Whoah this is getting complicated now!

CFH – I thought you had it there, but you forgot about the Swedish inversion prerogative.

Therefore – Swiss Cottage

Is the Grimaldi protocol being adhered to here?

If so. St Pauls

Captainmainwaring I believe your strategy is flawed, Mornington Croissant amendments cannot be applied to Post WWII rules

Russell Square is an illegal move – or are you thinking the Moreton’s convention is valid?

Which it isn’t as mainline stations are wild

I call Hammersmith jink.

Bank

This

Yeah definitely a m952. CRC didn’t have any when I replaced my outer ring a few weeks ago, so I bought from Petra Cycles who were very good.

How many teeth are you looking to run up front? You can have my old ring which is still in vgc and actually didn’t really need replacing. 48T

I have a Rigor, but have to say it didn’t live up to the hype.

Silverpigeon – thats just an outdoor gas grill.

If it doesn’t burn lumpwood charcoal it aint a barbecue imo.

That Son of Hibachi is the smartest piece of kit I’ve seen since the Weber Go Anywhere

Must admit I thought hard before moving from charcoal to gas but do know that we’ll being BBQing much more now. I just think this will be much easier and less hassle. I know a couple of Aussies at work who cook outdoors almost every night in the summer and they have assured me I won’t regret it.

Bollox! – I actually fell for that CFH

chvck – That is the coolest BBQ I have ever seen

Ooh Cider. The local stuff here, Rocquettes, is lurverly, and the brewery will swap cider for the apples in my garden in October.

You’re Fat
You’re round
You blew a million pound
Barry Fry, Barry Fry.

All away fans at POSH just after he bought the club – a few years ago.

‘3-1 and you can’t get home’ – to the tune of Go West

Ipswich fans to Millwall after an announcement that one of the away coaches had broken down!

‘He’s only a poor little Yiddo
Who stands at the back of the shelf
He goes to the bar
And buys a lar-gar
But don’t get one for nobody else’

Always makes me chuckle when I’m at White Hart Lane

I gave up cycling in my early 30’s after spending most of the previous 10 years racing in the summer and training in the winter to the point where I think I just got burned out/bored with cycling. As I lost my fitness it got harder to motivate myself to ride everyday and next thing I knew, it had been 2 years before I’d got my leg over, as it were.

I started again about 5 years ago but now just enjoy being on my bike, I don’t care if I’m slow or fast, I don’t watch my diet, monitor my heart rate or care if some 12 year old on a Raleigh Grifter overtakes me up a hill. I couldn’t give a toss about whether steel, aluminium or kryptonite is the best frame material, whether I look a **** in lycra and I can’t even remember the significance of head angles, seat angles or top tube length

I got back into to it again because once I’d let all that other stuff go I remembered what it was I enjoyed the most about cycling. It gets me outdoors, enjoying the scenery and, when I’m going downhill, it feels like flying.

Best of luck with whatever you decide to do.

22C and sunny here on Guernsey. There’ll be a nice cooling breeze on the coast though.

Think I’ll go for a ride around the coast!

They finally realise that 6 inches front and rear is overkill for a quick pootle round Rutland Water?

Anything by Park Tools. Even if I don’t need it.

This is great…I sign up for the singletrack forum and this is the first topic I stumble across! I am metallurgist you see (well, a Materials Scientist technically, but more metals than anything else) and I have a special interest in titanium alloys.

Welcome to STW Jon.

You are just what this forum needs. Somebody who actually does know what they are talking about

In the same (silly) vein.

What is the moto of the French Navy’s kayak regiment….?

Pas de lieu Rhone que nous

Aren’t Lycra shorts more practical really? I mean for longer, all day rides, in that they fit better and wick moisture away . Baggies are a pain in the arse once they get wet.

Still got an old pair of Endura MT500’s – bloody great shorts!

There. I’ve said it now.

I agree with people who say who cares what you wear on a ride, but equally if you are going to get special garish lycra suits made up then you should expect people to take the piss!

Ahh,that is not taking the piss.

This[/url] is taking the piss. Read all the posts well worth it

I was thinking around the £500 mark but honestly don’t know whether this is realistic/too much.

I just picked that figure coz that is what I would spend on a bike for her if I thought she had a latent talent for cycling. Which she doesn’t

36% – I wonder which third of me is gay

Obviously, they couldn’t possibly be having as much fun as as a load of hip and cool ‘singletrackers’ wearing baggy shorts and peaked helmets.

Could they?

I’m the one in the middle

Nice – you can’t beat a bit of Park Tool Blue on the wall.

Thanks guys. All sorted, much easier than I thought.

So back to 2009, with all this money sloshing around in bank’s coffers after this massive cash injection, why isn’t credit now freely available? Why aren’t we experiencing a mini housing boom

Because the cash was used to either write off losses and/or to be held as capital as a buffer against future write offs – which are an inevitable consequence of a recession. Freely available credit is what led to this mess in the first place, a restriction of credit is a painful but necessary adjustment. Besides the government might make a profit yet on the shares they bought.

Tis true though, it a gargantuan cock up of epic proportions

They are cheaper than having a girlfriend

No they’re not.

But then I only go for cheap girls

Had Paul Gascoigne on the phone yesterday and about 15 years ago was at the same party as Cola Boy

Top grade ‘pure’ Ti would be far too spensive for any manufacturer to use,

It would also make a crap frame. Alloyed Ti (with Vanadium and Aluminium) is at least twice as strong as Commercially Pure Ti

Pretty much. The XT’s are slightly lighter

My bird, Mrs SP.

This

Plus this?

My ex girlfriends grandfather was in 617 and was apparently due to fly on that mission, but couldn’t due to health reasons.

‘His’ plane never made it back and he would never speak about it.

Or Lance Armstrong

Apart from any track record of sustained success of course, which is perhaps the first and most important measure you’d test against.

Possibly true and point taken. You wouldn’t call Newcastle a small club though would you?

Perhaps best measure of a big club is the support they get even when they don’t win anything

at least Leeds arent Newcastle who seem to think they are a big club! (to me, they are more like Southampton).

Eh!!? I don’t support them, but I think it is fair to say that Newcastle are a ‘big’ club by any objective measure.

See here for various stats about gates, turnover etc.

As a POSH supporter I was very pleased not to have to go through the agony of the play offs. Condolences to Leeds, IME Leeds have a loyal set of fans no worse or better than many other clubs.

**** that’s a shocker!

*Raises glass with CFH*

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