Any question answered...

Pro: exercise tends to be good for your health
Con: drowning tends to be bad for your health

good:
your chances of escaping a shark are marginally improved in a water based scenario = prolonged life.

chicks will dig your silver swimming proficiency badge so you'll get laid more = active sex life = better heart health

possible gateway sport to triathlon = wearing less sleeves = more exposed skin for absorbing vitamin d from the sun on your arms

bad:
increased chances of coming into contact with genetically mutated piranha.

you may get tangled up in your pajamas while trying to earn your silver swimming badge and drown.

Pro: Baywatch Orange shorts look ace
Con: Increased risk of thrush

FYI there is a swimming thread, so you may get some more specific answers there.

I find swimming an excellent activity as it is very low impact, so I often swim instead of my usual exercise (running) if I have suffered an injury. It also requires me to use many muscles to swim efficiently, a lot of which rarely get used in other forms of exercise.

Pro
If somebody drops a brick of hash in two metres of water = You can salvage and not have your children fed to you.

Con
Drugs are bad mmkay

According to my mother-in-law. If you take your kids swimming while they have very slight colds. They will painfully die of cronic pnueumonia.....I could rant about this shit for pages....

Pro - no need to shower that week.

Con - verrucas.

FYI there is a swimming thread, so you may get some more specific answers there.

I find swimming an excellent activity as it is very low impact, so I often swim instead of my usual exercise (running) if I have suffered an injury. It also requires me to use many muscles to swim efficiently, a lot of which rarely get used in other forms of exercise.

My right knee blows up occasionally through running. When its doing this just wading through water is painful. Not to mention swimming. So I try and aviod the pool.

I some how lost all my most commonly used bike tools, so looking for replacements and recommendations;

Crank Puller
8mm allen key (ideally one that comes with a square adapter to fit other tools)
Full Size Allen key set up to 6mm
Pocket Multitool
Decent Durable Chain Tool

I got an Aldi tool set for £19 which had all of those things in it. It's not the best tool set you'll find, and a couple of them aren't the sturdiest, but I've built a bike with it and it's holding up.

All the tools for the price of one (from Park etc) isn't bad.

^ +1 Aldi Kit

The Allen set broke after first use but everything else has worked.

I mashed the BB tool as well, but hopefully I've owned my last bike with a square taper BB anyway.

Good effort doing that I spent ages trying to remove my BB forgetting to turn it the other way, it's still fine.

It was seriously seized, I think I had to use some scaffolding as a lever and stand on that, with a new BB tool, to get it out.

I think I've bent the chain tool pin as well actually. And the crank puller won't do Isis/Octalink cranks. But apart from that it's good.

And it has an external BB tool which I only remembered the other day when about to buy one.

My right knee blows up occasionally through running. When its doing this just wading through water is painful. Not to mention swimming. So I try and aviod the pool.

Really? Maybe it's all that barefoot style stuff you do?

Really? Maybe it's all that barefoot style stuff you do?

Thats actually helping. Although I often feel it being stressed. It feels more like the lack of guidance is forcing it to strengthen. As its fine on the bike. I assume its a case of not liking sideways or twisting forces. I guess I should swim more when its not already playing up.

I did a stupid tackle aviodance move in a sevens rugby game, and was subsequently tackled by a 100+kg rugby league player. Right in the knee.

Strange as it sounds Sharpie could be the answer.

Emyr, not sure what you mean. The liners run pretty the entire length from shifter to mech. Obviously they are exposed where they run along the down tube. Purely for aesthetcs the white bugs me, as the rest of the bike has bike has very black parts.

You could get some black liner. Pretty sure my powercordz liner is black. Most of the segmented outer systems assume the liner is a consumable with the outer being immortal. So they sell it separately.

I some how lost all my most commonly used bike tools, so looking for replacements and recommendations;

Crank Puller
8mm allen key (ideally one that comes with a square adapter to fit other tools)
Full Size Allen key set up to 6mm
Pocket Multitool
Decent Durable Chain Tool

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/topeak-ratchet-rocket-rx-12-function-multi-tool/

nice, but pricey.

there's one with a chain tool built in but no tyre levers too, havent used that one though.

Oh I didn't think of Powercordz. I bough some Nokon liner and that doesn't fit. I've got the Alligator MINI. Its a smaller 4mm gear system.

Will look into powercordz. Ta.

Anyone seen a better web-based bike config tool than this one?

http://www.wrenchscience.com/WSLogic/Road.aspx?&buildid=14344597

The Foffa one was not awful. I think it's been taken down now though.

ducks

Oh I didn't think of Powercordz. I bough some Nokon liner and that doesn't fit. I've got the Alligator MINI. Its a smaller 4mm gear system.

Will look into powercordz. Ta.

My swiss comp stuff was definitely black. Sold a bunch of SwissComp to Hugo7. You could PM him and see if he's willing to part with some left overs.

Can I take a half empty barrel of protein powder with me on a plane to Spain without customs thinking it's Columbia's finest?

Is this worth buying?

I think I've bent the chain tool pin as well actually.

Oh yeah me too.

Actually it's shit, avoid!

Is this worth buying?

Depends how you define worth. If it makes your bike look faster and this makes you happy, then yes. If its because you think it will make you faster in any meaningful way, no.

Well it'll probably reduce my CdA by about 0.001, at about 1/6th of the cost of a TriRig Omega which would give roughly the same saving, so I suppose I've just talked myself into buying one.