Cycling UK Forum

Tea?

(edit - too slow on the buzzer)

meic wrote:If nature intended you to eat meat,

why do you have to cook it?

Believers in deities and other such stuff might ask as Homer did "If God didn't want us to eat animals, why did he make them out of meat?"

err...
The Goonies.
Donnie Darko.
Struggling with that one.

bigphil wrote:Why would you specifically expect to be given meat or animal based food stuffs? Is it really that important to eat animal based products when attending a conference? If it was I'd suggest you have a specific dietary requirement.

bigphil - I think you are missing the real point here. It's that meat is part of the British way of life, and its tree hugging hippy environmentalists with their underhand vegan ways trying to force their beliefs on to the rest of us. They're trying to undermine our great agricultural industry, and our farmers, defending our green and pleasant land. What I want to know is this - will there still be a European gravy train be if there's no meat to eat? Is it worth having a train for a nut roast?

robgul wrote:

Lithril wrote:Looking at the tin its dangerous to aquatic life and has long term adverse affects to the aquatic environment, I'd probably say you need to bottle and take it your local waste disposal depot.

You have to be joking ... you can't be talking about more than about a cupful - chuck it down the drain - or if you're really paranoid dilute it in a bucket of water and then chuck that down the drain.

Rob

Why? If everyone chucks their oil down the drain, it'll all mount up. If you're cleaning your chain just once a month, by the end of a year you'll have a litre if you're using a cupful at a time. Would you chuck a litre down the drain?
You don't have to make a special trip to the depot just to take your gunk. Wait until you've a load of stuff, and take it with you.

Combination of laziness, the heat here at the moment, and the knowledge that in order to get to where the good riding starts, I've got a fairly horrible stretch of dual carriageway roller coaster riding to get through. There's only about 8 miles of it, but I absolutely hate it.
Si, which city are you now in? I used to enjoy cycling around the city centres in Leeds, and in London, at night. London was great around the financial area of the city on a sunday night - pretty quiet, and some different views.

I'd agree with Snakes, in that its probably best on the bike if the terrain is not too technical. You can still use a Carradice with one of the mounting systems - I've never had a problem with banging my legs on it when I've used it on the mtb.
However I also reckon if you're going to bother with a hydration pack, then you're exposing yourself to 50% of the problems encountered using a backpack - ie a sweaty back, so you might as well go for a small backpack and stick the bladder in that. And if I didn't already own a saddleback and mounting system, that's what I'd do anyway just so I knew I was sorted before I headed out there. I've never had any problems carrying a days worth of gear on a mountain bike ride on my back.

And chaps,
This is not an English usage regulation correction forum. Therefore buggrit.
A rack is what I stick my panniers on, it's also what I stick the dishes in when they're drying, and what the English language pedants will be strung up on come the revolution
gareth

Maybe try mapmyride.com? I've used it when bikely wasn't available. Not sure it'll do all that you're looking for though.
gareth

Cunobelin wrote:I fancy these

"The Video Pro is built custom to order, pricing starts around $2,000 per system. Contact us to discuss your application"


I mean

There was a thread a while back about some bolt on attachments to the spokes which could provide pretty lights on your wheels. Can't remember the thread but I think you could use them to spell out words, and they were about 50gbp. But with the batteries, they added about a kilo to each wheel...

This looks like a pretty ingenious way of making those roller sessions slightly more interesting!

http://bako.ca/streetview-riding/

I have no clue about the techy bits, and even though he says its not finished, it looks a like a good idea in progress!

As well as locking it to something solid, if you have qr wheels, you could usually bring one of them inside the tent with you. I've usually tried to go for a combination of 'security' options - lock it to something solid / lock it to your tent / bring a wheel inside. I've never had anything nicked whicle camping though. Sometimes commercial campsites will have a shed and you can ask if you can lock your bike in there. If you're in the middle of nowhere, I wouldn't worry too much.
gareth

My other half goes to the shopping mall occasionally. I buy the weekend paper, and sit on the bench outside. Normally bythe time she's finished, I've almost finished the paper! We had rows before I did this. My fault - I get impatient to be out. I don't know why she needs to feel everything in the shop, even if she doesn't like what it looks like = she has to feel it. Why? I don't know.
Here in Australia (or at least in SYdney), shopping malls seem to be favoured over street shopping to a much greater extent than I remember in the UK. And shopping malls here are (in my humble opinion) a further circle of hell below those of the UK Why would somewhere with such warm weather, have so many indoor shopping centres? They're all too hot or too cold, the music is too loud, there's never anywhere for me to sit down. Why does an hour walking round when we're shopping make my back hurt, in a way that doesn't happen after 5 or 6 hours hiking?
grw
I really am far too young to be a grumpy old man. But shopping?

kwackers wrote:It also ignores any returns we get from it, it's by no means certain that there'll be a loss at all, quite likely in fact that we won't know for a few years what the final cost/profit actually is.

Will there be any returns? Is there anything in place to ensure that the bank's future profits won't be paid out to employees in bonus payments?
grw

Mick F wrote:

Mick F wrote:... We here in UK are subsidising the rest of the world accessing BBC. ...

thirdcrank wrote:Only those areas within range of UK TV transmitters.

That's the point (again).
BBC is funded by the licence fee.
British TV users pay for all the BBC.
If you don't watch live TV, you don't pay for anything.

The BBC has to be funded, but only those people in Britain with TVs pay for it, anyone else pays nothing. If you live in a foreign country and listen to BBC radio or access the BBC by other methods it costs you nothing. If you lived in France and had an aerial pointed at Kent, you could receive BBC TV loud and clear and pay nowt also.

I realised when I moved to Australia that you can't get the iplayer outside of the UK I can get the radio though - must be a damn strong transmitter
Fortunately for me, most of the decent stuff on the BBC seems to be shown on Australian TV (ABC) about 6 months later.
The commercial channels here are of a similar standard to the ITV likes at home. If anything, they're more commercial - as a film gets near to the end, the number of advert breaks increase. To the point that there'll be an ad break 2 minutes before the end! And all the programmes are advertised with the gravelly overemphasized overdramatic voice overs used in the trailers for Hollywood style blockbusters - even if its only a gardening programme. I wish I had a voice like that - it'd be so much fun asking for a tea or coffee in the cafe....
gareth

Maybe empires will never be as long lasting as those of the Romans, the Chinese, Egyptian etc? Perhaps the relative ease of access to information today will mean that it is easier to oppose an empire, coordinate resistance to regimes, raise awareness of mistreatment, than it ever was at Roman times. How much faster would Christianity have spread if Jesus had been on facebook / myspace / twitter? Or would it all have been drowned out in the vast quantities of 'news' and 'information' that are available everyday everywhere?
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