Don’t race. Simple. It is uncouth and makes bumholes of otherwise nice people.

Don’t rush it. Let him go at it at his own pace. He’ll pick it up once he understands that you can ‘walk’ and it goes. Steering will be mad, but again that will come. Then he develops balance and can go longer with a foot up.

I’m a new convert to flat iron or butlers’ steak. Pretty damned cheap compared to the prime cuts but far more tasty than it should be. 3 min each side in a smoking pan then left to relax wrapped in foil. You get a very tender steak, rare in the middle, brown outside, slices well and tastes great.

would they ever really be afraid of the people? It’s not a battle that the people would ever win by firepower.

I’ve spoken to a couple of people over here who really truly believe that their government is kept in check because the American people are armed.

I backed out of the room, smiling and not breaking eye contact.

Where I live now, I can go out and buy a handgun, not register it and carry it, visible in a holster, on the street. That’s because there is no law saying I can’t carry, therefore I can carry.
Yet, in a metropolitan area with 1.25m people, I have seen this once in 8 months.
Most Americans care not for guns. A minority of those that do apply the ‘n+1’ rule we have for bikes to their hobby.

I just wondered what, if anything all the riots/wars/world conflict are contributing to what the scientist are measuring?

Not much at all compared to ‘normal’ human activity like power stations, cement manufacture, mining etc etc

Friends of mine in Vancouver live their new life out there. The biggest problem is their inability to afford to buy a house. After Hong Kong, Vancouver is the highest priced property market in the world. He is doing pretty well for himself as well.

I’d guess the fan wouldn’t cope with the resistance of the liquid, especially at start up.

Do you have some really limiting factor in life if that’s to be your main bike for 10-20 miles a day? Not what I’d pick unless I lived in a cupboard on a narrowboat with a grumpy landlord with a complex about shared space.

Flat pedals.
That’s your fault.

You can’t drive your gun to work…

But what if you drive with your gun to work in a car?

8O

Not according to that^ you don’t.

If it were uniformly applied across the whole population, you would be correct. However, as I indicated elsehere in the post, there are greater details available in the statistics and they involve age, race, gender and location. Four variables that mean I do not have the same statistical risk as everyone else here.

I don’t agree with the gun laws here, but I have examined them and the statistics more than most, partly because I moved here and partly because ‘what you see depends on where you are standing’. I still disagree with the whole gun lobby here, but I understand it a whole lot more.

Hmmm…..

Do you have the statistics for ‘gun deaths involving white, 42 year old suburban British mountain bikers in the USA’?

Not concealed ones there isn’t.

You’d have to tell us how you know that – or do you have X ray vision?

I live in the US. I have about as much chance of being involved in a gun-related incident as you do in the UK.

A vocal minority does not make a whole nation. Look at gun deaths in the USA. The figures are broadly:
younger black urban males killing other young black urban males
older white rural males killing themselves

It’s a bit mad here but the gun issue is all bent out of shape by a very vocal minority who use very traditional values to stir it up.

Scrub it with wire wool, wipe over with whatever oil you are using and put it upside down in the oven with a tray underneath to catch any drips of the oil. Bake it at a high temperature for 40 min or so.

That was the advice I got here in the US for seasoning a cast iron pan and it does give a good finish. Repeat as required.

Smaller bikes look better. Small bikes just look as silly as really tall bikes. On the taller end of the scale I own it :D

It sounds as if you are looking to DIY. If so, what are you doing about getting the installation signed off for building regs?

Progress? I now live approx 3,500 miles from Peterborough and no longer have it as my nearest city.
That is progress.

One thing a lot of people forget with the cost of riding to workis the extra food you put away. If I did my 75 mile round commute on the bike more than I do it’d cost almost as much as the car in sustenance.

There are break points in distance, time etc. We used to use ‘quicker, cheaper, easier – pick two’ as our mantra for getting people out of cars and on to bikes or public transport. If it isn’t at least two of those they won’t.
For cyclists, this is not the case. Cyclists would do it anyway, hence the answers some of you are giving ref money, distance, time etc.

This is how Mr Scum does it in Bristol. 1st Saturday of each month outside a bike shop and cafe. Every month for something like 8 years now. Just look at the stuff that ends up for sale often for not much more than beer tokens. It means you can barter and swap stuff too!

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/new-years-bristol-bike-jumble

I cannot say enough good things about the Bristol Bike Jumble or the people I met there.

47 facebook group members so far suggest that it’s not pointless

Stand aside, Mr Zuckerberg. We have a social media magnet here!

JUST DO A JUMBLE! No mods, no Facebook, no postage. Just coffee, cake, beer and bike bits!

Perhaps now Im in my 30’s its time to think about it more heavily.

Not really. It’s likely your eyesight will start to deteriorate with age anyway so you’ll not be without glasses fo that long. So I was told by several opticians.

The very best bit about the regular bike jumble is ‘actually talking to people about bikes’. Then you find out what else they have in their shed, where they ride, what they are looking for that you might have in your shed to finish their build etc.

Why not do like AgencyScum did in Bristol and start your own bike jumble? A few people is all it needs to start, find somewhere to do it, 1hr a month. Word of mouth would soon see more people turn up. A regular local bike jumble is a thing of beauty and no postage involved at all!

try a search on here. This exact question gets asked about once a quarter.

I know of 6 people who had good experiences, 2 with bad ones. One of the bad ones will never be able to drive again because of the problems from the surgery.
Statistically the risks are small but the potential impact is rather catastrophic. I’ll stick to glasses and contacts.

Get fat and try and write a thesis?

Well it’s how I’m keeping myself of the bike :cry:

Obviously it wasn’t passed, but that doesn’t mean it’s in the interest of any manufacturer to build products that never need replacing.

but those that can be repaired do earm a place in the hearts and minds of people.

(I know the whole ‘built for manufacture’ thing but we need to rediscover repair again)

A second hand cot bed with a new mattress, regardless of how much money your SO wants to spend. Got ours on eBay and it was unmarked. She was in a moses basket in our room for a couple of weeks then in her own room after that. A second hand rocking chair next to the cot for that transition to sleep is great!

I do claim in my post that I’ve done exactly the same with various other wood and how I prep them to be make that possible. If you really need that proving then I’ll go out of my way to make another vid using something a little thicker, just for you.

Given you put the disclaimer up I wondered why make the video in the first place. Just pondering on the strange things people put up on the internet.

teasel – you really have picked the easiest thing in the world to split for that video.

Is there a reason you are wearing gloves? If there is advice I’ve been repeatedly given from many different sources is not to wear gloves when using bladed hand tools – be that an axe, billhook, sickle, anything.

Sorry – missed the extractor / windows bit. I’d check the extractor is working properly and actually drawing air. Combining that with the open windows might be causing some of the problem. That cold wall combined with that cold air coming in through the windows is a recipe for condensation. If the extractor worked properly it should draw the air from the room and pull air in from elsewhere in the house, which would be warmer and cause less condensation.

When you say air bricks – do you mean ones through the walls higher up, or the ones that are down below floor level on the wall outside?

Drying anything on the rads will add to the humidity. Also, check the dryer hose is properly fastened, sealed and without holes. I’ve suffered from that before.Do you have the ability to lock the windows so they are slightly open? Most DG windows can do this. It sounds as if you need to get some ventilation into the place. There are a lot of issues (double brick walls, voids under floorboards etc). Some big rugs on those floorboards will help warm the place up a bit. With such a big void underneath the job of insulating under the boards wouldn’t be too bad – other than the actual job of cutting through the boards to gain access!
You haven’t mentioned showering / bathing routine. Does that bathroom have an extractor up to the job? You need to work on controlling the ventilation, having the ventilation and reducing the sources of humidity. The shell of the building is a longer term and bigger problem, but reducing what you have to get rid of is the biggie.

You need 14g of coffee for a double shot. Most measuring scoops are fairly close to that. You shouldn’t need that much pressure to tap it down. If you are tamping down that hard and getting such a fast flow the grind is too coarse as said.

You aren’t pushing anything through that basket. Do you have a small angled brush to clean the shower screen and around where the group gasket sits? You’ll be amazed at the coffee that ends up in there.

I got my cleaning stuff from Happy Donkey – descaler sachets, puly caff, a backflushing blank basket and a brush. Give it a go now and then and you keep it running nicely. I found a marked single shot glass, a stopwatch and digital scales helped keep my coffee pulling nicely.

Like a tiny pint of Guinness settling:

http://www.happydonkey.co.uk/hd0866-iberital-mc2-auto.html

You won’t get anything remotely decent under £100 for a grinder. I had a Krups die on me and something like this would last you way more than twice as long. Anything cheaper is, well, cheaper.

so realisticaly a £300 to £500 boat could be competative in some classes

So £2300 to upgrade the boating equivelent of wheels and tyres

Should have stuck to £300 to £500 boats then. Or were you buying carbon and other fancy bits because you like them rather than need them? They sell those bits because you buy those bits.

I weigh 250lbs and am a much crappier and more clumsy rider than the OP – that is a dead cert. My Turner Sultan could take a beating from 2 of me for the rest of my life and still kick my backside.
Someone has something good and someone has something bad to say about every brand of everything in the world.

My own ‘research’ may be out of date now, but it tended to indicate women with little or no imagination and / or no hobbies or other activities.

I always maintained that a business specialising in sofas, DVDs and wine would be a killer proposition for the boring buggers who wrote that.

‘Bubbly’ also means ‘chubby’. Scientific fact.

Do the double glazing units have vents?
Do the floorboards have a void under? Are they insulated underneath? Are the air bricks clear of obstruction? Even if this is all the case you don’t so much get ventilation from there – you get a cold floor. Yes, some air is moving through but without a draw (like an open fire in a chimney which would have been the case when it was built) it isn’t circulating very well. With cold air staying low and warm moist air rising you don’t get much circulation that way.

You’ve not mentioned whether there is extraction for the cooker or any laundry activity. Drying clothes in the house – clothes horse or tumble dryer?

I’ve lived in houses that had no rad in the kitchen at all and they didn’t have condensation problems. However, your kitchen soulds a bit of a ‘cold box’ and ventilation when cooking would be a good start.
You have an old house that has been changed a lot from it’s original design. Regular ventilation is a biggie and identifying your moisture sources and trying to reduce / manage them before they become the humidity problem would go a long way. You want about 50% humidity

I’d suggest something like a Lascar EL-USB-2 then. Logs temperature, humidity and calculates the dew point. More than accurate enough for what you want and will be able to show just how effective (or not) your dehumidifier is.

Have you looked at the causes of the humidity and prevention rather than a cure like a dehumidifier? What is causing the humidity, where and when? Can you prevent it? Can you get it out of the house other than with mechanical and electrical power? Lots of other options if you’ve not explored them yet.