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Hot off the press and arrived this morning.

Not used it yet so just some pictures so far.

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tomcrowe9653 wrote:Looks like they want to offer £2,700.00 for
personal injury

Soft tissue injury to L foot, L Knee, L Shoulder, Neck, Back, Dislocated R Index finger, headaches.

Does that sound right?????????

If they are offering you that then you can get much more.

DO NOT sort this out yourself, you need to get your own legal advise, it is an absolute minefield even if it looks so simple to sort out.

I have experience of this and thank god I had cover with british cycling, it could get very messy.

I was offered a low sum for personal injury and my insurers refused it. Your solicitors will gather evidence of test cases in court that have similar injuries to you and then base these judgements on your case.

That what they did with mine and the other side had to raise there offer.

It sound like you are being completely done over. Get a solicitor!!!!!!!!

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Oh and I was quoted at one bike shop around £250 and another just over £600 for repair.

I also got over £1600 for a small injury. It took over a year to sort out mind.

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tomcrowe9653 wrote:I recently had an accident with a car, where the car pulled out to turn right, straight into my path ( I was doing 25mph). I ended up hitting the car head on and going over the bonnet to the road the otherside.

He accepted responsibility with SMIDSYT (Sorry Mate I Didn't See You There) and his insurance company have confirmed that they will deal with a claim. Not too bothered about the Personal injury stuff, but I had a Basso Devil 2010 bike with Campagnolo gears ( Campagnolo Centaur Black 10 Spd Double Groupset , Campagnolo 10Spd Centaur UD Cassette 12-27 ).

I have spoken to Aviva today as the bike is irrepairable and a total loss. The engineer wants to pay me £500.00. But it would take £1,500.00 to replace the bike.

Do I accept the offer or can I argue that it should be nearly three times that amount?????

Help

Please!!!!!

With my accident, I just took my bike to a few bike shops and got quotes. I then passed one quote to british cycling insurers and they said yes go with them.

Why has aviva got your bike? Have you given your bike to the other side before getting your own quotes? It's not for the other side to deal with. You or your insures should deal with your bike then send the bill to the other side.

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Mick F wrote:This is the first I've heard about the free copies of the Sun being posted to addresses. What a stupid waste of money and resources.

Is the package addressed personally, or is it just non-addressed?

If non-addressed, we won't get a copy because we're registered with Mail Preference Service, plus our postie knows full that if we get any non-addressed mail, we complain to RM regional office.

We hardly ever get fliers and junk, and we only get them if our postie is on leave, and therefore his relief gets a rocket. He only does it once!

I'm with MPS but we still get all the little leaflets or none addressed items.

So is there a way of stopping these as well.

They just go straight into recycling at the moment.

I was thinking about stopping local fee papers as this just gets put into the bin as well.

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I do not like football at all. Which my wife thinks is fantastic.

I love to act completely clueless at work when people try to engage you in football thinking you obviously have watched the match.

The look of surprise when they realise you have not got a clue is priceless.

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khain wrote:I'm looking at Viewranger app permissions now. Don't see why a mapping program should need to know my phone number and the number of someone trying to call me.

It does not need it.

As with may apps, they are keen that you set-up an online "account" (free) so you can upload your tracks, download routes from others (some "premium paid for").

I set-up the account thing because I purchased the East of UK OS maps (about £8). But I initially used it without configuring any online account and never gave them my phone number (can't remember if I left it blank or just entered 1234567890) - I never give my phone number to anybody that does not absolutely need it. Like with many companies, they want to collect as much info about you as possible, but I wont give it.

Ian

Edit: Sorry, must have misread your pst before. I use it on iOS and sounds like you are on Android. I'd just refuse the permission. ViewRanger allows you to download maps (you use the app to select what areas from what maps sources you want). It can also use online mapping (either through WiFi or GSM). Maybe phone number relates to that ? Can't see how but it is over a year since I used Android. From memory I'd just refuse permission for that and see what does not work as you expect.

Another vote for view ranger.

I used to use memory map on iPhone but the software is so buggy and hard to use.

View ranger just works it's reliable and easy to use.

Use it on and off the bike.

Use a sp dynamo that charges my power monkey battery this then goes into my iphone bike mount.

You can put free maps onto the view ranger such as open street maps.

Not to sure about adding POIs to the mapping as I have never tried it.

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On my commute to work I have seen a fork lift truck go on the road. It's going from one factory to just over the road and a side street to get to the next.
However it does not have any number plates on.

So would this vehicle be breaking the law and have no insurance?

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Did you notice that the driver does brake before the the crossing. Does not actually stop, but slows down and still goes through.

What is not show on the camera is the look of disgust on the mothers face as she gets to the other side of the road.

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You cant even cross the road safely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV78WYx ... e=youtu.be

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mrjemm wrote:
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gloomyandy wrote:Very nice. I also have an inbred based touring bike. Mine is the 29er frame, is that a 26" frame?. What forks are they?

It's a 26" that I have now converted from a MTB. It's a surly troll fork.

I also use Surly Troll forks on a mix-n-match bike of mine, which has gone from MTB to Rough Stuffy type toury thing to MTB type rough tracky random whotsit, and I really like them. Looking at your's though, I cannot see the anything cage mounts, so I wonder if it's an older model, or if they've stopped fitting them (on the Surly page- http://surlybikes.com/parts/forks/troll_fork ) they can be seen, but are not mentioned, so am curious.

Thinking back, I remember seeing the forks that also have cage mounts. At the time I felt I did not need those and chose the troll forks instead. Now I wish I had chosen the others. Not that the troll forks aren't good, but because the inbred frame only has one bottle attachment.

The ECR has the cage mount attachments

http://surlybikes.com/parts/forks/ecr_fork

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gloomyandy wrote:This is my 29er version:

and fully loaded:

I suspect your mudguards work better than mine!

Nice and with proper panniers too.

What did you get for your exta bottle cage mount?

I was looking at fitting solutions and also the possibility of putting one underneath the down tube.

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CREPELLO wrote:Very purposeful looking bike there Sorethumb. Would be interested to know how it handles when loaded up at the front. The front rack looks dizzyingly high to me - could it make the steering feel floppy? Any reason not to have used a low rider rack?

The front rack is only for tent and few bits and pieces on top.

If I use the panniers then would consider a low rider.

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I wanted to get myself a pair of shoes that I can walk in and cycle in but don't shout cycling.

I decided to buy a pair of shimano MT 43 shoes.

Now these shoes are going cheap and (in stock in evans) for £48.99

http://www.evanscycles.com/products/shi ... e-ec033000

Go outdoors also had these in stock at my local store for a high price of £62.99

http://www.gooutdoors.co.uk/shimano-mt4 ... es-p193364

So now the good bit.

Go Outdoors do a price match to other stores and websites if the other store has them in stock.

You get the price match and 10% off extra.

I got a fantastic £17 off these shoes for a great price of £40.

Get a bargain while stock lasts in both these stores.

Let me know if you did the same.

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Vantage wrote:Depending on what you consider a reasonable price there's these although no personal experience.

BBB BSG-31 Childrens Glasses grey Childrens Glasses BBB http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B002YNRX74/r ... Btb1RQ1HHG

Decided to go with the BBB glasses as they have clear and tinted lenses. Will be getting from chain reaction though.

Many thanks all.

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