Recent content by cliff

Soylent Green anyone? (Which, incidentally, I almost got introduced to my employer's canteen menu when designing a template for pre-ordering meals. I’d assumed someone would spot the reference before it was distributed throughout the organisation. I was wrong). Sorry for the note of levity in a...

I support the proposition wholeheartedly. I wonder though how population could be controlled without a dictatorship other than by the imposition of taxes, and where would we get government brave enough to do that under a democratic system. It would be, in effect, a tax on sex! (what price a job...

I've long been a fan of trailers and have just treated myself to a Carry Freedom Large Y Frame trailer (£170 was the cheapest I could find from activesports). They say it will take a ridiculous 90k and it seems to have an excellent reputation, and it takes up very little space with the wheels...

Aliens? CIA?

Took me a while to find these for my old Giant Expression N7, which came with an 18t sprocket and consequently couldn't a smallish molehill (at least not with my very unfit legs. :mad: Postage is steep at £3.99 but they probably combine postage if you buy more stuff. Good luck Cliff Bonthrone

And put your analyst on danger money!:D Cliff

Cycling and cogitating the other day I came to the conclusion that there are three types of people: those who drop litter, those who ignore it and those who pick it up - of which I suspect there's a higher percentage amongst cyclists. Recently acquired one of these type of things and have been...

Sorry to hear about your fire – sounds like no one was hurt thank heavens. Sure you don't need to be answering a lot of emails and phone calls at the moment so wondered if it would help to clarify about the delay in delivery on the Agattu: when you say “one model size delayed” which is the...

And again, some assume that it must be a bargain because it's on eBay, so don't check the retail prices. Most odd.

Slightly worried You can look at the place marks on Google Earth - if you've downloaded it - by clicking the link at the top, which reveals that some members are living in fields and hedgerows! :eek:

Thanks for that Tony; it's good to know that the lights are up to scratch as I intend to commute on some unlit roads in winter. Your post led me to check the B&M website and a little more research located the even brighter B&M Lumotec LED lights in the UK and some positive reviews. Cliff

Well, I've got nothing to hide. Er, hang on, yes I have (quickly buries the evidence). I'm down near Wallingford in south Oxfordshire in an unsalubrious village blighted by mini housing estates of every age from the Normans to the Commuters - still, people got to live somewhere, me included. But...

Although I haven't much checked their website, I would say that 50cycles advised me when I placed the order back in mid December for the diamond aggatu, that delivery should be "before the clocks go forward" so I haven't suffered disappointment (yet!). I agree that if any customers were led to...

My apologies for having diverted the thread - I got carried away (or should have been). I'd also like to know forum members preference on saddles. Gel must have something going for it, but I do like to think that my saddle will outlast me, even if it's not kind of thing one puts in a will!

Am breaking in a Brooks B68 which I reckon fits nicely between the narrower B17 and those huge chunks of ironmongery that Brooks still make - and bless them for it. Have done about eighty miles on it so far and it's beginning to feel perfect. Well worth the initial discomfort. Which links...