get the evo hubs on stans rims deal on SS for £200! Bargain

I have decided that going SS is now fine due to the abundance of 29ers!

Thats my justification in any case!

everyone use specsavers then?

Ah dont sound too bad then. Good shout on the 9mm front and 10mm rear QR too, didnt even think about that.

Cheers guys

I used to sing their praises but they used to have a contact number.

Recently i lost a parcel through them and looking into it i couldnt contact them and their live help just fobbed me off.

I got restricted on ebay for poor feedback scores for delivery times (after stating a 3 day dispatch and using an economy courier, plus offering free postage) due to using my hermes through them (they are folk with a car who store up parcels till the end of the week before dropping them off and the same happens at the other end.

Recently i also lost a parcel with Yodel and they couldnt trace it, or werent bothered and yodel were also useless. The insurance has also dropped to £20 included from £50 i think and the cost of insuring parcels has also increased through them recently which reflects increased losses in my eyes.

Also sending to highlands, Islands and NI is expensive through them. Parcelforce seems a lot better direct as its standard price for all the H, I & NI and you get £100 insurance included.

So in short, they sere good but as they have got bigger over the last few years they have lost their edge.

Im not sending anything uninsured any more and avoiding them wherever possible due to lack of communication/fobbing off received by them recently

Are you sure you need small, they will be tight fitting, you not have any muscle?

I have some for sale if you want mediums instead of cutting blood flow off

Wife has a blackberry for something like £12/month for 600 mins, upgraded from a Sim only and never a problem. All they do is send you a bill and take less cut/spend less on advertising, its not rocket science.

Adverts telling you to turn your phone off in the cinema actually cost you money remember!

There are only 3 (i believe) disc pad manufacturers out there and the one that makes most of the cheaper varieties had a problem with the resin some time back. It was one batch, albeit a big one that went wrong and was rectified quickly, however if they were superstar, imperial, discobrakes etc etc then you could have been unlucky. They would have all replaced them as it was a manufacturing defect but its too late now.

i wouldnt not buy the same again as its not happened with any since

Are you for real, you wouldnt dial 999.

Do you think that one person is sat by the phone incase a life threatning call comes in and you may take up their time!

Its a bloody massive call centre split between 4 services and initial call handlers. Its a public service, they employ as many peolpe as it requires to keep on top of the call volume – hoax calls mean more employment, not longer responses for the fire brigade to rescue a cat.

Always report crimes of any size otherwise the police think they are doing a good job as their stats look better at the end of the month!

forklift service engineer with exp in plant(diggers,dumpers etc) as well,live in Colchester in Essex updating c.v. as we speak and iam going to fire it off to a few firms that might be looking,beyond that **** knows got a bit of savings that should keep wolves from the door for about 5months.

My local mechanic is a forklift engineer, worked for Stihl, set himself up doing it and got himself a little garage unit and there isnt enough hours in teh day for him. Flat out doing forklifts 3-4 days a week on 150-200/day and the rest of the days meching cars.

trust me if you are any good you wont be out of work long, if you are shit though its tuff, hard times.

Loads of jobs out there for decent folk with their head screwed on, just not enough for all the dross to have a job.

Load sof peolpe i know would love to employ hard working keen folk but they aint around, the good ones have jobs and the rest are bone idle.

So to summarise, you will either be happy reading this or thinking balls, your choice!

What just the one! It’ll be fine, its when there are more flat spots/dings than straight bits and you have ran out of thread on the spokes that you need to start thinking about new rims

You aint a peaks rider are you!

It was actually from Lanzarote some years back i seem to remember, yeah random!

You dont blend gold and silver, they are found together along with copper. In most cases gold is the by product of copper mining. The dore can be anywhere between 70 and 90% gold in its first stage. This is literally 5 minutes after it came out of the crucible and had just had a rough clean. further treatment will clean further slag off it and then its off to the refiners in Switzerland where the true concentration is determined

Chovdar is up and running, kind of!

Its not AIMROC – What do you do mugsys?

these are fantastic

http://www.wellingtons-direct.co.uk/purofort-offer.aspx

Sorry Armenia, not Albania

I drove through an abandoned Albanian village last week where the occupants had either been massacred or driven out by the Azeri’s. It was pretty chilling to see the place dessimated and there was still a heavy army presence kicking about so didnt get out for a walk round to take pictures unfortunately.

Just looked like a nuclear bomb had been dropped on the place

Its all to do with the time it takes to get a product to market though. For Hope, Lupine, Ay-Up it could easily be 18months to 2 years from design to delivery by which time the technology is out of date, so all they can offer is the best available at the time of conception coupled with the best possible case.

The problem is that after 2 years since it was conceived and such, taiwanese have bbrought out new LEDs that allow a much more powerful system etc etc and the likes of DX can bring them straight to market the day they are made as they sell from a website and there are no dealers with seasonal requirements so to speak.

They also dont need to make the packaging for the light as costly as Hope as well its pointless as they know that in 12 months the previous light will no doubt have been seperseeded twice over in any case.

Hence why Trout can do good things as he takes the best of both worlds, a good case and a good new led/driver etc.

Also think about it, loads are saying something is great (Hope) as its in a posh box/case, its the light that you are buying though, the bright thing that lets you see and crucially that is not as good as it could be – Like buying Grants Whisky cos its in a posh box instead of some 25yr old malt from a micro brewery who dont really bother with posh boxes or expensively designed labels.

Maybe the big guys need to change their sales model if they are to compete???

I own a Hope Vision 2 and cateye triple shot which are both well made lights but not a patch on the stuff available from DX for cheap now

Oh boy, i got sucked into CS at uni on the internal server with the computer soc geeks giving it large. Made some serious enemies but had fun and even had a LAN party in the pub i ran on campus where a pizza delivery guy delivered 40 pizzas in a fiesta.

We even built a map designed on the Student Union which was fun!

See no replies, full of honest folk here!!!

You are prob best with Southern Spain for that time of year

Or have a look at Sardinia. Someone has set up a guided place there and the riding looked really good plus the sicilian food etc looks amazing if you want something to make the hol special (which you wont get in Spain)

Friends did Morocco the other year but it snowed and was colder than the UK so might not recommend that too strongly!

Look at Turkey also.

All depends if you want full on hardcore DH type singletrack or classic mountainbiking with stuff for others to do while you are off out enjoying yourself

I have lived in Azerbaijan briefly (and in the area a lot). For me, personally, in your situation, i would have considered living there. My friend’s dad found some amazing mountain biking and skiing there and in Georgia/ S Russia (heli skiing).

Im going to have to see how things pan out. At the moment it seems that it might not happen now, but as work builds it may become a likely outcome. As for the riding potential i couldnt agree more. We actually did the geotechnical design on the presidents new ski resort and personal villas, and while not actually getting to go there myself i have heard about the potential for riding/skiing. Where i am in the lesser caucuses there is potential with quite a lot of well trodden donkey tracks littering the hills where im working, the only downside is teh hours that we work not giving much free time and no days off but exploring on summer evenings would be fun.

Lets see, seems like there is plenty in the pipeline in Az and Turkey (all seemingly in mountainous areas too)

Grrr wrong thread

Wheres the garage gone???

I had a MK5 90bhp 1.9 golf and it felt ok but lost power just as it got going. After that i bought a MK4 GT Tdi 130bhp and that was a lot more fun.

I suspect both will feel like hire car does, nice when you get in, flat engine that you drive on the limiter but after ten mins you decide its not something you would desire to own

Shes on a bike so totally within rules

Cheers guys, some good food for thought there.

Its still in its early stages so may not come off but there is a possibility of it coming good. It would be working in Azerbaijan in the lesser Caucuses Mountains so not somewhere the family would want to be.

Lots to think about if it comes through including bringing a bike for night rides in areas with wolves and supposedly bears where never a bike tyre has tread before!

You dont even need to nip up the top cap completely so you can thereafter do it without the BB tool, wont cause any problems or come loose

Dam it, no email in profile!!!

Grrrrrrrr

This Niva is my current motor of choice, basically a 4×4 mini on big wheels!

You dont get much simpler!

And still in production, however im not sure about UK availability

Not its false economy!

I sold a 2010 set of 32’s on ebay for £10 more than i paid for them new (£310) after two years use! Then replaced them with Merlins Revelations for £270

So er why bother ever servicing them when every year there is a great offer to be had, just got to take the plunge when the time is right!

Pad life is determined by the bedding in process and the stages of superheating they go through. Hence run new pads in the dry for a good few rides and they will tend to last longer than new pads inserted on the morning of a wet ride in the peaks!

So in short use a new set of pads each day in teh alps in teh summer to keep you going or get the oven on/blowtorch out!

Have a read about Mike winning the strathpuffer and the importance of brake pad wear here

You probably only get 80mm due to the nature of them being fox so i wouldnt get too hung up by numbers

The Reverb is streets ahead in my book, due to the ability to setting at any height you want, but I’d have no hesitation in recommending a GD, providing you’re happy with just two height settings.

You can easily drill a third hole like i have to give more adjustability

Yes they are terrible in short!

Depends when you want to go, how about Finale Ligure in italy? Beaches for teh Mum, nice food and drink for the dad, hot chicks for you…..

Hows the Carerra Banshee holding up?

Hmm mAgura forks! My mate had some Ronin’s and they actually stiffened up over a prolonged period of heavy use, i.e. a long descent – IDEAL!

Oh and by all accounts it was a design feature!
Hmmm….

Most of this is crap, 2nd hand tyres are shipped in lorries to the UK as the laws over there are different due to having autobahns. If you puncture a tyre, even as you leave the forecourt in Germany you have to replace both sides for new.

Hence they have a massive surplus of near new tyres. Couple that with the requirement to run winter tyres on your vehicle then there are a lot of good ones survive.

And fixing a tyre (nail hole) does nothing to weaken a tyre at all.

I got 4 x Conti Winter Contacts with 7mm on for 120 fitted and new they are £150 each for 225/55/17’s.

I wouldnt pay new prices so they are better than the summer tyres even if slightly worn

i bought an accord last year and its not been quite what i hoped reliability wise for a then 4yr old car – Manifold, Calipers, discs and pads, bushings, now alternator or AC compressor gone, maybe unlucky.

Otherwise its economic and massive just expensive to insure.

All the Passats that i looked at for around 6K had been through a lot of owners, you might struggle at that budget so possibly best with a mondeo.

Think the Avensis is the one for reliability if you can handle the looks and/or afford

is it not open access now, hence it being busy as its been off limits to bikes during the summer.

Dont do the bottom section of the rangers path though, veer off for the telegraph trail