Come to http://www.heavenofthesouth.co.uk – very relaxed and enough scrumpy to kill a mammoth.

You’re welcome to come out with us around Wotton-Under-Edge.
Have a look at http://www.edgemtb.com.
One of our lot lives in Chippers too.

http://www.tvcatchup.com

I have been in Charlie’s shop, and all of the above is true. Worryingly.

All the Bullheart shirts that have been ordered to date have now been shipped.

There’s still a pile left here that need homes – you’ll get them before Xmas if you order today or tomorrow. Honest.

Due to spectacularly bad management (on my part)the Bullheart shirts are running late – but they will all be despatched on Monday.

Sales are going well – I think we’ve sold about half the stock – the second half is the gravy, so buy 5 each.
That is all.
Al

I know, I took my time – but the t shirts are now on the site.

As mentioned above, the Chinese light explosion (in more ways than one)has caused this – very cheap (1/2 the price of last year…) and very bright lights are the norm.

Off road – do what you want, it’s on road when the lights aren’t dipped that they cause problems. I’ve seen cars skidding to a halt and lorries just stopping trying to work out what’s going on.

I sell lights, and I’ve got a box of different ones to choose from. Recently I’ve gone from 1200 lumens on the bars back down to a 450lumen Lezyne and I’ve never wished I had more available.

I took delivery of all three models of Lezyne lights last week.

I night ride a lot (at least twice a week) until now I’ve used stuff I’ve either made or imported in bulk. My current helmet light is a homebrew single XPG with narrow lens, running at about 300 lumens, with a two cell battery strapped on the back of the helmet.

The MiniDrive was the first I unpacked, so I cabled tied it onto my lid (no official helmet mount yet) and set off.

Build quality was excellent, and beam was nice and tight – ideal for a helmet light. The light is rated at 150 lumens so I wasn’t expecting miracles, but it was surprisingly good. I’d say the Powerdrive would be close to ideal, although I haven’t tried it on the lid yet.
They use off-the-shelf protected cells (18650 for Power and SuperDrive, CR123a for MiniDrive) so spares / replacements are ridiculously cheap too.
If you’re in the South Glos area and want to play with one, let me know.

Ooh look, Cross Check for sale .

I replaced the 12 GU10 Halogens with Megaman 11w bulbs last year. I reckon the 11w is roughly 40w halogen.
Cost a bit, but leccy bill instantly dropped by £40 a quarter.

They take about 30s to reach a decent output. Go for the warm white output.

A shortish review of the show.Here.[/url]

Is there much to buy??

Nope. As someone who has exhibited at the Cycle Show for the past two years I was mightily relieved that I’m not there this year. The Cycle Store area is a bloody disgrace – really needs sorting out if they want to make this a part of the show, or they open up trade to all exhibitors.

The test track was better, the aircon worked, and the highlight was seeing Jedi finishing his third pint with a big grin on his face.

Lots of energy sugary shite, electric bikes and no big names. Not even Shimano. And a bloke selling solar panels looking very out of place.

Full write up tomorrow on Spokeshirts. Probably.

nobody wanted to go to the NEC , budgets have been cut

That’s true from my point of view. They also wanted to charge 50% more.

Saying that, it’s a well run show, I enjoyed exhibiting the past two years.

in London and there’s a new show there at the same time as the Boat show

It’s in Excel. Took us 4 hours to get there, and we live in the south…

the flames do it for me

Mine can be volcano hot without many flames at all.
There’s a fair difference in rotor speed over the temperature range.

We’ve had one a couple of years and think it works well.
Saying that, our living room is long and thin so the warm air needs a bit of a shove…

Also a good visual indicator of heat being produced.

OT – +1 Cycle Active in the Lakes ( just did TCL training ).

Small world…
Al

No.
Got a Motorola Defy – does everything the iphone does, cheaper. And waterproof. Oh yes.

Iphones have a ‘litmus’ type paper inside them – get them wet and it changes colour and Apple tells you to buy another.

Wibstats, All in one SEO and Follow me are the first ones I install.

So I left with nothing.

Personality wise maybe. But at least they tried to help…

Refuse to do Facebook, but quite like Twitter.
@spokeshirts .

And Bullheart – sorted. 😛

The meconium poop is quite horrific mind

Just think Marmite.

Had a bottom bracket bearing seize after 4 weeks……sent it back and received a replacement. But 4 weeks ffs…

Never again.

Neither is acceptable – but the bears are kept in cages with open wounds to harvest bile, the pigs to suckle their young.

Neither good, but big difference.

Im sure Blunt from on-one will be along to tell us

I thought he’d already invented the new oval headset standard…no?

Worked on an ostrich farm in Israel.
Sunrise every morning on the banks of the Sea of Galilee with a strong coffee and free use of V8 Jeep to blat around in.
Huge omlettes too.

Have a word with Charlie the Bikemonger – he had a beauty sat in his shop last week. If you go on a test ride with him, take beer money.

I did a 65 minute lap, went straight over to the screen and it said 87 minutes.
I couldn’t care less, but it also said my mate before me did a 52. He didn’t.

They start off white, which is why every colour other than white usually causes an extra cost.

Number of colours doesn’t affect sublimation costs. One colour or full colour, it’s all the same.

Cycling jerseys are sublimation printed. The ink costs a fortune (0ver £250 to fill a printer).
If you go to Impsport or Owayo they will onto plain white panels and then sew them together – hence the cost.

You say you’ve done all the artwork, but I bet my house it’ll need a lot of work before it’s print ready.

£38 per shirt is cheap.

I wonder if all the naysayers on this thread would be so ballsy to your face?.

Why not? I’m not scared of a man in uniform. Apart from the Childcatcher.

A firefighter’s job is not one I’d like and anyone doing it deserves praise. However, doing a well paid job for a job that’s unlikely to be culled and then thinking that you need more than a man-cuddle takes the p***. Think yourself lucky and MTFU.

Mine has bullhorns and a basket on the front and does everything.
Scares the legshavers on a Sunday morning too.

Would buy another tomorrow. Only criticism – the stickers are cack.

Hate to say it, but I agree with Elfin.
Keep it simple. I see some bloody horrible logos that try to do too much, and number two is one of them. 6 colour too.

Israel is the nicest place I’ve ever been deported from.

Can recommend Brittany, Lac Guerledan has waymarked routes and a VTT centre and the sea is an hours drive tops from wherever you stay for the likle kiddies. I’m in Aveyron at the moment and it’s effin’ brilliant

A mate of mine has a huge house 2km from here, sleeps 8. Went last year – brilliant.
Website here.[/url]

Got a pair of year old R7 Elites for sale if you’re interested.
Email in profile.

Saw them at the Eden Project a while back and ended up impressed but covered in thrown beer. Didn’t get that bit at all.

Mine too.
I got what I asked for too.

Yep, Old Gits on Sunday.
Can’t remember the name of the team, probably explains why I’m in Old Gits.