I’ll take that as a no then 🙂

The Proflex’s crop up fairly regularly on Ebay and it’ll have Girvin forks by the sounds of it.

I’m holding on to my now quite rare and extremely ugly Trek DH Pro from 1998 in the hope that one day Trek will need it for a museum and pay me silly money for it. I keep meaning to build it up as it is indestructible.

Took my two mutts out for a walk earlier and they stood and watched when a rocket went off – probably used to loud bangs from the womb as their mum is a working gundog.

When I lived in Crystal Palace my cats used to sit at the bay window and watch quite fascinated at the display in the park about 200 yards away.

Mudrider

Thanks for link, great thread and really interesting stuff. I’m quite embarrassed that I’d never heard of the make(s) or Mr Apps prior to this thread 😳

Riding position looks very interesting as do a lot of the other ideas, Cheers

My ML8 is called Xavier……………

Very local (weather depending) as on nightshift all weekend 🙁

Now who’s got the sense of humour failure Woody?

Errrr, not me judging by my vague attempt at a humorous response. Maybe I should have put a smiley to make it obvious for you 😆 there you go……………

Thanks for the link user_removed. That is too cheap not to try out even though I have no problems with my current ones!

There are worse pics of furryness on here……..and Realman – sense of humour failure or just disappointment?

Thanks. That’s not much more than I paid.

Website is still showing £56 for a frame, which is what annoyed me a bit last time as I drove down there (over 2 hours each way) and was told it was £86 for a metallic, frame only !

Very nice finish but Ive since used Bettablast who were just as good and much cheaper with only a little less colour choice.

portlyone

If you don’t mind me asking – how much was the candied (I had an Inbred done about 8 years ago at SSS) as when I last asked the prices were nowhere near the ones on the website ?

Cheers

Never slipped yet. I would get a mech hanger/gears but it’s not worth it for a 12 year old frame 😉

Here’s my pub/around village bike with anti-theft device. 12 year Coyote frame with various bits which were lying around/picked up cheap. It’s all going to be transferred to a 1994 Marin Bear Valley frame when I eventually get round to having it powder-coated.

LOL @ your ‘average’ STW commuter.

With the odd exception, most people would be over the moon to have any of them as their best bike !!

The Cleland stuff is interesting. Has anyone on here got one?

Also interesting that Brant gets a name check re a possible limited frame production run.

Only been on for 2 very short periods at ’18’ since it turned cold (it got too hot after 1/2 hour) and even at its coldest have left it off overnight. I’ve never needed to turn it on at all in the afternoon when on nightshift.

I have a feeling my next door neighbour (semi-detached house) has hers cranked right up as her two young kids never seem to be in more than shorts and t-shirts and my house is heated through the party wall !

Been to a couple of these when I had my own business.

First one we thought we had such an airtight case we didn’t hire a solicitor and got thoroughly shafted. Second one we were on distinctly dodgy ground and hired a barrister and came away several thousand better off (even with his £350 per hour fee…and that was quite a few years ago!)

As above advice – get a solicitor

I was compelled to switch it over after about 30 seconds of the guy. Everything about him screamed total @*$*

Had the same problem on a couple – good quality ones, a Blackspire and a RF IIRC.

Eventually had to skim a bit off the inside with a Dremel to get them on. Wish I’d thought of the hacksaw option !

Very nice but not much room for dropping the seatpost if you’re that way inclined!

I want one. Gets over most of the reasons/excuses I use to rarely commute by bike.

Wonder if it qualifies for the cycle to work scheme ? Don’t see why not !

Is this any good – I know nothing about cameras 😳

Onsale Monday 8th Nov in Lidl

Top work fella. Let’s hope you can keep up with her 😉

You really need to see a podiatrist.

I had a problem with one which had gone on for years (broken initially in a crash – toe and nail)) and she gave me the option of whipping it off and phenol to prevent any regrowth (as per derek starship) or cutting it lengthwise and phenol on the cut half.

1 year later it had returned to normal width and been no problem since.

PS Trail-rat I’m glad I saw that before my dinner

looks too nice to read sat on the coffe table

Have to agree with that and I have been ridiculously careful with mine, which is a bit silly. After all, it’s only a bike mag……isn’t it?

Very good read but definitely not one for perusal whilst on the throne 😉

Thirst due to salty coating used to disguise tasteless processed fish ?

Bettablast very good and very reasonable.

Have a look at their Facebook link for some very nice examples

I quite fancied one until I saw the design and price 😯

Dearie dearie me

All sensible sensitive replies.

You need to set a timescale so that one of you can move out the minimum financial loss or cost to the other. This would necessitate your ex being reasonable and not awkward and bitter.

Realistically………….. find an expedition that leaves next month !

This makes me feel much better about being single 😆 ahhh the memories………………..although I think between them the ex-wives have probably complained about everything listed above except for blowing my nose on my pyjamas, which is repulsive and only marginally better than wiping your nob on the curtains which of course I have never done, ever!

Love it. Brian is ridiculously cute !

My twosome, brother and sister Bart and Sophie. I really must get some more pics of them!

beauty of the internet and typing not always coming over the way you meant it I suppose

And there-in lies the root of many a spat on here and elsewhere 😉

There are huge problems with the system as it currently stands due to many factors eg. the change in GP hours, increasing numbers of elderly, the culture of drinking until you become unconscious, mobile phones etc.etc and those problems are only going to increase as demand continues to spiral. At least this current incident will bring one of them into focus and hopefully produce a solution agreeable to all concerned. It is however, relatively minor in the ‘big picture’ and there are far more important issues which need to be addressed as a matter of urgency.

Edit : I’d be interested to know what you do Munqe-chick ?

To refuse a call thats 800metres away ( however serious ) and knowingly expect another one of their colleagues to blue-light it 21miles in a heavy ambulance over country roads, putting themselves, and other road users at a greater level of danger for that period, and to get the helicopter to come as well, just because he’s on a break, I think is wrong and short-sighted on this persons part.

Medical knowledge aside (because it is not relevant in this case), you have criticised a decision made by an ambulance technician without being in possession of the full facts. You should know better!

BTW – the helicopter would probably have been sent anyway due to the nature and location of the incident regardless of where the nearest ambulance was.

I’m pretty sure we are calm Hora – it’s a requirement to enable us to do the job we do. We are merely pointing out some facts and correcting some misconceptions.

Fisha obviously doesn’t need any of this, of course, as he has been on a 1st aid refresher and is a policeman!

I didn’t think you were trolling Hora – just being yourself 😉

Fisha

Just to make you aware – an ambulance is activated immediately a call comes in ie. before any basic triage is done on the call (this is necessary in order to attempt to meet response times which are now timed from the moment a call comes in). The ambulance then has to proceed in ’emergency reponse mode’ to the location on blue lights and sirens until the call is categorised as more info becomes available.

With regard to

but if your the front line of an emergency service, you put yourself out for others.

Yes, we do, every shift !!!!

Yes and why did firemen at the scene shout and swear at him whilst people were dying?

As Drac has pointed out Hora – you know nothing about protocols and the reasons they are in place, so probably best to STFU and save your comments for something you know about.

Staff who opt out are paid £250 a year, although it is understood most have chosen not to “on principle”.

The principal being, that as well as being a derisory and insulting amount of money, it would mean that front line staff could be ‘out’ for 8 or 9 hours without a break. Would the management support a member of staff who made a clinical error or had a crash enroute due to fatigue?

This has been done to death between the unions and management to the point of both parties going to arbitration in my area. A supposedly binding agreement was reached and (by my understanding) the national body of the union forced the local union to ignore the agreement as there were National negotiations ongoing. That was a few years ago……………………………

Does the pants come with a gel insert?

It’s certainly possible as there is ‘something’ in that area…..not that I have studied the pic in depth or anything.

Whooooooooosh……………………………………………..

I can’t argue with that sort of logic. You win