druidh – Member
Are you using Windows? There's a very handy free Microsoft Powertoy which can do large batches at a selection of pre-determined and custom sizes.

http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/2/WXP/EN-US/ImageResizerPowertoySetup.exe

Doesnt work with win 7 :cry: .. cheers anyway

druidh – Member
Are you using Windows? There's a very handy free Microsoft Powertoy which can do large batches at a selection of pre-determined and custom sizes.

Yeah ..Win 7

Sorry to hear that mate , got made redundant myself last thursday ( 1st july) .. only just got back from the job center after my job seekers interview !!
£65 a week FFS !!

all the best for this afternoon

asgard ….. link not working

no worries … found it

Great vid , smooth for me , whats the tune ?

Got a small Titus Motolite that may suit her , email in profile if interested ?

90 days notice for any change to your terms and conditions …
55 hr weeks 8O 8O
Just lost my job and that was only 37 hr week !

neilb67 – Member
Sorry to hear this Tony. Personally I would just go in as normal and do your normal days stuff. Ive always thought never burn your bridges. You never know if or when they will be taking on again, thats if you want to go back. As for what to do next, I would get hunting straight away and dont be to hasty with spending your redundancy as you dont know how long you will be out of work.

Hope you get sorted soon mate.

Cheers for the comments …. dont think they will be taking on again as all the work is going to china … from next week the cab will be over 90 % chinese and a bag of crap …
Have spent most of the day loading press tools onto lorries to go out !!
By the end of july the work force will of been halved , with just over 60 lads left on the shop floor …..
Its a sad day when another british icon goes abroad !!

Excellent vid

Not mine , but my lads …… hasnt rode it much since he discovered girls !!

Also thinking of going out to see a couple of stages early on .
Im being made redundant on the 1st july , so this would give me a plenty of time to go out and have a watch :D
Anyone know if theres plenty of campsites out in france ?

grum – Member
Don't look at animal porn?

Sorry .. cant be helped !

scaredypants – Member

Drac – Member
I'll numb them for her

Probably best weigh them too – waaaaaaahhhhheeeeyyyyyy !

very heavy , as shes a big girl !

billybob – Member
Have you even got a wife? It's for you really isn't it? You can be honest here

Yes .. most definitely …. been together along time ..

Shack – Member
Still no pictures!

and there wont be any either ….. she`ll flip if she knows ive asked on here , let alone taking pics and showing them to all the pervs on STW

1 Titus motolite
1 on one 853 SS
1 on one slotted inbred
1 on one scandal in pink
2 giant road bikes …. ones on the turbo trainer

£4.78 …. enough for my milk and paper everyday on the way to work ..

Have a look at all terrain cycles at there handsome dog xc03 frames , … crap name , but when my lad was growing up , the 14" was perfectly good enough for and only £60 !!
Bargain

What .. no pictures of the new On One carbon yet ??
That is well fugly !!

Hate it more than anything ,
Bunch of useless overpaid pussys …. lame excuses all the time , like ive bruised my big toe , or ive chipped a nail ….
How can anyone be worth 100k a week !! FFS
cant wait until we get knocked out and get back to normal..
Rant over

Frame is truly awful … looks even worse built up
Rocky mountain looks great , on one = not great

My 26ers are the same

What were on-one thinking by going with that colour logo on a black frame ??? … cheapest option = biggest mark up ?
It looks F*****G crap …..
I wont be buying one now ive seen the final product !

On One seem to of lost there way lately … need to go back a bit and start again ..

I Like that :-)

I was about to ask a similar qustion :D
looking for somthing water proof to shove in my back pocket ..
Cheers OP

Had my AT Risk letter 3 weeks ago , and i`m offically out of work on the 1st of july .. :D
cant say im upset .. 12.5 years service .. time to move on and see what new bikes i can get with my money !!
Looking for power press setting work in the birmingham area …… (long shot i know !!) or any manual work ..

Pitto – Member
Sound, cheers for that. So if the colour is in the lacquer of a flam what happens as the frame gets scuffed etc. Does it start looking tired. What stands the test of time better? Metallic or Flam?

Id say a metallic will age better , as a flam is a coloured lacquer over the top of a silver base ,the paint layers get quite thick and the thicker the paint , the easier to chip

layers go:
etch primer – primer – metallic colour – clear lacquer
or
etch primer – primer – sparkle silver – flam colour – clear lacquer

Flams do look very good at first , alot depends on what bike its going onto ?? .. mtb or road bike and how you treat them ?? .. if you just throw your bike around id look into powder coating instead as this is much harder wearing … if you prize your bikes like me, id go stove enamel , as the colours and designs are endless ..
Have been out of painting bikes for 10 years now , but i`m about to be made redundant from the the job i left cycle painting to go to , so ive been thinking of spending some of my redunadancy money and maybe starting painting again ?
Some of the refurb companies seem to make a alot of money for a respray !!, thats over double and tripple to what we were charging 10 years ago …

rudedog – Member
I've bought a few items from Jenson USA and have luckily avoided import duties so far – its just luck whether customs check the box or not

How long has it been ?? .. i thought that , then the fedex envelope dropped through the door !!
Import duty is 4.5 % , then vat and then the handling charge of around a tenner

Was a cycle painter myself for many years , so here goes
Flams are different to metallics in that metallics have the silver or sparkly bits as part of the color itself .
with a Flam they use a sparkle silver as a base coat first and then put a Flam over the top , a flam is basically a coloured lacquer, so you get a deeper/richer color with a Flam .. you can darken a flam color …. just by adding a extra coat … You`ll probably find also that the Flam color will be slightly darker at frame intersections where the color over laps….
Flams do look good in the sun though , with the sparkle coming through the color …

Just got my lad a Seagate 1 TB external drive for £65 from ebuyer .. superb

Stunning place lake garda , stayed there last year (fornella), went to visit the daughter as she works for eurocamp and is based at lake garda, hopefully get out there again this year

where abouts are you thinking of visiting ???

Top of the lake is where you find all the cyclist , plenty of roadies and mtb-ers :D

while your there make sure you take the cable car from malcesine up to the top of mount baldo …. fooking amazing scenenary

have alook at eurocamps website as they allow people on there sites with there own tents etc

We took 3 leisurly days to get there from the uk , plenty of stop overs on the way

You and the family will love it :D

it was well into the high 30s when we were there , the car did read 47 degrees one day ?? .. but not sure that was right ?

Best feeling in the world :D

Use control tech on most my bikes , nicely machined and a bit cheaper than thomson :D
I have a 31.6 control tech team issue going spare if interested ?
350 mm long
email in profile if interested ?
cheers

I have a Bell sweep , and find it excellent fit and ventilation ,
Much better fit than my giro and met
looking at another bell helmet for the road bike

Ive still got a set of merlin wheels that i had built in 2004 , and apart from a new free hub and re-grease are still going strong !!
Only used on my occasional use bike now :D
would recommend

cool video :D

+ Kyle straits , bought some myself 2 weeks ago after taking a big chunk out of my knee at cannock
rode the week after with the pads and they were great to ride in , much more comfortable than i thought they would be

Great event, well organised and great to ride , plus excellent weather.
Did find it hard , buit still enjoyable
Cheers Graham :D

Myself and my lad are in and i cant wait :D
Just need to finish building my green inbred tomorrow and ill be ready for it ..
If you see a pink on-one scandal and a moss green on one inbred , that`ll be us !!
Give us a shout

Finish building my moss green inbred tomorrow , then a 4 hr trailquest sunday over severn valley way , on my newly built inbred