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what size back end is it? 120 or 135?

Yep, it doesn't exactly say 'join the church, it's really fun!'

C'mon on, you get to wear funky robes and hoods, bang drums and carry giant candles/statues/etc, what's not to like?!

Yeah, if you go to Madrid in Easter its well impressive, massive parades round every corner. The guys there were struggling to light their candle in the pouring rain, in the end the whole parade gave up and legged it back under cover!

That aint KKK! Take from me I've had em in my family,My mom marrying Mexican didn't go over so well. KKK's are white hoods. The dude in the advert is just a satanic executioner thats all.

Actually looks like a Spanish Easter parade hood to me, they wear them in all colours, white, red, black, purple, green.... Look, theres a few of em here

BTW, if people tell you the traffic's bad there it's nothing compared to London, riding round is easy easy - and Madrid is small, so you can cover a lot of ground without any problems. Do be careful about locking/hiding away your bike, I was told they go in seconds flat over there (much like here). Fortunately most hotels, apartment blocks, etc have big hallways and so on, so off-street locking isn't hard. All the places I stayed over there they were more than happy to tuck my bike away somewhere safe inside the building.

I cycled in Madrid, there's a few bikes on the roads but not many. Mostly you go down the park where thousands upon thousands of lardy middle-aged guys in full lycra cruise around on their full-sus mountain bikes. Didn't see any fixed but it was Easter, nobody was working, so the couriers wouldn't have been active.

I went to the tourist office where the lovely lady pointed out the cycle lane (there's one of them, it goes down to the park) and was very perturbed by my plan to cycle on the roads.

You can take your bike on the metro at the weekend, which is fun.

Out of town, in the countryside, lots of roadies. Trying to get out of town from Central Madrid is quite a challenge. I did find a route, but it wasn't fun.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1049340/Unwanted-tattoos-removed-cream-injected-skin--pain-scarring.html

"'The reason that a tattoo stays there is that a coating is put around the ink to protect it from the body's immune response."

Huh? I wouldn't trust that article if i were you.

I'm not too sure about this, but.... tattooing glycolic acid in there, does anyone know about that?

I heard it was a newer thing that basically breaks up the ink, slightly different to a laser. I have no real idea about this though, you may want to ask someone who has more of a clue.

Is that the thing some people were trying to get money for on dragon's den? Looked a bit dodgy, they had no evidence of any research or clinical trials or whether it was safe or not or anything.... I remember looking it up and it looked way suspicious. Things may have progressed since then though, I'm not sure.

Like I said, go at it with a dremel. Works a treat.

Dremel.

Worked for me.

It's physically impossible for those cogs to even turn!

Best answer yet!

If you can't find in shops, Caz at Cyclechic was/is selling these gloves at £25 + P'n'P

www.cyclechic.co.uk

I have a pair, wouldn't say they're the best gloves in the world from a performance point of view, but they're a lot more fun than the usual.

Sorry.

no problemo

haha

If you're the chap with the twattish orange deep V rims who swore at me this afternoon while riding like an idiot down Upper Street, you ought to a) wash your mouth out with soap and water, b) learn to fucking ride and c) get some fucking road sense.

That is all. Have a nice afternoon everybody :-)

I got some Lidl leg warmers, cost me about 3 quid. Or was it Aldi. Do the job. Only they don't sell them all the time, just for special occasions.

no its just that poster design for films is about as shit as it gets. Next worst is curry menus.

Nah, he's right, it's all about Hollywood heft. Pacino probably has a clause in his contract saying that his name can only appear to the right of de niro's if it's higher up, or a larger font. Poster designer chose the latter. It's a complicated business, any film poster these days 90% a reflection of a bunch of conflicting legal/contractual clauses, 8% shoddy misquotes from shitty free papers, and 2% design.

OK people, time to calm down, it was just an off-hand post about a crack in my frame (and my thumb), I wasn't asking for a debate on the Internet as a whole :-)

Yeah, its broke at the brazing so it may well be pretty easy to fix it as a short term thing at least, the frame is pretty ancient so i doubt it'll stay together for that much longer anyway. Still, I got 2 years good riding out of it, and if I get it patched up it'll probably keep going for a little bit longer.

I was gonna get a new frame sometime anyway, just I was kinda hoping to keep this old beast on the road as well.

no idea... get a new frame i guess :-S

how did i know someone would say that? :)

My bike was squeaking a bit. I thought maybe it needed oiling, then I had a closer look. The frame's snapped! Not sure if there's anything I can do about this. Oh well.

Nah, it's just funny perspective in the photo.

According to Ray Mears, old inner tubes make very good fire lighters - so you can stay warm whilst fixing punctures!

i fucking hate CSI.

the dialogue is awful, all the characters speak like cloned versions of a lobotomised text-to-speech program. seriously, no human person speaks like that.

Err. What's the problem there? That's why I like CSI. So sick of all that pompous witty-snappy dialogue, CSI is a refreshing change.

I managed to leave at the worst possible moment, got absolutely drenched on the way home. Good to meet those of you I met, and 5-day jerk was awesome.