TandemJeremy – Member

Of all the posts on both these threads this is the one that says it all to me.

crikey – Member

Where to start…

I’ve been there and done that, and thankfully come out the other side and older and slightly wiser man.

1). Stop with all the ‘it’s her fault because’ rubbish. You’ve been the baddy, and until you face up to it and accept your responsibility you and any relationship you end up in isn’t worth anything.

2). Stop with all the ‘my kids are my priority’ rubbish. You have chosen to take a course of action that will upset and damage your kids and your relationship with them; if they really were your priority, you wouldn’t be shagging someone else.

3). Sit and imagine, just for a moment, the sound of your wife sobbing quietly at 3 am.

She’s sobbing quietly because she doesn’t want to wake you, she’s sobbing because everything that she thought was ok suddenly isn’t, the last 20 years have just been thrown away so you can have sex with someone else.

4). Imagine sitting in desperation at the top of the stairs listening to your children talking about not having a dad anymore because ‘he’s got a new girlfriend now’

5). Imagine getting a letter, written by your youngest son, that begs you to come home and includes a toy train because he thinks you will be happier if he shared his toys with you.

I had an affair, then left home to live with the woman, didn’t work out, so I ended up living out of a suitcase, drunk for 3 months.

In the end I went back and asked if we could start again, and I got lucky.

You know what you are doing is wrong, and that feeling will eat away at you forever, gradually destroying your sense of self and sense of self worth.

Your call; make the right one.

Blimey, this made me feel bad and I’ve been faithful for 20 odd years !

Saying BC is like saying Europe ! I’d stick with North Wales, cos if I said anywhere else I wouldn’t be able to ride very often.

It was always brave to relaunch a name with such a bargain bin reputation, and although I wish the folk at Saracen no harm I can’t help thinking they’d have been better off starting with a new name. There are plenty of bike brands including quite a few in the UK that didn’t exist here five or so years ago (Ghost, Mondraker etc).

Try ringing them tomorrow, they are closed on Mondays. If not I’ll keep my eyes open tomorrow night.

Plenty of people on here own Skoda cars, wonder how long it’ll take before Saracen loses it’s old image ?

Bryant looks really nice, but it doesn’t look like they do frame only. There are some UK dealers though, so I will investigate. Thanks.

Practice.

Pompetamine in “glow in the dark” looks good. We’ll wait and see what Cannondale’s warranty department says about my Bad Boy, than it’s decision time. Three weeks ago I had three working bikes, I’ve sold two and one has broken since then. Hey ho….

I believe you are correct. If you have a look at realcycles website it gives you the years.

Thanks

Need to be able to run Alfine. And discs…..things I should have mentioned really !

Fox float. No real compression damping and very fast rebound, I got about 60mm travel including sag…

With horizontal dropouts ?

They do 0% too :-)

Llandegla[/url] have a medium. Try a Nickel too.

The fork was, I think, in a bad state, but if Yeti are going to offer bikes to demo in that condition they deserve to lose sales to SC, n’est pas ? SB66 won’t be around for a few weeks, and I’m (a) bikeless, and (b) very happy with the Nickel.

I had one ten years ago, then I rode a bike with proper forks. Couldn’t sell the PRST-1 fast enough.

Well, did the red at Llandegla. Bike was great going up and along the relatively smooth stuff, but bloody awful on the rockier sections – skipping about at the front and really quite scary in places. I’m quite prepared to admit that it’s probably down to me (I’m not light and not the most skilled) but it’s not for me at all. I’m buying a Nickel, loads more fun in my eyes. Thank goodness for test rides, eh ?

I’m going up now, will report back later :-)

Ha me too, but the SC was great. I’m thinking white whichever I can get the fastest….

Will do. Try a Nickel though as a comparison, won’t you ?

You will sell it more easily as a whole, but you will make more money if you split – assuming you sell everything. It’s up to you to decide if you want the ease of one transaction, or a fortnight of packing parcels and re-advertising that seatpost and front wheel (or even worse, the frame…)

….I’m 6ft 3in, but thanks anyway :-)

Plenty on Ebay too.

get them to do it. Seriously. Then if it’s wrong, it’s their fault and not yours.

Do this. It might cost you a week, but it will be worth it if you do it yourself and get it wrong.

Some lovely bikes above, I’d love a cruiser but it’d never get ridden – too many hills here !

I’ve just sold a large 08, no problems at all and I’m far from light. I do ride like a jessy though :-)

Contact On-One ?

What, Galaxy ?

I can get a demo on most of the bikes I’m interested in, some from my LBS (Oneplanet @ Llandegla) and some by travelling to demo days. What surprises me is that I went to a large, well stocked bike shop who gave no information at all about how to try the bikes they stock.

Oh, and I’d agree that it’s much less important for a hardtail or road bike.

In your opinion, what would an extended test ride show, seeing as most £2k bikes sold today are extremely capable?

Well, I test rode a Sub 5 at Coed-y-Brenin and decided that I couldn’t get on with the head angle climbing slowly. I then tried a Superlight and decided it was too sketchy over rocks for me. Then I tried a Heckler, but my feet kept catching the rear chainstays. I went back and tried a Blur, which I bought. I could easily have bought one of the first three bikes based on reviews.

a few thoughts, there are very few bad bikes on the market

True, but there are bikes more suited to different body geometries and riding styles

If you buy a Trek Fuel you’ll be happy that you bought it, if you buy a Zesty you will be happy with that

Actually, if I buy one I will wonder if the other one would have been better.

Think of this from the shops point, they can’t stock a full range of demo bikes, it would mean locking up a huge amount of capital and probably making a lose when they have to sell them at the end of the year

I wouldn’t expect a full range to be stocked, but I think they would sell more bikes with at least some of the range on demo (or at least organise regular demo days with manufacturers).I don’t agree that they would make a loss, as I think the extra bikes sold would more than compensate them for the lower markup on one bike.

The best solution is to find a demo day go along try a few then go back to the shop with our money. The other thing to think about is bikes do go wrong, it is nice to have back up and a decent bikeshop can be a godsend if the worst happens. [/quote]

True.

Off to have a look at Zestys in Wrexham, Sainsburys, pick up a bike box to strip and pack my sold Meta, watch the GP, go for a pint in the Rose & Crown, maybe an episode of Wallander, then bed. A full day.

About time this forum had a feedback system like talkphotography

They are 29″ tyres arent they

LOL – now that would have been funny

Average wage in the UK is £26K – if you’re paying that I suspect you will have a queue of applicants……anyway my post wasn’t intended to upset, merely to highlight the different expectations of the public when it comes to paying for skilled labour. Good luck hiring.

Thanks all. I spoke to Optilabs again today and they use the Transition 6 lenses, so should be as good as any other frame that uses these. If they scratch badly in a year or so I’ll get them reglazed in a clear and carry on.

if you love bikes people and coffee and don’t mind being poor it’s all covered

Amended for accuracy – it’s a shame though that the business model doesn’t enable good bike shops to pay a decent wage to bike mechanics. Plenty of people are either too busy, don’t have the skills or can’t be bothered to do their own spannering, yet still complain at paying a fair price for work. I suspect many of these same people don’t bat an eyelid at paying £100+ per hour at a franchised garage.

Plus just a point, Llandegla ain’t up North ;o)

It’s North if you’re in Wales, another ten miles up and you’re in the sea… :-)