thanks guys 🙂

106.9 here in wigan/manchester. cheaper if you use tesco fuel and save. less than a quid 🙂

everyone is going on about the bike.

what about the man. he shouldn’t have been in the road. but he was because no pavement, so was he wearing a hi vis ?. did he have a torch ? it says he was coming back from his daughters dinner party. was he drunk/drinking ??. The cyclist wasn’t speeding, conditions or not, legally that does not come into it. common sense though is a different thing.

also Ive had strava say i was doing over 100mph on some segments, and we all no how reliable that is !!!

freak accident imo. right decision.

had 720 on my bike for ages, didnt feel right, went to 760 and they felt great. i bought some new bars at 780 with the intention to cut them down to 760, but a year on still havent. i love the control i have with the wider bar, but i love techie riding and the small bars dont cut it with me. i have wide shoulders (so ive been told 😉 )

i had a qashqai. i could get two bikes in the back, but in winter it got a bit dirty ! so i used a saris bones 3 bike rack. fits on the qashqai great.

if its a full suss, it could be your bushes on rear shock. it may feel like its coming from the front end, but that could be a cause of it.

thank you 🙂

thats sweet. it will be two years in feb 🙂

do i send it straight to sram or send it back to the shop (wiggle)

thanks

i get the impression its NOT richie

he has come back as many names, but what he is writing doesnt sound at all like him. not enough swear words for one 😉

and he never signed his name at the end of posts either.

dunno maybe just me

its a shame, its been good for the last couple of years, some good lads on there.

we will see what happens 8)

should **** them all off and re employ with people who want to work.

if you dont like the job, get another !!

some people dont no how lucky they are.

for every negative there is a positive i guess.

ive 2 canyon bikes, both delivered ahead of time, if carlsberg did customer services then canyon would be it. what problems i did have were sorted straight away and did there up most to get it right and ive a couple of mates who have them and they have had some cracking service where they have had parts upgraded foc. they always reply to my emails, even had one back with 30 mins on a wednesday evening.

personally i cannot fault them. i would certainly buy my next bike off them.

business is business. at the end of the day there here to make money from us. there is no loyalty or sentimental crap towards the customer. this goes for every business, lbs, supermarket, hairdresser etc etc so if they do make a mistake, then fine, if we as a customer can take advantage of that then great, doesnt happen often. lets not forget a “business” certainly takes advantage of the customer day in and day out.

and if an employee does make a major mistake, if that means getting fired, then fine, thats business.

if you went a restaurant and ordered rump steak and the waiter brought you fillet steak by mistake and you started to eat it who should pay for it ??

mistakes happen, its how we rectify them mistakes which is important imo.

His UFO show on BBC3 was a truly entertaining piece of TV. Brother saw him in some Pinter play at the Almeida – rated him as an actor

when he was filming for that in shrewsbury he stayed at the hotel i worked at, he came in kitchen after the meal and thanked us and my brigade. i thought he was a top bloke. human traffic is a amazing film of my generation. fave bit is him in the back of the taxi. brilliant.

who’s that geyser..whats is name

peter f*****g andre ! nobody loves ya

great stuff lol

I tried tubeless for a few weeks. I thought it was going ok and then I had a burp going over a tiny innocuous roller at Gawton and this happened to the rear.

just out of curiosity, were the rims pikey ?

for me, one of the best things i changed on the bike going tubeless. never had a problem except one tyre rip on a nobby nic, never burped even after some tasty drops. i do prefer the wider rim though which i think helps.

sorry op to hijack, but its kind off on topic. with regards the voucher “value off” and “suitable replacment”

to me this is too different things. i have a canyon, now say that gets nicked. would i get the value of the bike or a suitable replacement. as the value of the bike , i couldnt get the same spec with a voucher from wheelies for example, so would they give you a bike more value of what my bike is worth ?? i cant see that tbh.
im just curious if it ever happens.

ive been feeling sorry for myself all day, been a right miserable bastid. but reading that puts things into perspective op.

wont a saris bones fit the car ?

i thought they were exactly the same tyre, all they have done is re-brand the name.

my biggest head **** with the maintanance is why is based on gross and not net pay. you should at least get some tax relief, but no, screwed again. another one with them is if say you changed job and the new one is less money. if that pay cut isnt 25% then your payments wont change. ? but if she has a pay rise then that doesnt get considered either.

it will be safer in the future to not get married and not have kids at all.

there is no such thing as equal rights in this situation. the child part hasnt been to bad on my part. i think it helps when the children have a voice and they no they have a father, i reckon if they were babies it would have been different. but the house is a different matter. solictors are another. now they certainly dont give a shit about you. im a couple grand in already and still no more forward from when it first started. where that money could have been spent on the kids if it got settled like adults. its a shame really.
my advice to any new fathers, make sure your on the birth certificate as you have a few more rights than if you are not.

More than 175 nights child stays with you a year
50 % reduction plus an extra £7 a week reduction for each child in this band.

there you go. you will have to pay something depending on your salary.

the csa does not exist no more and doesnt take on new cases since last year. its the cma (child maintanance service) a bit more father friendly, just a bit mind you. and you may be right with the maintanance ( just going through something similar) .good luck with getting 50/50 with the kids, if she doesnt agree then its off to court and the law is as sexist as it gets unfortunatly.

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/260890/how-we-work-out-child-maintenance.pdf
how to work it out

same here.

make sure you check new frame over with a tooth comb, and what the warranty is actually with this one, a new 3 year or is it continued from last one.

i agree with you op.

it just needs the benny hill music in the background !!

ive just got back yesterday after 3 days riding in afan myself. totally agree with you on saturday. we did W2 after the afternoon part it was lashing it down. Never been so wet, still great though, proper knaft when we got back.

did blade friday, a bit naff tbh, last decent was great, the rest had no flow and silly signs saying drop your saddle which were just utter pointless.

sunday did penyhdd (something like that )short but sweet, some fast flowy berms. good fun and just enough after weekend of riding and beer !

and dont forget we live in the uk, if you dont like rain, then you will never get on the saddle……. 8)

yep happy st Georges day to you all.

be proud, stand tall, go and buy some veg from kings lynn 😀

you can use eletrical tape, gorilla tape, rim tape etc. i use superstars tape like clobber suggested

i dont see a problem with it at all. like you said, he will lose a % of his trade, you could also look at it, that the other % of trade might actually agree with him……maybe ?

i only need to spend 60 quid, anyone got a £5 off code handy 😉

well if he has posted by royal mail, you can expect no shock or forks on the bike 😆

good news..i think

still dont give up persueing though, he might just be reading this thread and be deleting every trace everyones been giving.

love the gta5 pic though 🙂

there was a linkedin profile for him, he is a student living in bristol ( or was ?) studing Architecture & Planning. thats all i can see.

i hope you get it, you never no, but paypal gift, for £750 to a stranger. the fees would have only been about 20 quid if that.

hope it comes for you. he might have gone back italy (email address is a hotel in italy ??), so he sold his bike to fund ticket back home. you dont no.

mri scan only way to 100% no. you can get it done yourself for about £250/£300 same week., usually no cure, its all about pain management.

not done hamsterley, but whinlatter was just okay imo. the last run down on the first loop was really good, but that was it for me, second loop was naff, the last run on that wasnt good at all. both loops can be done really quick as well. if i lived local i would still ride it midweek, but at over a 2.5 hours drive, i wont go again unless im passing or if im up there for a weekend. just my opinion.

no problems here, ordered some xt crank decals, took a couple of weeks to get them, but did the job and still going strong after 7 months.

decathlon do kmc 10 sp for 4.99 for 2 as well.

i had a similar creak (same bike) coming from the rocker area. eventually found out it was the bearings on the rocker (i had a look and they were just demolished). bike was still under warranty, so they said they would replace it, they picked the bike up, but instead of just changing the bearings they ended up putting a brand new rocker arm/triangle on the bike. so something was wrong with that, unless they wouldnt have replaced it.

now nearly a year on, ive a creak come back, though i thinks its coming from the BB.

off topic slightly how many spacers have you on your BB. Im sure the bike came with zero, buts its a 73mm bb so i thought it would have been 2 on the right, but it looks and feels wrong ????

i had my minion pop off the rim in the kitchen when the heating was on full whack one night. the bead wasnt up to much anyways as tyre was on way out, but the heat certainly contributed to it. proper shit it when it came off 😎

you will be fine up to the cafe and just past. everyone gets off at the same point.

the road climb up to the trail head might get you blowing out of your ass though 😉