I had a set that sold for about £30 a year ago.

That's a fair weight saving. Are you going tubeless?

All round nice chap?

He always comes across as a stroppy whiner when it's not going his way, but maybe that's the TV effect.

Useless thread without relative weights for both.

:wink:

Ferrari claim to have spent last season working on the 2010 car. It may get to the first race and all that front wing gubbins on the McLaren might look cumbersome and over the top.

Time will tell.

enfht – not Fox; Pikeys. See OP.

There is another photo of VP with the flat cap, kerchief and weskit knocking around the internets

She looks uncannily like Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins.

There's a bit of a penalty between calipers and levers, but the V2 Floating rotors are a bit heavier, and the Vented rotors are much, much heavier.

Vicky P shows her buns.

By 'Eck!

Mine did the same thing; you could do what I did.

Chuck them away. Buy new forks.

Easy.

TJ and his upside-down topsy-turvy 'you need really tiny brakes for them to work' theory.

V2's are great but heavy. M4's, X2's significantly lighter. Tech V2 now comes with 183mm rotor if you don't fancy the full wallop. I tried V2's on my 5 and they were amazing; loads of power from the off. Didn't like the half pound extra over M4's so went back to them with a bigger (don't tell TJ!) 203mm front rotor. Now perfect.

I was up there this morning, and it looks OK. The uphill bit from the seesaw was a bit squishy, but it is winter.

Light, nice action, and very flexy.

Use on a Tandem? I'd be wary.

Careful on this forum. Last week I said my Spec B Legacy was a better car than the Alfa 159 and the Alfa apologists went into a rage.

But it is. By miles.

Premier members?

To make them feel 'special'

Oi! Leave me out of it!

Half of Cadbury chocolate sold in the UK is made in Europe. Cadbury Eclairs? Poland.

You are living in the past.

And I think Volvo is still going, but Saab may not be.

simon_g – I spat tea at the keyboard at your 'they're reliable now' assertion. That's not my experience, and I have had more than 10 Alfa's. They are for your heart, not your head. But if you heart starts making promises like that there will be some tears shed.

You can only see how it looks while you're stood beside it on the hard shoulder. From the inside, the quality wins.

And they are both estates at the end of the day; not a couple of Aston Martins.

Great for the character. Less great for the ownership experience. It's different, but so is having a chicken on your head.

A Subaru Legacy is similarly individual yet less painful. (I speak from experience. (159 JTDM Lusso to Legacy Spec B))

18" might have done it, but all interweb wisdom said the 18" would be too big/long. Once I'd taken the plunge I wasn't keen to repeat the experience. Tried it, got it out of my system, move along.

And that is a 100mm stem, the 50mm (!) that was recommended felt like having my hands behind my back.

I'm sure I must have ape arms or something.

Daffy – I'm nowhere near. I'm 5'10" and ride a 17" P7. The received wisdom was that a 16" would be OK, the 18" would be waaay too long. The Thomson is a 410mm, but there was plenty in the seat-tube, it could be the angle.

I always found it too short; It was like sitting on the bog with my hands on my knees, and I can't tell you why. My P7 fits just so and I can't say where the difference is. That's the joy of try before you buy, I suppose.

Nearly but not quite finshed in the pic. I couldn't quite get on with it; it was too flipping short!

piston – I'm still using a Foretrex 201 and it really is a great little device. All the newer models seem to have more fluff and less substance. It does everything I need so I'll keep it until it dies.

That must be the Tango one that's on their website. Yummy, but a bit too over the top.

Cubans aren't allowed boats. If they did, as soon as the Aid ship left Havana, it would make a sharp turn towards Florida, never to be seen again.

They had some random bloke on the wireless yesterday. He was saying how bad things were; no Churches, no Govt Buildings.

I would be more worried about water and food, but there you go.

As for the pictures, why not? If the Haitians think a pile of dead grannies is a protest there isn't much respect for the dead. So why not use them as news?

I'm disappointed, and relieved.

That's why they bring it back with a new face every few years. But this time, new writers too. It is basically a kids program, though. Despite what interweb nerds would have you believe.

aP is bang on. Folks whine on about the BBC's output, but I honestly can't remember the last time I watched anything on ITV. Channel 4 and even Five has more content.

ITV hangs it's entire schedule on dire Northern Soaps and the X-Factor.

I wish someone would buy it. Before I do. Then I would have some more explaining to do.

Frame price I agree with. I'd have thought that the forks would make a bit more than that; £325ish?

We had the same issue at work. To get around it, we hired a couple of 4WD Volvo's, and anyone who can't come in can be picked up. We can't run the presses with no bodies, so taking Holiday's (paid or not) aren't the answer. A bit of caring for your staff gets around all the unpleasantness.

It's worth remebering though, that Employment law says that if they need to look after dependents, like when schools are closed, that can't be forced to be a Holiday.

Coatesy must work at Sunset then. I saw that P7 it looked eyewatering, but in a good way.

King are very cheap at Winstanleys at the moment.

It would be rude not to.

A mate of mine is in Barcalona teaching english. He loves it, but considers it a short term thing, rather than the rest of his life.

Got 2 LG's last year from Richer Sounds. Both 1080p, both 5year warranty and cheaper than anyone else by a mile.

Great picture quality, and if it goes wrong LG will come out and fix it.

I wouldn't touch a Tesco special.

It looks like all the others.

I don't get it.

The recent spate of middle-aged women either weeing when they laugh, or discussing hard poo and how to deal with it is an advert too far.

I like the old Lego ad with Tommy Cooper, though. Well resurrected.