Brilliant ! keep ’em coming (so to speak)

Use those aluminium Sigg water bottles, or similar, as hot water bottles

That’s true, that can’t be right.
I should know this …………
Help !

Isn’t it done retrospectively ? i.e. the tax you’re paying this year is actually on what you earned last year ?
And then they adjust your tax code every year to correct any discrepancy ?
Maybe

Ugh, British Gas ! don’t get me started ……
A few years ago was comtemplating that boiler service & insurance scheme thing, they had to send someone round to look at the current installation as part of the process. Booked a ‘morning’ appointment, asked them to call my wife half an hour before they arrived so she could get home form work to let them in. No problem they say.
1210 they call her and say they’ve arrived (since when is 1210 ‘morning’ ??) Ok, I’m on my way, I’ll be there in 20 mins. Oh no, sorry, we can’t wait that long, we’ll be late for the next appointment !!!! C*nts !!

After a few years, a different house, and a bit of calming down, decided to give them a chance to redeem themselves.
Same ‘morning’ appointment, I have the morning off work anyway so can wait in until they show.
1310 phone call, answering machine message, we’re on our way !!!
1315 I leave the house to go to work. Not really that bothered about telling them nobody will be in, let them have a wasted journey (small things, I know)

When I phoned them up to complain, the woman signed off with “and is there anything else British Gas can help you with ?”
Hahahahahahaha
You can help me to f*ck off, you useless t0ssers !!!!!

Sorry, I need a lie down now …..

I did, I did !

I don’t get the nacho cheese thing …..

How long to leave the ammonia in the upside-down frame ?

A week or so back when I was at home I heard a very unusual sound, not a single engined light aircraft, I rushed outside to see a Lancaster flying overhead, it was solo, not flanked by a Hurricane and Spitfire. Unfortunately it was for long enough to for me to identify which one it was?
Awesome sight and sound that always stirs the emotions.

It would have been the BBMF ‘Thumper’, the Canadian Lanc only arrived in the country on Thursday I believe.

I like mine. It matches my bike.

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Aviation. Volunteer with a group who own a Second World War era Catalina flying boat. Get oily and smelly during the winter and get to fly all over Europe in it during the summer and visit airshows for free !

Just expect a thoroughly joyless and miserable experience, you won’t be disappointed

I my recent experience of two Kwik Fits, one has been poor and the other good. They operate on a franchise basis and can understandably vary considerably.
At the poor one (Iver), have had locking wheelnuts not done up, damage from the trolley jack and one tyre left completely flat after deflating to replace with nitrogen. I had to ask the monkey to pump it up again !
The other (Berkhamsted) pretty good, courteous and helpful. Use them only for fitting of tyres previously bought on-line. Although the other day I did hear them on the phone to some guy pulling the old ‘disks and pads’ trick. They tried to flog me some expensive alignment check, “would you like me to explain alignment to you ?” Er, NO THANKS !
Am happy to use them again for fitting tyres, but wouldn’t trust them with anything else.

Is this those little tag things? i thought that they worked by telling anyone else in the area that had the app where they were and that then gets back to your phone. So they would work well in areas with a good population of geeks

I think the tags I’m talking about do this, but they also show you on a map in the app where the tag currently is.

They’re £1150 each +vat +£250 a year license.

Oh and they’re still not perfect.

Oh. I seem to have gone off the idea !

Not a canal as such, but we did the Caledonian Canal a few years ago. It’s a long series of lochs joined together by short stretches of man-made canal. Absolutely brilliant holiday. Narrow boats aren’t used, cabin cruiser-type things instead.
In a week we travelled from Inverness to Fort William and back.
Highly recommended.

Sharron Davies

Cube Stereo 29er at 120mm or AMS if you prefer 100mm.
I have a Stereo and absolutely love it, does everything really well.

This table gives compounds Trail King (formerly known as Rubber Queen, hence URL)

Think this implies that the only UST 26″ 2.2’s that they do now are Blck Chilli, there is no other option.
Which tallies with what I remember when ordering
Thanks all

Yeah, Kenny’s correct. What I did was inflate the tyre with a CO2 cart, valve core removed. This seated both tyre beads, with diluted washing up liquid sprayed round the beads as a lube.
Then gently let the air out of the tyre by removing the CO2 inflator slowly (no valve cores, remember), tyre beads stay seated.
Then fill up with gunk using the Stans syringe thing.
Put the valve core back in.
Then pump back up manually, don’t use CO2 again as it will cause the gunk to dry out immediately and become useless.

Must have a go at this ghetto inflator thing, seems like a lot of faff but must be easier than it sounds.

p.s. In the end I had to use a CO2 inflator to get the tyre inflated and seated as I couldn’t pump fast enough with the track pump. I used CO2 cartridges for a 29er even though these particular wheels were 26″. Maybe the extra oomph of CO2 helped.

I found that with my Stans set-up with Presta valves, when I was trying to inflate using my track pump with the valve cores removed, it was better to use the Schrader pump head rather then the Presta head. It seemed to grip the valve more easily when the core’s out.

The Internet Opticians have always been good for me, genuine Oakley products at good prices. They seem to be out of stock of a lot of Oakley stuff at the moment though, for some reason …..

It’s always a bloke, isn’t it ? Disappointing.

I’ve got NavFee and think it’s great. I’m heading to France for a week next month, can I still use NavFree if all of my Roaming stuff is disabled on my iPhone (to avoid stupidly large charges) ?

It could be worse, saw a bloke at Mountain Mayhem a few years ago, wearing no shirt or jersey at all. Problem was he was wearing only lycra bib shorts and a fullface helmet.
EEK !

There’s an exercise about to kick off, there are two B2s and two B52s at Fairford.

Cube Stereo, 120mm, 29er.
Brilliant, light, fast, munches the miles, copes with the gnarly descents as well as the stiff climbs

Yes, I emailed Stans the other day.
They replied and said that CO2 is for emergencies only. It will get you home but will cause the fluid to dry out which then needs refreshing.
Just a case of injecting more jizz, no need to clean out the dry stuff unless you can really be bothered.

Hi
I have Stereo 120mm 29er in Medium. I’m 5’10” with a 31″ inside leg.
I find the bike ever so slightly on the large size, which I quite like actually. So I definitely wouldn’t want a Large, and I suspect a Small would be too small.
It has a dropper post so I can drop that when I want to get on or off
:-)

Morning commute along the Grand Union Canal towpath, Christmas Eve about 0630. Shot under a bridge on a bend, right-hand end of bars clip the inside of the bridge arch, bike turns immediately right, I carry straight on, OTB head-first into the canal.
Lucky it was on a bend really or I’d have been head-first into the ground. I was shifting too.
Luckily it was dark and no witnesses.
Getting out of a canal is not as easy as you might think, I had to swim about 50 yards in order to find something to grab hold of to haul myself out by.

Rode down some steps at the end of a reasonably steep trail through the woods. Went OTB into a massive bush at the bottom and was left hanging upside down and unable to right myself by the small branch snagged in the back of my shorts.
Right in front of two lovely young ladies on horses.
They were very polite.

Hi
I live near Tring and know the trails pretty well. The Ridgeway is well signposted but once you get East of Princes Risborough a lot of the Bridleways change to footpaths. Personally I would ride them anyway, very rarely get any grief and the trails are excellent. If I were you I would do that but avoid doing it at weekends because some sections will be quite busy with walkers, especially around Coombe Hill and Wendover.
Some locals that walk on Coombe Hill get stroppy about bikes but go mid-week and you’ll see virtually nobody. I’ve never had any grief anywhere else.
In comparison to the footpaths the bridleways are a bit dull and will have been churned up by horses.

French Bulldog

You serious?

Yeah ! check ’em out, they’re brilliant !

French Bulldog

On the subject of the Imperial War Museum, it’s been closed for remodelling and I’m not sure if it’s re-opened yet. Best check first.

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Hayes of Spades, Motorhead

Thanks fozzy, much appreciated.
LoCo – along the shaft, if that’s the correct word, kinda accumulates around the black rubber ring that slides along the shaft to show length of travel and just geneaally appears damp. The mositure definately smells ‘oily’.
Cheers chaps

What’s the ‘ghetto inflator’ that people speak of ?