The Tallboy looks lovely Tom…. might be a bit out of my range though! 🙂

Join the queue!

What about the enigmatic scientist lurking in the shadows while she sees the photo of the bearded weirdie "dead" on the floor? Ooooh… quality tv that!

She had a Doctor Who moment too….when she said, we have changed time and (words to the effect that it felt good!

Myself and Mrs slowjo watched the complete second episode just in case and it confirmed our analysis of he first one….. a load of rollox.

Next week I will mostly be not watching Paradox.

Having ridden at Thetford for the first time in ages this w/e +1 for Stoner's idea.

Zoot Allures! for you FZ fans.

AmeriFrench (just made that word up I think)

DezB, I have moved on funnily enough 🙄 God help me if I had to live my entire life (even musically) in the 1970s 😯 It doesn't mean you can't look back on stuff and reappraise it in the face of your advancing year! Well, my advancing years anyway, I don't know about yours.

Now that George Formby chap could hold a good tune……… 😀

It seemed to me that Otis sort of waited for Jason at the last nav point, faffing around to let him catch up and make a race of it for the producers. It's an interesting programme to watch, a little like a commercialised Tomorrows World, the only difference being the tech is generally actually in production rather than in prototype but some of the stuff they test is a little esoteric (digital house for e.g.). Still, let's face it, who here wouldn't like their job? I'm first in the queue!

When the Pistols first came out and punk was everywhere I looked, I thought the music sounded raw, aggressive, different etc but when I dig the old albums out now….Bollocks, any of the Clash, SLF etc, it all sounds well…sort of ordinary. The raw edges aren't there any more and the vitality of the music seems to have dimmed with the passing years…. or is it me?

Three…..one because (apparently) he was going to be late handing in an essay, threw himself off a very tall building. Another got too intimate with a shotty after a bottle of whisky and another threw himself in front of a train.

The thing is, you just can't actually believe it when you hear about it.

Non….. Xipe Totec

faciles!

Papa!

Niciole!

etc

+1 for Open Office

eeek wrong forum, can someone move it before I get crucified?

What grieves me is that this guy is being punished for showing them up. If he has Asperger's the likelihood of his seeing any further than his interest in UFOs or whatever is highly remote. It is very common for people with Aspergers to have what are called "special interests", subjects they get to know intimately, dissect, analyse then move on to the next one. These obsessions may last years or months but there is rarely any malicious intent, they just don't operate on the same social level that we do. My son has Aspergers; when he was young we were becoming very concerned at his lack of friends or inability to function in a social setting but the team who were helping us went to great pains to explain that this was our problem, not his. There is often no need for a social circle outside their own minds and they are quite happy to live in their own little world. It is against this background, along with the lack of malicious intent that the US Gov't are being shown up for what they really are…. bullies.

(That the UK Gov't is playing Crabbe or Goyle to their Malfoy is just embarrassing.) – Sorry, we went through a Harry Potter phase a while ago and it has kind of stuck. 🙂

full stop….all bar the hoody, me too and I'm 48! Runs away looking for pair of brogues, flannels, a viyella shirt, wool tie and tweed sports jacket. Now where did I put my pipe?

I know what you mean njee20 but it works both ways. If we are all happy moving kit around between us at reasonable prices then, when you want stuff you don't pay the earth. I'm happy to work that way but accept that others might not be.

Had a mini photo session with Linda Lusardi once, and it got printed.

OK, she was handing prizes out after a duathlon and the press hadn't turned up. I took pix and sent them in, got one printed and a roll of film by way of payment!

It was bloomin' cold but she still had hardly anything on… tiny skirt, skimpy top, FMB and BIG hair!

the trust is gone.

That's a bit of a sweeping statement. Why?

I have never had a problem with anyone I have dealt with on here, whether it goes back to the old, old days or in the last month or so. I don't think I have ever caused anyone any problems and no one I have dealt with has caused me any problems. I tend to trust peeps off here and until there are some major scams, and they happen frequently, I don't see why I (or indeed anyone) should feel the community is no longer trustworthy. Just because some people are trying to get top dollar for their kit doesn't mean they are a crook, it just means they won't sell their stuff very quickly…. simples.

I have sold a lot of kit on the classifieds recently and my first tries were on the high side (but not unrealistic). If you get no response then drop the price incrementally after a few days and eventually you will find the level at which people are prepared to buy. Sometimes things seem to fly off the page but a few months later they might stick forever.It is a bit hit and miss but that is the nature if the beast.

Premium members only doesn't really work for me but there again, I only sell stuff sporadically. It would just stay in my shed.

Talking about silly prices, I saw a second hand set of lights on another forum at about £5 maybe £10 under the internet price. Daft really, as mentioned before, you would be silly to buy them and as daft as a brush to expect to sell them at that price.

Depends of your definition of laid back! 🙂

Kate Rusby maybe? Practically horizontal IMO.

Siouxie Sioux
Polly Styrene

No, it is my fault. I have a magic jacket, an Endura waterproof thingy. I have had it for years and whenever I pack it in the car or get it out as it looks like it is going to be wet, the rain holds off. I think it has only ever got wet about 3 times since I got it (the first Mountain Mayhem at Eastnor). It has rained before I ride, after I ride but never during a ride. Aware how capricious the weather gods are, I have mentioned it to no one (apart from my wife) and all has been well. Well, not so long ago I mentioned it out loud, in the open air, to some peeps and since then catastrophe. See for yourself what has happened to the weather so it really is a case of mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. Sorry guys!

Total beginner I am afraid. I'll have a look at both of those books…..thanks.

I have no idea but I guess it will look something like Milded's list. I started riding/racing on the road in about 1986 and I'm a serial bike owner. Before 1986 I had a Puch tourer, a Raleigh something or other, my sister's old bike, a RSW16, loads of "trackers", an old (kid's) trike with a tin "boot" that rattled while you rode and probably a hatful of others.

From memory

A Rondinella Road Bike
A Roberts oad Bike
A Fuquay Road Bike
A Raleight M Trax Road Bike
A Massi CX 2000
A Merida 901 Road
A Boardman Team Carbon
A Spesh Hard Rock
A Raleigh M Trax mtb – my dad has it now
An Orange X1
A Massi steel mtb – Rotchey Prologic tubing and was my best frame ever
A Massi Z3
A Massi Z7
Another Massi Z7
A Massi full suss (can't remember what it was called) a pile of poo!
A Cotic Soul
A Massi Z8
A voodoo Wanga
A Surly 1×1
A SC Superlight
An on One Scandal
A Singular Swift
A Giant Bowery (road fixie)

I'm sure there were more but I just can't remember them all.

As I'm a lazy so and so, I have always given my pads a decent heating up with a blowtorch before fitting them (cooled 🙂 ) I then do a few sprint/brake sessions though not many. I assume this has the same effect as baking them?

FWIW I have always found Shimano pads to be pants, I have gone through a pair in a winter ride (Thetford) on more than one occasion and I don't even brake that much, it is just the sand/grit/cack that gets in the brakes and wears them out. In the summer they seem to last longer but they have never been brilliant. Here's hoping the SS ones will be better.

Wonder if she has bared her soul on a forum too?

As has been said before….we need visual evidence so pix please!

61% Fail!

I choose……. France. when can I go?

I had a Wanga, nice bike but I found the head angle a bit steep (for my liking). As far as the dropouts were concerned they were idiot proof. Another gripe was the ease with which the paint chipped… but it wasn't that much of a gripe.

ooh! Good site!

No one told me it was going to be painful! ;o)

Cool…thanks chaps!

Today is feed the trolls day! Yippee! 🙂

As they were and as they are

Forget Ms Fox, the rest of the gallery is good for a quick peep.

Abandonware

Red Alert is on there but I have no idea how legal it is either!

AFAIK C&C isn't abandon ware yet so you might struggle.

Correct me if I'm wrong but iirc fixies are seriously old skool anyway aren't they? The penny farthing isn't too far off then. How about one of the old wooden scoot along things that predated "real" bikes?

As far as Neil at SS is concerned, I found him to be very pleasant and helpful. Anyway, I have some pads on order too.

Pulls up chair, opens packet of biscuits and waits for the inevitable onslaught!

Some people hate SS with a vengeance, others think they are ok. IIRC there were issues with one batch where the glue failed but from what friends have said, they were swapped out immediately with no hassle. Others think they are the spawn of the devil and should be avoided at all costs. At the price, I'd be inclined to give them a go, after all, what have you got to lose? It isn't as if they are a lot of money.

blackjack ygm

Northwind… I had a pdf somewhere…. I'll try ad dig up a copy for you.

I think you'll find it is in response to OGB37 by which the FC are introducing standardised trail grading across the UK estate. Everything more than mildly interesting has to have alternative (chicken) routes so peeps don't get nasty surprises once they have committed themselves to a section. At least that is the FC take in my area.

….and I thought this was going to be a Tennessee Williams thread….pah!

Nice when you do get help out on the trail though. Points in the karma bank for someone!