Any question answered...

Cheers, both.

The insurance thing is interesting. Definitely useful.

The tyres I was originally looking at were the Michelin CrossClimate - which are "all season", rather than winter tyres.

Nah 1 and an adjustable or full width on the outer will do.

2 can be useful for the occasional thing.

Whoops, should pay more attention. I have a pair of black Deore V-brakes (and probably pads) you can have which are well used but work fine

2 can be useful for the occasional thing.

Such as hubs with nicely made lock nuts

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Oh thanks but the shop has got some for me now. :-) Picking up the bike tomorrow, very exciting time ahead!!

Another question for everyone, are v brakes and cantilever brakes interchangable? As in if a frame can take 1, it can take both?

Yeah.

;-) Cheers.

Not the brake levers though. Cantilever levers don't pull enough cable to operate V brakes properly.

Yes that bit I know... thanks :-)

Phone line question....

We are currently renovating an old farmhouse so we are living in a mobile home in the garden, which is about 40m from the house.

We are having BT reconnected next week, and want to get internet into the mobile home, would I be better running a phone extension from the house to the mobile home and having the router in there or having the router in the house and running ethernet over to the mobile home and having some sort of access point in the mobile home?

Depends if you only want the internet or if you want the landline too. I'd run a length of UV resistant solid core ethernet cable and go from there.

Not worried about phone line, as have VOIP phones for work, so can run those.

Was thinking of using this cable? https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00EOTHDWQ/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2YOE8KC4JORMH&coliid=I3T6UKN5KPPVW&psc=1

Home insurance question (renting so dont need building insurance)

Who is good? Not cunts? Not expensive but actually pay out?

Will insure my current £2k or so worth of bikes outside of the house?

Is it possible for a mortal to configure Yahoo on Outlook mobile and if so how? I can't see any place I can input my password - again!

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Modem will not like working off an extension. Connect to the master BT socket and then run your own "network" off there.

Go option 2

Perfect, that was what I thought. Shall go and purchase myself 50m of ethernet cable then

If you're burying then your suggested cable is fine, but if it will be out in the open then make sure the insulation won't degrade in the UV/sunlight.

Ah yes good point.

Well I was going to put it inside some old plastic water pipe I had lying around...

Ideal. That's what I'd go with, will make laying/removing it much easier too.

Cool cheers... will get cracking...

50m? Why not wireless?

Well the house with the router in has 60cm think stone walls, and I need consistent VPN connections for work.

Will insure my current £2k or so worth of bikes outside of the house?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=oavMtUWDBTM

I'm guessing that means no one will insure them as part of my contents insurance?