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To all the idiots doing last minute manoeuvrings. Please think for one moment how it feels to try and stop 2tons of van rapido while you swerve around without obvious intent.

I'm going to end up squashing someone some day despite my efforts to predict idiocy.

Clearly that's a different situation and it would piss me off no end in a car if some fixie skiddrrr brakes r deth starts winding round me the way people do...

There's nobbers on both sides. I just think it can't be forgotten that nobbery in the van can kill and seriously injure whereas nobbery on a bike is much less likely to, especially to anyone except mr nobber himself.

You guys seem to have missed my point - shouting out plates and telling people off is a fairly dick move, but does that detract from the driver who's on their phone going dangerously near an unprotected person with 2 tons of metal?

We shouldn't overshadow that. I mean honestly who doesn't see at least one incident of illegal and/or dangerous driving pretty much every time you go out?

I try to remember not to go on those youtube channels... they make me rage.

Yes some of the helmet cam users do stoke confrontation and seem to sometimes prefer good footage to diplomacy, but invariably the drivers are putting people's lives in danger while ignorant or malicious to that.. the bigger sin I think is clear.

Grrr

"Katie (32) divided the nation with her caustic put-down’s"

Shame her cheap arse publicity people can't use apostrophes.

Not as much nom as I'd hoped actually.

http://www.lfgss.com/thread109554.html

Magic. Maybe it will be 14 speed tomorrow.

When in Mumbai &c &c

I rescind my disapprobation, the drawings are worth it. Keep drinking!

Well that won't help.

Rider Haggard - if you are being serious, then do look into some training/further professional advice. Yes, you can't be expected to stop for a stationary holy cow in the road, but a moving cyclist is a normal and reasonably predictable hazard that you ought to be in a position to avoid or slow down for. If not, you're not driving in a fashion suitable for the conditions.

If you know Mr Wrathall at all, then I have sympathy for the fact he might face prison for an error, but it is an error we all know not to do, especially when in control of a larger than usual vehicle. Assuming the facts of the case are as reported, there is really no justification for a ~10 minute long conversation so engrossing you fail to look when entering a roundabout.

I reckon you'd be fine.

Based on absolutely no calculations, armchair or otherwise.

Ofc if we get to a stage of lab-growing sterile functional marrow, then we could culture it in large quantities for this sort of purpose.

This, if confirmed, is fucking Epic.

I'll admit I've not looked in depth but is this significantly different to berlin man?

The problem is that the "cure" has been known about for decades but is very expensive and dangerous (unlike HIV which now if treated doesn't reduce life expectancy as much), and there isn't enough marrow around for the people with marrow diseases....

I guess the weak bit probably is the skewer itself.

I think we'll try something else instead anyway.

Thanks.

That isn't to say that the skewer is particularly weak, and encased in the hub I doubt it can deform very much. Since it's usual purpose is to apply tension along its length I'm not actually sure that weighting it would be a problem, unless it broke through which seems unlikely.

TL;DR it's probably safer than you think, what would be the intended purpose?

Or thishttp://rover.ebay.com/roverimp/1/710-53481-19255-0/1?ff3=2&pub=5574889051&toolid=10001&campid=5336525415&item=121102494250&mpt=660114,.

.. which appears to be the exact same bike.

For £30 less. Also 2 more gears, mind, so perhaps a couple of sprockets have fallen off in between, thus increasing the rarity to gold dust level.

A better lock / enough locks to secure rear wheel as well as front + frame would be a better investment than insurance premiums methinks.

That's the answer I wanted*

*this is how AQA usually works.. it's "justify my decisions"

is there a difference between digital audio cables? so much hi fi seems to be of questionable real world benefit

No, especially not for digital but in most cases for analogue as well. Any difference in the hifi store will likely be negated if you double blind the salesperson and the listener to when the cable changes.

For things like HDMI etc the only real significance is that you do need better quality for longer distances, but nothing will be sold that can't do the distance it happens to be, so that doesn't actually happen.

I obviously meant CBT you nobbers.

Got faaar too many CRBs knocking around and you can never find the one you want when you want it cos they're ALL THE SAME but noone will accept any other organisation's ones (rant thread>>>)

"Duplo your own Collisions Thread"

Looks fun.

http://i40.tinypic.com/5bp8y0.jpg

I didn't even realise it was possible in physics to go from upright to sideways without any alteration in direction, forward momentum, etc. However that was the clue that I should probably shamefacedly return and ask to crash.

That's a New York taxi.

I call shenanigans.

(also, getting off moral horse... I've had one, sole drunken crash (never again))

Does anyone know what kind of weight one of these things will likely hold?
http://www.xcracer.com/shop/viewproduct.php?productid=235

Presumably will come down mostly to the material of your QR skewer, and how much "excess" skewer is protruding to thread onto.