Your error is trying to define boundaries where there are none. I ride bikes, mostly off road.

Itching for the weekend here.

One’s attitude to people’s suffering depends if you regard humans as animals or higher-beings, IME.

I doesn’t seem surprising that a naturalist thinks the former.

mr B Lightyear,ran my cotic soda for a least a year with tubeless rims and tubes = no fail.

Sorry, I should have added a wry smiley face with my smart-alec remark ;-)

Stans is designed for tubelessing and the rim-tyre-fit is deliberately tighter. This makes taking tyres on-and-off to fix tube punctures rather wearisome.

You can routinely run tubes if you like, but it’s defeating the object of buying Stans rims IMO.

Using tubeless rims with tubes fail.

Leigh woods

Very narrow speed window – fast enough not to tip off, slow enough to corner without sliding. Very fine brake control needed. And being floppy. Tense up and you’re off

In June. It took 3 days to sober up. I thought my liver had failed.

This only happens when I drink with Sue and Caroline.

genius!

I’ve found this place to be populated with many interesting intellectually capable people. They tend not to be the “noisy” ones.

If one of Mark’s employees had made such a comment, they’d be disciplined by him, no?

Who disciplines Mark?

Ta wallop. She’s quite sensitive not to hurt me because she understands what hurt I’ve experienced. I just told her that my heart is my responsibility. Currently my heart is telling me not to let her get away :-)

Last time it felt like this, I was 19 :oops:

Plus it’s slim pickings in Somerset. The cider is not kind to their teeth.

Lol!

Thanks for the support curious. Will catch up with you again, but I hope to be spending a lot of my free time in Dublin quite soon.

BTW. She says that Dublin is overflowing with eligible women because it has a dearth of decent men. So get thee to Dublin.

bullshit phrase about professionals?

yeah I see what you mean. I think the point is that we’re both independent with complete and established lives of own, and value the independence of the other. It’s the independence aspect that matters.

I think the main put-off/back-off for both of us is the idea that it can’t work. But I’m changing my mind after reading this.

Is the clutch actually working? Mine needs adjustment to stiffen it up.

Don’t know your situation emsz. But have you thought about contacting her?

I was feeling daunted by the idea. But after reading this I’m encouraged. We’re both early 40s professionals and seen a bit of life but used to being independent. The circumstances we met in and how we hit it off are almost uncanny. Despite trying to be cool, I find I’m completely smitten with her :-) really hoping this one works out.

Well I quite unexpectedly had a holiday romance in Scotland. Almost blighted by: the presence of her poor friend who had to suffer me, remaining unresolved feeling about my late wife, the impending end of the trip. Despite that we got on “like a house on fire”. It seems we’re crazy about each other. And we want it to be the start of something.

Problem is I’m based in Somerset and she will be in Dublin for a good while. Apart from finding out if the magic is still there when we get together again, is the challenge of a long distance until the geographic ties change.

Some positive responses here. Genuinely surprised

The ones who it seems to work for … are quite self-contained and sensible/logical.

hmmm encouraging.

lol!

Keep em coming…

Vis-a-vis 650b:

trail come alive

That is still my STW quote-of-the-year :lol:

Op: good you have a job.

Evenings (£15 chinese XML lights) and weekends mate

Ht funner on smoother trails.

He coined the term XXXC for his riding style, so he must be

I simply found them to be another place for water to into the outer and corrode the cable.

Boil. Great when it’s sub zero. Looks terrible though.

My evil sovereign. Never never never.

Minus 5psi in you current tyres and just carry on

It’s the height of the tyre in inches when inflated on a rim. Sometimes just the carcass and sometimes also the centre knobs. The accounts for the weird variation you find.

The new generation ones in black chilli 2.4 get my approval. The old gen ones were IMO the worst tyre ever.

Stu at forest freeride spent most of the morning with me working on refining flat cornering technique and then working different approaches to a set of corners to maximise control with speed.

After ironing problems with my flat takeoff technique for an hour, We then added in small jump into the set of corners and worked on take off approaches to hit the corners right.

We had a quick play on a switchback before heading to a small steep jump line. Starting with the bottom jump we just worked on variations of entry speed vs push speed until I had it spot on clearing a good distance and cleanly landing wheels together every time. Then rolled the first jump, to corner, check speed and launch the bottom jump. Working up to launching the top jump, fast steep corner, hard speed check and launch the second.

He’s not teaching to “do the gap jump” but working you towards overall competency in bike handling. One of his clients apparently said “you make it look boring” lol! Because it looks like nothing but you have control, confidence and flow.

We’re all going to die

Sorry, I thought you said “fatalism”…

It’s nothing like the alps. On a good day it’s very memorable indeed. I cherish memories of one of those days at Glencoe. Pure off piste joy. Other times at other places its been rather naff.

I recently had a second day with stu at forest freeride after a three year gap. As with all good coaches, youvride lines at the end of the day you could not imagine at the start. It will probably take at least another year to assimilate what i learned this time. I’m an advocate of coaching

Unless you’ve been to several different coaches you cannot say “so and so is the best”

Emails from you direct boss and clients are the ones to worry about. Forget the rest unless you have spare time.

Prioritise your tasks based on urgency AND importance. Then work out any dependencies between tasks. Long chains of dependent tasks should be started as soon as possible.

Many smaller independent tasks can be done by others who have a little free time. So try to get them reassigned so you can focus on the big stuff.

Roughly a third of tasks you are asked to do don’t need doing so just work out which third and only start on them if the rest get done.

Manage expectations by telling bosses and clients when tasks will be done with realistic deadlines, not optimistic ones. If they moan then negotiate other priorities down the list. If tasks look like they will run late, warn them in advance, don’t wait until the deadline is about to pass.

Use a simple task and resource planning software tool (i use ms project in a basic way) to make a schedule, and spend 5 mins every morning updating it to check where you are and if there will be a problem hitting deadlines.

Once you start to feel in control of your time you will be much less stressed!

Interesting. What are the stats for the revamped trail?

got a cheap pair of flats but used some old Adidas trainers, pretty flimsy sole,

This is why your feet hurt. Cheap pedals and Cheap unsupportive shoes. Hope the new setup is better. The keys to grip are foot position more forward and angled down at heel when likely to be bounced off. It takes as much practice as learning to use SPDs.

Self deprecation is not pessimism.

Because they look stupid, and that’s always funny.
and of course it’s snobbery, it’s part of the human condition.

Actually its just part of your condition ( of being obnoxious )

Innis and gunn
Bose
Preseat the tyre with a tube
Stihl
About half the original RRP minus wear and tear