I don’t know about any of the science behind it, but I do know that having an unbelievably strong small coffee as soon as possible at the outset of my migraines stops them almost completely (and a mix of co-codamol and ibuprofen finishes the residual pain off).

If I can’t get that strong coffee in time it’s flashing lights in my vision, nausea, vomiting then sleep for several hours as the only thing that gets rid of the damn things. Painkillers don’t even touch them when they get to that stage.

That’s part of my frequent cycle commute. Will keep eyes peeled.

Not all CTD forks have “trail adjust”, some are just CTD and you’re stuck with the “T” setting of the fork. Only adjustments are rebound (bottom of the fork) or how much air you put in the thing.

EDIT: CTD fork here, CTD “trail adjust” fork here.

Can’t mix DOT 5 and DOT 5.1.

Can’t mix DOT fluids and mineral oil.

Can mix DOT 4 and DOT 5.1.

Cancel that, it’s an ichneumon wasp

Drac +1 it’s a wood wasp

Let me Google that for you.

Misreading the tone of your comment FTW 😆

That’s the point dbcooper.

Aracer I foresee a new career in planning opening up before you… 😀

OP I would very strongly suggest speaking to someone who actually works in planning (and who isn’t a planner with your local council).

If you think hiring a professional is expensive, wait until you hire an amateur…

Am loving some of the responses to the OP.

As mentioned OP, if you’d like to chew it over I can help.[/url]

Cheers aracer – still trying to find time in the work diary to get up for a ride!

I can help if you’d like.[/url]

I hope aracer will vouch…

Working since 7.30am.

+1 orangeboy, if it’s a freewheel (rather than a cassette) then your FR-5 won’t fit. This is what you’ll need to remove a freewheel and as orangeboy says, tightening a freewheel requires no tools at all.

Love the specification of unused dental floss 😆

Agree, have use this method a few times before.

Early 90s Premier XPK 5pc in midnight blue woodstain, Sabian XS20 cymbals and a B8 china with a double kick pedal here, all neatly boxed at work as I don’t get time to play either.

Electronic kit would be ideal for keeping at home but +1 john_drummer – like playing rubber bricks 🙁

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No one who has anything to do with cycling could possibly vote UKIP, surely?

Telegraph linky

😐

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I had exactly the same symptoms as you describe on my 2007(ish) Mirage shifters (on original cables, inner and outer). I’ve just completely recabled my Mirage shifters – nice new Campy inners and outers. Shifts nice and smooth now.

Might be worth checking whether you’re using Ergopower (8/9spd) or Ultrashift (10/11spd) cables – I think the ultrashift cables are slightly smaller diameter?

If you’ve only recabled the inners, I’d start with replacing the outers before you go mucking around with shifters or mechs.

And some GT85 or similar wouldn’t go amiss on any stuck screws in the rear mech. Had a similar situation with my 2007 Veloce rear mech(seized screws from manky year-round commuting, now moving freely again).

Got some SP41 outers today to finish off my Inbred build. Happy happy 🙂

As turq above; or I’ve just built up a 26″ inbred (on-one) for only a few hundred quid.

If 29er is also an option (I reckon you’ll feel more planted/less skittish on a 29er than a 26er) then maybe think about a Cotic Solaris or an El Mariachi? They’d tick all the other boxes.

Actual LOL at Aracer 😆

I don’t think you’ll get a 10spd SRAM shifter to play nicely with a 10spd SLX rear mech. SRAM and Shimano mix OK on the front though.

Are you sure? I’ve a syntace x12 rear axle on a hub which is 135×12, not 142×12.

For a 20k ride you won’t need any padding – just go shorts and/or tights as weather dictates. You’ll thank me once you’ve tried the run.

Don’t go hell for leather on the first run either. You’ll die on the second run if you do IME (the cycle should be OK even if you do hammer the first run).

I’ve done a couple of duathlons – ran in shorts and cycling top, only transition element was a change of shoes to SPDs for the cycle. Keep water and a gel or two in the transition area – have them after the first run to get something in the tank in time for the second run.

Hammer the second run as much as you like though and a big sprint finish (obviously).

And enjoy it!

Medium frame in case anyone was wondering.

Am looking forward to discovering I have won 😀

Sticker.

Houns – Sorry to hear you’re working over Easter weekend – didn’t mean to rub salt in…No riding at all? That definitely sucks.

Will spare a thought for you* when I’m on dry dusty local trails over the weekend

*this may not actually be true 🙂

Calling them bidons does make you sound like a muppet,

Bidon/Chapeau etc etc = pretentious cockishness

Wrong side of the bed this morning? Slightly strong responses for early on such a beautiful start to the long Easter weekend break and all riding opportunities it brings?

I had hoped people might pick up the deliberately biblically themed language, slightly tongue in cheek and with which I thought ‘bidon’ was a better fit than ‘water bottle’.

In case of doubt, my above posts weren’t meant to be taken entirely seriously.

Sorry I’m a MTBer, I have no idea what a Bidon is

And on the second day God created Google and other search engine facilities, so that man could ignore it and ask of others on MTB forums what it would have taken but mere seconds to discover for themselves.

Oh, and frame bags (as above).

Need the water though.

First there was light. And it was good. And then God said ‘Lo, let there be bottles cages and bidons’. And there were bottle cages and bidons. And they were, well, adequate if you didn’t want to take a back pack.

Or stuff a bidon in one of your jersey back pockets.

It was the Conservatives who (recently – last year) changed the rules on Legal Aid and defence fee recovery.

“Conservative MP in having to live by the same rules that they set for the rest of society and discovering they don’t like it and it’s massively unfair” shocker.

Nil sympathy for him I’m afraid – they’re the rules his party set for the rest of us. Criminal Legal Aid lawyers warned the Government it would be massively unfair on acquitted defendants. The Government ignored them.

Karma sometimes acts more quickly than one might think.

There are many limitations on what you can do, depending on whether your proposals are on land which is Article 1(5) land (for the purposes of the General Permitted Development Order 1995).

It also depends on whether any element of your proposals extends beyond a principal or side elevation of the existing dwelling house.

And again how close any of these will be to the highway.

And the existing ridge and eaves heights of the property.

In addition – reference the glazed elevation – Schedule 2 Part 1 Class A(A.3(a)) requires that:

“A.3
Development is permitted by Class A subject to the following conditions—

(a) the appearance of the materials used in the walls, roof or other element of any exterior work must so far as practicable match the appearance of the materials used in the majority of the equivalent element of the existing dwellinghouse“

So unless you’ve already got a largely glazed rear elevation, I doubt you’ll get away with PD rights.

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I use these on my Stans tubeless set up. In my experience if it takes as a puncture repair then it will hold and they last longer than the rest of the tyre does.

Although I’ve had a few not take (at all, from the start) and had to stitch/patch the tyre to repair. Never used glue, because they have a vulcanising goop you’re supposed to ream the puncture and coat the anchovy with. I reckon that probably wouldn’t play nice with glue.

I’m running a Samsung 840 EVO 250GB on a SATA 3 port.

Bloody brilliant compared to a HDD.

Harry the Spider +1

Neatly puts aside the legal niceties and gets to the core issue.

Hamishthecat this is me.[/url]

It’s not a structure because it isn’t affixed to the ground and not is it assembled on site – it comes to the site ready assembled in one piece. It is exactly the same in planning terms as stationing a mobile home, so it IS a use (stationing of a storage container) which, if incidental to the enjoyment of a dwellinghouse does not constitute development under the Act.

What LPA planning role did you occupy precisely?

hamishthecat you’re wrong.

Look at s55(2)(d) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.

Use of any land within the curtilage of a dwellinghouse for any purpose incidental to the enjoyment of the dwellinghouse is not “development” and therefore does not require planning permission.

And if it isn’t within the curtilage of a dwellinghouse then a shipping container is unlikely to have sufficient size, permanence or attachment to the ground to constitute “development”.