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Interesting how the fruit taste by itself, imagine it's not very good, as it's not popular.

I think that the fruit is too delicate to transport well, so it is only available locally.

Someone found the 'S&W' name wasn't protected in the UK and along the lines of 'Caterpillar' and 'Hummer' got a bulk batch of them knocked up in the far east.

Same guy convinced the MET to buy them (no comment on cost) and the Police cycle teams have been living with it ever since.>

Why am I not surprised that, despite police not being routinely armed in this country, the MET would happily trample a group of primary school children in the rush to buy a Smith & Wesson branded bike, without even cursory examination of the supplier or the product?

“We worship Lord Ganesha. There must have been some plastic surgeon at that time who got an elephant’s head on the body of a human being and began the practice of plastic surgery.”

This is from the actual prime minister of a real country. One of the biggest in the world. With nuclear weapons.

theguardian.com/world/2014/oc­t/28/indian-prime-minister-genetic-scien­ce-existed-ancient-times>

Weird that a religious fundamentalist doesn't recognise the difference between a 'God' and a 'bloke with an elephant's head for a head'.

I hope he never watches Labyrinth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiUt5HuW3xc

A super country for cycling. I saw many roadies out there last summer; the traffic density and mix is good for cyclists.

Your link doesn't work.

And I think that's hurricane season.

Just went to a physio appointment; was prescribed 'more climbing'.

If you say so, doc...

^Yes, but if consumption is excessive you can remedy the problem with the use of spacers.

http://siberiantimes.com/culture/others/features/siberian-princess-reveals-her-2500-year-old-tattoos/

http://www.lfgss.com/comments/11886430/

If this is who I think it is, then I reckon it's only a matter of time before history repeats itself...

I was thinking of heading there to boulder after work. Got my ridiculously uncomfortable new shoes in my bag on the off-chance...

Have we had the mushrooms yet?

What is that fantastic porn-y soundtrack? I seem to remember Malcolm McLaren and the Bootzilla Orchestra using it in the late 80s.

I reckon those fibre optic sections would be useful on panniers as well (although they'd have to be right and left handed or have some kind of swappable panel).

^^ Not sure I know enough about crab circulatory systems, but I get the feeling that this isn't possible...

Man, I keep replying to stuff that's ages old since the forum changed....

Foffa = Shit of Theseus? I mean ship

Same page repost, but I'm leaning towards them being Trigger's Broom.

Triggers Broom,as in this this Foffa bike has had 5 new bottom brackets and 3 new headsets for example

That's the idea - is there a point where it stops being a Foffa? And if you took all the cast off and broken parts, and used them to build up another bike, which bike is the Foffa?

Perhaps Dani has been trying to educate me on the philosophical question of the Ship of Theseus/Trigger's Broom?

Who's running the book on how long it'll take Dani to arrive and tell us his cranks are made in the same factory as Rotors or something?

Mine was a really early one with a generic crank (well, generic chinese everything, really). Once he started getting his own cranks in, they were alloy and better - I replaced my duff one with one of his and had no trouble since. I suspected when I got them (installed them myself) that they're made wherever Lasco and Sturmey Archer get theirs, as they're identical to the SA track cranks I've got in a box for a project I never got around to.

That's pretty much the story with all the parts, really - I've replaced the bb, headset, brakes and brake levers, cranks, pedals, hubs, rims, handlebars, saddle, cables and outers, and I would have replaced the seatpost if it hadn't been forced into the wrong size seat tube and frozen there (I've replaced the clamp twice - once when I over-tightened it and stripped the threads, and once when the saddle was nicked).

Pretty sure that the embroiderer didn't come up with it either.

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/medieval-macros-bayeux-tapestry-parodies/photos

Brakes?

The Office of Weights & Measures, I'm guessing.

The new commute through the glass recycling plant not working out for you? I did see a picture once on here where someone had destroyed a Marathon Plus by riding over a philips-head drill bit. Still, the Durano Plus are infinitely preferable to the fortnightly punctures I was getting with Luganos.

My experience of both Marathon and Durano tyres is that they're fine in the wet - the Duranos skid marginally more easily than in the dry, the Marathons have almost no change in handling (but then again maybe I just couldn't go fast enough with them on!). Schwalbe seem to have cracked making puncture-resistant tyres without sacrificing grip.

I ran Marathon Pluses for over a year - they're fantastic if your main criterion is 'doesn't get punctures ever ever'. However they're probably twice the weight of any other tyre you can find to fit 13mm rims - and you'll feel it, particularly pulling away from a standstill.

I switched to Durano Pluses about a year ago, and the weight difference was incredible. I haven't had a single puncture with them either, and although they're still not the quickest tyres I've had, I think never puncturing makes up for it. Not strictly relevant as not a fat tyre.

You can get wax for proofing clothing from many outdoor shops. Fjallraven do one that's the size of a bar of soap.

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