This?

once you know your way around, and if you know what you actually want, you can be in, browse, have the meatballs, browse, checkout in close to an hour…

But if your wife has not decided what she wants yet, be scared… :evil:

NHS employees with an NHS.net e mail address can get Office (for windows or Mac) for about £18 – one of the great bargains. Doesn't include visio though I believe :cry:

Jaco
Tony Levin
Norman Watt-Roy
Donald "Duck" Dunn – That stax groove,
Tal Wilkenfield seems a good young one

Bootsy and Pino as also rans

Geddy Lee, Chris Squire and Mark King all diamonds – but glowing in steaming piles of shite

Not all recent RF are self extracting. I had to get a park tools extractor for one RF 2008 deus chainset. An ordinary generic extractor wouldn't work because it needed a wide central pusher.

And yes – I did try one of the RF extractor caps that should screw in the the threads.

wilko Johnson when he was younger – total psycho 1000 yard stare.

and perhaps john Martyn

What Dales-Rider said. +1

A third-rate quack writes…

Unless you have a definite bit on your bonce which you know you hit, you must be presumed to have fallen because you lost consciousness rather than vice versa.

If you did hit your head with that length of post-injury effect I would want at least consideration of whether you need a brain scan today.

If you didn't hit your head, and you are already under investigation for a possible TIA (which these days should involve scan and consultant appointment within 7 days of the possible TIA) you should be rather worried, certainly not driving or cycling and probably admitted to hospital.

He is too clever not to realise that what he did was greedy and stupid. He could have sorted it all before the end of the last parliament. We are meant to be turning over a new leaf here after all.

His sexuality is irrelevant, but as a constituent of an out gay conservative MP I am not sure why he really felt he had to hide it.

It wasn't a hooker he screwed, it was us.

You can go the fur-coat and no knickers route.

We have an Ikea kitchen with a Corian top from Alaris who were really good.

njee

Fair point – but they were saying that time before I even mentioned I had the bearings. And it was the exactly same delay at the end of last year to get my forks/rear shock sent off to spesh to be serviced. And this is from a privately owned LBS which gives a STW discount. Not exactly a big job.

Then there was the LBS in another direction who lost my rear shock from another bike when it was sent off as a warrantee fault, said it was in the post, and after 3 months found me another and gave me the wrong fitting kit.

Some shops do seem to care – but are organisationally crap. Some others seem not to care at all. Wish I lived near a decent one.

Why can I get my car booked in for a service next week – but need to book 3 weeks in advance for my bike to get suspension bearings changed (and I am supplying the bearings…) :evil:

I am a GP.

The clue is in the name – "accident and emergency".

You have had an accident. It hurts. Not all fractures lead to a bendy limb and lots of pain.

If I request an xray I will get a report in 2 weeks… perhaps. Not all GPs have much trauma experience.

If it hurts tomorrow – go to A&E. I would,

As someone who lives near Hastings, if MTBing is the big/only thing in your life I'd look up North or perhaps around Bristol. It is a trek from here to anywhere really good. We have Swinley, Surrey Hills, Bedgebury and a few other bits. What we really don't have is long climbs like Wales or the peaks, with the sustained descents that come with it.

If however you are like me and like trips to do those every now and then but don't mind a local bimble in the meantime…

If you really do want to go cheap, the Ryobi One series of 18v+ rechargeables are good but a bit above £50, but the batteries are big enough to be used for a range of other stuff like sanders, strimmers, hedge trimmers etc etc. I don't think you really need SDS for occasional stuff unless you live in a concrete walled building or are drilling big holes.

I also like Makita stuff – but for something to get through walls that will be well above your price point. You do need something with a hammer action and cordless is hugely easier, but you need a decent powered drill, don't go for 12V or below.

If you want to get really angry -look at the tesco clubcard deals. We use about £50 of clubcard vouchers (from using a tesco credit card) to buy joint RAC roadside/recovery membership – its a bit more if you need european cover.

I'm on plusnet with one of their routers and one one of their 8meg packages.

Often I get 5-6meg. But varies – 1.8 at the moment.

About a mile to the local rural exchange, over old wires on telegraph posts. BT indicates I might get up to 5 meg but often do better.

What mboy said. Full chainset off Merlin for £125, then sell the BB for £20-25 and the rings for £50-60 for the set.

I know I'll be needing a new middle and granny for XT770 by the end of the year. If you were getting XT770s I'd have the 3 rings off you for £50 :wink:

Push, or scoot a bit with saddle down, then saddle up and push.

Have elastoplast ready. :wink:

I will never be able to get the front wheel up properly because I hate flats and have landed flat on my back clipped in one too many times.

I have mediocre skills, brake in all the wrong places, and really cannot be arsed to learn.

Despite this I am still looking for a singlespeed to play on.

In any sensible world I would be banned from bikes or shot.

The best place to go – by a country mile – if you are a serious skier – is Colin Morgan at Solutions4feet in Bicester – not far up the M4. You need to be willing to spend 4 hours somewhere and to pay for decent footbeds too.

Post a question on snowHeads.com if you want more info on other places. We are all snow nuts over there. 8)

Variable. Sometimes brilliant. Sometimes stuff on the site not in stock but a few great bargains. Not as good as Merlin, CRC or Wiggle. Not as bad as Bonthrone.

Spongebob– actually what Apple get right is the user experience. The products work out the box, don't require you to hunt hundreds of drivers, if something is "compatable" with it, it actually is compatable. And there is less in the way of malware exposure so far. For people who want to use a lot of (non-gaming) functions they work brilliantly, and come with a suite of software which means you need very little else.

Sure you can get the same from windows – but you need to be able to roll your sleeves up and play around. Even more so with Linux (which I like).

There are a lot of posy fashion conscious gits who use Apple products. But there is a lot of geeky masochism amongst windows fans. By now a computer or browsing device should work as reliably and as easily as a toaster or tumble drier. Most Apple stuff does.

Don't get me wrong, there are things that drive me spare about the Mac OS, and I will always have a PC as well.But I do find most of the people who are down on Macs/Apple, haven't actually tried them.

Not a total Apple Fanboi – We have a windoze PC, a linux laptop and 2 macs at home plus verious iPods and phones

But – the iphone is hugely better than any other smart phone I have had in the way it does everything I want with a very easy interface and no crashing. It doesn't suit the really geeky user, but it works.

The iPad will be for travelling, and for websurfing being sat on the sofa. It will do it well – and when they are on OS 4.0 and have sorted out multi-tasking etc, I will probably get one.

Look at the amount us MTBers pay for lots of MTB things… we are suckers for pretty things. :oops:

well Junkyard there appears to be a chain reaction ad just below the latest post – I suspect that is just there because people at ST are nice?

I am a ST subscriber and like the mag and its less technical/nerdy and more rounded look at MTBing and what it means to us all. But fair play to the OP for stating what he/she didn't like. If editors don't get feedback, how are they to learn? I get one ski mag as part of a membership deal where the editor has been writing the same old tosh for years. Just doesn't listen to complaints on the associated forum and doesn't seem to worry that he has almost zero newsstand sales.