think you got wires crossed, I believe that was the incident where he assaulted a minor with a pruning saw about 2011, possibly the urban pump tracks.

More recent incident…

Guess who’s back…Mike Vandeman

For avoidance of doubt @mark already invoked his name yesterday so if he does turn up we have something we can legitimately blame the management for.

The last I heard, he’d been charged with child sexual abuse, so I doubt we’ll be hearing from him any time soon

Something around Cervinia and the Matterhorn/ Monte Cervino? I’ve stayed in the Rifugio Guide Del Cervino several times (albeit having snowboarded there) at 3,480m and there’s always folk walking in on some big high altitude journey.

https://www.rifugioguidedelcervino.com/

I’d imagine there are high alpine tours that take in these refuges

I have the Victory Chimp gilet. Insulation only on the front to prevent wind chill, back isn’t insulated so you don’t overheat

Men's Out There Thermal Reversible Gilet 2

A quick Facebook search reveals Les is a brexit voting pensioner. Quelle surprise

There’s a world of difference between mincing down it on an enduro bike and hitting it at elite level speed on a dh bike

We had this setup when I was growing up in the 80s.

My primary school playground had a bunch of road layout stuff, with white lines, junctions etc. I can remember doing some kind of official competency test on a bike on it. We also a had a local park that had a much more expansive setup similar to the stuff in the BBC article.

40+ years later I had no idea this kind of thing wasn’t as common as it was back then!

I don’t think Nevis have put a shovel near that track since Phil Saxena walked off of it.

What?

There’s been loads of changes from the deer gate down in the last 10+ years

Plenty of options for life insurance with pre existing conditions. Assuming they’re not hugely life shortening then it won’t be problem

(Source: me who’s spent most of my career pricing life insurance)

I’ve heard it’s hosting the European DH champs next season

he wholeheartedly believes the claims he makes

He admitted under oath during his trial that he didn’t actually believe Sandy Hook was a hoax

If I had a pound for everyone that calls me Northwood I’d have at least three pounds. Which isn’t a lot but it’s still surprising that it’s more than one.

Never mind that, the real issue is the fact there’s you, Northwind, and some other 3rd rate tribute act, TheNorthwind on here

I spent 10 days in the infectious diseases ward at Gartnavel Hospital after contracting typhoid in Shanghai. After that joyous experience, I’d be getting the vaccine if I was traveling to anywhere with a remote risk of getting it.

Mucky lab owner here.

I bought the Vax spot washer for the stair carpet and it’s great. I then bought one of the big Vax washers which also has a spot washing attachment and it’s even better. The brown water as mentioned above, is a disgustingly satisfying sign of how good they are at cleaning

Spot Washer

https://currys.co.uk/products/vax-spotwash-home-petdesign-carpet-cleaner-teal-and-grey-10243136.html

Big one for the same price and does so much more

https://www.currys.co.uk/products/vax-rapid-power-revive-upright-carpet-cleaner-grey-10187909.html

The Alpkit ebay shop have a few available

I owe you a beer! I’ve been looking for new forks for my gravel bike as my current ones have no bosses on the legs for attaching stuff. Those Alpkit ones are perfect and a crazy price! There’s one less sage version available now!

FW is the only place in the UK with a chairlift

It isn’t

Glencoe

Glenshee

The Lecht

there’s no arguing with the isolated location

It’s only isolated if you live in the south of England. Us up here find it handily local.

He’s going to be Norco’s team director. It’s on their press statement

Can you even really call yourself a mountain biker if you haven’t got a picture with the GOAT?

End of an era when he crosses the finish line

Rumour is Ball is his middle name, or in local dialect Baw.

Actual surname is Bag.

I’ve actually heard Ball is his middle name and his surname is Sup

I run 2 sets of wheels on my gravel bike. A 650 gravel tyre setup and a 700 road tyre. Different hubs and I have to change the limit screws and indexing when I swap. My next purchase is a 650 set of wheels on the same hubs to eliminate this as it’s a pain in the arse

Timely. GCN just did a video on swapping between gravel and road wheels & tyres

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128rpm

Do you all want to see my biological passport too?

500W isn’t huge power particularly If you do want to have a go at racing

Yes, but the statement was

you’ll be spinning out at relatively low powers

Which isn’t correct

Which means without the resistance of MTB tyres you’ll be spinning out at relatively low powers

I’ve just finished an hour ride on Zwift. The route finished with a 500m sprint. I hit 500 watts at 50 km/h, and was nowhere near spinning out. That’s with a 30T front chainring.

My setup. Works perfectly fine. Gearing isnt issue for ERG workouts on Zwift. If you’re doing a general ride you’ll ride at MTB pace rather than road bike pace. Either way it’s all good.

they’ve attacked Yemen now

Non Euro 6 engine? If so, I wouldn’t be too bothered about the low mileage. Much less of an issue on the Euro5 and earlier engines.

If it is a euro 6, find out how often the DPF regens occur, or how to identify a regen is taking place, and ensure the full regen happens

Exchange of bodily fluids with someone who is doping is enough to cause you to fail a drugs test. You’ve been warned and I will give no details but don’t swallow anyone else’s bodily fluids. Any of them.

Yeah wasn’t there an Olympian who tested positive for marijuana after kissing someone at a party?

Picked one of these up. The instructions are pretty sparse but wanted to check something with those that have one.

The ristretto and espresso buttons, with a single press, deliver the listed volume of coffee

The lungo button however, seems to require it to be pressed again to stop it. Basically I can’t press it once and it’ll deliver 80ml or whatever the listed amount is.

I can see something in the manual about a custom setting where you hold the ristretto button for 4 seconds, and it’ll keep on pouring out until you press it again.

Does mine sound faulty or am I missing something

We park at Castle Menzies and it’s a couple of mins along the road to the start of the climb.

Do they not have their own car parking on site?

Weirdly the “site” is at the top of the trails, and it’s honking climb back to the top

Has there been any mention of athlete accommodation? It’s the one thing I’ve not seen mentioned, and can’t think how they’d do it so quickly

Plan is to use empty student accommodation. We have a lot of that in Glasgow in the summer

Yeah cathkin would be in the radius assuming they’re talking about the official city boundary

Without “ruining our lives” will 50-60 MBPS be likely to do it?

We had a 60meg setup Sky via the Openreach box

Just me and the Mrs, both working from home on laptops, streaming stuff to TVs, me playing Xbox lots, Sonos streaming lots of audio round the house. 60meg was absolutely fine. Now on a 500Mb thing with talktalk and it’s honestly no different from the previous year 60mb setup

There has to be another lower category series away from the headline act running elsewhere

Well Chris Ball’s organisation took over the Scottish Enduro Series then shelved it. They also took over organisation of the Macavalanche race and moved it from Glencoe to Nevis Range, without even having the courtesy to tell the Glencoe people that they wouldn’t be having the race there anymore.

I wouldn’t trust Chris Ball to run a bath.

Definitely got a 630 battery in the Megawatt?

the lower level models only have the 504wh battery. Comp version for example

They’re already realised what they’ve done.

They paid a ridiculous amount for GCN, then wrote the value down massively and sold it back to the original owners for a fraction of what they paid. Post sale back to the original owners, the GCN guys missed no opportunity to have a a dig at WBD in their videos

The riders want a decent salary

Bernard Kerr seems to be doing ridiculously well. Have you seen his fleet of cars, toys and house?

Reece is ripping around in his Lotus.

Loris has a McLaren

Gwin is incredibly wealthy

I’m sure the lower riders aren’t on huge money, but that’s the same in any sport or industry. There’s plenty of money being made

I have to ask, what was actually wrong with the whole thing when Red Bull, Free caster and even before it was broadcast? I never got the sense of any fundamental problems with the setup and structure.

All of this feels like Chris Ball has to do something to deliver on whatever he’s promised WBD. For Red Bull it was advertising for them. Under the new setup they must find a way to monetise it to deliver the returns WBD expect. That means selling advertising space, whether that’s on track or TV/social media adverts.

It’s a sport that seemed to function perfectly well for a long time, that’s now at real risk of being ruined by the pursuit of profit for WBD, and no doubt a fat bonus for Chris Ball.

Tried Power Automate. First time I’ve used it and tried to record the process with that but it only seems to record the clicking around on sheets that I did. Wouldn’t record me running macros?

Anyway, I did the suggestion of recording a macro and going through the process to create one one file. I’ve got that working and I’ve tweaked the code to get it to do everything I need for one iteration. I just need to get it to work for however many I need it to run.

Basically each month were using this file to create a price for an individual client. This takes up a ridiculous amount of my teams time and the basic process is put the client identifying number in, put the required date in, stick the client managers name in and stick your name in. You then run a macro that goes to a data warehouse and pulls in lots of information about that client. You then run another macro that goes and runs some SAS reports and pulls that data into the file. Once that’s done you save the file as Client Name Month Number.xlsm, then move onto the next one. That whole process completely hogs your excel, so you can’t do anything else while it’s running, and each person in my team could have 40-50 of these to do in a couple of days. It’s a ridiculously inefficient use of time. In an ideal world we do this on a virtual machine or using some other fancy tech but in the immediate now it has to be done on our laptops. It’s the same every month, the same 4 parameters they need to enter, the same 2 macros they need to run. My short term solution is this batch process that says use this little table with the 4 parameters and 50 different clients you have to run, and do it at 5pm so they’re waiting ready in the morning