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Sooper8 wrote:We have a river across our road most of the year round since the farmer turned the back 2 fields over to turf production. With all the large stones taken out and the surface smooth as a snooker table , it just runs straights in to the road.
Other week when it was frosty, I parked car and it just slid backwards down hill.
ps I'm in Staffordshire too

pps on Staffs reporting page, you may not need a road name, just type in postcode

Good to see someone else from Staffordshire here

Anyway, problem now gone. A bit of water trickles through but it is in a dip. No huge puddles that make my car float

Cannon, Steve
35 Tameside Drive
Castle Bromwich
Birmingham, West Midlands B35 7AG
UK
01217488000

Is listed as the administrative contact

£0 + the cost of an electric pump.

Highways agency van was parked up the other day. That's a start

Brake blocks

Think I'll go for the pre-cut. Not yet though, going to keep with my bar tape for now. I've just done a terrible job of it

Mick F wrote:Did I hear somewhere that the Mayan calendar runs out today?
Is this the end of the world?

It's just a marketing strategy to get you to buy the new Mayan calendar

Thank you all. Seems I am just blind

stewartpratt wrote:Do you mean grips for the bars, as normal (in which case there are about thrumptybazillion 'open at both ends' grips available)

Yes, I mean this

And please could you link to one because I can't for the life of me find one on Wiggle, just looking on CRC now.

I have bar ends on my hybrid/tourer and use bar tape. However, I have yet to come across bar grips to use with extenders. Does everyone just use tape with them, do you cut off the ends of standard grips or are you somehow meant to get your extenders over the grips.

What's that giant rock falling from the sky...?

I'm learning new stuff as I go with the help of this forum. I'd definitely let people touch, at least my LBS and certainly Brucey or Mick. I'd have been stuck 10 times over without some of the members of this forum. I hadn't even re-greased bearings until 2 months ago!

andrew_s wrote:Staffordshire's online problem reporting is here: http://localview.staffordshire.gov.uk/l ... spx?step=1

Potholes will be "Road", I'd put the flooding under "Drainage"

Thank you

chris_suffolk wrote:I agree that changing to allow searching for 3 letter words is not going to happen, but it does seem a little ironic that 3 chars + a wild card is accepted, and this has to be way more resource hungry. And as for a wild card either side of 3 letters - well......... *the* finds 12146 matches in well under a second on 810 pages !!

How so? I doubt there will be much difference, will still just be two queries

SELECT count(id) FROM post WHERE (search method) //Counts the number of results

SELECT post_title, post_content, ect, ext FROM post LIMIT 0, 15 //Displays the first 15 results

Which will loop through echoing the first 15 to page. It won't hurt performance as the database doesn't have to load the content unless you look at the page (which alters the LIMIT for each query).

[XAP]Bob wrote:spelt tubigrip apparently

It's basically a tubular bandage - so about the bottom 4" of a set of armwarmers - but without the cost

My arms are pointing forwards, not down - so any open cuffs cause my top to inflate

Aye, saw the Non-standard part after To be fair, it usually happens then I'm on bar extenders.