Lol at Quirrel!

Shy bairns get not chocolate

Ton, if he keeps playing bashful, can I have the fiver instead?

WHAT WRONG WITH CAPS?

WHAT'S WRONG WITH APOSTROPHES?

Joes kit

Geax rigid tyres.

Every damn Free For All I seem to play has two little *&%$^ shooting each other in the corner – anybody on here do it? WHY????

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I'm 9 out of 40 just now

What FreeSat box are you using? What operating system is running on it to access Iplayer

I won't go to my nearest shop anymore. Guys who work there act like high and mighty knobbers.

The shop half a mile further in the opposite direction were really decent when I went in last time and didn't pester me, answered questions and were generally friendly.

Next shop along is Evans @ Metrocentre…..less said about that the better.

Are you gripping it flat over the valve?

You need to hold the tyre so that it is flat and compresses against the valve area, a quick burst from a track pump and it works for me.

I put my tyres on my bike and used them for a coupe of days with an innertube first though, to make sure they beaded up properly.

So a 203mm rotor and a 203mm IS adapter will require no shimming then.

You have to get QTS to be a teacher, you DON'T have to have a PGCE.

It's an alright gig if you like your subject area. I work in a fairly tough school, with challenging kids, but they are not bad really, a few ****, but 99% are ok, just have different priorities in life.

spilt brake fluid.

water would do that as well, it is hygroscopic afterall.

http://www.solxsolutions.com/files/msds_sol_x_brake_cleaner_bulk.pdf

I use something similar to that for degreasing lots of bike bits.

Does the job. Never used it for cleaning my brakes though, but it's great for degreasing a chaing quickly

Dunno what part of Australasia you lived in, but the driving here is years ahead of all the areas of Asia I have lived in.

It's nice to be able to go to work without seeing the fresh white body outlines of the roadkill from the night before. I enjoy not having to worry about somebody mounting the pavement to get past a traffic jam.

I love the fact that when I look to my right to pull out I don't have to check left as well to see if there are any cars/bikes on the wrong side heading towards me.

I like knowing that the buses in general have brakes that work and tyres that aren't through to the canvas.

I did though much prefer driving in Bangkok and Seoul than in London. Nobody really gave a toss if I cut into a space or pushed my way across the traffic. In London I would get knifed by some road raged business man.

Muc-Off is just a weak alkali with an anionic surfactant in it some pink colour and water.

I haven't had a chance to try it yet, but I'm 99% sure that a mixture of bio-washing powder with dilute caustic soda (really dilute ~0.1mol)or another household alkali would be just as effective.

I will give it a go once my last of my cheap Muc-Off runs out.

Go find some truffles (scloratia) and then lock yourself in your hotel room for 6 hours

oh god, even erecting a big wall can't shield you from.

Interesting play on words as well. I presume intentional but I suspect not.

Depending on the crime, various parts of the body could be covered in beef paste and the tiger sent to lick them off.

Reapplications of beef paste for really severe crimes and a sandpaper finish

Can you not order online?

Are computerorbit still going? Down by Newcastle College?

I like doing it, but I like to tinker.

I bought a ;03 Mk4 Golf 1.9 TDi SE 100 for that sort of journey. On a motorway run it will do 55mpg all day long. Around the doors I get about 45mpg.

It's comfy, been reliable, touch wood, bar wear and tear. It is just below 150k and rising.

Can't fault it at all. The PD engine in the VAG range is the one to go for.

For value for money and newer car get a Fabia in the 100BHP 1.9
For extra extra value for money but street cred of a leper, get the Cordoba 1.9 TDI SE 130 – I had one, but got ripped off by Arnold C*** so engineered a failure to return it. – the Cordoba has the Fabia VRS engine in it PD130 so will still do 55mpg but also has some serious grunt.

When, if, the double dip happens, it's going to hit 'us' harder than the over exaggerated recession reported in the media last year.

I'm in the education sector and for the first time ever there were no jobs advertised in the North East for science teachers in the final term.

Not one of the timeserved teachers at work has ever seen this before. People are scared to retire and scared to move on to pastures new.

For instance, type in Wurzel Gummage, 4 or so pages in their is a photo shopped picture of the queen with her tits

Was it definitely photoshopped?

if its 318 solo air it should be fine. but you will have to take them apart.

Quite happy to give it a go. Might even pick up a servicing kit while I am at it, but I am concerned that there might not be the extra 30mm of stanchions in there to do it, which is what I have read about.

It's the motion control – platform basically. If you screw it in (clockwise) it'll add more platform – which should stop the shock bobbing when pedalling but at the cost of slighly less small bump sensitivity. Unscrew it all the way and then screw it in a bit at a time until you feel it's properly damped

I thought it was something like that, the SRAM bumf about it is crap, says it's there and that is about it. I had a twiddle the other day, then thought better of it, didn't fancy things flying off in different directions.

Had a good blast on the bike last week (incorrect chainline and all) gears were setup perfectly, rear shifts were spot on, suspension seemed ok, speed increased, then I fell off and smacked my head hard against a tree root and got shouted at by the wife ruining a cycle shirt, putting oil on the wall and whining that it was going to burn in the shower.

Turned out the front forks were on

What about the rear forks?

LOL – anything else you're not quite sure about with it?

What the hell is the yellow know on the rear shock all about? I've given up trying to work it out from the diagrams online

You know that my old Enduro has a 73mm BB (not the more common 68mm) don't you? What chainset/bb are you using? If it's a external BB type then there should only be one spacer fitted in the BB, on the drive side.

Can you hear me swearing? Face all red etc. Head banging

😳 😈 👿 ❗ 😐 😯 😡 😕 😳

I went to see my friendly local optician in Korea, when the lenses fell out of my glasses and I couldn't for the life of me get them back in.

They had a quick play with it then ran into the back room before I could stop them. I then heard the sound of a Dremel being used and my stomach sank.

Optician reappeared a few minutes later with lenses fitted. Amazing I thought, I worried for nothing. Until I put them on and the lens popped out again.

She had ground off the supporting ridge around the lens so that the lens could just be pushed in rather than clipped in 🙄

Ended up super-gluing it in place.

Is the adjustment screw wound out enough to allow enough movement? It sounds like the mech is hitting it's hard stop (set by the Hi/Lo adjusters) so no matter how hard you push the lever it won't move any further.

Tried them both wound all the way out, all the way in, in and out etc. It's just not doing it.

Chain line may be out?

Spent hours fannying on with the chain line as well, adjusting it by increments in the way and out the way to no avail.

Seen the frame itself go for 100+ on Ebay, think the last one I watched fetched about 150 or so.

Easily make 350 if you brake it.

Anyone in Newcastle lost a Santa Cruz? Police found one in a Blakelaw loft the other day. Shame my bike was not with it.

Someone knew what they were doing there then, sitting on it until it was off the register. As far as I know it's 3 months, but might be wrong on that.

Ice Toolz one can be had for 32 quid.

It has worked fine for me so far.

Chopwell woods – North East England
Craik Forest – Scottish borders

Both FC owned but with marked out graded bike runs on them, but not a trail centre.

Strange – teenage years I was a horrible c–t, stressed things to the limit of breaking.
Moved out quickly – relationship improved a lot, but I was on a naughty pathway in life that meant my priorities were different and my family didn't need to be involved.
Made the decision to leave the country and start afresh – relationship improved no end. No we get on really well, even when back, living in their flat because it was the only economical way to return.

Brother – 9 years older – never really saw him much, never got on that well, couldn't really care less. Now though, when we meet up once every few months it's ok. Both are grown up. He is very succesful though and I still feel like the well aimed w__k.

Sister – really close when I was younger, took care of me and tried to keep me on the straight and narrow. Now though – has her own family and is only focuses on them, we ( the rest of the family) are a handy nuisance.

Strange how it changes.

Check Ebay. I've seen front and back hydraulic hose sets for that price. Might as well keep a spare handy.

Could you not also show forestry commisioned forests that have dedicated bike routes on them?

Are Hollowtech 2 bottom brackets not BB30