molgrips – Member

So what?
so we don’t want to be forced to do it!

We might not high up on their list of priorities, and this is exactly what we’re pissed off about.

I think I agree with the sentiment. It’s one thing if you feel the need to change your kit.

It’s another thing entirely to feel you’re being forced to change your kit.

eightyeight – Member
There’s more calories in a g of fat than you’d imagine so you quickly rinse through your allowance!

Yes, interesting as IIRC 1g fat = 9 cals

Then when you consider:
bazzer – Member
glycogen is stored with four times its weight in water.

Where as IIRC, 1g of carb = 4 cals but requires 3g to 4g of water to store. So possibly 5g weight for 4 cals. Which makes body fat look like a very efficient form of energy storage.

I only found this thread this morning. Discovering that Liam Neeson has found the time to drop by and say hello was great :-D

OP. Good work, I hope all the encouragement on this thread will help. Best of luck, I hope you reach your goals.
:-)

Amedias.

My anecdote was confirming Junkyard’s quite valid observation. Yes, I went to one manuf, one I had already “invested” in and was disappointed.

But the Earth will continue to spin-on. So, yes, I may or may not find the fork I’m looking for. Conversely, I’m not going to swap-out my frame and HS on the basis that 1 1/8″ steerers may be in decline with some manufs. As much as the industry might like me to do so.

Furthermore, I believe the Industry currently thinks it’s ok to drive obsolescence as hard as they dare, in favour of selling us newer stuff.

To balance this, I suspect there may always be folk who will be tempted to take up any “slack” if sufficient demand persists for certain items.

Example, I do not wish to own another frame which requires a fully integrated HS. I will avoid this feature in all my future frame purchases. As a consequence of my decision, already I am noticing that my choices for a new frame that still uses 1 /18″ steerer forks with external cup HS are dwindling. But I suspect someone will still continue to provide such a widely appreciated standard in frame design and manufacture.
;-)

This thread can continue to discuss specific kit, scenarios, whatever. For me, I sense that recently the industry’s drive to render our current kit obsolete in the hope we will replace at significant expense to ourselves. Has gone up, noticeably, a gear or two, recently. And it’s that attitude within the industry which I dislike.

Change based upon real, technical, merit, is a good and welcome thing.
Whether that applies to all the changes we see in the design, manufacture and assembly of bikes and there components today, is another matter.

Northwind – Member

Not really- it won’t make the fast any easier or harder. It’s about not making the exams harder.

Please don’t take this the wrong way, but I believe you may have missed my point.

Ramadan isn’t about the act of fasting, itself. Although fasting is a part of Ramadan.

More research wouldn’t be a waste of time, imo.

Right, I think that’s all I’ve got to say on this.
Cheers.

Yeap, there seems to be some flexibility in observing the fast.

Isn’t there a certain irony about trying to make life during Ramadan especially easier for those who are capable/allowed to participate.
(think about it)

The Muslims I know and have discussed this issue with, give me the impression that while they know how tough it’s going to be. That they wouldn’t have it any other way.

Junkyard – lazarus

pretty hard to get a range of forks in 1/1/8 straight steerer flavour.

This. Just the other day I decided I would look into a new carbon fork for the commuter. I have Enve 2 on the road bike, so I wondered if Enve make a disc brake fork, for road….. The only disc brake, road fork by Enve, that I could find, came in tapered steerer flavour!

I read comments from the interviews posted earlier. Two things, not all riders need super stiff front ends on their bikes, which appears to be the justification for larger Dia head tubes, facilitating the use of larger Dia down tubes, etc. Secondly, Manufacturers state that “developments” reduce cost of manufacture, but I’m failing to see that cost save filter through to the customer….

I’m not impressed with fully integrated HS, imo, it kind of negates having higher front end, frame, stiffness (ooo, err).

Press fit BB, yes, should be cheaper to manufacture, but I’m happy with the threaded, external cups, for which I have invested in tooling to be able to order and fit myself.

Developments for ease of / reduced cost of manufacture aren’t always in my interests, as a cyclist.

Double post.

Junkyard – lazarus

I am happy to be tolerant/make allowances I am not happy to be compelled to join in,

And for those who are not Muslim, but who are having their exam dates adjusted. They’re not being compelled to join in either. No, of course not.

mikewsmith – Member

well all your grumbling did seem based on speculation and reading too much STW… in many ways wheel size is irrelevant and to bang on about it so much is just a bit dull.

:lol: I convey my view and experience of recent changes in the MTB sector and that’s your response.

On the STW trying to start an argument scale I’ll be kind and give you 1/10. Wind your neck in.
:-)

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Rusty Spanner – Member
It’s a trust thing – many people have lost that trust in the industry and the media that promotes it.

A bit of this too, for me.

mikewsmith – Member

Or in summary, didn’t bother trying one but knows they are pointless.

Ah, you seem to have convinced yourself that I’ve never tried a 29er.
Go you! ;-)

Love my 29r XC bike excellent what it does, rolls better, bit quicker and very fit for purpose.
And I’m genuinely happy for you. Enjoy.
:-D

Haven’t used my MTB in a couple of years now. Mostly because of relocation but also, I became fed-up with driving to ride.

As for kit, I smelt marketing BS as soon as I started seeing reviews of 29ers. The impression I got with the introduction of 29ers was that it was an industry driven product to sell to all of us, an additional bike.
Then there was the tapered fork stuff and now I basically view the movement away from common component geometric standards as another lever to have me open up my wallet, etc. Some may argue it’s part of business to innovate new ways to get the public to spend. It certainly doesn’t seem to have hurt Apple, for example.

On the technical front, IIRC the justification for a larger wheel was “better” roll-over on certain types of terrain. However, I view longer forks and rear triangle as potentially providing more “flex”.

I’ll keep my 26″ wheel MTB, I’m impervious to MTB snobbery, so were I to ride with folk who used carbon 29ers, it wouldn’t bother me one jot!

In the meanwhile, my relocation means road is easier, it’s straight out the door and I simply enjoy road more at the moment.

And if that isn’t good enough for you lot…. I blame Lance!
:lol:

Private sector.

Pay rise? :lol:

tomd – Member

If you’re doing something that has 25% more value or has created more value than a year before then by all means chase a bigger hike watch as the board line their pockets while keeping their boot on the throat of pay rises.

FTSE 100 directors in 2014, on ave received salaries ~183 times that of ordinary workers.
in 1998 the ratio was ~47 times that of the ordinary worker.

Nice, eh?

deadlydarcy – Member

but it would be one of the ugliest floors in the world.

I second that. I had a Parquet floor laid about 3 years ago. I selected Oak & DD suggested single or double herring bone weave (thanks). The floor looks good, but there are issues. Therefore, based on my admittedly limited experience.
I’d suggest anyone considering having a wooden floor laid, think very long and hard about doing so. Undoubtedly nice, if planned and laid correctly, etc, etc.

mrsfry – Member
I just want to meet a person with independent thought, good hygiene and not a idiot.

Oh, now the list is growing. A few pages back, I thought the general consensus was all a Man needed to get the ladeez, was to be a good dancer :lol:

mrsfry – Member

@Solo ‘A girl can dream, can’t she?’

Ah! optimism, good for you.
:-)

aracer – Member

That is easy to say when you have the option and you’re not on your own the whole time.

Yeap, I get this from married guys when this topic arises in the office. They eulogize about how great their life would be if they were single again, how they’re more than happy in their own company and what they’d do, if they had their time again.
These remarks are quickly “balanced out” with claims of how much they love their children and wouldn’t swap them for the world, etc, etc.

Of course, the contradiction is glaringly obvious, so I just listen and politely portray an image of my paying attention to their verbal ramblings. Coffee breaks in the office could be worse.
:lol:

hora – Member

Why do people feel so bloody lonely? Arent you happy with yourself? I love my own company

Come on Hora. You know it takes all sorts, even you would be among the first to admit the world is a better place because we’re not all the same.

badnewz – Member

But whether they need a romantic relationship, depends on the person

Exactly, just as Hora is apparently happy with his own company, equally there will be those who are burdened with a need to care for someone special, to them.

It’s a fuuny’ole game, both Men and Women looking for someone.
I’ve had 13 months out of the dating game. I just became so disillusioned about the entire OD scene, that I just walked away.

I’m mid 40s and my “read” is that the few eligible Women my age or slightly younger aren’t interested in Men my age, but instead chase lads in their late 20s to late 30s. I’m on the shelf in my mid 40s :lol:
That’s how cut-throat the dating game has become, imo.
:-D

As for crazies, obviously neither side of the gender divide has a monopoly on that front. It’s just that I think Men and Women do crazy in different ways.

mrsfry – Member

I just want to meet a person

I’m not understanding the “Mrs” part, :lol:

Horses? I avoid the horse ladies. I concluded I’d never see her. Or if I wanted to see her, I’d have to visit the stables, etc. Nope, none of those types for me.

Ref dating sites and ladies profile pages. I did get the impression a lot of them were trying very hard. I’d read the “about me” section only to discover that the lady in question had such a full and busy life, Work, family, friends, travel, there’d be little or no room for a/the Man in her life.

I’d suggest that there may indeed be some scope for online dating coaching. For both Women and Men.
:-)

badnewz – Member

The main problem in terms of coupling up is this: people don’t want to compromise, they are looking for the ideal, which doesn’t exist.

Ime, Women suffer more with this, I refer to these types of Women the “Perfectionists“. I saw one for a while, the pressure to say and do X,Y,Z, was significant. It really killed it for me.

I was speaking to a lady who cares for people in hospice care. She said the biggest regret many of them had was not having children.

I was listening to a BBC radio program about this, recently. I think my Generation saw the largest number of Women at that time, avoid relationships or anything “steady” instead choosing to build a career for themselves. And fair play, a lot of them appear to have succeeded in whatever field they chose. However, according to the radio program I was listening to. A lot of them now, V late 30s, early 40s, are apparently regretting not doing the children thing. Of course, their careers are coming good now as they have lots of experience and are probably starting to finally get to where they always wanted to be which is again another distraction from family and children.
And that’s before they would have to start sifting through us lot for decent candidates.
Plus I’ve noted Women of that age group are easily distracted by Men in their late 20s, as witnessed last week, at the office Xmas do…
;-)

“Egyptian PT”
Hadn’t heard that one before.
:lol:

greencat – Member

Sure he might only get one chance, but it’s better than no chance. And there is nothing stopping him being a decent human being if anything goes wrong. Sounds like he’s massively overthinking it.

He’s a friend and yes, he’s a good guy, thanks. I think he just values being able to attend clubs without having any issues and explore other avenues when seeking a partner.
:-)

Edit:
In fact, giving it some more thought, I recall people have told me they’d never get involved with anyone in the office, for similar reasons.

j4mie – Member

I’ve given up, took me months to find the guts to ask out the last girl I liked from my tennis club

A friend who has recently become single swears to me he won’t ask out the ladies at the rowing club or the tennis club. I’m currently undecided whether that’s a good or bad move. His theory is you only get one chance. If that doesn’t work out all the other Women at said club will know the details, close ranks and repel borders.
He may have a point, although this particular scenario doesn’t bother me as I generally don’t to the sports club thing. Although I did go to badminton regularly for a while.

she said no and laughed a lot.
Crazy girl? Certifiable!
:lol:

Buffalo Teclite

I thought this was another Star Wars thread!

Scantily clad women in a calendar!

Meh! It’ll never catch-on.

wallop – Member

Come on, Solo – surely it’s obvious why us ladies like a good dancer. S’all about the rhythm y’know…

That wouldn’t surprize me, that kind of flawed logic would certainly fit in with the general question in the title of this thread.

vickypea – Member

I don’t get it though- why would you lie about your appearance? The lying would put me right off that person from the word go.

Yep! Me too, totally agree.
:-)

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ghostlymachine – Member
Glad i’ve never been single enough to use online dating
And a serious risk of ending up hogtied in a foreign country.

I think you’ll find BordinBob knows a lady who’d probably like that sort of thing…. Probably makes online dating membership look quite good VFM.
8O

Thrustyjust – Member 
You laugh about dancing, but a mate of mine took it up and was a total fanny magnet

Thats my point. OP is asking just how bonkers Women can be ( in the eyes of Men ) and then there are Women, passing good Men by, on the basis he can’t/wont dance. For me it’s the latter. If she’s really searching for Mr right on the basis of how good a dancer he is. Then good luck!

But personally I’d prefer a Woman of significantly more depth of character.
:-)

Stoner – Member

Let’s just say that this fine catch has handles and can be buffed to a high shine…

That’s all well and fine, but Mrs Stoner is only really with you because of the moves you can throw on that dance floor, John.

Always amuses me how Women want a fella who dances, because we all know how important that is to a relationship…
:lol:

Whathaveisaidnow – Member
i sent her a picture of me wearing Simpsons slippers….

I hope slippers wasn’t the only thing you were wearing 8O

Sorry you’re T1D, but at least it’s been discovered and hopefully before any real damage was done.

Congrats on passing your driving test btw, I hope you get it all sorted out as soon as possible.

I feel like I’ve gone back in time 15 years ffs.

Just use power point. All the drawing, text, shapes, graphs, etc, you can wave your laptop at.

why don’t you email the boss of my global company and ask her

I may do, is she hot?
:lol:

Drivers ankle – is there such a thing?

Yeap, I have two. Each one placed between a lower leg and either my right or left foot. Jolly handy.
HTH.
:-)

aracer – Member

Solo » Anyway, I think most us knew someone wouldn’t be able to resist.

That’s why there are creams

Apparently so, according to Stoner 8O

Probably another story we don’t really want to read about, along with being dumped while “in action”
:lol:

Edit:
Oh! There we are BB has spilled the legumes.

Stoner – Member

doing all these ladies wrong and poisoning the watering hole for the rest of us.

there are creams for that.

Err, good to know, you know that?

Anyway, I think most us knew someone wouldn’t be able to resist.
;-)

Malvern Rider – Member

So the choices narrow even further because they are still wedded to the idea that their man should be similarly educated and independently succesfull

Trophy husbands?

Tom_W1987 – Member

It gets worse when the women are well educated and earn a decent amount – because women in their early thirties seem to be invariably earning more and are better educated than men in the same age bracket now. So the choices narrow even further because they are still wedded to the idea that their man should earn more than them. Sex and the city syndrome – but hey.

Yeah, I forgot to include that. The lady I was referring to worked in a bank, degree, etc, etc. In her world, she has her children and she earns enough to fund a lifestyle centered around her and her children.
Men are now optional and are only required once or twice a year and done correctly, She doesn’t have to bring with or take home, any “baggage”.

I’ve also had some women get really uppity because I married a foreign woman.

Seriously?

That’s probably why there are lots of bitter women.
Yeap, in their past they’ve settled for a “wrong’un” and boy don’t those who follow pay for that, if they choose to become involved with said upset ladies.

Of course, on the flip side, there must be a small army of guys rushing around, doing all these ladies wrong and poisoning the watering hole for the rest of us.
Way to go fellas!
:lol:

boltonjon – Member
Why didn’t anyone warn me of this 5 years ago??

Because:

a) You wouldn’t have believed someone telling you about the things you have subsequently discovered for yourself.

b) You’d of just gone ahead anyway.

curiousyellow – Member
Being single is a choice you make though. Own it.

Accept it ain’t quite like that, is it.
In my case, I chose to no longer be with the Woman I was with. I didn’t choose to be single, but that was the unavoidable result. Hence why I would seek to be with someone again. When I can be arsed to re-enter the game.

globalti – Member
join her sect, the initiation consisting of a long weekend at some hotel in a remote place that the sect would take over. You had to remove all your own clothes, watch, everything and wear the “uniform” and then initiates would stand up and admit to something shameful they had done, be reduced to a wreck then be rebuilt by the members who would bombard them with lurve and make them feel one of the group.

The local indoor bowls club?

The two week BF thing, while amusing, also reminded me of a recent conversation I had with a woman in her mid 30s, separated, with two young children. The lady had just returned from 10 days in Ibiza, while husband had the children with him, on hols in another country. Judging by what she was saying, I got the impression she was intentionally or otherwise happy to be a single mum for 48 weeks in the year, using her hols to then “party” somewhere “hot”.

During the conversation I began to feel a little sorry for her, as I got the impression she didn’t quite see what she was setting herself up for. I thought if she carried on like that for another 5-10 years, then that would be time lost which could have been invested in a meaningful relationship. It also made me wonder what percentage of single 30s/40s Women there might be, leading such a lifestyle, effecting consigning an entire generation of similarly aged single Men to the scrap heap? While these single mums chase late 20 something Men around the clubs and beaches of some sunny holiday destination.
But Ho-Hey, you pays your money, etc, etc.

PrinceJohn – Member

and the one I went on the date with definitely lied about her body shape as well, she was not athletic…

Sumo?

Aye, I’ve met those who have been, how shall I put it? “Imaginative” when describing their physique. Others use pictures from >10 years ago and one even openly confessed, after a few messages, the picture in the profile…… Wasn’t of her but was actually her friend 8O

As for “mad” they may seem that way to us, but Men are often viewed by Women as being “mad/crazy/weird” also.

My adventures in online dating seemed to have me constantly under suspicion of being a “player” which was tiresome.

I’ve had a year out from the dating site merry-go-round, as above, finding reasonable late 30s, early 40s Women isn’t easy and most if not all come with “issues”. Some issues are quite common, across age groups, ime. The perfectionist is a good example. This strange expectation that everything they and their BF say and do must be perfect, without end? For me that gets real old, real quick.
:lol:

Meeting someone you can make an effort with all comes down to chance, so just be yourself and carry on.

Think I paid ~116/L yesterday, however I buy the premium diesel which IIRC usually commands ~10p above the regular stuff.

rocketman – Member

This thread is very lacking in spoilers.

Here you go

Ah! No wonder Ford seems so happy. Now that he seems to have got what he’s wanted for a while, allegedly…

TurnerGuy – Member

I never understood why you go up against a wall. Splashback is inevitable.

same with a urinal…

I think you’ll find it’s down to the distance between you and the target….
8)