Tall people who ride bikes are nicer than little people who ride bikes.

Thats just scientific fact right there.

Do the local authorities know they have a gate missing somewhere?

ha. ha.
:|

Not that big a bike – 21" frame with a lot of seatpost – only 26" wheels too.

Thank you both for your shared views on terrorism and attacks upon aircraft. I expect you have sent your findings to MI5?

Don't burn bridges, no matter how tempting.

Leave on the moral high ground. You'll always walk taller for it.

A bank will probably have a max value. The machines charge something like 5p in the pound – worth it not to have to count it yourself.

If you are a Surrey Highlander, fake one. If you are a real woad-daubing Celt, you'd have worn it since birth and only draw it if your claymore was knocked from your hand – or something.

I always enjoy hearing tenuous reasons for wearing a kilt :D

Halo wheels? Hubs are good, rims are great and not OTT on price.

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=35055

Are the carbon bikes that much lighter? I had one of the older Genius bikes and the alu frame was only .5 lb heavier than the carbon one.

standalone PIR alarm

just got one of these for the garage. I'm pretty impressed – arms and disarms with the remote button and is f***ing loud.

It is a cheap lock – buy another one that isn't coiled.

A high viz vest bastardised into a Camelbak cover would be a start, along with a 2nd light on the bag. The supermarkets seem to do cheap LED lights that do well as extras about your person.

"Duty phone" lap-top and 3G means I don't have to go in to the office or drive though.

Me too – unless I need the Dark Side – then I drive. It isn't like you work anyway Andy!

superstar_opponents – Member

Ride what you like, but riding a rigid bike with funny wheels then shouting about it on t'internets does not make you more attractive to girls.

You might want to try it – I hear your sex life doesn't include anyone else in the room these days!

Find some Urban spray artist and let them spray the wall

thats what im looking for to spray my dinning room
chimney breast cool art different and cheap.

erm….cool – batchelor pad I take it?

I ride 50% tubeless and carry 2 x spare tubes – one 29 and one 26 as well as some instant patches. I carry tools, tie wraps, first aid kit, emergency bivvy bag, cash, mobile phone, compass, torch and some energy gel. Probably something to do with being responsible for myself and anyone I take out with me and the good training I had to get me qualified.

I've got no problem with technology – I own a GPS. You appeared to be wanting to use it for energencies and be reliant upon it in extremis. Navigation is about knowing where you are all the time – not where you are when you are lost. I'm saying a map and compass together with looking around you are the optimum combination – a compass alone isn't that much good.

I'm on call for the duration. Support to important men and women.

Pigface – I like to call it Tough Love.

Then again – if you can't kick a man when he is down, when can you kick him? :twisted:

Fibrax Hose Kit

I used one of them – excellent, all the parts there. I have re-used olives before but got to be really careful you don't knacker them in the process.

I'm here

helping keep things working. I think.

Mountainbiking ain't meant to be easy. If it was we would ditch the mountain part and swap "biking" with "sofa sitting" but it would simply not be the same. The harder it is the more fun it is.

*pops out to garage to check well-polished bikes are clean*
*returns to post on here*

Charlie – what sort of madness are you talking about? Riding a bike? Well I never.

If you can't follow good practice to navigate over featureless terrain in no vis, then a whizzy phone isn't going to change the price of fish.

As for your 'high iron content ground' – thats getting pretty specific and extreme and very localised. If you have ventured there, you either know about it and know how to cope, or you don't and you are beyond your own limits.

If you need your location on a map, with a compass, confirming from another source, you need to be going out with someone who can use them properly.

If you want to rely on a mobile phone application for when you get lost in the Alps, then you will:

get lost
whip out phone
find out something has leaked on it
or the battery has died
or you can't get a fix because of weather or geography

The whole point of the things you need in an emergency is that you can rely upon them to work. Which is why maps and compasses are still used – because they work.

http://www.angryalien.com/%5B/url%5D

Find a local gallery and frequent it. My parents go here:

tallantyre-gallery[/url]

They have a couple of pieces from some very new and rapidly-gaining-in-popularity artists.

I'd like to suggest you get a life – but if you ask advice about ex-girlfriends on stw, then perhaps that ship has sailed.

bigyinn – Premier Member
You gotta love STW, half the posters insinuate that its the OPs fault!

Well it might be. I doubt you could make a legal ruling on the evidence provided thus far.

Were you trained to do that task? Is it documented that you had sufficient training? Were you being a bit of a biff and doing a gash job? Should you have done it a different way? Should you have stood somewhere else when cutting the bands?

Howabout they use a heavy vehicle fitted with hot air blowers to melt it where required?

Erm – a mile long and 200 ft wide, permanently kept warm? Plus the operating surfaces? You'd never manage that – it would freeze again before you got back to it. They use icing inhibitors sprayed onto the surface.

Sorry fellas – I'll try to keep it pointless. You'd never think I had been responsible for such a job before and had been chatting to a mate this week about how clear his runway was – would you? :D

glenp speaks sense – you need logs short enough to fit the fireplace.

I know exactly where you ride – I grew up there.
So – given that your website tells me that you ride twice as far as you do and there are in jokes that I don't get, you could see where I might get the wrong impression?

jonb – it was the MidAirCrisis website that the following came from:

But BEWARE – we're a mountain bike club, not a cruising outfit. You need to be able to pedal hard, climb hills, jump off a kerb, balance a bit and pedal for hours. Waggonway tootlers please take note.Last Sunday in every month should be New Rider days. 20 to 45 miles. Thursday nighters are 15-30 milers, 3-3.5 hours and generally OK for fit new riders but you need decent lights you can see with, NOT CANDLES.

It doesn't sound that friendly and threatening up to 30 miles mid-week and 45 miles on a New Rider weekend day would have me re-googling for a less intense bunch. You might not be, but thats how it sounds from here.

Montane. Superior in every way. Better fabrics, better construction, cheaper to buy. I've worn both in some terrible weather and I'll keep spending money on the Montane version (not that I really need to – 12 years on and going strong for my old one).
I always wear a base layer (decency and less laundry). The jacket versions vent well enough for real midwinter night riding but too warm for most anything else.

Couple of factors – sheer cost of heating that area – something like 15,000,000 square ft of runway?
Runways are designed to take the fairly high loads of aircraft landing so are fairly thick – you'd need a strong heating system to penetrate that thickness to a useful temperature.
New build runways are not very common, so they resurface existing rather than dig up and start again – imagine revenue lost?
Cost-benefit of this? For a few days a year in the UK probably not worth it compared to a bit of overtime. Maintaining the vehicles used won't be that high either.
Fog – warm ground + cold water being heated will probably produce a local fog bank – not so good.
Other aircraft operating surfaces needed to be kept clear for parking etc so may as well use the same equipment for both.
Most places that are cold for extended periods have more predictable weather patterns, so the snow & ice procedures are more effective eg dryer weather and no thaw means ploughing works quickly and effectively.

We're a small island that is a bit crap with the weather. It is the way of the UK.

Tuxedo Princess.

Fail. No longer there.

warton – Member
Also second the barbers, I've been going there for 10 years or so

Pfft – n00b! I got a right telling off from Dave last time I was in there – for not getting my wedding haircut done by him, despite living 200 miles away at the time!

If you cross the Tyne Bridge, The Central is probably the first pub you see – the landlord is an old mate of mine and the pub is undergoing sympathetic renovation – really good reviews from the lads at home.

Are there any good restaurants left in the Stowell Street area these days?

jonb – it might be just me, but the front page for your mtb club tells me you lot are a real heads-down training ride sort of club – doesn't sound fun.

RaceFace Atlas – 780mm, os, but only a 1/2 inch rise.

I've talked at length with 'experts' about this. Seems that LEDs don't give off a good light for long term domestic use. Soemthing to do with the fact they flicker on and off really fast in use and this isn't a good thing. They are OK for spotlighting etc but no good for wide throw lighting.

Honest Pub Guide[/url]

The Cluny is a great venue & bar – down the river but worth it for gigs.

The Head of Steam opposite Central Station – good little venue and pub.

Heartbreak Soup is on the quayside – always has been good place to eat.

World Headquarters for the best music in a nighclub.

I'll even recommend you a barbers[/url]

There you go – a fair starter for you.