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Quite right - Microwave your pooh first to denature the DNA.

I may have overthought this.

I don't think fecal matter itself contains DNA, the only problem will be if a bit of intestinal lining or mucous comes out with it.Just give it a good rinse first, or use someone else's.

Alternatively, don't escalate.

Track bike? Are you using the tacx skewer?

I was just squeezing a lump between my cat's shoulder blades. Turns out it was an abscess. I only found out after my face got covered in cat pus. True story.

Not a bad shift today from the old timer.

I know an old lady that swallowed a spider. It wriggled and tiggled and tickled inside her. She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.

I don't know why she swallowed the fly.

She was asleep.

She did it 14 times in fact.

True Story.

YouTube - The Warriors (1979) - complete opening credits

Don't know why I came across this but its been a looong time since I last saw it - and there is a whole lot of mincing going on. The mime-artist gang are my favourites, they don't fuck you up, they just *look *like they're fucking you up.

Yes, unless your bike isn't set up correctly. Watch any road racing on tv, the riders spend most of the time on the hoods. Drops high speed solo efforts, and really cranking it, on tops for steep hill climbs or the occasional chat in the peleton, but most of the race on the hoods.

We're not talking about a race bike. Yes, I ride most of the time on my hoods on my race bike because its set up that way although I'm not sure its more comfortable to be leant that bit more foward but it is better all-round in terms of accessability of brakes/gear levers and aerodynamics.

Haha, I'm not that green!

Freewheel crank.

locks door

The other option is to ditch the standard road brake levers and loose the most comfortable hand position (on the hoods)

More comfortable than riding on the flat of the bars?

I like that simply for the insanity, it's like a cartoon bike.

OMG pengylicious
seen on FGG

Am I the only one who took a quick glance and thought "why the fuck would you mount a wooden leaf spring between the saddle and the stem?"?

Ok, last bits of advice then...

Make sure you've got the toe-in adjustment right - google it - and that the caliper is centred so that the pads engage the rim simultaneously. What I do to get the final adjustment just right is completely loosen off the cable from its anchor bolt - then turn the barrel adjuster on the caliper so that its close, but not all the way, to the slackest setting (screw in) - then I get a big spring clamp (the plastic DIY type) and clamp the pads tight onto the rim - this frees up your hands to pull the cable through taught and lock it down in place with the anchor bolt. Then remove the clamp - the pads will still be tight up against rim but then you loosen off the adjuster a touch (thats why you dont do it up all the way) to get them just moved a fraction away from the rim. Make sure the wheels are true of course or you will have to have bigger gap or an annoying rub.

Is it a dual pivot caliper? In all honesty if its a dual pivot already you will not notice any difference swapping it out for an alternative brand of precisely the same design. Yes, Tektro isn't Shimano but the physical principles employed are the same. If the Tektro thing is getting to you then just get busy with some blue metal polish and de-brand em ;).

Are you sure they're set-up correctly - close to the rim without touching, cable nice and taut so that they start to engage with minimal lever travel etc.?

Traffic offences (and speeding ones in particular) are a bit tangential to the original comment, since non-specialist police have more or less given up doing traffic enforcement for anything but the grossest stupidity, and even the traffic officers have been de-emphasised in favour of speed cameras*.

I assumed traffic offences to be the 'trivia' you referred to. I can't imagine anything else that would be considered trivia that people are getting pinched for in any great numbers.

Going back to my original point, I didn't mention dispensing of summary justice - that's your imagining based on the stereotype you instantly applied to me.

I plead guilty to the lesser charge of embilishment - I know virtually nothing about you on which to base a stereotype!

Since the emphasis is all on "sanctioned detections" these days, there is tremendous pressure to slap a fixed penalty ticket on whoever's least likely to complain, demand to go to court, fail to appear for court etc.

The reality is that there are relatively very few fixed penalty notices/penalty notices for disorder issued compared to FPNs for traffic offences. In the main they do very little to contribute to the sanction detection rate for most crime types - you can't issue a ticket for burglary/robbery/ABH/etc. etc.. I do agree that a focus on sanction detections is not in the public interest. I think most people would rather crime halve than detections double.

it's wholly possible to be extremely dangerous without breaking the limit.

Now this is something we can agree on.

The 'daily'.

hmm, im not sure what it is that your saying catman, i'm pretty shit with numbers. i took:

"the proportion of burglars pinched is massively bigger than the proportion of all speeders that get nicked"

to mean that more burglars were nicked for burglary than speeders for speeding... something which would seem pretty tricky to prove? i'd be interested to read some more about when you get time to point me in the right direction ( i had a quick google but can't search properly here at work ;-)

Sorry, trying to type that out whilst mobile didn't really work out! What I mean is that per 'major' crime (burglary, robbery, theft etc.) committed there is a much much higher chance of getting arrested and brought to jutice than per 'minor' crime (traffic offences for example). However because of the sheer volume of people habitually committing minor crime (traffic offences for example) you are almost certain to know a number of people who have got 'done' for something trivial whereas if you have been the victim of a more serious crime once in the last year there is something like a 3-1 chance that the offender will not have been caught.

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs08/hosb0708.pdf

It is easy therefore to draw the conclusion (and some parts of the media often do) that the police are only nicking 'law abiding' citizens and ignoring the more serious offenders. Its just a numbers thing - an alternative way of looking at it is that the vast majority (and I'm talking over 99.9%) of people who break road traffic laws never ever get pinched. Just try driving along the motorway at 70 - you will see a subtantial number of vehicles travelling faster than you and they are all 'getting away with it'. Of course this is anecdote - if you want hard facts try and google the results of speed surveys (that'll be the purpose of the two parrallel thin black tubes you occasionally see laid out across a road for a week or two) there are loads on the web.

http://tinyurl.com/o4h26j

This is the first one I get if I google "speed survey results" for Essex. A quick precis is that more than half of vehicles are breaking that particular speed limit. That is 100s in a 24 hours period. So, back to my original point - people break speed limits 100s times a day, every day of the year and never get pinched - if they burgled houses at that rate they would be getting arrested on a very regular basis despite what the Daily Mail would have us believe.

Debate about crime stats aside, this all stems from someone bemoaning the fact that you would probably get pinched if you tried to mete out summary justice in the street - I'm not so sure that is a bad thing to be honest.

" the proportion of burglars pinched is massively bigger than the proportion of all speeders that get nicked." really? i wouldn't know - but i doubt it... if you get a minute can either of you guys link us to some supporting stats please? this is really interesting.
Im mobile now - can link some proper stats later. However i think the detection rate generally for reported crime incl burglary is around 30% - now contrast that with speeding, how many times have you broken a road traffic law and how many times have you been pinched? If its more than 0.01% of the time I would be very surprised.

Thats facile - everyone is law abiding apart from the point you break said laws! The real reason lots of people get pinched for what you call trivia is that lots of people break some laws habitually - speeding for example. Relatively few people burgle by comparison and they tend not to do it in front of a copper. Even so, the proportion of burglars pinched is massively bigger than the proportion of all speeders that get nicked. Its just a numbers game that rags like the Mail misuse to support a false hypothesis - unfortunately some people take it all on face value. Of course if you have empirical evidence to back up your claim of established truth i will stand corrected. (I am unable to access that link from my mobile device).

[QUOTE=Steff;701062]Yawn. Or, y'know, it could be that I know a couple of coppers and have heard at length about the pressure they're under to avoid anything time consuming in favour of lots and lots of trivia to make the stats (and hence their career-minded senior officers) look good. You'll be waiting a while for my anti-immigration post by the way, since I think that this country benefits hugely from immigration (and in any case, the real worry would be if people didn't want to come here).[/QUOTE I presume the yawn is for your use of tired old cliches? Funny enough i know a few coppers myself, but let's dispense with anecdote - when have you known anyone arrested and prosecuted for being law abiding? The overcrowding thing wasnt entirely serious you know.

i don't think 2.5 secs over 4k, is a great performance gain in materials...........but then i don't race.

24 metres at 35 km/h avg. A fair old gap - for the same power output.

That sounds about par for the course, sadly. You did right not to try to tackle him yourself, BTW - they'd probably have been only to happy to issue a fixed-penalty ticket for a some public order nonsense if you had. Said ticket would of course have gone to you, because dealing with the generally law-abiding is a lot less grief than arresting people who may be violent and/or have outstanding warrants, both of which require work.

Straight out of the Daily Mail. Classy. I look forward to your upcoming post about how overcrowded this country is.

If it's genuinely only surface rust try Duraglit.

Do you know the clamp size?

is yorks hill "anything"? that setup failed to get me up that

I personally would advocate a 27 top end to cover all eventualities. Of course, one still needs to be able to pedal hard enough, quick enough for long enough though. I suspect the latter is more a reason for hill climb failure than the lack of 27t sprocket on the back in many cases.

Also, if they are old weinmann single pivot calipers, and especially if they are longish drop then the flex in the arms will be hideous. Brake technology has moved on a way since then - a relatively modest investment in a modern dual pivot caliper will deliver a vastly superior brake set-up.