Oops double posty

Endura Urban Shorts maybe? Not 3/4’s but close to it and easily the best shorts Ive ever owned. Ive got 3 pairs of them and pretty much live in them from early Spring to late Autumn. They’re light but pretty touch/hard wearing and make great commuter shorts because they dry really fast.

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/endura-urban-short/rp-prod85235

Cool, thanks. Own ID’s. Will do that today

Box in the rafters of the garage was full of library books that had been borrowed some 15 years before we moved in and never returned. They were all weight loss books and porn novels. I got an image of an obese man doing unmentionable things to himself in the lounge and we moved out as soon as the lease expired.

Ive been mixing some of the Tesco’s fresh soups with a pack of microwave basmati rice. All the supermarkets do them these days but check the fat content of the soups though.

I dont know what good rum to recommend but avoid this: Bundaberg. The sweet sticky humid taste of northern Queensland. Bundy and coke was the tipple of choice for my generation and I suspect nothing has changed in 40 years. Horrid stuff.

Most of the ads Im seeing at the moment are Rosie H-W in pink pants for Autograph at M&S. I don’t mind that at all.

Havent read through every post so this may have already been done, Everbuild or Soudal silicon sprays can be had for about £3 compared Fork Juice for around £8.

If you’re not keen on perfume masquerading as aftershave give this stuff a go. Up close you will smell like a proper G&T.

Yodel suck. Like OP I wont buy anything from anyone who intends to use them.

At the other end of the spectrum is DPD. Got a delivery from them today. Had an email yesterday telling me it would be delivered today. Had an email this morning telling me it would be between 1130-1230 and I could track the driver online. At 11.30 I went online to do so and it showed his location up in my village and said he was 15 minutes away. 15 minutes later he rang the bell.

IANAD but my brother is married to a dental technician. Whatever the problem, her advice is always the same: go see a dentist.

Hired a truck to move house. It was virtually identical to my dad’s which I had driven hundreds of times. I set the mirrors, got in and reversed it straight back into a brand new car. Crushed both doors, shattered windows, caved in the door pillar – thing was a right off. I still remember that sinking feeling.

What about some 120 Rebas? Get the pressure and rebound right and they’re lovely riding forks.

You could try the Silvertrees holiday park which does those holiday lodge things. Not into camping? We stay at the Cannock Chase Caravan Camping club site which is half a bee’s from the top of the Monkey Trail. The wardens there spend a lot of time reminding people of The Rules and going out of their way to be unhelpful, but the site is great.

We were in the same situation. We had our usual two weeks somewhere sunny last year (usually Portugal or Greece) and while The Comptroller General enjoyed sitting by the pool from dawn to dusk, me and the kids were climbing the walls after three days.

So this year we’re going to Morzine (!!!) for 10 days (!!!)

It took two months of “discussion” and I still can’t believe she agreed to it, but once I showed her all the things she and our daughter can do while me and the ManChild go downhilling, she was sold. Heaps to do there now – horse riding, great walks (you can chair lift and up amble down) reasonable shopping and restaurants, that weird goat village place for a day trip, donkey trekking, big swimming pool and water slides, etc etc etc).

So G’day cobber, chuck another shrimp prawn on the barbie Bruce and tell Sheila to chuck some more tinnies in the cooler. esky

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If reason is your ability to make decisions based on logic/facts, with the absence of emotion, then the opposite of “listen to reason” might be “listen to you heart”. You might not want something so fluffy puffy bunny on your top tube, so maybe “listen to your gut” if you want to channel your inner Chuck Norris.

Its the Sheep Effect. First person probably had a look and figured he could get across safely. The idiots behind him just assumed the light had changed and moved off. Sheep do it. And goats. And lemmings.

Bricky’s mate at 15. When I wasn’t carting armloads of bricks up ladders and scaffold I was mixing the mud and carting that up ladders and scaffold.

^^^ Yep agree the Alpkit titanium pots are pretty good – lot of bikepackers using them.

Also have a look at ultralightourdoorgear.co.uk linky

If the titanium stuff is too pricey, all the good camping stores/websites have nice alu pots that may not be as light, but are certainly tougher, and a lot less expensive.

Get a decent windshield while you are shopping. It will cut your boil time dramatically.

Three mates of mine went sharesies on a greyhound some years ago. They had all sorts of stupid names for it but the racing commission kept turning them down till they struck on Nads Revenge. It helped that one of their surnames was Nadsille (or something)

Anyhoo … fast forward to the mut’s first race and picture my mates, pissed as parrots and dressed in dinner suits, down at the start line. Dogs go off and they start shouting: “Go Nads!! Go Nads!!”

These guys fitted a towbar to my Xtrail. They come to you and were cheaper on the quote than the two places I would have had to leave the car at for a day.

http://www.towbarexpress.co.uk/

A friend of mind had dog, but I don’t know what that’s like.

Mate of mine was on a Korean Air flight in the late 1980s and the flight attendant asked him, in her heavily accented English, if he’d like the duck or the pork. He took the duck and when it came he thought it tasted off so asked the fight attendant how they had cooked it.

“Duck?” she said in surprise. “No, no duck – quack quack. Dog – bow wow.”

That’s how he used to tell it anyway.

Tim Tams. Perhaps the best thing to come out of Aussie. Like a Penguin only made with decent chocolate. Try biting off one corner, then the corner on the opposite end, sticking it into hot tea and, erm, sucking hard.

tyres on the right way round?

More importantly: valves lined up with logos?

I want a light sabre. Nothing else will do.

Thanks all. Will take care buying a 2nd hand one. Cheers

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can I get a bike in the back with the front wheel off.

Nope. At least, I couldn’t. Both wheels had to come off and the bars flipped around to have any chance and I always managed to scratch something.

Maybe the older style Meta AM’s? Complete bikes with nice spec are going pretty cheap. Heavy lumps but ride very nicely once you sort the shock pressures.

http://www.commencal-store.co.uk/PBSCProduct.asp?ItmID=12501776

Thanks for that. Will check them both out.

@thebrowndog…..reverb come in different lengths 355/380 & 420mm as well as different drop/ lifts.
Maybe you need a different length post or different length drop.

Thanks tymbian. Thought this might be the case. The post came with the bike which I bought online. They didnt give you an option for different length/drop/lifts but given Ive used it a bit I doubt Commencal would replace it – fair enough. Could be an expensive lesson for me and a bargain for someone on here if/when I around to replacing it.

My Meta AM came with a Reverb and I finally got around to fitting it two weeks ago. Definitely makes downhill and techy bits more fun and I’ll be sticking with it.

Question though: can you adjust the max extension on these puppies? I ride a big frame and even with the post fully inserted, extending it goes past my preferred saddle height for pedalling, so Im forever buggerizing about sort of squatting on it to get it right.

You need one of these

Should be no compatibility issues and a new rotor should of course be nice and straight.

Try loosening the caliper bolts (the ones that attach the brake to the frame) so you can jiggle the caliper about a bit. Hold the brake on an tighten them back up. This should centre the disc between the pads.

You might also have accidentally advanced the brake pistons (as suggested above) so you could remove the pads and press the pistons back in with a plastic tyre lever. Do NOT use a screwdriver – it’ll scratch the pistons.

Posted his on another similar post a while back.

Just north out of Sydney head to Oxford Falls/Garigal National Park. Like anywhere it takes a while to learn where the good stuff is so make sure you say hello to riders you meet. Everyone will be more than happy to let you tag along and show you the best bits.

Couple of lazy links below. The second one has some trail maps and IIRC some contacts that might be useful

http://nobmob.com/rides/oxfordfalls

“Cyclepedia: a century of iconic bicycle design” is pretty nice. Lazy link below. Some of the verbage is a bit naff, but the pix are lovely and there are some stupendously bizarre bikes in there.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/191073040437?limghlpsr=true&hlpv=2&ops=true&viphx=1&hlpht=true&lpid=108&chn=ps&device=c&adtype=pla&crdt=0&ff3=1&ff11=ICEP3.0.0-L&ff12=67&ff13=80&ff14=108&ff19=0

My wife says I look like Heston Blumenthal but I cook like Basil Faulty. I am comfortable with this.