My comment was just to highlight whether people thought it was “stingy” to charge for a 3 minute job
i think it just highlights the fact that you were too stingy to pay 😯

1991 on a raleigh highlander – 200gs gears, Biopace chainset, plastic levers and brakes, cheng shin tyres, vetta gel saddle and a reynolds 501 frameset with the most awesome paint job ever – Teal coloured forks and head tube fading into white fading into hot pink on the chain and seatstays.
Thats was a proper colour scheme.

becuase its convinient and some of them actually provide a decent service and good advice. If we don’t occasioally support them we will all be shopping in miserable ill lit hypermarkets and on the internet in about 20 years.
Give em a break for charging – they have to employ staff, pay taxes, stockhold etc

If they want to survive in business then i would suggest they charge. There seems a strange mentality on here that we should all get something for nothing from a bikeshop. Have you tried it anywhere else? Even though the people they employ maybe quite pally with you you shouldn’t expect something for nothing all the time.
Rant over

scruff – i doubt they should be using the bike shelter to smoke in – read this http://www.midstaffs.nhs.uk/visitingUs/noSmoking/index.asp

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cooking-Around-World-Carolyn-Humphries/dp/0572032897/ref=pd_sim_b_25

Try this book, we did Aztec beef the other week – beef with cocoa powder – and it was awesome.

i think one is called will

no BT did it…. http://www.thephonebook.bt.com/publisha.content/en/search/residential/search.publisha?Surname=simpson&Location=carlisle&x=35&y=5&Page=3

As long as stretch the cable when you fit them you don’t really need them – i just use an allen key on the avid shorty every now and again.

I Simpson
Tel: (01228) 543318
16 Currock Bank Rd, Carlisle, CA2 4RN

Thank BT

sheffield + cycling paths? are you taking the michael – there are non of any use anywhere in the city. Most bus lanes are parked up too.

Try this for leaving sheffield – i’ve done it from Hunters Bar roundabout for you (well known roundabout on ecclesall road – you can plan your own route to there).
I use this route if i’m riding out from home
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2569149 it should link up with whats described above ‘Yorkshire Bridge up to Hope Cross, Jaggers to Edale, Jacobs into Hayfield then the Peninne Bridleway to Rowarth, Mellor Cross to Roman Lakes, local stuff (and possibly food at my house) to Stockport and then Mersey Cycle Way back into Manchester. ‘

holidays…

deore – go for a poo before you ride and save your money (and go on nice holdays instead)

I should have suggested these. I use the cantilever version on my cross bike and they are excellent. Much better than my previous avid pads http://greyville.com/products/4497?store_referer=false

compatible…

yes they are shimano cartridge pads – you should be able to go for any replacement pads that say they are ompatible with a shimano cartridge system (there are lots of makes available)

I just pay on card when the bill comes, you get the same discount for prompt payment (10days i think) as you do with a DD.

eat a whole tub of marmite

Giler (giles) at Bracknell cycles is well worth a shout.

My scarpa seem to fit fine. I’d recommend them. They’ve been great in this snow.

My mrs is five two/ size 8/10. Alpkit were really good on the phone, they had no stock on the website, but my mrs phoned up and found they had just had a jacket returned (wrong size) so she got that one. I think she got the smallest ladies size available. Annoyingly its much nicer than my down jacket. It has a slight drop tail + quite long body and a really good hood.

my mrs has just bought the alpkit down jacket and its really nice/ great fit. I’m guessing alpine girl is a strange shape 😯

http://www.pigeonwatch.co.uk/recipes.htm

cheers

its perfectly acceptable -if you nearly get knocked off you bike twice, by the same muppet in a short space of time, then i think they deserve a warning of some sort or another.

who really cares. We all drive foreign cars, eat foreign food, holiday abroad, drink foreign alchohol, wear foreign made clothes.
We don’t like foreigners taking our jobs…. well you should have thought of that a while ago.

the old renault twingo is my choice

Hopefully all my shares that i’ve just bought 😯

it looks similar to a cyclo cross chain guard. In cross though they use two – one each side of the ring instead of a front mech.

JUNKYARD – read the post you twit. 🙄

It is Keith. How are you? Looking forward to the alps i’m guessing.
love
Will
xxx

It was a fairly easy choice in that they paid my student loans off (whilst i was teaching) and that it was the most interesting option available to me after i had finished my degree. I taught DT by the way.
Don’t get me wrong i have friends who love teaching, but i just fell out of love with it over time.

I did. Taught for 2 years and then thought surely there is more to life than this.
Don’t get me wrong i enjoyed some of the classes (years 7 and 11 and my sixth form group) but years 8 to 10 little nightmares.
I taught at a school with a good record but just decided it wasn’t for me.

Save yourself some money by going on the first weekend of the month – most museums are free on the first sunday – http://en.parisinfo.com/guide-paris/money/free-admission-and-good-deals/guide/free-admission-and-good-deals_free-on-1st-sunday-of-the-month-all-year-round
For food i always try to go for the plat du jour (sp?) they always seems quite good value. Wandering round the parks is nice (and free) try jardin du luxembourg.
I would recommend the musee d’orsay over the louvre. The louvre whilst excellent takes ages to look around/ take everything in.

blowfish again.

http://www.findwatches.co.uk/images/z_F-91W-1XY.jpg

A true design classic!

i use http://www.selftrade.co.uk

I’ve been buying taylor wimpey and rbs recently. Just remember its basically gambling.

Vodafone may be worth watching