Admit your ignorance - things you've only just realised/learned

[matticus]

Pog rides 165 cranks.

Imagine how fast he'll be when he grows into 170s!

 

[bobzmyunkle]

Pog rides 165 cranks.

Me too, but I draw the line at pink shorts.

 

[ColinJ]

Me too, but I draw the line at pink shorts.

Especially with a brown stain up the back!!



I hope that stain was due to wet roads early on...

 

[matticus]

Me too, but I draw the line at pink shorts.

Don't knock it 'til you try it.

 

[bobzmyunkle]

Don't knock it 'til you try it.

Ok, maybe next time I'm leading the Giro gc.

 

[bobzmyunkle]

Ok, maybe next time I'm leading the Giro gc.

Oh, and on condition it's not raining

 

[Chris S]

French bikes have narrower quill stems and steerer tubes than British bikes. If you try and use a French quill stem in a British bike it won't grip properly.

 

[raleighnut]

French bikes have narrower quill stems and steerer tubes than British bikes. If you try and use a French quill stem in a British bike it won't grip properly.

BB threading/direction of threading is different too on older french bikes. Raleigh pulled a similar stunt on their early 'quill stem' MTB's but they're bigger so a standard quill stem is too loose to fit and who makes this propriatary stem only Raleigh of course.

 

[Chris S]

There was a stock exchange in Birmingham (UK) until 1986.

 

[Alex321]

Adding a teaspoon of Camp coffee to a tin of low fat rice pudding will make it edible.

Camp coffee is not supposed to be edible, you are supposed to drink it.

But I suppose you can eat it once you have done that to it

 

[Tenkaykev]

Camp coffee is not supposed to be edible, you are supposed to drink it.

But I suppose you can eat it once you have done that to it

Camp coffee is in the baking aisle in our local supermarket.

 

[Andy in Germany]

There was a stock exchange in Birmingham (UK) until 1986.

What happened to it in 1986?

 

[Dogtrousers]

What happened to it in 1986?

'86 was the year of the "big bang" deregulation. The two may be related, I dunno.

 

[ExBrit]

'86 was the year of the "big bang" deregulation. The two may be related, I dunno.

Coincidently it was the year Chernobyl became a household word.

 

[Chris S]

What happened to it in 1986?

It lost business and stopped trading after deregulation.