Cycling UK Forum

Kentish Man wrote:Caving or pot holing also leaves me with a big question mark. Yes, there are some beautiful formations, but these seem to be few and far between for the discomfort of a cold, wet, muddy crawl in the pitch black. What about these sections where one has to go under water and then through a tiny crevice to get to the next section? I mean, who'd be daft enough to try that the first time?? And yet it gives some folk pleasure!

Dai wrote:Presumably the measurements were done by one of us blokes - you know what we're like!

thirdcrank wrote:

Mick F wrote:Mind you, this thread started with a wet sort of vista .....

I thought you were a dyed-in-the-wool Apple man?

robbo wrote:

ThomasDylan wrote:It depends on the definition of "sound". The bike hitting the tarmac will create energy in the form of sound waves. If those sound waves do not then trigger the aural sensory system of a sentient being, then I don't think it becomes a sound, merely energy that is expended in other ways.

Rather a scientific answer to a philosophical question, but best I can do

But what about the photons emitted from a match after it is rubbed on sandpaper?Are thy only light if they go in someones eyes? sorry, I mean enter the ocular system of a sentient being?

Jac wrote:Its not just Germany. I frequently purchase parts from Holland - even paying for postage it is cheaper than the same part in England.
Paid 10 Euro for a busch and Muller mirror - the same mirror in local shop £14.
I have also found that there is a wider range and choice - many things that are readily available in Holland, Germany and Belgium being unavailable in England.
I recently wanted a Humpert handlebar. It took great determination, many phone calls to the UK importer and an email to Herr Humpert in Germany -before I was eventually able to buy it.
Very annoying.
Better food, better transport system, better health care - and most things are cheaper.

Terry T wrote:.
Mrs Tortoise; are you Tallis the Tortoise's mum

Si wrote:actually it might have been lidl that I got mine - aways get the two mixed up (the shops that is, not the socks, which, as mentioned, have R and L written on them).

james_h wrote:I was in Tesco last night on a late night MBR magazine quest, when I noticed that they do a reasonable selection of cheap and cheerful bike bits.

I picked up:

Tesco value puncture repair kit 97p
Reflective trouser clips £2.47
Ping bell 97p

They also had a nice looking little pump with a pressure gauge for about a fiver, cycling gloves for £7.95. cycling mitts £4.95, inner tubes £1.47..

Would do in an emergency while you're picking your veg

Kentish Man wrote:Well I've not yet been tied up in a grubby corner of a cross channel ferry - is this a new 'special deal' to encourage people away from the Chunnel? Sounds like one way of meeting a lot of interesting new friends though!

thirdcrank wrote:
Incidentally, I always think that the ones, saying "If you cannot see my mirrors I cannot see you" should also say, "and if you can see them, I am not looking."

reohn2 wrote:MickF
Sorry to here your not so good.
If you've got the snots stop eating cheese and dairy products for a couple of weeks.Dairy turns your nose into a snot factory. :0-)---sniff sniff
Get well soon