Can you live in it all year round on the site you are looking at? Many sites have restrictions. Also does the site have an age limit for units, again many do and you have to replace it once it reaches a certain age.

If it’s frozen it’ll be as quick as the summer I reckon.

It can also be damn uncomfortable when it’s frozen. I ride to work on the downs and when it freezes it is certainly a lot quicker than when its muddy but the mud freezes in lumps especially in the bits popular with horse riders. I tend to ride my rigid bike in the winter and it can be hard going on frozen ground so I’d be a bit wary about a cx bike for a long ride in those conditions.

Get thee to North Pole,might be a coupla old expedition ration tins left off-of Capt. Scott’s venture

You may well still be kicking but your knowledge of polar history is pretty shoddy.

but is there any advantage over a chain apart from the lack of oiling required ?

It’s lighter and should last for years. Having said that the 3 years I get out of a chain on my hub geared bike seems pretty good. I’ll be tempted when they are a lot cheaper.

Why are you going to a party with a dress code?
Are you as dull as the people hosting it?

avdave2 eeeeeuuuuuwwww

really? that’s gross

Yes really, he’s had a little visit from the police so hopefully won’t be doing it again. The guy clearly has problems and he did at least wait until it was dark – I don’t think he actually wanted to be seen.

Oh and generally speaking if you are looking out into your back garden the boundary on the right is your responsibility.

There’s an elderly lady (80’ish) who lives with her creepy son and he seems to faff around in the garden tending the roses.

I think you might be my next door but one neighbour!
Just to confirm it does he have Tourettes and did your husband catch him recently masturbating in his front garden?

Hang on, I’ll give you a clue…..’The owl & the pussycat went to sea, in a beautiful pea green boat’,.

‘O lovely Pussy! O Pussy my love,
What a beautiful Pussy you are,

Steve Bobs following a botched burial at sea.

Tom has 5 apples, Dick and Harry each have 8 apples, they pool them together and divide them equally between them.

‘Normal people’ would correctly do the sum by adding 5 + 8 + 8 and then dividing by 3

I’m sure a fair percentage would not know that it should be written (5+8+8)/3

It doesn’t stop them being able to do the sum though.

You can’t just post that and not give the answer!

Sounds like your brother invited a dodgy waste of space into his house and left for the weekend.

He has bigger problems than losing £60.

You could get a helicopter with a big ****-off spotlight on it to follow you along your ride, that might help. Could give you a bit of a boost into headwinds too, as an added bonus.

This is easily arranged by starting every night ride by holding up your local off licence or a handy petrol station with a gun.

A former team mate of Josh reckons 16 hours is doable.

I reckon he would have done it in 16 if he had people to open all those dam gates for him.

I asked about holidays when I went for my interview for my job. I’m still waiting for an answer after 15 years. I’m also still waiting for my 3 month review.

46 riding a hardtail and ache a lot less than when I was 21 and riding a rigid bike with friction shifters and cantilever brakes. I ride more regularly now than I’ve ever done before and I think that helps. I did a 28 mile ride last week at a reasonable pace, sub 3 hours, and my knees were a little sore afterwards but that was because I’d been working away and so had done nothing at for the previous 10 days.

In 25 years I think I’ve put my bike in the car no more than 10 times. I got into riding off road because I could do it within a couple of hundred meters of my door. I’m also lucky enough to be able to ride to work with only a mile of it on road.

someday soon, we’ll realise that we don’t like long* forks, we like the slacker** head angle that fitting longer forks creates.

Isn’t that what the 456 Summer Season does – gives a slack head angle when running shorter forks.

I saw them at the Top Rank in Brighton years ago and they were brilliant live.

The 11 speed runs in an oil bath like the Rohloff so servicing should be much easier than the 8 speed. It takes me 20 minutes once a year to service the Rohloff so I’d be inclined to go with the 11 speed.

You could look at running in the cable yourself as that looks like it could be the time consuming bit of the job. That way your not paying an electrician for the unskilled part of the install. You will have to check that you properly protect the run as required.

I’m quite happy with 100mm of travel on my Boardman. I have toyed with the idea of a Carbon 456 frame as it’ll be lighter and a bit slacker and I could run the Rebas at 120mm but the extra travel is the least important of the differences.

The only bike I can ever recall doing jumps on was a Puch folding shopper.

This really is humour for idiots.

You’ve come to the right place then. 🙂

Who gives a dam whether anyone believes you or not. Unless your going to try and claim a record why would you need to prove what time you did it in. If you do achieve it you really won’t care what anyone else thinks you’ll just feel really good about having done it.

I don’t really see the 24 hour thing being all that important either now that it has been done in less than 18. 24 hours was just an obvious marker for the first riders to aim at. And if 24 hours is going to be a target surely it should be within a single day starting at midnight. It doesn’t matter how quick you do it if it’s over 2 days you haven’t done it in a day.

If you do the double no matter how long it takes you you’ll have achieved something you’ll be proud of for the rest of your life.

I’m a similar height with a 29″ inside leg. One bike is a 15″ one a 16″. I’d go on the virtual top tube length myself if I were between sizes. I’ve an old Marin East Peak that’s 17.5 because when I tried the 15.5 it felt too short even though they came with 120 stems back then. the frame design meant no standover issues.

I rode this today.
STW Lazy Sunday

I prefer riding it anticlockwise as I like the ride down from Blackcap to Lewes prison. You could park in Stamner Park if your bringing a car and then if you’ve any time left get some riding in there.

If it is only 2 – 4 weeks then it really isn’t much of a check they are doing so your dirty little secrets may very well remain hidden if you’ve been careful, so nothing to worry about. 🙂

QR skewer levers on the wrong side

Yes always better to have it near a nice hot rotor when your doing a quick tube change at the bottom of a hill. 🙂

Seriously though – nice looking bike. Do they do a version for large wheels?

They do for conventional gearing but Van Nicholas do offer some customisation so you could probably get a 29 Rohloff frame from them.

They also offer a belt drive option.

I’m not sure if the touch screen really adds much to the Kindle apart from fingerprints all over what your reading. Yes it means it can be smaller but it’s plenty small enough as it is.

I’d probably have bought one if the Zion still had the option of running a V-brake at the back but I didn’t want to have to payout for the frame and have the additional cost of getting my hub converted.

I once came round a corner on the trail to find a set of iron gates and a gravel driveway just there all on their own leading from nowhere to nowhere. A few weeks later I saw them again in a full page ad for the Range Rover in one of the broadsheets.

That ship worms don’t like the brackish waters of the Baltic and combined with enough pollution to kill nearly all living things you can raise a ship of the seabed after 333 years and when you then see it you won’t believe your eyes.
If your ever in Stockholm you have to go and see the Vasa.

A really good colour photo is all about the colours that are captured – Ernst Haas
A really good B&W photo is all about a fraction of a second frozen for all time – Cartier Bresson

Is it all fully signposted.

Yes but pretty easy to miss some or them. I used the Harveys map and signposts and only went wrong at Buster Hill (east to west) where I stupidly headed for the highest point instead of veering left. Another bit where I’ve gone wrong is the drop into Jevington where you should arrive at the church and the Hungry Monk – home of of Banoffee Pie where it’s easy to end up to far north in Jevington (west to east)

Yes it’s pretty flat apart from one bit that is short but quite ridiculously steep considering the rest of the terrain. I did a 70 mile round trip on it and felt worse at the end than after 85 miles of the SDW as it’s one of those rides where you really don’t move around much on the bike and my back had seized up by the end. It will be a really good achievement for him though and if you take it easy he’ll manage it.

£200 it’s not even halfway towards a stylus.
I’m in Stockholm at the moment where £200 wouldn’t get you pissed.

The Music Box – it doesn’t matter how many times I see it I always find I can’t breathe for laughing.

Casablanca – if only for the scene when the Germans singing is countered with the Marseilles.

The Usual Suspects – although the film should end as you see as Kevin Spacey’s foot straighten out.

And in reserve Tremors

That’d be like riding a geared bike and only using one ratio, only you would know it’s a singlespeed.

I was wondering how to reply and thank you don for putting it so well.
it’s the whole tactile experience that is so unsatisfactory with digital cameras though to be fair manual focussing of lenses has been rubbish ever since film cameras went autofocus.
I should point out that I’m very pro digital and I think the combination of a fully manual camera combined with immediate images would be by far the best way one could ever learn about taking better pictures. For me I would only go back to film if I had a darkroomm again – unless you do all the processing and printing I see little point.
The Lieca is nice in it’s way but what I want to see is something the beginner might buy.

When using film.