I don’t rate the current quality

I’ve just had a right ding dong with the Rohan shop in Exeter, mum a 70 year old hill walker type knackered out a pair of Rohan/Brasher shoes in only 6 months of weekend towpath walks.

Lady in the shop called it wear and tear and suggested she should take them down to Timpson for a repair….several emails aback and forth with HQ on behalf of mother dear and they’ve just replaced the shoes.

Funny thing is I’ve got a 1970’s cotton smock handed down from my dad thats still going!

I think he was paid in vials of the purest urine….

Was that after Confidis?

Then urinate on him like he did to cycling.

Cycling did this to cycling.

When in Rome… “Fixed that for you”

I bet the nice fat cheque was worth the bullsh!t

Joe Bonamasa isn’t he a soft rock DJ on planet rock?

The stuff you’re mentioning looks perfect for hosting your own WordPress style site.

Image maps have their place they degrade nicely and they are native html 5 code.

I think a grid based layout would work a treat with what you’re looking at, but perhaps look at the wordpress option purely from the free CMS backend perspective.

I always ran two on a bmx…but I guess they take much more punishment.

Hope Sandoval. Sounds so fragile… yet utterly beautiful. Gives me the horn.

+1 Roseblood is particularly a great song.

In a man love, heterosexual love way but it’s ok because he can fly a Jet aeroplane and is all around better than you.

Bruce Dickinson is the dog bollocxs

Pearl Fishers duet always deserves to be played ridiculously loud
So does in the hall of the mountain king
But the most cathartic of all musical experiences has to be a Lamb of God circle pit.

Listening to Mariella Frostrup on’t radio does it for me

+1

For singing talent Otep Shamaya and of course as trite as it may be Maria Callas

Two bottles of red waiting and warming up, taking it gently on saturday race day sunday 🙁

Two hours in general but can be shorter or longer…see how you feel.

I’f I’ve been greedy it on the pasta I can be 3 hours before I feel like I can run, like wise if I’ve had a big salad or that type of thing I can be out in the hour!

YAY! Murray can be English again (until he loses in the final).

The point of this thread being?

Slayer – Reign in Blood
Vaugh Williams – Fantasia of a them by Thomas Tallis (1970’s Pittsburgh symphony LP recording)
Entombed cover of a Dead Horse track – Scottish Hell
The **** Buttons – Tarot Sport —-(How can you censor a band name you frigging nazi’s?)

Oh and Probably The Downward Spiral – NIN

The co writers also wrote Howard the Duck 😉

Nah! Lucas can’t write dialogue if his life depended on it.

My Arse, he wrote American Graffiti.

Ok fair enough, since American Graffiti he’s not really matched the promise but still.

The Elsinore Brewery.

I tolerated about 6 months of my Trek EX8 couldn’t get to grips with it, pedal strikes, bobbing up hills, probably a great bike for ‘Trail riders’ I just never liked it.

Hateful thing, I’ve now stripped it, the frame lying under my drawing board.

Training Bible: Joe Friel

A quick Search…The Original iPad advert from Davespoke if it’s the one and same

“Collection from Penzance”

Now I’m in Devon and it’s a big surprise if First class mail comes in less than 3 days…let alone with all this **** snow…let alone what the Cornish inbreds are doing.

I hope this could a mountain from a molehill

I was using a Powermac G4 when that came out 🙂

yes

Ocrider…CS2? I think this thread must be 10 years old!

There’s no rocks in the South and I’m a wuss!

I assume by the south you mean up north in the South East 🙂 so if no rocks why the moaning?

I’ve slammed my carbon frames down the granite of dartmoor…it’s mountain biking they get dinged!

Those two things are not even in the same sport…

One is a corrupt, overpaid, power hungry official with too many powers.

The others a politician.

Kimbers what planet do you live on?

If you have the sort of job where you can spend hours whittling away your day on games…

Pandemic…

http://pandemic3.com

Moaning about paintwork on a mountain bike…guffaw

You could start production with Metallica’s Black album to ease you into it!

How dare you sully the name of a once great band by mentioning them on a thread about such musically illiterate low brow dull monotonous tripe as the clash.

I think you need to have ridden ‘back in the day’ to get the whole steel twang thing.

Steel bikes these days just don’t have it perhaps the Voodoo one by Joe Murray did, i’ve not ridden a soul to see if they do.

food for thought. I’m not one for the internet buying much but just on Merlin and Winstanleys like you say

I get SIDS, 2×10 XT Gruppo, Elixir Carbons, Hope/CRests for £1750

I knew it would cost more it always will, but thats very much the build it will turn into for only 500 more (obviously need stems bars post saddles etc but thats all covered)

Damn, this was just meant to be what size frame…I’d really hoped to order a new bike this week!

I’ve got a wierd set up with Rotor Cranks and a ‘Plastic’ frame (that has a different chainline to the seemingly industry standard HT2/Middle ring chainline)so the lateral adjustability of the Superstar was what drew me to it.

The first one bent, the second one bent, I bent it back and fashioned something a little bit stronger using various bits of ‘plastic’ rod…it’s now lighter and stronger and hasn’t bent 🙂

But this is the one I reeeeallly hope santa brings me next christmas 🙂

http://www.xcracer.com/shop/viewproduct.php?productid=279

I was going for the £1299 X9 version saving £300 or so for Hope/Crests possibly an XO upgrade flog the O-One fishing and replace it with the USE stuff kicking in the shed.

I’m going to take my Rotors my current fancy bike and it will go 1×10.

Now you mention it I could go the frame/reba route but the only groupset I’ve got kicking around would be XTR 9sp that’s now getting long in the tooth, and there are so many little thing I always forget to budget for…hence plumping for a new bike and saving a few quid, I can save up for SIDs later!

There is a Whyte in L at my bike shop but we’re over the 1.8k loosely self imposed budget, although I’ve had a fairly good tax year I’ve saved more than I owe I want it to be a cheap as possible.

I’ve a very front heavy riding style you see, scared a bit by the length oh and the fact it’s my first Complete bike I’ve bought from the internet, I’ve bought a frame from them..my inbred is 16″ from bb-clamp.

“Real” cycling!?

Yes you know, the sort where you don’t dress up like an American Footballer.

I don’t know about the scene as such is there one?

But Bontrager Twentyfour12 is brilliant and very friendly , I think this will be my fifth now great bunch of people the only support I’ve had is the missus. One year my mech took a wander through the spokes ( the only year I ever took a phone on the course by chance) I called her and some blokes in another team stripped my other bike got it ready with a new chain as I ran the 5k back to the Van.

In last years Hell a team opposite us would hose down my bike every time I came in for a clothes change, they even removed the stone that was cutting a nice hole in my stanchion and my lowers broke the several hundred pound news to me with a cup of bovril 🙂

Being in Devon it makes travelling up country pretty hard so to have in on the doorstep is also a bonus.