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[Stere]

Internal cable routing on bikes that is defo something dumb and  worth banning.

[Mark Bolam]

It’s good to have a reasoned argument/debate Alex.

 

I agree with a lot of the points you make, especially in certain situations.

 

On balance though, I think our country is a safer place if we don’t all carry guns.

[Squaredy]

3 hours ago, 5thelement said:

if not you will end up like Squaredy, he is too scared to go out after dark for fear of all the ethnic stabbers.

LOL... to be fair I said I would not go to Pillgwenlly in Newport after dark....but thanks for the mention!

[markieg31]

2 hours ago, AHPP said:

 

Maybe you're Bruce Lee but I'm not. What about a stanley knife? Do I fck want to hand fight someone with one. I'd run. But if I couldn't run, am I better fighting someone at six inches or six feet? Six feet please. Twenty feet better. Next postcode better still.

 

 

 

Well it's simple, if they have a gun your done for at a host of distances, if they have a knife being 10 feet away is a safe distance. 

[5thelement]

15 minutes ago, Squaredy said:

LOL... to be fair I said I would not go to Pillgwenlly in Newport after dark....but thanks for the mention!

I once took refuge from the rain in The West of England after giving the XT a run out to the transporter bridge.
Got chatting to a group of black guys on the allotments there, growing all kinds of exotic vegetables from their culture.

I remember the next pub along ( can’t remember the name) heading into town had all the shoplifters in, selling all their knock off on the tables in there, 50 metres from the cop shop. 

[Steven P]

1 hour ago, Stere said:

Internal cable routing on bikes that is defo something dumb and  worth banning.

 

Beginning to agree with you.

[Squaredy]

22 hours ago, sime42 said:

Are you sure Reform are really setting the agenda, or just responding to the agenda?

That is a very good point.  Reform certainly are influential, but only because they keep talking sense about issues which are of grave concern.

 

EG they keep banging on about immigration, but if none of the public thought it was a concern they would get no more airtime than the Monster Raving Luny party.

[AHPP]

8 hours ago, 5thelement said:

Or more likely, it’s because you are wrong and no one needs a handgun to do the weekly shop. 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Boulder_shooting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Buffalo_shooting

 

And since I wrote it into one of my songs (have I mentioned I'm in a band?):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westgate_shopping_mall_attack

 

[AHPP]

7 hours ago, 5thelement said:

You watch your back out there Alex, you know how dangerous Greggs can be at this time of day. 

 

Would you be so blithe talking to your mates Nathaniel and Zachary who live in Sydney?

[markieg31]

7 hours ago, Stere said:

Internal cable routing on bikes that is defo something dumb and  worth banning.

Well internal routing was bad but now with a lot of bikes the cables go through the headset before diving off into the frame. Looks super cool but a major head ache. You can have hydraulic hoses being either rubbed through themselves or rubbing their way through carbon and it's all out of sight. My friend showed me his Scott road bike, not a cable or hose in sight, if you need to adjust anything you done have enough slack in the hoses so you have to cut them and replace them. He is a bike mechanic and basically said any job of that nature is £300 before you even get to what actually needs doing! I got one bike with externally routes cables and hoses, what a dream that is!