No but Lindsey vonn does

Insensitive to people not surviving breast cancer.

The uninspiring Tower ridge on Ben Nevis ;-)

All of the above.

For Ben Nevis, climb CMD and go over the CMD Arête and up to the top, or if you have some basic climbing experience consider tower ridge with a guide.

I did the aonach eagach in glencoe with a guide last summer and loved it. Not cheap but worth it.

Ardnamurchan is one of my special places too

Islay, for the Whisky

Torridon is a hillwalking paradise

Assynt if you are prepared to go that far. Just stunning

Glen Sheil for Munro bagging, or the mamores near fort William

Seek out fish restaurants wherever you go. Yum

Glen Finnan for the famous viaduct, the memorial to Charlie, and take lunch at the hotel.

Kinlochleven for the mountain biking, and also the red trail on aonach mor

Skye. You might get lucky with the weather. It has been known.

[bites fist]

I run a bit more neg air to suck the fork down reducing travel from 150 to 120. The bike handles better with less travel and a plusher but more supportive feel than having lower but equal pos and neg which felt saggy and divy. The counteract the firmer feel I run compression damping at the minimum.

I realise this is way off manual and universally condemned,but after much dicking about it seems to work best for the bike. All I’m suggesting is that after trying the conventional, follow the crowd approach, other approaches might work for you. Worth a go since it’s so easy to adjust.

Evil anything
Intense anything

Oh yeah I ride an evil and an intense lol!

I felt quite overwhelmed when I walked in to the room and saw the Saturn V!

Happy weather

Pick a wheel size and be a dick about it.

As I said in the other thread, people here live with a bit of regular flooding. What is happening now is very unusual and anomalous.

Tell the Netherlands to return their country to the North Sea and see what reaction you get.

People who live on the levels expect a bit of flooding from time to time. It was once a flooded marsh and Avalon was an island! It has been a managed wetland for centuries. But if you come here and see how much land is currently submerged you will understand how ridiculous the situation is. I was driving east over the polden and looking south it was like the sea had invaded.

Yes it’s rained a lot. Not as much as 1910 still. The fact is, the EA have deliberately allowed the volume of the rivers to reduce and thus the water is not draining as quickly as it once could. So now it’s a mismanaged wetland and all the old villages perched on slightly higher ground are cut off and threatened.

Gaffer tape the split

I wish! Their style shifts from funk to jazz to classic soul, all incredibly tight and loud. I was at their gig in The Old Bridge Inn at Aviemore on Friday. The place rocked: jam-packed-in with hot, sweaty, writhing bodies making sexy moves to heavy beats for 2 hours. Ace!

Porlock is trail central too. I usually camp at Sparkhayes and get drunk in The Ship.

Bonkers I agree. Possible hangover from road bikes. Drill them and run full length.

My experience of my travels around the world is that us Brits are very well liked and respected

This is my experience too. Take hair shirt off.

On the subject of barbarism though: let’s not forget that the European wars of the 20th Century were the most barbaric and deadly imaginable short of a nuclear conflict. But it has lead to the EU, the most successful political peacekeeping organisation in our regions history.

BTW. we’re not better people, we’re just better organised

You’re failing to understand the natural distribution of intelligence in the population. This is quite “normal” and cannot be changed. Chill.

I love sliding around.

Some lovely old Mission 731is, which sound great even with just a cheap Cambridge Audio amp. Just got some speaker stands which have done wonders for the sound

This but with a 20yo basic Rotel amp. Good for dynamic rock and pop. It’s weakness is vocals

It’s not a soggy bike and likes to power out of corners where you can get a bit unstuck with the low BB! Mine in the 275 variant built fairly light as an all day all mountain bike rather than winch and plummet. It’s a wicked climber built like this too. You have test ride one as it’s a big ” investment”

Master seal blew in my SLX rear at Christmas. Happened suddenly with so sign of oil. Is there some resistance to the
Lever going back out?

Got new compete brake and have the old caliper as a spare.

If I hadn’t got my lovely Tracer, this would be what I would have got.

Ha I was only in the room with the MCS for about an hour ( with Phil Brabbin) so I guess you missed me ;-) testing payloads trumps coding MCS software though.

Careful now officer or someone will accuse me of being your sock puppet again!

BBC ran this pic (that’s Andrea I think?) with the headline: “comet chaser phones home”

2002 called and would like its high rise bars back :wink:

It looks fun :-)

I developed it’s commanding software and saw it tested at ESTEC so yes it is. Or call me a liar. :P

Nevis red.

Try wider bars. It has much the same effect of slowing the steering and getting you lower with your core and arms flexed and engaged more. But it’s better for pushing the bike over in corners. I guess the pipe dream has quite sharp steering so slower steering might actually not be too detrimental.

Mendip and Qs. Wet and slippery fun.

Cool. Seems ideal for a visit with the HT next month.

Rock of Ages. The local hymn, is great. Played at my wife’s funeral. I have a memorial geocache for her hidden not far from the rock itself.

4. While I draw this fleeting breath,
when mine eyes shall close in death,
when I soar to worlds unknown,
see thee on thy judgment throne,
Rock of Ages, cleft for me,
let me hide myself in thee.

” I know a bloke, 5’11 9 stone, he can’t put weight on no matter what he eats “

Ineffective digestion

Personally, I found the most effective way to control my weight has been to:

* substitute exercise time for snacking/tv/home time where possible

* have considerably smaller evening meals, mainly by avoiding cooking as cooking which tends to create too much food which I then feel the urge to consume. Very expensive, small gourmet ready-meals have been a godsend.

I still stuff my gob with cakes, crisps, chocolate, beer etc at other times. But they amount of calories they represent is small compared with meals so my output and input seem to balance. I’ve stuck at ~12st for a year now.

Excited!

I’m managing 1:1 (36:36) on my local hills for 3 hours. But I struggle on longer rides in big country.

So why didn’t Sherlock sleep with Janine when she very obviously wanted him to?

Er no. Sorry :-(

Stu at forest freeride

Watson is a literary device to allow Sherlock to explain the intricacies of the plot to the reader. But he conforms well to the buddy-movie/ bromance format.

vis-a-vis blowhards: Oh the ironing.

So far my Hope Hoops have been fine. But then so have my Superstars. But if someone turns up for a ride complaining about their brakes, they usually turn out to by made by Hope. (saying that, I recently had an SLX brake go from perfect to totally popped in four lever squeezes).

Stuff happens, randomly.