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Scorchio! Thanks for the reassurance El Squire.

It just needs to hang on until Scott gets those Maxis' in (possible apostrophe fail warning).

My bike does now look faintly silly with a 28 up front and a 23 at the rear.

Quick N00B question for you all- binned the front tyre as it is knacked, replaced it with a spare that I had in the cupboard.
Inflated it and thought "hmm, this looks rather large", had a look and it is indeed a 28.

Now this should be fine, but my inner tubes are rated for 18-25 tyres...

Reckon it will cope with being slightly over inflated?

Got a puncture rolling home along Pomfret Road- I knew trying to eke out the last of that tyre was a mistake.
Still did not put a damper on seeing everyone- hopefully there will be more beer in the fridge next week and I'll stay a bit longer!

One mans meat is another mans poison.

And it was our tea.

I think pedal strike city if you dropped the front- bearing in mind as Tommy points out that if you are running skinnier tyres then that is going to drop the bike quite a way all on its own.

I'll dig out my flaming pitch covered branch and we should be good to go.

I'm aiming for six, will bring a mate on a geared road bike if anyone has remembered the tar and feathers?

When I was at school the general attitude was that those pupils who showed an aptitude for sport were making up for being “hard of thinking”, and that the ability to run/swim/throw something a long way was in some way recompense for an inability to breath with their mouths shut, or operate a pen or pencil with any degree of utility.
This was a state run school with large playing fields (which may now have been sold for “executive housing”).
So I think part of the problem may have been one of peer opinion- I was certainly considered to be insane for cycling everywhere, and going out on the weekends for 6-8 hours on my bike, often returning covered in 70% mud and 30% blood.
Having no direct knowledge of how the ‘strines view sport I cannot draw a direct conclusion, but I suspect the attitude toward athletic ability was less pejorative?

Fruitbat- I forgot your new bars, will be down later to apologise and sort out when and where we can make the exchange.

Looking forward to the evening, complete with new Low-test Becks.

Pajamas...25 x2
Picco...23 x2
Big Daddy Wayne… 23x4
benanza 25 x2
wools 23 x2
Dammit 23 X 2

Thanks

they are heavy, expensive and pointless, when u can get a MK3 golf for the same money if not less, and its as fast, more reliable, and better on petrol, why do u want a volvo?

Not sure I agree with your points, apart from the petrol one.

But, as I said above, I saw the Volvo's in the BTCC and told myself then that I would have one someday.

Plus I can get quite a few bikes in the back without taking them to bits, or a wardrobe, should I want to move one at high speed.

Plus, as Platini has pointed out, my golf club duties have made this inevitable.

I may well be wrong on this- but these are all (well) pre-2003, when the emissions based tax came in, so I think that it should be the standard road tax/VED.

Insurance wise because I have no no-claims bonus the 250 BHP 2.3 Litre turbocharged Volvo is around £50 a year more than a 64 BHP 1.2 litre Clio, which I admit makes no sense, but there you are.

Petrol- yep, it's going to drink a lot, but the car itself is (hopefully) going to be so cheap that it will offset that.

Cheers Ant and Jol, and I think whilst a roll caged, bag-tanked BTCC racer would be great maybe it would not be that practical for UK driving...

I've been advised that if I want a manual (which I do) then the 850R is a better bet due to an improved turbo and crucially an LSD.

It's to get out of London with to be honest- I need to get down to see my folks a lot all of a sudden, and it means I now could do with a car.

I'm familiar with the appetite for tyres, but these cars were racing when I first started going to watch rounds of the BTCC, and I've wanted one ever since.

Barring the worlds fastest re-spray I'd say it is, sadly.

Just on the off chance that someone might know where a decent one would be available for sale?

Now how do we help get it back again?

I've stopped drinking.

I'm going to go and meet everyone at the George before they head off- I'd be doing the ride if Tesco had not broken my spine last night.

Come down for a non-alcoholic beverage?

Just managed to put my back out, so looks like I might well be a walkenger tomorrow- if everyone is still meeting at the place in Borough at sixish I'll amble over and wish them luck though!

I now have it working- repeating commands and persistent rebooting seem to have done the trick!

I was upgrading from 8.04 to 8.10.

Now all I want to do is work out how to get the desktop to pivot around it's vertical axis for that "Pimp my desktop" feeling...

I have followed the various bits of advice in this thread, and cannot get my laptop to load the nvidia drivers- any and all advice appreciated!

In terms of "stuff", very little- the laptop that I am writing this on is the most valuable thing that I own.

In terms of bikes, not worth as much as yours I would think!
Two worth around 3 grand, one at £1,600, one at £500 and a couple that are worth maybe £50 to purchase and say £300 to replace.

Maybe "West Greenwich" (Deptford) is a high theft area?

I work in Southward so it will be an easy tootle over to the George- it's on my way home.

Normally on a Friday we finish at around 5.15 so I could well be there good and early to meet any other POET's?

M&S quoted me £650, so a little cheaper than Esure, but a lot more than Hiscox...

I'll phone Hiscox tomorrow and ask them about the bikes- I don't have as many as Hippy but there are five of the little buggers around the house.