You must have been pipped to the post by another bidder 😉

My new LBS had clearly ‘reserved’ his allocation for his mates

2 more I rang on the list were not taking part. List has now gone from press release……

In the press release it says that once the tyre allocation has gone after June 1st there will be no more – well its May the 27th so that would suggest that they can get more but aren’t bothering

Well done to those that get some but I reckon this could have been handled better

You must feel so hard done by not getting free tyres 😉

How rude of them to save the free tyres for the people who spend the most money in their shop

#firstworldproblems

Save your penis for now. There must be one or two peeps on here willing to take you out.

😯

welcome to stw!

but as above skills course or just riding with better people is the best thing to do really.

Thing is they ofter have custom or proto versions anyway, so will be different compounds etc to the production stuff.

Rode a roubaix with disks today. Good bike apart from the fact it is £1500 and the non-disc one has 105 rather than sora and only £100 more.

Just picked up some TLD knee/shin pads as felt the most comfortable (no Velcro). Tried POC, fox, 611 etc.

Will see how they hold up when I get out on my bike on the weekend.

How many people who say “you can’t notice such a small difference in wheelsize” change their stem to one 20mm shorter or fit a 1 degree angle-set and say it has totally changed the bike?

We still have a few 2013 26″ bikes in the shop with big discounts but people walk right past them to the 650bs… nobody is forcing them to.

Yeah because that is what lbs demo bikes are for 🙄

I can’t wheelie…

… and I even live on a council estate so I am very much breaking a tim honoured tradition.

Just to add… I hope all the people who voted UKIP are aware and happy with their plans for a flat rate 32% income tax. Will really help the help all the people who get the jobs the immigrants have been stealing 😉

That is why I said or the EU…

I’m not trying to imply all people who voted UKIP are racist. Just seems everyone has default voted for UKIP as they don’t want to stay in the EU, other parties offer this referendum whilst also actually having other policies.

That is the issue really guns are so ingrained into American society they seem to find it incomprehensible to think they are not a good idea.

Democracy is ruined by the fact so many people are stupid…(and nige knows this very well and used it for his gain)

Because most people don’t look past the headlines and decide they don’t like immigrants or the EU so it must mean they have to vote UKIP rather than looking into the fact they won’t actually do anything…

IE the green party manifesto includes an in-out referendum but nobody noticed that because they aren’t in the news every other day for saying racist comments etc

(I did not vote green or UKIP though)

Don’t give nutters guns… and as it is not that easier to tell who they all are just give no one any guns seems the best solution.

Americans will no doubt respond with an NRA sponsored “guns for todlers” policy or something.

The point is you can’t contest whiplash that is why they choose that injury. If it as a broken arm there is an xray which shows they do or do not have a broken arm. Whiplash there is no such luck.

If they have a doctors report (often doctors paid privately by the claims company) then there is not much you can do to avoid paying out, hence why the insurance company will try to settle quickly as if they say that they need a doctors report done, one will be completed and then the value of the claim will go up plus them adding the £200+ doctors fee on the top.

So if they did back out of it you must have just got lucky that the person trying to scam you had a conscience and decided better of lying their way through it.

An anti EU party voting against more EU regulations. Who’d ha ve thought it?

Atlaz already explained my point. UKIP have the worst attendance record of all MEPs in the entire EU then even if they do turn up they will vote against anything which gives more powers to the EU regardless of the circumstances, as in the ivory example given.

They really are not going to anything to make any changes happen. Peoe just seem to think that if you want the country to leave the EU then you had to vote for UKIP and there was no other option….

Yay more UKIP MEP’s to claim every expense possible and not turn up to anythings and vote against the EU regardless of the actual issue being voted on…

Not to mention probably making the odd racist/sexist slurr in public now and again.

/sarcasm

…end

crap.

The doctor has only the patients description of the incident and their symptoms to go on- whiplash can’t be seen in and examination, or a scan or a blood test. Thats why its the injury of choice for spurious claims.

However… if you ask the claimant to provide a contact for the doctor that has made the assessment so that you can show that doctor a photograph of the vehicles damaged in the accident…. then the claimant goes all quiet and the claim gets dropped. The claimant will have had to describe a collision far more severe than the one that actually happened to get the diagnosis and speaking to the doctor would make that evident.

So rather than ‘let’ the insurance co deal with it, make them deal with it properly.

You’ve completely missed my point. I’m not saying what happens is right but what you have described just doesn’t happen in the real world.

Person goes to doctor and says “I’ve had a car crash my neck hurts” so Dr says “you have probably got wiplash”. There is no physical sign of this so cannot use Xrays or anything definitive as proof.

So a few phone pics of tiny dents in bumpers will not hold up in court as proof they didn’t have wiplash against a qualified medical professional’s diagnosis.

Also a doctor will base their diagnosis on what the patient has desribed as being their injury doctors don’t ask you for pictures of where you fell over or what your car looked like after the crash to work out what injuries you have do they?

Probably not needed but If you can afford to then worth giving it a go, you can always switch back to yours after a few runs if you hate it.

Amazing the amount of phone calls you get asking for advice on fitting or set up tips for the components people just got in the post from an online competitor. I accept our customers buy some things elsewhere when the prices are just so much lower than what we can offer on OEM stuff etc. But some people have never set foot or spent a penny in our store yet seem to think it is perfectly fine to just use our phone as a technical support line…

I am always nice and help where I can as everyone is a potential customer but I am really shocked with the way some phone calls go.

IMO stick with what you use, works great and a lot cheaper than anything as good from conti/maxis/schwalbe etc

I used to work in the insurance industry, although a large percentage of whiplash probably isn’t real, there isn’t much you can do. If a doctor says they have whiplash (not hard to get) then that is evidence from a medical professional which is very hard to dispute.

Are you in the pool at the same time as the aqua aerobics class? 😉

Sold one for £4k (not mine), so isn’t really a limit just depends on original spec.

Ask your LBS, we have a park scales for such requests.

Was probably just midgets riding bmx…

Or 24″ cruisers.

Superstar non-thru pins for me. Larger platform and more pins iirc than the thru-pins so better fit for my size twelve canal barges.

Not to stereotype but I agree with the above post…

Some frames are here, 12 WK wait for more I think

I ride with an alpkit gourdon (fully waterproof backpack) with my clothes in it and leave shoes at work. Either Take a lunch box or I work opposite a shop so food ins’t really an issue.

Works fine for me, much easier now I work in a bike shop as I can take my bike in with me and can wear shorts at work rather than a suit…

Voted. Pretty disgusted at the Britain first tagline using Lee rigby on the ballot when his family have expressly said they didn’t want his name or picture used by them. 1/4 of the options were for fascists and I managed to not vote for any of them (y)

Only read last sentence but yes.

Wasn’t that frontera being left at the top of Snowdon on a regular basis and nobody really knew who was doing it?

I hope never as currently this means we will be ruled by fascists.*

*insert topical gag about current government

Just look at how out it is.
Ie 90 degrees from straight when tight, then take it off then use the numbers to rotate 90 degrees and voilà.

Good point, but people are idiots as proven by the fact Britain first has more Facebook followers than any of the other political parties…

(I am aware Facebook likes are not counted as votes)

Stumped up for a day pass. Looks like it will be fun little spot and not that far away from me.

Get some fat slicks like big apples