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You familiar with Dudley Dix's boats?

Yeah - Dix Argie 10. Sail, row, motor. Mainly for me and my kids to muck about in. Car topable. Got the ply cnc'd by ckd boats in Cape Town - was a great time saver....

Canoe is down in Ramsgate...

I had my eye on one of those Triton setups - looks really well thought out? Have realised tho, that I just don't have the time to commit to make it worth while. Maybe when I've retired...

Last one... Next one...

Bloody hell - two questions - how did you cut it, and how do you move it...?

Caliper & set square to the right of the planes. Don't know if there is any meaning to the G.

Have a look at this: Studley Tool Chest. Currently resides at the Smithsonian IIRC... http://www.taunton.com/regcontent/finewoodworking/Studley_1280x1024.jpg

Yeah - it's about the most effective way to put oneself off any form of woodwork.

Jirre - those prices!! Beautiful, but... I use one of these - smoothed it's base out on the finest wet or dry wetted to a sheet of glass - and sharpen the blade the same way. Works just fine... Edit: No no, not that one, this one... http://www.amazon.com/Stanley-1-12-220-12-220-Block-Plane/dp/B00002X1Z8 Bought it at Builders Warehouse, but can't find the current price anywhere.

The best thing about the US is the timber - you see what they can get there in huge beams and think nothing of it - here we go buy small pieces of fancy timber and wonder if it was irrigated with single-malt at the price.

Dunno. If at the back of your mind is 'what is the worst that can happen? some time off and then carry on regardless' combined with the knowledge that to get caught you have to be a clown - there's not much downside. If you are to be excluded from your community, that's way worse. 1. You can't get back into your career and carry on earning a crust in your chosen profession after a nice break where you can train as you wish (and whith whatever you choose to take while doing it) 2. What retired cyclist wouldn't like to come and do races for fun? 3. Reputational damage. Seeing as owning a bike shop or related business post retirement seems to be a common thread, are you as a customer going to go to the shop of the hero or the loser? What would LA's post cycling career look like if he hadn't been bust? Not what it is now, whatever that may be... not sure what effect KE's saga has had on his business, but I'd imagine it hasn't boosted it. "Making the possiblity of getting caught if you dope as close to 100% as possible is the way to go imo." Nice idea. Except that real life has shown that this is remarkably hard. If it wasn't, we wouldn't be having this conversation.

You're confused. This is about cyclists, not the town bicycle. I think.

You're looking for facts? Good luck with that... To go off track slightly with a comparison, this is like other people's marriages - the only thing you do know is that you don't know.

Because now that they know what not to do they can carry on doping as before but this time not get caught?

Fixed for you.

Even better - chuck some curry powder in with the onions... And chopped up leftovers from the night before...

Try this - click on the 'read more' link... http://vestact.blogspot.com/2016/02/bad-news-sells.html

And..?

Rule number one: Don't take tips. Rule number two: See rule number one. That said, I put a few bob into these because a. he's good, b. he's entertaining c.it's fun d. my systems are all in cash (which should be reason enough for me to follow Rule number one which I should be following anyway.) Scroll back and look for 2016 portfolio. Yes, I know it's down for the year. The entire market except for gambles on miners is down. Whether it will still be down at the end of the year is another question. Bottom line: no one knows. https://twitter.com/SmallTalkDaily?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor This is not financial advice whattawhattablahblah

Interactive Brokers for international trading. No harder setting that up than a local one, I think the max you can send out without having to provide SARB docs is 1 bar / ann. At the moment if you provision the account and then do nothing you still winning the way the ZAR is going. International vs local trading is to some extent a call on the ZAR - you can make 20% here but have the currency devalue by that amount. So, decide if it is going to go up or down, keep your money here or there. Or sit on the fence and put 1/2 there, 1/2 here. That's what the wise man would do. Being an ex-Zim I would find the wise thing to do hard. Std Bk for local. I haven't looked at Rizm - but I do agree with jc - systematic / automated systems because the weakest link in the chain is you. And that folks, is the secret of trading.

I remember reading some observation by a sportsman somewhere that went something like: the layman thinks that doping is unfair because it means the playing filed is not level. What they don't realise is that the playing field is level, just not at the level they think. And then of course that there will probably always be someone doping, and that person will probably beat the non-doper (however good he/she/it is) which forces the non-doper to dope (or drop out). So, if you winning...

So I've just watched pvr'd Supercycling to see what the ex-doper and crew would have to say. Was a fairly strained moment to say the least. When they are discussing doping/dopers/dopes the air is so thick of whatall is being unsaid it's hard to see the presenters. Occurred to me today that the Epic's level of difficulty is probably calibrated against the front runners - so those poor fkrs having to come in in about 2x the winning time of the super-charged to make cut-off should probably be given more respect than they are. If KE has been doping and couldn't reliably win, well, that says it all.

3g/min!! Hectic... Out of interest what of fats (in any form, incl ketones) being used as a substrate for glyconeogenesis? Will try and have a google when I get home.

Hi jc My understanding is that the liver produces glucose via a process called gluconeogensis (probably means 'makes glucose' in latin ) I remember reading a study that measured blood glucose in endurance runners and the bottom line was that the liver keeps the blood glucose pretty constant even if no glucose is being ingested. In the study I think they were looking at 100 milers and the blood glucose remained pretty constant. I think the issue with cycling esp mountain biking is can the liver produce enough glucose to maintain high intensity exercise. HTOne used to say that he believed it was possible if you trained / adapted right. I never quite got there - which is not to say that it is not possible...