Do a search on flickr and see what you can do with a Lumix LX3 or LX5. Then go to a shop see how small they are.

Someone was selling one on here a couple of weeks ago.

Pacer arrows?

Got one from Tesco that has a cadence sensor too for 15 quid a while back. Ony complaint is I can’t work out how to reset the trip without having to re-enter wheel size.

Am not an avid viewer but seems to me that a most of the humour in the one liners uses Senor Sheen’s real life and personality as a crutch for irony or to make it tongue in cheek believable.

Just can’t see it working the same with anyone else, then again Doctor Who is a good example of where you can’t see it being the same and while it never is the new guy makes it watchable (or not) with the freedom to express his own personality.

Not sure they picked the right replacement, but have never seen him in anything. So, if they just have this new guy reading the same script it will bomb, if they introduce a new character might work, depends if he’s funny.

Not as old as some but worth an honourable mention:

My old man has a hacksaw machine thing, not that big but pretty acurate and seems to get through just about anything. While he sits supping his tea.

Looks a bit like this I think;

Can i just drop a say 12-34 nine speed block on the back?

Nope. You can try but think you’ll find a tiagra derailler won’t stretch to a 34, or 32 for that matter.

Semi-slicks, two bottles and a barbag filled with nuts, jelly babies power bars etc. And get 2 or 3 40 mile rides under your belt by a week before.

Do that and it will only be the boredom you have to worry about.

This is what I remember:

Always was a Star Trek fan had never thought much of Star Wars (had seen New Hope years ago) till our youngest got in to lego Starwars recently.

So started watching and have to say I really enjoyed them. Prefer the Anakin ones TBO (Jar Jar Binks aside).

Sword fighting, hot women, spaceships, robots, guns.

Whats not to like?

Sniff.

Private sector cheaper? Anyone have a like for like example?

They outsourced IT services where I work some years ago, replacing a handful of programmers on 25k.

Now we have many times more private sector programmers on 1k a day and their managers on 1.5k a day. And that’s not including the seemingly never ending need for non technical public sector IT contract managers, and their managers earning 30 – 40k.

Costs went up 10x easily. And you can’t get anything done without additional funding.

We had a quote recently from contractors for £135 an hour.

It’s cheaper and easier to put a mtb rear mech on and new larger cassette. If you do the maths the ratios are about the same.

Wouldnt you just add funds from your bank first (or after)?

So LDs voters are the secret labour supporters

Lab +769
Lib – 658

Think about it 🙄

No one is punishing the LDs they just lost the left middle vote by getting in to bed with the right.

who does Clegg need to kill

Cameron, Osbourne, Gove?

Would get my vote back.

Front cables too short, rear too long.

Two bottle cages…

Thompson on a road frame…

Padded seat.

Chain on small front ring.

Valves should be obscured by frame.

Tyres look a tad fat?

Put the seat back and try some flat bars, then it’s like the best hybrid ever.

Noticed it on mine and after much spoke twisting turned out to be a bit of muck in the drop-outs. Suprising hot little makes a difference.

Gelert Nemesis tents are good value, picked up an 8 man under your budget recently, more room than the Go outdoors offerings, easy to put up.

Prices seem to have increased last few weeks though.

Here’s the 6 man version. http://www.skiwear4less.com/acatalog/Nemesis_6_Tent.html

Perfect all day bike, what’s not to like.

Recommend one with larger wheels, proper ones with innertubes. Picked one up from a carboot for a fiver last year and after a quick service he’s been to school on it everyday since. Loves it more than his bike that cost about fifty times more. All they seem to sell now are the boneshakers.

Kielder Lakeside Way is what I’d classify as green, there are some steepish bits but the surface is like riding on a tarmac footpath. And there are 27 miles of it.

Bit of a long drive up there mind, best making a weekend of it. Have just got back from the campsite, very family friendly and the Pods looked comfortable. Being in the middle of nowhere not that much to do but bike and be amazed how many stars you can see at night.

As above, then you use the screws on the outside to center them. And can un hook and try bending the long wire to increase the tension a little too.

Kielder Lakeside Way yesterday.

27lb ish 130 revs dual air, is a demon downhill but TBO the front feels like it wanders a bit going up when it gets steep.

Maybe I just go uphill too fast, not. 80mm stem.

Just ordered some Mosso alu carbon skinned,

cheap but might be a bit short 4u.

Muker is bang in the middle of two really good loops, Gunnerside gill going North and Castle Bolton loop to the south. Or ride up to Tan Hill, have lunch and come back.

Loads of well used Bridle ways round there and once off the B6270 you see very little traffic.

Using some Schwalbe CX Comp, seem alright to me tarmac and fire roads. 10er each if you shop around. Planet X have some Sammy Slicks that get good reviews for same price.

How it works is starting to sink in. Whether it is a fairer system locally aside what will the end results be Nationally if for example we’d had this last elections?

Sounds like it would be the two top parties would lose out a little to a third, and judging from the Con ‘No’, Lib ‘Yes’ and Labour ‘confused’ campaigns the Cons would be the biggest losers?

Is that because most Labour supporters would second Libs and vice versa? (which might not be the case any more). Or because most Cons would second no one? Or cos Cons have slimmer majorities etc.

How would it pan out, more likely Labour / Lib coalitions? or is it too complicated to predict?

Just had one fitted to my 307SW last week. Am as handy as the next guy and was all for getting a kit. Then I started reading up on the electrics.

Peugeots after 2004 have a weird centralised multiplex system which has feedback sensors and the like which in a nut shell means you cant just tap in to existing connectors like the old days.

I think you can get specific electric kits for about another fifty quid, but add to that some horror stories about 1k bills to replace the whole electrics and I decided to stump up the 185 the local towbar place was charging all in. Took them about an hour.

Don’t know about them but stumbled on these the other day:

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Economies of scale and the downsides of monopoly are not that hard to grasp. Putting responsibility on the consumer is naive.

The Police’s heavy handed approach is another issue all together but good on the locals for standing up for fighting for their principles, putting their liberty on the line and risking injury for their community.

That’s true Englishness standing up for principles, a community and against at best inept at worst corrupt governance.

The real villain’s here are not the police, Tescos or the community. It’s the council for letting the planning go through with overwhelming local opposition because they don’t value or care about the community.

The only answer to such a dilemma is to have one of each. If you can’t afford that you’ll have to settle for one. But which ever you choose soon after there will be a nagging doubt the other would have been better. And then you’ll have to think up some excuse to sell it.

You are not going to get your money back on a second hand carbon so the logical path is get the Ti one first.

Personally I’d go carbon though. But then you could do some light touring on a Ti. But everyone else has carbon. But then a nice steel might be better suited as an all rounder, and so on. Welcome to the fold.

Where I work staff have been badgering for one for years, Corporate say it is impossible to implement because the small print says it has to be equal access for all staff, which translates to having to have a bike pool at all our offices to cover FTEs. And the cost of that is prohibitive.

Allegedly all based on advice from whatever central body (HM whatever) runs the thing.

I know fine well that hardly anyone co with cycle to work has a pool, but does anyone know how they get around it?

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Was walking to town with my bald mate the other day and some stranger shouted “f*ck off baldy” from a passing car. Bizarre behaviour indeed.

😆

Was late back one evening and got caught on a main road with no lights, so walked along the verge. Bout every 5 mins some car full of chavs would beep their horn and flash the vees when I looked up.

WTF?

29ers are just hybrids, have been around for years, they are just moving high end.

Fashion bikes – track bike look-a-likes, clean looking from courier style to commuters dressed up as urban CXs. With hub gears, wide rims. Or MAMIL machines.

Overtook some guy who must have been in his 70s on a tourer the other day, and subsequently nearly killed myself trying to put some distance between us.

Every time I looked round he was grimacing and gaining on me.

Probably says more about me than him though.

Googled this a while back and the most convincing post I found was from a guy on a runners forum. Said he’d tried the gym, tried interval, running up and down smaller hills etc.

But they only way he managed to make up a really big one that always beat him was to run, then walk when it got too much, then attack as soon as he recovered.

Each time he made it a bit further and eventually to the top without stopping.

Have used the Bagman QR for a longflap camper, easy to get on and off, plenty secure. the Camper is a fair bit bigger than a pendle mind.

I’d still use one for a smaller bag for simplicity, infact I have with some modifications:

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They’re not cheap though.

The Law states that grey squirrels are ‘vermin’, and as such can be killed. Are there any conditions for this? Like, they are actually causing a health hazard or something? Cos they ain’t bothering me or anyone else.

No conditions, they are a health hazard and they will be systematically destroying the local woodland, that’s their job.

You’ve not mentioned trap types, while the Fenn type traps (springy large mousetrapy) are legal for fluffy tails their necks are a bit strong for them really. The only redress you have is to ensure he checks them twice a day and that they are covered (in a tunnel), and don’t catch cat’s legs etc.

Standard practice is to use cage traps and despatch in a sack humanly breaking their necks or gassing. Neither of which I’d recommend without some training. An airgun is the best method for amateurs, in a cage that is not shooting them out of trees etc. Stick the barrel in the cage and they’ll bite it making things straight forward.

Planning stuff like this can be fun but honestly can’t see him getting a kick out of it for long, despatching and disposing of dead animals gets old quite quickly.

And you’re right about them just breeding to replace ‘the fallen’.