News you say....26 aint dead
Do people still get "Owned with Bombers??"
Does my bum look big in lycra?
Tyres...its always about tyres.
More interviews I'd love one with John Stamsted. For example
Looking at how to minimize your environmental impact. Not just in climate way but how to ride and how to pick routes that wont degrade with weather. How not to be a Dick personally
I also miss the short through the grinder reviews. So can we have a mini review on some of the Fresh goods Friday stuff. So a slightly muddy Monday round up of bits. Obviously not everything.
Hi Lauren and welcome to the mad house.
I don't suppose anyone knows f somewhere I could get hold of a Syntace X12 142/12 rear axle as I appear to have stripped the threads on mine 🙁
Hello!
Re. daily news - can we have the RSS feed back please?
I don’t suppose anyone knows f somewhere I could get hold of a Syntace X12 142/12 rear axle as I appear to have stripped the threads on mine
Well, hello...
Could I interest you in a DT Swiss one? One idiotic male owner...
At this point the landlady of the pub we stayed in last weekend got in touch to say she’d found my thru axle sat on the wall outside the pub and she’d post it to me.
This reminds me of the time I left my jacket in a pub a group of us stayed in for a biking weekend. Eight of us took all four of their rooms for two nights, drank (a lot) in the pub both nights and ate (a lot) in the pub both nights. I realised I'd left my jacket when I got home, rang the place, and the landlady said she'd found it and would post it. But only if I sent her the £3.50 for the postage...
Good call... we going boggo wenslydale or something a touch more exciting like apricot and ginger?
I’m thinking Wensleydale for t’Boltby Bash…
Good call… we going boggo wenslydale or something a touch more exciting like apricot and ginger?
Firstly, it's Shepherds purse country, not Wensleydale, I'd recommend the bluemin white.
Secondly, cheese with bits in it is about the most terrible thing you could do to cheese except not making it from milk, even then it only ranks above that particular sin as salt crystals count as bits.
Hello!
Not really news, but I'd like to see more stuff about the nature surrounding mtb. The changing of the seasons, the stuff that's beyond the trail.
can we have the RSS feed back please?
Sorry. But it's not coming back.
Staff members free loading 🙄 whatever next?
'Waves' Mumbles hello in a non creepy way*.
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*This lot don't get out much, they start posting at 5am.
Lauren… do you want me to take some pictures of all the thru axles for the big splash on the news page? Maybe we could do it tabloid style with me holding all three while looking forlorn?
The article would also need a good photo of "compo face Binners, pointing at a wall"
Welcome to the jungle
Can we use the magazine address to post spare through axles in to, then they can all be forwarded onto @binners and he could end up with hundreds?
26" tyres, when are they coming back in fashion? I have a whole shed full I'm hoping to make a killing on.
Not really news, but I’d like to see more stuff about the nature surrounding mtb. The changing of the seasons, the stuff that’s beyond the trail.
@apedoctor I'm in the middle of trying to make something like this happen, glad someone else is interested apart from me!
Yes, agree UK racing content would be ace. Exposure TwentyFour/12 in the summer would be good one as the UK 12/24h national champs!
Also, what about Megavalanche? I’m thinking Reblochon, or maybe a fondue of some sort...
Hello, welcome and good luck in your new job.
HellOooo! How do you do 😁
Welcome!
Has the ST Towers buscuit fund been commensurately boosted to cope with your arrival or is it now, more than ever, a case of first come, first served?? 🙂
news wise, i'd like to see news items on how the MTB community is reaching out to other trail / country side users post lockdown, to make sure we all are represented out their fairly
I did the Julbo Enduro Jura once. Comte were one of the sponsors - the feed stations were amazing!
(Sorry Lauren. Have your realised yet that this is actually just a cheese and pie appreciation meme generator, not a mtb site?)
>goes off to create new staff induction glossary: Louise, Lawn Sausages, Baby Robins...<
You do realise that whilst many of us ride mountain bikes we are far more interested in other stuff, especially if there's a bike link. Your journo colleague Mike Davies got more interest in his bike-friendly camper van build than any straight MTB article he ever wrote. Assuming this is you:
http://www.lauren-jenkins.co.uk/
Bike-friendly flat renovation
Bike-friendly cafes
Heritage MTB rides
Something that means I spend more than 40 seconds on the home page before clicking on 'forum' to find something interesting.
Your first article needs to be covering Molgrip's first triathlon and test riding/driving his MTB/Passat. I'm surprised no-one has suggested driving to the 'Ring' in a Caterham 500 with an MTB in the passenger seat, beating Sabrina's time in the Transit and riding the local trails with YouTubes.
More axles, more cheese, more nature, more UK racing. Editorial have noted all requests!
Thanks for the warm welcome, all! I will be lurking around the forum, but if there's anything you think needs to go up, please drop me a message.
Look forward to getting to know everyone a bit better (am I going to regret that?).
Hello 👋
The topic “has MTB lost its green sheen” or whatever it was the other day seems worthy of a bit of journalistic rigour. So any short news items around health/ well-being/ the environment.
Sup Loz 👊
Hello and hope you enjoy your new job Lauren. I think the idea of a follow up on the FGF items is a good one. Everything looks good when it's nice and shiny but it's better knowing what it's like a few months down the line. Even if just a few things get a recommended and some even get a 'buy this instead' or 'I put this part back on instead of...' (I understand if you slate something the brand might not hand out more goodies so you don't want to say anythings bad as such). I always like the yearly staff recommendations and think a bit more of this would be good
Welcome identitizombie/Lauren! Good to see even the STW staff can find some time to waste reading all of the drivel/crap/insightfulness that gets posted on here. Hopefully you'll have some brilliant tune choices for when you get lumbered with Fresh Goods Friday if your pictures on Instagram are any indication.
Not really news, but I’d like to see more stuff about the nature surrounding mtb. The changing of the seasons, the stuff that’s beyond the trail.
@apedoctor I’m in the middle of trying to make something like this happen, glad someone else is interested apart from me!
I've always wondered what us riders look like from the perspective of an animal. Something like a cow sat under a tree in the rain looking at us riding by thinking we're all idiots or a badger wondering why we like to ride these strange contraptions through their toilet/wash pool. May be sheep place bets between each other about who can lay the most, 'Poo Mines' on a fast descent and get the most 'Hits' on a group of us! Or (to keep it forum-centric) maybe an interview with all of the baby bluebells vying to get their photo in the Annual Bluebell Thread! So many possibilities.
Hello, good evening and welcome.
I think the idea of a follow up on the FGF items is a good one.
Thirded.
What the **** is a mtb and why does it keep getting mentioned on this coffee forum?
Used Goods Friday?
Hi 👋🏻
@reluctantjumper those are the kind of weird ideas that I like! Though it’s a fine line - I found the ‘inner monologue of the trail dog’ video last week like watching a kids’ Disney movie.
@edukator I am very much in favour of extremely tangential bike related stories! I have a theory that anything can be interesting if told to you by someone who is really enthusiastic about it. Pat Adams (of mountain mayhem) makes collectible toy soldiers. I have yet to work out quite how to turn that into an mtb article!
You can all blame me, Edukator and Reluctantjumper if things get really weird around here.
Hi,
Mullet gravel bikes that can be used on road and off.
Any UK co’s making groupsets to offset shortages. Interesting looking at co’s like Sensah / Box etc… Be cool if Hope or similar went all out on one. Maybe Atherton bikes could 3D print one…
Photography guide... setting up go pros and discussing setting an action shot up etc...
All the great shots cant all be luck....😉
Bike transport so best ways of moving your bike securely etc. And dont just say in a van. Didn't work for Gwinn or Martha gill
Bike transport so best ways of moving your bike securely etc.
It's in a van.
And dont just say in a van
Oh, OK. In a helicopter.
You do realise that whilst many of us ride mountain bikes we are far more interested in other stuff, especially if there’s a bike link. Your journo colleague Mike Davies got more interest in his bike-friendly camper van build than any straight MTB article he ever wrote. Assuming this is you:
http://www.lauren-jenkins.co.uk/
/a>Bike-friendly flat renovation
Bike-friendly cafes
Heritage MTB ridesSomething that means I spend more than 40 seconds on the home page before clicking on ‘forum’ to find something interesting.
That is indeed me. I like the idea of bike related and more lifestyle news. I definitely spend more time thinking about things related to riding than riding itself.
I suppose it's worth a mention that I'm not based near the team, I'm WFH with the dog in South Wales. So we it seems, are spreading.
Have really enjoyed reading suggestions. Even those I have no context for (rest assured Hannah is on the case there).
I definitely spend more time thinking about things related to riding than riding itself.
You'll fit right in then!
Hi & welcome Lauren! Look forward to seeing more news in there with the front page content (especially if it includes doggos!)
You can all blame me, Edukator and Reluctantjumper if things get really weird around here.
Get? GET! It's half the fun of the place!
Photography guide… setting up go pros and discussing setting an action shot up etc…
All the great shots cant all be luck….😉
Something like this is currently planned to appear in a mag later this year!
