Hope floaters can be a problem. Had to fettle my Juicy’s a bit.

+1 with Hope floaty rotors and newer Magura Martas – gave up in the end and switched to Venti rotors

Naan is good. Baked potato too.

A really beautiful looking bike – and I suspect it is the one some of us were admiring when we stopped at Peaslake stores at about 1245.

Chain breaking… How can I put this without attracting a lot of wrath? If you were the bloke who seemed to own it… you looked really quite heavy ( and I speak as joint fatbloke in our group). I wonder if the combination of lightweight chain, big fit bloke, cold weather and loads going up hill did it? A chain should be able to take that – but may be this one cannot?

uplink I know that now…. but I wasn’t convinced by the leads I saw advertised which usually only did 9.

would be much easier if sky boxes had had multiple HDMI outs. And surely HDMI-HDMI is the solution here. DVD players cost nothing these days.

Had exactly the same problem. I couldn’t find a through the wall lead which did replicate all the pins. In the end I got the scart lead with the lowest profile plugs and a damn great masonry bit…

I did this to link a sky+ box to another room

used to be a little haven of genuine audio expertise

I’m getting old.

The hunt for red october
Kill Bill 1
Das Boot
And Top Gun :oops:

People are mostly realistic about their chances – and in a social situation “go ugly early” rather than always go home alone. And when they get the ugly bird home, they shag, produce some ugly kids, make the best of it, and round and round goes the wheel of life… It’s actually quite nice to think that there is someone out there for most people.

The people I cannot understand are over made-up slappers who must look in a mirror and see something totally different to what most of us see.

Like many quacks – I have lots I could use – 7 things adding up to 21 letters – but generally the rule seems to be to only use the top academic and the top professional one, and even then – I’d usually only use them at the end of letters I have dictated or legal documents. Who I actually am is way more important.

no she didn’t. She just demonstrated that in no way is Sue Perkins being gay a waste – just different strokes for different folks.

And there is no reason why she should have to self censor just to meet the expectations of a bunch of paunchy MTBers who don’t seem to realise which century we live in.

A really good chop from a great butcher. Great.

1939 yes, 1914 no.

Luckily we are no longer in age of throwing millions of soldiers against millions of soldiers.

hope not :cry:

Face Redundancy After Monday 8)

Scott

stop reading after one sentence of slight hyperbole?

The article and stuff on R4 was about how MTBing had been used as a form of regeneration for a post-industrial area, and how other countries were now looking to it a a model for redevelopment of mining areas. But you will have missed that because you disagreed with the trail grading… :roll:

Doesn’t the mud get on the walls?

because?

I was listening to this. Nice to hear some really positive coverage of MTBers, with the bloke from Skyline, the ranger some local businesses.

Whats not to like?

Australian

The Innuit I met in Labrador did not seem entirely happy

meteox is also good for rainfall radar and predictions for the next 3hrs.

I thought from Plymouth to Exeter it was simple… North of the A38 it is always raining, South of the A38 it is always dry?

Trail Building surely?

TJ

I believe nuclear power stations still have to be built near decent reliable water supplies – hence on the coast and near a few very large rivers (the Loire in France). So much as I would like to put one in Kensington and another in the Bullring…

Re batteries and rare-earth metals needed for many “clean” technologies – we are now very very dependent on China for these and they can turn the tap off at anytime.

We all lie to our partners if we want to stay with them. We don’t tell them who else we fancy, or all our thoughts or when they are looking more ugly than usual. It is rude to be completely honest about everything to someone. So a bit of fibbing about bikes is small beer really.

posting on various internet forums seems to work well.

handbrake will do 90% of them with no decryption step before hand. It’s free and it works very well.

Lets go for it. Dungeness is near me and a bit miffed that they are not proceeding there with the next wave. We need energy, from multiple sources – and not just imported gas. Time for us all to grow up and stop being nimbyish about it, and concentrate on making it as safe as possible.

Cake

yes – they will ask you these details

pedros

Richard Cheese – the master. Be it Sunday bloody Sunday or Baby got back

no problems with SDG and I-beams on 3 bikes including 2 hardtails.

The conventional rail system is a poor piece of design for a mountain bike which should have disappeared ages ago.

*runs away quickly*

Surely the ginger rodent is Hazel Blears?

Ton to answer your original question – at the end of last year there was a chance I had a type of benign brain tumour – only when the second scan came back ok did I leave a state of intense hyper-reality which I hadn’t experienced since the 5 minutes before I got married 21 years ago.

I can absolutely see why you didn’t do anything about this for a while. Glad you were found to have the best possible cardiac cause of your symptoms.

Quack with an interest in Cardiology here.

Glad to hear it is electrics rather than plumbing. Much much better. But this is why I said you should get on and phone 999. It is good you were still in AF when they did the ECG at the surgery. Sometimes it can take a while to hunt this down properly and I am not surprised you had the angio done. Effectively you were getting a form of angina – but luckily because of the way the AF limited your coronary artery function rather than because of blocked arteries.

DC cardioversion is really nothing more than a reboot. Your heart restarts after a tiny pause. Totally routine. It isn’t a drama like people getting zapped in “Casualty”.

AF does just happen quite often, but can happen as a side effect of a chest infection. But some people do get it coming and going in which case we now have good drugs to keep it in rhythm, and techniques like RF ablation can be very successful.

You need to be on the Warfarin for 3-4 weeks before DC shock, except in emergencies or where you can prove the AF came on in the last 48 hours and for 4 weeks afterwards – and warfarin will probably be the biggest nuisance element. I have a couple of very active friends who have been through this and more who are still riding/running.

You’ll be fine.

Coming down Barry Knows Best this afternoon. Just in control – as much air as a muppet like me can take. Priceless. And a damn sight closer to London than to where I live.

MTBing clears my head completely of all the other crap

If you want to go to the hills – just do it.

I’m a keen skier. Do both.

what RickA and crikey said.

There are things that can be diagnosed on an internet forum, this isn’t one of them.

Worth remembering that even now a lot of appendixes that are yanked are not inflamed – although the patient doesn’t always seem to realise later that they have had a normal appendix removed . And any kind of abdominal operation can have complications and can cause pain for sometime afterwards – so you don’t get cut open unless there is a decent chance you need it done.

Not widely publicised – but it seems – from our experience – you can get the free HD channels with a sky free card in an HD box.

TJ I’d bite your arm off for both of those if they don’t want them.

Nice generous and cheap solution too

nbt fancy meeting you here ;) If you never plan on locking out I guess you don’t need it. But as a complete softie I’d want either the crown top lever or the remote.

+1

As a frequent buyer from the classifieds I would be very peed off if the listing did not specify “poplock not included” on a fork which obviously needed one

There is a wider question of why anyone would buy Rebas at that price with some of the deals from Merlin. I paid £256 for some Reba SLs from them including poploc a few months back – and they chucked in a cane creek headset in the box, and handled a problem that I had with the forksquickly and professionally. I suspect the OP here is not going to provide a warranty.

what stoner says – We have been using those in a Kitchen for 3 years – like all the megaman CFLs they are slower to warm up than some CFLs, but good colour and longevity. You can get them with a custom GU10 fitting and we tend to get them from TLC who are fairly cheap. They are a good replacement for standard GU10s or Halogen 35 or 50W 12v spots for downlighting.