I’m sure riding on the A303 itself would be very exciting.

It might simply be a plug that where live or neutral have come loose and are touching ground. It could be a loose connection in the consumer unit or the unit could have a fault in the circuit. By law, you should have an electrician sort it out, but you might find the fault by simply examining the plugs in your home.

Has something new been plugged in recently? Are you maxing out a ring or spur?

This is a very middle-aged thread. Do you also have those bellies that swell out your nice ‘factory’ mtb clobber? Come on. Oh god. How many of you are cycling in white training shoes?

in which case it will need topping off, unless you are looking to see some weeping at the reservoir cap?

That’s subjective though surely? It’s like not washing your hands after a poo and bum wipe. It will likely not hurt you, but it don’t make it right.

You’ve exposed the system to air, therefore you should bleed. It might not make a huge amount of difference if you are lucky and/or skilfull, but it will unlikely leave the system at it’s best. Maybe 90% of best if you are neat.

Anyone direct me to a good calculator or resource for working out what spokes I need between Nuke Proof Generators and 32H Mavic EN521? Last week I scored a set of Nuke Proof on Fleabay for £90 inc postage, good huh? And a set of Mavic EN521 from fatbirds for just about £62 all in. This is going to be my tough wheelset.

I just think it’s bad practice to shorten a hose and not rebleed at least the lever end afterwards.

An elastic band pulling the levers (doesn’t have to be super tight) also hardens a brake between rides, especially overnight. Neat trick. Always feel just bled.

4 x 5 would be 20

I am not a mechanical clutz, I’ve been swapping out parts since my first bike, a secondhand Raleigh Chopper Original Tall version (1970) and a Raleigh Ultra Burner back in 1980 and 1983 respectively. I fitted my first crank – a Sugino spider – to the Tough Burner when I was 14. I dreamt of owning a Kawahara ET. Apparently Speilberg requested the ET red/white colourway? I digress.

I am not anti-Shimano, and it always seemed inconcievable that SRAM would beat Shimano when it comes to clusters (cassettes). However, I have been pleased with the SRAM 990. I have run loads of XT’s and have 3 I think in various disorderly parts bins around the house.

It is possible I was thinking, that maybe in the same way the Avid rotor issue I had (frequent warping of disc and subsequent scuffing) was totally cured with my new Hope Hooops. Thus maybe the unstiffness of the Shimano hub also caused the Shimano cassette to be inprecise. Each cassette was on a different rear wheel. I guess I have answered my own question, and my test was void. It’s amazing what difference a well built wheel makes.

You can get decent ones in tk maxx. I got this wicked Alpinestars jacket with breathable vents for £7 in TK Maxx. Was chuffed!

Alcohol is by far the worse drug. I used to smoke everyday. When I stopped smoking, I started drinking everyday…

I know which is ‘better’ for me, and it isn’t the beer.

I mean, it’s not as if any of you can ride for shiznit.

You’ll be reading the Daily Mail soon and wearing slippers.

How about a Taiwan of 5’s?

Thought so. Thanks. I don’t think I will use Shimano hubs again, as much as I appreciate a nicely adjusted cup and cone on the rear on a hardtail.

Sure miss the quiet though.

Ah bless, there’s blokes in this thread that almost have testicles.

Angry mob, angry mob, angry mob, be nasty to people, be a ****, go home to mummy, pretend I’m hard, pretend I’m clever, pretend I like MUSE, angry mob.

Hmm, well I’ve had loads of XT’s, though cannot compare those experiences for they were also with XT rear mechs. Just saying, back to back the LX was inferrior from a shifting point of view to the 990 when used with an X9 rear mech. I doubt there’s a whole lot of shifting differences between the old (but it was new) LX M580 and an XT. It’s mostly all drilling and an alloy carrier differences there isn’t it?

You need to learn how to bleed and there is an art to it. Unless you are daft, you can learn this art. The art varies for all brakes. With Hayes it can get fun time nursery messy, but not without its virtues. Avid is very clean. Hope cleaner still. Shimano and Magura great if just for the fact they don’t use DOT brake fluids.

You will need to bleed afterwards. You need to learn how to bleed. Watch a youtube video on it, read a forum post or 10 about it. Look at the Shimano manual. School thyself.

If you think it’s only 400, how can it be brighter than the 900 (I presume P7) when those put out 500-700?

I have two fronts, one for each bike, one came in the exact same box as the ubiqitous magicshine 900 and looks identical in everyway to the macicshine, but it didn’t have the magicshine logo on the light or box. Got it about 2 years ago from an ebay seller in HK for about £55 all in. It has been brilliant. No problems with battery (4400 Ah) or light. I got a D bin P7 900L light from torchythebatteryboy, a uk seller on Ebay a few weeks ago that has also been brilliant apart from the charger failing, though the seller sent me a replacement straight away! Still brilliant, in fact has a lovely thumbscrew aluminium bracket which is great (first version has the Lupine like O ring attachment that has been very good). This second light is also sold as a Sub66 Grenade elsewhere on Ebay.

I have a bunch of lights coming to me soon, a mixture of P7’s and 3xQ5 (claimed 1200 lumens and 4 x Q5) to sell on ebay. Havent seen these designs elsewhere so hoping to make a few bob and keep one meself.

the problem with the labrador is once out of its prime it gets a bit portly and starts to lose its rear legs and just look old.

I can tell you that catchment area plays a large part in social division and is almost entirely responsible for that all important metric – the percentage of students who score A* to C in five of their GCSE’s.

In poor areas less score this. In richer areas more score this. In towns with great social divides with grammar and/or independent private schools the state schools disproportionately service the poor. For all sorts of reasons this group face significant hurdles. Financial stability equals emotional stability as well as a nicer home. This in turn equals a higher 5 A* to C.

Does anyone else detest that garlic pizza sauce they give away with Papa John’s pizza? Ruins a perfectly nice pizza and should come with a warning: warning this sauce will seriously ruin your £20 delivery and make you unhappy.

I love tomatos and tomato sauce is meant to be particularly high in a phytochemical called lycropene. Lycopene gives tomatos and other red vegetables their red pigment and is believed to have anti-cancer properties, of the prostate inparticular. However, since lycopene accumulates in the testes and adrenal glands as well as the prostate, it might be exerting some or all of its anticancer qualities by lowering serum testosterone and DHT in these areas. Which unless you have prostate cancer is possibly not a good thing if you overconsume and you are a natural athlete wanting to increase test.

I like both, or sometimes neither, but I would use red in moderation because it might lower test.

I’ll also happily gloop Tesco Value tomato sauce or fancy smancy Heinz, because they taste a little different perhaps, but not worse.

I have the Desire HD. Got it as a free upgrade, and frequently get lost trying to use it. Maybe I am getting old!

How do I go about doing any of the above? And what kind of useful mountain bike things can I do with it?

MBUK, MB Action, MBR.. they all do PDF versions and I have loads of them.. found them on free torrent sites..

I bought an MB UK out of guilt yuesterday, it’s them that should feel guilty lol. Worst issue I’ve read in ages. Zzzzzzzz

ee say 7 7 wqas an inside slob a job.

yeh and de govment only be k1lling der own infrequently false flag on de toob. So it is sorta safe innit.

Can’t remember how it is worked out overall, but different students have higher or lower cva’s depending on their race, socio-economic class, postcode, fsm and other factors.

You don’t want a chinese or polish female in your class of numpties, because if she fails you will get hammered. HOwever if you have a black, male, on fsm, with unemployed parents, you are onto a winner if you can get him to pass or get higher marks.

I’ve been teaching for 6 years. Polish females have consistently been some of my best behaved and highest scoring students, and when you consider how they rarely make up more than 5% of my student population, they score higher disproportionately. Polish boys have more or less the same attitude to learning as British boys IME. That’s not to say bad on the whole. Just normal, average, neither better or worse IME.

With students I don’t look at their home environment, they are either scoring or not scoring. There always has to be E and Fails, to make the A to D’s have more value, and there will always be students who despite your best efforts score the latter. In good schools you meet less, and in the so-called ‘bad’ schools you meet more who will achieve. Of course nearby Grammar and private independent schools and socio-economic environment and ‘catchment area’ explains all this.

I think you should be a dog walker. There’s loads of dogs around in Reading. Who let the dogs oot!

click a click a click a click a click a click a click….

Don’t mind me, I’m just rolling through on my new Hope Hoops!

I paid the same for my DT EX500 and I am not ashamed I chose not to go with Flows.. I am my own man not a Stan man fan. I do like Sun though, though today it will be mostly raining.

click a click a click a click a click a clack….. shit.

That video is excellent but silly at times and misses the mark. Within the first few seconds it launches into nonsense about the economy not being predictable or indeed controllable… tell that to Goldman Sachs.

VCC, what on earth are you talking about? Do you know my profession? And what profession ends up as you describe? I genuinely don’t understand your post…

And you’re wrong about special measures anyway. Oh, and it’s pedantry, not ‘pedanticism.’

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/pedanticism

Give me strength. Silly billy.

Lots of people in my business say “the job is f**ked”

I’ve no doubt people 30 years ago were saying it and 30 years in the future people will still be saying it

How naive!

what like a baby?

Another study found cyclists have an inflated sense of protection when they wear a hemlet, thus were more inclined perhaps to riskier manouvers.

Defence R&D, very busy and have been for ages.

That’s because one of the main exports of the UK and its child, the US, is war.

I have never worn a cycle helmet. They are stupid. They are only good if you make impact with a small area, such as a stone, rock, or kerb. They are insubstantial and do not offer any significant protection to full head impact by a car or impact to the ground at speed or height. Besides, not all car collisions result in brain injury and brain injury is not always the cause of death. If your torso gets crushed, a helmet will not help you.

I call cyclists that wear helmets ‘helmets’.

In Australia when they made helmets compulsory there was a drop in brain injuries. However, the compulsory requirement to wear a helmet had caused less people to cycle and this was found to correlate with the drop in brain injuries.

A recent study found that motorists were more inclined to drive closer when you wore a hemlet, unless you were female.

UK mentality on the roads is that cyclists are the enemy. I gave up cycling on the roads ages ago. Not worth the risk. British people are too impatient and hostile.

Both sides engage in propaganda.

We’re better at it. We’re more rotten.

Teaching is ****. There are now far too many teachers, and schools have restricted budgets so many new entrants are not getting proper contracts. Also, supply teaching virtually no longer exists, since most supply is now tackled by in house cover supervisors (usually non-degreed) or even supply cover supervisors (i.e. a person off the street with a clear eCRB who registers with an agency). DT is being cut, art depart,ments are being cut.. anything that uses resources is being cut…

So thanks Goldman Sachs et al. Thanks a lot for your high speed trading gambling con and other associated trickery.

you think you’re better looking than her! lol

(you probably are)