October, 2007

October 29th, 2007

cos Tourists Are Money

My own experiences with fixed gear are distinctly tourist. Pre-marriage days I wanted something for the 20 mile winter commute. Fitting 700c wheels into a singlespeed frame was simple enough. A calliper brake in the Kona Project 2s easily reached the rim for front-brakeage. The back wasn’t so simple. The rear seatstay bridge wasn’t drilled […]

October 28th, 2007

Clocks Fall Back

Ghost Riders
Night riding back on the agenda.

October 19th, 2007

Sore Loser

Limp wristed player tennis Andy Murray has claimed that Tennis matches are fixed and some people are paid to deliberately lose.
He must be really pissed off that no-one is paying his opponents.

October 18th, 2007

Not so clean BMW

I see that BMW are being disingenious over their CO2 emissions, claiming that their new cars are cleaner than their old cars.
At an event put together by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders they wheeled out* an 18 year old BMW, an M635i that does 18mpg and a new BMW, a 635D that does […]

October 10th, 2007

of or relating to

A friend recently should have known better than to post this on a forum…
oh no - it’s the “of or relating to” thread
Posted by: [deleted]
Date: October 8, 2007 06:49PM
here’s my mental collection:
equine - horses
ovine - sheep
bovine - cattle
ranine - frogs (only learned from Jeeves and Wooster a few months ago)
vulpine - foxes
ursine - bears
porcine […]

October 1st, 2007

Really No Langsters

Langster London - Now Sold Out
Further to our original remarks on the silliness Specialized may have underestimated the popularity of the Langster we tried to buy one. As my wife’s first choice, the Seattle wasn’t available she was happy to take a London. Now our local bike shop is ringing round the UK trying to […]

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