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Yeah? Or wheel sizes? Suspension designs? The weather?
😀 You're just a 't1t' fred, alledgedly.
Tyres. today I was riding with a mountain king black chilli front and an edge rear. decent combo for wet rock and slippy stuff
A Great one, of course. 😀
What a lovely bird.
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I have supsension forks on my mounting bicycle. They are very good and enable me to ride over bumpy stuffs more comfortably.
Yeah, but which side were you riding on teej?
The side of truth righteousness and the TJ way
Yeah, but I bet you werent wearing a helmet 😀
no helmet?! what happens if you get hit by a cow.. you'll surely die!
And next time, it could be a childs face! That edinburgh cockbadger is the devil incarnate, I tell thee!
I didn't know cows went around puching people? Maybe it had a calf and felt threatened? Anyway everybody knows that all mountain bikers wear helmets to protect their brains against trees 😆
Actually I was as I was going to be wheels off the ground and its all a bit slippy. didn't need it tho
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it's like seeing a picture of a member of the Archers cast there's a jarring between what you have in your head as an image and the reality.
I bet you don't sound like Eddy Grundy either, TJ 🙁
You cant see his horns when he's wearing a helmet. 🙂
🙂
The "TJ Way", is that like the South Downs Way only shorter?
Bloody hell; the effect of TJ wearing a helmet seems to have warped physics and the landscape behind him! 😯
That grass needs a cut.
Its my personal gravity feild Elf
Bikeboy - well sort of - it ploughs on regardless and only has left turns
Bloody hell TJ - you've got a proper bike and everything. I always figured you'd be steel lugs and thumbies - y'know, keep it simple and light... 😉
yes, it's not quite as circa 2000 Marin looking as I was expecting, either.
So TJ doesn't talk like Eddie Grundy, look like Bernie Ecclestone or ride a 10 year old Marin with two saddles.
I'm quite shaken, tbh.
That edinburgh cockbadger is the devil incarnate
Thats racist, that is.
Shall we discuss racism?
Ok, I'll take it back. Nick Griffin - shag, bin or marry?
Can we have an 'abandon on remote island somewhere in the south Atlantic' option please?
Shall we discuss racism?
Probbly best not, eh? 😉 Keep the thread on something mundane, boring and uncontentious, and we should be ok....
No elf, we cant. And you have to choose. NOW!
But Nick's a lovely cuddly chap - just a bit lonely and wants to make friends with his own type of people. He's just very misunderstood.
And he does have a certain wildness about the eyes...
no helmet?! what happens if you get hit by a cow.. you'll surely die!
Plus it'll go on the insurance as bovine intervention.
🙂
Lives outside the M25, too.
**NEWFLASH onion costs 15p in supermarket NEWSFLASH**
bikebouy - MemberThe "TJ Way", is that like the South Downs Way only shorter?
From what I've seen it's more of a circular route, goes round and round and..... 😀
he does have a certain wildness about the eyes...
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My mid 90s marin with thumbies was stolen 🙁 Thats not my bike in the picture - its stanfrees just to confuse you. Mine is a mid 90s raleigh special products with lots of mudgueards and thumbies. I'llb try to find a pic
I looked like this till I got my haircut - any better?
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*expects to see pictures of traffic cones zip-tied to frame*
my faith would be restored 🙂
wwaswas - try this
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the chap ( hairyscary from here) who sold me the solo framemade me promise no traffic cone guards - so it has themmade out of bits of guttering instead 🙂
'Stanfree'; is that a bit like this?
I think we should be told. 😐
[b]Stan free, as free as the wind blows
As free as the grass grows
Stan free to follow your heart
Stan free and beauty surrounds you
The world still astounds you
Each time you look at a star
Stan free, where no walls divide you
You're free as the roaring tide
So there's no need to hide
Stan free, and life is worth living
But only worth living
'Cause you're Stan free
(Stan free, where no walls divide you)
You're free as the roaring tide
So there's no need to hide
Stan free, and life is worth living
But only worth living
'Cause you're Stan free[/b]
I looked like this till I got my haircut - any better?
No.
stanfree is one of the east lothian massive
Did you know how fascinating the Brazil Nut Tree is? Can't be grown in plantations because it requires a particular type of bee to pollinate it, and this bee will only be in the area if there's a certain type of orchid growing epiphytically on a near by tree. Apparently boy bees like the orchid, and the lady bees are attracted by the boy bees and pollinate the brazil nut flowers.
Due to the complex pollination requirements, brazil nuts can't be cultivated in a plantation - they're collected from the wild. And contrary to the name, most of them come from Bolivia, not Brazil.
The 'nuts' are contained in hard spherical pods. These pods can only be opened by certain animals, such as agoutis, macaws and capuchin monkeys (who use tools to smash them open). Oh, and humans.
Now, who wants to hear about the three toed sloth?
Yes please!
😀
The three toed sloth stays in the trees, normally feasting on the Yarumo tree (of the cecropia family). It leaves its position of relative safety once a week, to descend to the forest floor to defecate. There's no real reason for it to do this - it's time consuming, and puts it at risk from jaguars. There's a theory that perhaps it realises that its manure fertilises its tree, and makes it more bountiful as a result.
In the trees, the sloth's main predator is the harpy eagle, which has awesome feathers on its head. Seriously, google it.
The sloth is normally a strange shade of green. This is because the air is so humid and the sloths are so slow moving that algae grows in its fur. Moths live in its fur, feeding on the algae, and, when the sloth goes to the toilet, will hop off and lay its eggs in its poo. The eggs hatch, the larvae eat the poo, then when they mature into moths they fly back up to find their own sloth to start the cycle again.
A dead sloth can hang in the tree for a couple of days before falling.
Only poos once a week??!! 😯
Is it giving up smoking or something?
They obviously haven't discovered the benefits of picolax...
[i]There's a theory that perhaps it realises that its manure fertilises its tree, and makes it more bountiful as a result.[/i]
I reckon the Sloths who live lower down the tree make it climb down.
A cream cracker is a flat, usually square savoury biscuit. It is similar to a matzo, but it contains yeast and is typically thicker and approximately 8 cm square. The cream cracker was invented by Joseph Haughton at his home in Dublin, Ireland, and then manufactured by William Jacob in a small bakery around 1885.[1]
They are made from wheat flour and yeast, and are commonly served with cheese or other savoury topping such as Marmite or Vegemite. They are also eaten with butter or margarine or without accompaniment. They are popular in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Southeast Asia and South Asia. The most widely known cream cracker manufacturer is Jacob's Bakery Ltd, a subsidiary of Jacob Fruitfield Food Group in Ireland and United Biscuits in the United Kingdom. In turn, United Biscuits is now owned by two venture capital companies, Blackstone and PAI. Each Jacob's cracker contains 34 kcal. Manufacturers in Southeast Asia include Khong Guan, Hup Seng, Hwa Tai, and Jacob's (manufactured by Kraft Malaysia). Manufacturers in South Asia include Maliban Biscuit Manufactories Limited(Sri Lanka). The name Cream Crackers refers to the method in which the mixture is creamed during manufacture.
That jokes thread lasted longer than mpost folk thought it would. Good it was as well! Cant beat a bit racist,sexist banter!