Third party insurance is available. It just isn’t much cheaper than fully comp.
Why?
Because the majority of the fully comp premium is insuring against the potential damage you could do to someone else and their property.

It’s pretty logical, even if you have a really expensive car and bin it the max cost of replacing it is the full cost of the car, which pales into insignificance against potential medical bills and compo payments to whoever you crashed into.

In an ideal world this would not be news, but sadly it still is news.
The fact that there are only 2 openly gay, currently competing sportsmen in the UK when statistically the numbers are almost certainly higher suggests strongly that there is still prejudice impacting these people.

It isn’t 1988, it is 2011, and this is still a problem.

Not excessive prices, imho.

He was driving an auto though so he was always going to be slower than most/all by some margin.

I thought they said that but then I dismissed it and assumed I had misheard.

aks

Gaaaaah!

I liked last nights episode.
Prescott was a bit hard done by on the lap, never seen that much standing water on the track before.

I have Look Keos. I think they fail on your cleats not made of cheese and easy to walk in criteria.

If I was buying again I’d get Ultegra SPD-SLs.

You want a local bricks and mortar print/copy shop for a job like that.

Or maybe Staples. They did a roaring trade in printing final year project reports and dissertations when I was a student.

Got a bit excited and ordered one. 139euro from Action Sports in Germany.

Goddammit.

I have one, but forgot about it and just bought £100 of stuff without using it.

annoying.

Dug up this thread from a few weeks back because a few of you have bought Hilo posts, just wondering if you have any thoughts on the hilo?

I’m thinking about picking one up and reviews are hard to come by.

Cheers,

I did a reading for my Grandfather. It was hard but I was glad I had done it. I’m accustomed to presenting to large groups and winging it in front of an audience. It was still hard.

My advice is to be totally clear about what you want to say, and write it down.
Practice to the point you don’t need the notes, but take them anyway – you may need them whilst up there.
If you get emotional and need to pause for a moment, just do it, the congregation will understand and you can carry on when ready.

Rugby tomorrow…
I’ve got tickets to England v France…

Happy days. :D

COMEONENGLAND!!!

DW

+1

It’s funny how many people confuse the speed they read on their cycle computer whilst barrelling along the flat, with their actual average speed.
I’m regularly rolling along between 20 and 25mph, depending on effort levels – 25mph is tough, on the flat bits of my london commute (road bike). But the actual average including traffic, lights, inclines is about 14-15mph.

Also I’m under no illusions that without lights I’d be wafting along at over 20mph, the lights give a handy rest so I can go faster on the bits when I am moving.

Hang on.

If I know that Nurofen is the same as generic Ibuprofen, and I am convinced beyond doubt of this fact. Then surely any placebo effect is not possible, or at least I would recieve the same placebo effect from taking the generic as I know it is the same, along with an added smugness factor cos I saved 40p per tab.

A placebo can surely only be in effect if you percieve there to be a difference between the tabs.

No.

I looked at one. Very heavy.
Went with a Genesis Aether in the end.

If you must have discs then I suppose it is a good off the shelf option. It won’t take a proper mudguard on the back, no eyelets, which limits it’s application as a winter roadie/commuter.

The vast majority of people couldn’t give a toss, except that we get an extra day off work this year :)

Some people are frothing about the ammount of public money they think is being “wasted” on it.
Some people are buying magazines full of guff about who will be designing her dress.

It is not all over the mainstream media by any stretch, I typically don’t hear about it at all day to day.

Personally, good luck to them. Not really bothered about the whole thing but wish them well.

Moss Bros have a new “bespoke” store, might be worth a look if you don’t want to go wild with the budget.
I use the inverted commas because they aren’t really bespoke at all, more made to measure.

What’s your budget?

Mate of mine once got asked in a restaurant to do something about his attire or leave. He was wearing this – http://images.esellerpro.com/2431/I/673/medscaleDSCF3341.JPG (SFW warning, picture contains rude word, hence not hotlinked). He ended up turning it inside-out for the duration of the meal.

Sadder than the tesco t-shirt. And I like Red Dwarf.

You really need to stop over thinking it, get in a pool and start doing some lengths. Take regular breaks at first and and build up the distance you take between breaks.
Practise breathing on both sides.
When you are a bit more comfortable in the water think about a lesson, my mate just did one with video capture and coaching, he said it was excellent.
If the swim is open water make sure you schedule in some open water sessions in a wetsuit (if it is needed for your event).

Apparently over half of first timers at triathlon swim breaststroke, so don’t worry too much about that. It’s always there to fall back on.

Oh, and ask on a triathlon forum. You’ll get better advice there than on a mountain bike forum.

Swimming is mostly technique, so whilst your fitness won’t hurt, it won’t help much either.

In my final year at school in 92′, we did a questionnaire on a computer which would then recommend an ideal career path. Then we would get a conversation with the careers advisor who gave us the results.

Apparently I should have been a bin man or a shoe repair man.

18 years later and I’m a senior project manager at a tier 1 investment bank…my current responsibilities don’t include refuse collection or shoe repair.

I think poor careers advice is why a lot of people end up unhappy in life…has careers advice improved in the last 18 years?

Poor school careers advice doesn’t seem to have affected you. I don’t know anyone who does what their careers advisor said they should. In fact I don’t even remember what I was told, it was such an insignificant event in my life.

I wonder if anyone has ever been told by a careers advisor that they should be a careers advisor?

Oh no! Lieveremont’s got something almost right. Maybe he was on here looking for pointers?

Monkeys with typewriters… Was bound to get something right eventually.
Still Chabal in for Bonnaire is a strange one.

Doesn’t take much imagination to work out why the Argies might have a teensy bit of a problem with the British, and by extension the English.

Cable pull.

Road levers pull less cable than MTB levers and the road BBs are designed to cope with this.

Mila Kunis = hotness

how long does it last?

The problem is that once it is opened it can absorb moisture, it then loses it’s resistance to heat and the water in the fluid can boil and cause spongey brakes. how long it lasts depends upon the conditions in which you can store it. Somewhere cool and dry it will last longer than somewhere warm and damp.
Unfortunately you won’t know if it has gone off until you are hooning down a descent and you can’t stop cos your fluid’s boiled.

The volume of the motor aisle bottle was added later in an edit. Though it was obviously a bigger bottle, was just taking the michael a little bit cos of the mistake in the original post.

But it’s lucky all you smartslow guys are around.

the car stuff will be a much bigger bottle

Thanks, Captain Obvious.

So the motor vehicle Dot 5.1 is 30p more expensive? Or am i missing something?

Dot 5.1 = Dot 5.1

How far are you commuting?

I really wouldn’t have thought something suitable for trials would be the same kind of thing you’d want for commuting, unless it’s only a very short commute.

What is this, a Ford appreciation thread?

Get some taste:

:twisted:

Open sandwich, open bag of crisps, take top layer of bread off sandwich, insert double layer of crisps, replace top layer of bread, eat.

This is a compulsion.

And my missus thinks I’m bad for buying bikes and bike stuff… I’m not in the same league, hell I’m not even in the same sport!

My first proper MTB was a Rocky Mountain tange prestige steel hardtail with Quadra forks 60mm travel, v-brakes, raceface and XT/XTR bits. I put some Judy DHs with 80mm on it with a coil spring upgrade. It was brilliant. I still have it in the basement and sometimes fantasise about buying some SIDs and building it back up, but with a disc on the front.

I’ve rationalised to one MTB and trying to get back to that light, capable hardtail bike. Going to be moving all my bits onto a steel frame and hoping it will be the modern equivalent of what I used to ride.

My winter bike has separate wheels to my summer one, does that count as a yes? :)

If I had one bike I’d get some cheap wheels with fatter puncture resistant tyres on for winter. Nothing worse than fixing a puncture in the rain and cold.

I use an Exposure Strada (Strada as in road…), it has a remote switch and cycles between dipped and full beam.
600 lumens is pretty bright but I probably wouldn’t give it full beans down an unlit hill. On the flat it’s fine.

Travis Rice is a legend. Can’t wait to see this.
Was hard to see how he could follow That’s It, That’s All.