Liebniz are the biz

Yeah I had one of those down-drafts after leaving Turin in the thunder storm. You could hear all the plastic in the plane’s cabin straining as the fuselage distorted at the bottom of the drop. Gave me the buzz! Amazing things modern planes.

It could be a disaster with even a tiny bit of chainsuck.

Mendip is a strong candidate

Can you isolate what it is about commercial flying you are now struggling to tolerate?

Mud is fine. But hoof and 4×4 eroded mud is sometimes impassible. For best results avoid farm tracks and bridleways in winter.

Why does everyone have to grip the bars so hard; you’ll get arm pump. Relax and steer with your feet.

I’m ~150lb. I’ve had crest rimmed wheels on my 26″ FS and now my HT, for 18 months, run with Dampf 2.35 snakeskin tyres. Esp. the rear on the HT they have had a battering. The rear knocked out of shape a bit in-use and needed some truing but there has been no crash damage AFAIK. I’ve crashed occasionally so maybe I’ve been lucky, or maybe the tyres are doing a good job of protecting them.

The main issue is that they deflect quite a bit, in the rough, in corners, and when standing up pedalling. But the pay-off is that you feel the benefit of the low weight when you kick the pedals.

The other barrier to MSRs the promise of inexhaustible energy from Fusion reactors. So far, research fusion reactors are far further behind the technology readiness level than MSRs.

It may be that we eventually get commercially viable fission energy, but I just wish we spread the risk and globally invested in developing commercially viable Thorium MSR technology with an “open-source” model, as a stop-gap for humanity, or a permanent alternative to solid fuel reactors if necessary.

OP: [genuinely not being rude] I imagine you have not spent much time with, and observing, normal mainstream religious people and then trying to understand the paradigm of faith, in it’s many forms. It’s all to easy to base opinion on caricatures and extremists presented in popular media stories. My suggestion is always to study a topic through first-hand experience with an open mind before asserting it’s validity, or otherwise.

I think you are mistaken is suggesting people who have faith are characterised by being disinterested in the “NOW”. Quite the opposite because the principles of the faith must guide one’s actions in this place, or there is no purpose to it.

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Oakridge was a successful research reactor about 50 years ago. But it would require 20 years to commercialise as there are some specific technologies that need development to overcome the peculiarities of chemically processing liquid Thorium salts, none of which seem really blocking.

So given that, and the obvious safety and utility of a liquid fuel, and the abundance of Thorium, why did we not have commercial MSRs by 1975? Because MSRs don’t make Plutonium, which everyone needed for bombs. Now we have very significant “resources” of difficult to handle Plutonium as a by-product of Uranium reactors and 20 years developing Plutonium-Uranium MOX technology at Thorpe have not technically and commercially succeeded in converting it to re-usable supply of fuel. Annoying.

India is making a solid MOX fuel with Thorium for conventional solid fuel reactors which in theory isn’t a bad idea although with any MOX fuel, it alters the reactor behaviour which needs care to work out.

Coaching by Forest Freeride

What you do out of love is always the right thing.

Yep. I think that vinyl makes the music come alive.

Love or Loathe

Ignore

No Clink, no!

Bugzilla and post-it notes for me

A bag of potatoes

Everything. and more.

Left lane. I have passed a slowey on occasion by using the right lane. Don’t try and pass a truck this way though. And you have to be prepared to go around if goes awry by the time you reach the exit.

Happy to be corrected, but I think he can only use ‘reasonable force’ (whatever that is) if the OP refused to leave when asked.

You are correct

Still cheaper than dental work

Addictive personality? What does that actually mean?

TBF, when is it not “very wet and windy Penmachno”?

Who do you ride with on a Tuesday night, properjob?

hence why I became such a popular figure in the mountainbike industry.

QotW

“When did casual sexism become acceptable again?”

When did sexism and natural attraction to the opposite sex get so confused?

Sounds ace! We like adventures.

It then transpired that him and his missus had nearly been KO’d by a group of four or five of ‘us’ tearing around a blind bend on a footpath a few weeks before. These ‘riders’ simply yelled “get the **** out of the way”.

Jees they do us no favours do they!? Just keep being sensible is all you can do.

A better style than just about everyone I see riding bikes. The boobs are just a bit of a laugh. Lighten up people!

Wear a buff or cap under your helmet and you won’t get cold feet.

He had the right to evict you with reasonable force. But wisely chose not too. Obviously your presence there with a bicycle had a massive impact on farming/game compared with all the dog walkers he ignored. not

Ignore and carry on being nice and riding bikes

You go for a big ride and some of the downhills are timed. Unless you’re really crap at pedalling and arrive at the gates too late. Win order is based on accumulated times. Some add time for late arrival.. Attracts all sorts of riders and bikes and is right giggle.

You won’t save weight. But grip will go up and rolling resistance goes down if you get a decent strong sidewall tyres and run than about 10 psi lower than your equivalent tubed setup.

Much success over here with Stans rims and schwalbe snakeskin sidewall tyres

GMT all year please

Really, no. When my Dampfs fail to shed properly, I will put BC Mk2s on. The big swamp thing for the back is reserved in extremis. A long way to go before that

Ha! I got dumped at high-speed last night from front-wheel washout on a slippery camber; I just bounced and rolled-off down the trail and was unharmed, phew.

Hmm… thinking a stickier compound to be a bit more forgiving, or just accept I screwed-up and get on with it!?

Scottish highlands are better for hill-walking and mountaineering by far, because of the stunning semi-wild landscapes, size and multitude of crags, vast areas to play in, access etc. I totally love the Highlands for this. .

I’ve ridden more extensively in Wales and England so am biased (e.g. I’ve only been to Glentress in the borders), but so far my experience of Scottish mountain biking trails is that they’re not as extensive, convenient or exciting as trails in Wales and England.

Christ that was brutal. Difficult trail condition, deep darkness, legs being ripped off, wind, filth and sopping wet, high speed crash ( o damage). Great!

Good that. Esp the pictures. It should look like this in big-big:

Tonight! It will be fast, drifty and messy.

Papamountain: that is a clean bike because I can still see the frame.

This is the worst time of year for breathability – too warm and damp outside for the temperature and humidity differential needed to drive vapour out through the fabric.