Not entirely sure what I could have spotted prior to buying

You said yourself you are not mechanically minded but know blokes who are. Next time you buy a used car, take one of them with you or pay for a 3rd party inspection.

http://www.mamtaskitchen.com/recipe_display.php?id=10015

http://www.mattas.co.uk/beans-lentils-pulses/chana-dall-split-yellow-gram2kg

http://indianfood.about.com/od/vegetarianrecipes/r/shaahidaal.htm

All favourites in our house.

If you want to show your love for an engineer…..

http://www.en.boehm-stirling.com/engines.html

(drag your pointer over the images)

Classik Smoking sounds lovely.

We used this lot for both our cars for a couple of years. We couldn’t fault them in any way. A local operation that is a bit slicker. Great service, good communication, well priced.

http://www.mygaragebristol.co.uk/%5B/url%5D

Lever & pivot. Long metal bar and a block of wood?

We have a gas bbq with a single ring on the side. I’ve been scouring the local charity shops for a decent pan and have all the ingredients lined up. Home made onion bhajis will be experimented with, cooked outside. Yay – unhealthy food without the unhealthy house smell!

It’s a cracking album.

The glammy Danny

http://youtu.be/dGNJPhVxy4Y

Ortlieb Messenger Bag Pro. I got mine from a retired hipster on eBay for not much money. Tough as ye olde bootes.

Currently doing a 50hr + week in 5 days, plus setting off at 3am Monday mornings and getting home at 8pm Friday – actually last week was 70 hrs as I didn’t go home. Currently on day 10 of 12.

I am surrounded by this sort of mentality.

A couple of points to counter this idiocy:

You’re a long time dead. Why push yourself there quicker and giving the hours to someone else?

I don’t know ANY parent who thinks they spent too much time with their kids while they were growing up.

Greggs steak bake, Greggs sausage roll, Greggs custard donut.

(I didn’t – but it gives the stw snobs someone to look down on and chatter about)

Meantime I can pretty accurately measure 225g within 0.1 of a gram using cheap kitchen scales:

Yet using the ‘cup’ system, you have no need for any kitchen scales.
I really do believe that the American cup system is the cleverest and simplest idea. My Mother in Law (American) is the most fantastic baker of cakes, pies etc and she has never owned any kitchen scales. All teaspoons and cups as measurement.

Having moved to the USA at my age was hell. Re-learning the 12 times table and having to buy new non-metric tools is a right pain.

Telling me that the military use something different means nothing – they get sold some utter pump across all areas of procurement.

the actual device is shite in comparison to the others on the market

So what would you recommend oh knowledgeable one?

I have my work desk set up with a 2nd screen and use the laptop and 2nd screen for most stuff. Once you get used to 2 screens it’s way better than a single screen of any sort, but with the ability to walk away with the laptop for work elsewhere.
I bought a Lenovo Thinkpad and their docking station was really cheap at the same time, so it’s only one cable to connect.

I just usually reply “probably because I haven’t got one” and ride off leaving them to their miserable existance

I think we have a new AWESOME

:roll:

If you think that is good new music, you should go and listen to what we called ‘good new music’ 20 years ago. A bit like that track, only betterer by a factor of lots.

I ride bikes a lot and yield to pretty much anyone else on a trail or such path.
Except for those who think that rattling their agricultural components at me is some sort of substitute for a bell or politeness.
Just get a bell.

It’s a sad fact that people who’ve spent their life eating cheap crap that tastes like re-cycled garbage and think they’re getting a flavoursome treat because they don’t know any better, always make the assumption that more expensive food won’t taste any different.

The phrase “sad little bunnies” was invented just to describe them.

More than patronizing view of those with less of an education. Is one of your staff getting the Occado delivery unloaded, or is it Fortnum and Mason week?

Have they gone upmarket? I had a look inside a Greggs about a year ago out of curiosity and it all looked like a load of cheap crap to me…

Nice to see the middle class angst standards are kept up.

I suppose you only eat expensive crap.

It’s your thermostat that’s not working properly. Obviously.

Are you new to this ‘woman’ thing? It’s your fault.

Double post from the undead

FTFY

I invented Jamie and Jamie invented the internet. All your internets belong to me so I win.

It looks like nonsense to me

Why? The hyperbole might be nonsense but the basic premise makes sense. Having your head in a confined space (that is probably made from a waterproof material) without enough ventilation will probably make you dead. The original ‘bivi bag’ was a great big orange plastic bag and I was certainly taught not to put my head in it and that seemed reasonable.

only ridden it round the garden when fiddling with it

Did the neighbours complain?

Has anyone else noticed that the most nutritionally pious seem to be the most miserable buggers?
I guess bad food can be good for you.

If the Greggs you shop at doesn’t sell stotties, you are in one of the sham export Greggs set up to fleece Southerners of their cash.

This is fact.

Buy another helmet and alternate.

Hand wash pads.

Buy spare pads and swap out.

It’s funny to see that – the perceived wisdom being that the risk of them leaving after you train them to be better is preferable to not training them and they stay!
Cheap and nasty little thing to do for such a large corporation. They must gush money around.

Look at Architrail’s page on Facebook. They have just finished a private pump track and put pics up.

one odd feature it had was a caliper brake mounted under the chainstays

My first Specialized Rockhopper had that. Probably fine in California, utter pants in Northumberland!

Heres a nostalgic pic for the locals that a mate sent me a while ago

Shields Road was THE place to buy a bike for most of my childhood. All those bike shops further down.
My dad was a policeman in that area for much of the late 60s and early 70s. It was fairly rough at times!

agricultural collage

Making pictures with bits of old fertilizer bags and baler twine?

Also, try raising the front of your brake levers / shifters a bit to rotate your hands backwards, which will both help you stay “behind the bike” and naturally bring your torso downwards a bit.

Not unless he is planning to ride full time downhill on his back wheel.

Classic ton trolling. Nice to see even medical procedures can’t keep a good troll from under his bridge.

That’s the position im in when im taking the piss out of doddy/that mbuk style of mtber.

Funnily enough, it works. What I described comes straight from this fella:
Shaums March

He’s coached quite a few successful World Cup riders in his time.

Do you want to travel a bit further and make it part of a holiday in about a years time? Tack on the UCI World Road Champs afterwards? Come to Virginia.

Shenandoah 100

All the pain you want in a single day of riding.

^^^ Elbows are too far back. Get them forward and get a bit lower as well.

Matt – I’ve just been through IMBA training here in the US and it’s basically ‘heavy pedals, light hands’ for the ‘ready’ position (we call it neutral and ready). If your weight is mostly on the 9flat, horizontal) pedals then you are centered on the bike. Weight would go back or forward if the terrain (or braking) required it.

Elbows out, not back. They should be fairly close to 90 degrees when looked at from the front which probably brings your chest closer to the bars than you usually ride. That means you can move the bike left and right with minimal movement and you are ready fr the bike to move both up and down. You should still be able to ‘float’ your hands and maintain the position.