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That would be a 'whoosh' then. :)

Interesting, and cheap too. I like cheap but effective bits.

Quite so, women have no monopoly on crap driving.

Exactly what I found when I recently fitted my first set of V-brakes. I over-adjusted them at first, then discovered things went better if I started from scratch and only did what was needed. They work fine, now.

Imo, that youtube ''record'' is a curiousity, nothing more than that. Beats me why he bothered.

You bounder, Sir. How dare you insult the great LJKS! Btw, did you ever read any of his articles or books?

JClarkson had always seemed to be a publicly tiresome tw*t, but he's in the 'entertainment' business. I saw another side of him when he did the programmes about the St Nazaire Raid and his father-in-law's VC, and I also enjoyed watching his episode of "Who do you think you are?" I'm now less...

Love it! Only goes to show, weddings arise from the oddest circumstances :)

I'd say that's a fair price for a good job. Bicycle shops still have substantial overheads to cover, especially in town premises.

I had to escape the rat race before my head exploded. :)

As one who was there at the time I can tell you in all seriousness that SOME of the ice cream vans were selling tenner wraps of smack. A very lucrative business, indeed.

Hah. I wonder if they've taken into account the massive drop in usage of plastic bags once they tax them. In the South the usage dropped by about 80% iirc. Mind you, it has made a massive difference to the number you find blowing about in the ditches, but that's more than made up for by dirty...

Tip: Avoid Kursk.

Very constructive.

Just after my current car went off the road, I bought a new battery for it, expecting to have it back on the road shortly. That was four years ago... in the meantime I put a 15W solar panel behind the windscreen, facing south and it kept the battery nicely topped up for years. When the car was...

Good points, all. I wouldn't rely on this for primary security, only as an alerter and possible deterrent. I would think if it's fastened around a wheel rim it might make enough of a racket to have you running out of the shop to catch the tealeaf in time - and he wouldn't be rolling the bike...

I got one of these yesterday and had a play with it today. It's loud, very loud, and penetrating. Only real problem is, the sound exit hole is easily muffled by a thumb and the lock barrel looks like it could be smashed off with a good blow from a hammer. Having said that, a brace of them would...

To the best of my knowledge, the only version made in 2WD is the right-hand chair, which is illegal here for registrations after <whatever it was> date.

Grow out of them? Nah, never :) My m/bike collection seems to have stopped in the late 70s/early 80s, with a brace of Suzuki GS850s and a Yam XS650, but not including the CanAm Bombardier which I wish I'd never sold. The old story, when I had the bikes (all the others) I'd not enough space and...

Can't help thinking it's not much of a bike shop if they don't have raw cable inner and outer to make up a custom length. I doubt the nipples are exotically different. Another lost art.