Storage heaters are made out of the same material as the centre of the sun. To this day I have no idea how they were installed in my house as to remove them involved so much physical effort I think I have taken 10years off my life. Could only take one at a time to the tip as car suspension wouldn’t take it. And I did dismantle them!

I thought a bout replacing one of mine once as it was tatty but after taking it out I decided to fit an entire proper heating system!

I used to ride with a University club and they used to do the same. I was just able to keep up but hung off the back most rides. Used to be pretty miserable, but I didn’t know anyone else or the area. If anyone new came they wouldn’t be warmly welcomed and no-one but me would chat with them. I generally used to ride with them at the back to encourage them but it would be very rare you would see them the next week.
I don’t think they ever liked me as they would have to wait a bit for me on the uphills but they had zero technical skills so I would thrash them on the downhills even though I’d be knackered. Taunting them about that probably didn’t help!! 😉

If that’s true that’s pretty low. Even if you plan a fast ride if someone turns up who’s slower someone should accompany them round.

Does it have to be new?
Tried CRC?
Always lots of decent offers on BMXs but less on smaller MTBs

Voted!

Write advert in Notes, copy and paste from that when you want to repost. Easy to edit when changes needed too.

May as well post mine up again…

Owls are chuffin amazing. On the one hand they are cute and cuddly and do the weird almost 360 swivel of their heads. Their young are impossibly cute.

On the other hand they are lean mean killing machines that could rip your face off if they felt so inclined.

Owls = awesumz

It would depend on which company the local council are using to process the waste.
Now, I had assumed that the council did this in-house. Most of the lorries and all the tips have council branding all over them, I don’t remember seeing anything else.

Lorries may have council branding on them but the sites they transfer the waste to (not the local civic amenity site “the tip”, it would all go to a waste transfer station) would most likely be run by a private company.

DO NOT GO THROUGH WHAT I DID AND LOOK AT THE PICTURES.

MIND BLEACH DOESN’T WORK!!

project – Member
Ford Fusion,
Jaguar sportsback thing, eg mondeo rebodied
mondeo estate,
Rover 400,45

Are you on crack or something? Ford fusion and mondeo estate? There’s chuffing LOADS of them around!

It would depend on which company the local council are using to process the waste. It might be changing and the new contractors have different ways of dealing with it.
Or it could be that the current operators are changing the way they deal with the waste, they may also want to change the output of the composting process to meet demand from the people they supply to. Or it could be a change in regulatory stance from the EA. There has been a lot of composting sites with local odour amenity issues and removing a certain type of waste may stop odours occurring and causing pollution.
Source segregating the waste as you describe could be the result of any of the above. If you contacted your local EA Environment Management team they may be able to tell you, but they might not depending on what kind of work is doing in the area.

It was quite nice driving down into Leeds this morning on the M621. No mist on motorway but in the surrounding valleys. Not as impressive as above but made a nice change.

It’s not a reverse endo for crying out loud!!!

Fakie nosewheelie!

If it looks the same but in a tight spin/circle it’s a g-turn.

If he had been standing on a peg (if it had been a BMX) it would be a fakie hang-five.

Chuff me that’s AMAZING. Miles miles better than Imaginate.
I always think a bike video, if a good one, should instil an immediate urge inside you to go and ride a bike. Any bike. And that video succeeds in that perfectly.

Not seen a video as good as that since Standard Bykes Style Cats, which I still watch nowadays.

Fakie nose wheelie down the road was epic. Just WOW.
The off-road riding by Akrigg was great, the loop was great as it didn’t look like a specifically built loop which they often are.

People being happy in videos that they’ve pulled stuff. No idea why you don’t see that as much nowadays but I love it!

I bought, from Rose bikes on behalf of a friend, some wheels based on Shimano 105 hubs, SS DB spokes and Mavic Open pro rims. Very nicely made, legendary Shimano bearings and the ultra tough but light Open Pros are a great match. Hubs might be a few more grams making the wheels a bit heavier but the rims are light and tough. They were around £150-160 ish IIRC.
I’d rather buy some more like that than these all in one offerings from Shimano/PX. Not trendy to do wheels the old fashioned way but stronger and longer lasting every time.

I’ll say this again…. (Thread on Retrobike where a yodel driver drove over a nice retro frame and they just put some tape on the box which they thought would make the recipient not notice the frame was now mangled scrap):

A quote from a Retrobike member on a recent thread about Yodel on there. Makes me laugh every time I read it:
“DO NOT, EVER, WITHOUT EXCEPTION, USE YODEL
They are the single most inept, incapable, shower of sh*t excuse of a courier company I have ever had the misfortune to use.
Unless, of course, you count “good service” as physically running over a bike and then taping it all back up in the hope I won’t know, and then REFUSING to pay me a penny in compensation because I couldn’t prove it was them who ran it over…
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. You would have more luck putting your bike in a Trebuchet and launching it in the general direction of where you want it to end up. I would bet on it arriving quicker and in better condition than if you let the Yodel circus anywhere near it.”

I won on eBay recently a box of 100 Sapim DB spokes and 100 nipples for £12 delivered. Super chuffed!

Bear in mind they may pay much less in fees if they are a business seller with a lot of transactions going through, the costs drop off quite a bit when you have a decent volume to put through ebay.

You should be able to change your dispute to asking only for £4.10 which he can agree on and I think PayPal/eBay refund it if you both agree.

I think my laptop is about 4 years old. Best advice I got from an expert was to upgrade to Win7 from Vista as Vista is a heap of crap that makes computers slow. I did that and it was like buying a new PC! I got the full version and did a clean install. As an advantage it got rid of all the crap Acer put on it as well. 🙂

I got the 64bit version. You might want to put more memory in it if you can.

I asked a similar question a while back:
http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/adult-learning-to-swim-any-experiences-or-tips

I did have someone on here offer to help with some professional swimming lessons he was going to offer me (not him teaching) but he stopped replying to my emails when I was trying to organise it.

Still want to, still absolutely terrified. 🙁

My tree went up last night, and the front garden lights. Bought a new wooden train advent thing, has two carriages and drawers big enough to put decent chocs in. 🙂
I also have in the lounge a Christmas penguin army (well they are actually ninja penguins really).
In the kitchen I have another Christmas tree.

I love Christmas!

No kids either!

piemonster – Member
If I may be serious, for just a second.

Keep safe folks, especially those in coastal flood zones.

I meant that as well, which is unusual.

+1

I may be working this weekend if it starts flooding in Yorkshire.

I keep reading his ads and thinking his stuff, while isn’t mega expensive, is just a bit too much. Hadn’t noticed the Surly.

That was FAR too close!!

I often wonder to myself at certain road situations what action I could take to get “out of the way” of a big accident happening in front of me so I wouldnt get caught up in it. Sounds like you almost were….

55psi! I’d ride like crap with that sort or pressure in my tyres! 40 feels like a solid tyre to me

SKS Thermoplastic ones here on my Kinesis Maxlight.

They do take a bit of setting up – I think mine took an hour or two. But I’d rather do that and have silent rattle free guards that look good and will be durable than some of the quick fit ones.

I thought my kinesis was very easy to fit guards to to be honest. It is helpful if you have some spare bolts and nuts and spacers beforehand. I bought a load of stainless ones from my local stockists for a couple of pounds before hand and that made things a lot easier.

If you have a chainstay bridge which has the direct mount on it for a guard use a dome headed bolt as they offer more clearance for your tyre.

My bike.

Purchased!

Surely must be a mistake????

Use the voucher code they are offering and it’s £99!!!!

I suppose anything costing more than an On-One carbon 456.

I suppose aluminium might be ok if just steel is too limiting.

Nice one!

I work for the NHS, but occasionally I have weird urges to be a librarian.

I have a friend who works in a library and he loves it. He told me he had gone part time recently and I enquired further, with some concern as I hoped he hadn’t had his hours cut because of financial cuts. He reassured me that this wasn’t the case, he had gone part time as he had just got another part time job in a local successful micro brewery! Bonus!

Retrobike has an extensive archive of bike catalogues and has Kona up till 2003. That’s probably a good start.
http://www.retrobike.co.uk/gallery2/v/Manufacturer+Archive/Kona/Catalogues/

Put a picture up and I’ll probably be able to help you anyway.

At the end of the day the rider is the majority of how fast a bike is.

I’m slow uphill on this on this because I’m fat and unfit. If there was an exact copy of me riding a lighter newer more XC bike at exactly the same time they might be faster uphill. But there isn’t.

At the same time I’ve ridden this and been held up by people on modern full sus disc brake bikes on downhills.

So my Pitch isn’t an XC bike. Or a freeallmountaindownhardcoreslopestylejump bike either. It’s just a bike and I love it.

Just upgrading mine to 10sp, some nicer bits and bobs too.

I love mine and don’t think I’ll replace it for many years.

Ill forward this to a couple of Holmfirth riders.

Tried to buy some of the Soundmagic headphones on Amazon black friday deal – waited for the deal to become active (watched the Amazon timer tick down to zero) then went straight to put it in my basket. It immediately became unavailable and I couldn’t do it so I quickly went to get in the queue for one and found I was 350th ish 😯 in the queue. All in the space of around 15 seconds.

Something fishy going on there. 🙁

In the middle of constructing my racking……

My parts washer on the shelf:

Up and in middle of sorting out all the guff. Cellar is very low, beam is padded as it’s only 5’6″ off the floor!

I would recommend if you go for the racking go as deep as you can fit – deeper shelves are so much more useful.
BigDug have started an ebay shop and they were selling loads of galvanised (ideal for my cellar which can get very slightly damp) racking. 1.2m wide, 60cm deep, 1.8m tall. I got them for £40ish each delivered and they are great quality. As they are galvanised the edges are quite sharp compared to the painted ones (paint rounds off the edges) but they are great quality and certainly enough for any garage.
Not as sturdy as Dexion racking which is what I was looking for 2nd hand but then I don’t need to put pallets on my shelves!

I’ll try and find a pic if I have one.

The French couple – Xavier and Caroline. Presented it pretty well I thought. The van is very well designed inside and actually works really well for them. They have been using it already at food fairs, that sort of thing.

They actually have run that business for a while but using a heavyweight gazebo and folding tables etc. This makes the whole thing a lot easier.

As he was French Xavier avoided mark-up buying the van by going back to France himself and buying one then driving it back!

The power pack is designed and installed by EatMyDirt/Aspley Marina Huddersfield who do all sorts of custom power options for boats and vans, including portable ones made to your spec.