ut im struggling to think of many activities we can do as a family while they’re here

In London? Really? All I can say is dont ever go to the mountains or sh1t or you will think you have been marooned and start calling 999.

If its impact damage then its not a warranty issue.

If its chainstay flex than it is.

For home repair I use West System Epoxy, piece of carbon cloth from Guildford Marine, and the tried and tested insulating tape with copious pin pricks.

On carbon that is a home repair if your opposing thumbs work.

It looks like impact damage, and no you wouldn’t notice that being done if it just lacquer damage, lacquer has no strength esp. no impact resistance.

The only question I would have only having seen photo is, as its drive side and there appears to be a vertical fracture line, is it suffering drive chainstay power stroke flex fatigue.

Bingo. Cheers ST and you lovely lovely Moderators :D

Fags,Mags&Bags-Build the Titanic

theflatboy – Member

Some of those names are surely made up… “Brill”, “Shoeburyness” and “Ongar”…

Really? Really?? FFS please tell me that was a Troll

I have access to 12″ disc cutter

Mask and goggles, plus tape up your collars and cuffs, that’s one dusty mess you are about to get covered in!

I have yet to fathom how she thinks or why she decides things suddenly become essential

I call it my wife’s radar, once its locked on…….

http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/homeandleisure/pollution/water/31424.aspx

Discharging into a storm drain is an offence.

depends on how good your mortar is, I find if its strong then good luck getting them all off clean, otherwise be prepared for some make good when the fracture line goes its own way. running a deep cut with a grinder is like glass or tile cutting – creates a weak seam for it break along.

irc – Member
Yeah, really worked preventing that head injury.

“Someone who had suffered this accident without a helmet would not have made it this far,” Dr Payen said

:roll:

ive got 9mm BT and 15mm, damned if I can tell the difference although DT forks have pretty blooming stiff arches

that and t’italian job, most excellent

What hubs do you have? If you can try a 9mm bolt through first, that should give you most of the extra rigidity on exisiting forks for that kind of riding. See if you can tell the difference.

Thanks chaps, I have my full wet kit with me today, so it does look like another wet visit to my local. I make no comment about my state of mind.

I think its already started, my house is full to top with stuff left around to be magically fixed. Seems they all need piling up in the mystical corner.
Forget Mojo and Loco and Pace, send your forks to me for natural low cost ju-ju repair, just don’t be in a hurry.

andrewh – so you think it’ll sort out my iphone I dropped in the bath and is currently in bits? Im thinking santa’s elves what with it being the season.

I have a couple of panaracer ribomo jobbies hardly used if you are interested

I am long overdue a NAS, mostly photos and musak and sh1te, so what are the votes for;
Synology DS213J
or
QNAP TS-212

or comparable suggestions

New RWS is better, aluminium handles, old style are probably make of bakelite or something.

Have to say however that I think DT forks are brilliant.

bokonon – did cross my mind, but not sufficient temp swing that you’d think would induce stress relief.

Or you crashed, bit stressed, probably in pain, high on adrenaline and can’t manage to screw in the fiddley bit. Months later, calm, collected and paying attention you can do it.

Psychosomatic damage? Hmmmm, now there’s a thought

Did you treat the thread with lube/ penetrating oil a few months ago?
Not this thread, obviously, the axle thread?

Deffo not, it has one of those DT Swisscheese RWS thingies, keep it well lubed or the handle snaps off when you look at it sideways.

my dads a doc. as kids when we needed stitching it was dining table and one spare family member per limb, serious. looking back it seems like napoleonic surgery.

I’ve had the needle treatment a few times (i’m a slow learner), but it all pails in comparison to having a dental implant. No pain but you lie there ‘feeling’ them cut the gum and then scrape it off your jaw, drill a hole then with a diddy little clicky wrench screw in self tapper implant – checking each quarter turn to make sure it hasn’t split the bone.

Sorrlly meant to turn rlight but my hand slripped.

sorry couldn’t help myself

Used to play Falcon on the Atari ST – great sim.
May try and track down a copy of 4.0 and have a fiddle..

I made a very long rs232 from wire, we slung it through upstairs window into downstairs and interfaced an atari and amiga running the original falcon (2.0?), for 2 player dogfights. Lordy it was street ahead of everything else.

Typical STW bunch of armchair CEOs and perfect little angels. Not the xmas school hols yet is it?. Well done Spech, dealt with an adult problem in an adult way.

What struck me is this statement, which is relevant to the regular ‘cheap carbon frame’ threads:

Sinyard explained the misguided action against the shop owner. “I still remember losing sleep about this guy who submitted a lawsuit to us and his face was completely destroyed and teeth knocked out,” he said.

“I felt sick about it and thought, how could our bike break? He sent the bike back and our engineers quickly realised it wasn’t ours, but you could hardly tell. Ever since then I’ve been rabid to protect the riders and our dealers who are selling the product.”

Shares are sharing the downside risk as well as the upside risk.

Loan is just that – it intends to get paid back no more no less (except interest) whatever happens.

What is your mates expectation? Is it that you will ‘see him right’ – i.e. he will get paid back regardless of how the business goes, but gets some bonus if it goes well? Which is best of both worlds and none of the ngative…..

The only question I would be asking someone in your situation (assuming he still isnt speaking to you) is ‘who is the provider of your PI insurance’ and also saying ‘I insist that you put your PI insurer notice of a potential claim on them from me’.
Then I would go and speak to a professional negligence/construction claims lawyer.
And check your contract with the architect.

Insurance is not an apportionment of liability it is merely a way of mitigating risk.

Building owner is liable in tort so sue him in the small claims. If daughter is fully comp you may have DAS cover or the like which should pursue recovery for you.

Oh, and…

Her car insurance, thats what its there for, and as an act of god it couldnt be insured against by the building owner.

hah, hah, hah, hah, hah! Her insurance is there to insure the building owner for acts of god eg? Is that the god of dilapidated buildings or the god of negligent landlords? This religion stuff is so confusing.

To be fair this guy really knows what he’s talking about, it’s got disc brakes and leather.

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/what-makes-the-new-hermes-bike-worth-11-200-hHH4BRv~SwGZhj3o8MS~MA.html

Jeepers, it seems the way to sell massively overpriced stuff to stupid rich people is to waffle on just like you have no real idea what you are selling.

Give the sellers only has classfieds history and is even dicking people around on that I would have thought ban hammer is in order.

the asthetic doesnt yank my chain and frankly its a menace to the local wildlife if the number of kamakaze birds round here are anything to go by and that’s only windows. just shows artists are like parents, any idiot can be one

“Letting Agent controls the money” Every day is a school day.

Check your tenancy agreement, a decent one will provide for return of deposit unless notice of bona fide dispute.

Otherwise, the LA can release the deposit on court order, and given the circumstances I would be going for a summary judgment.

Also check your RR agreement, as you undoubtedly paid them fees for setting up the agreement you have a contract you make be able to pursue them under – although it probably exclude this action.

if we didn’t allow any shareholders other than the government

that is the definition of nationalised industry.

Socialism doesn’t work for one reason alone – human nature. Same thing that creates wars, power and avarice corrupt.

Russia and China, those great bastions of communist equality are amongst the most corrupt and depraved countries.

Markets with some form of useful regulation are mostly the best compromise – something the boy george is suddenly very keen on this week.

So by that logic everyone could now buy 29er forks to put on our 26er XC bikes and it wouldn’t ruin the geometry at all, because that is exactly the same as what you are suggesting. Really?
I tried the bike myself with 26er forks and I could tell the difference, and it wasn’t good difference.
Maybe for boys who are doing more gnarly faster following gravity type sure (i.e. not XC), but not for XC in and out of trees and stuff.

ianv – Member

No need to get 24″ specific forks. Just put some normal ones on, they work fine and will last till the next bike.

Nah, everyones says that but I tried it and (my opinion) its b*****s, screws up the geometry – albeit I found that the GF forks were a lot shorter (and heavier) than the ones on a hotrock.

have you bled them?

I ended up building my own using a GF precaliber frame, hydro discs, custom wheels, shokpost, the world’s only (?) 24″ specific on-one carbon forks (shortened 29ers), isoflow cranks shortened to 145mm.
Toying with buying the 24″ specific air forks from one of the german online retailers.

Troll……or too stupid to be on the forum (and there is some serious competition around here

On second thoughts, we like shooting fish……

I hit a tree at BPW on 20th Sep, only properly back in action last week, and I got away lucky. Sh1t happens, you does the yumping and takes the knocks. Just dont bounce quite as quickly as I used to.
Get well soon *hands over virtual Lucosade and grapes*

crappy DT levers.
Im thinking of trying the novatec ones – only source I can find is cyclingdeal.au though…