Make sure you go to mobiles.co.uk via one of the cashback websites like quidco as you get a good chunk of money back, e.g. £38.50 on pay monthly.

Mail me for a referral link with free opening bonus if you haven’t already signed up for quidco.

Worth spending a bit on quality, supple lightweight tyres IMHO and ideally set them up tubeless.

Don’t get cheap tyres they are mostly heavy dogs.

If you can fit a 43c tyre I’d recommend bruce gordon rock n road:

Check for fitment using the measurements here: http://www.bgcycles.com/new-page/

Or I also have a set of Soma Cazadero 42c for more road biased rides:

Both are really high quality, lightweight supple tyres and give a great ride.

In budget, double butted titanium. I run 42c Soma Cazadero tyres with mudguards on mine.

Fast forward 3 years and a number of close shaves and I couldn’t sleep whenever there was a heavy rain alert. I spent nights clicking refresh on the met office rain radar. Eventually I convinced my wife to move. It was that or have me committed!

This. Don’t bother, its insane to buy a house with a flood risk in this day and age, unless its on stilts.

Saw a presentation by an environment agency guy the other week. Theres only so many years in a row you can say “unprecedented”. Flood prediction is nowhere near an exact science – in fact they are only doing slightly better than stabbing in the dark.

Flaperon – Im interested in the Z5 compact if you see this, mail in profile.

EDIT- mailed you.

Depends what you want to do, have fun on technical terrain or go as fast as humanely possible?

I was wondering why cross bikes have drop bars on them?

Because the rules say you have to use a drop bar. There is no other reason.

To acquire championship points you have to be riding the right bike. Hence with the rule change that bloke above started racing drops in the 3 peaks.

F1 cars could be designed to go around the track much faster than they do, but the rules “level” the playing field.

Option 2 as said flat steps will be slippy.

Put the slide in too.

35-40mm tyres will roll surprisingly quick, only ~2mph slower than skinny tyres – but they do make it feel harder work!

Completely untrue.

Don’t compare heavy “commuter” tyres with puncture belts, low TPI and wire beads to folding 23c tyres.

I run Vittoria Voyager hyper 38c, a lightweight, folding, high TPI 38c tyre thats £15 from px

Its rolling resistance is comparable to skinny high pressure narrow tyres.
http://www.bicyclerollingresistance.com/tour-reviews/vittoria-voyager-hyper-2016

They don’t “feel” as fast because they are not transmitting the road surface vibrations.

OP get one of the new generation of “do it all bikes” with discs, and fit large volume lightweight tyres like the voyager hyper or compass tyres

Oh, and set them up tubeless.

We have one of these

Home

but 145 mm high

looks like a Zalman 9500 Cpu cooler with a thermoelectric generator attached

500 quid for a big room with artex ceiling that needed doing twice.

This is with me doing prep – removing loose, taping cracks and SBR the day before.

As said nobody will want to do it unless there is a days work in it, so get a few rooms done at once.

can be tough to get the tyres on some tubeless rims.

I don’t think you’re allowed a beard or stubble if you work at an Aldi supermarket.
I’m not sure they could force that on sheikh employees though.

I wonder if any sheikhs work in any Aldis? Not this one, I doubt he has ever needed to wear a dust mask either.

Red plugs just pull out of our thermal block walls.

I use these:
http://www.screwfix.com/p/plasplugs-thermal-block-fixings-nylon-33mm-40-pack/7264K

Work really well for shelves, radiators etc.

I used threaded rod and resin to affix our bathroom sink.

All sounds like a massive pain for your cousins TBH.

Who wants to be a reluctant landlord? What if the house need a chunk of money spending getting it up to scratch for letting?

I’d do my best to sell it and invest the money for the kids. Unless your cousins plan to kick the kids out into this house when they reach 18!

Can you use Docker and just have different containers for each version?

I put mine in airplane mode, that way the battery lasts for days and I don’t have to faff turning it on when I need to check my offline map app.

I wrap it in cling film to waterproof it.

Ah could be a lucky escape then!

Looks like the Aldi £9 pair:
£3.50 each https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Waterproof-USB-Rechargeable-Bicycle-Tail-Light-Ultra-bright-6-Lighting-Modes-Red-White-LED-light-Bike/32698859584.html

Or £15 http://www.planetx.co.uk/i/q/LIJOCANO/jobsworth-canopus-usb-rechargeable-light

These look OK:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Bicycle-Tail-Light-Bike-Seat-Post-Visual-Warning-Lamp-USB-Rechargeable-Cycling-MTB-Bycicle-Rear-Back/32709312032.html

Ah right it was the better moon nebula ones for 13 each I was looking for.

The problem tis that I don’t want to pay more than £26 the pair now…..

I don’t think we get the Lodgy or Dokker here in the UK.

I use motorcycle chains and have insurance at home.

I never leave decent bikes outside anywhere, it stays in the car or comes in the office with me.

hmmm!

So far found 2x titanium ones £10 from hong kong
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/131638047530

£6.50 delivered from SJS:
https://www.sjscycles.co.uk/gear-spares/shimano-deore-xt-slm780i-bolt-nut-m5-x-175mm-6uu-9802/

Hope HBSP322 do one for their tech3 levers, not sure if its 100% the same (£2.14 but out of stock):
https://www.merlincycles.com/hope-shifter-mount-bolt-for-i-spec-b-90999.html

Might file down an m5 counter sunk bolt like this guy:

Don’t do it, invest the money in your pension pot so your kids don’t have to pay for your care.

Get a 911 996 for £12k, more real world usable. And it will still be worth that when you sell it.

BB7s and BB5 use the same method of a single piston, which pushes the disc over to contact the other pad.

Mechanically this is a bi of a bodge. I would go TRP.

Actually, just get some hydros, fit and forget. No adjustment faff, no seizing, they just work.

Unfortunately our society is going more narcisssistic and people go beyond their means to get “status symbol” cars on easy finance.

They are spending tomorrows pension pots on impressing the neighbours today.

That fills me with dread, and its why I shudder when I see a status SUV.

The cars them selves are brilliant, comfortable, safe easy to drive all the toys, I’d have one if I wasn’t saving for my future, but I’d never buy a new one.

I have had a Sony Xperia Z3 Compact for 18 months or so and won’t be “upgrading” any time soon.

Android 6.

Has a “Stamina” mode, which means nothing but standard phone (phone/sms) when the screen is locked. Email and app notifications are quickly received when the screen is unlocked.

This means the battery lasts for 3 days or so.

If it breaks I’d get another Sony Compact.

But they’re OK; they’re a working man’s vehicle, rough and agricultural. Never mind a transit van is more practical in most scenaria. (Is that a word?)

Not as good as a family car though, which is the reason they are bought. Just happen to be classed as a working vehicle so it can go through the business books….

Space it:
http://www.pinkbike.com/forum/listcomments/?threadid=148662

Or drill it:
http://bb.nsmb.com/showthread.php?t=153122

You can just drill a hole in the arm of the rear mech and run the cable through that to alter the pull.

I found chocolate to be the best bait.

Can you translate that into English?
Which are the years to avoid?

The early ’98-’00 3.4 C2 is the one to have. No bore score or IMS bearing problems, mechanical cable throttle and no interfering electronic aids. However they are pretty old now, and any one of a million things can go wrong with a car engine at that age.

A 3.6 is a fantastic car, more low down power than the 3.4 so drives differently, just look carefully for smoke when running (a puff at startup is normal) / one blacked tail pipe or for peace of mind get the bores inspected with a borescope. If it hasn’t already scored a bit it will do, but how long before it starts consuming oil is a gamble.

A 3.6 with relined cylinders fixes the issue (as they use a cylinder material thats more compatible with the plastic coated pistons), the builder with the best reputation is Hartech and they use non ferrous liners.

Just to add that no engine lasts forever, effectively most production engines are on borrowed time above 10 years / 100k miles. So Porsche are not particularly bad, its just that the cars are so well put together they last well and hold their value – and people expect their £15k 911 to be as problem free as a 3 year old car, even though its 15 year old.

Most farmers I know have been using Japanese pickups for years in preference to Land Rovers. Ever since every “self employed” person put a new pickup through their books as a “business” vehicle and then the used market was flooded with L200.

The Discovery is better than a Defender at everything, apart from being pickup.

The only reason they never made a Discovery pickup to take that market head on is that they don’t want to “cheapen” the brand.

As Land Rover has gone more up market I suspect they may never enter that market again.

The “new” markets where Land Rover make all their money don’t give a toss about Defenders. Its dead.

About time we realised they are not designing cars for British people anymore, they are designing for China / middle east etc.

Its not just the south, its a problem in the north too.

You routed the cable like this through the hole in the guide and round the back of the bolt or some other way?

Your mech should look this one.

Great, until you find out you can’t remove the handbrake without the engine running. We will have fun towing these cars when they are bangers and break down….

I agree that auto hold is great most of the time!

To some extent its like the auto flush toilet. Its not something you particularly enjoy doing (pushing the flush) but its part of the routine you have embedded for many years. Not going through that routine feels wrong and takes some getting used to, and when you go back to a manual flush theres a risk you will omit to flush!

All product on this page work together (although I found the x7 rear mech didn’t have enough range):
https://www.sram.com/sram/mountain/technologies/exact-actuation

but not interchangeable with products from this page:
https://www.sram.com/sram/mountain/technologies/x_actuation

As the cable pull is different.

Are you sure you don’t have any travel agents or custom mech pulleys in action?

Get one that’s actually been used day to day. Apparently they don’t like sitting around. Bores get scored or something…

In the change from the 3.4 to the 3.6 engine (around 2000/1) Porsche changed from a ferrous piston coating to a plastic coating.

This plastic coating is “prematurely” failing – leading to scored bores on flat 6 water cooled from the 996.2 to 997.1 inc cayman and boxster of the same generation.

There are almost no cases of premature bore score in the 3.4 with its more resilient ferrous piston coating. The 3.4 also has a dual row IMS bearing more robust than the 3.6 single row.

i had a carbon fork from china once with a bubble in the top layer.

I should expect condescension here from a bunch of Audi driving IT managers with bikes on credit….but to qualify my skill level further:

I rarely ever do it, but occasionally I need to reverse back really close to a small wall, like within an inch – its much easier to judge looking by popping open the door than moving the mirrors and then reseting them.

The options for reversing camera and distance sensors remained unticked.

I never had a problem operating a handbrake. Why did they need to ‘fix’ it?