galaxy is a tourer, hewitt cycles make some reasonable audax bikes, what’s your budget…?
http://www.aukweb.net is a good resource site, plus http://www.ctc.org.uk for routes

look at a good audax bike, only go for tourer if you’re looking at self supported camping etc… i bought my dawes audax 10 years ago to do lejog and its still going strong, very comfy, fit is important when you’re going to spend a long time in the saddle.

bet she’s a high maintenance nightmare

No i don’t think it makes you a heartless bast@rd etc… but find a pound down the back of the sofa and send it in.

how far south are you? get a ferry and drive to south of france with 4 mates, about the same in fuel, better riding?
more memorable?

make her a cup cake with a ring in it, ask her to marry you, (hope she doesn’t try and eat it breaking teeth)
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go to yha near coast pembrokshire is nice, beach drift wood fire, rug, bottle of wine, watch sun go down – ask her to marry you.
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Failing that go out get drunk come home bladdered, get in bed say will you marry me piss yourself
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Chances are she’ll take any of these options (well maybe not the last) and will cheer her up a bit.

The riders thought they were crushed. Shame it it was a stolen one…

Yardley you need to listen to Willie

Mrs Field is 3 weeks younger then me, I made us get married on a weekend between our birth days so that I could be 27 and she’d be 26 on wedding certificate to keep alive my younger woman fetish.

docs have the good drugs also which can mask pain…

I always liked Joyful Kilmarnock Blues

I think you’re stupid to get caught by a camera as you’re obivously paying attention to what’s going on outside the window, they’re big things with bright yellow stickers on them… if you can’t see a camera how can you say you’d stop for a kiddie in the road

Crikey, I know what its like to lose someone in a car crash my Dad died in a crash when I was 17.
I simply don’t believe that by having a lower speed limit or a speed camera on the road where he crashed that he’d be here now.

Speed cameras are a tax on he stupid true, but they penalise the majority because of a minority,
I drive 30-40k a year and have done for the last 15 years, I haven’t been stopped by the police ever, I’ve never got any points. I’ve tried to improve my skills and am prepared to take responsibility for my actions when I sit behind the wheel. I do not speed as a rule but there have been times when I’ve exceeded the NSL. I don’t believe that reducing the NSL on single carriage-way roads will have a dramatic impact on road safety. This can only come from better training and a change in attitudes towards other forms of transport.

There are many other large numbers of deaths each year from groups that could be saved for more easily and for less money, stats for 2007 – 15k from Mental & behavioral disorders…

Improving the health of the nation, by getting people out of their cars to walk or cycle will benefit more people and RTA stats then a mandatory 50 limit.

Its bad attitudes, lack of training, responsible behaviour that kills people on the roads, the billion spent to put in an average speed camera network could be better spent else where to have an equally if not better impact on saving lives – cycle network that actual makes average person consider it a form of transport rather then a sport helps cut obesity and strain on NHS.

I fear this is just another attempt to raise more cash or give people so many points that they save emissions by banning the vast majority of drivers.

I think you should have to have a re-test every 5 years and lose license if you fail.

Cars are getting safer every year and their ability to drive at 50 mph+ is light years away from when NSL was introduced, training and personal responsibility (life for death by dangerous driving etc..)

i have revs with maxle lite on an 08 frame, they suit me fine but can see why you want something larger

open office,
star office – open office with support
google docs

open office can save docs in word compatible format or pdf so no standards issues just user training.

So what about a first time buyer who saved hard for a £10k deposit, bought their first home for £100k and has now seen 20% knocked off the value meaning they’re now in negative equity?

But it doesn’t effect them at all unless they have to sell, just pay the mortgage and go and play with the kids ride your bike, etc… Pay off the mortgage at a faster rate if you want to and stop reading the daily mail.

I’m happy that I bought our house as a home not an investment, we don’t want to move and the fact that I can still pay the same amount of money each month but my mortgage can be paid off in half the time is a bonus.

Reducing debit is better then saving cash, but if you’re mortgage free and have cash in the bank, then spend some of it, buy something that will rise in value.

None of feels real to me, the interest people moan they aren’t getting could only be paid before on the profits of the silly deals done on mortgages. My house is my house, its only value is what someone is prepared to give me for it, the same as shares and most other investments. Negative equity only effects you if you have to sell

i was with more than and they took my old macbook pro away from me when my 2 yr old decided to squirt a bottle of jif into the keyboard, they gave me back the harddrive though

great way to get every nosey parker in the world to come to your gallery though….
free advert, all they need is an over priced farm shop and they’ll be even more minted in no time

Mine’s still dropping guaranteed to be 0.xx% above base rate for the length of mortgage, so I’m hoping for another drop

Parlee Z1 & TT
Custom Colnago c50
Colnago Master
Vanilla Touring bike
Moots Ti Hardtail
Moots Comooter
Kent Eriksen FS with Yeti ASR rear end
Serotta Custom titanium Tandem
Yeti 303-R
Yeti Carbon ASR
Cervelo Track Bike
Serotta Ti copy of Surly Big Dummy

All with XTR, Dura Ace expect Vanilla & Big Dummy with Rohloff

Windcheetah Recumbent
Cannondale Rize Team
Cannondale Scapel team
Cannondale Taurine team
Klein Adroit with green fade paint job

Double garage with fully stocked workshop to service the lot and an airline for tubeless tires

I’ve never broken a seatpost, everything else but never a seatpost, I’m a heavyweight but have always either had Race Face XO – sadly not made anymore 🙁 as loved the head on that one or Thomson.

I have appalling technique and can only guess that from all the comments above, the only reason i haven’t been skewered by a snapped piece of metal is because I’ve been buying decent seatposts

ahhh sorry hadn’t realized Juliana’s had gone up by sooooo much, but could maybe build up from a frame?

Orange diva or Santa Cruz Juliana are lovely, but my wife won’t let me buy here one. 🙁

You can try one at the weekend at Afan on one of their demo days here: Demo Day[/url]

Or as you have a specialized dealer near you:

If you can find the hole in the felt you can buy a tin of bitumen, you can get some that goes on cold and that should help seal the hole, trouble is finding it in the first place.

http://www.softwareparadise.co.uk

They can normally find most things

Theflatboy do you talk to them or just look at the web?

Collection means all my CDs, Stamps etc… not bikes. Their individual items or a collection of parts each bike you should get 4000 as standard. Then they will cover higher value items but you have to tell them what it is and pay more.

I got a nice crossly shed, its a wessex 10×7 or 8 can’t remember, its tanalised so should last a bit longer as the old one that was here when we moved in wasn’t quiet up to the job.

Old Shed

I just cut up some large planks of wood I had around and screwed them between the uprights. Got a shed shackle and jobs a good’un.

Easily takes the weight and plenty of space underneath…

Same happened to me so switched pronto to M&S Any bike up to value of £4000, you can have them insured for more but they have to be a separate item.

I was sad enough to get some custom hope discs with my name in them, they didn’t work very well either

Moses – thanks for the heads up on the focus, looks interesting, shame about the lack of mudguard / rack mounts but quite a deal

I think it was a repair, although the were brand new and never used in anger, they came out the shop like that, and just went back to shop and collected bike and thought nothing of it.

I’m loving the maxle lite compared to my quick release 08

my 09 revs had to go back as despite equal pressure in -ve & +ve and uturnwound out they got stuck at 110mm on the stanchions all sorted under warantee, they’re all lovely now never found out what caused it?

have a look at http://www.epic-cycles.co.uk they have some pretty mean builds for £1000 or less

All 17.5 stone of my on Alpe D’Heuz
I agree on the flat we larger lads can give some whippets a run for their money

what’s the bowl?

Jesus was a black man
No Jesus was Batman
No, no, no, no, not at all
That was Bruce Wayne

They’re great fun to drive, Gordon Murray the guy behind the McLaren F1 car loved his:

http://www.evo.co.uk/carreviews/evolongtermtests/56574/smart_roadster_brabus.html

Some people talk a lot of hot air, and suggest cars are somehow gay its because they are not self confident enough to get away with it and perhaps its because they question their own sexuality and somehow worry that if they bought this car that they secretly desire people will realize that their hidden secret that they really are gay. But they should just come out and get on with the rest of their life.

I bought my rotel setup from sevenoaks hifi, they were very good, I went in the week before said I wanted to try these amps, speakers and cd players in all combinations and they set it all up a week later for me to come in and try them all out, i had about 5 cds and played a couple of tracks from each.

I got completely paranoid as mate was ‘helping’ me spend the money and i though the whole interconnects, cd player costs etc… was all smoke and mirrors. I finally settled on b&w speakers and rotel amp & Cd player. But said to the guy I just don’t think you get any difference from a cheapy or really expensive setup.

He got a 50 dvd player out plugged into the same amp and speakers and it sounded awful then he got a £2500 cd player and said although you’d never put something this good through your amp or speakers. he played the same tracks on it. It was mind blowingly amazing, you felt like the band was right there in front of you, you could hear everything… Don’t underestimate the quality of the source.