BoardinBob – Member
I know 4 people that died from brain tumours all in space of 4 days a fortnight ago

Without wanting to offend or upset anyone who is or has dealt with this in their lives – Bob isn’t it time you realised your never going to make it as a brain surgeon!

Any other clever ideas for action self portraits?

A friend? 🙂

If it takes in mostly the Downs Link I’d say as light a rigid a bike as you can get hold of, maybe a cyclocross bike.

I like the dark green, I think the utilitarian look suits a rigid bike and the forks in the same colour. If I ever get my rigid bike resprayed it will be in dried south downs mud colour.

I guess the other cyclist was just more attractive than you. 🙂

Remember if you do frame it don’t keep it anywhere it’s going too be in bright daylight.

29er
Reynolds 853
EBB shell
vertical drop out/Rohloff dropout on NDS
removeable gear hanger
disk brake mount inside rear triangle
tapered headtube for 120mm sus corrected.
EDIT: Oh and a choice of really good paint.
About £1200 – but it’d be powdercoated ‘cos I don’t do posh like. And I’d try to talk you into sliding dropouts instead of an EBB.

How much to add a belt drive option, oh and I want it rigid only.
And I’ve been running an EBB for 6 years and happy to stick with it, works for me and if I’m going to spend a fortune I want it to look nice. 🙂

One of these, The wife insisted that whatever I bought you had to be able to just put a cd in and play it if you wanted to. I’ts pretty good, a lot better than the Brennan as it’s got a web interface for editing and it’s got internet radio. It will also stream to Sonos units or you can use more of these without a hard drive.

1985 on my road bike and bought my first mtb in 86. I started riding the road bike over the South Downs as a short-cut to decent roads but then decided I liked riding where there were no cars. And I’m still riding the same routes today. I’m lucky enough to have a commute which I can vary anywhere between 6 and 26 miles with only a mile of it on the road. I’m not really a mountain biker at all just someone who happens to use one to ride around the countryside.

Too much deliberate ambiguity in the whole scheme – it’s time it was put out of its misery and the govt did something useful like dropped the VAT from bikes and exercise equipment.

Exactly what I’ve been saying every time this comes up. Lose the VAT on the first £1000 of any bike and it’s then a benefit open to all. And the most ridiculous thing of all with the present system is that it gives the greatest benefit to higher rate tax payers.

Someone should ban that Shand fella! 🙂 After clicking on another of his traps I now HAVE to have a rigid custom built 29er belt driven Rohloff mountain bike and one of those ^ as well.

Bruce Springsteen’s Thunder Road. Only problem being it’s going to be hard to get anywhere even close to his own version on piano.

I bought a foam roller at the weekend and went for my first run in around 2 years. Only 2 miles but no tightening of the ITB band which had put a halt to my running and had started kicking in after a mile previously. I just bought a cheap £10 one from Argos that someone on here linked to the other day. I wouldn’t so much call it painful to use as a horrible discomfort but you really can feel it working and you know exactly when you’ve hit a tight spot!

I’d still be using my 98 East Peak if it had disc mounts.

If it fits and you like it then buy it.

I’ll quote you when I mention it to the wife! The Genesis does look nice but I’ve had a thing about a 105 equipped bike for years. 20 years ago I had a payout from work all ready to buy a Peugeot with a 531 frame and 105 groupset when the car decided it was going to swallow the whole lot in one go.

toppers I am indeed a little short of inches.

I’ve looked at both those other options and neither appear to have mudguard mounts. I’ll be using this as a commuter as well on days I don’t feel like riding over the downs to work so could buy it through the company thus reducing it down to £600. I wouldn’t actually own it then but I can’t see many of the others in the office wanting to use it – they’re all over 6ft! Midgets 1 lanky gits 0.

If you break something riding your mountain bike and no one else is involved then surely the first mistake or error of judgement in the chain of events is yours. In that case it might be morally dubious to keep any money you made by suing the nhs. You then left with the decision as to whether or not taking such action is the best way of improving care in the future. I would of thought an official complaint might do that just as we’ll without the risk of putting money into the hands of lawyers. I think you are right not to sue but there’s no reason not to make sure it’s a matter of record

I’ve been very happy with am41’s. I’ve been using them all winter and find the sole plenty stiff rough for Xcode. Grip has been good enough even on the dirt cheap cast wellgo pedals on my rigid bike. Sizing is a bit more realistic than previous shimano SPD shoes I’ve used

The only Gerber a real man should be seen with. 🙂

It is old news but everyone who new about it is dead.

Our new electricity meter at work is running 10 times faster than the old one!

My dad still hasn’t forgiven the barber who broke the same news to him over 40 years ago!

Takes a genius to do this with a Sting song

Not only Sting but Bono as well, how do you measure that level of genius, it’s off the scale.

They are not the most robust devices in the world so I would go with the cheapest option.

I’ll struggle to keep to that coming down Bear Road in the morning, I should be ok going back up though.

I’ve always wondered if anyone has ever been called up for jury service and they have actually been the guilty party. I’ve always thought of it as as a reversed 12 Angry Men whereby everyone but them thinks the accused is innocent but they slowly talk the rest of the jury round to a guilty verdict.

I rarely start a new topic unless I think it important enough

I’m amazed anyone read past that. 🙂

I have disc front and v rear on my rigid bike, can’t think for the life of me why you’d ever want to run it the other way round. V brakes are a pain in the neck in mud and if you want the simplicity of them a bb7 will do a much better job. I’d get my frame modified tomorrow to take discs if it didn’t also involve the cost of getting the Rohloff converted.

Generally I let the mud dry then brush it off and wear ’em again

Works for me too.

I have had one for nearly 20 years ever since we did a job for some men with big moustaches who had them as standard issue, no Gerbers for them. 🙂
Mine used to go everywhere with me even on planes, the only time I was ever asked to put it into the hold was on internal flights to Edinburgh. It’s also been into bars and clubs all over the world in the past with never any issues. I’m a bit more careful where it goes now though.

We still have 3 or 4 at work, they were a big improvement over tape for recording conferences.

1986 Rockhopper.

Thanks all, I’ll be seeing him tonight so I’ll show him this thread, my feeling was that Cytech is what you see bike shops advertising so would be the way to go.

If you are going to use PowerPoint you can do it in that.

If you are lighter you need less calories to maintain your weight. Also you may find your metabolism slowing which is why rats and mice put on very low calorie diets live longer than those allowed to eat what they like. No clinical trials to prove it will work in humans but also no reason to expect that it won’t

Meanwhile in Edinburgh a middle aged tandemer is foaming at the mouth, turning purple and screaming as he takes a hammer to his computer.

Come on al this isn’t real your just trying to smoke him out and make him reveal his new identity

The portrait in my attic which I can’t show you.

or

Nighthawks; you could walk into a room where that was hanging every day for the rest of your life and come up with a new story every time, or just endlessly embellish on one story. It just looks like it’s about to come to life, if it were hanging in my house I’d keep bursting into the room in the hope of catching it out. I imagine a whole series of films in which that one scene takes place but it’s the only thing that links them.

My Rohloff is over 6 years old with 2 years on road and 4+ years of off road commuting in it. That’s all year round and it had its 3rd chain and sprocket fitted last week and is still running on its original cables. I have another bike with 1×9 for the nicer days but if I were only to have one bike it would be with a Rohloff. I think it was Human Powered Vehicle magazine that did an efficiency comparison against a conventional set up and it’s not massive. I certainly find not having to clean my drive train every ride very efficient. 🙂

I had a Hite Rite but was (still am :-)) too light to compress it.

You’d have to read the small print to see if next day delivery was guaranteed, almost certainly they will have a clause which excludes adverse weather because the courier companies will have the same. I think you’ll find you’ll get nowhere with legal or other threats. I’d write them an email explaining your position and that if they cannot resolve the issue they will have lost you as a customer, you may want to suggest that you’d accept a credit note as an act of goodwill on their behalf

Oh and I’ve saved a damn site more than £7 using them in the past. 🙂