I was thinking childs first words, but will settle for Kit

I think you can leave the old timer in place for twice a day hot water duties, or whatever suits your situation, then just have the new thermostat for the heating duties. Thats how my new system works.

Setup currently sounds pant, sign up with a British gas homecare plan, I can do a bit of plumbing, but the plan saved me thousands on a knackered system.

I eventually bit the bullet & got a new boiler with a new fangles thermostat that wokrs off an app, expensive outlay but the monthly savings are significant.

I am surprised no mankini images yet.

You dont really need to remove the tyre completely just break the bead one side, easy way is to lay it on the ground and drive over the tyre.

You should be able to just mask it up without any of that though as already said.

Bob or Russell, again the joke about the no arms & legs in a pile of leaf’s

But then you can move your saddle back to compensate that if you like.

Not sure about that molegrips, once you are happy with a crank to saddle relationship your better off changing your bars & stem about to get comfy from there, you spend a lot of time on that saddle unless you DH, & getting that position wrong really messes the bike up. At least that was my experience.

I like KOP method for setting saddles though so what do I know. :-)

Very personal preference that one I think.

You sound like you set your up at the same kind of height as I do. But that does not mean its right.

Why not use a bazzillion spacers & not cut it at all until you have hade some riding time on it. If it just new forks on a bike your used toO then your first method is still OK.

His winky is chopped off.
Unfortunately, mine is still intact.

You could chop it off yourself I guess.

Weirdo, my first ornament (well uneeded furniture in my case) was a drinks cabinet.

Soma is right though, he need a hat.

Your first rule may actually reap rewards with your chosen pastimes.

The roots your talking about, spidery bits wont kill the plant, chop away.

I want these, I wanted them for my birthday in August but wife got me a coffee maker! At christmas I buy them myself & get her to wrap them.

I got home last night with some ramps for Tiny Tinsy (red shorts) he happened to be outside with mum so the playing began as soon as I got the ramps put together, within 10 mins we had young William from over the road join in, even brought of ramp of his own.

I wish our road was quieter though, having been brought up in cul de sac’s myself it is safer. Ever noticed how council estates at least older ones are built to promote playing outside? I think a lot of that kind of planning is missing these days.

There was a power cut at my wife’s previous house, it was an old Victorian 3 story house, 2 floors were in darkness, the 3rd floor seemed unaffected.

There was a 5 but it was a cheater really as it was just a facelifted 4.

My dad had a MK3 GXL think it was a 1.6 but not sure might have been a 2.0 , it was metalic green. (he had a 4 & 5 too) Pretty much all the running gear floorpans, suspension is very similar for the 3,4,5..

Nice looking car.

I had a MK2 1600E when I was 17, thought it was badass, but I think reality may be different.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FIte4pu_6o

If you put a saddle on it, & perhaps some kind of rotating device below the saddle that you could turn using something like pedals, & then connect the roating device to the rear weel to add drive, just thinking out aloud here, but I think a chain would be good for this.

Then it would probably be OK.

44 when I had my boy, 47 now obviously he is 3, its flipping great. :-)

I just shipped a motorbike on a pallet, it was in bits so easier but it worked out OK half pallet (look it up to see what I mean) halfway accross the country was £55.

£600 to get the engine out & take the head off sounds a lot to me, & thats assuming they took the engine out to have the head off.

8 hours or less at whatever the hourly rate is would have been my guess.

The garage I use would be the first to suggest a 2nd hand engine, not just leave the car as payment. Dont do it, haggle.

Problem you will have is finding a garage to take on a pre stripped car.

Fascist Landlord.

Jerzei Balowski

(you will need to be of a certain age to get that one)

The cleanup cost bit sounds OK, deposit is there as a backup in case the cleaning does not scrub the place up…

Not sure about the 28 days bit for re housing the dogs.

Edit, I let one once to a bloke who had dogs, I was just happy to get the rent having seen a neighbour get royaly turned over renting out twice in a row. I gave his deposit back & just binned the carpet & put new stuff in, was only a small place.

Tonto.

Not as small as you might think, but not big either.

175cm
78kg

I was sat at some traffic lights the other night on a 2 lane road, bloke on bike came up the middle to go right to the front but he clipped a wing mirror with his front brake lever & went OTB.

Air in the poo. Like a small brown zeppelin.

2 1/2 years old off road bike… just suck it up & use it as an excuse to get it powdercoated in a snazzy new colour scheme.

I can see it being any defect, cable guide could have been knocked & cracked the paint or any number of reasons for it happening.

Mark Thatcher, flipping good memory you have!!!

Rob, this is quite a bit cooler & I am open to offers.

I can possibly do a deal with a weeride on it too.

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/fs-big-bmx-klunker-singlespeed-rigid-nicheness

As allready said.

There is no saving to be had running a 2nd car for no reason, factor in the tax, insurance & MOT bills for running a cheap car & even if it did a million MPG it still wont stack up.

Flog the V70 & buy something that has better economy & still capable of towing.

jameso, of Tour divide fame, good ride chap, I enjoyed following the race.

Many brands used to vary road frame geometry as frame sizes changed to keep the wheelbase consistent and the rider in the middle of the wheels (in theory at least), but that can have a different set of flaws.

But it would make more sense than current. In my mind at least!

I thought about this today as well.

For the same frame design around whatever wheel size, one of those sizes will be the sweet spot, there is no way the riding experience for someone on an XS frame & someone on an XL frame is the same.

It would make more sense to not just have wheel size dictacte but to scale things like 26″ for XS & S, 27.5 for M & 29 on the L & XL.

What that says is that the bike needs to be different in many ways for extremes of height – not that you can make ‘the same bike’ with differing wheels. It won’t be ‘the same bike’, it’ll have different pros and cons that skew the design intentions (if there really are any).

I think its one we will never know the answer too, but I am certain that even the same frame in different sizes gives a different riding experience, its just impossible to quantify.

In other words, is ride/handling very different for an XS frame with 26″ wheels than it is for an XL with 26″ wheels?

Definately, but how to measure it?

If you go for something like a Mirror, I have lots of spare rigging & some really nice race sails.

I thought it was spinnaker, so I googled it, it had another name once. gollywhomper….

Wont you spin out a lot with one under 32t?

These are really helpful.
http://www.themortgagebroker.co.uk/

It all depends on the lender & type of mortgage… You can sometimes sort it with a letter from your accountant.

I am sorry I am still struggling with what wheel size you actually want?

If you want 26″ then look at the Whippet, its an out & out carbon XC bike that wont break the bank, & at 5ft 3 she is bang on for a 14″ if & when they are back in stock.

Bianchi still do 26″ carbon race hardtail too.

If you do actually want 29″ wheels on an XS bike then your already looking at the Niner.

In my opinion the small frames with the big wheels look a little at odds.

she’s more or less forced to go 29er

I took the “forced” to mean he was not too bothered about big wheels on a small bike.

Little bikes look nicer with 26″ wheels in my eyes.

I had missed that he had dismissed On ones, but was that inbreds or whippets?

Any local double glazing firm will have ones that were measured wrong & did not fit, you might get lucky.

Thats what my shed is sporting, I got double lucky & got 2 similar sized windows for mine.