Get a taxi. It’s expensive but surely worth it ?

This seriously, I can’t think of a situation where spending a few quid could be more justified.
But, get them to talk to their GP. They might very well qualify for patient transport. Theoretically a transport ambulance might be sent, but more likely volunteer ambulance transport car, or whatever taxi company has the contract. I worked for a company who had this and used to transport transplant patients all over the country.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/38364668

All is revealed.

To answer your question, any good shop would do the work and supply you with the bike as requested. Would it be cost neutral ? To find that out you’ll have to ask around. Don’t worry about wasting people’s time it’s their job. I’m assuming there’ll be at least some chance of you ordering a bike.

I’m happy to put the bike in if the job is pain but I reckon I can bleed the back brake quicker than the time it takes me to drive to the LBS and back.

This, all for freeing up time, but two trips to the lbs (assuming they didn’t do it whilst you waited) could have got you a ride in.

Good god, you need advise about what soft drink you should buy. There’s no one thing that will be available everywhere, just pick the least nauseating thing available !!

Everyone in the taxi household has had proper flu. I was of the bike for 3wks had a ride back of for another 2. Just feeling better now 😀 Mrs taxi coughed so hard she detached a rib from her Sternum 8O.

Google retro furniture shops ( trendy one’s, not junk shops ) ask them if they have one. If not do they get them in and how much you might have to pay for one.

To those who see this as petty – in some ways it is. However its also symbolic of a disdain for ordinary people and a sense of entitlement which is why its the sort of thing I would challenge

Wow !!! keep on fighting the man tj.

But why have any cut of point. A £30 voucher is just that in 20yrs maybe all it will buy is a packet of crisps in the cafe. But they’d have had £30 for 20yrs to help develop their business. Vouchers are hardly ever a direct exchange for particular goods or services, just monetary value that can be redeemed.

Post up a pic of the Mayors car, your full email and the full response from the councillor. Without all of that how can anyone come to any sort of opinion.
To tell you the truth I’m finding it hard to imagine someone writing to anyone about how their car was parked on private ground. So I’m tending to lean to the councillors way of thinking.

Waterworld.

I guess the moral is sort it out before it expires… a year is a decent length of time IMO

why though ???? how would you feel if you put a £20 in a draw and it “expired”. Bpw have had the money and given nothing back in exchange. How is it anything less than an indefensible ripoff.

@reggie. No one disputes their right to issue vouchers with an expiry date. Only whether it’s right to do so. BPW could easily choose to have a 2 year limit a monthly deduction after 1 yr to take inflation ect into account, or have no time limit like some retailers. The fact they don’t is a discredit to them, so I say shame on BPW 🙁

I don’t think I’ve ever “upgraded” as such. But I do like to change my bike from time to time, so I run with whatever it has already fitted. When stuff wears out it just gets replaced like for like. Currently both my bikes are 29er’s which I do like, my newer one is 1×11 which is fine but I do prefer the 2×10 on my other bike, not so much that I’d change it though.
I suppose if all I wanted was a functional bike I’d be like the Op, but I get bored well before anything I’ve had gets obsolete.

I share the sellers position.
+1000
Come on Op really !!

Oh and Garry the buyer has lumbered himself…

^^^this
We’ve all bought stuff that on reflection isn’t quite right for us.
cynic-al isn’t Tesco’s it’s up to the new owner to decide what they do with their bike. It’s no longer any of cynics business.

I wouldn’t refund ? Once it goes out the door it’s his bike, why would you buy a bike identical to the one you’ve just sold 😉
If I sell anything I’ve listed on ebay for cash I just cancel the listing, bit of an error there cynic !

Sounds a good film and I’m sure to watch it at some time. But with regards to heroism. I’m sure the pilot showed good judgment and exceptional skill in landing the plane. But to be a hero surly there has to be choice, he had no option to do anything other than what he did. First and foremost the pilot was saving his own life, absolutely nothing wrong with that, but it was an act of survival. I’m sure he had great concern for his passengers but it’s not as if he could have turned his back and walked away.

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I was going to buy a pair the last time they were in a sale

Keep seeing images like this though, so wont be

If you googled you’d find even more pictures of mashed alloy rims.

For what it’s worth I largely agree with you Op. But Singletrack is a business, and there’s a large thread detailing how they might have to shut up shop 🙁 like it or not there seems to be an interest in ebikes. Perhaps that interest is what’s needed to keep them in print.

Is your van a campervan/motorhome on the log book ? It’ll make a huge difference if it is. My 26yr old t4 costs me £135 with 13yrs+ no claims and tpft.

Totally middle aged here. But sod that inside I’m the same as I was 30yrs ago, I wore chinos then and I were then now. They’re a pair of trousers not a statement !!!

I use this guy for my MX stuff. If it’s suspension he’ll do it.

http://moto-pro.co.uk/index.php?route=common/home

I expressed a preference to be called Sir, but it never caught on for some reason 🙁 so it’s always been Dad, at least within earshot !!

We’ve done this topic to death before. The only abuse, narrow mindedness and bigotry I have seen comes the “anti-religious” posters. STW as a whole has effectively become an unsafe place for people of faith. As I said it’s the very worst of the place.

This is very true, and I say that as a person without religious faith. There also the most boring. I only dip in hoping someone has something new to say but no its the same old bores going around and around trying to out bore each other.

@cougar. Every time someone says or implies that a belief in God makes them a fool and stupid that’s your abuse right there. 🙁

Get the dpf removed and get the ecu mapped so the light doesn’t come on. I know your not supposed to but nobody checks. Your call on the enviromental impact of this.

My hands get to hot in anything other than a 3 season glove. If it was to cold for them I wouldn’t go out 🙁

I always take my own saddle and pedals, have thought about tyres as well but never bothered in the end. But no reason why you shouldn’t if you have a real preference.

Your a very moderate drinker, I thought you were going to say 4-6 pints a night 4 or 5 times a week, with a large brandy/single malt night cap most nights. Not because I need to but because I bloody well enjoy it 😀
But enough of my drinking habits, have a proper chat with the Mrs, try and get to the bottom of her concerns, they aren’t reasonable IMHO.

I’ll be hiring PeterPoddy if Mrstaxi ever throws the why do you love me question at me 😀

Would another £850 car have 12mnths mot, a new clutch, tyres, discs ect and just been through a garage ? Any old car is a gamble but at least with this one you know what has and hasn’t been done.

Why don’t you put together your own package. Easyjet fly to Insbruck, avoid w/end flights and you’ll save a packet, travel Republic for transfers and select accommodation from booking.com to suit your budget. Don’t get sucked into thinking you have to go 5 star everything, your there for the snow and the apre ski. Who gives a stuff about how fluffy the towels are or how many mints are left on your pillow 😀

I’ve had golfer’s elbow for the last 4mths, and I’ve never played golf 🙁 Going mad with some grip exercisers did it for me. Time and rest will cure it I’m hoping.

I wonder what the duty is on a shop to inspect a bike in for servicing.

The coroner didn’t seem to think there was any, the flaw might not have been visible to the naked eye anyway.

As was said bicycle parts have such a varied life coming up with an expected life cycle would be impossible. In practise it would have to be so conservative as to be meaningless to normal users.
we’ve all had stuff break this chap was just V.unlucky. I was impressed by this though.

” Mr Stanton had been riding with a friend after having coffee and riding about 35km/h uphill on Kent Street in Deakin.”

Try living in Wales.

29er pro owner here. I really like mine as well. It copes well with steep stuff but is a pretty good fast mile muncher to. The rear end is stiff so don’t expect it to be as comfy as a steel h/t, but I find it ok for 2/3 hr rides. Maybe not if you do lots of very rocky tracks but trail centres are fine. It’s slack but not super long. I’m a long armed 6′ and ride the large, it fits fine but I wouldn’t go shorter than the standard 50mm stem. Weights ok, running tubless with pedals its 28lbs.

I don’t understand why your/his foot is/would be coming off all the time. If you cannot spin your pedals round without your feet being strapped to them that indicates bad pedaling 
technique.

I found my front foot would lift of the forward pedal, this would happen if the rear wheel got hung up a bit on steep tecnical climbs when my cadence dropped. With spd’s I could just pull my rear pedal through. Over time maybe I would have adapted to this, but for me I thought why bother, get the spd’s back on and be happy 😀

Went to a 30t on my 29er. I was spending to much time in the 42 with 32t chainring. It’s a compromise though, if like me you like to push on the pedals not coast its a bit spinny on road and fireroad descents.

My take on it all was that it comes from a place of love. It is clearly someone well-intentioned who is genuinely concerned for the welfare of her and our kids and frankly I’d much rather live somewhere that people look out for things like that than somewhere that ignores it.

That’s a very generous attitude and credit to you. But I’ve known to many mean spirited, nasty, poisonous individuals to come to that conclusion myself 🙁