Where are they?

[watching]

Bullock is top of my list of potential wives. Sadly I’m not on her list :-(

Yes, I use electric clippers to whizz it back to 1/8″ once a fortnight (along with my beard)

Enjoying issue 88. Thanks chaps

“I’m leaving you (for him/her) because I just want to be happy.”

Good or bad? Depends on your point of view. If nothing else, it makes a change from the ordinary…

Night riding is like sex wearing a blindfold

[sprays coffee on keyboard]

brilliant!

AF447 – maintenance error, instrument error, pilot error

It’s combinatorial failures that are hard to identify and design-out of systems, that cause the disasters.

My first experiences of seconding winter climbing this season, including some frozen waterfalls on the routes. Thoroughly enjoying it (apart from unbelievable painful hot-rushes in the hands). Climbing free-standing icicles looks very strenuous indeed!

My lead says “winter leading is soloing”. Rather him than me!

It’s a slightly odd term. I would say that when riding seems unchallenging, the pleasure from the thrill is lost.

It rather depends on the trails you are typically riding and your skill/confidence/speed.

Talk to Box at BAB. He won an Enduro series on one. And he sells them.

My first thought was to stick with the HT for a while. Forget about speed and focus on developing a smoother more controlled style.

That’s it.

“It just makes sense to put a 26″ wheel on an xs or small frame – 27.5″ on med and large – 29″ on large and XL”

That makes no sense to me at all. Frame size is selected primarily for leg-length and reach. What has wheel size got to do with that?

It takes a few rides switching either way. Going flats, concentrate on the following adjustments:

1. You feet needs to be noticeably more forward on the pedals
2. Make a concious effort to spin circles, flex your ankles to help
3. Get into dropping your heels when pushing the bike out of corners, obstacles and down slopes, it will avoid sliding or bouncing off the pedals
4. Get used to softening your legs through rough bits to keep your feet on
5. Get long pins and sticky shoes!

He speaks da troof. Email in profile. A bit damp in Somerset ATM Wait until spring IMO.

I guess you see what you have “lost” about her. But ask yourself if you ever really “have” another person?

The time, love and joy that people give is a gift and not a lifelong obligation. So what she gave you, you will always have. In time you will value that, without the regret and bitterness you feel now. I can’t assure you that all the regret will pass, but what little is left will be bearable and not get in your way.

It’s OK, healthy, to be sad and upset when there is cause, but not disproportionately. So try to distinguish between normal grieving activities, and the spiral-like thinking that characterises depression. Be busy and plan to be busy, to bypass the inactivity that allows negative-spiral thinking to emerge. Planning and doing what makes you happy, as often as practical, will make you happy. This is the essence of CBT.

And then you will find that happy people are attractive people.

Good luck

I blame the weather for all the grumpyness

Lurid innit?

So glad I’m not working outside.

Sheltering in Somerset. Again.

5.10 impacts are a lot more supportive. But you have the soaking-out problem.

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Should not of cut his hair.

It’s tricky. Yes it’s good but maybe not now. Robots are getting good at doing remote science to the point where humans don’t have much advantage. And the science is the key reason to go.

I have no problem in principle with the exploratory aims of Mars One, but there are practical and ethical issues: it’s very easy to contaminate the place which makes exobiology very difficult to prove. And the idea of a one way trip I find unacceptable. The only accepted Mars one candidate i have met was definitely a sandwich short of a picnic.

He told me robots would built the settlement before they settled there. So I asked: If robots are that smart, why do we need to send you? I was bit rude to him really :oops:

Got two 26″ wheel sets. The crest ones go a bit wibbly and need tensioning occasionally. The bearings you get aren’t amazing but just press out when knackered and you want to put something better in.

You’ve got tits?
I hate cliche.

No at the end is a tidy way of expressing doubt at you own assertion. Efficiency and expressiveness in language is good.

For rhetorical questions, I’m inclined to use “?!”. The cedilla was mooted for this but it looks a bit too foreign.

But there should be more umlauts in English!

It’s modern, no?

(Scratches head) do you boys actually mountain bike? It’s quite a dirty sport, y’know! All that mud is the product of rotting plants mixed with animal faeces, and processed through the bowels of worms.

My commute north in Bristol is disrupted a bit, but Wells is just up on the foot of The Mendip so fine. The B road from Street to Taunton is a goner tho. Did you see those pics of burrow-bridge? The barrow mump is an island again!

What socks you using? Hefty smart wool seems to work for me, warm and wet.

There is a load of snow and it will be here for a long time

Playing merry havoc with climbing. Late season/spring should be ace though.

Aladdin’s Butress

High BB. Ride OK still?

The hardpack trails are fine.

if you choose to live in a wetland formed on reclaimed land i ‘d have thought flooding was to be expected fairly regularly

This has been repudiated many time in similar threads: It is.

As someone pointed out up there, north of the Polden ridge, the rhynes and rivers are draining just fast enough despite the volume of rainwater I see gushing off the south flanks of The Mendip. This flooding event in the area south of Polden is quite exceptional. It seems to have lower drainage capacity. From up on the Polden, it looks like the sea invaded!

Some of you know the brands and models of your multitudinous shoes! That’s proper geekery.

When your back is hairier than your head

When you stop wanting to chat up the pretty girls (God forbid)

Obsession with slippers

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Something to do locally instead of travelling up country to go hill walking.