isn’t driveside normal thread ie. anti-clockwise to undo?

No definetely clockwise to undo on drive side. Had this problem myself a couple of weeks back and TJ is right.

Buy a can of Plusgas from your local Halfords or petrol station and spray on the BB, also down the seat tube. Leave to soak for half hour and then do it again. Putting it in a vice is a bit extreme IMO. Try bolting the BB tool on first using a M8 bolt and washer or one of these. Attach a big a adjustable wrench, the longer the better and then stand on it, that should do the trick, if not then try the vice thing.

Good luck

Know what you mean. Bought a new BBQ set at lunch time. As I handed over my card it started to bloody thunder!

A red one.

Nilco are good if you can get one. Only available via trade suppliers though – I think.

Built in Germany and last for ever, well so far anyway.

Mostly biking but also Astronomy.

Another (older) Mill Valley here.

I did have a ‘proper’ road bike which was bought as winter trainer/summer speedster but just never got on with the drop bars. Also started falling off the mtb more if I’d spent any length of time on the road bike.

Honestely haven’t noticed any significant drop in speed on the cycle computer. Did a PB on this in my last Triathlon a few years ago and have no problem keeping up with roadies during Sunday club rides. Also much more comfortable during very long rides than I was on the road bike.

I don’t suppose it would be much good in a proper road race but apart from that – flippin great bike.

These are some of the gayest bikes I’ve ever seen

….and all so clean too.

A man’s bike is a muddy bike.

Ritchey SS tyres
UN72

The silver foil that they used to wrap kit-kats in. The new stuff is completly useless for making small animals from

Is the price you pay for carbon and Ti worth it for the advantages over steel

No.

I would say that the riding characteristics of a good steel frame are equal to those of a decent Ti frame. I ride a Moots which is considered pretty much as good a Ti frame gets, but I cannot honestly say it was worth the extra money. I used to borrow a mates steel Pine Mountain and it was just as good. For the price of Ti you could have a custom made steel frame couldn’t you?

The only draw back to steel is its propensity to rust but waxyoyl the inside of the frame and plenty of grease in the BB shell and you’ve got a frame that will last longer than you.

If I could choose again – steel every time

Yield on five year gilts is about 2.5%-3% depending on the issue. That’s a signal of the consensus of where the markets think base rates are going to be.

Lots depends on inflation though but as GG says that does not appear to be an immediate concern

I blame Lyndon

Ahh you mean Lyndon “do you know who I am” Trott.

Not been here long enough to form a qualified opinion. But he seems a bit a of cock

Silverpigeon – I’m from Guernsey, where was the Seal?

On the road that runs alongside Pembroke beach. Like I said I can’t understand how it managed to get over the wall and I’ve never seen the tide come up [/i]thathigh. It’s not even as if it was stormy last night

Could have walked up the launch ramp I suppose and been hit by a car. Strange though as I didn’t think there were any seals around here.

Thought it might get a mention in the Guernsey Press – we’re pretty short on decent news here – as you know – but it didn’t

Good question. Unfortunatley there is no correct answer and if your only reason to take a fixed rate is to try and beat the market, so to speak, then it’s the wrong reason. A fixed rate is priced on the markets expectations of rates over any given period – of course these expectations change frequently – and is a product that reduces interest rate risk. i.e. the risk that rates will rise to the extent that affordability becomes a problem.

The ‘price’of reducing this risk is of course, that you won’t benefit when rates are lower.

10 years is a long time fix and there will probably be penalties if you want to pay it off early so bear that in mind.

Only go for it if you prefer the certainty of a fixed monthly amount and won’t forever be comparing what you’re paying with everybody else

I take it you’re by the sea… (please tell me you’re not)

Yep. Live in Guernsey now and cycle into work along the coast. Weird thing is that I haven’t actually seen any live seals since coming here.

Must have gotten washed up on a high tide, but I can’t work out how it got over the sea wall and into the middle of the road.

Felt a bit sorry for the poor little blighter

Happy Birthday. Welcome to the club

Cheers chaps. Bashing it did the trick and yep, it is slightly bent and very rusty!

Don’t tell anybody I didn’t know. OK?

eldridge, peregrine and spungebob have just proven themselves to be the kind of utter wnakers that are ruining this country and exactly the sort of thoughtless **** that I want to escape by leaving this country

Are you actually reading what you are typing?

Telling us all we MUST vote. Who to vote for and damn anybody that does not share your opinion.

I do agree that there are undoubtedly benefits to a more politically engaged population but fail to see how coercing people to vote achieves this. If people are disinterested enough in politics not to vote but then are forced to do so how can any elected government claim legitimacy?

Lots of very clean looking bikes on this thread. Does anybody actually ride them?

Remember. The best looking mountain bike in the car park is ALWAYS the muddiest.

I must admit though that when my Moots frame arrived I did, for just a few seconds, think about hanging it on the wall instead of building it up. 😉

Silverpigeon is in Guernsey? There’s not much mtbing there surely?

Not very much at all unfortunately. There is a lively race scene though. Remember when you used to be able to go racing every weekend and see the same faces. It’s like that here.

Here in Guernsey we have our own money which although sterling is not legal tender in the UK and we still have £1.00 notes.

Our pillar boxes are blue

Oh and WCA.If I still lived in the UK I’d go to that BBB

I’d like to meet

Binners
Cressers – Where has he got to?
Mr (&Mrs) – Gingerflash.
CFH
Rudeboy
And the bloke from Stanground in Peterborough that I sent a route map to once but can’t remember his username.

But not Smee/Glupton

He seems a bit of a plonker.

About 9 years ago I took a sabbatical and went around India for a year. On the way there I saw a nice watch for £1000 in Dubai duty free and made a mental note to buy it on the way back through. Whilst I was in India I occasionally thought about it/hoped it would still be there/imagined myself wearing it/thought about how my peers would admire it etc etc, and as the end of the trip drew near I started looking forward to be able to revisit the shop at Dubai airport.

On the last day of my trip, having loads of travellers cheques left over and lived like a hippy for 10 months I decided to treat myself to lunch at the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai – India’s (and possibly the world’s) finest hotel.

I noticed the street kid lying in the doorway of one of the entrances and I also noticed the nice watch of one of the guests who tutted and mentioned in a very loud voice that ‘they should clear him away’ and ‘they didn’t stay at the Taj to see that sort of thing’ It was the same as the one I had been daydreaming about

Well ‘they’ did clear him away, 10 minutes later, body fully covered in the back of an ambulance, to the local morgue. Apparently he had been begging in the doorway of the hotel since dawn and died of dehydration, he had collected 70 rupees – about 30 pence

I gave the money to an appropriate charity instead and didn’t have lunch.

I’m a joker
I’m a smoker
I’m a midnight toker
I sure don’t want to hurt no one

I wear baggies, on and off road, when it’s not a serious ride, say with a couple of pub stops.

Lycra when I’m training or racing – on and off road

Really good vid, enjoyed it. Thanks for posting it

I see fingerless gloves make the list

Fingerless cycling mitts are so 1990s,” Chipps says.

WTF?

That bloke’s head is so far up his own arse he can see Brants feet

Right that’s it, I’m off.

I’ll come back once the thread hits 150 posts and there’s been a banning

That’s not me at all.

I have a Jeep, work in banking (but not the exciting ‘losing tons of money’ part) live on an island that is 25sq miles and where it rains ALL THE **** TIME.

Why on earth would I be looking to compensate for a life as exciting as that?

In fact I don’t know why I even bother with you lot.

PS. I do think all MTB journos are manufacturer-arse-licking whores, whose copy has as much credibility as a Fred Goodwin apology.

That is strange.

It sounds as though they are holding money for you or at least think that they are. How much interest have you been paid in total?

Where. L’Ancresse to St Peter Port. Guernsey

What. Marin Point Reyes

Altura Rush– about £25.00, just the job.

Oops

*types frantically*

And the last! And the last!

Ahh Miss Whitbread. Kissed her when she presented me with an award at a county atheltics meeting years ago.

First time I’d ever felt stubble burn

God that frame is gorgeous. Is it a custom job or off the peg?

Turned 40 myself last month and was going to teat myself this year to an IF. As a surprise though MrsSP bought me a Marin, so can’t really get away with it now.

Can just see how that conversation will go

Me “Think I’m going to treat myself to a new MTB”

MrsSP “Why? What’s wrong with the one I bought you? Just admit it.You don’t like it do you? I knew you wouldn’t like it. I can’t believe I bothered to go to all that effort….etc,etc, etc…for at least 3 days

I saw this this afternoon and I’m still giggling about it.

Brilliant!

It’s serious head up their arse types like you that makes me want to leave this country.

Its ‘Rules don’t apply to me’ types that make me glad I did.

Must revisit that ‘Things that annoy you’ thread

That’s probably about right I reckon. Even though the demand is there the money isn’t and I doubt it will be for another couple of years yet

1. Kylie. I’m sorry but I just can’t stand the talentless, antipodean dwarf.

2. People that post using text speak.

But that’s all