If you want to be a BC coach previous experience does not count

level 1 (don’t bother)

Level 2 Go-ride lets you coach groups of novice riders in a non specific environment (not a track, not on any technical/ hard off-road, not on the open road). No 1:1 coaching

Level 2 discipline specific is for groups in a specific environment (road and track and BMX only available, MTB XC next year (it was next year three years ago)). No 1:1 coaching

Level 3 lets you coach 1:1, track and road only available

Level 4 doesn’t exist

level 2 is generally easy, the pain is getting the sessions you need to qualify and the paperwork

ABCC is different but most of them cross qualify

you need to join one or the other or both to get cheap decent insurance and BC will do a CRB for you as well. BC donot recognise ABCC qualifications

BC are lauching a “ride leader” qualification with Sky for leading road rides this summer, its free and you get paid for the rides (see the BC website)

dual mass flywheel goes on them which is an expensive job

LX, Ghia etc is the trim spec someone else will tell you which way round

they are very long cars as well

other than that they are supposed to be good, finding a nice one is the hard part

the “sh1t on the trail” award for any muppet bringing a “trail hound”

best excuse for not actually riding their bike because its raining

the SSWC Tshirt wearing competition

best use of the colour pink

who bought STW staffers the most beer

hairiest ar*e

best on-course pom pom girl

“biggest clique not spending money in the beer tent award”

best rendition of the “lumberjack” song

the “polished turd” award (must have a CK headset to qualify)

most obvious Howies gimp

geax saguro for dry
ACX front crossmark rear for smattering of rain
Mud X for “normal” mud
CX tyres for the rain if there are large sections cut through the ferns

the “I obviously don’t ride my bike near mud” award

rider who most looks like a flump

beard shaving prize (longest beard shaved off on Saturday night)

best varicose veins

largest gear/ smallest gear (measured in inches not some shonky irrelevant ratio)

a “ginger” prize (or auburn)

take someone to open gates for you

trails should be drying out so mud tyres not required, larsens may be a little optimistic though

better local trails are available

or do this

Mary Townley Loop (PENNINE BRIDLEWAY MOUNTAIN BIKE CHALLENGE – SUNDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 2009) http://www.rpmrt.org.uk/userfiles/MaryTownleyentryform2009.pdf

sq225917, you make the mistake of comparing someone’s shed to an established brand.

trout:I agree, riders are being ripped off, the manufacturers will only move slowly as they want to maintain the price point for their top-end lights and the accountants will not want to dump a load of LED’s or HIDs. But you can’t pitch at their price point and expect to sell any volume.

someone I know has bought the DX if it works for a few months then its £50 quid from my pocket buying one. I don’t care if only lasts 1 winter as its only £50 and no top end equivilent is going to be going well in 5 years time

its more gear that can’t be used without servicing every 12 hours of riding

unless you are racing its pretty pointless

why not “crisp and easy shifting” and 9 speed?

Is the gear range different to 3×9? or is it just an extra sprocket?

I think for a UK made light you are looking at around £100 but it will need to be able to compete with the big boys in terms of reliability, power and run time. The ability to upgrade would be a key competitive advantage

As your price creeps up then the reason to buy established brands increases

I wouldn’t compete with the DX because you can’t

Do what Brant suggests, calculate your costs (for a batch of say 100) and aim to achieve £50 per light, charge £100. You will need to sell them fast to enable you to keep up with the competition.

Offer LED/ Battery upgrades when appropriate

why not worth it?

its a “trail hound” subject

those who do will defend it to their dying breath, those who don’t think you are a ****

driver going too fast over speed bumps, inappropriate speed squeezing cyclists,inadequately secured doors open and destroy parked cars and almost kill half a dozen cyclists

that will be a £60 fine at best

http://www.rossendale.gov.uk/whitworthcouncil/site/scripts/download_info.php?downloadID=11&fileID=100

there is supposed to a cycleway from Whitworth to the top of Brittania using the old railway line and then possibly a connecing trail to the concessionary bridleway that runs across the gate at the quarry entrance

cable ties would have turned into a fixed wheel and you could have pedalled

I would have thought a bike jumble would fit quite well with SSUK

try the organisers and let us all know the answer

I would argue that the majority of catholic clergy knew about the abuse and chose not to act either through coercion, cowardice or self interest

the same goes for the state institutions who allowed it to continue

the reason that there are no prosecutions is that they would not know where to stop, the majority of the Irish establishment of the time could be implicated and by association every educated adult.

They are in mass denial and Godwins Law applies

safer than 2/3 of Manchester

there is “security” at Mayhem and that’s in banjo country ;)

I thought this was more pertinant

PLEASE BE AWARE there’s loads of robbing b******ds around at the moment and Dalby has been hit several times recently please ensure that you bring with you bike locks etc. SSUK09/The Forestry Commission will not be responsible for any loss or damage to bikes brought to the event

http://www.ikam99.co.uk

Ride-On impressing at the moment

the logs are an optional part of the course this week :)

they are cheeky but could do with redesignating

someone keeps damaging the stiles on sandbeds as they constantly are being rebuilt

they are easy to find on the hill/ from Edenfield

Someone has started “improving” parts of Sandbeds Lane so you might get stopped by piles of stone

El-bent – How exactly would Cameron have known what claims Tory MPs had submitted to the House of Commons Fees Office before the story broke ?

easy, they have been signing them off for the last 6 months ready for publication

what we should do is what a group on radio 5 live proposed….

namely to go down to the MP’s second home and to request access to do a inventory of all the items claimed for the second home to ensure that they were still there

its brilliant in its simplicity and should have a TV camera crew there to record the moment, don’t care what party just alternate

… so why have you replaced your Laura Ashley coffee table with one from Ikea?…. you can already feel the moment

try Bob Jackson or Dolan

She works for an essentially private company (albeit State regulated). She is not payed through taxpayers’ money.

so the licence fee isn’t a tax then, can I not pay it and still watch the non-subsidised TV?

The BBC are big enough to affect the market price for “journalists” aka auto cue readers. Exactly the same happens with the BBC payments to “talent” such as Ross, Brand, Moyles etc

he benign BBC are also keep trying to destroy local independant news who can’t compete when advertising revenues get squeezed

……and Neil Kinnock was such a better alternative

support of a substantial minority of the British electorate

like the current labour administration

sticking up for my class and serving it’s best interests is exactly what I try and do.

which class is that? the left wing intelligensia class? the Derek Hatton class, the Eric Heffer class? the Arthur Scargill class?

economic gobbledygook

ah… “the end of boom and bust!”

however you’d still regard him as being reckless in not taking responsibility for his own safety by mitigating the risk as much as possible.

yes he shouldn’t have got out of bed, everyone knows construction sites are dangerous…

what a load of sh*te