the questions pour in now….psychle, do you know if this is just an Islington thing or will they becoming to other boroughs?

paradigm shift could be a little strong but like cookea and the DMR trailstar above I was thinking the Santa Cruz Chameleon.

I dn't apologise for calling you a troll – your post was full of inconsistencies

Harsh. wtf do you want from him? A report with references

nice flower pot bottle cage. Very resourceful 😉

I ask for paypal gift or buyer to pay the fees. IME the buyer gets all the protection of using paypal so they should pay for this benefit.

the Ryan Air business model is sweeping the nation 🙁

yup, I fear the horse too. Fields full of bullocks upset me also. I though am soft.

there is if you go to mosquito, ibis, indy fab, merlin, moots, litespeed etc etc etc could you want more MTB bling?

I want more 😉 they have about 1 frame of each and not a lot of kit to fiddle with and poke or buy. I was disapointed myself but hey, you can't please everyone.

and just round the corner is 14bikes which has some very nice fixie stuff too.

No mountain bike exotica to be found in central london though

I'll give you calm down you young whippersnapper you. Taking my name in vain

ahem

whilst not being too exciting on the overtaking front yesterday some of the in-car camera shots were mental. Especially from Alonso hounding the back markers.

this is my old commute – it was an old British Eagle. Nicked from my back garden

my new one – an SE Lager with Mary bars – it's fun

oh, more advice. Set up a savings account or ISA and put each month's tax in it. When Jan 31st comes you should then be covered.

Good advice above. Note down everything. Two years later I am still at this stage and not going to try and complicate it (best I don't – I seem to have umbrella companies and LTD companies etc confused from what's above) as my wages and amounts of tax I pay are in-line with what I payed when employed. NI does seem higher though.

I know a couple of people recruited through high street temping agencies where this scenario has happened. As I say, I am sure it is becoming common practise.

This kind of happened to me a couple of years ago. I got taken on by a small research company but not as PAYE. So I am a self employed sole trader. I work for them monthly and invoice them monthly. It probably falls under IR35, I pointed this out to them so I now have the freedom of taking on my own work. As long as a little job comes in every now and again it should get around the IR35 problem.

Umbrella companies are good – then you can pay yourself dividends and a minimum wage (less tax). However – I am pretty sure the cost of an accountant a year to do this for me wouldn't cover any tax savings (I may be very wrong though).

If you've been offered holiday that's good. Sounds like they are avoiding PAYE costs their end. It seems to be happening an awful lot nowadays.

I think you mean, 'pads', not 'calipers'.

that i did

XTRs (the calipers have ti back plates so a must for any ti build 😉 )

do you need another spacer?

wow, it's the first time i've read STW and all the comments have been positive!

But I agree. Nice bike. Scary terrain. Very well ridden.

I think the clue is in your name

exactly what i was thinking, along with, just as well really

dot-eyed moon-face is the best description I've heard of him so far

oh come on, this is several kinds of awesome surely?

I am not sure which kind but I'm with you, I like

I like seeing all these old bikes being done up to be honest. Some are not to my taste but some are. All good clean healthy fun

DezB with more musical treats! Excellent, a new Trentemoller mix. He really is rather good.

some inspiration for you

I did it in a non-competitive way last weekend with a bivi stop in the middle. An excellent ride it was too, the scenery was beautiful – not that you'll have time to look at that.

Good advice from rock above, I wouldn't want to do in the wet.

agreed jojo

Lib dem. First voted that way (1997) as I never understood the two party system. Now, well, my original sentiments still stand really and the policies (now I actually look at them) strike a chord (Trident, tax threshold, bank breakup etc).

Labour 11
Conservative 4
Lib Dems 18
Green 1
Plaid Cymru 0
UKIP 0
BNP 1
NF 0
Respect 0
SNP 2
Spoiled/Void Ballot 1

i did the majority of the south downs way on friday and saturday with a couple of friends. 83 mostly off road miles with a bivi stop in the middle. Great fun and extremely lucky with the weather too. Not done a lot since though.

If you vote Labour, you'll be voting for the ruin of the UK

to be honest any party is going to have a tough time of it. Basically, this is a good election to lose which I think Gordon knows given his efforts yesterday.

for the mean create a column c which is col a * col b. Then sum col c and divide that by the sum of col a.

median is trickier – thinking cap is on (but my reading glasses are not – just seen you did the mean)

TM – underground mostly developed by an American, ne c'est pas?

the underground may have been but the map is certainly an iconic design, by Harry Beck, an englishman

damn it I bit

Ale time

Heather Bash the golf comments are true – it is an elitist game and they are very greedy with the countryside. Pitch and putt and crazy golf are quite good fun though.

that's just showing off! I want it.

6'5" here and generally don't have a problem with frames – had a couple of 20" Konas, a couple of XL Chameleons and currently a 20" tinbred. All with silly long seatposts mind but smaller frames are more fun. The majority of people I ride with are 6'4" plus (I'm a tallist, or would it be shortist?) anyway, they all ride easy to come by frames.

I've never found good stuff in the sales being tall though, big frames are never in sales because they don't make many.

beer

and oneeyedwilly and his bombers

very nice, well ridden too – I had the pleasure of mincing about Stainburn a few weekends back (hangovers and Stainburn don't sit well together)

Good to see them finally being taken seriously

I agree. It's very dull to hear people writing them off all the time, especially given what are meant to be the "serious" contenders.

looks familar to me too – the 3rd photo, is that just inside the Spanish border, east of Handaye?

the long termers do have better rates but this is technically my house deposit. Maybe, just maybe I can strike this year so don't want any penalties involved for an early withdrawal.

excellent…the carbon Blur 4X will be mine then (maybe in two years time)