I don't see why you wouldn't have a bell on a town bike. You're supposed to have one, and if you ever ran a pedestrian down, I'm sure some barrister would delight in pointing the fact out. Even if the pedestrian was wearing an ipod and Kanye West's sunglasses.

I'm not a lawyer, but as I understand it, Germany has a codified legal system whereas we rely on case law, so the German law should be easier to find out…

Golf. A Clio will be fun, but you can actually use a Golf as a proper car. Do big miles in it, sit 5 in it, put bikes in the back easily etc.

A Clio will do your head in when you're not ragging it around.

Any casio. Any digital watch. They really take some breaking.

It's first year, therefore it doesn't matter.

Just cut out the middleman, write to the Daily Mirror / Sun / Mail and set up a flaming torch and pitchfork stall at the end of the street.

Problem solved, and you make a small fortune.

Google it. It's been covered by a thousand consumer websites.

They were certainly doing it in the 1950s. Saxon twin tubes and the like.

Oooh, let me think. Driving around like a drunk due to tiredness at the end of a shift? Being irritable?

I have no start-up costs as I already have everything I need. I basically just need to do the work and then I'd invoice for hours & expenses.

There are always start up costs. Even the working capital to tide you over until your first invoices get paid up and basic marketing (ie, taking potential customers for a cup of tea and a bun).

If redundancy is looking likely, hang on until it happens. Gardening leave will pay you to sit at home for a month whilst you sort out your business plan (do one even if you aren't borrowing money, do a proper financial plan and work out what impact pricing changes etc. have on the bottom line). If you get a redundancy package, you've got some seed capital / something to fall back on.

If it's consultancy, I believe it's professional indemnity insurance you'll be wanting.

Am I being overprotective or am I doing the job of the Education Committees Cycling Proficiency Officer?

You're bonkers.

Edit: Double post.

The exclusivity clauses are very rarely enforceable.

The cases where the employer is successful usually involve the employee also stealing contact data or proprietary knowledge.

Usually it is a case of someone leaving, then setting up on their own, or leaving for a competitor.

I expect actually doing business with their clients on the side whilst you are still employed by them would be a very bad idea. Really, a very bad idea. Wait until you've finished your gardening leave.

I think there are lots of divorced blokes about, who have naff all but a Ford Mondeo, a rented flat and a few bad habits to their name. The divorced women tend to have a house and sorted themselves out through necessity.

When it comes to finding a bloke, I suspect a lot of women realise it's going to be near impossible to find someone one something like an equal footing in life.

Yeah, but the 5800 is a wee bit poxy as smartphones go. Hell, the Hero is and I've got one. The iPhone is the obvious daddy, but it's also damned expensive.

I'd personally go down the route of telling her to nod and keep her mouth shut. Anything else is just going to have you marked down as "That pain in the arse" by the teachers.

Google shopping?

GSF? ECP? Any number of VAG parts suppliers?

Get the mesh cut into bits, then wire it together?

I'm older than mr. bunnyhop and it has never caused any problems ( well known to me anyway).

The newspaper said it'll kill you. No really, they did, it was in the papers the other day. Next week it'll extend your life though.

Somehow forgot the 190 Evo…

Do they break seat tubes?

I have a Hero. If you don't use it much, it might last 2 days from one charge.

Nokia 6700 and a tomtom. The 6700 does have GPS mapping, but using a phone as a satnav is a bit ofa joke (bandwidth issues) and only the very high end phones do it. And they suffer from battery life issues due to giant screens and processing power…

Only weakness I can see for the 6700 as a phone is that it doesn't allow setting alarms on a day by day basis, whereas a Sony and most others can be programmed to wake you up at different times on different days.

At any trail centre, there will always be a bloke on a couple of grand's worth of full sus, with his girlfriend struggling to keep up on a hire bike with a face like thunder.

There will also always be at least one old bloke still riding a Klein Mantra or monocoque / elevated chainstay hardtail from 1995. Normally with an astonishing paint job.

60mm on a Reetard rim (21mm internal width, 26.6mm external). As far as I can see, they're the same size as a 2.4 Fat Albert, just a bit taller.

175mm is short. I cut my steerer to 190mm for my Inbred with a couple of spacers, and even that limits frame choice a bit.

This isn't a proper thread about Rubber Queens. There's not anywhere near the level of hyperbole required.

Decathlon do cheap bladders. They have a clicky thing – you pull the valve, rather than a tap.

Yes, but for those of us who aren't in the 50% tax bracket…

THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY POUNDS?

Jesus.

I've found a difference between different QRs. The identiti (or one of the many ones with someone else's name on) ones work for me.

They took the Lancia S4 to Estoril back in the day. It would have placed 6th on the F1 grid if it were eligible…

I think a "hardcore hardtail" would appeal to some, but it seems to be a bit of a UK specific trend from what I read on here, so you may put off a fair few customers. Plenty will be looking for maximum skills compensation in the alps too.

Maybe get one or two within a fleet of full sus?

Isn't that the Celica with the trick valves to bypass the restrictor?

The S4 is gopping. The other Deltas were lovely though.

205 T16 is a little beast, and the Quattros were ace.

As for track stuff, CSLs are where it's at:

Seals within the callipers. There must be some sort of seals around the pistons in there – could they be a problem. Are they user serviceable?

There's not much room for seals to go wrong IME – they're either sealing and retracting the piston, or they're not (which is rare).

i do wonder if it's more to do with lazy working. Unfortunately am tied to 1 company as its a company car. oh well, back there at lunchtime.

Not really in their interest to fix it then, is it? Tracking's out, you wear tyres faster, you go back there for tyres more regularly, they make more money.

I'd suggest making the point that bad tracking can make a car unsafe to drive – grip is reduced and braking distances increase. Maybe mention corporate manslaughter if you're feeling a bit TJ 😆

Is it possible to do this without the drill slipping into the softer alloy?

It is if you centrepunch the sheared bolt and have the hub clamped steady…

I'd personally try freezing it, then a kettle full of water to try and free it off.

You could always try a left hand drill bit, or drilling a small hole in the centre of the bolt, tapping the hole and winding in a smaller bolt, carry on winding to the bottom of the thread and wind it straight through (disc bolt holes normally being open at the back)? Or get some red loctite, loctite a bolt in and try winding it out as per?

I doubt he's updating from beyond the grave 😆

In my experience, National Tyres manage to set tracking properly. Some places just seem to be incapable of it. God knows why – some cars even have a facility for you to lock the rack in the central position so you KNOW everything is at the right starting point.

I suspect the level of kit used is the biggest difference – if your steering rack is not central, there will be big variances in camber from one side to the other. Basic kit won't pick that up, good kit will.