^ Mr Cooper is a fascinatingly miserable old wotsit for a multi millionaire :D

I’ve just used Paisley freight and it came to £23 which covers bikes up to 30kg. They seem fast and efficient but do require the bike to be in a proper bike box (see LBS!)

Do you know about the Karcher outlet website? You can get a fully guaranteed refurbished or end of line pressure washer for about half price. I got mine for £45 and it’s been ace!

I get the feeling you’re not making me an offer scienceofficer :D

Frame is 26″ but runs a full 1.5″ headtube so can take 11/8th , tapered or 1.5″ steerers.

The forks have had a lower leg service but not damping components. They don’t seem fubered but they don’t feel great either.

Stevie- how do you remove the old bearings? I had a feeling they can’t be knocked through

Thanks stevied but I’m oop north ish near Chesterfield.

I think the frame bearing themselves are about £50 but thought that fancy tools were needed to remove the old ones. Perhaps they’re not.

So.. I’m guessing I’d get no more than a £100 for a 2010 Lyrik? That’s utterly depressing considering the RRP and how good they are!

Kryton – nope the intense is still hanging on in there (just). It’s an old hybrid commuter bike I’m shifting.

Ok, so parcel force might work, just need a box ..

Btw mega congrats Stevemuzzy! :D

Your pic wins definitely

Thanks :-) I do take it for granted although it’s not as tranquil as it appears what with the trees hiding a railway line and a busy road out front! Could be worse though!

Conservatory with Aldi el cheap-o Chardonnay, listening to the rain and lamenting my lack of riding!

I have an emaculate Boardman Comp 19″ hardtail along with pretty much everything else bar forks, brakes. If any of it is of interest? Mostly SRAM x7/9 and truvativ cranks.. Email in profile

Pockets – nothing

Wallet – 40 pence and a powerlink (and also a printed invite to a work do next Friday where allegedly there’s to be £30,000 behind the bar (not all for me though, I have to share :-( ))

Gah. Old thread . Soz :-/

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Have you tried approaching your other half’s bank (i.e. Who they hold a current account and financial history with)?

We were in a similar position and two big brokers said they couldn’t get us (Mrs RRR) a mortgage.

As a last ditch attempt we approached her bank (Lloyds) and they agreed a 90LTV first time buyers mortgage straight away. I was amazed that her bank could do it when the specialist brokers said no. The decision was based on a combination of her credit score and her financial history / internal Lloyds score. I’d recommend your other half to approach their bank and whatever you do don’t fire off a load of applications and hence hard credit searches!

^ yep, my current bike has a HA of about 67 degrees so is reasonable by modern standards in terms of slackness.

Hmm.

Hmmm, a new frame and forks would save a little weight but lacks the ooh shiny shiny factor. The trance above looks nice but I’m not sure what it’d offer which my current frame doesn’t? A grand seems a lot for a frame that appears on £1800 bikes too . Hmmmm Indeedly

Out of interest what would my intense be worth?!

The lyriks are amazing forks (with the mission control DH damper) but could do with a service!

I think if I was to replace the frame I’d get lighter forks but then again there’s nothing actually wrong with my frame..

M0rk – your logic is exactly the same as mine on all points :-)

Rickon – I don’t understand why a bronson would be so much lighter when the C (cheaper model) frame is still about 7lbs, which is about the same as my Tracer. It’s not like my current build is heavy either..

Next question – is that bronson pink just too pink? I quite like it but you have to be amazing on a bike to justify a garnish colour!

Oh I just don’t know – lots and lots of wonga for a few pounds weight saving!

Hmm. New bike would be half cash, half some 0% deal most likely.

MiniRRR number 2 on the way too… But presumably he or she would want a happy and relaxed dad?

Anyone? I assume I’m automatically shunned for riding legacy technology?! :D

Have you thought about looking into the network world? I work with a few ex Java guys who are now very well paid networks (CCNP etc) contractors. If you could afford to do a CCNA it’d get your foot in the door of a lot of agencies..

Muzzle – just joshing you. I know a few peeps who live on the top end of abbeydale and vehemently insist it’s Dore :-)

For the OP – any west/south west suburb of Sheffield of even Chesterfield would put you within a few mins of the peaks and city type stuff (although admittedly wouldn’t have much a remote type feeling)

“It’s Dore, honest” ;-)

^^ do you live on abbeydale road?

Well, I think I can beat this.

When I was 20 and in a student house, the industrial type fire alarm became stuck on and remained on even when we turned off the power. The landlord was a good couple of hour’s drive away so rather than endure 120dB I decided to stick tissue in my ear.

Hours later, fire alarm stopped. Tissue didn’t want to come out. Helpful housemate suggests water to shift it. Tissue disintegrates and sticks to my ear drum. Cue six hour wait in A&E, not one but two registrars who couldn’t shift it and then them having to wake up the on call consultant ENT guy and get him in to have a look (about 4am by this point).

And I was entirely sober too.

My left ear has never been the same :-/

I had it as a spotty oik. It never held me back or stopped me becoming a bad footballer or mediocre mountain biker.

I’d avoid the meds route and would definitely not even consider meds from the interweb!

I wouldn’t count on them not storing your card details. I recently stayed at a Marriott after booking online and at no point did they actually see or check my card yet it’s been debited.

I’d give them a ring or find a Funtime friend

I’m no doctor but I would say A&E straight away. If there’s any chance at all that something broke or splintered then there’s presumably also a chance it could move and poke your spinal cord or some major nerve.

I imagine this would be A VERY BAD THING

A&E won’t mind you turning up for something that has the potential to be very serious.

My mum fell off a horse, St. John’s ambulance scooped her up clumsily and took her to the first aid tent. It turned out that she’d broken her neck and it was sheer luck that nothing moved and paralysed her. Six months in hospital, six in a wheelchair but then thankfully ok. Sorry to be a doom monger but you can’t take chances with your back or neck imo.

Ah yes, I think they wanted £400 for the room only :-O

Nor Eastwood Hall (awake all night due to a gypsy wedding)

The cutting grapes in half thing – just make sure you cut them length ways else there’s no point as they still have the required choking diameter!

Other than that my advice would be the obvious stuff – chemicals out of the way, ensure big heavy furniture can’t topple, fit stair gates and accept that the sproglet will inevitably injure them self to some degree at some point.

Oh and check that you can unlock the bathroom door quickly when sprog locks themselves inside (we have to keep a spoon on the landing as the locks emergency slot thing is too thin for a coin)

Sell it all and buy a decent pair of active speakers?

Won’t someone think of the children / when will people learn etc

*minces off in a self righteous huff*

I would also ask your GP if there’s any chance you could have familial Hypercholesterolemia or similar (i.e. Genetic variation which causes a predisposition to high cholesterol).

I’m no doctor but my mother was in a similar position – healthy , exercised , not overweight yet had high cholesterol (only discovered after she had ‘funny turns’).

Just a thought although I think it’s quite rare. Don’t sue me , I have no clue of what I talk.

That or the lard sarnies

edit: duplicate numptyism

^ STW has changed. This acceptance of non roadie kit on road bikes has come as a shock if I’m honest. What else can I try?

Erm…. My road bike has an ALLOY frame and SORA group set!

:-O

Oh yes I only have peaked helmets and have to carry my laptop to work in an unsightly rucsac too.

Ok, so sounds like cheap MTB pedals and shoes are on my shopping list..

Dibbs – it’s only that I currently don’t have any MTB spds (use flats on bouncy bike)

Ah ok, tbh my roadie shoes only cost £20 anyway so it’s probably not worth paying for adapters. I could probably get some cheap MTB shoes for £20 ish.

What about pedal axle diameters – will MTB pedals fit on a road crank?

Ta