Oh, and fill yer boots: Tadaaaaaaa[/url]

Look, people, how many of me do you think there are? I get it done as fast as I blimmin’ well can, but there’s loads of other stuff to do, and I can’t do everything at once!

Sheesh!

:-)

The nutjob doing the surgery is proclaiming that the stuff he’s using to ‘glue’ the bits of spinal cord together (polyethylene glycol) should allow the brain to command the body, and to breathe/move/function etc.

I don’t doubt that it’s possible the donor/recipient might recover consciousness etc, but I find it stretches credulity to suggest they will recover even basic functionality. If PEG was such a miracle, we’d use it all the time (we don’t), even in basic locomotion studies.

Pronk?

From this week’s Fresh Goods[/url] –

It gets particularly bad from 6 hours in, I believe:

I find you have to pluck the nuggets of wisdom from the drivel. Like wisdom croutons from soupdrivel. Or wisdompoo from seawater. Pick one.

They’re purple. Blame your eyes, your monitor or my camera if you like, but they’re purple.

There’s a review of a 900 here: http://singletrackworld.com/reviews/merida-one-sixty-7-900/

I can’t believe (actually, I can) that no-one’s mentioned the mighty, MIGHTY Cardiacs:

And I’m going to give an honourable mention to the mighty Sugar:

Saxon – Ride like the wind.

On the front page: http://singletrackworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/marzocchi-distributor-speaks/

Nickc – don’t say we never give you anything – check FGF again :-)

The SRAM groupset is for a build. I daresay it’ll find its way into the mag soon…

Dragon – If you read my post, I was taking issue with your description of it as ‘a lazily suck[sic] together set of press releases‘

I really couldn’t give a monkey’s whether the products disappoint you or not :-)

The chain was there because they sent us another one. It’s the new stuff that comes into the office each week, do you see?

While you wait for a lazily suck together set of press releases

It’s a disconcertingly large amount of work, FWIW. No press releases were consulted, but I do look at the packing slips and the websites for prices. Hope that helps :-)

Set them up on the middle setting rather than fully open. I like ’em. See here.[/url]

You didn’t say please

Ahsat – What’s your field?

Leeds Uni is a pretty good place to work; the usual interdepartmental spats occasionally, and politicking aside it’s like many others IME. The ’50s brutalism architecture takes some getting used to, mind. I lived and commuted there from Calderdale for six years I think – driving, on the train or on bike; it wasn’t as bad as it’s often reputed to be. And in Calderdale the riding is acceptable ;-)

*ahem*

http://singletrackworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/new-gopro-hero4-session-extrateeny-life-capture-solution/

:-)

Measuring intelligence by test results is like measuring digestion by turd length.

Sheesh – don’t you people even check the front page? ;-)

http://singletrackworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/the-art-of-balance-video/

The straight up blow by blow ride report can become tedious, there is a place for the flowery prose of Alex or Barney.

None taken ;-)

In the context of fresh goods ‘pop’ refers to the colourscheme, no? :-)

It’s not the gnarfest that it once was for sure, but it’s still a hoot. Go Seathwaite to Coniston though. The other direction’s a drag.

http://singletrackworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/issue-90-sneak-peek/

Everyone will be offering you advice – both on there and (more pervasively) elsewhere. Ignore it. Or don’t. But it’s your kid – you get to do what you want. And cngratulations!

Oh, and if you speak to dads who wax lyrical about how they immediately felt a massive bond with the kid, and you see yours initially as an insomniac wailing crap-machine, don’t feel like a poor father – sometimes it takes time, but it will happen :-)

http://singletrackworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/11th-day-of-christmas-free-route-guide/

:-)

Hi all – there’s a story about this on the front page[/url] now

Ta!

Mattjg. Are you, by chance, a physicist?

But all physics is applied maths, if you take that logic. And something like – say – systems neuroscience is *quite* hard to simply describe purely in terms of physics, reductio ad absurdum or not.

Be that as it may, my central point stands: perception of how a bike rides is in part based on expectation.

Yeah but your perception is back to front.

Nope. There’s way more going on than basic perception, and it’s all based on expectations, beliefs etc etc. top down rather then bottom up processing.

as we all know, all science is physics or it’s stamp collecting

Do we really? Good luck trying to explain psychology in terms of physics… :-)

No problem with the Ride here – editor Phil has contributed to ST on occasion, too.

It’s a lovely, lovely thing.

Thanks for the feedback, folks :-)

Mattjg:

This is physics so the answer is no.

Actually, the point I was making is that it’s psychology, so the answer is quite definitely yes. ‘Ride’ in this context is referring to the subjective interpretation of ride quality, rather than absolute physical characteristics of same…

If you’re buying new, the stock post probably won’t be long enough. Might be ok with a 150mm reverb though.

What do you mean by character? They’re all bikes. Some are better than others at certain things, but that’s it. They’re all fun, they’re bikes! The Kona Process and the Orange Segment are great descenders, with pop and agility, at the slight expense of climbing. The Pyga is slightly better at climbing than the others at the expense of (you guessed it) descending. But I’m just one guy – I can’t tell where you like to ride, how you like to ride or what you ride on, so all I can offer is my opinion based on the riding I do. My suggestion is to ride them all and see which one you like the best. Use reviews as a starting point.

There *might* be a few references in this week’s FGF :-)

Oh, and Codybrennan – get a hold of the Cardiacs Garage Concerts vols I and II for old, old tunes played by the last/most recent lineup – I think you can still get II here: http://abc-mary.myshopify.com/collections/cds

There are a couple of other pondies I know who ride bikes – maybe we should sort out a collective or get some biking shirts made with all proceeds to Tim *mulls over*

” Even after we nicked their keyboard player.” Not the good Mr W D Drake, by any chance?

You are :-) Brooess mentioned up there somewhere ^^ that they started in 1969, which I don’t think is quite true. Most sources put it at ’77ish I believe. There are certainly no recordings from before that sort of date. I first got into them listening to Heaven Born – I couldn’t tell the songs apart originally – but it was the most incredible stuff I’ve ever heard, and it still is. For my part, I think A Little Man (from the early stuff) and Sing to God (from the later stuff) are the best jumping in points, but they all have jaw dropping bits all over them. Stoneage Dinosaurs is still one of my all time faves, Core, Gina Lollabridgida, RES, Ideal, Nurses… oh god, I could just list all of them…

Right! Need to work – Fresh Goods doesn’t write itself you know ;-)

Hello!
I work for that Singletrack an’ that – and I am a colossal Cardiacs fan, and have been for 20 years. Ali, techbloke is a fan too :-)

Good to know there’s a healthy intersection between the forum and the pond!

Don’t forget the cassette on 2×11 XTR is 40-11 too…

I love watches. Skeletons in particular – so I guess I’ve got quite a high tolerance for the over-complicated. But that is utterly, utterly gopping.

Kryton – look for a review in the next issue of the mag :-)