stevious, I have a lovely Deore rear mech that will work just as well on your bike. Mail me and we can do a swap.
ps you won't even notice , right?

sfb – would you still go biking if there was no 'totty'?

Geeks are the ones who can tell this years xtr from last years at a glance

Oh, c'mon all you need is a working set of eyes for that comparison.

and a knowledge of this years XTR , last years XTR and the difference between the two, I have the eyes bit but not the knowledge or desire to acquire it.
I tend to know what bikes the people I regularily ride with own. i dont know , or care, how many bikes I could recognise but suspect it is quite a lot.

I'm more of a trail perv. I passed a footpath sign I've never noticed before on the way back from the pub tonight. I'm Google Earthing it now!

sputnik – Member

Simon, I don't know you, but you are perhaps just a bike rider, and not a mtb rider, like Chipps said.

Well the photographic evidence is that SFB does indeed ride a mountain bike on mountains fairly regularly ( well fells anyway :wink:) I indeed ride mountainbikes almost everyday – sometimes on road , sometimes on mountains. I am most deffo an MTBer and do not subscribe to the geekery at all.

but you are perhaps just a bike rider, and not a mtb rider, like Chipps said.

but I only have a mountain bike (here, next to me as I type) and I only like riding it off road…

buzz-lightyear – Member
I'm more of a trail perv. I passed a footpath sign I've never noticed before on the way back from the pub tonight. I'm Google Earthing it now!

Guilty as charged m'lud

Guilty as charges m'lud

oh yeah, me too – always looking from trains and cars etc :o)

Ooh, the Barnes Cave!

'This gives us a fascinating insight into the life of this truly disgusting creature…'

Look; two screens for comparing bottoms! Top man….

Ooh, the Barnes Cave!

I tidied up special like…

many screens for many eyes. fly guy that barnes.

I'm glad that most men do appear to look at bikes more, I'd feel most uncomfortable if group rides that I went on were full of leering pervs like sfb. In fact, I'd probably stop going on them.

I'd feel most uncomfortable if group rides that I went on were full of leering pervs like sfb.

You do know that he's at least honest, and that all the others are secretly looking at your bottom?

I don't think the ladies that go on SFBs rides have a problem with him being a perv; they know he's too elderly to actually cause them any real danger. Speshly when he's not got his teeth in.

Is that a Dual-Booty system, Barnes?

I'd feel most uncomfortable if group rides that I went on were full of leering pervs like sfb.

and yet the women I do ride with appear to find it funny 🙂 Not least because I'm openly honest about it.

they know he's too elderly to actually cause them any real danger.

it's me age you know…

Is that a Dual-Booty system, Barnes?

just Win7 at the mo 🙂 Watercooled i7.

that obsession with kit thing is too "autisitic spectrum" for my taste…

just Win7 at the mo Watercooled i7.

Discussion point Fail. 😉

just Win7 at the mo Watercooled i7.
Discussion point Fail

I'm no more interested in PC hardware. It's just a tool.

What are you using it for that requires 'watercooled i7'?

And you never answered my question:

Would you still go biking if there was never any 'totty' involved?

What are you using it for that requires 'watercooled i7'?

Processing bottoms of course!

The number of bottoms SFB has to process requires a LOT of computer power….

What are you using it for that requires 'watercooled i7'?

DXO Pro* drives it up to 100% for hours

And you never answered my question:
Would you still go biking if there was never any 'totty' involved?

oh, sorry, I missed that! It's hard to give a definitive answer, but I have given up Wednesday evenings as they were unrelentingly blokey, though male only rides are very rare at the weekend, so the question does not arise. It's sexist but I'm not very keen on other men, they tend to be dull.

*photo batch post processor

Very guilty of the tyre thing……………………

DXO Pro* drives it up to 100% for hours

Fair enough

oh, sorry, I missed that! It's hard to give a definitive answer, but I have given up Wednesday evenings as they were unrelentingly blokey

For someone that claims to love mountain biking as much as you say, that seems a bit odd – but then I will happily ride on my own.

For someone that claims to love mountain biking as much as you say, that seems a bit odd – but then I will happily ride on my own.

I love the experience, which for me is sociable and shared – I never ride alone either – and I prefer socialising with women, or at least in a mixed group and moan like hell when no women turn up

When I was about 15 my Mom (very keen cyclist in her day) got exasperated with my mates and I tinkering about with our bikes rather more than riding them. She burst out with "You're not cyclists, you're just bike riders!". It doesn't make logical sense, but I know eggzackerly what she meant and it made me sick with shame then, and it still does now, 40 plus years later.

I guess that's why I ride 3 times a week, but do virtually no bike maintenance to this day.

BTW – why has SFB got a picture of TJ's Mrs on his wall? Trying to cause an argument?

(An argument? – with TJ?? – who'd have thought it?)

why has SFB got a picture of TJ's Mrs on his wall?

I can only see my daughter, brother and me…

anyway, I contend that an obsession with kit does not characterise mountain bikers, and I wonder if it isn't the case that the obsessives either attach too much importance to the bits and pieces in a kind of supersticious voodoo related to their enjoyment, or don't get enough from the pure riding and need to add metal and/or rubber fetishism

BTW – why has SFB got a picture of TJ's Mrs on his wall? Trying to cause an argument?

Huh?

or don't get enough from the pure riding and need to add metal and/or rubber fetishism

Or perving over women? Presumably if it was about pure riding it wouldn't matter if you rode alone.

Or just that those of us who like bikes too get more from riding than you do. I don't see that one excludes the other. It certainly doesn't for me.

Presumably if it was about pure riding it wouldn't matter if you rode alone.

correction accepted – pure riding in company :o)