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Glad it was a complete success!

anyone knows a place in London where I could get a 1 1/8" to 1" ahead shim shortened a bit? need like a cm cut off

http://www.screwfix.com/c/tools/hacksaws/cat9790016

I've got a steel frame which was stripped a while back to get repaired. It has now developed some light surface rust and I'm looking for to get it cleaned up and painted with a single colour (not powdercoated).

I've searched but can't find a thread listing frame painters in London (or close to London).

Is there such a thread?

Dremel r dethz!

What's your budget?

I had this due to an unfortunate rugby incident (read fight). My local NHS dentist took a mould, made a veneer, and I got some whitening at the same time. This was about 4 years ago and forget that I had it done most of the time.

My in-laws live there for their sins. I haven't got any gpx routes to offer but have done variations of an enjoyable route out via Barby > Grandborough > Lower Shuckborough > Priors Marston > Fawsley > Little Everdon > Find a way through Daventry > Welton > Barby > Rugby. It's pretty flat but there are a few lumps to be encountered south of Daventry. Enjoy.

I'm yet to do anything to the north, but a nice route should be easy enough for the other day. Post the outcome here so I can do it next time....

Hmm. I got no idea about how much this costs really. I wouldn't balk at 125. Am prepared for more depending on how much work it is to get the frame ready.

I had a similar thing done at Confident Dentists near Euston http://confidentsmiledental.co.uk/ They did a good job of it (I'd smashed half a tooth with a surfboard so had a crown on that and then veneers on the two front teeth to match the colours) but it wasn't cheap, upwards of a grand.

To be honest not sure if the same guy will still be there, it was 7 or 8 years ago when I had it done and not been back for a while.

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2017/apr/19/how-much-earn-rich-70000-labour

“We believe … the rich will be above £70,000 to £80,000 a year and that’s roughly defined as what people feel is an earning whereby people feel they can pay more.”

Twitter went a bit nuts about this but I was thinking that earning £70k pa doesn't really make you rich does it?

On what scale? A salary of that size will put you in the richest 3% of people on the planet.

I guess it's the term 'rich' that I'm questioning. It would make you a high earner but I'm not sure that I would connect an individual earning over £70k with being automatically rich. Or am I just living in a london hipster bubble?

earning £70k pa doesn't really make you rich does it?

It will in the end, if you can live on £10k pa and pick the right investment products for the balance :)

I was thinking that earning £70k pa doesn't really make you rich does it?

£70,000 is a staggering amount of money.

I would live so comfortably with no worries in the world with that.

And ditch the n+1 = perfect number of bikes theory as that tends to mess with ones bank balance

£70,000 is a staggering amount of money.

Pretty much everybody believes that anybody earning twice what they do is as rich as Croesus. In fact, trying to raise a family in London on only £70k pa gross might easily involve having to watch every penny.

This.

It is about what I earn. But with the costs that mrs_com and I have, I don't feel able to have multiple bikes and wear rapha everything.

But of course, I still feel very lucky.

Also, remember that with tax, NI, pension and student loan contributions, I don't see over 40% of that.

Still a lots more than the people who's on minimum wages in London.

Absolutely, I totally agree. We would be up several creeks of shit if I was on minimum wage and I know that many, many people are in that position. I would not however think that I was rich.

I totally get that £70k is a high salary compared to the norm (c.10% of top earners) but it does not necessarily make you rich, you are likely to become rich should you continue to earn that for x period of time but as @stevo_com says as soon as you add various outgoings it becomes considerably less.

I would not however think that I was rich.

I think saying rich would be taking it too far, rich would implied that you can easily lived without working for a decades with what you have in the bank, that would be my definition.

So rich, that's my household sorted for nearly 3 years and I'm not poor. However, it's nowhere near rich enough to vote tory, who are only for a very rich kind of cunt, a lot of people who earn around 70k might think they are tory rich but they are definitely not and should realise they have more in common with me than them.