Can’t see any brutality. All I can see is an angry mob far outnumbering the small amount of officers who are trying to defend themselves.

g5604 – Member
Demand a upgrade to 100mb and request the superhub 2. We had this at work, there is a known fault with the 50mb service with no fix planned. Shocking company.

Yeah, awful. Keep upgrading the speed on my internet without charging me more even though it’s already many times faster than any other competitor. Shocking.
Come out next day to replace TiVo box free of charge even on a bank holiday. Awful.
Give me a mobile phone deal which is many times cheaper than their competitors and had better coverage in our area. The horror!

I assume you have a standard BB service through your phone line. I have the direct fibre service, basic speed is 50mb. ;)

It’s well worth waiting for the front seats on Nemesis too. Agreed as above, it isn’t the fastest and tallest or anything, but it does what it does so well it’s unreal. It just never lets up, there’s nowhere to relax. On the front is awesome as you can see the cliffs and ravines right in front of you as you go hurtling towards or into them.

I think it’s so good as it is set into the landscape perfectly, it uses the closeness of the terrain to multiply the terror rather than just adding more speed and height. Never been to any of the USA coasters but I watch the programmes about them and they are generally stuck on what appears to be a flat landscape so they have to make them big and fast.

My favourite is the runaway mine train at Alton though, not frightening at all but so much fun, feels completely different on the back than on the front too, I love it!

Teetosugars – Member
Wish shimano would do a rerun of Deore DX thumbies..

I got my NOS ones from Japan – place was selling a load of them on eBay and it looks like they found a stash of them!

A full alloy Nishiki alien that isn’t cracked is a rare thing indeed! One of my favourite bikes to be honest, proportions of the frame design are just right.

Is that stuff for sale ?

No it wasn’t.

The place where we stayed the guy who owned the motel had a Gary Fisher Mt Tam which was given to him by Gary Fisher when new – very early nineties. We were chatting about it and he showed me it and was so excited the next day as he rode up Mt Tam for the first time in ages as our chat had inspired him! He was about mid fifties. Cool bloke. :-)

My Dave Lloyd Beez Kneez

Steve Potts loveliness….

Cunningham corner again…

Ibis tandem and early Fat Chance in this pic…..

Steve Potts in the corner. 8O

Very very early Ritchey.

These were just propped up on the floor!!! 8O

The kona kileau is stunning!!

Thanks. It cost me double what it’s worth to restore but it was worth it. It’s the only bike I cannot lose and I would be destroyed if it was stolen. It won’t ever be stored anywhere like a shed or garage!

It does get ridden though!! Rides absolutely beautifully.

If you want some real retro porn I can show you what I found here, when I went to Marin County. You won’t believe what’s in this bike shop, simply amazing.

1992 GT Tequesta – a replica of my first proper MTB. Bought another from a cash converter, had been sitting out in the rain for weeks and was seriously rusted. (Condition was way worse than the photo shows).

Stripped, removed seized BB and post, polished, hand painted the decals to repair them then sourced all the components I had in 1992.

Result.

1994 Kona Kilauea

Bought in 94, stolen on 96, got it back in 2013. Ground up but and bolt restoration, full custom respray and decals, treated to NOS XT stuff, Flite Ti, NOS skinwalls, Pauls Components levers, NOS Thumbies. Rides beautifully and faster than a lot of modern bikes in the right setting.

Before.

After.

This NOS Tange Prestige Concept decal cost me £15!!!

My Haro Extreme.

that in” whilst it sits there quietly cheesifying to itself.

LOL! I’m using that myself, what a great phrase. :-)

The drawing isn’t to scale (DUH!) and their smaller extension they want to demolish was constructed before ours and actually projects out further than ours already.

I got my NOS XT737 cranks for £50. Took some waiting to get them mind. Nicest looking cranks shimano made and with a decent BB very light too.

I’m in Yorkshire.

Yeah I know about the dispute thing, I’m trying to be amicable, they did apologise after the first conversation but we aren’t exactly best buddies. ;-)

I could only object to their first proposal that it would be unduly dominating on our property and it wasn’t in keeping with other developments in the area. I had no right to object due to light being cut out or the effect on the value of our house so I didn’t mention those points – but that doesn’t mean it won’t have those effects!

I can’t object to this new idea as I think it’s permitted development BUT may fall foul of the 50% rule – I’ll have to do some measurements. I have no idea when the first extension was built – it wasn’t in the last 50 years as we have a neighbour who has been here that long but it could easily be after the 1948 cutoff – I don’t know how to find out when that was built.

Their house is different to ours as its wider and it already has a 2 storey extension on it AND the little one they are planning to knock down and replace with the bigger one.

Both houses were 1 up 1 downs and have been extended in the distant past to double their size. Their new proposal is in addition to those original extensions.

Glasgowdan – what do you mean by that?

I am just making sure that they follow the rules. If they do everything right and they are allowed to build it in fine with that, but their attitude has been that “we can build what we like and we don’t care about you”. The new occupant never even spoke to us before they applied for the PP and the first app I objected to was refused for good reason – it was a plan to build something absolutely huge which would have made our garden completely overshadowed by a 4m high extension and it was completely out of proportion with other developments on the street.

The new occupant has been quite nasty with me when I first greeted them with insults thrown my way even though I was really nice to them.
You’ll have to trust me on this one but when they have spoken about “their builders” they sound a bit sketchy. I’d rather put the legwork in now and make sure it is done properly rather than try to deal with a nightmare later.

Hammyuk – the fence isn’t on the centreline. We are terraced house and they have the corridor between the houses on their land. It is a bit weird Tbh and hard to show in a quick drawing.

The main issue is that they want to build straight up to our boundary but the party wall act says something about a notice if their wall is within 3m of ours – they have to instruct a party wall solicitor or surveyor to check that when they dig for foundations or something it won’t affect our building. Not too sure how it pans out in practice.

We can’t move the flue as there isn’t anywhere else to put the fireplace that’s inside the house! The balanced flue bit sticks straight out of the back of the fire in our case.

Jambo – yes I know that, it’s just a bit of extra info. The council refused their original planning app because of my objection. I know a little bit about planning through my job but the party wall thing is a bit more complex.

Diagram

From a foreigner, and one of my favourite bits of any book I’ve read:

“Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain – which is to say, all of it. Every last bit of it, good and bad – Marmite, village fetes, country lanes, people saying ‘mustn’t grumble’ and ‘I’m terribly sorry but’, people apologizing to me when I conk them with a nameless elbow, milk in bottles, beans on toast, haymaking in June, stinging nettles, seaside piers, Ordnance Survey maps, crumpets, hot-water bottles as a necessity, drizzly Sundays – every bit of it.

What a wondrous place this was – crazy as XXXX, of course, but adorable to the tiniest degree. What other country, after all, could possibly have come up with place names like Tooting Bec and Farleigh Wallop, or a game like cricket that goes on for three days and never seems to start? Who else would think it not the least odd to make their judges wear little mops on their heads, compel the Speaker of the House of Commons to sit on something called the Woolsack, or take pride in a military hero whose dying wish was to be kissed by a fellow named Hardy? (‘Please Hardy, full on the lips, with just a bit of tongue.’) What other nation in the world could possibly have given us William Shakespeare, pork pies, Christopher Wren, Windsor Great Park, the Open University, Gardners’ Question Time and the chocolate digestive biscuit? None, of course.

How easily we lose sight of all this. What an enigma Britain will seem to historians when they look back on the second half of the twentieth century. Here is a country that fought and won a noble war, dismantled a mighty empire in a generally benign and enlightened way, created a far-seeing welfare state – in short, did nearly everything right – and then spent the rest of the century looking on itself as a chronic failure. The fact is that this is still the best place in the world for most things – to post a letter, go for a walk, watch television, buy a book, venture out for a drink, go to a museum, use the bank, get lost, seek help, or stand on a hillside and take in a view.

All of this came to me in the space of a lingering moment. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I like it here. I like it more than I can tell you.”

Bill Bryson, Notes from a Small Island

Well being as a tablet is hazardous waste I reckon you’re onto a winner that the paper edition would be kinder to the environment.

And make you look less like a plonker.

Can’t wait for mine to arrive!

There is a reason why Yodel is free. I wouldn’t use them if I got a discount on the sale!

That Kona is lovely.

I reckon that island is a BARGAIN! Want want want….

Wheel size?

I used to work in a DIY store and witnessed what people would buy to bodge bits before selling a house. I’m actually doing things right before we sell ours.

When it comes to repairs on viewed properties my feeling is that if the obvious stuff has been bodged or done to a poor standard then you can assume that the less obvious might be crap too. Doesn’t mean that I wouldn’t be interested in the house but I’d want to inspect it thoroughly myself (not rely on the survey) before making a decision.

Stayed with some friends in the USA, they have a small laundry room upstairs. Everything is washed and dried next door to the room you put on and take off clothes – and we put our laundry machines in the kitchen??? When you start thinking about it the way we do it just doesn’t make any sense at all. Mine are worse as my washer and dryer are in the cellar, 2 flights of stairs down from the bedrooms!!!!