Ahhhhh, the first part of the plan is working. The League of Anti-Competitive Cyclists is coming for you. Jamming Strava is next. Mwah hah hah hah

Icebreaker, Helly, Nike if you can find it. That’s most of what I own (Helly outlet stores are GREAT for base layers).

Dunkertons Black Fox got me through the residential modules of my Masters. Lovely stuff.
Also a fan of Black Rat and generally most ‘real’ ciders.

My mum went to school with the lead guitarist of The Animals.
A friend of mine is guitar tech for Joss Stone when she tours.
I now live in the home city of the band GWAR.

Not just aimed at Catholics but they seem to be the most grasping of the breed.

You need a trip to the mid or South of ‘merica if you really want to see grasping churches. Clue – not one of them is of the Catholic persuasion.

the climate change debate

It isn’t really a debate. There is scientific consensus and there are shouty people who want to not listen for whatever reason.

Instead of buying knockoff crap, just buy some military surplus Goretex trousers and cut them down. It’s what people round here do.

TBH ive always just ridden what comes on my bikes, being such an outside means no company really caters for me so ive just got on with it.

*cough* little people have it EASY for shorter cranks. It might be worth your while trying something shorter than 170mm – they are out there:

http://www.slowtwitch.com/Tech/Short_Crank_Database_2862.html

Easier for you to go shorter than me to go longer. My leg length should cope with a 200mm crank arm, but my BB height can’t :cry:

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What he said. I now live in the USA and still order stuff from CRC (Reverb was cheaper than I could buy anywhere over here).
If you’re on holiday you’ll have trouble getting them to deliver to somewhere that isn’t the billing address.
You’d be better off looking for LBS near you and seeing what they have on sale – but most American bike shops don’t seem to carry that much stock. A national chain like Performancebike.com tend to have regular offers and deals if there is a branch near your holiday accommodation.

At least you have some choices in life. I had to go to Little Rock, Arkansas to test ride a bike AND pay for the pleasure!

Toffee Onions.

Those kids need to know that toffee apples are not the only option.

Eastern USA so I have 5 hrs of late night trolling if I can be arsed.

I can’t.

Nighty night.

Mud Dock happens to be a bike shop and a cafe / restaurant on the docks. If you went on the 1st Saturday of a month and were there about midday, you’d happen to have stumbled into the Bristol Bike Jumble. What an amazing coincidence that would be!

As I said when the British Army task force we’ve sent is done I think you’ll find they’ll do a 3 week R&R somewhere where they will be monitored. They will not just jump on a plane and head back to Blighty.

So what? Comparing the actions of those on a military deployment to a civilian rightly complaining about unwarranted and politically motivated detention is apples and oranges.

Just so we all know – the quarantine has been lifted:

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/oct/27/nurse-ebola-quarantine-released-newark

Science and reason believed to have been used in decision. SHOCKING.

Just so you know – High Wycombe has a fantastic tool shop – Isaac Lord. It’s just along the road from Cycle Care (a very good bike shop).

The Government (State or Federal) has made a very rational decision to insist on quarantine in this case.

Only if you equate ‘rational’ with ‘knee-jerk’, ‘political’ and ‘lacking in medical or scientific reason’.

Some people in the US are frothing at the mouth over the ‘threat of Ebola’. They are ignorant of the facts and mostly stupid and / or political. This quarantine and the way it has been handled have been off the scale of knee-jerk.

https://www.imba.com/epics/rides

https://www.imba.com/resources/maps/meet-mtbproject

You might get something useful out of those links.

I’m trying to work out if you’re trolling my post because I bought a cheap frame from a company that used to sell through Halfords years ago.

Halfords special!

Hasn’t it been a while since Halfords sold Airborne?
Given that I now live in the US, this was a domestic purchase.

I’m impressed. It got here this morning. It’s pretty damn chunky. It doesn’t look it but the DT is huge. I think it will cope with me riding it.

This will be a bits n pieces build with stuff on hand and local small ads purchases so it won’t all match!

no bleed kit with the Reverb

My Reverb came from CRC in the fancy box with bleed kit included.

Despite me now living in the USA, ordering from is are still cheaper for many things, including Reverb posts 8O

It might have been great from the front, but I doubt it would be any use from the side. If you look at lights designed for the road, they also send some light out sideways from the main beam, helping visibility from the side. You’re a much bigger target side-on.

bit harsh that Al.

Classic ton. Troll in hard then back away with ‘I didn’t mean that :wink: ‘ when someone calls you on it.

22″ Airborne Goblin frame. Well rated by other large chaps on t’internet.

Haven’t you had ‘the talk’ with a yoof colleague who has NEVER used a rotary dial telephone? That’s when you start hating them with their energy and youthfulness etc.

I can seal pretty much any plastic bag / cable interface with some electricians tape. Do I posses some advanced skill that others are unable to do?

Considering the OP has stated a preference for villages, there are an awful lot of very urban suggestions.

My logic for my answer is:

The OP doesn’t know Bristol and is looking at it through the eyes of SW London. Bristol doesn’t feel like a big city most of the time.
The OP doesn’t know where he will be working. He works in IT. That could see him anywhere from say the airport in the South to Patchway / Filton in the North to Avonmouth in the West to Yate in the NE / East Keynsham in the SE. He could well end up on the wrong side of the city if he looks for his perfect village now.
Put him in Pucklechurch and he gets a job in Ashton Gate? He’ll hate his life.
So. Rent fairly central for 6 months, find work, explore the city and it’s surrounding villages, THEN decide where to live. Then move there.

Get somewhere for a 6 month rent that is quite central / urban. Spend your time then getting to know the city and the area, THEN decide where you want to live full-time.
I loved living in Bristol. I lived on the edge but would have loved to have lived closer in, as the access to everything by bike was splendid.

The training tended to be done in quiet freshwater lakes. Salt water isn’t very good for aluminium airframes. I was always amazed at what went in to, got fastened to and what got thrown out of aircraft.

I am not racist

That’s what quite a lot of the Flaggers say. Some people perpetuate some very strange ideas, especially around the South of the USA.

surely we can all laugh about it

We tend to laugh at them, but from a safe distance….

http://vaflaggers.blogspot.com/%5B/url%5D

Are we sure it isn’t the Yanks in a Sea Knight?

This might be, but the British certainly trialled it and had the capability.

What Crell said.

I may be going a bit over the top but I have nearly 10k on full power with my helmet and bar light.

Yes. You are going completely OTT.

Wood burning stove.

Any other form of electrical heating would be the same = a kW in, a kW out. Stone has a huge thermal mass and if you can’t insulate or draft proof any more, you need a cheaper and more efficient form of heating – a stove is 5x more efficient than an open fire.

Stop trolling immediately and have a lie down.

Have you analyzed the films of those countries where Christianity is not the dominant religion as part of your quest for knowledge?

If not, then how would you know of an imbalance? Your question speaks more of your own blinkered viewpoint than it does of exorcism or any religion.

You could always put turf on there if you can cut some locally. Providing the roof gradient is shallow enough.

http://www.thegreenroofcentre.co.uk/green_roofs/diy_case_studies

http://livingroofs.org/%5B/url%5D

Write it down. 4 over 10 which is four tenths. 4/10.

Simplify that because 2/5 is the same as 4/10.