Very nice build, wish mine was as good!

Mountain biking magazines and websites review and rate bikes that a) they get given to test ride, and rate highly the bikes that b) they get given to test ride, plus some cash too. That’s my opinion. Pretty much the same way any review magazine or website works I reckon. “Here’s a brand new ‘xxxx’ to test ride, oh and here’s £5k too, keep both and lets see some good reviews eh?! (or we wont send you anything again)”

Apologies, the Maxle which I currently have seems to be the B1 model. The picture of the maxle lite on CRC (39.99) looks to be the same as the one I have, the bottom link of the 2 I provided. Which one is better of the 2, and will the other work? I have Revs, 2013. It says on the description it should work, but its the same description for both maxle’s.

St Annes new development, near the river and some good access to cycling http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-45289196.html

Brislington, you’d need a decent shed in the garden, or keep the bike in the spare room?
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-45130307.html

Brislington is fine, i’ve lived there before and its got great access to town, lots of decent victorian houses and early 1900’s builds. Bedminster has its dodgy parts, towards knowle west (avoid). Avoid Hartcliffe and withywood too really. Stockwood towrds the top is nice. St Annes around near St Annes park is nice too. Totterdown, is good. You’d get a decent size place in kingswood. There are probably only a few areas i’d avoid south of the river and those are mentioned above.

The boxing day tsunami of 2004 was far worse in terms of lives lost. Some estimates as high as 400,000. The dustruction in Sumatra where entire villages were lost was pretty shocking, the pictures of the aftermath will stay with me forever. After the surge receeded bodies were just strewn across beaches. Women and cildren naked. Terrible. So much detruction and hitting the poorest places the hardest. The sad thing is the relief effort was a shambles and money was thrown away and wasted on failed projects. It’s just a matter of time before it hppens again in this area.

We are so very lucky to live in a country where moderate flooding is our only real natural disaster.

Another theory. It was hijacked, then shot down over sea to avoid ground casualties etc?

Do you really need both your arms?

300 quid is enough for a decent mattress. Anyone who is justifying spending best part of £1000 and thinking that makes a massive difference is kidding themselves.

Pair of black framed, tinted lenses glasses roughly lost somewhere on the Graveyard or Zigzags final descent of the wall?

I think teachers do a briliant job and are largely uncredited for the work they do.
In many other countries teachers are highly regarded and respected, paid well to match, but always work long hard hours.
My sister is a teacher in the north east and her working hours are very long. Full days at school and then at least a few hours before and after school marking, lesson planninag and filling on reports and paperwork. She is very over worked and the primary reason is the amount of paperwork needed to be completed.
She has also worked in Japan as a teacher where the hours were also long but the job was much more respected and she was paid better.
The secondary reason being a teacher is so hard in the UK is that they are not respected by pupils and their parents.

Blade is hard work at the moment. The track is really cut up and very boggy. You can tell it will be a very good track when it dries out, but its been hammered since its opened and the final descent is a real let down after all that climbing. If you start with y-wal, blast the bike park at the top before the final descent. Back to visitors centre for tea and scrumpets then on to penhydd. Its a decent long ride and the rewards are good and both tracks are pretty good at the moment.

Lovely bike. My friend has one too and I have just got a new Stumpjumper FSR. When I had a go on his I was suprised to find I preferred the feel of the frame to the Stumpy and immediately had bike envy!

Sorry, my phone auto corected penhydd to orbited!

They are all xc trails as its an xc venue really. Plenty of climbing but some great descending as the reward. If you are after a more downhill venue you’re better looking at bikepark Wales, and there are different graded descents to suit all abilities there.

If you are looking for a good ride up and some fun down stick with Afan. Best to start with y-wal and see how the group are feeling after. There is the bike park with 3 short downhill chutes at the top to play on and a couple of jumps. Once you finish y-wal give orbited a crack. It’s got some great descents on it too, but a very labourious first climb.

Matched betting? Makes a couple of grand per year if done right.

Or, selling sofa’s you haven’t paid for?

Thanks for all the info. I think i’ll wait until mid feb for the ispec B adapters to come out and go down that route

I found a sofa in my house. Ended up having to pay for it and lost my moral compass along the way.

I’m shocked at these responses. I consider myself a man of morals.

Plus, I had a free TV from them a few years ago so it evens itself out a little.

Well, it appears the furniture company’s customer service department operate a ‘good cop, bad cop’ system. Very clever. My wife phoned and spoke to a different woman to Grotbags today, a lady who couldbt have been more nice apparently.
She appologised for the error and said the dispatch team sent it in error as the order had not been cancelled on the system correctly. She asked if we would be willing to pay for it. My wife obliged and the sofa has become slightly less comfy and I’ve already noticed a small stain on it.

I pray to jebus that we don’t have any faults with it.

Anyway, cheers for all the support guys. I know that you will all be slightly upset that we caved in and paid for it, but I guess when it came down to it I just couldn’t carry on living the lie.

wwaswas – Member

But you had the money and wanted the sofa, what’s the problem with paying now ?

I had pretty much come made my decision to pay for the sofa, but following my wife’s phone conversation with grotbags who told her that there was no chance or a return because its ‘out of its returns period’ I began to change my mind.

Also i’m worried that it will feel less comfy once I’ve paid for it.

lemonparty.org

Loads of useful stuff on there

http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/england/consumer_e/consumer_common_problems_with_products_e/consumer_problems_with_delivery_e/consumer_unsolicited_goods_e/youve_received_goods_or_services_you_didnt_ask_for_distance_sales.htm

Basically, unsolicited means that you did not order the item. I ordered the item. They told me they were unable to deliver in time. I cancelled the order with them(have proof), they delivered it (unsolicited), Wife accepted the delivery. Kept it, slept on it once, bought scatter cushions for it. They want it back. Tell me I have to pay for it, no returns. Law says otherwise. Im a thief. Morally devoid. Haven’t slept well since.

crankboy – Member

So are you going to pay for the goods you accepted and used?

Probably not. It depends on what the lady on the phone says tomorrow. If she gets all matter of fact about paying for it then i’ll say come and get it. Then buy another. From them.

My wife wasnt 100% sure we had been refunded it.

Yeah we get that but she still could have refused it.

True.

hora – Member

Why didnt you refuse delivery?

I wasn’t home. My wife wasnt 100% sure we had been refunded it. The fact is we accepted the delivery.
Immediately after it was delivered my wife phoned me to say it had been delivered and I just thought ‘cool, free sofa. I’ll check to see if it was refunded’.

I mentioned it somewhere earlier in the thread.

The sofa was unwrapped by the delivery driver the day it was delivered. Too late for it to be classed as unused.

Updates –

My wife called the woman back who was quite to the point and said we need to pay for the item. My wife informed them that we would like to return it. The woman said this is not possible. My wife has said to call back tomorrow as she does not have access to the funds to pay it at this moment.

Now, I was happy to pay for it, but to be told that there is no possibility of a return. Is this right? The lady on the phone said that it is outside of the return period. But surely that is now there problem?

heisenberg – Member

by chance its from DFS? ..i am in the stock team, and i am looking for a missing sofa since xmas

Haha, no. Its not.

However, you will first need to invoice them for admin, storage and processing fees which come to £600. You require this to be paid prior to releasing the item.

This was my Dad’s idea. Tell them its in storage at their cost, charge them £50 a day, plus admin and tell them they are ringing you on a premium rate number and send them an invoice for thousands.
My wife is calling them back today to see how they want to proceed. The unsolicited goods link is a very good point.

nonk – Member

Makes note to self

Never ever deal with pete1979 the guy is complete nobber..

Cheers Nonk, looking back through your posts I doubt I would deal with you anyway. Most of your items were overpriced and I suspect thats why you were unable to sell them.

The thing is it says ‘unsolicited’ and this wasnt unsolicited, as I ordered it. Cant get the link to work.

It has been reduced by 80 quid! The thieving…..

Hang on, maybe thats why they were phoning, to offer an £80 refund.

Today my wife has a phone call from Furniture Item 1 store, nothing was discussed as my wife made an excuse that she was busy

So they tried to arrange payment or return of the couch and were fobbed off with an excuse. Morals of the gutter. Pay up or give it back.

Technically they haven’t tried to ‘arrange’ payment or return as my wife didnt get into any conversation as she said she was too busy to talk at that moment.

Morals of the gutter to add to the list. Thank you irc, you have passed the morality test and are allowed safe passage into heaven.

This has been a tough Monday.

…to be expected?

spooky!

A building society accidentally gave me £1500 of shares when they demutualised (I was actually too young to be issued them according to the terms of the demutualisation).

Sold them and kept the money and never lost a wink of sleep over it.

Would you be interested in a 2nd hand sofa?

‘thief thief theif’, ‘devoid of morality’, ‘morally bankrupt’, ‘broken moral compass’, a ‘troll’, parents morality and parenting being called out, a wife who’s fidelity has been brought into question and being unable to spell in my thread title. This has been a tough Monday.

I think you know the right thing to do.

Cheers for the insider info Gav. I know the right thing to do, call and get it paid, which is what is going to be done tomorrow. However, i’d want to know what happens if this doesnt happen.

From talking with my sister who is in retail management she told me that previously she had mistakenly given a customer a PS3 with a mobile phone contract as it was part of a free gift deal. However it turns out the deal was supposed to be with a free PS3 motion controller, not PS3 console and had to chase up the customer to get it back. The customer basically said ‘its your mistake, sorry’ and it turns out that the my sisters company couldnt or wouldnt chase it any more (of which im not sure). Which made me think perhaps there is no legal grounding to getting the item back once it has been delivered.

The fact you’re making a concerted effort to now avoid paying for it makes you both a thief and devoid of morality. Shame on you and your wife frankly.

This has been my favourite one so far.

Im not so bothered about the morality behind it. I havent lost sleep over it as I dont believe its really that bad. I paid for an item which couldnt be delivered on time, it was refunded then mistakenly delivered. I didnt go out of my way to steal it, it just came into my possession. I haven’t particularly gone out of my way to rectify the situation and really wanted to know the legalities behind it before I proceed. (to put it on ebay (im joking))

Harsh? Ask your mums opinion. Mine would be pissed off with me. I imagine yours would too.

They were disappointed when I told them, but when I asked what they would have done they couldnt reach an agreed answer. The thing is, when its hypothetical most people take the moral high ground, but when it happens its sometimes a different story. You suddenly think you could save yourself a few hundred quid here, maybe spend it on something else instead!

hora – Member

You’ve deprived a highly-taxed business of £600.

You dont feel bad about it?

And you’ve had to ask the question. Who taught you you morals, your parents?

No I dont really. Would you? I think the parents thing is a bit harsh.