Thanks chaps, beats bikes up against trig points any day!

This monkey got dem skillz.

max, given my experience with them I personally would not use them ever again.

Her gran had come back from the dead and spilt the haunted contents of her long forgotten comode on the lounge carpet?

Her pet dog was having psychological trauma due to being molested by aliens disguised as a foil pack of pedigree chum?

So, do you reckon I should stay in grand bay (north) or flic en flac (south-east)? Will want to be doing a bit of snorkelling, drinking, eating well, meeting people who might also be travelling alone and generally relaxing, as well as seeing most of the island. Am planning to hire a car when I get there.

Am in port louis for the first week as thats where the office is, but other than that have no idea. Have looked at flic en flac which looks ok, but if you’d recommend somewhere different I’d be all ears. Hopefully going to try and do villa rather than hotel and hire a motorbike or something. It all looks pretty accessible from most places, but want a bit of life as will be there on my own.

lcj – Member
Check this:

Any day of the week, speak to sales assistant, place order. Goods supplied instantly.

I’ve tried to do that, but understandably, they’re catering predominantly for the mass market, so their stock is tied up in Altura and lower end stuff, rather than the odds and sods I want half the time, just cos i like the colourscheme.

merlin did exactly that on monday for me – order made around 10 am, confirmed half an hour later, stuff waiting at the office for me the next day – order to receipt in under 24 hours.

Merlin are great.

have a look at merlin, they’re always decently priced for these.

Don’t get RF ones though – I put a crack in mine within 2 months despite no crashes and only riding gay-lite.

i’ve given away quite a few innertubes in my time to randoms and refused payment. What goes around comes around and all that.

If this chap was a fatty, I wouldn’t have stopped though – for his own benefit and to reduce the carbon footprint.

Oh, and I might be able to swing a late night ride depending on work. It’s where I grew up so know it backwards.

head along the high st towards Cobham, after a couple of miles road that’s as XC as it gets.

Or head towards Oxshott and ride oxshott woods.

Both pretty crap and unbelievably tame, but it’s the best you’ll get.

HJ XLJs for all my riding here.

Yellow, persimmon and iridium lenses cover the options.

http://www.roadcyclinguk.com/news/article/mps/uan/2667

The chaps there seem to like them. Given that I use zero gravity brakes, which are pretty crappy at the best of times, and I’m still happy with the performance tells you a fair bit about my experience with them.

koolstop are quite a bit cheaper than swisstop if that helps make your mind up?

snaps – Member
I’m not trying to be funny, its just that I’d think you’d get a better response from a road forum where more people are likely to know.

Oh, and I believe we proved you were misinformed last time you went down that route. Can you be angry about something else instead?

I use Swisstop Greens on my aluminium rims, and yellows on my carbon ones.

The greens are very good.

I was asked to pay for mine as best man. And then found he’d chosen the most expensive one in the catalogue, and it further transpired that he got his free when hiring 4 other dress suits.

Depends how good a mate he is or how much of a **** you’re feeling.

whatever you do, make sure you train with them, as they’ll cost you more time than you’ll save on the day if you don’t.

Also, if you don’t have a smooth and powerful pedalling style when seated, you’re best off using the drops – even more so if there’s a stack of corners on the course.

If you’re Surrey based, I have a set of profile ones you can try.

ribble

aracer – Member

Do you have a pension other than a state pension? If yes, you can’t be excused.

Oh yeah? Why exactly, given pensions put money into the system? I’ll actually cite my pension being stuffed as one of the main reasons I’m a victim. You can’t blame me for what pension fund managers might have chosen to do.

And there is a hugely simplistic view of the whole “I’m not to blame” argument.

Ok, so you have a pension fund. You want your pension fund to grow at a certain rate, one that is more than you could expect to receive if you compounded the savings and interest in a readily available account. If you didn’t, you would have put the money in savings surely, as you’d have made more? Taking it simplistically, regardless of whether you personally chose those pension fund managers, that’s the expectation else there’s no significant other reason to have a pension fund.

Now, these pension funds are used to add money to the system which in turn facilitates loans to be made which gain a marginally higher return which is the profit for the banks and companies that use this money.

With only a certain number of high quality loans available, in order to sustain this demand, lower quality loans were taken on board, and when those began to default, the knock on became obvious.

The only reason this was not apparent sooner, and therefore with lesser impact was the free money the US and developed world were receiving in return for lower, but perceivably safer than domestic investments, from the growing economies of China and other primarily Tiger economies. This created an artificial state which couldn’t be sustained in the long-term.

aracer – Member

just about every resident of the developed world – we all got greedy, we all wanted free money, we all wanted big tv’s and we all wanted instant gratification through conspicuous consumption, look where its got us now.

Can I excuse myself – TV is over 10 years old, and I save up if I want something. Hence I’m a victim not a culprit.

Would really like the forum archives right now to find who was complaining about the bank not giving them a huge mortgage…

Do you have a pension other than a state pension? If yes, you can’t be excused.

when you’re a communist everyone should have the same bike.

Gary_M – Member
just about every resident of the developed world – we all got greedy, we all wanted free money, we all wanted big tv’s and we all wanted instant gratification through conspicuous consumption, look where its got us now.

And that is true. Anyone who wants to blame small groups or individuals has a fundamental lack of understanding.

mmmm, Debbie McGee.

I love you Debbie, with all my physical might!

She won’t be in an aero tuck for much of the ride unless it’s a vastly flat course with limited turns. In my opinion she’s better off on a normal bike and getting used to riding the drops consistently.

Sigma sport would be my recommendation for where to buy from – they know their beans and are a really good bunch

It’s not illegal to opt-out, but it’s illegal to force employees to opt-out.

signing a contract of employment is choice.

no, Canton Hora was a cantonese impersonator, with one of them funny coolie hats and everything.

Vic’s here, just doesn’t post that much…

I miss Sealoin.

Yeah well wait for the economy to improve and watch your best people walk out the door – assuming they haven’t done so already.

I’d be surprised if they do, primarily because we reward good performance and commitment through discretionary performance related bonuses etc above and beyond the contracted terms. And that’s not excepting the current market – if you want people to stay, you have to incentivise them.

That’s why I’m not a full believer in “studies” such as those quoted for this glut of unpaid overtime we supposedly do in the UK. For some, yes, but factor in bonuses and career progression etc, then it’s not as bad as it appears in my opinion.

citydeams – Member
I think you’re missing the point pk-ripper. The idea is to encourage train compaines to make provision for bicylces so that you don’t have to hurdle over several bromptons on your way to work.

But, the problem as I see it is that at present, the size and volume of the rolling stock is limited by the stations, rails and other infrastructure. With the majority of peak trains from a number of locations that I’ve travelled from being full already (and that’s likely to only get worse), there’s no additional space for bikes that isn’t already full of people – given that the bike doesn’t pay a fare, I understand exactly where the rail companies are coming from – it’s maximising their income for a given journey, as any shareholder driven company is likely to do.

With regard to the Bromptoms, they are pointy, generally filthy, you don’t always have the option not to be pushed onto them (and I like clean suits).

Just because I ride a bike and frequent this site, doesn’t make me pro cycling in all forms.

I’m glad I’m not your boss either Joe, else with an attitude like that you wouldn’t last long.

as a daily commuter into london, bikes on the train are a pain in the arse, even more so the brompton ****-squad.

Would happily sign one against bikes on trains.

erm, in the current economic climate, when the boss says jump, I’d say you jump…

I manage a team, and have had to bring a couple of people up on this recently – the stance is that you have to be capable of working your contracted hours, and if you need the system to do that, then you should time your arrival accordingly. 10 minutes for a system boot isn’t unreasonable, after all, you’re on here during the day clearly, and you can always grab a coffee while you’re waiting. If you are unable to do so for any reason, that’s a personal chat / agreement between yourself and your boss.

To be brutally honest, if you want to work to rule, become a civil servant. Otherwise deal with it, or move jobs.

They’ve done fine as a shop, although probably should have stuck to the £45 for complete job as originally hypothesised.

From my days as a shop mechanic, I’d have done it for less than that, given the mark-up on the parts, but right now the true cost of things is becoming more apparent as shops look to bring in every £ they can.

kill them.

hmm, mine have never needed TLC and are still working faultlessly. Personally I think that’s a myth spread by those who haven’t owned them – I have them F&R on 3 bikes – because I can.

maybe you’re growing lots of new testicles?

maybe he’s entered a higher plane, just not via a normal airport.

yeah, there was SE Bikes back in the day – PK-Ripper was one of their BMXs.

http://www.sebmx.com/News-Reviews/Reviews/2008/October/Classic-PK-Ripper-in-Ride-UK-Mag.aspx

pk-ripper, do you have a fixie with your name on it?

I may be a ****, but not enough to have a fixie.