14 miles one way or both ways?

What is the difference between an audax and the tricross?

Same issues I’m having.

I don’t know what to get.

^ That is what I’m stuck on.

If I pop over to my folks flat I would be taking on and off road for the more direct route.

TO work I’m pretty sure it’s all road and cycleways.

The bike would be mainly for commuting, but I like the idea of being able to use for other uses.

THen I have my HT for general duties and my FS for fun on the hills.

I could quite easily buy a CX and put smooth tyres on it for road duties, knowing that they can be changed. Whereas the other way around probably isn’t so doable with the thinner wheels.

Maybe I should just ride my 1×8 Wanga to work instead and man up…….but then again possibly not.

^ Not 100% sure if it will be 100% road to work.

The option of going off road is tempting, but might be defeating the purpose of a commuter.

Will I notice a massive difference between a road bike and the tricross?

Are we talking 20 minutes different in ride time or just minutes if I was to go on the tricross to work?

It’s the supermoon

The end is nigh

Several times now………….

I have smoked Datura, and also ingested it as an admixture of ayahuasca. I think it is generally regarded as the worlds strongest hallucinogen.

It’s classed as a delerient, rather than a hallucinogen. DMT I believe is the most powerful natural halucinogen.

Saying that though, nowt like a bit of Penis Envy to get you spangled.

psychoactive plants

Datura is something I hold huge respect to.

wwww.erowid.com and http://www.lycaeum.com are great reads on a sunday afternoon.

I’m sad that no STWers watch this.

New one tonight as well I think

* Next week, Jamie installs a heating system, designs a bridge and paints some new zig-zag lines outside of the Co-op in Ryton

Could he not extend the parking for the Co-Op onto that massive bit of wasted grass in teh centre of Ryton as well.

Why doesn’t Jamie Oliwanker go to those kids homes and show their parents how to socialise their kids and behave towards them

Or even better he could adopt some kids and bringt them up properly, do a documentary on it to show people how to properly socialise children before they get to school and when they are at home.

Interesting reading.

I never really comment on threads like this. I don’t feel the Internet is private enough a place to discuss my past.

H, Crack and Meth – the try oncers. Met people in life who were like a government warning, tried it once and couldn’t get enough.
Met others who can take it or leave it.
All depends on the person and their circumstances.

A previous life and previous associates, one was highish in protective services in the NE and his addictions were managed and he held down an influential job.

and yet, others from poorer walks of life have dabbled in the brown and their life hasn’t been so propserous.

each to their own, but I made sure never to try it, just to be sure that it wasn’t a vice that I couldn’t walk away from like the others.

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/bobs-burgers/4od#3168810

Sacred Cow episode is fantastic – others are as well, but Sacred Cow has to be the funniest.

what percentage of the people who have had issues with CRC have also used STW? Maybe there is a correlation there.

North Shields the high street is like the land of the living dead

As I said I cannot fault it.

Even the keyboard is spot on and that is going from the luxury of a Thinkpad keyboard.

Battery wise – 6 hours+ on full charge. God knows how it does it.

Probably my first “rave” track. “Mr Kirk, yuor son is dead, he died of an overdose..” lovely lol!

Almost broke Dj. Rap that did. Allegedly dropped it at a rave just after a kids was stabbed. People thought it was deliberate and wouldn’t hire her.

Quirrel – most of a wheel’s strength is in the building. Badly build wheels will buckle however good of a rider you are.

Which makes sense that the saint 321 is made better than my dp21’s off somebody elses bike.

I’ve been thinking that my Saint hubbed rear 321 wheel has been overill for my needs recently and it’s bloody heavy.

Then I put on my alex whatever they are rims on my Wanga for pottering about on and found out how out of true they are and that was before I got the confidence up to do smallish jumps and bounce down hill faster than before.

Saint hubs and 321’s are still true.

Legit as far as I can tell, they delivered my laptop straight away, no issues at all. Dad bought another laptop from them, which when it arrived had dead pixels on the screen, he called them up and it was picked up the next day and replaced no questions asked.

Value for money I cannot praise the machine more.

truestedreviews rate it the laptop highly as well.

http://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/Acer_TravelMate_Timeline_8371_667418.html

This is what I got.

Bargainstastic

Acer Travelmate 8371 – 369 500gb 4gb 1.4kg 13″ screen

Real computer but not much bigger than netbook.

Send this and other threads to a couple of newspapers and see who picks it up.
Sure they will.

^^^ That would work quite well with my massive Wanga.

Sure there was somebody selling some bars and shifters in the classified.

Any issues getting the road crank to fit? Did you use a road mech as well on the front?

I’m pretty sure I bought a 30.0 for mine.

I have the one of the first imported into the UK. A 1995/6 (I think) steel Hoodoo, still handbuilt in USA back then, I like to think by Joe jimself

My Wanga is an orignal import rather than a Halfords jobby.

Never thought of putting drop bars on it, but I might now.

I’ve just stuck some 1.25’s on and Saracen mtb and it flies compared to my On-one with 2.3’s on. It’s probably not as fast as a road bike but it’s a damn site quicker than a fat Tyred bike and it sooo easy to maintain a constant pace.

Certainly more tempting than spunking 600 quid on a new bike, although I would need a new triple chainset, and left shifter, but even then it would be considerably cheaper.

I think I shall nick Mrs Q’s Schwalbe Marathon’s and have a potter around this weekend and see what it’s like.

Joe Murray design.

If you email Voodoo with a question, he will reply, in person, from his Blackberry.

I wee’d myself a little when he did.

I have a Wanga. SLight issue with the dropouts sliding out of place, but that is because I’m either well strong or fat.

So what am I looking for in a road bike?

Size wise I’m 6’4″ and ride an XL Enduro, 21″ Wanga, which fits me fine but a bit big for decent offroad. What am I looking for roadbike size?

I can’t get that hikeabike to work.

HOw do I make a route on it?

Why don’t you just go the 16 mile route in your car?

Because it would be stop start, which would reduce MPG. Just now it’s about 50 on the A1 if I leave before 7, but going the 16 mile route will be through traffic starting and stopping.

Why is 16 mile more manageable than 22 mile?

Because the 22 miles is up the A1 past Lobly Hill and the Angel, don’t fancy that at all, ever.

But the run into work has a few steady hills and that is about it, not too bad, other than the last mile into Plamsworth/Nettlesworth which will make me puke.

Many a single shoe of course. Never understood that.

I can answer that one.

Mrs Q would get into her car and for some unknown reason slip one shoe off before getting in sometimes. Because she always drove bare foot (I know, but that is another thread) she slipped the other shoe off inside the car.

She would then drive off forgetting her right shoe was there. NOt alway, just sometimes. I didnt know about this until I was cleaning the car out and found half a dozen left shoes, she explaiend to me what had happened.

I then one day witnessed it when we had moved back here in Tesco car park.

Part way home she realised her shoe was missing. SO I drove back and there it was in the parking space waiting for her.

pfffft, 1.9Tdi auto would do that on a tank of fuel

pfffft, my Octavia VRs could do that on a tank of fuel and carry two bikes for a session in the asteroid belt

sram attack?

Why does it smell of poppers when going across the Blaydon bridge near the metro centre in Gateshead/Newcastle?

If a swan or goose goes for you and get hold, grab it by it’s neck and throw it away. If it comes back do it again, but hold the neck for a bit fighting it.
The generally submit after that.

I have to do it about once a month with Bruce the Goose at work when he is being a ****.

airbag has not deployed.

Rolled my mum’s citroen zx when I was 17. Fat to fast, lift off oversteer, sideways down a country road then clipped the verge and into the air I went, walked out of it without a scratch, dog was a bit shaken up, police couln’t understand how we survived as the roof was almost flat.