Giving it a go….added those on this thread and my code is FSTBDR5M.

You can often get a free trial period with the likes of Zwift and TrainerRoad so look into that to try different platforms out to see which one interests you most.

Enjoyed it, cheers…nice skills…..apart from the sandwich eating.

Also pretty much anything else by Bakermat.

I like:

The Who : Baba O’Riley
Harold Faltemeyer : Axel F
Dire Straits : Sultans of Swing (also)
Stand High Patrol : Brest Bay
Bakermat : Lion

Yes, I’d insure it for its value. Royal Mail Special delivery should do which insures up to £500 value.

Am I a complete ignoramus to suggest:

Avalon : Roxy Music
Dr Dre : 2001

My 9 year old has a Hoy Bonaly. It is a good couple of kg lighter than the competition which makes a good difference when you’re 40kg wet through. The only thing is it’s rigid and could really do with suspension forks for rougher trails.

Many thanks for the input all.

After the initial disappointment/rush of blood to the head, the key points are:

1) Completely right about availability of the parts – I was probably being unrealistically optimistic to believe that I could process my Cyclescheme order AND magically get all the parts delivered in time for Christmas
2) There isn’t a readily available, “as-desirable” alternative that is available earlier than the queue I’m already in.

Therefore, stick it is….I’ll have more time to consider parts/wait for them to come into stock and realistically I wasn’t going to be riding much in January anyway.

I’ve hired from and can recommend Evolution Bikes in Costa Teguise and Revution Bikes in Puerto del Carmen.

I’ve had TY in my new wheels for 8 months – no leaks, no issues.

You can’t. Give up and relist – EBay will automatically raise and then close a non-paying bidder case after a few days so you’ll get fees returned.

I’ve deleted local news sites on Facebook for this reason.

At first I was taking some small pleasure in immediately blocking them, but a greater pleasure is minimising realisation that people who (don’t) think like that exist.

It’s all in the same vein…..Brexit, Covid…people with barely two qualifications to rub together who suddenly have the delusion of believing they are experts in say economics or epidemiology.

The Charlatans – Then

Because everyone on eBay pays tax. Right?

If you are buying stuff for the specific purpose of selling it on EBay at a profit you should absolutely be declaring the proceeds as income and be taxed on it.

If you choose not to, that depends on your view of the risk of being caught for tax evasion as well as the morals.

Your margin wont be as high as you think.

£19 “profit”. £4 to send, probably. 15% Ebay/Paypal fees – £6. That leaves you £9 profit at the higher price….which you will then have to pax tax on.

That’s the way I did mine which is in the corner of the garden by a fence and hedge. I built the side and back panels, clad them with cheap cladding as I’ll never see it, sprayed with a load of preserver then fixed in place on the base.

You shouldn’t have to pay gor postage. Register a return via the listing gor “item not as described” and the seller pays the postage.

Finishing off jobs that have been unstarted or 95% finished for years.

I’m trying to make it tidy and organised and so that it’s easier to see what’s plugged in where.

“My bad”

Your bad what….use of the word bad as a noun!?

Don’t know how to embed Youtube

Some of the auctions have Rutland labels on.

Keeping an eye on a few things, thanks for sharing.

Invariably offers are from total chancers, to put it politely, who don’t understand auctions and think they can secure an item via offering less than the auction starting price.

You just know how it’s going to go. Item on 10 day auction with £50.

“Hi mate what’s your best price?”
“Whatever the auction finishes at”
“Will you take an offer to end early?”
“I’ll consider it for the right price?”
“How about £30 and I’ll buy it today”.
“Er….no thanks, there are 15 watchers and these usually go for £80”.
“£35?”

The Royal Oak at Hurdlow is pretty decent while still being down to earth, as is the Cheshire Cheese in Hope on the road out to Edale.

You need a drive-side spacer. Mine were the same when I forgot it swapping between bikes.

Another vote for Netgear Orbi….works great, no issues at all.

I’ve got a Skyline in my LWB T6 – seems a solid bit of kit so far (8 months in).

I did the Snowtrain a couple of times a few years back while it was still going. Couple of beers in the disco carriage, slept very well.

I’d love to do the London to Fort William one, even though I’d have to get the train from Nottingham to catch it.

He’s just gone up in my estimation. I’ve never watched it either.

They can pay via PayPal, collect, and claim it wasn’t delivered to get the money back.

While I could see how this may work does it actually work or is it just eBay folklore?

It happened to me. Sold a phone, received payment via Paypal, had the money in the bank. Bloke collected it in person.

Next day I had a claim saying the EBay/Paypal account had been hacked so the transaction was fraudulent and would be cancelled. The money was automatically taken back out of my account (~£440).

As I could not prove I had sent the phone to the buyer’s address, I would have lost the money had Paypal not covered it in goodwill solely due to the amount of money I put through them.

The problem arises where key arguments push forward by the leave campaign are stated then you present evidence to prove those arguments wrong then the counter argument comes “well that’s my opinion”.

Exactly this! Had the same conversation with my Mrs (a nurse) this morning.
She says “They’ve got their opinions and you’ve got yours”
“It’s not to do with opinions, it’s to do with ignoring facts and just saying my opinion is different”
“Well people interpret facts in different ways”
“Which is different from choosing to ignore facts. How about if their “opinion” was anti-vaxxer?”
She kind of got my point then, I think….

I’ve long held that with any demographic it’s the shouty minority which give the rest a bad name. I’m pretty sure, for instance, that the vast majority of brown people with beards aren’t Islamic terrorists.

Yet the reporting of isolated examples still leads people to believe that the EU (which is “them”, not “us”) make all our laws, constrain us from trading with the rest of the world and flood us with immigrant criminals who get a council house, benefits and free healthcare the day they arrive, prioritised over British people.

an assumption by remainers that many of those that voted leave are xenophobes, racist, little Englanders who don’t care about the damage that leaving the EU is doing and will do to our economy.

In my experience this is a proven assumption in SOME cases.

Me “Is there anything that would persuade you that Brexit isn’t worth it?”
“I don’t want foreigners voting on my laws bloke”: “Not really”.

Then you have all the “We didn’t vote for a deal, get out now people, on local as well as national social media”. The book (Factfulness) I’m reading now however warns me against assuming that this is representative without more data.

who genuinely feels it will enable us to make more equitable trade deals with developing nations.

That’s fine as long as it’s backed up by some data/analysis. I.e. what industries will suffer from a more distant EU relationship and which ones will benefit from trading with ehich markets they were unable to before? By how much? Is there a net benefit not just economically but over all the other things we get by being part of the EU thst we will now have to pay to do ourselves?

Part of my frustration is that just “feeling/believing” isn’t good enough for something that affects the country’s short and long term future significantly.

Are you saying that your colleagues, who are as qualified as you are at doing their jobs probably same rank/level whatever, are illogical?

Yes….”They could gang up on the UK and pass a law we didn’t vote for”
“I don’t want people I haven’t elected making my laws”
“Can you give any examples of an EU law being enforced that our MEPs didn’t vote for?”
……silence…..
“What will you do if people in Scotland and Cornwall enforce a law on you in Yorksire”
….silence….

This is from someone whose job involves risk management…..

Again- lack of empathy on your part is the root cause.

I’m not sure empathy is the right word. This isn’t just about personal opinion, for example, why they like mountain biking and won’t touch a road bike but I like both.

It’s more about the complete lack of method in their opinion….getting on in some cases for conspiracy theory proportions. Given that it affects my and my children’s future, it’s much more important than what type of biking you like.

If you can’t have a calm and rational debate with someone

But you can’t have any type of rational discussion who says irrational things like “there has been no new information since the vote. The deal and the analysis of the deal/no-deal is not new information because I don’t believe in forecasts or expert analysis. I just believe it will be better”.

In many of these cases I have little choice but to encounter them – example going out for Mrs’ friends birthday on Saturday with Brexiteer “other halves”….not looking forward to it already.

These seemed like perfectly reasonable people until the subject of Brexit arose.

The result of the 2017 election has been implemented,

Has it? Have the Tories delivered all their election promises already? The “winning” party is the means, not the end.