I've never bought it before, just fancied a look…

erm, I don't think I've ever had more than 1. Either my style is just too graceful, or I'm not trying hard enough…

@miketually

Is this the secret to your (un)success? If I use such a combination am I guaranteed to become a development rider for a small British bike designer (not that Brant is small or designs small bikes, but you know what I mean)?

isn't stealing bikes from southmead like the criminals sh*tting in their own backyard?

I remember being at the biggin hill airfair when i was about 10 and the vulcan managing to melt the end of the runway.

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Was done using one of those reverse mounts for a 50mm lens. Worth the £2 or so I paid for it!

richc – Member

I think they say it, because layback posts are usually used to make a bike a bit longer, and result in your weight being further back than was originally intended by the designer. A layback post and a 40mm stem, would push your weight right back, which isn't good.

What I'm saying is that most designers design their bikes to be used with layback posts though!

I think it's the thomson effect, if it were a straight post with an offset clamp one wouldn't even notice.

Goan – Member

Something looks just wrong with that. Layback post and such a short stem would suggest that it didn't really fit….

Why do people always say this. Look at any production bike, they all come with layback seatposts (however it is likely this is at the clamp rather than with a bent post ala thomson). In fact when people try to fix things with inline posts they're probably doing more to change the handling.

if they're picassa the people that can see them are logged into a google account and the people who can't aren't. or something light that.

It's simple, he said in the build up it's taken him over a year to do this. All he's done is filmed the bit where he's writing the numbers on the bit of card and turning over the balls thousands of times with different combinations of numbers. He said at the start he was only convinced he could get 4 correct which reduces the permutations by quite a lot (he might have been lucky with the 6). The hand held camera work was to make it more difficult to notice the switch – notice they didn't go back to the presenter after the balls were picked, cut off while they were still on the standard screen. Also this is why he couldn't show them in advance.

It's like the time where he got 100 (or 10 i can't really remember) heads (or tails – again I can't really remember) in a row – he just filmed all day while he was flipping coins until it happened.

well, a mate of mine who does the european websites has been working 21 hour days for a while in cupertino so there is definitely some big announcement coming.

I'm going to have to pop up there in a bit, need a chip for my new road bike – they're £15 retail!

I'm more surprised the protesters accepted an out of court settlement – surely if they believe in the cause they would be better off taking it to court and getting the police to admit wrong doing (which in this case they haven't). Money grabbing hippies 😉

Mr Agreeable

I did this once when I saw one jump a red light at St James Barton roundabout – not amber gambling or anything, properly blatant …

They jump redlights all the time on the centre – hard to describe, but the light for buses doing a u-turn around the cenotaph (turning towards lewins mead).

Yeah, should get on it really, think I could have at least a numberplate a week to complain about though!

they could do the science in a similar way to shampoo adverts? 😉

get a 2nd hand bic for about £150. Sell it in a couple of years when you're done with it for £150. Don't bother buying new as they lose value instantly but hold it when second hand (if that makes sense).

coffeeking – Member

better than the supermarkets in terms of additives etc, why don't the publicise it?

Errr…see shell V-power, BPs ultimate…. Did you miss the adverts? Unless you mean the "basic" fuel, which I suspect has some base additives different to the supermarkets but why would you publicise your "budget" range fuel when it would compete with your premium fuel if it used teh same taglines?

But the thing under discussion here is the comparison between the "budget" fuel ranges! I don't doubt that vpower etc provide a performance enhancement. People on this thread have been saying that there is a difference between the budget fuel ranges.

What I don't get about all this is, if the traditional petrol stations (esso, shell et al) have a product that is better than the supermarkets in terms of additives etc, why don't the publicise it?

(I know they advertise for their premium fuels, but from what people are saying above their standard fuels are also better)

I think this is a bit of a placebo effect personally. People have a preconception that supermarket fuel is of "lesser" quality so they then think they notice a difference in their cars performance/fuel consumption (the two are related, if they think their car is performing worse they might rev higher before changing gear, thus affecting consumption).

I heard that when the turbo blows parts of it can be thrown into the engine. Then from there they make their way through the throttle cable into your foot on their way to your heart…

That was my original thoughts, however the last train back from manc to bristol is 8:30pm meaning I'd have to leave old trafford by about 7:45pm which would be 45 mins after play starts…

You need to talk to the floppy haired bloke out of blur. He makes cheese now I think.

or narrow nevegal rear, wide one front.

strip down, grease bolts and reassemble it is then.

I'm going surfing instead.

rightplacerighttime – Member
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I've said this here before (and I don't mind if someone (preferably someone other than Stoner) wants to explain why I've got it wrong as I can hardly believe it myself) but BANKS DO NOT NEED TO TAKE DEPOSITS IN ORDER TO LEND MONEY – they just create a loan and at the same time, write down the amount they have lent as an asset on their books. The reason they won't lend though, is because there is no longer a market for those assets (debts) so they can't resell them and take a profit without taking a corresponding risk.

Well, there's nothing stopping banks just giving away money either but they don't. It's all about perceptions of risk and given the beating that banks have had recently from risky lending they're perceiving a much higher level at the moment than they were. The deposit reduces the risk to them.

Gunz – Member

For what it's worth here's my obervances on getting a mortgage in the current climate (April this year).
– 15% deposit offered with a good lump left over for the inevitable expense of moving.
– Secure Armed Forces job held for the last 14 years with guaranteed employment for the next 12 years (after which final payment will almost clear amount outstanding).
– Credit rating of 999. Was informed by Financial Advisor that he had never encountered one this high (I always pay my bills in good time).

Reply from bank;
Apologies but this customer presents too high a risk.

Cue, two months of arguing to get a mortgage.

Despite a host of promises from the banks, they still seem not to want to lend and are certainly not passing on lower interest rates (bunch of *****).

Yeah, the risk you'll be sent to Afghanistan and the mortgage will have to be written off…

I think there is a high horse to be on in this case though. The IAAF have handled it horrifically. They shouldn't have made any public comment/press release until after they had completed their tests. Even then it's very difficult for them to do anything as even if it's shown she's biologically more male than female it's not as though she has done anything wrong.

If it were a doping case the IAAF would wait until both the A and B sample test results are back before saying/doing anything so why has this case been handled differently causing much distress for the athlete involved?

Not that wiki links can always be trusted

you can get them on trials bikes already.

http://biketrials.com/review/2004_Echo_Stock_Front_Freewheel_Cranks_L401.html

when i went to mundaka the surf was rubbish, about a foot or really choppy nothing and yet there were still 3 or 4 people who were persevering who looked like they were having a rubbish time. odd really given that some of the beach breaks along the coast were a good clean 4' that day.

I don't but i'd like to. I take it you've seen this:

Beehaus

Looks like a good way to start.

you can get oem juicy 3.5 which are a 5 lever with a 3 caliper, may be the same as what you have?

mastiles_fanylion – Member

So how much are your bills?

Mine is £19 a month for non-metered use in a 2/3 bed terrace.

I was non metered and was paying that and then moved to a house with a meter who estimated my charge at £40 a month or i could pay every 6 months on actual meter readings. guess which one i plumped for! this was wessex water btw.

Munqe-chick – Member

…Cannondale were synonymous with US-built aluminium, now they are Chinese-built carbon fibre theyve effectively binned 20yrs of heritage but are still viewed as a quality brand.
Cannondale still make all their alu frames in Connecticut though, apparently they were going to send that to Taiwan too but it was a step too far.

what do you need a replaceable dropout on a steel frame for anyway? You can just bend it back.

a curtis?

I used to use original source stuff, until i noticed sainsbury's make an own brand equivalent for half the price which seems to list exactly the same ingredients…

rates have already started going up again unfortunately. I completed on a house 3 weeks ago, with the mortgage agreed about 1.5 months before that with a rate of 5.3% on a fixed deal, same lender is now only offering 6% with the same deposit. I've fixed for a fairly long time as in my mind when the economy picks up they're going to have to raise the base rate quite high to combat inflation.

onewheelgood – Member

I think there must be a market for a carbon fibre and Ti bell

Like this?

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/p/cycle/7/MKS_Titanium_Racing_Bell/5360043405/

roundwheels – Member

The love of high heals

or the inability to spell maybe?