how would a headlock stop water from getting into your headset bearings? the bearings are on the other side of the steerer tube – if water’s getting through that you’ve got bigger issues i fear…

nbt – that must hardly ever happen though, did well to hold on to it! comments on youtube, as usual are hilarious:

wow? thats gay ride a real bike that wont break next time

My car’s 990kg all in…

what are the pros (and cons) of rollers over a turbo?

dave_rudabar – Member
I can’t believe someone pays the bike shop to change a chain for them, when it’s such an easy & quick thing to do yourself!

I can’t believe it took 18 posts for someone to mention this! STW is getting slack.

joolsburger – Member
I wouldn’t mind but I can be half dead covered in bruises and in obvious pain and get told to MTFU.
Dog limps a bit and it’s straight down the vet.

I know my place in the pecking order!

So you’ve got a problem with your wife, not the vet then. 😉

Seat of the pants race organising – no venue, no date, just a location. I like it. Perhaps LVIS were trying to be too organised in advance…

Kim Jong-il was in Bristol yesterday…

It’s pretty common in some areas of the country and generally there is no problem with it at all. Think my house has 887 years to run on the lease and I pay £1.50 ground rent a year (if collected, which it isn’t).

I agree with the comments about victorinox knives above – by far the most widely used knives by caterers, butchers etc. there’s a reason for this, price and quality. sure they don’t look as flash as global (don’t get on with the handles on those at all anyway) or sabatier, but they hold a good edge, the handles are grippy (even when wet) and they last for ages.

goldenwonder – Member
Hope Hoops use DT spokes & nipples so 0.127″ (3.23mm) nipples= black Park one, don’t know what colour Spokey it would be.

not so sure all hope hoops use dt spokes – i know that’s what the spec says but mine came with sapim spokes. (on stans crest btw)

he has made some epic valva/logo failures.

I had that recently. Advised that they are 80% worn and did I want them replacing. I pointed out they advised they were 75% worn last year so I’d come back in 4 years time.

big_n_daft

get a small compact: olympus XA is great (don’t get the 1 or 2) 3 is ok 4 is rocking horse poo

Not sure I agree with that. The original XA is the only true rangefinder, XA1 is a fixed focus, XA2 is scale focus, XA3 is an XA2 with DX capabilities so it sets your film speed automatically and XA4 is the same with a wider angle lens.

just realised, i got the designation wrong in my photo above, that was taken with an original XA.

I do it:
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Taken with an olympus XA-1 compact rangefinder. I used to develop myself in a local community darkroom, but haven’t really got the time at the moment so I normally send them off. Used to send to Spectrum Imaging in Newcastle, but they’ve stopped doing it now so looking for somewhere new.

I largely agree with BD, although the film was following HTC and so was always going to reflect their views. I’m still undecided as to whether garmin should have chased, and would have been pretty pissed off if i was big george. Ligget was unbearable during the Q&A, wtf was that question to Adag and Holm about who’s the biggest to manage or whatever – surely he selected questions in advance so he should have left that one out.

I also agree that a film from Rendell and/or Boulting would be good, really enjoy the real peloton podcast.

oh and jacko, it was on for one night only iirc, although the dvd is out in time for christmas.

i’ve got a sigma pc15 and it does all i want – zones (with annoying alarms and recall after your ride so you can see a % of time you spend in each zone), avg, max, laps etc. seemed to do more than similarly priced hrms from other manufacturers.

the best model for this i’ve come across is these guys sportograf at the 24h de Finale who sold complete, digital, sets of all your photos for €20 – got about 18 in all for that much and they were far better than most of the event photography you normally see.

looks good, although as 13thfloormonk says above the grips are on the wrong way round and the wrong way up – the oval yeti logo goes under your palms for comfort and then the yeti text goes under your fingers for grip.

From above

The Mylar material at the core has been treated with energy waves at specific frequencies

I’d be interested to know if they actually do anything to treat the mylar with energy waves at all, seems to me to be a point where they could have slipped up.

clubber, if they did them in purple with a gold hologram you’d have one straight away.

i rode a bike around beijing for about 2 weeks in 2004 (i think!). Bought it off a bloke at a bike repair place (every street corner had a man who would fix punctures etc) for about £3.50 and sold it when i left for about £4 to someone in the hostel i was staying in. Got a few funny looks from the locals, but was a really good way to get around. bike lanes were as big as car lanes, although i fear it will be a bit different now as car ownership seems to have rocketed in the past couple of years.

i’d go for one with two wheels, pedals and brakes.

hmm, i like the fact that Bertie has said that his reputation has been damaged by this – i thought it was already damaged by the fact he’s been on a team that had to withdraw from the tdf because so many of his teammates were caught doping and that he was named in operacion puerto!

erm, blue grooves aren’t a mud tyre.

Awesome. Found it a bit odd how they didn’t even mention at least 2 other riders who completed that year – the dude in second and the guy who finished with mary (you can just about see him when she rides into antelope wells).

ps. I’m aware of the budgetry issues, however not to even mention them seemed odd to me.

hels – Member
pjt201 – well thats the end of Homeopathy for cyclists then….

Well, seeing as I’ve yet to see any scientific evidence that homeopathy is anything other than a placebo I’m not too concerned. Also I haven’t seen a homeopathic remedy containing EPO or HGH yet!

EDIT – Oh and the likelihood of any homeopathic remedy containing even a single molecule of the “active” ingredient is so minute it wouldn’t matter anyway – not sure they can test for water “memory” yet…

There’s an interesting Inner Ring post on WADA rules – which I think I agree with. Even if it is proven to be contaminated meat (which seems unlikley to me as no other astana riders tested positive for it), he still gets stripped of his results and a ban, which he can seek to reduce.

You can’t have half measures with stuff like this, there is either a banned substance present in their sample or there isn’t – it doesn’t matter how it got there or how much of it there is.

I don’t think he’ll burn for this though – the ASO like him so will try to protect him.

bristol renegade slalom, or just sack off all the uk events and go and do the 24h de finale.

get some selvedge denim jeans and then you’re not supposed to wash them so that wouldn’t happen…

i think i paid for one less sack of aggregate than i left with in b&q the other week. they only had their stupid self checkout open and after scanning each sack of gravel a recorded message told me to leave it on the trolly as it’s too heavy to put on the scales. this took about 20 seconds. I had 10 bags, my receipt only showed 9…

n reg 1.2 renault clio. it used to be red, but is now more like a pastel pink shade… i think i win.

i know cervelo on their project california bikes (R5sl?) when racing them have to put more weight in the seattube than the frame itself weighs…

CHB, weren’t you the one who was impressed that all the quangos will be shut down?

adh, i’ve got a pair of those that didn’t solve a problem i had with chain tension on my inbred that you can have if you want?

rootes1 – Member
and you think councils are run efficiently in house? rubbish, there are planning departments across the country where less than 1/2 the staff are actually available to do work… nothing gets done.

No, i’m well aware that Councils (and any public body in general) are run very inefficiently, however I’m not convinced that this inefficiency will be made up for by outsourcing on such a large scale.

Take social services for an example – will the Council put a limit on how many people the private company can deal with? what happens when more people need these services? what’s to stop the private company actively looking for more people to deal with and thus increasing their turnover and profits?

What about highway maintenance, imo you’ll find highways in suffolk in a worse state than currently as the contractor will try and do the bare minimum while charging for having done a satisfactory job. What will end up happening is the council will have to employ more and more people to manage the contractors…

so they would become so expensive that only people wealthy enough would use them? brilliant, how to widen the social gap. big society in action.

i’d suggest you actually need double what uplink suggests and a length of good quality coax (it really does need to be quite high quality, will drastically effect performance if not) as i doubt there will be enough slack just to put a joint in place. oh and if it’s being burried i’d suggest some amalgamating tape to seal it all up.

Ho hum – Member
simonralli2 – Member
I think she was a character in Alan Partridge but I could be wrong if that isn’t a quote from the show.
I now remember.

She was also on a later all female BBC comedy programme called Drop The Dead Donkey.

I remember now.

I think I should go to bed.

I think you mean Smack the Pony, Drop the Dead Donkey was the show about globalinc news…

subsistence/settlement is only an issue when it is differential. I’d imagine that since construction far more than 30% of uk homes have been subject to an amount of subsistence, given that they are built on trench foundations generally.