I’m a great believer in pooping on the windscreen of my enemies, but if that doesn’t cut it then it can only be VBRJ.

Can’t you just drag and drop your music like you can on my 7 year old Razr?
Via mini USB which you find everywhere?
Which also completes its weekly battery charge?

Non?

:lol:

I’m sorry, it’s just too easy.

I wanted a good all round bike that would last.
Bought a GT Zaskar X 12 years ago.
It’s a great bike, and I’ve never seen another, which is nice.

Come to think of it, I’ve still got my old ’95 Tequesta and a late 80s Peugeot road bike.
Not that I’m a hoarder but bikes are, you know, special. :oops:

I wanted a good all round bike that would last.
Bought a GT Zaskar X 12 years ago.
It’s a great bike, and I’ve never seen another, which is nice.

If you know nothing about guitars, buying a Yamaha is probably your safest option.
I have never played a bad Yamaha instrument.

Don’t want to be spending half my time trying to tune it.

All guitars go out of tune, tuning them is not difficult.

Band – Queen
Album – Mister Bungle, self titled.
Single – Outer Space, Prodigy
Gig – Toots and the Maytals, Cambridge Junction last year.

No reason to be afraid of taking caffeine

Nope.
Caffeine has no known side effects.
None what-so-ever.

:roll:

To make it harder to confuse the two?
Honestly, I just compared the two specs on KS’s website, no idea if there are any other differences.

By the power of google and KS’s website, it looks like the Natural is zero offset and the Dropzone has 20mm layback.

How about in the UK ?

God bless you. :-)

Since when is being a single parent an ‘issue of some description’.

A lot of single parents do not earn enough to pay their way. I’m sure the poster you quoted didn’t mean that all single parents are in that position, but knowing how much childcare costs I’d suggest you’re in a minority.

What materials are the seatpost and frame?

pffft, I ride a bike and drive a 13 year old car

Funny, I drive a car and ride a thirteen year old…

…motorbike.
Good work OP, hope this coward gets fingered.

Use a left handed drill bit in combination with a proper penetrating fluid like the aforementioned Plus Gas.

Sorry if that was a little over the line.
What I meant to say was, velcro is for people who can’t tie shoelaces.

I love ’em.
Linear pad movement unlike Vs or cantis, with the exception of bleeding you don’t need any tools once they are set up; there’s a thumb wheel for pad adjustment (to compensate wear) and the pads just pull on and off.
Power and feel are awesome, the calipers are effectively working on a 26″ rotor.
If rain/mud was not an issue I would have these over discs every time.

When cyclists have a motorist shout ‘You don’t pay road tax’, the correct response is the following:

“**** off and die in a fire you oxygen thief”

Fixed that for ya. :wink:

To be fair to all the normal people out there, the government were still referring to VED as “road tax” as little as two years ago.

Okay maybe my crusty banger was the wrong example:

Would you rather have engine A that does 60mpg and produces 80g/km of CO2, or engine B which does the say mpg but burns “dirtier” and produces 150g/km?

You need to tax in a way that encourages engine A.
Fuel tax doesn’t do that. Vehicle Tax does, a bit.

I disagree (with my emboldened bit).

I drive my weekend bit of fun (engine B if you like), but commute by bike during the week.
I do few miles a year (in the car) and produce X amount of pollution.

My neighbour drives his engine A car everywhere, producing 2X amount of pollution.

Why should we incourage the neighbour?

ETA: your example still isn’t realistic, cars aren’t efficient or inefficient enough to give that great a disparity between CO2 and mpg.

Fuel efficiency is the reward.

Let’s say there are two cars, both use 15,000 litres of petrol a year and get exactly the same mpg.

One spews out 230 g/km of CO2, the other is a new fancy engine with very low emissions (sub 100 g/km).

You could use that as an example, but unfortunately it is not a situation that you will find in reality.
Emissions are proportional to fuel burnt, maybe not directly, but pretty damn close.

Have a look here and then find me a polluting old banger that matches the mpg figures.

Well no, but that may be dictated by the nature of your job.

If you try to offset that a little by using the lowest emission engine you can then it would be good to reward that effort somehow, even by a relatively small amount, which is why graduated vehicle tax is separate from fuel tax.

Doing so upholds the principal of “polluter pays” – otherwise you’re left with a situation where a low-emission car is paying the same as a crusty banger producing over twice as much CO2 per km…

… but being used half as much.
Seems fair to me.
My Jaguar uses less fuel and produces less pollution than the average vehicle over the course of a year.
Why should a conscientious driver like myself pay more for polluting less?
Don’t forget also that the “crusty banger” is already in existence, so is likely to be less resource hungry than running and building a newer car, as mentioned.

What if you use a lot a fuel but have a really low emission car?

You’d lose out under that system, which undermines the “green nudge” approach.

If you use a lot of fuel, you’re hardly being green, are you?

Aye. I always wondered about the level of energy/resources that go into making a new car vs the fuel/emmissions savings of having a newer, more efficient car.
ie Is having a new Prius etc on a scheme every 2-3 years more wasteful than keeping most average cars for 10? I think so, but it’s just a guess.

I once read somewhere (although no guarantee that it is true) that the most environmentally friendly car (resources used over lifetime of vehicle) was the original Willys Jeep.

Average life expectancy of modern cars is only nine years, and there is no way a Pious makes less of an environmental impact than my 17yr old Micra.
They also weigh as much as my Jag (twice the weight of the Micra), so it’s not like they couldn’t be made more economical.

Tesco due to appalling customer service.
ASDA as they are owned by Walmart who have some horrible “Christian” practices.
J Wadsworth off licence, because the owner is a ****.

Yes, it’s my head and because I like to wipe my own ar*e thank you.

Spoken by someone who obviously hasn’t had the pleasure of a third party wipe.

Friend of mine went with Norwich Union (Aviva) as she didn’t trust the lesser known companies.
She then found out the hard way that she didn’t have windscreen cover.

Moral: read the small print.

I’m currently with an insurer that doesn’t have the best reputation for handling claims, but then they are cheap and I am friends with the person in charge of claims.

For every £1.00 in tax collected by HMRC, 48p is used in the collection of said tax.
Maybe it’s time we simplified matters…

Picked up my 5 today, can’t see what there is to be unimpressed about.

Can you open beer bottles with it?
‘Cause a phone that can’t be used to crack open a cold one, well, sounds powerful gay to me.

Just sayin’…..

No, a manual is like a gay wheelie.
For instance, how far can you manual uphill?

Instead of using your brakes to stop you going over the back, use your legs to stop you dropping the front wheel.
You may have to continuously accelerate to keep this going, which is when changing gear whilst wheelying helps.
Oh, and stand up.

Anyone else know how to bleed properly

Shimano does.

Stats show that our roads are much safer than those of the US.

What is the speed limit in day time? :idea:

Well that was easy.

I could have sworn you wrote “illegal”, so my mistake.
Doesn’t change the fact that the HC is not law.

Sorry?

I fully accept that I am lazy, and that I abuse my kids, but disrespecting sausages is fighting talk…

After a long day at work that really cracked me up. :-)

I’d go for a Theoben Rapid 7

I used to make the main body for the Rapid 7, tolerances and quality of finish were pretty damn tight.
Would love to see what they are like nowadays.

And before the Mail reading Highway Code afficionados bust a lung, what is the difference between me warning people to slow down and the old bill doing it for Brownie points, licence points and an increase in the insurance industry’s profits?

The difference is that you run the risk of being put in prison for wilfully obstructing an officer in the execution of their duty, as you asked. :lol:

43.5mph on a road bike.
52.5mph on a MTB.
180mph indicated in an E39 M5 (the 4.9 V8).

All down hill though, so none of them count.

I can’t believe it’s actually more expensive than meat, and that’s without taking into consideration the fact that you have to buy Quorn and then buy something to flavour it with.