Any question answered...

Is "Eat bacon"?

Brand new bike needs to be flown half way around the world. Do I:

a) buy bike box?
b) get cardboard box and pipe insulation.

Not sure I can afford 500 squid for a bike box (any cheaper and tested versions?), but terrified of ruining my yet unridden new bike!

Oh and one more thing. Any good Sunday club rides depart from W or SW postcodes in London. Will be there after NY and keen for a bracing ride :)

why the eggless craze?

Egg allergy?

Obviuosly with my egg-allergic niece, we just make ordinary cake and torment her by scoffing the lot in front of her :-)

In North London I have seen quite a few egg-free cake shops and companies. Is there a particular religious group or culture which avoids eating eggs? If not, why the eggless craze?

I think a lot of Indian/South Asian vegetarians don't eat eggs. Jains, some Sikhs, various buddhists and the like.

I want to start a thread entitled: 'What Cyclocross bike over £1000'

A bad idea... will it just get merged?

The easiest thing would be to rename the existing thread to "Which cyclocross bike?" and lose the price point limiter.

What to use to close the valve hole in a disc wheel? Theres a piece of duct tape on it atm and it looks like shit. Considering to just colour it black but not sure how that'll look...

I use 3M reflective tape for the simple reason that I'd bought it to do some wheel with but never got around to it and it's wide enough to cover the valve hole.

Failing that, masking tape or any other tape that's wide enough.

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I don't think they are vegan though, they look creamy and it doesn't mention vegan anywhere on them.

They are really nice. A guy I work with knows a baker who does egg-free stuff and he brings them in now and then. The ones we have are full of cream so not vegan. He's Indian if that makes any difference to egg-free baking & cultures?

Obviuosly with my egg-allergic niece, we just make ordinary cake and torment her by scoffing the lot in front of her :-)

Ahh, reminds me of home. Allergies don't exist in Australia - you either get over them or you're dead before you reach school age.

Allergies - you get over them before you reach school age.

Yes, with a lot of infant allergies.

The easiest thing would be to rename the existing thread to "Which cyclocross bike?" and lose the price point limiter.

This

Cardboard box and bubble wrap plastic. Done it many times. Im on phone now but can send you some pics later

Brand new bike needs to be flown half way around the world. Do I:

a) buy bike box?
b) get cardboard box and pipe insulation.

Not sure I can afford 500 squid for a bike box (any cheaper and tested versions?), but terrified of ruining my yet unridden new bike!

In North London I have seen quite a few egg-free cake shops and companies. Is there a particular religious group or culture which avoids eating eggs? If not, why the eggless craze?

Egg allergies are rare, there couldn't possibly be enough customers to keep those shops going. There would be far more coeliac or nut allergic customers.

I think its just a label to try get gullible people interested. Like how everything is labelled if Gluten free even though very few people stick to a gluten free diet.

gluten free breads the worst.

god dam you coeliac girlfriend

Egg allergies are rare

Really? Second most common food allergy in children, apparently

So if you're buying birthday cake for a room full of 4 year-olds, there has to be a reasonable probability that one of them will be allergic to or at least intolerant of eggs. Since children's birthday parties are a key market segment for store-bought cake, I can see how a bit of scare-mongering based on just enough prevalence could allow the egg-free bakers to get that market sewn up :-)

It does sound as though they might have put all their eggs in one basket though.

It does sound as though they might have put all their eggs in one basket though.

Eggscruciating

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How should I understand the lyric, '...but when we got back, labelled parts 1 to 3' from The Pogues song 'A Pair Of Brown Eyes'? It throws my entire comprehension of its first verse.

Don't bother, the whole song is just incoherent twaddle.

Brand new bike needs to be flown half way around the world. Do I:

a) buy bike box?
b) get cardboard box and pipe insulation.
c) Get Gwaihir Windlord to courier it

Not sure I can afford 500 squid for a bike box (any cheaper and tested versions?), but terrified of ruining my yet unridden new bike!

I'd go for c).

#donethatjokebefore

Eggscruciating

LFGSS - terrible pun-based yolks since 1897.

Get ova it.

Egg allergies are rare, there couldn't possibly be enough customers to keep those shops going. There would be far more coeliac or nut allergic customers.

I think its just a label to try get gullible people interested. Like how everything is labelled if Gluten free even though very few people stick to a gluten free diet.

Oh do fuck off with your bullshit lack of knowledge.

Signed,

A coeliac.