I did this on my Blackbird years ago. I can’t remember exactly how many teeth it was but it was front and back changed to keep the speedo right.

I was planning on just doing the front but that would have ended up with it racking up more miles than it actually had (by my gearing calculations at the time aka Google)

It transformed the Blackbird from a far too fast and heavy touring bike into a far too fast and heavy touring bike that liked to cock it’s front wheel when it got the chance.

My plumber told me it was more efficient to run the boiler on full for the radiators and control room temp with the trv’s

Lived in Wylam for 18 months at my folks flat there. Decent access to places to ride. Quiet as well.

If she has an interesting disease that makes her shake a lot it could be fun

bit of swearing at the end

Upside down dogs is where it’s at

My walls are shocking so the tiling will cover the worst of it up

What is the floor made from?

The universe is expanding from whatever viewpoint you were to look at it. Doesn’t matter if you are here or in another galaxy far far away, it would still appear to be expanding.

6 quid for aa or rac with the cashback

Dengue Fever – really messed be up and made me hallucinate for a few days as well.

Looks like I would need size 48’s

Common scam.

are very much MTB uncool for some unknown reason.

That is why I have them. I was never cool at school.

Love mine.

I was riding my mates bike with standard rapid fire and it was a pain to shift.

Dual control is simple and for me very efficient.

Last full on fight – 1998 or so.

A garage in Kenton, Newcastle that I worked at.

I was finishing the sunday night shift and changing over for the night shift. I was leaving the garage and some local hard nut wanted in. I told him to go to the night hatch, he said no. I said that is what you have to do. He said he would nut me. I said go ahead, so he did.

I was pretty pissed off, kicked him away and then from my Dad’s description I launched myself about 2m through the air and landed a massive headbut in return on him which sent him onto the floor.

His two mates jumped in and started laying into me. Dad got worried and got out of the car to break it up. The lad on the ground got up and went for dad, hit him in the gob.

At this point I went berserk. I have vague memories and what dad told me as well. I smacked the two lads hard and away from me ran and grabbed the other lad who had just hit dad and threw him on the ground. By this point one of the other lads had tried to get hold of me again, but I had got him in a headlock and was punching him in the face at the same time as stamping on the kid on the ground.

Dad, bless him, started trying to get the third lad away who was by now backing off and calling me a nutter.

Dad then pulled the lad on the ground up shoved him over with is friend and shouted at me to let go of the other kid in the headlock.

The three of them backed off and then made another go for it. I started after all of them, they ran off down the street to a waiting girl screaming at me to leave them alone. The girl handed them a metal bar and they started back, to us. I carried on towards them, they changed their minds about continuing the fight and ran off.

Back at the garage the police were there, quite a few of them, the helicopter was up, Dad was really excited about having been in a scrap, he was about 50 then.

Police wanted to know if he wanted to press any charges, but mentioned that if they did, and the witness around the garage stuck to their story, I might be in trouble myself.

So we left it.

Mum wondered why we were late and knew when he called that something was up.

Got home and I had a black eye, Dad had a fat lip and he was absolutely buzzing.

At work the next day, he was the talk of Alcan. 50 years old and bragging about his fat lip.

Made my brother really jealous as well.

In reality though I was lucky as was Dad, it could have gone the wrong way.

Have had it at Chopwell where three riders were blocking the trail, with just enough room between them to squeeze past, but wasn’t possible due to their three wenches coming up the fireroad behind them three abreast.
I did ask them if it was necessary to block the road completely and if they had to ride three abreast, but they ignored me.

Couple of weeks back at Hamsterley on the iced over roads, I stopped at the little bridge before the steep climb having lost traction. I pulled right into the right to decide whether to push or not.
A big group of riders came up behind me but had plenty of room to get around the corner and up.
The youngest of them still managed to go really wide and clip me with his bike, even though he had three metres or so of road to play with.

Lucky people.

The royal wedding falls in my easter holidays, so I don’t get the extra day off………but the governors have agreed to let us take it some other time – so I think we have it mid May now as another long weekend.

A few years ago I was spread betting on NASDAQ and FTSE 100, right around the times the banks were going up and down daily.

I made about 3k in a day, then, stupidly (aka greedily) didn’t cancel my spread and lost 500 quid. At that point I gave up

Big Bro has a Milwake 18v li-ion drill.

Lovely drill but un balanced so fell over all the time

Dad picked up a Dewart for 29.99 last year in a 75% sale. Possibly the best drill I have ever used. He also got a full set of bits for it for another 12 quid

If they will do a little dance for a quid, I’m happy to give it to them. Otherwise no, I don’t. If they want money they can earn it. Little jigs are a good way of entertaining me and the nearby public.

Are you using Prezi to make it swoop around on the title

http://www.valeoclutches.com/Products/Clutch+Kits/Conversion+Kits/Conversion+Kits/45

All for 5 speed though.

MG ZT – 1

Those MG’s get about 4 mpg don’t they?

Not sure that is what you worry about when you buy one.

Estate V8 for around 7k. Apparently there are various test models floating about with supercharges and other additions from the factory.

I would love one, but I could never afford it.

f you’ve done 155k and not had to do the flywheel yet then do it now cos it’ll be needed soon enough anyway

What happened to me. Clutch gave a bit of a slip one afternoon and at 150k decided that rather than risk it going, I would do the whole lot in one go.

Bloody thing didn’t slip once over the next two weeks whilst sorting out the replacement

There is only one answer to this problem

An MG ZT 260

How hard can it be to run a nursing home?

Let the old people sit in their wee, nick the money from their purses, leave them in beds until riddled with sores and feed them blended microwave meals.

Easy money

no smf for the 6 speed as of yet, probably won’t be either.

Bloody noisy with one fitted. I was going to go that route on my five speed diesel, then I heard one and decided not to

Gimp masks, enema kits and sterile needles for me.

Any luck?

Or if you can swing it that you are skint – I just said I was, they gave me it for 10% of the cost.

13 quid instead of 130, yes I’ll go. It beats going to the local church with the missus to discuss weaning babies of smack and how to maximise my benefits by spreading their legs…..or I could just be being a bit cynical about it after discussing the class with the midwife who got very snotty at the mention of NCT.

RVI in newcastle?

TCP, but then Caol is a bit of a dump and needs cleaning out anyway.

A mate of mine brings van load of it back from spain a few times a year to keep cost down and run his van on.

Depends how configurable your router is.

You should be able to limit the bandwidth associated to different IP address’s on the network.

http://www.gsfcarparts.com/

Try Ebay to get the GSF ebay number and give them a call, they were considerably cheaper than eurocarparts by about 200 pounds.