it’s a limitation of the metric system. this, and how many songs can you think of with miles or feet in the lyrics? how about with the metric equivalents?

Strangely, ridewithgps.com usually disagrees with my Edge 705 the other way – it (ridewgps) claims to be superaccurate on US mapping but always overestimates my climbing by 300-400m.
I trust the GPS – if I sign up for a race with a claimed 2200m of climbing, my GPS will usually record around that figure. Same goes for route guides, downloaded tracks from other riders, etc – the figures usually agree until I put it into the website.

work out who’s going to play
lance, pantani, lemond, landis and McQuaid

ben kingsley for pantani. think don logan in sexy beast.

Another contender for the smallest? Santa Maria, nr. Itziar, Basque Country.

Was out on my local mountain, racing the sunset (had lights but forgot to charge them…). Jaizkibel, Basque Country

77mph???
faster than sean yates’ “record” :-/

camino de santiago, september. 800km to go…

But now I’m a bit better infomed.

informed by who, can i ask? if you’re referring to the posts by the “animal welfare expert” it might be a good idea to check his credentials/allegiances otherwise you’re no better informed than if you’d listened to LHS.

PETA are animal welfare experts too, and look how many healthy animals they destroy[/url]

as said above, maybe the best approach is to just stop drinking the stuff…

wouldn’t bother cooking for 3 days. where are you going?
i went across spain off-road last summer (5 days) and just picked up food each morning in the first village i got to. bread, fruit, veg etc.

i took a bivvy (terra nova jupiter, £200 or so)
sleeping bag, 750g – more than warm enough for summer
3/4 length thermarest
swiss army knife, spork etc for eating
1 set of cycling clothes (if i did it again i’d take 2), 1 set for the train home/sleeping in. travel towel.
carried in a 25l drybag (ortleib) on rear rack. also used a bar-bag, and a camelbak.
hard to say what it cost all-in, as some stuff was borrowed and other stuff i already had.

there’s a website somewhere by a bloke who’s obsessed with keeping it as light as possible, quite entertaining to read. i’ll see if i can find the link.
cutting your toothbrush in half is a bit too much, nightmare to use ;-)

edit: here http://ultralightcycling.blogspot.com/

Berdin!
Looks interesting, where is it? Hope you had a good one.
Been for an unintentional night ride on Jaizkibel this evening, not sure if I’ve ever been out on Dec 31st in short sleeves.
Ondo ibili…..

I’ve done the same with my vinyl, I started converting it but after realising the sheer scale of the task, I downloaded it from soulseek.
A caveat – AFAIK, legally they will do you for sharing files, not downloading them,(hard to do one without the other), so owning the original counts for nothing. At least that’s what I can deduce from the cease and desist notices I got from CBS… I could stand corrected.

grew up listening to beefheart, my dad’s a fan. i remember being terrified of the sleeve of troutmask replica, then later fascinated with the lyrics. he claimed to be able to sing every note on the piano keyboard ;-)

sad news. as above… mirror man turned up loud today. sun just siftin’ thru’….

1281m in 78km, friday. http://connect.garmin.com/activity/59288096

it’s supposed to be a flat winter training route :(

i like it, but most of his creations are fugly.

i think the anticipation of having to wait while daddy asks the internet will be punishment enough.

that pic is ace. you can even see the spoon they presumably used to get the lid off.

grand idea binners. i’ve a pile of first certificate compostions here need correcting. anyone?

hi doug, will send you my email addy. cheers, bob.

i’d love to ride in the UK. i started riding MTB when i moved to spain, so apart from a weekend in the brecon beacons & afan, i have no idea what it’s like, despite being from the lake district.

great first effort doug. was alerted to this by a mate who used to live/ride here. he an the missus were in tears apparently. so, job well done!

i’m impressed especially to see the first bit from the antennae ridden (and not shouldered like i do….), i don’t bother getting on the bike until the last stile :oops: some bits i don’t think i’ve been on either, incredible since i’ve been going up there for over two years. there’s a lot to that mountain.

er… now you’re idle enough to be sitting around editing videos we should sort out this ride with mackem :wink:

Andy,as it’s printed on a kit your question could be akin to asking why people feel the need to tell us that they read singletrack. Etc.
Although I only think it fair to let people know theyve been dropped by a scrawny tree hugging crank :wink:

Ps. Black rims look better on that for me.

surely the oil leakage from new is just the oil used during assembly, in the wipers & foam rings?

bob_summers – blimey,small world.I was at College with Jim and knew him well whilst in London.Lost touch since he went to Spain.

aye, met him in spain (they’re living in france now). turns out we used to sab the same hunts in essex, albeit a generation apart. small world indeed!

yep, that’s it. he’s still snapping for a living, google ‘jim hodson photographer’.

the more violent, the more exciting the pics.

mate o mine took “that” pic of the lass swinging a scaffold pole at a copper at the poll tax riot. unfortunately her mum recognised her i the next day’s paper, and shopped her!

http://www.espressoparts.co.uk/gaggia.asp?img=113
worth a try?

happydonkey.co.uk sell some spares for that. i’ve had similar constipation problems (!) due to either the boiler clogging with scale (took boiler apart and gave it a good clean) and the shower screen perforations clogging with coffee (poke through with a pin, you’ve tried that already, no?).

mine’s a coffee deluxe, so doesn’t have the solenoid… but it does sound like yours is burnt out if you’ve already checked for blockages.

nice shot, made me homesick. why does the sky change colour behind the tree?

they started it :wink:

haven’t read all of the thread (skipped the predictable crap from the WUMs), but i had this with an older cat. terrifying. vet thought it was a build up of ear wax* pressing on the brain, the noise the poor thing made when he dug it out was heartbreaking but she didn’t have any recurrence of the fitting. might be worth mentioning at the next visit.

hope it goes ok, feel for you. off to give my “kitten” (actually 12) a bit of love :-)

*actually i can’t remember if it was definitely wax, or an infection due to ear mites. a build-up of something.
he used a solution to loosen it and then scooped it out.

dishwasher?

That looks like a Tune freehub. What’s it from?

doesn’t look like mine (mag 180). i had concerns about the tune spline pattern with a campag cassette, the fit seemed sloppy, but tune said it was fine. it’s (touch wood) outlasted two rims so i guess so.

gulp. steel deore freehub should be ok no? temporarily using a hope pro2 while i get a replacement deore… better take it easy!

pacifico in covent garden.

ok, ta :-)

chainline is straight, just wanted to know if i was asking for trouble with the cog on the end – i’m used to track hubs, so it kinda looks weird there. i can play around with the bb cups to get the front chainline down a bit, there’s plenty of clearance between the chainstays and the cranks & ring.

ah. or maybe some texts randomly get caught up when it tries to blur the numberplates? very clever all the same, i would have had warehouses full of people doing it in photoshop :wink:

didn’t know roadsigns were pixellated in street view?

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&sll=55.974159,-3.169777&sspn=0.014288,0.052314&ie=UTF8&hq=&layer=c&cbll=54.964674,-1.604996&panoid=SOc9qbGtKeaEk7dufZQHjw&cbp=12,166.3,,1,9.41&t=h&ll=54.964633,-1.604925&spn=0.000186,0.000431&z=21

why’s that?

primeran! ezkerrik asko ;-)

so the txapela-wearing blokes i keep seeing in the woods aren’t picking mushrooms, they’re building trails?!

where is this, ibardin?

edit: larrun obviously!

pockets. no shortage of them this time of year with all the layers.

if not, a sawn off bottle in the spare cage holds a few extras, anything to avoid the saddle bag…

[hello! 8)]

i’ll always be a roadie at heart, but that hasn’t stopped me getting obsessive about cleaning the technical sections, up and down, knocking seconds off the local loop, i suppose getting better at that kind of stuff is a goal. but nothing in respect of racing.

at the end of the day, MTB just keeps the ramber in me happy – when i ride off road the HRM stays at home, i pore over maps and GPS tracks posted online, take great pride in knowing the local hills better than the natives do, but still delight in spending hours completely lost in a forest where the trail just petered out… goals would kinda spoil that.

cool. how old is he? i’m waiting for a friend who’s a new dad to start bringing the nipper out. 4mths is a bit young though no?!

is that furness abbey btw?