Try buying a pair of pants first, and then wearing them.

:lol:

Yay month old thread Resurrection.

Not gonna lie, a lot of stuff in this thread is certified hilarious.

Surely they legally have to?

AFAIK, only electrical goods legally have to be sold with a manufactures warranty.

On a semi serious note, I know a lot of businessmen in London use these to get around short distances:

My sister is the practice manager for a dental surgery in the New Forest, and some of the christian names of the kids she has coming in these days are almost unbelievable.
My 2 personal favourites of late have been Blade and Thor…

I know someone called Thor who is from Sailsbury, so going to assume its the same guy as that name is rather rare!

He’s actually a super nice dude, despite what the name would suggest.

You could organize a courier.

Then just tell him you’ll be picking it up whilst at work and to look out for a Parcel Force van ;)

But I’m guessing the sellers beef is cash on collection rather than postage.

Went to the zoo this weekend just gone, was great fun.

Don’t engage with anyone you don’t know until you have seen photo id, and take a photo of it. Not some silly in-house printed bit of card but something official. (Driving license is ideal).

I wasn’t the home owner and promptly told him so before he could finish his introductory sentence. Waited for him to return to his car before going back indoors.

In reality he may of just been looking at the classic car as a lot of people do take an interest in exotic motors.

It is interesting to see when you could get caught out, or “spotted”, however. Certainly living in strange times when you have to be careful about people seeing your bikes..!

The other day my GF was washing her car using the hose from the garage.

We live in a very quiet “locals village for local people” kinda place, so this is normally totally cool.

However we were cold called from a sales team for Apple Home Improvement out of the blue (as the nature of cold calls are, ya kno) – my GF was actually filling up the bucket round the corner at the time so when I came to the door I caught him eyeing into the garage, looking at my MTB, BMX, and my fathers classic motor.

I noted the number plate down. Debating also moving the bikes indoors for the next few months just in case. The garage is attached to our house and alarmed, tho.

Am I being paranoid?

Are you running it SS?

Can’t believe more people didn’t spot this one.

10/10, would laugh again.

I done this last week with my XT cranks.

Just make sure you have the right length bolts – I emailed CRC and asked, they were very helpful and the bolts were a perfect fit.

Then just wind in the mech high stop. I didn’t even bother to shorten the chain as it was shifting perfectly. (Aint broke dont fix etc) Although I am aware a perfect scenario would be to shorten the chain also.

Good stuff, cheers guys.

I don’t for one moment condone cowboy clamping but legitimately signed car parks are a different matter. If you parked on the street and your ticket ran out (or you didn’t put one on) would you moan if you got a parking fine?

Interestingly this is “kind of” the whole debate – parking on a street isn’t private land – its public and council owned. As such fines issued in such a case are issued by the Council and are legally enforceable. (All AFAIK, correct me if wrong please.)

However when you park on private land, the fine is just an invoice, and a massive legal grey area.

Fence could do with a lick of paint or treating.

After Googling some and reading a bunch of horror stories about mounting tyres on Crests im leaning back toward XC717’s as I know they work…

Ah!

I’m sorry this hasn’t helped anyone.

Also:

The whole “getting tyres onto crests” issue people were having – is that still a thing or have things changed?

If it helps i’ll be running tubes with normal tyres.

yeah thats the one. I work in Verwood but I live in Southampton, not had chance to ride up this way yet. Must bring my bike up soon tho.

You’ll probably find what happened is some other website listed the product £4 cheaper.

Big places like EBuyer, CRC, etc, have pieces of software that will automatically scan the internet and match the lowest prices of competitors as long as they are above cost.

Then there are also “Mail Order” shops that some people run from their home, without a shop front – what these people tend to do is work a normal job and then come home and pack orders in the evening. Because they can’t chase the best prices all day they run off of feeds, and just whack a percentage on the top of the feed (without holding the stock.)

When a supplier has a good price, and someone with a feed gets hold of it, sticks 2% on the cost, ruins the market for everyone, and then you end up with the biggies like CRC automatically matching the low cost.

At least this happens in the IT industry all the time. Wouldn’t be surprised if it worked the same as bikes.

Isn’t there a bunch of stuff as you come into Verwood from Ringwood? at the bottom/top of the hill.

It might be more dirt jumpy stuff tho

Relevant to my interests, Currently debating Crest VS XC717

Just stick a Hope sticker over it.

If you can stretch your budget, make sure you get a 6″ cone. Makes so much difference to being able to hear whats going on in your low end.

The other upside to building from components is that each individual item has its own warranty – so if your PSU fails you only send the PSU off, and not your whole system. :)

ive got a good 350 odd on TF2,

is there a way to see a total for all your games added up?

I guess what race someone is is such a non issue for me that I feel comfortable using the word “minorities” without assuming people will think I am referring to race.

I’m sorry you don’t feel the same way and race is such an issue for you that the word has now become tarnished.

The Audi comment was made because the car in the incident was an Audi. I was simply stating a fact that there are a lot of them (Audi’s – before anyone gets that one confused) in Cov city center, and that a lot of them are driven by Indians (and other nationalities from that region of the world). This is a statement based on observation and fact – if you’re unable to deal with that fact due to the issues of race then I am sorry. It was simply meant as an insight into the area, not to implicate any one race or nationality.

END.

And as I said, I wasn’t racially pigeon holing – I was stating a fact: There are a lot of people who are not of British decent who drive Audi A4’s in Coventry city center.

This is not a racist remark, this is a FACT.

I know this because I lived there for 3 years and it’s something that became apparent quite quickly.

Really winds me up how some people cant handle a conversation involving race without bringing up the OMG RACIST PRIK card.

By “minorities” I was referring to Golf MK1/2 drivers, BMW M3 drivers, Saxo VTR lowered with rimz bruv drivers. NOT ethnicity. Another “OMG RACIST M8 WOT U DONT LIKE BLAKZ M8” jump the gun.

Coventry (and the midlands in general) has a large following of aftermarket vehicle modification. This was the road minorities I was referring to.

mi·nor·i·ty
/m??nôr?t?/
Noun
The smaller number or part, esp. a number that is less than half the whole number.
The number of votes cast for or by the smaller party in a legislative assembly.

(nothing about race there)

I saw a woman reversing around this roundabout because she’d missed her exit: http://goo.gl/maps/ZoIXL

I stayed in the halls just at the top of that hill, and it is a terrible, terrible roundabout. Can’t believe someone tried to reverse around it!!

Care to expand on who “the like” are? Just other people who don’t look and / or sound like you?

EDIT: And how do you know these men in cars are Indian? Have you spoken to them about their lives? Are their cars on Indian plates? Or do you mean, perchance, “men with browner skin than me”?

“The like” – Indians, Pakistani, Afghan, etc – Yes these are all people who do not look or sound like me – is that an issue?

Congratulations at your failed attempt at making a simple conversation involving race and origin into a conversation about race and origin.

Oh and also something I noticed is Coventry is FULL of Audi A4’s, all driven by Indian men and the like.

Not a racial stereotype, just the truth.

I went to Uni in Cov and one of the first things I noticed within two weeks of living there was how fast, reckless and dangerous drivers were in Coventry city center.

And I’m not just talking young drivers or minorities, literally everyone. What sealed it was seeing a grey haired elderly chap wheelspin off the line at a traffic light pedestrian crossing in a Micra.

Terrible city to drive around.

Actually let me amend that.

Terrible city.

Now thats what I call customer service, awesome stuff.

Just Google “power coater South London” or whatever particular town you live near.

Easier to ask tho init.

That was painful.

Alright, cheers guys. Now I just need to decide 34t or 36t…. I have 11 – 32 out back, any thoughts?

Remember – if it’s not backed up in 3 different physical locations, then it’s not backed up at all.

Get a NAS drive or a external. 1TB minimum.

I have a 1TB external, 500GB in my MBP, and 2TB in my desktop.

Totally normal, check it out on my C456!

I work in a fairly rural location, the local post office shuts for the day at 1pm.

My lunch hour starts 1pm.

Therefore, I am never able to get to a post office Monday to Friday. I do however let buyers know this before exchanging money.