You need to know who it was to do anything about it. Unless you have some ID for him no point in reporting it.

If he won’t give you a name and address you have to either follow him to his car or home. thats what I would do.

Get a decent pump? But yes they are available. Its just a bit of brass with an internal thread in presta size and an external thread in Schrader size.
Google is your friend. (google presta valve adaptor schrader)

IME they are not always terribly reliable tho – due to the lengths of the threads being different on different tubes.

On the tandem we could bend the Dirt jumper fork about 1 1/2 inches back towards the bike under braking. It was funny watching the front wheel bend back towards me. Not so bad with the Z1 although you can still see it. Try holding the brake on and push your bike forwards – its amazing how much they bend.

Flex is a part of the feel – and different folks prefer different feel. In motorcycle racing the tendency recently has been to introduce controlled flex into frames – as suspension does not work when leaned right over so frame flex has to absorb the bumps.

MrKrabbs – I take it you mean photovoltaic? Water heating solar panels are just plumbing

Can I have that framed coffeking? TJ makes sense shock horror!

until the last few years I always went out on my own. Never even gave it a thought.

Flaperon – our incoming water is about 2-3 degrees at this time of year.

My parents got a useful preheat out of theirs in a scpttish winter – no question.

Curry mile in Rusholme.
http://www.rusholmecurry.co.uk/

And all people in the medical world make these sorts of decisions all the time. I personally have done so – not just not to resus but to stop treatment or to use opiates to relieve suffering despite them hastening the end.

My own views are at one end of the acceptable spectrum but I am content within this. I will make these decisions according to my own beliefs, the known wishes of the person involved and those of their families based on a medical assessment.

I clearly remember one case of a chap in a nursing home whos family insisted that no effort be spared. This wish was respected. I found him one day obviously dying – not asystolic but clearly dying. 999 was called and paramedics attended – they asked me why I called them – I explained and the poor chap was intubated, dripped and carted of the A&E where he died. He did go asystolic in A&E and CPR was attempted but he died – as we all knew he would. What a horrible way to die. He could have died in peace in his own bed with his loved ones around him but instead died in A&E with folk jumping on his chest and with needles being poked into him.

My parents had a couple of solar panels – in summer they required no extra water heating unless 2 baths were taken in a day. Even in winter (in Scotland) they got about 8 degrees C rise in the water at a minimum- so less energy to get a bathfull of hot water. Capital outlay was repaid in about 10 yrs

There are many cases where CPR is not advisable. I personally would never CPR someone unless 02 was available and I actually saw them collapse. (assuming asytole)and I would defend that decision in court as my professional judgement. I have done CPR quite a few times and have never seen a positive result. unless continuing on a ventilator brain dead for a month is considered a positive result. Too often CPR is molesting a corpse. I’d rather die with dignity thanks. I am considering having “NFR” (not for resus) tattooed on my chest.

Survival rates post CPR are very low unless the person involved is actually in hospital when they arrest and there is an obvious and easily eversible cause.

On the surface it seems in this case the paramedics based their decision on social rather than medical factors – BUT WE DO NOT KNOW THE WHOLE STORY.

I just had a look at my solo and the components on it and weighed it again. Its an old skool raleigh titanium. 27lbs with full mudguards and bottle racks. Easy to loose a pound and a bitfrom the fork – as it has a set of pikes on it – I wanted 20mm axle and they were cheap second hand. I have other forks (mxpros) which are more than a pound lighter(but QR) dt5.1 rims are a bit more than I need as well – another bit to lose there if I got lighter rims, tyres are wire bead conti 2.3s.
So in race trim (!!!) with the mxpro on it, and lighter tyres 24 lbs is easily within reach – and thats with the 5.1 rims still.

Pants on fire – tyres? I have some tyres that are much heavier than others – could be a couple of pounds there

My dad was into RSF stuff in the 50’s and so as soon as I started riding a bike in the early 70’s I stated going off road on a modified roadbike. then my dad bought a mountainbike in the late 80’s / early 90’s to get to the more remote Munros and I had a shot on it. I was amazed how much easier offroading was on wide tyres with low gearing so I got one.

My dad took a 29er singlespeed* across black sail pass in the mid 50’s

*known as a bike in those days.

Take it easy – let someone know where you are and when due back. Don’t worry.

Look out for punctures – we were getting them every mile! Bleeding thorn bushes

Its a bike – so what?

Yes. Very easy. Undo top cap, bit of plastic tube over the bleed nipple. Pull lever, open then close bleed nipple. release lever, repeat. every 4th pull of the lever refill the reservoir with fluid. Wind the reach adjuster right out to get more travel on the lever.

2nd carbisdale – although its a fake Victorian castle not a real one – but it is amazing place.

google gave me this http://www.celticcastles.com/

Tis another post on this. Its leasing not selling – not the same thing at all.

If you are measuring calories burnt of a HRM it will have little relevance. I would be very loathe to draw any conclusions from such an estimation of calories burnt.

Online is just a slightly exaggerated version of the real me. I am a bit argumentative and do have a viewpoint rather a distance from most folk.

You forgot ambientxc jeycore lite.

Its all marketing bollox.

How did you measure the calories used?

there is a button to press in paintshop pro that does it but you have to pay for PSP

Decent guards do work. I like to go into pubs during and after rides – its nice not to have mud all over you when you do this. Makes cleaning the bike easier as it is not so dirty.

IMO riding without guards is just daft – why be wetter and muddier than you need to be.

its not a fashion parade. Mudguards all the way.

Only those who lose wars are war criminals. If you win you are not prosecuted

I very much doubt the scottish guy will win his case – seems without merit to me.

yup – me too

In Scotland you cannot stop folk riding on your land.

Solo MTB about 26 – 27 lb with bottle racks and mudguards and b1g tough wheels

Tandem around 50lbs

My commuter around 30lb. Mrs TJs commuter around 26lb

All weighed on bathroom scales so accuracy will be low.

As for weight making little difference I was surprised how much it does make. a mate has a lightweight 22+lbs bike and a 30+lb bike I can keep up with him when he is on the heavy one but not when he is on the light one when climbing. This difference is about 4-5% of the total all up weight of rider and bike.

All my bikes have to be carried up 106 stairs at the end of each ride so weight is important to me. 25lbs is the ideal weight iIMO – 30+lbs is far too heavy

Ro – about the most sensible thing on this thread. Much of what is done in performance training and nutrition is not evidence based – IE proper double blind controlled studies as it is very hard if not impossible to do so. I have looked for evidence for much of what is claimed and found it impossible to find.

Leasing and selling are two rather different things. As for access to the trails they have to continue with it – its the law up here. Access can only be removed for logging and the like.

Geoffj – did you used to be florabank? The folk I might be pitbitching for are very disorganised and are not clear yet how many pitbitches they need. I probably will be going up tho and will give you a shout if more help is needed.

Its not much of a spectator event but IMO its the one event where good support crew are needed and surely someone needs a pitbitch.

In my case it was a repair of a previous failed root canal treatment – 2 appointments of an hour each, titanium pins inserted and a build up with amalgam – 2 more appointments, temporary filling and white crown, 2 more appointments. 6 hrs of dentistry, several hundred pounds worth of hi tech stuff and a private porcelain crown which is a couple of hundred to make.

It all depends on many factors. I paid around £1000 to have a root canal and crown fitted

If you want ethics then capitqalism is not the game to play. John Lewis and Co op are the best of the ethical retailers as they play the co op game – nbot the capitalist one.

I would take a slightly different view to the others here. think of the dog not yourself. Imagine you were the dog – would you want to continue? Is the dog suffering or miserable?

From the description of how he is if I was in the situation the dog is I would want to be put down. Sometimes the hardest and bravest decision is the right one. Only you can know for sure but think of it as going out as world champion rather than hanging on for comeback after comeback getting slowly more pathetic.

Put the dog first and make your decision on what the dog is feeling – not you or your family. I have seen people be too soft to have a pet put down and left it suffering for months.

No recourse I am afraid unless she has been employed for more than a year and a day. Pay in lieu of notice as per contract – thats the lot.

kinda – nightrider measure actual output -not theoretical max. I have compared other lights against theirs and guestimate from there.

Very much a guestimate but my “720l” triple was not as bright but a similar beam patern as their 500l light.