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Ffs - woke up yesterday unable to bear weight on my right foot. today it’s worse and incredibly painful - just had an X-ray but probably tendon damage. I’m on crutches. Might take a long time to recover. Bugger.

@Adam@TartyBikes out of interest - how much did it cost to make your frame?

Can you even open the oven door all the way?

Clarify - valuation, which then required a survey as a condition.

I’m not getting in a plane with that pilot.

We only got one because we were forced to by the mortgage company This happened to us. We agreed a price based on the fact that it was knackered and needed everything doing. Mortgage company have a survey/valuation and then require a structural / damp and timber survey. Survey says - needs 10k to fix problems (duuurrrr it’s a flipping wreck I know). Mortgage company removes 10k from the amount they will lend despite the fact what they are lending is based on what I offered and not on an actual valuation, and I offered the value of the house in its current spec. Valuers Leaves us 10k short and can only renegotiate with the seller. I get if it’s a hidden thing that effects the value that I couldn’t possibly know then yeah reduce the value, but if it’s got dirty great hand sized crack in the wall in plain view - you can’t take that off edit - doesn’t make a lot of sense but I hope you get what I mean

Estate agents just aren’t required anymore - they are a throwback to an era before the internet. They’ll give you a load of bs about getting people through the door/ higher selling price, but it’s bs. List it on a Rightmove or similar and you would get the same amount of interest. They never sort any actual problems as all go betweens are with the solicitors. They take a fat chunk of cash to show people round a place they usually know very little about and hand over some keys at the end.

Just checked - should be £5.10 ?

Yeah but estate agents are just money printers, a total con. They do f**k all for a ridiculously fat commission.

If you assume earth weight then you can work out gravitational force on your chosen moon size and then the radius/speed of the moon will follow and I guess you can shift things around to make a nice thing you can plot. gut feeling - if you start with earth size planet you aren’t going to get a similarly visible earth that goes round 27 times faster. but I’ll try it out later. edit: soggy mind might be talking shite

Update to the shed... put a spare temperature sensor in there to log the temperature. It reached 41degC by 2pm yesterday and probably would have gone higher, but I opened the doors to do some cladding work and it cooled down very quickly. Today it’s complete cloud cover and it’s just over 16degC. Worrying... think I may need more than internal solutions, maybe some kind of wind out awning? Or maybe even external shutters (I don’t really want to do either but it needs to be useable).

they came with bundles of dosh however I will say that I have an absolute shit tonne of off cuts. And I’m probably gonna post them up as free to collect somewhere - I’m guessing that happens a lot. Also skips outside houses having loft conversions are usually full of it and they are usually decent thickness. the frame looks amazing - really impressive!

I would be surprised if a big company like Marin could make good trials bikes in the low volumes required and for it to be cost effective. I can completely understand canyon wanting nothing else branded on Fabio, they are trying to buy into a brand and an association, get their logo over tons of YouTube views - they can’t have it diluted with other bike brands - especially if they aren’t selling anything.

Me and Martyn had this realisation back in '09. Trials bikes just don't sell in the numbers that makes any sense at all for any MTB companies to actually make a trials bike. We nearly jacked in trials bikes and talked about switching the team over to actual mountain bikes. Ride trials and make videos on bikes that sell gives a bike team a lot more power. I think Martyn would have done it, but the natural end of the bike team (and the fact that I would have been crap as hell on a mtb) ended the idea.

This is what I’ve tried to learn.

The fork hang thingmy to 180 out was pure gold.

Well, insulation works - it’s still warm in the shed (in the 20’s), but now I need to come up with a good plan to reduce solar gain ... I’m thinking heat reflective blinds (possibly automated to temperature for a laugh). Ac has definitely climbed back onto the must have list too.

Who did they lose?

finished the shitty shitty insulation cutting, and someone’s picking up the spares tomorrow.

Are you going to smoooth them off - that would look so pro

22/18 170 on my hex here. (For what it’s worth)

I did see an article this week that said Weston super mare is the best place to live in the uk

Gods punishment isn’t going to help change that. Might need a miracle though...