I’m considering the iphone 3 whenever it comes out, but the clincher to stick where I am is offline OS mapping through Memory Map on Windows Mobile devices. Once that’s on the iphone, I’m converted.

Mat – Member
Is there really any other options

Ti frame and big tyres?

thepodge – sorry for the late response, but it’s definitely him.

Facebook conveniently lets you search for people by their email address, and this Michael McMahon has a photo of someone riding a jump bike as their avatar.

thepodge – Michael McMahon is from or in Leicester according to his Facebook profile – join it just to send him a message, perhaps with the threat of emailing all his friends exposing him.

The thing about owning armour is that you really need it on the days you don’t wear it.

I’ve got a hole in a shin that hasn’t healed over after nearly two months, oops.

The 54mbps is by no means the actual speed you’ll get, it’s the theoretical maximum, so your router will always be the limiting factor.

I use a Netgear MIMO router that runs at 108mbps max, and have found it perfect for a combination of PC, laptop, Wii and PDA.

I reckon 13 on very busy roads/dual carriageways is a bit young, purely because he won’t have the same level of road awareness as an adult and won’t be sufficiently experienced in anticipating the movement of car drivers.

However, quiet roads or mountain biking, 13 is definitely old enough. You can get a paper round at 14 and you don’t see their parents driving them around in case something happens.

Set ground rules, i.e. always carry a phone and stay off A roads, but then let him do his own thing and learn from his mistakes.

Steve-Austin – retailers will perhaps sell items in a sale at a loss as it frees up cashflow. Far better to have working capital than a box of kit that is never going to sell.

14% of my colleagues believe that Peter Shilton lifted the World Cup in 1982 as captain of the winning team.

Anything on a drivetrain is definitely a consumable item. Are there any uses for bike chains when they expire, other than funky belts and bottle openers?

29erkeith – I’ve found that Platy Patches work on the North Face bladders, my cat was nice enough to put his claws in one day when I left it on the worktop.

Devil’s Staircase?

I loved that wall, it was one of the most fun parts of the trail and now it just looks pish.

Enduro = my bike, although I reckon it’d be a pig in an actual enduro

Intentional ignorance annoys me, especially from those people who treat you as if you’re something different because you choose to keep up to date with current affairs.

That said, I’m intently watching the swine flu story unfold as I’m off to Mexico at the end of next month. Oops.

Without wishing to discount the obvious failures apparent here, how many people own i-beam saddles/posts that have not failed? I do, and I’ve bent two saddles and a post before I got an i-beam and it’s been fine for well over a year.

Saying there are 8 failures in a single thread on a forum does not mean that a product is inherently faulty, what you really need to see is the percentage failure rate in context. If there were only 16 posts sold in total, this would be a 50% fail, but if there were 16,000 then this drops down to 0.05%.

Most people will only ever complain about products and not praise them when asked so any complaints on an internet forum will not necessarily be a true reflection of a product’s quality.

I will of course retract the above when I tear myself a new a-hole if mine breaks ;-)

I’ve been thinking similar, how to get a longer travel hardtail than my current one using the bare minimum of purchased parts.

Then there’s the roadie I’ve been considering for the last few weeks…

I love Golspie, I rode it last year a couple of times in similar weather. It takes trail centre descents to a whole new level and is one of the few climbs I’ve actually enjoyed. I’m jealous…

My parents live near there – I’ll keep an eye out for it. Anything distinctive on it or pics?

Druidh – is that the Glencorse road? I’d much rather some signs than the boy racers in their Novas parking up on a sunny day and littering the place.

are they scratches or just where the stanchions have rubbed? If scratches, you can clean them up using Wet and Dry and clear nail varnish.

If it’s just for a backup, why has no-one mentioned the Tesco torch? £8 and easily good enough to get you home if your main/expensive light fails.

I’ve got a Vario III as well, and think it’s excellent. The software you get on the phone (Windows Mobile 6.0) is really slow, it works better when you flash it to 6.1 or a beta of 6.5. Both are a lot faster, but 6.5 is a bit buggy at present. The upshot of 6.5 is that the camera finally starts working well, although it gets better if you get a decent 6.1 build.

And yeah, Memory Map runs on Windows Mobile 5.0 and upwards. Installation takes seconds, it’s just copying the maps to SD card that takes an age.

yeah I’m sure, go into the archive, then 2002 or 2003 and you’ll find it under tech specs. There wasn’t an A1 Rockhopper in 03, but there was in 02.

30.9 according to the Specialized website.

Tam Paton in Toys ‘r’ Us

Park and Ride at Sheriffhall then bus it in. Alternatively, just park in the suburbs and then walk in. Are you coming in on a weekday or weekend?

thisisnotaspoon – Member

“sq225917

taking pedantism to a whole new level sinnce 2009. “

Actually, that’s pedantry :D

Still waiting too. No hurry whatsoever though as it’s only to replace another jacket that is still fine.

Cremola Foam

I don’t know if anyone else noticed, but the recent episode with the scrap merchnt on it had its cheques paid from a business account. Am I just too cynical?

Woke up to day 2 of my stag.

Got breakfast, still drunk
Went quad biking, still drunk
Halfway through quads, sobered up into my hangover.
Clay pigeon shooting (15/25 on my first go)
Fewer pints

Bed now.

I had £200 taken out of one bank account, and the same taken from my credit card. The only company that had access to both details was an online record store, which I will never use again.

Nice tunes though, and good value too.

Laggan tomorrow, hopefully somewhere else on Monday.

Unsure if these unthreaded BBs are any good, but it’d be a last resort if it’s completely goosed.

That said, Argos will do you a new BB shell if it’s even worse and the frame is worth it

Money laundering paranoia perhaps?

You mention paying cash then returning funds via debit card, which immediately turns your ill-gotten cash into a legitimate credit into your bank account.

I work in a bank, hence my mind works in that way…

EDIT – alternatively they may just want to report the income in a particular month.

al

There was a cock in a silver Impreza doing straights from the bridge at Innerleithen out to the Red Bull car park on Wednesday. Perhaps it was the same one?

I got a Nevis free with mbr years ago, and it lasted 7 minutes of rain on its first day before I got wet. It’s very boil in the bag and the waterproof zip broke so I’ve had to peel it back.

It rarely gets worn these days, I either wear a softshell or my eVent jacket if it’s truly chucking it down.

I’ve had a T-Mobile MDA Vario III for the last 18 months and it’s been faultless. The initial software on it was a bit slow, but I’ve downloaded the most recent version of Windows Mobile and it now runs really quickly. I wouldn’t go back to a phone without a QWERTY keyboard.

MDA Vario IV is out now, not much different other than it looking nicer.

al

I doubt there’s a law as such – look at battery farm call centres for example.

Olly – you failed to mention the triple clamps, and the rack that will bounce off the stoker’s seatpack if loaded on the top.

A new STW niche?