Thanks Rickon. Anyone else? SIDs vs Fox Float? SRAM X9 vs SLX/XT?

aracer – the NPPF are not ‘relaxed planning rules’ – the NPPF replaces the previous system of PPG and PPS.

I believe the OP is referring to the proposed amendments to the GPDO (‘permitted development’) which are still in the process of being finalised.

Bren2709 – no date yet but this Government has form (in planning, at least) for introducing sometimes significant change at very short notice. Keep watching. The place to check is the Department for Communities and Local Government website.

NJA – if you’re UK based and are storing information relating to legal services provided to clients then as a matter of course you should seek to keep any such information within European borders (Data Protection Act requirement). You shouldn’t be routinely transferring such information outside of Europe (i.e. no storage on servers located in the US or elsewhere). Do you comply with these?

Depending on what the information is, you may also have to comply with the Attorney-General’s Guidelines for Data Security (whole disk encryption to FIPS 140-2 standard, password strength requirements etc).

No prizes for guessing what I’ve been responsible for over the past 18 months at work…

Schwalbe Durano for me.

Fizik Gobi and Charge Spoons here. The Gobi took me on the London to Paris offroad ride with no problems.

Thanks for the feedback guys – I’m leaning towards the 8.9 alu frame for 1300 notes – I reckon i’m in for a medium (5’10).

Encouraged by the ‘nimble’ description (and effective/quick to follow) – I’m mostly singletrack/woodsy/XC riding. Glad to hear Owen’s comment about it shifting from being a winter bike to summer local XC bike, sounds like it may well be just the thing.

Black & white or white & blue…hmmm…decisions decisions… 😀

The wait for the CF slx is a biggy for me too. I was thinking the 8.9 slx but its a long wait. My budget doesnt stretch past 2k so the 8.9 slx at 1.7k fitted well. Any other recommendations for a CF hardtail 29er that i wont have to wait that long for? And any other canyon alu 29er riders out there?

Bump

+1 wwaswas:

My 2p is that you shoudl do what’s right for the girls. They’ll form their own opinion about him when the time comes.

+1 T1000:

Support and encourage the kids contact …..make sure they never miss a birthday or fathers day or his new partners…. no matter how annoyed you are….support your other half as well…

And +1 to others in a similar vein too. No matter how hard it is for you or your partner, it’s so much harder for your kids and they didn’t ask for any of this.

I’ve seen exactly the same with my step-daughter and her biological dad. She made up her mind about him too when she was old enough. It didn’t work out well for him. And she’s fantastic.

Square taper on my road bike. My recently stolen mtb was HT2 🙁

Pic of my bike – wheels, saddle and stem changed (see spec above):

Another bump for the evening crowd. Any help appreciated.

Lunchtime bump

+1 for puy lentils.

+1 for HF-W recipes.

Also check out Yotam Ottolenghi for recipes.

I’ve had both Ralphs and the RaceKings on the back of mine. In my experience the RaceKing does roll quicker. The Ralph does seem to cope a little better with a wider range of conditions but I’ve never had a problem with the RaceKing. Overall I’ve preferred the RaceKing to the Ralph.

I currently have the RaceKing tubeless in its ProTection form (Black Chilli compound is the only way to go). It seems to have lasted longer than the Ralph did (although that wasn’t a snakeskin, which would’ve probably lasted longer).

1) Commit;
2) Look where you want to go;
3) Get decent wheels;
4) Love the climbs, you’ll cut more off your times there than anywhere.

More too but I have to make another mug of lovely lovely Marmite drink 😀

MountainMutant

WOW her use of dim7 on the 2nd verse really brings out the tone of the whole song!!

😆

It’s definitely a sticker.

😆

I’ve a ReadyNAS Duo wired into my router then running over powerline LAN adapters (with ‘through sockets’)/wifi to devices and it works a treat.

Agree on the failover points made though – I’m running two disks mirrored so if one disk fails the other will take over, but if the NAS itself fails (i.e. the RAID controller) then I can’t just plug the disks into a Windows (or any other) PC and retrieve the data. I’d need another RAID controller (another ReadyNAS Duo box) to plug the disks into to retrieve the data.

*EDIT* and it’s plugged into a surge protector. Fire & theft? I’d have bigger concerns than losing the NAS contents.

Not Fleet.

Swinley.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=swinley+forest+mountain+bike

You’re welcome.

Am self-employed as a sole trader so I am not eligible for any bike to work scheme sadly. The Government doesn’t seem to want people like me to cycle to work 🙁

Thanks all for talking me out of my new bike bubble. Three years IS a bloody long time to not have paid for my bike.

Sensible spend it is, then 😆

I’ve got 3’s on mine – some replacement pads do come with pins, some don’t.

Avid spares – do
Superstar – do
Nukeproof – don’t
Clarkes – don’t

Garry +1

My eldest daughter has been getting on well with the Charge Ladle & that doesn’t break the bank either.

Done but agree with soma and ecky above.

Spesh Storm Controls (2.0) for me.

Fulcrum 5’s from Merlin – £148.99 incl delivery. Job’s a goodun.

http://www.merlincycles.com/bike-shop/wheels/road-wheels/factory-road-wheels/fulcrum-racing-5-wheels-2012-pair.html

I’m around Southampton way. Will keep eyes out for it. What brakes/shifters/cranks?

john_drummer +1 for the pinstripes/ambassador combo!

I’ve still got my old Premier XPK set (with Sabians) and a double kick. But for practising (when I was playing regularly) I’d slope off to a practice room and use their kit.

Saves noise in your house & wear on your kit. Best solution, I reckon.

Gotta include A – saw them live at Newquay years ago and they were fantastic.

Five in the morning:

No. 1:

If another plot comes up, bear in mind that the planning system in Scotland is not the same planning system as for England and/or Wales (which are different to Scotland and also different to each other).

Best advice as a start (i.e. minimum or no expense) is to speak to the local Council’s planning department.

Next step (more expensive) is to speak to someone involved in planning.

Seeing this thread come back made me feel happy 😀

I’ve got X7 front mech, rear mech & shifters and they’ve been good for me. Keep on working despite (many) knocks & scrapes.

Am running deore cranks though – not GXP.

And I don’t propose to turn into this guy, either 😆

I’m still waiting to be pointed to a case where a ‘bicycle’ was determined to be within the meaning of the word ‘vehicle’.

Taylor is a case which equates bicycles with carriages – but predates the creation of specific offences relating to riding of bicycles (which actually is the mischief that the case was trying to address).

Since you can’t actually give me the name of a case where a court determined that a bicycle is a vehicle for the purposes of s36 of the RTA 1988, your point that “courts have done so with equivalent cases in the past” doesn’t have any weight.

I continue to wait to be referred to a case (or piece of legislation) which determines that ‘vehicle’ includes ‘bicycle’. I know you can’t point to it, because it doesn’t exist. You can search Westlaw, or NexisLexis, or Bailii all you want. It’s not there.

BTW I’m not wasting any of my money, because I don’t RLJ. And it’s not really much of a one-man crusade, given that others on here appear to agree with me. Suggests more of a ‘arguments on both sides’ kinda thing, really?

1879? Really? Notwithstanding the supervening 130-odd years and innumberable pieces of road traffic legislation and statutory instruments?

And it still doesn’t address whether a bicycle is within the meaning of the word “vehicle” for the purposes of the 1988 Act, because (unsurprisingly) a case from 1879 doesn’t address the exception of electrically-assisted cycles.

Was resisting the urge to respond…

As far as I can see vehicle is not defined

My point exactly.

in accordance with normal rules of statutory construction you follow its plain meaning and that would cover a bicycle based on the OED definition

That’s an argument to be made in support of your stance, but it’s got no authority behind it (by which I mean there is no decided case law or statute supporting your interpretation as against my interpretation). So we can agree there are arguments on each side, but neither has been determined in a court of record.

I am somewhat comforted in this analysis because fixed penalty notices has been handed out for years and they do not appear to have successfully been challenged.

Well, nobody challenged the ‘accepted’ interpretation of the 24-hour detention period under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 for many many years, but when it was challenged, it was found that the ‘accepted’ version was wrong in law. Just because no-one has bothered to challenge it, it doesn’t mean it’s the correct interpretation.

Has TJ possessed everyone posting on this thread?

I actually laughed when I read this! A fair point and well made.