My 2010 is white, the limited edition had white forks as well. That photo from bike radar is of a white bike with shadows making it look silver.

Even the cost of an expensive gun is easily recovered with a trip to the Post Office on pension day though best to arrive early.

And download Calibre to manage your library. A brilliant bit of free software that will convert any e book file to the correct file type for the e reader you have attached to your computer.

You’ve probably already seen this[/url]. A lot more expensive than your solution but might be nice when you’ve some money you just have to get rid of.

When the Sorting Office in Lewes was flooded a few years ago all the vans had to be replaced and someone came and bought all the old ones and I assume eventually they went back on the road. I imagine Post Office don’t actually insure their vehicles but have a fund put aside to cover claims against them thus none of the vans would have been written off.

I was going to say that is the most stupid thing she could possibly have done but then I realised she was your wife so maybe only the second. 😉

My Schmidt is 6 years old the last 4 years it’s been on an off road commuter and it’s needed no attention whatsoever. It’s used in all conditions all year round.

Don’t you know who makes it? 🙂

C456 with a slackset, light cheap and strong!

😀

The cynic in me wonders if that’s solely for the benefit of Vista > W7 upgraders. “See, it’s faster now!!”

The second you take Vista off a machine it instantly becomes better, even if you don’t bother replacing it with anything, at least that way you’ll not waste any of your life on it. I reckon Vista was just done to prove that ME wasn’t the worst operating system that mankind could possibly come up with.

OK if he’s made the turn we are behind on a post a mile so we need to catch up!

Richard Sterry was out running. He tracked 36.87 mi in 3h:48m:37s.

this is from his profile on the link – he may be mad!

By the slackset do you mean the headset?

Yes, it slackens the headset by a couple of degrees which means you get the head angle equivalent to running 140 forks while I assume slightly steepening the seat angle and lowering the bottom bracket a tad. All in all it then makes for a very nice xc bike for everything bar racing. My 16″ frame weighed exactly 1500g with the dropouts.
One thing to be aware of is that not all rear brakes with 160mm rotors will fit the non drive side dropout which puts the calliper between seat and chainstay. I had to get another dropout which puts the calliper above the seatstay to fit Avid Elixr’s with 160mm rotor. If you’ve any doubt it would be worth checking to see if it can be supplied with the alternate dropout fitted.

I’ve fitted a 70mm stem and have a layback post with the saddle right forward. At some point I’ll change the layback for an inline post, but even as it is I don’t find it to stretched, though it must be said my wheels rarely leave the ground.

My experience of the South Downs is you can ride the same route more than once, but it’s never the same twice.

I ride on them every day to get to work and then again to get home and I never get bored. 300 miles non stop though does seem like a very tough mental as well as physical challenge.

Lion Tamer?

I’ve just bought the C456 over the whippet because didn’t want to have to buy a new chainset and BB and also because I think it’s a more versatile bike. I’m running Rebas at 100mm and have the slackset fitted and run it as a 1×9. It’s brilliant for what I wanted which was a light and quick xc bike which is bit less scary going downhill than more conventional xc bikes. All the bits came from my Boardman Pro with the exception of the stem which I’ve replaced with a shorter one. I’ve only had a couple of rides so far and I’m really pleased, despite the slacker head angle it still climbs just as well as the Boardman did and yet feels better going down.

You can but once you change it to large you can only read Mills and Boon on it.

Yes you don’t want to go anywhere near petrol with a match. My cousin once lost all his hair and eyebrows when he decided to use a match to see what was in a large drum he’d come across. I was referring to the cigarette and petrol just to emphasize the general lack of knowledge people have about things they deal with on a regular basis. Fortunately most people tend to over estimate the dangers which is a lot better than underestimating them.
But to show the problem I bet if you got a hundred people and asked them would they prefer to throw a lit cigarette into a cars fuel tank or drain the fuel tank 99 of them would say drain the tank with no idea that the cigarette could never light the fuel but that draining the tank without earthing the vehicle could theoretically build up a static charge sufficient to set the petrol off.

Kerrera for cycling and walking.

+1, I’ll buy it when I win the lottery

Apparently if you drop a match or cigarette into diesel it will just go out

You can’t actually light petrol with a cigarette.

Missus is now freaking out about the “fire hazard” of keeping said diesel in the shed.

I’ve filmed a Landrover fuel tank half filled with diesel be subjected to a full TRS test and much to our disappointment nothing happened other than it becoming a bit black.

A TRS or thermal radiation simulation consisted of it being sat next to 4 jets of mixed liquid oxygen, propane and aluminium powder. In other words even if the crew are now just a puddle of fat in the foot well at least they wouldn’t have been blown up.

Try here.

This was a link from someone else on here and where I bought tape for my bike.

I’m thinking along the same lines at the moment which is stupid as in over 25 years I’ve never sold anything off my bike!

So if you do turn your bike upside down to fix a puncture keep your helmet on!

Personal fave was Pugskiing – all you need is a 205 GTi, roof bars, ski clamps, skis & boots, a driver & a willing participant. Lock ’em in place & see how fast the Pug is travelleng when they finally bottle it & bang on the roof.

I used to work with a guy who represented the UK in speed skiing competitions and that was part of his training.

If you step on a rake it does exactly as happens in the cartoons. And don’t snort pepper to see if it makes you sneeze.

It’s 14 actualy!

Looks quite clever

Imagine if the you could then enclose it all in an oil bath within the hub allowing you to run a normal chain that would last for years. 🙂

Simple in a final if no one wins in normal + extra time then the trophy stays with the current holders as no one has won it.

Or as an alternative if you are awarded the trophy on penalties there is no presentation ceremony and no medals for the players – just a matter of record that the team was awarded the trophy.

You do know this young woman was morbidly obese YEARS Ago don’t you?

Therefore a minor.

There’s minors left in Wales? I thought Maggie got rid of them all!

Social services are obviously shit and incompetent in South Wales.

You know how yesterday you were saying you couldn’t think of anything you’d achieved in life?, well nothings changed since then.

I agree that the better question would be why the Brits seem to want to fight all the time once they’ve had a few.

This

I travel all over Europe and much of the rest of the world and while people enjoying drinking nowhere seems to suffer the same level of aggressive behaviour as the UK.

1986 Rockhopper – all mountain bikes were rare then, it was common to ride over the downs all day without seeing another bike. I expect more Rockhopper’s are sold in a year now, maybe even a month, than all the mountain bikes put together in 86.

Why not get the Carbon 456 its pretty much the same as the steel one but half the weight

This was my first thought as well, especially as it’s within your original budget.

Well if you wake up it’s never as bad as it might have been.

The never clean bike is on it’s way!

I plan to do similar this summer to bring back a new one to attach my di2 to be interesting to see what airport scanners make of a suitcase full of electronic transmission and a saddle.

You want to try taking a homemade radio cue light through Tel Aviv as Yasser Arafat prepares to announce the Second Intifada!

After a few minutes, Mrs MTG rolled a few feet along

Did you let the handbrake off? 🙂

Glad to hear she is recovering.

During the industrial revolution in Manchester only 1 child in 5 made it to adulthood. In comparison the Chinese look too be dealing with massive industrial changes with a little more care for their children.

it will dissolve into an argument over the ethics of dodging the import taxes and VAT

I find the question of the ethics of selling bikes more cheaply in the US a more interesting topic for debate. And also the price fixing that we accept in the UK which is very similar to what we experienced in the car industry, the book industry and with opticians supplying glasses for many years