bencooper – Member
Isn’t she just expressing the view of the people who voted for her?

She can’t be as only 44% voted for independence and 50% voted SNP at the last general election.

Anyway, my point is politically it seems bonkers just to keep banging on and on about wanting another referendum when the last one isn’t even cold yet.

Northwind – Member
TBF, I don’t know how you can claim this is the case, it just doesn’t make any sense.

As in practically demanding a more or less immediate further referendum on the subject. Almost every week there’s another story in the press about Sturgeon saying if x happens then there’ll have to be another referendum.

ernie_lynch – Member
She is simply pointing out that implementing policies which have been overwhelming rejected by Scots will result in more and more people concluding that Westminster simply can’t deliver for Scotland.

Define overwhelmingly for me please? The SNP don’t have a majority in Holyrood…

Northwind – Member

Because of the linear nature of time, mostly. You accept what has happened in the past, and you work towards what you want to happen in the future.

Which is fine if you don’t misrepresent people or your intentions. The current difficulty I have with the Scottish situation is that Sturgeon talks as though she is the voice of the entire population, which she categorically isn’t. I have the same issue with Cameron before you point this out – however he didn’t/won’t hold a referendum on whether to get more involved in Syria so his position is a little more defensible as opposed to being on the losing side of a very recent (in political terms) referendum and then carrying on like that referendum didn’t happen.

If Sturgeon waited a reasonable period of time (I’m not going to suggest what that period is, however it would need to be long enough for the current referendum to be out of the national conciousness) before pressing for another go that would be fine, however just over a year isn’t really long enough.

Northwind – Member
Working meaningfully towards the next referendum pretty much requires that you accept the result of the last after all.

If one accepts the result of the last referendum why would one be working towards the next referendum? At some point, both sides have to agree that there is no mandate to continue holding referenda, how do we reach that point given that no result will be 100%? Apparently a 5.3% majority isn’t enough so what will be?

I’d probably post a ranty message on an mtb forum about it.

seosamh77 – Member
that’s you trying to dictate to the scottish people.

If the scottish people don’t want another referedum, they’ll tell the SNP to piss off when they put it in their manifesto at the scottish elections.

Or they’ll be aware that manifestos contain more than one policy idea and make a decision to vote for a particular party by weighing up their opinion of these different policy ideas and vote for the one which most closely meets their needs? And so they might, shock horror, vote for the SNP but not support independence…

seosamh77 – Member
You don’t need 50% of the vote to form a legitimate government.

This is democracy 101 BTW, do you really not get this or are you just being deliberately obtuse?

I’m being as obtuse as you are. I don;t think holding a referendum once every 4 years is productive or effective. In fact you then start to devalue the power of a referendum (and therefore the effectiveness of it’s outcome). See the film The Rise and Rise of Rise of Michael Rimmer for an example.

Any party which campaigns on the basis of a referendum has to understand that they can hold a majority government without a popular majority. Can they then justify the cost of a referendum (both in terms of the actual economic value, but also in the impact it has on actual governance during that period, the impact on society and the impact on their own mandate to govern) if they know they don’t have a clear opportunity to win it?

pop back when that happens, problem with elections of a party it’s really hard to find one that you agree 100% with. You pick the one you think will do the best.

This. Also, it’s a shame the SNP don’t currently have a majority.

Another problem comes in that under the AMS voting system a Holyrood majority doesn’t necessitate 50% of the popular vote…

I’m not denying you that right, but how often should you be able to hold referenda on the matter? As many times as you need until you get the result that you want? If the vote had gone for independence would the right to self determination still exist after that? Would you hold regular referenda to check that the people still wanted to be independent?

At some point you have to accept that a collective decision has been made, and I’d suggest that the time for that acceptance would normally be after a referendum has been taken on that question…

@Konabunny

It’s irrelevant to Scotland for the reason I put in my post – over 50% voted against independence. Whether another place votes for or against and whether they remain in the EU or not has no bearing whatsoever on Scotland because, you guessed it, they voted against independence. My gripe is that there is a section of Scottish society who wanted the referendum (those who wanted independence) and now can’t accept the result of that referendum.

Answering the OP’s question, it’s completely irrelevant to the Scottish question.

I’m still perplexed as to why the SNP don’t want to recognise that over 50% of the electorate voted against independence and if they did get independence and implemented proportional representation (their apparent majority in Scotland only exists because of the flawed Westminster system – even the Greens got more votes than them nationally) they would hold a very shaky majority government (and possibly not even manage that) which would implode pretty quickly.

@lardman, all you’re doing there is letting it get to you. just chill out, it’s their problem not yours.

I agree with cbike. If I ride like I’m in a hurry I always seem to get more annoyed by drivers behaviour. Now I ride a sit up and beg bike (Kona MinUte) which I couldn’t go to fast on even if I tried, ride to work gently on it and never seem to get in any bother any more. And if someone does something really stupid, I just carry on and perhaps laugh at them for being so annoyed about as simple a task as driving a car.

In short, change your mental approach to cycling in traffic.

I think the psychology of driving is fascinating. So many people get so wound up about stupid things and do dangerous manoeuvres all in the name of “making progress” only to stop at the next red light where I waft past them (into the ASL). The same also applies to many cyclists and walkers before anyone points this out.

@sammy c, I don’t really want to get in to an argument about it here, but it’s not propaganda that breast is best, there’s a massive amount of medical research which backs it up. This doesn’t mean you hsve to breast feed though, the decision is entirely personal.

i do agree that sometimes the pro breast lobby can be unnecessarily militant though.

I can only repeat what Pook said. I’m currently sat up with my 15 week old twins, while my wife gets some much needed sleep. They were 8 weeks early and in hospital for 6 weeks with one of that being IV fed and the other 5 by naso-gastric tube. Took a while for breastfeeding to click when we got home and it was a bit fraught and sleepless for a while, but we’re into a sort of routine now. When it works it works (and is so much easier than bottles) but it will take some perseverance to get there and the best thing you can do is be as supportive as you can but also realise that it’s really up to your wife on what she does so respect and be supportive of any decisions she makes.

WRT Kye Forte and DH palmares- he only started racing DH a couple of years ago and in that time has won the BDS masters overall twice, national champs masters twice and had two masters world champs top 10s. This is on top of his stellar bmx career… One of the most exciting riders there imo.

I’d like to echo everyone above and ask who you thought was going to be there? That looks like a good list to me.

Kye Forte is also the current UK Masters DH champ and came 8th at the masters worlds… Given that he’s a redbull sponsored athlete I’m not surprised he’s there (in fact I reckon most people riding it will be in a redbull helmet).

[pedant] apart from the fact it’s a car trailer and not a caravan [/pedant]

If you remove the motion control unit and look through the plastic bit with holes in (technical term this) you should be able to see the spring that causes the cable to release. You should be able to unhook this meaning the moco unit will work under the friction of the dial on the fork crown.

trickydisco – Member

or simon richardson winning on a 26er in the western league

Si Richardson would’ve won on whatever bike he rode 😉

Anyone who was moaning about it probably needed reminding of that. Some people take it far too seriously. There was a guy who had a go at me for doing mince pie hand-ups at the Lockleaze round last year. No idea where he came, but the winner had 3…

@maxtorque – I think your definition of inconvenience must be different to mine. This all goes back to the bizarre logic displayed by many drivers. (myself included sometimes).

maxtorque – Member

As a driver part of your responsibility is to drive your car in a fashion that gives other drivers the minimum inconvenience. There are plenty of scenarios where occupying the moral or legal “High ground” inconveniences others, and this would be one of them.

Go on then, what’s the inconvenience of leaving the gap? I’ll give you a clue: the person behind will arrive at their destination at exactly the same time as they would if the gap hadn’t been left.

What’s the difference between the OP’s point and this:

I’m cycling a long a road, approx 100m from a set of traffic lights (currently red) a car behind me accelerates to overtake and then immediately pulls in and has to brake sharply for the red light. I then re-overtake the now stationary car and take primary position in the ASL box and slowly make my way forward when the light goes green.

IMO, both are evidence of the same thing – a lot (perhaps a majority, perhaps not) of drivers have no concept of what will actually cause any sort of delay in their journey time. In the OP the overtaking driver had clearly decided that the chap in front was having a delaying impact on his journey, when clearly any rational thought would suggest otherwise. In my example exactly the same applies, however it happens so often I wonder if there is some psychological basis for it.

This is similar to people taking massively circuitous routes to avoid traffic, when often these routes actually take longer than if you just went the direct route and accepted you might be stationary for 5mins at some point during the journey.

The change in psychology of people when they get behind the wheel of a car is fascinating imo. They behave in ways they otherwise wouldn’t and which are entirely illogical.

This frame can install three types of tyres: 27.5×3.0″, 29×3.0″ and 29×2.3″

Does this mean I can’t use 2.35″ hans dampfs?

timbur – Member
Might be interested in the range DrP
Drop me some details will you?
Cash and trailer available!

Hey, wait a minute, was this actually just an elaborate scam so DrP could advertise his range in the main forum rather than on the classifieds?

Well done if so.

@trickydisco – same for me in the Western League, although with 3 month old twins… I’ve almost forgotten what a bike is but still going to try and make it to as many rounds as possible.

I’m astonished by how fast some of the Bristol CX guys got during the summer series (not that they weren’t fast before…). I’ll be the not fast guy racing for Bristol CX (well, I always was, but even less fast this season).

Someone has purported to make an online checker here: https://ashley.cynic.al/%5B/url%5D

@bigdummy, all three email addresses I have for you test negative for Ashley Madison.

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.

Ah, so you want the moon on a stick? 😉

You could try the car park at Leigh Woods, then ride through Leigh Woods to North Road, back up to the A369, cross over and ride along the pavement (shared use and quite wide, also possible to cut into the old timberland trail through a gate) to the Clifton Ashton Court gatehouse.

There’ll be traffic anywhere on the a369, especially if you have to drive up Rownham Hill to get there.

Or you could park somewhere on cumberland basin (maybe by the create centre, and again use the festival way to get to Ashton Court – completely traffic free route).

Anywhere on Winterstoke Road isn’t too far away from Ashton Court, no trails though. Or if you want a bit more of a ride, you could park at Flax Bourton village hall and ride along festival way to Ashton Court (or anywhere in Long Ashton I suppose).

Someone should tell Josh Ibbett that he could rest for as long as he wants and subtract the time when he reaches Istanbul…

@essellgruntfuttock – Bristol. Sounds like it may be going soon if Gove has his way (which is a double edged sword as they’re pretty good neighbours bur closing it will push up house prices and bring a rubbish high density housing estate next to my house)

I live next door to a prison. There are infrequently murders in there (has been one this year) and such delightful people as Gary Glitter have been neighbours for short periods.

six foot long you say? I’d be looking at a solid core flush door as the workstop. Possibly a fire door – will be stronger and way cheaper than the equivalent worktop.

The reason they pay out but aren’t criminally convicted is because of the basis of our legal system. The burden of proof in civil cases (ie those brought by “victims” of phone hacking against the publishers of hacked material) is based on the balance of probabilities whereas the burden of proof in criminal cases (ie the queen vs the individual who hacked) is based upon the case being found beyond reasonable doubt.

The publishers don’t want to allow civil cases to go to court, because they would likely lose (if the victim can prove there’s no other way the information could have been obtained that would likely be sufficient) and not only have to pay damages but also their own and the victims legal costs so paying them off is far cheaper and easier.

Proving beyond reasonable doubt that x actually dialled the number, used the password and hacked y’s phone is much more tricky. The evidence that via phone hacking was the most likely way the information was obtained would clearly be insufficient to be beyond reasonable doubt.

I still remember seeing one of these take off on full reheat at Biggin Hill air fair back in the day.

It managed to melt the end of the runway and stop the whole show for an hour or so while it was repaired….

Second vote for Lightroom here.

Lightroom is for image processing, photoshop is for image manipulation – although you can do the first in PS, it’s much more intuitive in LR.

I’ve not got a map, but was guided down most of them by a local last weekend. Personally, I’m not convinced the UKGE trails are anywhere near the best Triscombe has to offer. A couple are completely new cut trails, where they appear to have gone to work with a set of secateurs and nothing more and to use ones on the existing trails they actually removed quite a few of the built features…

You can own them as private vehicles – ie, normal insurance/no licence plate etc.

I once supplied Steve Peat with cider to do handups with at Bikefest. Actually scratch that, I was doing cider hand ups at bikefest and Steve Peat came over, helped himself to cider and cups and joined in. I let him off though.