M_Vatwork

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• Sole Trader/CIS

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 8 months, 3 weeks

  

  I record everything myself, I've heard varying stories of where the threshold is for getting audited, generally its thought to be many times what I'm turning over so...

• Sailing, Surfing and other things waterbased

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 9 months, 3 weeks

  

  Taking first tentative looks at buying a boat with my old man.

  Wonder if someone in here can explain me a few things,

  Marina berthing v pier berthing - what's the diff?

  Can you store a boat in the water year round or is a trailer (and vehicle capable of pulling it) pretty much a necessity?

• Wheelbuilding / Wheel Building / Wheel build help

  in Mechanics & Fixin' • 9 months, 3 weeks

  

  Yeah, built plenty 3 and 4 x bmx wheels back in the day.

  48h bmx wheels are a pitc to get the spoke key in but still manage it.

• SSMTBs

  in Bikes & Bits • 1 year

  

  Yeah I quite like that, and it reminds me I must get to chopping on my Schwinn...

• Rat Bikes! Pub Bikes Beaters! Frankenbikes!

  in Bikes & Bits • 1 year, 1 month

  

  Love how it has a dropper post. As if 100-200mm drop is going to make it so much easier to mount and dismount!

• Brompton owners

  in General • 1 year, 2 months

  

  So on the brake lever front, I've seen a listing for the newer levers that says "Not suitable for Brompton B75 or pre-2017 model M-type or H-type Bromptons". Is that a handlebar diameter thing or what?

  (Realise this might be more obv once I have the bike in hand)

  I'm sure my mate has one of the older Brommy levers on the bars of his fixie so presumable the older bars at least were 22.2mm, and therefor I could use almost any old (short pull) lever rather than being limited to those with Brommy tax?

• Remember kids... always wear a helmet. (The almighty bikeradar helmet thread)

  in General • 1 year, 3 months

  

  I've ordered a Brand-X EH1 that I intend to remove the peak from and think it'll make fairly nice innocuous helmet that'll suit all the riding I do and I can always chuck the peak back on if I'm shredding the gnar on the mtb.

  

• Remember kids... always wear a helmet. (The almighty bikeradar helmet thread)

  in General • 1 year, 3 months

  

  I have one of the retroreflective Carnacs at the moment that's great (other than the roadie looks) and I actually ordered another one in black a month or so ago. Different model but the same large-extra large 58-61cm size and it was visibly much smaller than the one I have and wouldn't even go on my head.

  I contacted PX and they said they'd changed supplier for the helmets and that was why the difference in sizing.

  The dial on my current one is always done right up so I must at the smaller end of the size range but the new ones are just a different shape or something.

• Remember kids... always wear a helmet. (The almighty bikeradar helmet thread)

  in General • 1 year, 3 months

  

  Mmmmmm...

  It definitely has that "Grrrr, I'm a sssssuper ssssserioussss roadie" look about it.

• Remember kids... always wear a helmet. (The almighty bikeradar helmet thread)

  in General • 1 year, 3 months

  

  I need a new helmet. I'm not finding much I like the look of.

  Don't want a tragi-mamil road helmet, don't want a gnarly dude mtb helmet. Urban helmets mostly look like they'll boil your brain.

  I hate that pish thin plastic shell that Giro etc all have, it just feels dead flimsy and gets knocked up looking soon as you throw them in a bag or let them rattle around the back of the car.

  I've had a couple Catlikes which have a tougher shell but want to get away from the roadie look and the company doesn't exist anymore I don't think.

  Giro Reverb (in the Z Team colours) but with a tougher shell would be the daddy.

  

  I have an old orange and white Reverb that I keep at work for derny riding. It was a great helmet, half decent ventilation, I found the simple elastic cradle super comfy and I know a lot of people will say the looks are pretty questionable but IMO there's nowhere that it sticks out as being horrendously out of place.