be sure they can be trusted my poor rear tyre

Well, they are going to be out of pocket a few quid I suspect.

You are a braver man than me to let someone else ride your bike, they'd have to pry my cold, dead fingers off the bars before they could get on mine.

it was mr dink

Ha so you have ways of punishing him?

he's gone to buy me a new tv, wheel is ordered and bikes at garage awaiting to have it fitted in the morning

ALSO just NOTED 955i's comment PMSL to which I'm obviously a very foolish woman thats just unfortunate enough to look like the colonel

Sorry, the beard and mustache fooled me

its ok, the avatar stems from another forum, where I regulary (strangly it happens on all forums tbh) get mistaken for a bloke. And on the wind up I did a mustache on a picture of myself and goatee in mspaint. Someone said I looked like the colonel from KFC and thus colonel dinkums was born, tis a fab pic tho I love it even if it is slightly odd

Mr dink was a bit cheeky there! still he'll pay no doubt.

i have a simple rule, ''ride if you must pay if you bust''. i also apply this rule to me if i ride anyone elses bike.

thats the only reason he's allowed to ride it ...that and I can when he gets a bike sorted have a go on his. Being an impoverished student he holds the pennies in this house so would have to pay eitherway