Why won’t it hold a bike via the seat post, that is how you are supposed to clamp a bike to these things.
I was going to get one, but not sure now.

You will have a ball. We have, each time we have been over there, it will be out 3rd trip in September (a bit cooler then, but still hot hot). I have never broken anything, I have had 1 puncture, but that was using an old Minion on the back. I have got a couple of ST High Rollers for my next trip, but after reading some of the stuff on here, I might change my rear tyre for something more rolling. Dual Ply all the way though.
Hope you have a great time. Miles over there are different to over here, so forget about mileage, just enjoy the terrain.

Should I get Folding or Wire, or does it not matter too much. And where is the best place to purchase such items.

Pennine X – Superb, it was too, one of my best rides in this country – ever. The people organising the event are just so nice, you want to keep going back just to see them again. Superb course in the dry, a bit tricky last year in the wet.

milkyman Stop whistling when you are riding then…

I wanted to call our kids Tarquin and Pharquar or at least any Surname for a Forename, but alas ’r lass said ‘Naye’. I think Rupert and Tristran are so please we went for common names, so that they would not stand out in the playground.

Now you have hit 40 mate, that feeling that you are feeling now… never goes away. Your body will develop more aches and pains and it is just downhill from here, but not a nice single track free flowing downhill, its a sore bumpy knobbly downhill. But hey, just get out on your bike and all that nastyness goes away, until you stop and get off the bike…

I have just found out that my name is the new Coke flavour… How do they know what I taste like…

Yon know where they live, if you do do something, you might have to change your commute to work…

nickdavies Bike Scene are doing them cheaper.

Up the Pentlands there were loads of them, all near the various water bits. My Skin so Soft did the job last night, forget it last week and was bitten to hell.

I have a 26″ Five and am no way inclined to change to any of the other size Fives they have come up with. Mine fits me lovely, I am comfortable with it and it will do me for many years, so why change.
The 29Five looks like a tank, not sure if I would do an Enduro race on it.

I wouldn’t de-sticker stuff, but I wouldn’t replace them for new ones either, I don’t Helitape the bike neither. I know someone who colours in their tyre names with a black felt tip pen. Unless they pay him to ride for them. I recently got my daughter to draw a little something on my top tube, to motivate me when the going gets tough, I have thought about letting her loose on the rest of my bike too.

I was thinking of doing the same thing, swapping rims over, I was quoted at least £60 per wheel for new spokes and labour. I would not try lacing a wheel myself using old bits.

Oohh I like this thread.
Kylie is ‘The knock at the door’ person for me. You know, the person, if came knocking on your door, you would say ‘Kids, say hi to your new mum’. Mrs BBB has George Clooney, I have Kylie.

I bet you could get quite far along Rose Street in a 6 hour drinking fest. Or you could just do some of the above…

theflatboy Go on, you know you want to. I’m driving back upto Edinburgh when I have finished the race. A couple of nice bacon rolls will keep me going on the 4 hours drive back.

I had a great OFF right in front of Will Longdon a few years back, splat right on the floor, I got to my feet slowly to see Will shaking his head and asking me ‘Tioga tyres?’ I just lowered my head in shame… I never rode on them tyres again. They came with the bike at the time, I still have the bike.

I wasn’t allowed to drink out of my pals 2011 mug until I got my own mug, which I did last year, and its my favourite mug. Because I know I worked hard to earn that.

Climbing a very high mountain in Spain, when you thought there was no way you were going to do that today. Coming down from said mountain and crying at my achievement.
Replacing rear shock seal kit and it working afterwards.
Replacing gear cables and indexing them perfectly.

What about those ‘Wigwams’. Triangular shapes salted biscuit crisps things, they were great. Oh and those Fish n Chips, saltsville or what, but they were great. M&S do something similar to the Wigwams but they are cheese flavour I think, not the same.

I will be having an extra long ride tonight up the Pentlands. I wish I was riding down in Oz, my brother who lives there wishes he was over here, funny that.

I got my MRI scan disk through the other day. It came free, I didn’t have to pay the £10 quoted to me. The nice man in the Legal Department sent it to me, once I had prompted him about the disc.
I managed to get it loaded up onto my Mac with the help of some free software – I also had a look on a PC at work and it gave you so much more info than the Mac did. Anyway I am struggling to find the actual images that the surgeon showed me, but I have it now and it will soon be my new FB profile image…

I’ve had a few near misses in my time, I always thought though, that if I was ever actually bumped by a car, that I would go down like a sack of spuds and not get up until the ambulance arrived, causing a lot of hoo haa to the driver, who would have to stop and wait, probably for the police to arrive, then get the mandatory breathe test etc etc, or is that going too far. The driver might think twice before pulling out again without looking.

‘Simon, I think you’ve got your tights on back to front.’

Bugsy Malone at school.
BigBadBob at college.
’im wi’ ’air at work: I had longish bobbed hair.
Bert at work too, apparently Robert was too long and Rob was too short…
Now I live in Scotland, ‘Big yin’ seems to be quite popular these days.

Well, my son made it back from Download. Yes he is alive too. The tent didn’t make it, but everything else seemed to, even the fold up chair. Not many miss-haps he says. About scoring – I am his dad, he would never tell me if he did… He said all the headliners were superb. The Spitfire flying over the stage before Maiden got the crowd really going. He never brought me back a t-shirt, got himself a smart Download one though.
Everybody seems friendly, some folk even popped into his tent one night when he was not there, but he had hidden his tins of beans well. A fold up chair was taken from his pals, but that was it. He had a thoroughly good time.
I think this might be the start of something every year now. Rock on.

I’m up the Pentlands tonight too.
Starting from Flotterstone end and up past the farm and up and over and down and round and down then along and down then back up and over then right along to the other end then up and around and through the valley and back down to the car park.
15 miles.

Hoping to do an extra long Pentland Hills ride on Friday night. Just keep riding until it gets dark I think.
Enjoy you ride mate.

yunki
+1

A steam train it was.

Hope you have a great ride mate, and this is just the start of many more. Good luck.

I did the Ten Under The Ben last year and it was great, roasting hot to my demise, not good all that winter training in Scotland for it to be 32 degrees on the day of the race. NOt happy with my performance on the day.
It will be interesting to see how they do the 2 events on 1 weekend, how busy is the car park going to be. I hope everyone has a great time.

You used to be able to. My Patriot LT is a ‘99. I’m sure it has the month on it too (in digits).

If the clowns didn’t get caught up in the manufactures hype and buy those clown bikes, the manufactures would have loads of 29ers left and they would not have dictated to us what size of bike we have to go for. A few of the manufactures only do 29ers now. So much for choice if you want to shop at Trek or Specialized.
Or is that too much of a sweeping statement for this forum…
I will put the kettle on on sit back…

Well folks, he is away down to Download. I made him read these replies last night, hopefully he has taken some of the stuff in, they never listen to their parents, so I told him listen to this lot, they have done it, they have been there. I think he took something in anyway. Byetheway, can you take booze in or will he have to drink all his cans on the way in…

Just get her some Irn-Bru with ‘FANNY’ written on it.

I give my chain a good blast with GT85 then a good rub with a rag, then another good blast with GT85 and away I go. I have been doing that for over 15 years with all my bikes, never had any chain problems at all.

Always fancied doing my Lowers, have done my rear shock a few times now with no problems. Would be good to see someone do it as stilltortoise says, just to be sure and be there for any questions. Might see if there is somewhere that does that in Edinburgh.

Puremountains in Spain. They can tailor the daily riding to your requirements. More XC than DH though. They have a support vehicle too, if it gets a bit too hot or techie. We are going for our 3rd time this September.