If you’re not bothered about the threads just get a really long drill bit (might have to go to Cromwell or someone) of suitable diameter for either a cable end cap or an adjuster and drill out the thread to make a seat.

Thread extractor or torx bit is quite likely to burst the cable stop housing. Just done the riveted on ones on the GF’s Orbea commuter. Burst one and had to make a new one from a bit of scrap aluminium. Then promptly snapped the thread on the other one. I believe there was some bad language at that point…

Try nail varnish remover. Works on most of the powder coating I’ve run across

Had a pine one done a couple of years ago for about £800.

Other quotes were way over £2.5k for hardwood. The old pine window was installed in the 50’s so we decided hardwood was massive overkill.

Drop the back seats and feed it in through the passengers window.

Then go road sign jousting ;-)

Definitely get a lockable one whatever size you go for.

The joiner that’s working for my parents at the moment is locked in an ongoing sh!tstorm after someone filled one of his skips on another job with asbestos…

The other problem being skip divers. You are liable if they injure themselves and you will also be responsible for clearing up if they scatter stuff all over the place while rummaging.

Enjoyed that!

I think a Muse video is about the last place I’d have expected to see Terry Crews!

Hasn’t it been free on there for about the last year or so?

Along with the other (almost equally good) bike film by the same filmmaker?

Looks like a standard vertical dropout frame so I’d think you’d be fine with a standard 9mm qr wheel in there.

Hopefully the picture showed up this time. Big square bale lifter for the loader. Handles 2 straw bales at a time quite nicely 😀

Finished this up the other day…

Modern cars are too complicated :-(

Back in the day before air con and pollen filters became common a large bag of glitter poured into the ventilation louvres was the go to response to someone pissing you off and leaving their car unattended…

Top section of the Annandale Way up round the Devils Beeftub from Moffat and down through the Corehead community woodland. If you park somewhere up the wee side road that goes up the riverside into the bottom of the Beeftub you can shorten it down.

Girlfriend and I just had a really relaxed, enjoyable weeks holiday near Alston.

Lots of amazing walks up on the moors, several geological trails nearby and, if you are so inclined, the road cycle up over Hardgate to Penrith (fantastic but sadly the cafe at the top burned down a wee while back). Didn’t have the MTBs with us but there’s probably plenty of routes locally too.

Aldi malted bloomer 👍👍👍

OK, I can sort of get having a £200k penis extension in London.

What I really don’t get is blasting about on the gloriously smooth and racetrack like streets of sunny Dumfries* in one…

*No idea who it belongs to. Someone local who doesn’t give a shit about people trying to sleep given their antics over the last month or so 😡

Have a look at the forum over at: https://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/

Browse forums…

Ask questions…

Get addicted…

*Buy a majorly expensive multifunction welder…

*Lie to your significant other about how much it cost…

But above all else, have fun!

*As with mountain biking these steps are “optional”… apparently

Not called Louise by any chance? ;-)

Local industrial supply company had something very similar happen recently. They made the customer settle their account, added them to the wall of shame, banned them, sent copies of the CCTV footage round every other supplier within 50 miles with a warning (no names mentioned but footage of his lettered van van included), posted the same on their FB/Twitter pages and shared it around every FB group that’ll let them.

The dick in question is well known to my joiner and is apparently suffering from a sudden spate of cancellations and supply issues (allegedly even the local Screwfix and Howdens won’t have him!)

In the digital world this all took about 90 minutes effort to achieve…

It’s a very definite no from me.

The government should never be given permission to murder the citizens that it’s supposed to serve.

I’d be concerned that an extreme right wing government, aided by messrs Murdoch, Dacre et al., could twist the definition of who deserves to be murdered to include any groups who they happen to dislike. (Lets face it, to save money they’ve been doing it by stealth to the disabled for over a decade.) There are sufficient numbers of the hard of thinking that they could probably get away with it all too easily.

I know it unlikely but, along with the other issues already mentioned in this thread, it puts me very firmly in the no camp.

Could you do the half marathon with them? Starting now, with a coach and enough determination, you still have a bit of time to get ready.

The memory of you putting a big personal effort in to be part of their birthday event could be a very special one for you all. Perhaps you could do it without telling them and make it a surprise on the day (not easy but, again, they’ll not forget it).

Something like that could also help to remind your ex that it takes two to create kids and that you have the right to be included in your childrens landmarks in life. Especially if she isn’t running…

Love the “Huntley was innocent…hand wringers” point…do you write for the Mail?

I’d guess “to” rather than “for”…

I’d also hazard a guess at “in crayon”…

I would further guess, for the hat trick, “while closely resembling a slab of pickled pig meat”*

*Or “while closely mimicking the density of a bucket of pig sh!t”…

A faceache friend of mine has recently spent about £600 getting his Lancer Evo (on which he’s already spent a kings ransom on carbon bits and shiny bling) remapped to fart, bang and whistle to order.

He also specialises in blocking the maximum number of car parking spaces whenever he’s out with it. And then bragging about it on Instagram :-/

But weird since he’s actually a really sound guy at any other time…

OBE: Other b#ggers efforts

MBE: Many b#ggers efforts

CBE: Copious b#ggers efforts

CMG: Call me god

KCMG: Keep calling me god

A lass I was at school with and her mum recently spent £36k of daddies money on her ceremony/reception alone…

A month in Bali for the honeymoon…

God knows what on dresses, hats and all the other b#llocks to suit…

Madness!

Utter madness!

Laced up a front wheel yesterday…

NOS 26″ Flow mk. 3 rim (£80 for a pair from eBay) on a Superstar Switch Ultra hub (half price in a sale a while back) with ACI Alpina DB spokes and 12mm brass nipples from Cyclebasket.

Used Roger Mussons excellent book to guide me through lacing. Even managed to get the hub logo lined up with the valve hole first time!

Total weight of 876g according to our cheapo uncalibrated kitchen scales.

Need to get my spoke key back from a mate before I can tension and true it up but I’m quite pleased with it. Got an Electro rear hub for the other rim from eBay reasonably cheap a couple of weeks back too!

I haven’t time to build a proper truing stand just now so it’ll be a forks/cableties lash up for this one.

Apologies for the crap photo, for some reason my phone camera now only works via WhatsApp…

I think another contributing factor is that, in relatively recent years, the weight limit for HGV’s has risen from 30t to 44t. Also the number of STGO cat 2/3 carriers has risen significantly (there’s a hell of a lot more really heavy machinery used in construction/agriculture/forestry than there used to be). Throw in the advances in braking, traction control and tyre technology (trucks used to spin/slip/skid more, now they just bite into the road when the driver slams on or puts the hammer down) and you’ve got the perfect storm.

I considered myself massively lucky to have found someone willing to take an old Dufour board and its gear away on Freecycle a few months back.

Would’ve been a complete pain to get it to the tip otherwise.

My partner and I started the WHW on the same day as the race a couple of years ago. TBH it made precisely chuff all difference to our walk. The many, many waypeople we got to know along the way said pretty much exactly the same thing.

The Scottish six day trials at Kinlochleven, however, were more of a challenge but it meant we got a second night at the Kings House Hotel so all was good. Got to see some nice classic trials bikes in scrutineering too :-)

Wroclaw is really nice, but I think I’d struggle to put a full week in there. Depends on what you’re into

If you do go then I’d recommend the free walking tour that leaves from outside the old town hall (there’s a tourist information office nearby that’ll provide details).

July will probably be scorchio there!

The problem with the type of trails shown in the video is that, after a weeks rain, they’re going to turn into a stream and cause problems with erosion and waterlogging.

Particularly up here in sunny Scotland.

Didn’t Tilley have an advert years back claiming that one of their hats (belonging to a zookeeper IIRC) had survived being eaten, digested and shat out by an elephant? And that it was still going strong several years (and hopefully washes) later?

Or did all that come to me in a dream?

FWIW I don’t have a Tilley (yet) but I have a South African Rogue canvas hat for summer/holiday use. It’s not waterproof so not much use in the UK but I love it anyway. I pretty much look like a total dork anyway so it suits me perfectly! Cheap as chips in RSA but a silly price here (survive suitcases well, so if you know someone going there in holiday they could mile one in for you)

My partner and I went in January and had a great holiday.

We stayed at the Gordons Bay guesthouse which has its own borehole and isn’t affected by the water shortage. Gordon’s bay is relatively safe and has nice beaches and some good restaurants.

Hermanus and Franschoek are lovely and well worth a visit, especially when you drive over the Franschoek Pass.

The drive over Sir Lowry’s Pass is pretty cool too.

We went to Vergelegen wine estate which is stunning. As is the Harold Porter Botanical garden, which is quite close to the penguin colony at Betty’s Bay.

We hiked up Table Mountain with a guide called Christopher Smith. Couldn’t recommend him highly enough, we had a fantastic day.

We didn’t actually do much in Cape Town itself as we’re not really city people but it would be worth booking a walking tour with a good guide as there’s a lot to see. Cape Town traffic is an interesting experience!

Briefly went to school with a Canadian lass called Anita Pfister.

Dad used to work with a guy called Thomas William Angus Taylor…

Edit: just remembered her (much) older sister, Katherine.

Known at home as Kitty!

My partner and I were in the Western Cape a couple of weeks ago (first trip to Africa for either of us). Beautiful country with enormous potential and great people.

Pretty much everyone we spoke to, regardless of race/social status/wealth, had much the same mixture of disappointment, disillusionment and frustration with the political situation at both the local and national levels.

The back and forth blame game over the water crisis in the Cape seemed, understandably, to be the topic bringing it to the surface there. Not looking good for when day zero comes around and they have to turn the taps off :-(

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Christ, here was me thinking the forum couldn’t get any worse to use…

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tjagain » in Edinburgh there is at least one housing estate where car ownership is banned
Which ones?

Slateford Green development according to the Wikipedia link neilwheel posted…

Might be worth sticking a more detailed post over on the MIG welding forum[/url].
Lots of knowledgeable folks over there. If it’s truly safety critical they may have some useful input.

The forum is also an absolute joy to use.

Especially compared to here!

Kevlar might be as good an option as you’re going to get for what you describe.
Don’t think nylon would do much.
Titanium would be a pain to securely attach.

Not a big fan of Surveymonkey but done.

Best of luck to your nephew!