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No rear brake and no foot retention
Good job he has a lid

and, his wits about him.

I'll be selling my Raleigh Royal shortly sounds like it'd be perfect for you

spotters Raleigh is the tits. amongst my fave bikes on here.

+1. I have one, it's a joyous thing to ride. I barely get out on any long rides (commuting only most of the time) but I managed a 70-mile day on mine (with panniers) and it didn't miss a beat. Comfy and really brisk when you put some effort in.

You think it your right not to be called out for crossing a zebra or ped crossing when the most vulnerable members are using it with the right of way?

I think you misread, my understanding is:

• Ramaye stops at red to let child cross
  
• Bloke X crashes into back of Ramaye and give him an ear bending
  
• After setting off bloke (maybe X again) rides up alongside Ramaye and berates him for stopping.
  
• Ramaye tells him to go away
  
• Bloke doesn't go away
  
• Ramaye rides bloke into other carriageway
  
• Bloke (maybe same bloke/blokes as #2 and #3) rides up alongside Ramaye and threatens to punch him if he tries #6 again
  
• Ramaye shoulders bloke from #7 into the back of a bus
  
  

Cataduanes comment referred to the bloke's threat in #7, not the original incident regarding the pedestrian crossing.

That was always going to end in tears.

Does anyone know of any good bike games for kids (9-13) to play in the school playground?

We've had standstill balancing without touching the ground, a slow bike race, front and back wheel hops, plus slalom exercises... (And we don't want to go down the bike polo route...)

Anyone got any more ideas? Thanks in advance.

Trackstand practice. Put two cones down a few yards apart. Two kids have to ride round them in a figure-of-8 (in the same direction). The loser is the rider who puts their foot down first. The aim is to make your opponent put their foot down by stopping and trackstanding at the intersection so that they can't go forward. I've no idea whether they'll be able to trackstand, but it should be good for building bike handling skills and confidence.

Edit: Or, snatching the smartphone from the pedestrian's hand at pace.

More sensible edit: Throwing stuff (beanbags) into a bucket while riding a la Dutch cycling bin. Could help to build confidence in riding one-handed.

Tobermory

Womble thread >>>>>>>>>>>>>

ftfy

I've just been pulled over by police having jumped the red light outside Kennington Tube...

Had an utterly civilised conversation with the rozzer..

Repped for taking it on the chin and keeping your cool, rather than turning into one of those twats who shouts at the police for doing their job.

Then again, if you didn't jump red lights, the police would have more time for other activities. Given budgetary constraints, it is unsurprising that they prioritise activities with earning potential.

True, another reason for not RLJing. If the police want to make some cash can they please put some speed cameras up in the 20mph roads round my house? They'd make millions in loads of totally straightforward cases plus it would have the advantage of actually enforcing a speed limit where it would really do some good.

To the guy who crashed into the back of me last night when I stopped at a zebra crossing to let a child cross. I'm sorry for being in your way, you are right, I had time to get through because the child was barely halfway across.

To the guy who came along side me to berate my stopping and would not go away in the manner I requested. I'm sorry for holding your bars and riding you onto the opposite carriageway where had there been any oncoming cars you would have been in danger.

To the guy who berated me at the next set of lights for pushing him into the opposite carriageway and threatening to hit me if I tried a stunt like that again (before riding through the red calling me a cnut). I'm sorry for shouldering you into the back of that stationary bus, it looked painful.

Calling myself out here for not turning the other cheek after the first encounter and allowing myself to escalate the situation into something unsporting.

I'm generally not a fan of escalating things, but coming anywhere near a child who's crossing the road is utterly unforgiveable. A bit of cyclist-on-cyclist vigilante action for that specific act is very welcome. I hope those cunts realised why you did what you did.

not intended to start quote wars

Too late.

^^^ “When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

[Thoughts on Various Subjects]”
― Jonathan Swift, * Abolishing Christianity and Other Essays

*
"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan, Broca's Brain

like I said, it's dead straight on one side (48x17) and off on the other (48x19)

My guess is that this means you've got a poorly dished wheel **and **a bent rear triangle. On the 48x17 side the dish is just enough to compensate for the asymmetry of the rear triangle and it ends up dead straight. The other (48x19) way round the dish and the wonky frame geometry both push it off in the same direction. So, check the dish of the wheel and do the string test?

Hence we're down to bent frame, which IIRC the frame having been crashed into a teutonic geriatric is reasonably likely as they're made of stern stuff.
I assume you're familiar with the string-theory...

1 piece of string from LH dropout to RH dropout via headtube, vernier or rule to measure distance from string to outer face of seat-tube

I'm not sure this method would show up the issue that might be causing this. To clarify my #3 I was suggesting that the seatstays may be bent relative to the chainstays (essentially the seatstay bridge area being shunted over to the left). Very, very unlikely but it might combine with other minor misalignments to cause what's visible in the pictures.

problem?

almost centred:

definitely not centred:

what could it be?

4 possibilities as far as I can work out:

• Wheel bearings loose: causes wheel to flop over sideways but leaves it central between the chainstays.
  
• Wheel incorrectly dished, centred between the chainstays by moving right-hand end of axle forward, but still not centred between the seatstays.
  
• Rear triangle bent such that right-hand track-end/dropout is further out than left-hand one.
  
• Rear triangle bent so that right-hand track-end/dropout is lower than left-hand one. Wheel is centred between chainstays but lies over sideways closer to right-hand seatstay (similar to #1).
  
  

Edit: 5. Combinations of very minor instances of several of the above.

If you are looking for a new bike at your budget I think decathlon own brand is the best your are going to do.

This. B'Twin Triban 3 gets good reviews and is amazing value for £300.

Edit: It's only 10.5 kilos too.
Edit#2: They review the Pinnacle Dolomite 1 in the same review

What is going on with the steerer?

1" threaded fork + 1" quill --> 1 1/8" aheadset converter.

I'd much rather go for something 2nd-hand just because older bikes are much more durable. All the parts will last you much longer. Don't get too hung up on weight either (unless you're constantly going up and down hills).

Playing devil's advocate for one minute: is part of our impression that Teman bikes are shit down to the fact that they're bought by people who don't care about bikes, so most of them that we see are rusting away outside an estate somewhere?

I've heard the ads on Talksport and their website seems to say the same thing...
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"Don't Take Chances With Your Online Reputation...*
With the growing phenomena of online search, social media and brand advocacy, your online reputation is the one of the most valuable assets you as an individual or business need to protect.

Our online reputation management services allow you to ensure that you are in control of how you or your business is perceived online. We give you the opportunity to help drive sales and revenue from your competitors and maintain your positive brand image or identity."

(1) Minimising the harm done by negative online comments is clearly a reasonable goal of any business, especially if the comments are unfair or vindictive.

(2) But I cannot help but think that reputation.com's business may be similar to doing PR promoting Shell or Glencore's social / environmental responsibilties. Disingenuous at best and downright misleading at worst. Very very low down in the list of 'most useful jobs in the world', somewhere below making shit, obesity-encouraging burgers and promoting them to children. I might be completely wrong of course - it might be all about ensuring that company's online reputation is 'fair' rather than 'as good as possible' - but I doubt it.

(3) FAQ's on their website -

*"How do you do it?
*
*Using a combination of creative and technical skills the end result can be changed to suit the requirements of the client. *

*When we refer to the end result, we may wish to promote some favourable content or remove or displace unfavourable content. To control an online reputation, we must concentrate entirely on search engines and the web pages, which they present to a user."*

I can't help but fear that the bit in bold basically means 'private company censors valid criticism to ensure that a big company with decidedly average products / value / customer service, can get away with making excess profits at the expense of smaller companies who care more about the customer and less about the profit."

So... what does anyone know about reputation.com? What are their methods? Has anyone got any experience of seeing them at work? Does anyone know which compnies use them? What are people's views of the ethics of the business?Is the existence of businesses like this one evidence that capitalism will follow pop's lead and eat itself? I can't help but feel that reputation.com is evidence that we need to nationalise all companies*.

• this sentence may include massive exaggeration
  
  

Interesting parallels with the "Please report dangerous drivers..." thread, where leaving unfavourable reviews for companies who employ shit drivers is being promoted.

If this company is just as scummy as they sound it's a moral necessity to ensure that they receive as much negative online publicity as possible since it will:

• Make sure that everyone knows that they're scumbags.
  
• Make it clear that they can't do their job ( if they can't protect their own online reputation, how can they possibly protect yours).
  

I think we treat the Rhino's a bit like the Fifth Plinth- i.e. the horn is harvested, then you mount a piece of public sculpture on the nose of each Rhino whilst you wait for it to grow back.

Obviously it would be best of the design could be relevant on both an aesthetic basis and a "ramming into the side of a landrover" basis.

A small effigy of Jeremy Clarkson? Aesthetically terrible but I'd love to see it rammed into the side of a landrover.

Are knee issues thought to be a result of riding fixed specifically or just riding a singlespeed, which requires you to push a bigger gear than you otherwise might in some situations?

I'm interested as someone who's building their fisr FG/SS and has ongoing knee niggles.

Very small.

A driver accept liability for a SMIDSY collision, her insurance company call up, and basically quite happy paying out for the damage to the bike and clothes.

When asked why they were quite nonchalant about this incident, the person on the phone said that those collison with a push bike no matter how severe always cost a lots less than a minor collison with another motorised vehicles.

What if they have to pay out for injuries, loss of earnings etc?

Do you think the third party risk to drivers from, at fault, collisions with cyclists is a high enough percentage of the premium to be an incentive? Don't think much has been paid out to cyclists so I expect it to be a v.small proportion.

Probably not. I suspect that significant insurance payouts to cyclists from motorists' insurance are quite small, but there is the additional cost of repairs to the motorist's own car.

Anyone have any of these? Modernising my touring bike and these are the main things I need.

Many thanks.

11-32 Deore cassette up for grabs here

Also throm the photo it looks as though one side of the link has been neatly cut with a saw and the other with either a torch (heat damage and maybe globs of molten metal) or an angle grinder. To cut a chain of that size you would need to cut the link in 2 places so double+ the cutting time.

With bolt croppers some chains just crack right across if they're cut on one side. Apparently this brittleness is a result of over-hardening (Ooerrr missus etc.)

Was it in the vice when it was cut? It might take a bit longer if it's on a bike.

And my point is that knowing exactly what price OP and blahdibloo agreed for the negative shim OP decided to offer for sale on 29th February is not much help in working out the value of your negative shim that you're planning to put on the market on the 12th of Never. There are far too many uncontrolled variables.

I've never disputed that you can't get a precise price from previous sales. But if you want to get a rough idea, any data are better than no data at all. And you can still calculate an accurate mean from lots of imprecise data. Also, just because the variables are uncontrolled it doesn't mean that their value is unknown. People put things like "I'm putting X up for a quick sale to get rent money" or "Reluctantly selling my beloved X", which imply certain things about the asking price.

That's already in the rules as an advisory thing.

I thought the whole debate is that few people do actually leave the price behind.

That was basically my (minor) gripe. I don't think it should be enforced, but if there's a way of nudging people more effectively to do this, it would be good.