yup small ones fit certain cups bigger ones fit other cups…

ebygomm – Member
Our landlord has just put the house we've rented for the past 18 months up for sale, two months notice is not really security.

Your landlords is a fool to give you notice, probably been badly advised by the dumb estate agent.

Round here a rental property is much more easy to sell with tenants in it. Imagine buying a rental prop empty and then having to wait for x weeks to rent it, most people are looking to move but need to give a months notice – you could lose maybe 6-8 weeks rent. Yawn, estate agents are thick and useless liars. Of course he might think that people would want to live there as a residential prop but still average sales take more than 2 months to I would not give you notice (if buyer wants vacant possesion) until I had a firm solid looking offer.

If you want to stay, I would go back to the landlord and tell him this advise, maybe look at the local rental market if its booming tell him this. Ask the dumb agent (or a dumb agent) what % of the buyers are likely to be landlords , if it's high then tell him this too (this will probably go over the agents head as did I mention that they are worse than useless).

There is a the objection that some will say – you cant complete without vacant possesion- total b*llocks- sold and bought many props with tenants in.

Kempfab, send me an email address in profile. 8)

mk1fan – Member

If the place is actually an HMO the Landlord has unlimited access into the communal areas and they are required to give notice if they wish to enter any of the bedrooms.

Only if the tenants are on separate contracts – if they are on one joint contract it can still be a HMO but the landlord access thing is a bit more of a grey area.

I'm a convicted carnivore, I am fat, unfit but bloody hard.
Lots of my mates are veggy/vegan and they are all fit as tits..

I wish meat eaters would admit to themselves that they only eat meat for pleasure, you do not need it you can and will live a fantastically healthy live as a veggy, probably better than your average hormone soaked meat eater.

I only eat organic/free range or that which I have killed, and I do it all for pleasure only.

The funny thing is when I tell people that I shoot pheasant/bunny/deer they say "ooh how cruel" as they tuck into their lamb chop..
I say to all my fellow m,eat eaters face up to your morals.

Gibbonator – I understand your beef. Agents are tosspots its money for nothing, not only do they charge you, they will be charging the landlord for new contracts too, they win both ways. I don't charge set up fee's I am 100% private.

Like I said if you don't want to sign you don't have too, but he will just rent it out from under you.

But none of this is relevant to the other part you asked about letting them look round. Try and limit it to times that suit you (like either when you are or are not there depending on your preference.) But not letting them look round is just going to get you in grief…

mrmo – Member

just to put another twist on this the house i am renting is £650, this is the normal rate for what i am renting, there is a house on the market two doors up, same style two up two down early victorian terrace, for £205,000… I haven't got a clue how they can justify the price but houses are still massively over valued.

The "dead money" thing can be a bit misleading – For example in mrmo's quote above he says that the house he rents for 650 is approx worth 205k.

205k @ 4% interest (interest only) = 8200 pa – £683 per month

And that is just the interest which if you are on interest only then this is essentially dead money too.

If you rent mrmo's house for 650 you don't have to pay any maintenance costs, building insurance new boilers etc etc. I can see the case for renting..

OK bias alert – I am a landlord, but I let exclusively to students so I am not here to convince you that renting is best I'm just opening your eyes to a myth.

Ok if you go onto repayments too then you will be paying another 390 odd a month but importantly as the sum owed reduces then the interest (and "dead money" ) reduces I'm just working out how long it will take before the interest payments go below mrmo's rental figure of 650.

My 456 14 inch for stumpy types..

2.2 materials engineering
MSc Superconduting Matierials (From a physics dept)
Quit Phd in fatigue of welded aluminium after 20 months to go and do paid research into the fatigue of welded steel..

I use my edumacation every day and thank the secondary school I went to for pointing me towards the sciences and giving me fundamental problem solving skills.

I value my education very highly I am now doing what I love and it seems to be loving me…

I knew a bloke who was a technician in a big metals research centre in Holland, he was the cleverest bestest metallurgist I have ever met, he invented a new corrosion resistant weldable Al Alloy formulation which almost every lightweight passenger ferry built since 1998 is now made of. Not a single post 17 qualification to his name, although he had read a lot of books and had lots of experience.

Ok you lot have said too much, I'm going, I'm going! Just gotta find something to do with the kids for 2 weeks..

Willy ; leaky, damp, mouldy are all things you should get the local council housing people to help you with, if the landlord isn't getting his proverbial together. There is no excuse for disrepair.

Give him a chance first, like write and give him a reasonable time to sort it, then get the council in they are normally keen as mustard to try and f*ck a landlord over. A landlord was recently sued 20k for allowing a mould to continue in his property.

I'm the aforementioned – a student landlord :D

I don't think I am scum, and I don't think my tenants think so, 2 out of four of my houses have just signed on for next academic year, with no coercion from me.

1) If you don't want to sign then don't, just don't expect to be offered to renew if you change your mind because he may well have offered it elsewhere.

2) You can refuse access – maybe not legally but in practise you can. Look at it this way, if I write to my tenant that I'm coming round in a week and they reply, no you can't (which is unreasonable) and I just walk in on the afore mentioned date then that's potentially harassment, landlords get in big trouble for this. But if you continued to be unreasonable then I would apply to the courts to gain legal access – then you would have to let me in.

It makes more sense to just be reasonable – yes they have the right, but they can't enforce the right without a court order (unless they want to risk being done for harassment – prison). So try and be reasonable otherwise any sensible landlord is going to come down on you with the full force of the law and make you wish you hadn't made everyone's life so difficult.

Stu McGroo – Member

unfortunately this thread has now gone sour, the whole point was to determine whether or not a frame of comparable quality to the best coming from the far east could be produced in the uk for the same price.

to reiterate… the same quality and the same price but made in the uk.

to double reiterate… not of lesser quality and not for a premium price.

shall i reiterate again?

+1

Roter Stern – Member

Well if you like riding like this I would say it would be a very good idea to go there indeed.

I do like riding like that!

This is my favourite bike, with the triple on there its great at Afan..

The hand holding is great for much embarrassment, it also spreads the embarrassment around the group as you take turns, and spreads diseases..

Love my 456, fox vanilla r 140s I have never been annoyed by pedal bob so if it does it then I haven't noticed. Great ride, do anything bike.

Chucky (aka Vortex Racing) – Member

Frame design is more important than the tubing/material in determining how it'll ride

spot on.

+1

Space Hopper god. We had all movement of the stag can only be done whilst holding hands with another stagee, also throughout the day the stag was wearing a long arm/leg cerise leotard. In the evening it gets worse…

Yeah well the bloke who told me this I'm not 100% sure is correct because 953 for example is a carpenter product and they are US. Anyway my point was in exploring the OP's idea I wonder if anyone in the UK has the capability to butt tube, do you know of anyone?

I think the racism thread is a bit of old toss really, HTTP404 has missed StMCGroos point completely – he explicitly said it was about economies – ie lets support our own economy because ultimately it will come back to line our pockets.

I want a British built bike because we can do it, and as the OP said with the changing economies here and "over there" the price difference might not be so much, and because of Stu MCGroo's point about the economy , and because of British pride. Is it racism to support the national team at rugby/wendyball/cricket/etc no it bloody well isn't, so supporting the national team at engineering/manufacturing is a good thing.

brant – Premier Member

I must say that personally I have no great "national pride" in Britain

I hope this doesn't turn out to be your Ratner moment..

Kempfab – I assumed you were talking about Butting (thickness reduction)- not fitting together of tubes. So because you mentioned it I wondered if you have access to butting equipment or know of an outfit that does. My experience in the exhaust industry doesn't cover butting tubes. Obviously reynolds do this but I think its all done in the states or far east now, I wonder if there is any butting capability in the UK.

EDIT : Have just been informed that Reynolds do all their butting in the UK in House.

Kempfab, I dont know anything about tube butting, is that something you can do?

kempfab – Member

Fascinating thread, I have been thinking of making a frame myself for a while. Has anyone dabbled with 15CDV6 yet?

#wanders off to sketch adjustable jig#

That's smart thinking. Great stuff to make a bike frame out of.

You need witnesses.

I got hit by a bus (in my car) last year. I was dazed and confused, whilst the bus driver moved the bus out of its dodgy accident causing positon, then started taking photos, and then having a go at me. I was just in shock. Anyway luckily for me to army officers were in the car behind the bus and were just quietly waiting for the bus driver to go away. One came over to my car an handed me a piece of paper with their names, addresses, rank and number on. It turns out they had seen everything, videoed using the their fone cams the driver moving the bus and then taking fotos and he had crossed the white line by about 4 ft which is why he hit me. I got insurance for my car and £2800 for my injuries. Apparently driver lost his job as he put in statement which was contrary to the army officers and their video and contrary to 6 passengers who took it upon themselves to write to Stagecoach and tell them what happened.

We used ski lifts[/url] good price, bike friendly and even a shoulder to cry on when some fool took my bag at baggage claim and left em with no cycling kit for 24 hrs…

I've got a 456, apart from very tight clearances between the chainrings and the frame which can exacerbate any chain suck problem, its a fab bike to ride, I love it.

tron – Member

I can't see it myself. The idea that quality will be better just because it's in the UK is way off kilter in my opinion. Taiwan has one of the most competitive economies in the world, and a hell of a lot of experience of building bikes.

I don't think that is the point, no one has said just because its British its best quality, but we do have the capability to make the best quality bikes if we wanted to. BTW from what I have seen of Taiwanese welding you need to have the cream of British skills to be able to make stuff of as good a quality. That I think is a good thing, we can't have any complacency in this brave new world…

Anyway sod Raleigh, I've got an old Curtis BMX in the attic, and its effing excellent, in fact Curtis are still going strong and doing the same thing they have always done, shit hot quality bike frames.

Stu McGroo and others, just because some of the people involved with the bike industry who post on this forum don't think its possible, doesn't mean it isn't.

Is Brant/Cy/Sam or any of our industry friends here the best bike bike designer out there with the best grip on finances, manufacturing and the market? Such that we should take everything he says as gospel? How do we know Brant hasn't got this precise idea up his sleeve and is Pooh Poohing this because its going to walk straight into his niche?

I personally don't think Brant is all of those things, no disrespect but Brant is a relative newcomer to the bike market. Not that his experience doesn't mean anything, just look at the way the blue pig addresses his previous mistakes. I'm not trying to knock it, I've got a 456 and love it, its just I dont think Brants or anyone elses opinion is the end of the story.

I applaud the OP's way of thinking and don't want to knock the guy down or discourage him. I think with a bit of smart, original thought and some big balls it could be possible, for less than the figures bandied about above.

Go for it, I for one am interested and happy to help in any way.

I have a WTP Unified cruiser its great..

What about avid elixir 5's does anyone have any experience with them?

ernie_lynch – Member
khant

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I use mydeposits[/url]

At the moment I'm using shimano with kmc quick links..

Avid elixir Cr are they light then?

organic355 – Member

Cooking Pheasants, I had to read that a few times

[Snobby W*nker Mode]
Uggh imagine how grotty they would taste, all fattened up on KFC and Rustlers microwave food, it would be worse than eating a town pigeon.[/Snobby W*nker Mode]

I think that even if my contract didn't say rent as well and a tenant ran off without paying his rent and hadn't damaged my property I would keep the deposit and make them challenge me for it. TDS is not binding if I disagree they have to sue me to get money back. But I dunno what the implications of this are never having had to face it..

I use the insurance backed scheme for TDS rather than handing the dosh over to a third party, at least I've got it and they have to fight me for it.

This is why I recommended the OP stop paying rent now, because he will have a poor time trying to get any other money back off the LL.

Thick Liar?

Or win the lottery and start out with a big sum…

supersessions9-2 – Member

Toys- fair point. Not sure what OP wants in reference to question as he seems to have the answer there.

My assumption (always wrong) was that they didn't know the basics, the text book looking like a typical first year text. What book is it by the way?

supersessions9-2 – Member

toys, thatwould work in a purely tensile example, but here he has combined loading so needs a more complex model. Surely what he's looking for is Factor of safety against failure point. So first needs to consider failure mode.

Yeah sorry I edited probably whilst you were posting, I agree but I just don't think that level of complexity is in this question …