Been through this recently

Better Clamp ( Hope or Salsa) and even lightly sand the surface of the post (assuming it isnt't carbon) over the range where it clamps.

if you are sure that it was irregular and fast, rather than fast with missed beats ("regularly irregular")- it might be PAF (Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrilliation). If so the key questions are how long it lasted and how you felt during it.

There is a pretty decent multiple LED torch in poundland. I use them for work and the switch seems robust. I have replaced my maglites with them.
Only downside might be 3 AAA batteries side by side so perhaps 2cm diameter. Probably not robust enough to put on a lid as a ghetto-nightride option.

home made chilli jam

IA one possible reason might be that posters on a forum look after each other?

Part of the problem is that the FC in England do not like excluding anyone and so will put up signs saying "walking not advised".

At our local Trail Centre, Bedgebury, they have been putting up more and more signage. Not sure it is having a huge effect. It is the dog-walkers who don't have their dogs on a leash who are the most dangerous , and also the most unpleasant when challenged about their control of their hounds.

I use Macs and a PC and a linux laptop at home, and PCs at work. They all have good points and bad points. One mini mac crashed more than any PC I have had. The macs certainly look nicer. But Horses for courses.

Would people get so emotional about an Iron, or TV or some other item of consumer white goods?

I don't know which is worse – the smugness of the "anything but a mac is rubbish" mob or the twits who label anyone who owns anything apple as a 'fanboi".

Better to have the red number

Ask for his name and GMC number and check him out on the GMC website

I'm a quack and I know plenty I would not trust.

Do not complete this outside ebay unless you have the frame in your hand already. Sounds dodgy.

XTs on the HT – no problems – nice consistent brakes which are easy to change.

Thanks to everyone for the dishwasher trick. Going to try that 8)

Reba SLs from them for my SS – cheap as chips – recently – spare headset thrown in – arrived fast.

Funny squeaky noise from them on the bike (which might have been brake cables rubbing against each other in retrospect) so I e mailed them, they said send 'em back. They tested them, road tested them, took the lowers off, reassembled, contacted me and then sent them back. All done in less than a week.

Brilliant service.

Jam bo – extra 10% of an already low price I think.

Crockett and Jones (nowt to do with Jones) there is a branch in the city (25 royal exchange) Better than Loakes and probably than Grenson, better value than Church's. Expect a pair to last 10 years+

Philsimm

perhaps. and so what? This is the chat forum – not the bike forum.

With the exception of the (well-known) issues of mastering and "brickwalling" – people here have been talking about the gear and the sound without much reference to the music. Or mentioning music where you might not expect great sound in any case. I think many of us have gear-whore tendencies. Buy the shiny thing. Medium over message.

Interesting.

I wonder if as a general rule, you are being a bit of a sad audio geek, if you have spent more money on your system, than on the music you actually play on it?

How many posters does this apply to here?

The tesco mobile site does the same for me. Hate it.

Miele – got a 10 year warrantee with ours – which kind of says it all.

thebikechain.co.uk

Tesco's profit in 2009/10 was just 5.7% of turnover

McDonalds is a largely franchised business – consisting of thousands of small businesses.

Not sure your comparison is fair or valid. But good luck.

The idea that there is such a thing as RRP these days is actually a little bogus.

joe@brookscycles – No experience of your shop… but…

What have you done to seek your customers views? Why should we have to overcome our British reticence to tell surly and unhelpful staff that they are surly and unhelpful? It's not like they are going to change. These days you have to actively seek your customers feedback. Not to do so is inconceivable in a modern service industry.

One less than brilliant LBS was asking customers to fill in forms giving feedback, so I did.

Wish I lived near a good LBS. Locals ones are just silly – incompetent mistakes in one, long waits for service appointments in the other. The best service I have had is definitely from Merlin – so have to regard it as my LBS 250 miles away

yes

I have an astigmatism and use contacts for cycling and skiing. Focus daily torics.

There was a young lady called Rhoda
Who built an immoral pagoda
The walls of its halls
were festooned with the balls
of the unfortunate fools who'd bestrode her

boom tish

everything is shite, just some of it has a higher amount of polish upon it.

I'm going to use that as my sig line on another forum… :lol:

Typing this on an old apple wireless keyboard because the shiny silver one which cam with my iMac has died after 7 months.

You can get some interesting non-distillery bottlings such as this Macallan from the Whisky Exchange who also do some quite good deals

finish line wet is really really cheap if you buy the 3.8L bottle and share it with mates- works out at about a third the cost of the £6 a go 120ml bottles. I bought a gallon and swap it for cake.

Shame you cannot get the dry lube in big bottles.

There is certainly a pricing issue.

Just refurbed an XT rear hub with a shot freehub. The going rate seemed about £25 for a spare freehub, but I could get a complete hub (including QR/axle/freehub) for £20. So I did. Slightly fiddly to change the lot but pretty easy providing you have the tools. Way better than dealing with freewheels pre-freehub.

It is difficult to understand the individual prices for XT chainrings and BBs given what you can get a new full chainset and BB for. There does not seem to be much of a discount market in smaller spares. Is this so our LBSs can inflate the parts component of their bills?

There was a "touring" keyboard player with a few extra drums by his keyboards. in the shadows just to the right of the drummer's riser. They probably could have managed most if it with just him. There were quite a few shots of him from behind in the second half of the set.

Some bands go the other way. Most of the music by the Doors was recorded with a bass player, but live the bass iines were played by keyboard player Ray Manzarek.

[/nerdy obsessive mode]

17mm Ice Toolz cone spanners £2.99 each and £1 delivery from UK Bike store ie £7 for 2 delivered.

(guess who had to buy a pair last week to attack an XT hub :oops: )

Muse is my 8 year old's favourite band. Nuff said.

The best bits I thought were the brief jams on other peoples riffs. And Feeling Good.

Bass player did nearly win the Tony Levin award for most basses played in a live gig. When he lit the pipe I thought we were in for Jazz Odyssey part 2.

Bought one once in an LBS. But I am a subscriber now. – perhaps like most of the people who would actually buy it. And I like the more contemplative philosophical nature of it, but I'm an old git.

The mag cover isn't shouty like MBUK or MBR (which i get with tesco vouchers in any case) and it doesn't have yet another beanie/pair of socks strapped to the front.

You really would have to sell it. It isn't going to sell itself.

Just did two laps this evening of a local trail. One on a geared HT, one on a fully rigid SS (rigid because my new faulty Rebas have gone back) . Main differences were on flat bits.

For me probably as someone new to SS – there seems a bigger difference between geared HT and geared FS, than SS HT and Geared HT.

The technical barrier would seem not to be adapting the lever shape to the bar – but how you design the reservoir/system so it works with the body in that position? Interesting…

I can see the point for CX – or a tandem – but for road bikes on non MTB/CX tyres wouldn't you be just transferring a huge amount of braking force to a limited area of high pressure tyre where it would lead to loss of grip and skidding/crashing? Easy enough to lock up/do a superman as it is?

Decent staff doing the maintenance – who are honest about how long it will take – but not with a three week wait to even drop the bike off.

Maybe a bit unlucky but I definitely get better and cheaper service at local garages than the nearest LBSs

Steering column autos also would improve the access for getting a nifty "Taylforth" 8)

Autos great for towns, less fun for " real driving" or for snowy conditions.

what do adders multiply on?

Log tables

Great news – great lights

Mountain rescue and S&R helicopters very very worthwhile. And they are what this thread is really about I guess.

Ordinary Air Ambulances are a different matter and are not going to be winching you up off a hill. Nice toys but there is very little evidence they actually improve patients chances in much of England. A different matter in countries with greater distances to cover, ( I worked in a hospital in Oz which had its own chopper for neonatal retrieval) or more gunshot/RTA trauma. The money spent on them might better be spent on improving trauma units. Many years ago it took me some time to persuade Ambulance Control not to scramble the Cornish air ambulance to deal with someone with a sprained ankle in a field.

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Spend waaaay too much time in the internet and forums as it is

Avast much better than AVG