Forum: Australia
April 21st 08, 05:10 AM Posted to aus.bicycle
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Replies: 10
Views: 808
Driver license test questions
TimC wrote:
Terry, if thunderbird has a half decent implementation of killfiles,
Sadly not. Only address filters.
I use thunderbird because of its ability for deep sub-directory
presorting on...
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Forum: Australia
April 21st 08, 05:04 AM Posted to aus.bicycle
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Replies: 10
Views: 808
Driver license test questions
cfsmtb wrote:
Terry, it's the boxtard again, nicking content from a previous post I
made a longtime ago.
I knew it was the idiot, but the intelligent content fooled me. I
thought I should...
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Forum: Australia
April 21st 08, 12:18 AM Posted to aus.bicycle
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Replies: 10
Views: 808
Driver license test questions
wrote:
Driver license test questions
those of you with licenses, do
you recall *anything* either
in handbooks or the computer
tests that directly related to
...
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Forum: Australia
April 14th 08, 04:32 PM Posted to aus.bicycle
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Replies: 14
Views: 679
PeterSig - Generator lights -- Thank you!!
Duncan wrote:
Lol, you have a lot more faith in your LBS that I have in mine.
Ahh yes... well it pays to visit an LBS that you trust.
I see the spoke calculation as a sort of test....
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Forum: Australia
April 14th 08, 01:51 PM Posted to aus.bicycle
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Replies: 14
Views: 679
PeterSig - Generator lights -- Thank you!!
Rory Williams wrote:
With a new rim and spokes I would say it's easier to build a wheel than
true up an old one - as one who is usually trying to recycle some old
bits.
Yep, the spokes on a...
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Forum: Australia
April 14th 08, 01:47 PM Posted to aus.motorcycles,aus.bicycle
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Replies: 25
Views: 1,282
2008 Unaugural - 4 week warning!
TimC wrote:
Doesn't mean you can't drop by in the dead of the night (or making it
as obvious as possible during the day), and take it first.
ROFLMPO. let me guess, you've never put a railway...
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Forum: Australia
April 14th 08, 08:54 AM Posted to aus.bicycle
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Replies: 14
Views: 679
PeterSig - Generator lights -- Thank you!!
Duncan wrote:
Then go to the LBS with rim and hub and ask for spokes for them..
they'll redo the calc for you.. and you can check that you both came
up with the same set of numbers.
Lol, you...
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Forum: Australia
April 14th 08, 08:52 AM Posted to aus.motorcycles,aus.bicycle
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Replies: 25
Views: 1,282
2008 Unaugural - 4 week warning!
TimC wrote:
Don't worry, apparently the world will suffer nuclear war on Thursday,
so whats the point. Yer, I'm still studying for my exams on Friday.
To get here, I took the train down from
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Forum: Australia
April 11th 08, 02:18 AM Posted to aus.bicycle
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Replies: 19
Views: 961
Super cheap roadie
Claude wrote:
"Jules" wrote in message
news:vtydnXEkyJc4E2PanZ2dnUVZ_uqvnZ2d@internode...
I wonder why we don't see this kind of thing over here...
Thanks...
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Forum: Australia
April 11th 08, 02:13 AM Posted to aus.bicycle
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Replies: 50
Views: 2,163
9000 bike riders fined for breaking road rules
TimC wrote:
Most sysadmins are.
But, sadly, a neccessary evil.
My first unix job was as a sysadmin for a network of unix boxen and PCs
under total user control. It was at a time when NIS was...
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Forum: Australia
April 10th 08, 02:53 AM Posted to aus.bicycle
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Replies: 19
Views: 1,167
Lights Camera Action!
Zebee Johnstone wrote:
Dunno about the Shimano, but the SON will light up quite well at
walking pace.
Standard SON light?
Is it a LED?
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Forum: Australia
April 10th 08, 01:57 AM Posted to aus.bicycle
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Replies: 19
Views: 1,167
Lights Camera Action!
Zebee Johnstone wrote:
Or you can spend more - $140 for a hub dynamo and $65 for a light -
and never have to manage batteries again.
I have the more expensive option - SON and Lumotec -...
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Forum: Australia
April 10th 08, 01:52 AM Posted to aus.bicycle
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Replies: 50
Views: 2,163
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Forum: Australia
April 9th 08, 09:25 AM Posted to aus.bicycle
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Replies: 50
Views: 2,163
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Forum: Australia
April 6th 08, 09:27 AM Posted to aus.bicycle
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Replies: 7
Views: 446
why are their so many
me wrote:
why are there so many trolls and spammers ?
*Illiterate* trolls and spammers?
maybe there breaks are faulty?
Fail.
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Forum: Australia
April 4th 08, 06:09 AM Posted to aus.bicycle
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Replies: 3
Views: 635
Was anyone looking for bulk tube patches?
BT Humble wrote:
$14.60 for 100 patches, or $0.15 per patch. For myself it's more
about avoiding the mountains of little plastic boxes that pile up when
I buy the $2.50 8-patch kits from...
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Forum: Australia
April 1st 08, 11:42 PM Posted to aus.bicycle
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Replies: 5
Views: 363
Pannier Racks - Non eyelet variety - any good?
Bill the Cat wrote:
I have a chromoly frame on my going to work (clunker) but it does not have
eyelets for racks and I do not see myself geting new drop outs welded in any
time soon.
P...
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Forum: Australia
March 27th 08, 10:07 PM Posted to aus.bicycle
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Replies: 5
Views: 597
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Forum: Australia
March 26th 08, 01:06 AM Posted to aus.bicycle
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Replies: 11
Views: 804
tights
John Tserkezis wrote:
You can wear knicks and not suffer so much from chaffing (sic), or, you
can risk it and get either a Pretty Young Thing from the ambulance rub
you up with...
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Forum: Australia
March 25th 08, 11:13 PM Posted to aus.bicycle
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Replies: 11
Views: 804
tights
John Tserkezis wrote:
So, spare a thought for our paramedics and prevent "chaffing" in the
first place. The consequences can be, er, icky.
So you are saying that I should continue to wear...
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Forum: Australia
March 25th 08, 01:28 AM Posted to aus.bicycle
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Replies: 3
Views: 588
bike height
PeteSig wrote:
Firstly,thanks for the info. could not be bthered doing
anotherregistered site atm.
Had a look over this site. My first thoughts were about the craziness of
trying to ride a...
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Forum: Australia
March 20th 08, 12:35 PM Posted to aus.bicycle
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,102
buying gear on the net
Hypertension wrote:
I'm still puzzled why a Shimano derailleur made right in our region in
Malaysia can go all the way to the USA and then be landed back in
Australia for half the local...
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Forum: Australia
March 19th 08, 09:53 PM Posted to aus.bicycle
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,102
buying gear on the net
Hypertension wrote:
I have found
Australian bicycle equipment retailers to be overpriced, inefficient and
lacking in range and depth.
Matches the customers well; cheap, whiney and...
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Forum: Australia
March 14th 08, 01:52 AM Posted to aus.bicycle
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Replies: 19
Views: 929
Bakfiets
BT Humble wrote:
It's good for about 140 amps, if I recall correctly. I never need to
go that high, as I only use 2mm/2.5mm rods.
Very robust. Our TAFE has a few of those.
The real question...
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Forum: Australia
March 14th 08, 12:15 AM Posted to aus.bicycle
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Replies: 19
Views: 929
Bakfiets
Graeme Dods wrote:
He had a decent oxyacetylene welder
Drool, personally I think oxy is far more useful for bicycle bulding
than any other unless you are a very good welder, then tig. Only...
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