Mr Agreeable
OK, so closing half of Prince Street Bridge was a bit weird, but it's quite a bold concession to cyclists

Sorry Anty, I think the Princes street bridge was actually closed for pedestrian benefit more than cycles. At least this is what someone who works for the council highways department told me…

australian road safety adverts seem to be far better than the uk one:

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they are completely different. Ocado are a separate company who deliver from large warehouses, waitrose deliver from goods picked from their stores. Ocado have a contract with Waitrose for using their groceries.

If you think that a solution to all this can be found amongst a bunch of glib posts on a bike forum from partial advocates of particular points of view, who see only what they think justifies their political stance "du jour" – you are going to be dissappointed.

Did the OP suggest that he was going to be able to find a solution here, or did he just start a discussion about the political issues in the area?

i also like the israeli condemnation of iran's nuclear programme. 😉

imo, it's quite clear the israeli's are in the wrong here. They accepted the 1949 green line and now are trying to move it. Whether the palestinians choose to accept it or not is a moot point as they weren't party to the 1949 agreement.

just realised i got it wrong, i've got 5wt oil which i use to replace the stuff that leaks from the motion control knob. if i put that in the lowers i assume the issue is that it is more likely to come past the seals so will need replacing more often.

thought as much. the only issue i can see is increased "stiction" although i still don't believe it has a significant effect anyway.

any one who wants to fly in a lightening can do, this is where the prof did it:
http://www.thundercity.com/pages/499409045/Home.asp

doesn't list prices for a lightening trip, although they are doing buccanneer trips for £6.5k…

cipollini could never ride 300km without a rest!

my only experience of them is seeing one in the hard shoulder of the m4 on fire (with the owners sat well up the embankment) and there was nothing left of it above the sills, everything had melted. ymmv

i do, using these pedals:
http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?PartnerID=79&ModelID=28051

haven't had any problems so far and has saved me the cost of a new pair of shoes.

my dad had to land a cessna 172 in field in an emergency once, the farmer wasn't too concerned about the minimal damage the plane caused, more so the 3 fire engines that turned up on scene after they put out the call on the radio that they'd had to do an emergency landing. Think they ended up paying some money to the farmer, turned out he had an old spitfire in one of his barns that he was restoring too.

on this whole carbon snapping thing, can someone actually post up an image of a snapped carbon post with loads of jagged edges showing? I still don't believe that this is the way carbon fails.

i only really wear howies jeans now. i either buy them in the sale (got a pair of selvedge drovers for £30 in the last sample sale – normal price £160!) or i get a 15% discount in there anyway through my job.

i was once told by a amnesty international chugger that i didn't believe in human rights as i wouldn't give them any money!

why does the green bike, which is clearly a sd inbred, have an orangebikes.co.uk sticker on it?

he must have done that before the bloke died in the luge… although it wasn't on the olympic sliding track.

Get a pair of these – they are SPD, but have a platform which provides better support to your shoe, they also look better on a road bike than mtb style spd peddles.

haussler for me i think.

750mm of type 1!! they don't even use that much under motorways!

just a quick note to say cheers guys. Got the front working with a pair of washers as suggested above.

They are a revelation compared to my juicy 3s. Even had to bleed the front after shortening the hose and that was a fun 10 min job rather than a 30 min struggle as it was with the juicys.

the official rule is that bikes have to be in bags to be carried for free and those bags should be no larger than 85cm on the largest size. In practice as long as a bike is in a bag/box you can take it on with you for free. I've not done it myself but there's a good thread on lfgss about it.

The other option is to take the bike assembled and pay for freight of it which is £20 but is not guaranteed to go on the same train as you.

in my experience it is probably your ISP who is restricting the amount of users on your network. Did you have a different computer plugged in before? If so the ISP may have saved its MAC address. You either have to wait for a few hours for the ISP to release the connection to a new MAC address or manually enter the previous computers MAC address onto your iMac under MAC address cloning or something like that.

cool, i'll give it a go then. was trying to get away with not buying a new disc tbh. Am only going to be doing one wheel at a time too…

zestybeard – Member

Somewhere between 76 and 80 Lydney Rd is where many bikes are being taken to.

78 then? 😉

I agree though, they do all seem to end up in Southmead which puts places like horfield, henleaze, westbury on trym etc right under the thieving scrotes radar.

might be worth telling sustrans too so they can see if the way the route is managed can be improved.

after doing the same myself i got the caad9. The way I thought about it was, I didn't want a cheap carbon frame and other manufacturers alloy frames are the same from their £400 bikes, whereas this is the lowest spec you can get the caad9 in. The frame really is a thing of beauty, and they're the last ones to be made in the usa (not that i think the quality will go down when made in taiwan).

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@epicyclo the website is here: http://www.24hfinale.com/24h/

It's 20-23rd May with the race taking place on 22nd and 23rd.

look at pretty much all motocross bikes – bigger front wheel. I'm sure there's a good reason why they decided this and i doubt it's got much to do with suspension.

i think my next cog will be a king kog. no reason other than they look cool. aren't as expensive as boone either and pretty similar in price to surly.

i like the fact that SE Lagers can bar spin in all sizes…

@barnsleymitch they do cherryripes in australia that are chocolate, coconut and cherry. made by cadbury over there.

@woody2000

I'd go in low at the moment – either the estate agent will tell you that they are not going to bother telling them your offer straight away or they'll just say no, what's the problem with that?

brant – Member
I am no expert, but isn't there meant to be a quite considerable minimum clearance around these things?

i do find it so frustrating when internet know it alls post information that they have no way of know is correct or not on forums (forii?) 😉

ts – you might want to do a bit more research as 0.25 acres isn't 0.25 hectares! 1 acre = 0.4 hectares…

a guy i used to work with did this in bristol for a while (from the A370 park and ride car park) – he got a letter under his windscreen wipers telling him not to do it anymore. As far as we could tell there were no rules broken so not sure what their reasoning was!

You could always just park on a side street that's the same distance out as a p&r – that far out there don't tend to be parking restrictions.

I rode a fixie into work this morning. It has two brakes – a traditional single pivot on the front and a fixed gear for the rear wheel (check the law out, this counts as a brake). Was wearing a helmet though and normal jeans tucked into my socks…