That is cheap for Ireland!

Pints are all 4.50e minimum in Kinsale. Spirit and mixer about 8e

In London, Infernos did a half of 1664 in the VIP bar for £3.60

It looked like Irish bogs, but it was sunny and dry??

Was gonna do it this year but had to head back over to the UK

My Kona has a mix of Fox's and Altus!

Decided to spend money on control so forks and brakes (2nd hand Hayes), everything else was in the shed or original on the bike. It has a set of rigid forks for when it becomes my commuter this winter. Still looks clean as I got it 2nd Hand from a middle aged lady who had not even got it wet in its 1st 2 years. It will get abused though! (and photographed in some nicer places than a Thameslink train)

It was on B3TA last week but did make me laugh

I use a paperclip unfolded and refolded to keep them in on my M4s

B17 – yes it does need pictures!

11/09/2000

I started work as a real grown up post university

It will be fine

Just not quite sure why you are putting your weight on it though, you would almost certainly be better off walking on your feet rather than your hands regardless of your crash. It is a very old fashioned view though

Done it with white wine as a student

A real pain to clean up. Did not even feature in Flatmate of the Week for it. Came 4th out of 3 as my mate's bird did some washing up raising her above me in the rankings

Got to go to a stag in Brighton on Saturday

Chvck, you want to do a joint 18th/stag?

I have never spent £1000! You could get a car for that…

Second hand or HT

There is always 1…

Having just replaced a cassette for £42, it has to be the one I can afford to replace bits on!

a) would be nice but if I cant afford the bits when they wear out, it will probably gather more dust than b)

Also £1k seems quite an expensive "low to mid range" bike??

I quite like the look of my Kona. Not the best photo on the train, and the one from the website doesn't make it look any better

Pyecycles

My surname is Pye…

One year is really not very much

As a structural engineer I can be taken to court for manslaughter if one of my buildings falls over and someone dies. I do everything I possibly can to avoid that. This driver was not doing everything within his powers to avoid endangering the public.

Aww man!

So what saddle for piles?

Finally!!

got round to fixing dodgy brake mount and it is up and…rolling??

Although it is a 2007 bike it was never really used so it still spotless. Brakes and Forks are SH and have had reasonable use, but the rest is all immaculate (still has red grease in the BB!)

Colour is actually this

so kind of colour co-ordinated with the forks

It is in Hatfield

we have classification is DM

we are thinking CFA as M+E want to use ground source heating and cooling

Oh and it is in chalk (with no water)

STW is full of so many informed people! I am never always astounded by the wealth of knowledge out there – thanks everyone so far

I am a structural engnieer trying to do some early calcs for a Stage D report and we dont have the full geotech report in.
I am aware of the qa=10N, but the end bearing of a pile uses c

qa=2c

so can I just assume that

c=20N ?

I don't have paintshop though

Haven't put this up for a while. Hoping to get out on it over the weekend

There is also an assumption that Zempy was free from blame, without any details of the crash apart from it involved a taxi…

She wee?

I feel deeply ashamed:

I agree with and do the same as TJ

There I have said it. Off to go and self flagellate (working from home today !).

I felt some part of my life was taken away from me just watching the trailer for that sssimon, can't believe you went out of your way to see the rest of the film

Just watching Streetfighter…

up showered dressed ready to go out the door and realised i have a meeting in 3hrs time just round the corner. no need to go on my usual 1hr 45min commute so back to bed

if it goes to sunday i might show my face in the walkabout just to be somewhere where it counts

Maybe tomorrow will be £50 wasted 8O

Yup I am back in now for a bit of Aussie baiting. Punter played on for 3rd time in the series. Andrew Flintwho?? Broad is clearly the man. I have said so for years 8)

(Did think my trip tomorrow might be £50 wasted, but suddenly a bit more exciting)

Got an FSA FR 30.0mm post for sale?

theotherjonv is listening to TMS…

Why do mice have such small balls?
Because so few can dance…

I am off there on Saturday (well when I say "off there", I mean I am crossing the road to the ground), so hoping it goes to at least 3 days

No, as I sold it last week!

Some research this evening suggests that the mounts come in 2 widths, wide for 20mm forks and normal for QR. Guess I have wide and need a normal

Still don't understand how it would fit together with a 20mm fork as the mount is in the way of the rotor, but the rotor fits in between the pads, but will give it a try

Also as a small child of about 8 I decided that the rear brake wasn't strong enough for really good skids (on my Raleigh Stryka), so I swapped brakes over to the European style (ie my right hand could squeeze harder). Sadly by the time I was set to break the world skid record, I had forgotten. It was a long and lonely walk back to the bike. It was only a short cycle of 100m home to swap the brakes back over

When I was 13 I went out on my bike (a rather nice pale blue to white fade road bike) with my arm in a sling from a broken thumb. The shifters were on the stem. I went to change gear on the opposite side, and pretty obviously twisted the bars and over I went. Pretty much the same spot as I vaulted the bats 5 years earlier. I walked back and finally agreed with my parents that I should walk to school till I could use both hands on the bars

Am enjoying this – makes me feel better about the stuff I have done! My mates describe me as "careless with my body"

A few moments below, but way too many to mention so stick to the local ones…

Went out on V8s for first time, tried to hop onto a curb and bike didn't come with me. Gouge was down to the bone and had to pick the hair and skin off the pins. Stopped bleeding after about 4 days. GF not happy about the sheets! Was about 150m from home

After a couple of beers didn't judge the point of no return doing an endo on Clapham High Street on a Saturday afternoon stopping at a pedestrian crossing. Road rash to shoulder hands hips and knee, but had to pretend it didnt hurt. Was about 20m from my front door

After fitting SPDs for first time thought I should climb on and check the tension. My flatmate wondered what I was doing as I fell in slow motion screaming. Cracked a rib so decided to loosen off the springs a bit. I was in the living room, on the 4th floor and the ribs connected with the coffee table.

I tried to put it all together on Monday night, and that is when I noticed so it has never worked.

Discobrakes don't seem to have an IS 7" adapter?