Threads won’t have stretched, assuming no weak point in the metal any stretch will occur at the narrowest point of the least supported part – so the first thread root after the head/shoulder (or any of the following threads not engaged in the stem threads). If it did stretch its most likely to be elastic, and as one of those bolts is probably enough to take all the transmitted loads and there are 4 you are quite safe. Probably.

The contractor/bank did not have title to sell the scaffolding, in theory if builder can find out who it was sold to he can go and take it back, new ‘owner’ doesnt have ownership as title didnt pass – in theory – same as someone selling a lease car or stolen goods.

It will be very hard to show theft, you (prosecuting authority) have to prove dishonest intention at the time of sale – all contractor has to plead is stupidity and ignorance, which wont be hard.

Bank and contractor though have committed tortious acts agaisnt builder, builder should engage solicitor and commence proceedings against bank, they will cave in eventually.

In times of recession infrastructure repair is first to be cut, as the tax/rates income isn’t enough to cover all budget needs, road repair has to make way for spending money on other public expenditure. You may be able to afford 500 quid wheels but the council don’t have the money to maintain velodrome flat roads. It’s all well saying council were negligent but if they can’t afford to maintain all the damaged road shouldn’t you recognise that and ride/use appropriate equipment. Ride a fat bike, you get the same exercise after all.

Novatech seem to have added what looks like a steel shaft key, mill one of the teeth and fit the key, seems like only need the one to stop the biting

Just strip some wheels and rebuild with mtb hubs, I just did this with 24″ using haro spokes from Billy’s and couple of hubs I picked up cost me about 50 quid built!

Would a jugde find that the new information/facts materially alter the basis on which you agreed your compromise settlement? Probably not, they only re-inforce the fact that the frame was substandard, whether for materials, workmanship or design, and you accepted a consideration for that.

I am afraid that objectively it appears that you think that you too hastily entered into a less than acceptable deal, and now want to re-negotiate that deal (this is not a criticism).

I think it is shoddy from Cotic, but that is the deal you made. You could have got a better deal if you had paid for legal advice, but would that have cost you the same overall?

Someone will buy the Soda off you, what size is it?

20 yrs ago my neighbour had his ford orion boot knicked. To do this they carefully removed rear screen (from the outside) and dropped back seat to slide under and unbolt boot lid – all in a suburban north london street at night under a street light, without disturbing a soul.

A frikking Orion, and after they had ceased production FFS.

Other neighbour found car hardly balanced on 2 bricks under the sill (one on top the other) and 2 alloys missing. Stupidly after putting 2 temporary steel rims on it she parked it the other way round and 3 days later….you get it. The even used the same 2 bricks which she had just left in her front garden!

Has the offer you accepted been completed?

SA is part of quite normal skin flora, and its only a worry if it gets past the skin and colonises (same for MSRA). If you have a rash that is being scratched then all the antibioitics are doing are killing what got inside, not all of it and it can recolonise if the broken skin isnt healed. The re-infection may also now be resilient to the erythromycin, or could be an opportunisitc different infection agent. You need to swab and get path lab to culture and tell you what it is and what antibiotic resistance / sensitivity they have.
But you need to clear up infection and clear up rash to stop recolonisation, steroid cream promotes skin recovery but cut their fingernails right back to stop scratching and use both steroid and I would suggest maybe consider an atopic antiseptic as well. Also try and get as much air to it – dresses not trousers etc. I have ecsema and I use ointment not cream, I find it harder wearing and less itchy -the 1% hydrocortisone available over counter is sufficent for this purpose.
Make sure your girls take any antibiotics at the times required and for the full course, stopping early creates greater risk of resilience building in the SA flora on their bodies.
I’m not a doctor but after 35 courses of antibiotics during my daughters short life I have learned a bit.

So to be clear, your neighbour wants to put his bin store on your land?

What trouble can you possible see ahead?

Dont do it, or if you do, do it formally with a Licence to Occupy and take some rent money off him each year.

Just get started and we’ll let you know when we get bored, lots of pics, a blog of the resto would be nice.

Enough with bike pics already, now about that awsumz Nissan :wink: of yours, where do you want to start?

+1 for Photoshop. Free spare useless broken frame

FTFY

home science experiment – hit a flat spot in TT & DT with hammer or whatever then bend it back and forth and see frame fatigue in action!

Gorgeous George somehow looks like he should have been a character in Snatch

IP rip off, fair enough but I dont see any ethical manufacturing committment on the TLD website so all that extra money you pay is in their pockets not a premium paid partly for them to invest in their supply chain to ensure it wasnt produced by child labour in a sweat shop.

I have since bought them from lyn-hotstore

Hmmm I think this might be promoting them?

I think you should re-close the thread, only because it should send toppers into a tail spin, despite also reinforcing flash’s sense of self-righteousness.

Keep making her laugh, annoys the hell out of my wife that she can’t keep serious annoyed face!

I have Bfe and would not use for that length of riding on that terrain – I am not fit enough. If I were to go 29er, Tallboy is my first choice. You will adapt pretty quick. Do it because a FS will simply make the 6 days much more enjoyable, its a holiday not an endurance test.

You did the Mr Nice Guy, so first geet your forks back and then issue a small claim against them.

Sorry but if you MTFU and go on the attack you will win, if wou keep faffing around and moaning, they will win.

to misquote a phrase ‘that denial is useless without evidence’ and ‘must have’ is not a known empirical demonstration of fact, so unless they can do better it is ‘ollocks and response sould be’OK lets put it before a judge in (my local) court and see if he thinks I am a liar and believes your so called engineering analysis, or whether he thinks I am an honest punter and you have tried to fob me off’

You absolutely must get the forks back first.

Hmmmm. Where, what and why? I’m driving to Salzburg at the weekend and you cant be too far from me…..

Wowzers, when I mentioned I carried this stuff inc foil blanket couple of years back I got well flamed!

Been there, done that. Cheap old dead hub for donor to rejuvenate XT hubs! Keep a spares box of cups drifted from dead hubs, spare cones and balls from Petra Cycles.

:roll:

Combination of small kids and my wife and I have probably had more washing machines than cars. So my advice….

Large load capacity (7kg)

High spin speed (1600rpm)

Avoid elelctronics like the plague. You dont need a ‘computer’ to do a bit of washing. electro-mechanical timers simply do not break, LCD sh1t do, and for 99.999% of the poulation 99.999% of their washing is done on 1 or 2 basic settings.

make sure its got a pre-pump gunk trap you can get at from the front.

dont bother commecting the hot tap, just the cold.

that is all.

No difference except if you are not beneficiary you can witness the will. Either way inheritance tax applies, its is quite usual though for money to be in trust administered by parents until kids come of age (18 or 21) for obvious reasons.
Better still is if possible your Dad starts to gift assets/money each year, that will reduce tax liability.

Dead simples. Rule of thumb, if you pay more, there is more time available for chasing others on your behalf. If you pay more but other side doesn’t, then your guy/gal will run around in circles waiting.

If you pay cheap price, you only paid for doing the paperwork, you did not buy any chasing up time. Paperwork written, put in post – ignore until it boomerrangs back. If it doesnt boomerang then nothing happens.

Decent estate agents employ chasers. They ask for contact details for everyone and from the go get they phone every f****r involved every few days until the deal is done and they get their fee. Anyone holds it up gets hassled until they pull their finger out.

If you are coming from M40 way then you want trainlines into Waterloo (IIRC roughly between M4 & A3!). Train much quicker than tube. From M40 I would suggest go to somewhere like Egham, takes you into Waterloo, take Waterloo & City (not sunday) to Bank, then 1 stop or walk to St Pauls.

Depends which mainline station you want to arrive/leave London. London bridge Charging cross Victoria Waterloo or paddington?

Are you asking which is the least worst? because the Best Choice would obviously be a 26er :x

scottrider – Member
I put these on my daughters Scott Spark 24″ bike:
http://www.bike-discount.de/shop/k1024/a57905/f1rst-air-24-mtb-federgabel-schwarz.html?mfid=557
not that cheap, but work, have canti and disc mounts.

OMG! It doesnt matter how hard you try, someone on STW always out ‘Googles’ you!

Scott – I take it these provide some actual usable suspension then?
I’m pretty sure these are what Isla and Scott are using.

I’m doing this too (GF Preclaiber)

The only 24″ ones seem to be the ones Scott use on the high end 24″ bike and what Isla are using on their bikes. I cant find them retail anywhere, too expensive anyway.

I have tried some 26″ air forks and it makes a dramatic difference to the rake, puts an XC bike into AM maybe DH terrritory. Adults might not think its so bad, but if you think of it in % terms for a kid, actually its a huge difference (for example, the weight of the average half decent bike for a young kid is something like 45% of their body weight, compared to 17% for an adult).

I have some 26″ carbon forks, the rake is still the same so i’m going to cut them down and re-bond them (yes I do have a clue what i’m doing).

Ergo – best option out of the box is but some 24″ carbon forks from Exotic.

Rims? Dont get me started on rims……

Road tyre tread is designed to allow a certain amount of water to be transported out of the way from a smooth surface when the tyre pushes into it, aquaplaning is where a tyre is overwhelmed by the volume of water and is in effect waterskiing on the water.

MTB tread of course totally different, is designed to allow the tyre to dig in and grip on an uneven loose surface, a bit like studs on a snow tyre.

A road tyre that is not aquaplaning but is loosing grip due to wet surface is merely slipping, technically it is probably experiencing hydrodynamic lubrication.

To minimise aquaplaning on the road you probably want skinnier tyres – more concentrated weight will cut through the water better and less ‘ski’ area. The issue for TdF riders will be that they are not comfortable/experienced in sliding and their bikes like modern F1 cars are not designed for sliding, their high psi fast rolling tyres have a kife edge of grip in corners, so they want wider tyres to make their bikes more slip tolerant with a lesser kife edge of grip — and to make them feel more confident.

That’s my tuppence anyway.

Legally? – google Ruxley Electronics and Construction Ltd v Forsyth.

Difference to you? I bought, and then for just one reason re-sold a carbon Scott Genius : the low BB meant just too many pedal strikes for comfort. Fantastic bike did everything I wanted except this one thing.

I think it makes a big difference, but whether the world at large does and you can get a replacement is another matter.

Rich business man, wife younger than his daughter, gets things done ?

Yup, and like most of his ilk, 2nd wife & kids got nearly all of the money!

Wasn’t the other person that ‘got things done’ that Bernie seemed to admire an certain National Socialism leader?

rejoins his mates….

*Dude, where’s your can? The one you wears on yer head that scares away all dem cats?*
“Man, I jus got mugged, strollin along mindin mah own business, stoopid cats couldnt touch me and then all sudden like this real big, real uuugly mother grabs mah can and shakes it right off me”
*Goodam, dem hoomans is jus a mean teifing bunch of….*

I did one earlier this year in Guildford.

The AA bloke had a rather comedy, slightly partonising presentation style BUT I thought he and it was enlightening and effective and I now think everyone should have to do it.

I would happily go back again.

tax avoidance under immunity

The German courts cannot grant immunity on behalf of HMRC.

Rememeber, there are 2 issues here – the German court is indicting him on bribery – they say the payment is bribery for the CVC share sale, not a blackmail payment.

The tax avoidance is an HMRC issue, compeletely separate.

know that it was what he did that allowed him to be blackmailed that is illegal and he has confessed

No Junky, you are summarising across different facts.

You may avoid tax, you may not evade tax. The point is did Bambino legitimately avoid tax because Bernie in fact disassociated himself from the money? or was it evasion because behind the scenes Bernie was in some way shape or form influencing control over the Trustees?

HMRC may investigate and may well find that Bernie did nothing illegal.

What Bernie was trying to avoid was a report which suggested there was smoke only – it did not however say there was cfire.

You ask anyone self-employed on here who has had an HMRC investigation and they will tell you why Bernie wanted to avoid it – they make life hell regardless of guilt or not.

BTW. I’m not in any way defending him, i’m just explaining the story!

Surely he did something illegal because if the blackmailers claims were not true then he could not have been blackmailed
In his essence he either bribed – illegal – or gave into blackmail – committed tax fraud and illegal

Not seeing his legal get out here tbh

The Gribowsky report does not prove tax fraud – it merely raises a suggestion. Bernie giving in to the blackmail is not illegal.

As an aside.
When I worked in Germany bribes were still legal and tax deductible, as long as the person been bribed was not in the EU… Which is why the company I worked for used its German company to expand its Eastern Europe operations.

Google Siemens + FCPA…..

In the Gribowsky trial he said he had felt menaced – in the same way someone asks you for money and tells you they know where your kids go to schools- cue court room ROFL.

You have to laugh – surely its normally Bernie doing the menacing. Ironically he want his epitaph to be ‘mr handshake’ – as in the guy that could be trusted on a handshake. But read his biography, No Angel, and its abundantly clear that the polar opposite is true. Fair play to what he achieved, but the means dont justify the ends and money only buys so much respectability.

Anyway, back to the OP – Bernie is claiming he paid the money demanded by Gribowsky as a payment to stop Gribowsky giving HMRC a report he had comissioned that suggested the transfer of Bernie’s wealth to the Bambino trust was a sham and in fact Bernie still controlled the trust indirectly – if Bernie did still essentially guide control the trust he is liable to tax, if he was truly disassociated from the money then he isnt. In this case Bernie did nothing illegal – paying a blackmailer – and this is his story.
Howoever the indictment is that the money was actually a bribe for Gribowsky, who controlled the BayernLB shares, taken over in the Kirch media collapse, in F1 Management parent company(SLEC), to sell them to CVC at a good price. Which is bribery.

I alway had in my mind that I9 hubs were the nuts, but seeing as no one mentioned them I guess not!