I've explained to my kids that once your at the end of your run the only place you should be looking is back up the slope until your back at the top.
So many idiots around who don't look down the slope before they start.

Still at least you didn't do what a colleague once did which was to crash his sledge into the trees and skewer his scrotum on a branch.

We'll be replacing our Vango with the Vermont XL this year. looked at a lot of options and it just seems better thought out than anything else around. It also comes within the max size limits many sites have in peak season.

That's a great link coastkid. I don't think I'll get the hacksaw out just yet but if I keep the frame I have I'm going to want to get disk mounts fitted at some point which would be the ideal time to get an s&s coupler fitted as well.

fatblokefromwarwick I've got those and like them apart from the end of the thumb which has no insulation on the nail side and the end of my thumb freezes.

I'll probably look at the Fox gloves for my next pair.

I presume the pads are in case you get into a snowball fight. :-)

Winter trousers shouldn't have turnups as they'll fill up with snow.

I'd like to complain about I'm surrounded By Idiots make negative comments about the BBC when all they have done in the piece he has copied and pasted is to state the facts. I personally don't want a BBC that puts a slant on it's reporting. Come on, you could have posted to say well done the BBC for objective reporting.

Now why couldn't the BBC OP have put a positive slant on it?

You'll find a link on Schwalbe's site if you can't be bothered to register.

"Ooh! My balls are itchy. Have you got the cheese grater?"

Why wait till they're itching?

With the Rohloff you can just add a bit of cleaning oil to the hub if temperatures get very low as it thins out the standard oil. Belt drives give the potential to save extra weight over a standard chain drive it's just a pity that it involves having a frame specifically designed to allow you to use one.

Heat it and eat it? I'd play safe and just do one of those.

Well the golf pro at the Devil's Dyke course was sledging with us at the park yesterday so I guess not. Would of lost all his balls anyway.

I watched a young lad yesterday do without the sledge and go down the slope just stood up in his wellies. He even managed a small jump a couple of times.

More importantly has the lounge got a chimney breast for your flatscreen?

What seatpost for…

It'll be back to global warming won't it?

50 seconds, I'm surrounded by Idiots will be along in a minute to tell us that he did the stairs in 49.

Virtual poltergeist.

I think you should have a word with the police and see if there is anyway you can get to meet her to explain why you had to do what you did and how it was in every bodies best interest.

And then make her a ridiculous offer for the car. :-)

So when the triffids are all confined no one goes in without eye protection but once they are on the loose no one bothers apart from a couple of kiddie snipers in swimming goggles. Saved from the last 40 minutes of this drivel by a power cut.

Read the book for school years ago and loved it, read it in 2 days.

Mark Hughes maybe?

Make sure you use exterior PVA rather than interior.

Sits back and waits for "help I can't take my jacket off post"

Glad your all OK but as others have said the best place for an erratic driver is in font of you where you have control over how far away they are.

I only ever use GT85! I ride off road everyday all year round to work and the current chain has been on for around 8 months and I should get another couple of years out of it going by the last one.

I knew there was a reason I went with hub gearing.

The reason for not driving is if you have to do an emergency stop. If you hit the brake pedal hard and you feel pain you'll instinctively take the pressure off. It might only be for a split second until the realisation kicks in that the pain of crashing could be a whole lot worse but that's enough time to travel a long way.

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Ozymandibles have you any of their Christmas Ale for tomorrow? Nothing better than that and the Queen to induce a nice afternoon nap.

Stir fry Rioja and the washing machine

Our son is getting a new bike so we'll be out for a bit.

Our son is getting the Beinn 24 tomorrow and it looks even better in reality than in the photos on the website.

Raindog I'm sure she'd enjoy it more up close and personal with a kitchen knife. Don't let her carve the turkey tomorrow. :-)

This is 26" wheeled but might be suitable.

I very rarely use my 17" laptop since buying a netbook just over a year ago. As far as I player goes I find I have to use the lower bandwidth version otherwise the video is a little choppy although the sound is fine. The only real reason though to get a netbook over a standard laptop is if you travel a lot. And if you do intend to use it on the move get one with a matt screen as it's much more usable when you don't have control of the ambient lighting.

Batteries have never failed yet on my hi vis vest. It also works from all angles is higher up and less likely to be obscured than a light and has a much bigger surface area.

If you don't want to sound like a k nob it might be an idea not to say the sort of thing that a k nob might say. :-)

matt_outandabout makes a good point. Before we had the walls insulated we had condensation on the walls at times. Now it's only on the windows.

I think your lucky not to have a stegosaurus halfway up your arse.

We have a Ruby Dry desiccant model. Designed by Mitsubishi who are apparently the Daddy when it comes to de-humidifiers. As mentioned above the desiccant models carry on working when the temperature drops whereas the performance of the refrigerant models drops of very sharply when the temperature drops below 20C. They are also much quieter than refrigerant models. If your going to use it in a basement the lower temperature performance of the desiccant models will be better.

So we have gay rugby players coming out and now train spotting mountain bikers. There can be no taboos left in sport.

Another here with BB7 on the front and V at the back. It's a big improvement over V's front and rear. For me now the biggest issue is the rear clogging with mud rather than stopping. Changing or having the frame modded are out of the question at the moment though as I'd also have to send the Rohloff off to be converted as well which would add a lot to the cost.