Originally Posted by Burning Down

Yeah I not going to sell it, so whatever it's worth is not a huge deal to me. I like riding it though. My other bike is an off-road mountain bike - that's all I have ever ridden, and also stunt bikes. So the sensation is quite different as the centre of gravity on the Miele is much higher. It's a 10-speed bike, but the gears are not aligned properly (probably due to it sitting in a basement for 10 years), so I have to get that checked out.

I think Miele has gotten more into mountain and all-terrain type bikes, and those cruiser bikes, so their racing models are rarer now.

Originally Posted by Vertigo

Can't believe this weather - every day rain, rain and more rain. It's getting a little ridiculous now.

Originally Posted by eraser.time206

If you can't deal with the fact that there are 6+ billion people in the world and none of them think exactly the same that's not my problem. Just deal with it yourself or make actual conversation. This isn't a court and I'm not some poet or prophet that needs everything I say to be analytically critiqued.

Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier

My girlfriend is from the north west and she complains about it raining nearly all the time, everytime I visit the NW it rains too but I don't mind as I love the rain

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.

Originally Posted by The Batlord

Wait, doesn't all of England rain constantly? Isn't that your main export? Drizzle?

Originally Posted by eraser.time206

If you can't deal with the fact that there are 6+ billion people in the world and none of them think exactly the same that's not my problem. Just deal with it yourself or make actual conversation. This isn't a court and I'm not some poet or prophet that needs everything I say to be analytically critiqued.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.

Originally Posted by The Batlord

Dude...I just found online scanes of Batman: The Killing Joke, which is apparently THE definitive Joker story. I'm used to being able to find manga scans online, but I've never found honest to god American comic scans. I think I just had a nerdgasm. Yup. I did.

Originally Posted by eraser.time206

If you can't deal with the fact that there are 6+ billion people in the world and none of them think exactly the same that's not my problem. Just deal with it yourself or make actual conversation. This isn't a court and I'm not some poet or prophet that needs everything I say to be analytically critiqued.

Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier

I'm reading all the Marvel titles at the moment and am stuck in the late 1970s.

Originally Posted by The Virgin

what? i don't understand you. farming is for vegetables, not for meat. if ou disagree with a farming practice, you disagree on a vegetable. unless you have a different definition of farming.

Originally Posted by Howard the Duck

i'm reading mostly modern stuff, more Marvel than DC now

it's just more realistic and they have adult themes

i just got some of the recent Batman & Robin, after Bruce "died"

and Batman is Dick Grayson

and Robin is Damian, Bruce's son

Originally Posted by eraser.time206

If you can't deal with the fact that there are 6+ billion people in the world and none of them think exactly the same that's not my problem. Just deal with it yourself or make actual conversation. This isn't a court and I'm not some poet or prophet that needs everything I say to be analytically critiqued.

Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier

I do mostly mountain bike stuff these days as its easier to do and more practical but the feeling a road bike gives is far more special, it gives a feeling of both speed and freedom, enjoy riding the Miele.