Any question answered...

[QUOTE=snottyotter;3146885]I guess some pics would help, specifically the inside leg.
QUOTE] snicker...
:-)

Pretty sure I have a cold coming on (entirely my fault for riding yesterday). Anything I can do beyond overdosing on Vitamin C?

Picked up a pair of Mavic 520s laced to Mavic Argent 10 rims, 36 hole tied and soldered. Very nice, very light, but tubular.

For running around town do I - buy cheap tubulars at £25 a piece or better tubulars at £40 a piece, then deal with all the crap that comes with them. Or do I buy some clincher rims and tires, which will probably set me back a similar amount, then rebuild the wheels and never worry about tubs again.

I've deliberately switched to commuting on tubs to take the fear out of getting a puncture on my "proper" bike.

I'm running Conti Sprinter Gators, and have a pre-stretched spare in my bag.

Pretty sure I have a cold coming on (entirely my fault for riding yesterday). Anything I can do beyond overdosing on Vitamin C?
I generally believe that you should just overdose on V-C... You should be doing it with all vits and minerals and eating lots of fruit, salad, and proteins (not necessarily meat).

(not necessarily meat).

... I.. Iain?

looks scared

make sure you take zinc with your vit C

I've found echinacea to help.*

*May just be the placebo effect. YMMV.

and what about those immune boosting herbals, echinacea, olive leaf etc. supposedly if they work at all it's at the point when you feel like you might become ill but you aren't properly, yet.

Apparently vitamin C does nothing to reduce the symptoms of a cold (according to wikipedia, anyway).

Sorry, that’s no help at all! Get well soon, bendix!

Ok so if I stick then on the cheap tubs front I can get Vittoria Rally 23c or Continental Giro 22c at 15eur per tyre - pretty cheap for a test run - either worth that? the Rallys sound alright on the puncture protection front. Best run them with sealant either way?

... I.. Iain?

looks scared
Politely recognising your disposition ;-)

I need to open a Microsoft Access database but my version of Microsoft Office '11 for mac doesn't include Access. Is there some free equivalent I can use? Will Open Office Base do the job? I also have XP running on VMware in case I need Windows.

I need data in the database that I need to present tomorrow.

if it's just the db you might be able to use an odbc type connector in some mac db software to query the tables directly from the file.

http://blog.petermolgaard.com/2011/11/22/working-with-access-databases-mdb-files-on-mac-osx/

We’re having a “drawing faces on oranges” competition at work, what kind of face shall I draw?

The one from out of off of the A-Team.

Pretty sure I have a cold coming on (entirely my fault for riding yesterday). Anything I can do beyond overdosing on Vitamin C?

Drink loads of water.

Pretty sure I have a cold coming on (entirely my fault for riding yesterday). Anything I can do beyond overdosing on Vitamin C?

Some swear by chilies and garlic, so an extra hot curry to sweat out the cold, sort of increase body temperture to kill the virus.

http://blog.petermolgaard.com/2011/11/22/working-with-access-databases-mdb-files-on-mac-osx/

Awesome, thanks! Do you reckon I need to download all of OpenOffice or just OpenOffice Base?

(sorry computer dunce)

Pretty sure I have a cold coming on (entirely my fault for riding yesterday). Anything I can do beyond overdosing on Vitamin C?

"Feed a cold, starve a fever"

I once read a story in the letters page of New Scientist about how, during National Service, if you came down with a cold you were guaranteed to have a pretty miserable time because nobody gave a shit if you were ill and you still had to get up at 5am and do push-ups in the rain. This was not a satisfactory state of affairs, so the unofficial National Service way of dealing with a cold was to go to bed when the cold set in, but borrow everybody else's greatcoats and put them on top of yourself while you slept. The idea was that the increase in your body heat would facilitate the body's destruction of the virus, so you'd have a terrible, sweaty night, but the cold wouldn't last as long.

The guy that wrote the letter swore blind that it worked, but everybody who writes to any letters page anywhere about anything also says the same thing.

Clamp-on Keirin brake (£59.99) or new KF Tange forks (£59.99)?

And does anyone have any experience of the latter?

how much clearance have you got on the original forks?

Hardly any, they're the kind with a section shaped to let the tyre fit underneath, a normal caliper wouldn't fit if I drilled the crown.

Is there a way of marking all unread PMs read? You can do one page at a time, but I've got a couple hundred (was more, bored now) that I can't be bothered to work through.