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I ran a peg on the back of my Inspired for a while just for a laugh. Started by just using extra along 'unbreakable' bolts but because they were only M6 I thought it'd be a better idea to make a proper axle so turned up a custom stainless axle with proper M10 threads on the end to accept the peg. Worked fine, didn't snap the frame and was good fun! Didn't get in the way at all (if you're going to hit a peg while sidehopping you're doing something wrong) and just opened up the odd feeble or stall. In the end I didn't use it enough so took it off but just go for it! Vimeo Video -> Original Video

I did once but felt guilty for the guy who then had to go through all the insurance claims etc to get his money back for something that wasn't his fault. I did complain enough to get the postie moved onto a different route though. f**ker knows not to mess now I tells you!

You got your parcels didn't you? Sheesh. My postie went through a great time when he'd regularly leave my parcels on the doorstep (people walking past all day) regardless of whether a signature was required or not...

Especially the premium services like Saturday express deliveries. It'll be too late now but you probably could've picked it up from the depot today rather than get it redelivered on Monday but... too late.

Unfortunately I think it's down to Mr Hope deciding that the team kit would be that lovely shade of mucus green...

+ ∞[/thread]. Just to address beigemaster I completely agree with Tony- it's not a 'straw man argument' it's just the realisation by modern, educated people that there is little or no need for the illogical babblings of a book which for some reason has maintained a following. I must say after all your learned points and structured arguments I'm really quite disappointed to find out that you are a 'believer'. Ah well, that''s just me being narrow minded. Even if you were to believe that Bejus existed as described in the bible, turned water to wine and carried out hundreds of true miracles there has been absolutely zero evidence since that time even remotely pointing to the existence of 'God' and to be fair, if there is a 'God' then the only evidence points to him being a proper ©unt.

I think he meant that because they use pinchbolts, with the bolts loose in theory the tolerances should be such that the crank arm will smoothly slide onto the BB axle without too much drama... In theory.

You're kidding?! Same one?... Numpty.

I'm still sticking with legit firstly because they use his name (sure, his email's alexdark2, but no way phishers personalise each email they send out), second they have all the Paypal adverts down the bottom with promo codes, thirdly the legit email (I assume it came from info.paypal.co.uk which is legit) and finally because it's supported by what the real Paypal site says. But as Tomturd says, hovering over a link will tell you that it's legit straight away . Edit: and finally because I've just found a message I deleted the other day from paypal@info.paypal.co.uk exactly like that offering me a Paypal Mastercard which is 100% legit.

Think Alex typed it wrong... Yar says I!

The email's from paypal@info.paypal.co.uk not paypal@paypal.info.co.uk I think. Legit says I.

Actually, that looks legit to me. No phishing scam will ever know your name (Hello Alex Dark). Quick search leads to this which seems to support what it's saying. Interesting.

I think (guess) the only people who don't get charged/pay fees are charity donations. They'd be seriously messed up if they took 10% of everyones donations...

Not sure if this has been posted before: Sky News interview and clips.

Nah, if you send a gift, you get the choice of paying for the fees yourself so the person you're sending it to actually gets the total amount. Someone has to pay fees though! As said, I smell a phish...

I don't think so. 'Historically altered/inaccurate' doesn't quite cover it for me when you're considering things like the creation of the Universe, man, the burning bush, resurrection, parting of seas, floods and arks, water to wine, feeding 5000 people on a stick of chewing gum etc. As said before there may have been a guy called Bejus who stood up against the powers that be back in the day but everything else, I would guess, is most likely entirely made up. We're back to the 99% fiction and if that's all fiction why would Bejus being the 'son of God (kinda)' not be just another of those fictional factors made up to turn a normal dude, lets call him Brian (or Bejus), into a false idol. Once again, if you use logic and reasoning you'd come to the conclusion that the whole thing is pretty laughable. But then if you've got faith then it's ok because you can just ignore logic and reasoning can't you...

No, I'm saying that logic and reason cannot easily be applied to the stories in the Bible, beyond reasoning that the whole thing is a series of stories not meant to be taken literally leading to the question 'if the stories are not literaly true, why would you believe in the existence of God or an afterlife?'. A logical, reasonable person would look at the facts and evidence and come to the conclusion that it's a very nice story but completely unbelievable. Removing that you're only left with faith which ignores logic and reason leaving only, well, faith itself. Don't know if that makes any more sense than my last post but there you go .

I take that and raise you; 'I've broken my pedal axles and would like to know if it's possible to replace them with Titanium axles'. Either way, tuleda, what type of pedals do you have? Wellgo, DMR, VP...?

Not really . In my mind IF you believe in a Christian based God THEN you have accepted the teachings and story of the Bible and have therefore ignored the principle of logic and reasoning... By definition your beliefs cannot change without moving away from believing in a Christian God and accepting more logical, reasonable beliefs. That's not meant to be a sarcastic response to your post by the way, just using your post as a base to put my version of events across.

You're absolutely right. Satan would ride an Inspired. To beigemaster- you say you believe we were created by God... do you mean that in a Christian sense or in the sense of a 'first cause'?

It's ok, I don't mind... :'(

It would be nice... in a way. However, to have a purpose we would then simply be puppets playing out some charade for the designer of that purpose. With regards what we are, I'll leave you with a quote from the master philosopher Agentius Smithus; "Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet." Amen brother.

The thing is I've already been through this in Dave's 'Hardcore Christian' thread where it was discussed to death and Joe told us of the 'miracles' he had witnessed which, from what I remember, were quite clearly fake and set up by the Christian camp he was at to aid in the 'brain washing'... I know what you're saying and as an engineer and scientist I tend not to deal with highly structured debates when I reply (I try to deal in facts and real evidence which, in the case of the Bible, there ain't much) but I can see how that can be read by those of you who do, yourself and Bejus being the obvious two who spring to mind. So yeah, I think we've covered a lot of the evidence and open-mindedness which has to exist in science in support of the theory of Evolution, the Big Bang theory and everything else in past topics and I really can't be bothered to retype it all or drag it back up for one lost-cause Christian. Likewise in that other thread it was fairly well shown that there is pretty much zero evidence for anything in the Bible being even remotely likely, except for maybe the existence of a dude called Bejus (Brian?) who may have existed and inadvertently stood up for his people. It all comes bac kto FeS and winged giraffes if I remember correctly... Oh yeah, and in other news LOLZ.

Do you work for them Ali?!