If you dive, go there. Second biggest reef in the world and in far better condition than most others.

Have you seen this?

Homemade_Cider_Press

and

Real experiences

The ACME thread rod seems to be the way forward. I've seen one with a bolt on the top and powered with a cordless drill – it worked rather quickly!

I take it you are Michael Palin with that statement?

No – I'm questioning your travel and experience of the USA. I'm more than happy with mine.

clubber – I thought you were a narrow bar retro jeyboy? The 30" bars on my ScandAL were OK in LW last week. You just have to work a wee bit harder in places!

You're a 29er rider now. Just wheelie and put the power down – that extension is barely a pothole to the big wheels. Turn as you do so and track stand on the extension roof. The extra grip you get from the bigger contact patch will spread the weight and keep you there while you check things out. Then a cheeky bunny hop and you're back on terra firma. Use a helmet cam at the same time so you can view the detail at a later date.

Rope strung between windows. Small trampoline in garden. Bounce up and balance on rope to inspect gutter.

Do we have to think of everything for you?

Why visit there when there are many fantastic places within 8-12hours flying time throughout the world?

I take it you have either been to all the fantastic places in the USA or are making some massive sweeping statement with no real evidence.

I know which one I think it is.

6'3" on a 17" frame is well outside outrageous proportions. I've tried riding Mrs TT's 17" bike and it is all kinds of teeny-tiny wrong.

Fred

Further typical trolling from you. You evidently don't understand the issue and cannot put it into context. However, you plough on regardless with ne'er a regard to common sense. Most people have an internal voice telling them to stop – it appears yours is drowned out by the other voices. For the love of all the little pixies, troll another forum. There must be many out there where you'd be seen as some sort of messiah. No matter how well you re-start, you resume your usual antics in the same old style.

From the CAA website:

The targeting of aircraft and ATS installations by lasers poses a threat to aircraft safety and security through the physiological impact upon pilots and ATS personnel. This can include distraction, glare, temporary flash blindness, afterimage, and possibly eye injury. Current expert opinion is that, except over short distances, lasers pose minimal threat of permanent or long-term personal injury. At critical stages of flight, however, distractions caused to aircrew or ATS personnel by lasers could threaten aircraft safety.

The new Rockshox post is over 400mm IIRC.

You lot need to get some bigger bikes or accept you want a BMX.

The Italians don't drink it, so there won't be a ubiquitous Italian brand for cafetieres! 😀

Depends what you mean by a 'coffee machine'. Filter? Most anything will do, as long as it keeps the coffee hot enough. Espresso? Gaggia Classic bought from E Bay is great – still supported, tough, as manual as most people can cope with.
If you can find Caffe Mako, try that. Much better than that Lavatzza stuff. Even better is to find a local roaster to you.

From 1 January a law was brought in which allowed offenders to be charged for shining the light which dazzles the pilot.

The laser, which distracts or could even temporarily blind a pilot, is a serious safety risk, especially during take-off and landing of aircrafts, the CAA said.

You really couldn't work that out for yourself?

Tis true I live on the flight path into Bristol, am not a big fan of their planned expansion, but I have you know I definitely don't live 'in an estate'

Bl00dy middle class NIMBYs ruining a perfectly good expansion plan!

Elfinsafety – Member

That powerful a laser was it?

You seen a green laser in use? I have and yes, you can see the beam.

KINGTUT – Member

What is?

We're opening a container full of illegal immigrants down in the Mud Dock car park at 12.

(that'll get the evil TUT there)

Agency_Scum – Member

Midday this Saturday at Mud Dock. As usual it's the first Saturday of every month at midday

1200 hrs, 12 bells, 11:59 and 60 seconds!

Heinrich Harrer's books – the White Spider and 7 Years in Tibet.
Bonnington's books – climbing when it was the big adventure.
Eric Newby – a Short walk in the Hindu Kush and Love and War in the Apennines.

The price is right = TODAY!

Got my bike bits packed – now to get down to the Jumble

Aye – get out to Warmley – proper shop, Si owns it and rides his bikes. He hasn't been the same since some sort of single-speed epiphany, but he is a top road bike man.

I had resisted the TJ-esque approach of quoting the law of the land – party because I assumed that dog owners would have at least an awareness. Quite a few on here evidently don't…..

Govt website explaining dog control

It is an offence to allow a dog of any type or breed to be dangerously out of control.

What is 'out of control'?

Your dog is dangerously out of control if it:

* injures a person, or
* behaves in a way that makes a person worried that it might injure them – even if it's the dog owner's own home or garden.

A court could judge that your dog is dangerously out of control if:

* it injures another person's animal
* the owner of the animal thinks they could be injured if they tried to stop your dog attacking their animal

Anyone can report a dog and their owner to the police.

If you are found guilty of having a dog that's out of control you may face a fine of up to £1000 and/or imprisonment. You may also not be allowed to own a dog in the future.

So, whether your dog is 'out of control' isn't actually your perception – it is that of those around you. You will, of course, argue the law is an ass. However, it is the law and not really your call to make. Do the right thing and control your dog.

is it because yours will get into scraps?

No – it is because other dogs have had a go at him – and of those that do, the majority have been off-leash and out of control. The reputation of the rottie is such that I am aware of how others see him, so I do the decent thing and pop the leash on. If they then decide they want to meet the dog, they can initiate it and we properly introduce – not force it upon them. I have done that with every dog because my father taught me to respect others and do this – the rottie amplifies this so it makes sense.

I will let him run up to anyone he chooses.

Unfortunately, that is where the arrogance lies. We have never met, yet you see fit to let your dog run up on me? I don't want that as the odds are the dog is not under control.

I have also refined over the years a load of suitably reassuring and humourous lines to put people at ease.

Yeah – and I've had many 'oh, he doesn't bite' and 'of course he is under control' followed by 'he's never done that before' and 'you scared him' and 'your dog started it'. Again – I've had too many light-hearted buffoons make jokes whilst their darling pooch was lunging at my ankle or dog. Being witty does not detract from a loose dog running up on me.

kind of work on the basis that if people are out and about in the countryside amongst the cows and the crows, are not running at full tilt away from the offending pooch and do not have any sort of signage explicitly stating that they are not to be disturbed in their rural idyll, that they are fair game.

So you have to wait until I'm running from a loose dog running at me before you'll do anything about it? Startling arrogance there. I don't want a dog I don't know running at me – simple. Experience has shown me that more dogs off-leash are out of control. Why you should think I am inviting such behaviour is beyond me.

When I am walking the dog, I will let him run up to anyone he chooses, because I trust him.

However, I don't know that. I have come across dozens more people with untrained dogs off the lead than those with trained dogs off lead. Odds are not in your favour there.

medium-sized, so they’re simply not seen as a threat. Nor do I have a no.1 cut, tattoos or piercings…not judging people, but this sort of person coupled with a staffy x would make me wary.

My dog is medium-sized, but a rottie. I have short-cropped hair and am a sturdy 6'7" tall. I guess you'd see me as a threat then. Funnily enough, I see uncontrolled dogs I don't know as potential threats. What you see depends on where you are standing. If anything kicks off, it will be my well-trained dog who is as the instigator just for being a rottie – so I have to ensure we're golden.

I agree with the 'don't let your dog run up at me' crowd. I walk our mutt – if I see another dog, he goes on the lead straight away – for a couple of reasons. I respect the other dog owner enough to ensure they are fully aware I have complete control of my dog as they have no knowledge of how my dog behaves. I mostly do it because I have no idea how their dog behaves. Usually, they think their dog running up at us is fine – no it isn't. I have no idea whether the dog is mental and they evidently have no control of the dog.
It always comes back to the people and not the dogs.

Why does anyone need to own a rottweiler?

Probably for far better reasons than you need to own that bike / those bikes you have. Ours is a rescue – he is alive now (and trained, and loved, and adored by all the children who meet him, and praised for being well behaved) because my wife took him on. If you base everything on need, you're a liar.

Should we really be telling people about the 'mates rates' you seem to get at the BRISTOL BIKE JUMBLE and the fact there is one THIS WEEKEND?

If you look at Whitley Bay, avoid anything on South Parade. Too many bars and hen parties to sleep.

The Park Hotel in Tynemouth has twin rooms ATM but nothing else.

I've no idea how you control the situation but any dog that looks like a rottweiler / ___ bull terrier should be confiscated on sight and killed regardless of the owner

I take it you are a copy editor for the Daily Mail? Pure idiocy. We have a rottie. He was a registered 'therapy dog' in the USA and passed all the tests as a PAT dog in this country. He also holds titles for obedience and agility. I don't think there are more than 1 or 2 dogs in our neighbourhood that are close to him in behaviour and temperament. It is the owner more than the breed.

700lm from AA battery running for ten hours charged by a solar panel on my bald spot. I have seen the future

Solar panel technology – that has a loooong way to go yet as well!

Graham – I think he meant that the QD_LED technology isn't yet mature enough and will need to be properly productionised before it can be marketed. Given that QD-LED is being heavily developed for displays etc it will be another leap that would give us QD-LED to use as a light source for biking. From what I've seen anyway.

Edit – found this
http://www.qdvision.com/quantum-light-platform

Seems like they might be getting close – but not there yet.

Personalised M&Ms. They are very cool. 8)

You forgot Jackal

and Coyote

Oh oh oh… Just spotted myself (third photo down).

I'm in that picture too. Are you following me?

*narrows eyes* 😡

If you ride a clown bike, you need to be able to look after it yourself – not complain when you don't even check the cost at the till or ask before they did the work!

They seem to like driving tanks and jeeps and things all over bits of it,

Shocking behaviour. Worse than green-laners and they think they have some sort of right to destroy vast swathes of the countryside.

Can you look at deconflicting these with the Bike Jumble some time? They always seem to be together and I need to sell stuff to maintain my bike habit! Great news on the pump track BTW!

Second the UVEX brand. I have one and will buy another when my Xen dies.

Do you want parking as well?

Stans Flow here – round file in the valve hole a la video. Easy as pie to inflate and seat once you do that and just follow the videos.

A bit of both for me. I like exploring more on my own – I don't have to apologise for heading up a dead end, changing my mind or ending up on a diversion up to my axles in mud. I do, however, enjoy taking people out on a sorted ride I've put together from those explorations – that is satisfying. I guess thats a different aspect of the fitness you are talking about.