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Many happy returns, your Rosieness x

Aye, I look surprisingly unhideous in it. Is there any chance of blagging a copy? The mother's always after pics of me and I usually look gankin'.

+47 to BMMF

Delia Derbyshire was purest 531. Look out Sonic Boom's BBC radio programme about her if you can.

That's a pretty perfect likeness. :)

True dat. I'm about as hip as a 19th century Don Cossack, mind you.

Why do so many women buy such heavy bikes?
In my shadow life as a cycle trainer I have taught mostly women and have got used to the fact that many of them have bikes which they can hardly pick up. What the hell are Pashleys made of? And what is their appeal?

It's because their view of cycling is (just like those people who buy multi-thousand-pound road bikes to commute on) not based on anything close to the reality of London cycling. The tubby bloke in the risibly inappropriate polka dot jersey on his carbon De Rosa is enacting his fantasy of sporting prowess and the woman grinding slowly along on her brand new 1950s bike (which is what Pashleys really are) is enacting her fantasy of living in a quainter, more civilised place than London.

They make brilliant sense if you actually do live in a quainter, more civilised place though. My mother (65) has two ancient Hercules ladies' bikes and uses whichever is creaking less that day. She lives in Cambridge.

Despite all this, for some reason I really, really want a Guv'nor.

Fixed gear/ single speed neighbours?

Fairly anonymous black SS conversion of a steel road bike and flam red Poyner with Suginos, locked up outside my new flat off Roman Road. Hello, whoever you are! (I'm the chap with 'tache who was smoking outside and looking grumpy).

How is the ball bearing method secure when all the thief needs is a magnet? Have I missed something here..

Typically it's ball bearing + glue, wax or something else fiddly to remove. Nothing's going to make anything unstealable - it's all about making risk vs reward for the thief not favour your bike over anyone else's.

Went over there in search of a 130mm hub for the Webster and seem to have accidentally ordered a Royce, so they're definitely doing something right. Maybe it's something they put in the food.

It's one bus (35) from Shoreditch Town Hall to Camberwell Green. From there, it's a very short walk to the Cave.

An excellent bus - I took it back home last night bearing the lovely Webster TT frame. Takes a wee while though.

My g1 is on its last legs and luckily I am due an upgrade in September.
Any recomendations for a replacement?
SE x10 was top of my list for a while but poor performance/ processor raping have put me off.
The HTC desire has had good write ups.

I would get a dell streak but its only on o2 and they are all cunts.

Motorola Milestone? Fast enough, lovely screen and has a keyboard, which is a very-nice-to-have when you're moving on from a G1.

Is Easts OK, Scott? Probably most straightforward for me.

Yep! Put me down for one :-)

from the Team Mule Bar Girl FB page:
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**TMBG Hannah STORMS the Marmotte, taking off over a 1hour20mins off last years time finishing in 8 hours 20mins. Getting a GOLD in the mens event. watch this space for how she did in the womens rankings.

Cha-muh-f***ing-peau!

Dibs on the Webster. PMing now.

The replays did look a bit damning for Cavendish. What's still not absolutely clear to me is why he suddenly brought the bike upright though - was the rider on the outside of him preventing him from leaning the bike somehow? I'll be really interested to see that replay once an HD version turns up.

Ah, I spotted the advice to clear cookies and Will's reply that he didn't know how, but failed to spot you'd got to the instructions first. Evidently I've caught GA2G's 'flu.

If the ladies who are looking for a custom frame, Roberts is one good example to go for, he build a bicycle specifically for a 4'8 person.

As a general rule, any builder who specialises in fillet brazing (or even TIG) is likely to be a good bet. No lugs, ergo no restriction on geometry to match the available lugs.

My guess is that you have a duff cookie for Flickr. Which browser are you using? I'll dig up some instructions for finding the right one and deleting it.

Just as a bit of google recreation, here's what I think I'd get (if I didn't already have something very similar indeed):

Dave Yates Classique in 853: £769
ITM 4 Ever Carbon fork: £78
Campag Athena gruppo: £499
Campag Chorus seatpost: £58.75
Campag Shamal Ultra wheels: £525
Deda Newton Shallow bars: £50
Deda stem: £25

Comes to almost exactly £2000, and if you're spending that much on a bike I'm assuming you'll very likely have pedals, tyres and a saddle spare. It'll probably only weigh a couple of pounds more than a modern carbon frame, looks nicer (IMO) and apart from the fork will last forever. You could even get him to put horizontal road dropouts on it, get suitable rear wheel (watching out for the wider spacing) and run it SS/fixed over the winter.

Since this is being discussed: which PC, desktop or laptop, for less than 300?

If you're including a monitor in that, you're only leaving about £200 for the PC itself. Maybe something based on the Intel boards with the dual-core Atom chips soldered on. They'll take 2GB or more of RAM, have (non-3D) built in graphics and cases/PSUs for them are cheap too.

As long as you are running a 64bit version of the OS.
Running a 32bit OS with more than ~3gb RAM installed is pointless.

Oh and hard drives are slow yet still need to be accessed so buy a fast 10,000RPM drive or an SSD.

Indeed. Always 64bit unless you're on a netbook or something.

The key thing with hard drives is only to have to access the buggers once, which means no memory pressure, ever. I find 2x7200rpm SATAs in a mirror is pretty good. Doubled read speed and losing a drive doesn't involve reinstalling the machine. Most Linux distros will do the setup for this in the installer now, too.

Awaiting a man and van and putting things in boxes. Serves me right for doing nothing much about the move for the past month I suppose.

http://www.chillblast.com/pconf.php?productid=19525

Got my PC from Chillblast a couple of years ago, much different system to this, but mine has served me well and their service was first rate.

Looks a good site, that. Shame there's no custom build option though.

Protip for PC buyers: shedloads of RAM makes a lot more difference to perceived performance than faster CPUs (with a few exceptions for oddball workloads like games and some kinds of bulk processing). The moment you have to hit the disk, the CPU is taking milliseconds rather than nanoseconds to get what it needs, which is an inconvenient million times longer.

Presuming this is a hardware-only cost, you can spec a pretty nice (Athlon quadcore, 4G RAM, Iiyama 22" TFT) machine for less than £500 at http://pcspecialist.co.uk - I've used them in the past and their builds are very decent. If you need Windows, unfortunately that blows about 20% of your budget. This is one of the many reasons why Ubuntu is such a good and shiny thing.

According to the man himself, he has five more weeks in a sling followed by going back to the doctors to be told how the healing process has gone. With luck, that'll be good news.