritchey fork, headset, stem spacer (one only), stem, bars, bar tape and seatpost on my dry day commuter.

I like matching 🙂

But I wouldn’t call it really nice, just functional and alright.

I’d go for 3t bar, stem and post. Just classy, well made, stylish components.

I wouldn’t go for aero bars as I’m not a fan of bars with flattened tops. For the bars I’d go for ergosum stealth, then matching stealth stem and post

Both me and my wife work in the finance sector; well, I say work but I’m not quite sure what it is I actually do?!

I’m contracted to 40 hours per week, but I often do 70. I’d say I live to work; my job’s my life. When I’m not at work, I struggle to think or talk about much else other than work. Infact, I’d go as far as to say it’s the only thing I know or feel comfortable doing. Cleaning a house is an alien concept to me; I wouldn’t know where to start. The last thing I want to do after a long week at work is try and figure out how to use a vacuum cleaner!

Thankfully, my job pays well. So well infact, that things like cleaning/cutting the lawn/shopping/looking after the kids/life I don’t have to bother doing; I can pay someone to do them for me.

Our cleaner costs £12 per hour through an agency. Not alot I know, and I dread to think what her wage is. I’ve often thought about tipping her, but I think she’d just spend it on heroin, so I make sure she’s got a warm cup of soup inside her before she goes home.

This whole post is a joke right, some sort of John Cooper Clarkesque poem to a dire middle class existence?

Shipping, Paypal, tax and handling fees added substantially more than 100 quid to my 300+something quid wheels.

I’ve been looking at light bicycle wheels for a wee while now. I’d be interested what you mean by ‘substantially more’.

Is shipping not about $50, what paypal costs did you incur and what were the tax and handling fees?

Yeh drop them an email or give them a call. Rapha customer service is outstanding and you’ll either get a x% off code or a voucher for the difference.

He might just offer you some better terms to avoid a scene.

That’s not going to happen, he’s been there less than two years so there is absolutely no need to offer more. The OP doesn’t have an come back.

That’s good news PrinceJohn. Out of interest what industry do you work in and what level do you operate at?

This may seem a cowardly way to sack someone but I guess we don’t know how the subordinate/manager usually communicate. Perhaps texting is something they do on a regular basis regarding work and it’s the norm.

Seems bad form though and I wouldn’t do it buy maybe that’s they way they’re used to working.

If you’ve only been there less than a year the you can’t go to a tribunal. So the best course of action is ‘accept & proceed’ unfortunately.

Chin up though and I hope you find something else soon.

Boring! Sat on a beach getting skin cancer. No fanx.

I’ll be out on the bike getting skin cancer