This one please

They didn’t mention in the article the lack of women in STEM careers, not clear if they took that into account. I’m sure they did but the way the article read was “men have a higher score than women and stem jobs are higher than other jobs” well yeah, they will be when it’s predominantly men who do them.

Yeah I was using them with a previous generation SLX brake which was apparently compatible but it was juddering so badly the headset kept coming loose. It was so bad that as I slowed down, I could feel the moment when the pulse frequency matched the fork resonance, the shaking was horrible! I switched back to an older non icetech 203 and everything was ok again.

I’ve since used 203 icetechs with modern deores and didn’t notice the judder at all, but they weren’t bedded in particularly well, so not much help

You don’t have to be somewhere steep or gnarly to make use of them, half the joy is getting the saddle out of the way for corners on flat trails then popping it back up for pedalling.

This needs a bump

Came with a Rockshox XC32, so somewhat flimsier. Yeah I don’t like the silver wheel but it’s a stand in while I repair the one that matches the front.

Neighbours fence, I take no responsibility

Yep just perspective, horrible camera phone lens. Yep you’re right the 650bs were really tight in there, they wouldn’t have fared well in thick gloop

It wasn’t mountain biking when I started, it was ATB, all terrain biking. I remember doing the DH race and then the XC the next day on the same bike. The same bike that we went to the quarry to do drops on or full days in the lakes or jumps in the woods. And the descent was the best bit!!!

As we’re part of NATO though, we have the big stick with nuclear weapons in the form of France and USA who have oodles more nukes than us so it’s not like we have no deterrence without it.

If there was ever a situation (whatever that may be be) that involved having to send off some nukes, France and USA are hardly going to sit there and go “lets leave this to Trident, it’s about time it got some use”, they’re going to send off their massive barrage. So having trident makes no difference. The money’s better spent on other tech to bolster NATO, e.g. jets and ground troops

We had bother with our little one about this time, total meltdown at the suggestion of a brush going near her mouth after initially being ok with. We tried the strong arm approach but this just made her hysterical so that lasted a night. Then we got her a step and turned the top on, she plays at splashing and while she’s distracted I brush her teeth and she’s fine. Eventually that stopped working as she wanted to brush herself. So she “brushes” (eats the toothpaste off the brush) and eventually I convinced her to let me brush her teeth once she was done. Took a while though. Good luck!

ESGOOOSE BEEF, AFF ANYBODY GOT ANY BOCKKLE ORAN DOOVE?

Yep it’s just DOMS, day two is usually the killer with legs. Generally worst after the first decent session of a new exercise, you’ll be fine next time

I moved from Samsung to a One M8 a few months ago and on virtually all counts it’s an improvement. However for some reason it won’t do gapless playback of music which I’d got used to with Samsung. It might not bother you but all my music has been uploaded to Google play music so that’s that’s my main way of listening to music and the half a second of silence between songs which should be seamless bugs me!

I was told to “send me through your proposals and I’ll socialise them and report back” from someone in our finance team last week. He managed with a straight face too. JUST NO

I used to ride in vans half cabs and couldn’t fault them in the dry but we’re rubbish in the wet. I then tried some five tens and they were great in the wet and dry so I’ve never looked back. Still use my vans if it’s dry and I’m just going for a muck about.

Leonard Nimoy: “A solar eclipse. The cosmic ballet goes on.”
Bloke sitting next to him” Does anyone want to switch seats?”

“I was saying boo-urns”

“I for one welcome our new ant overlords”

Oh look, bontrager rhythms and goosed nipples. Mine are all like this, they’re “locking nipples” according to the marketing gumph, which seems to mean threadlock that’s stronger that the nipples. Try and tighten them and they just crumble. Awful awful awful

We seem to end up in Annexe more often than not, due to a combination of great food and a really nice atmosphere. They do a mixture of modern French and British http://www.annexe.co[/url%5D

The fork is being loaned whilst he moves overseas and I like a project. Plus both forks have steerers cut down to within an inch of their lives so aren’t particularly sellable

Clearly only a small sample but I’ve driven with vocal pro and anti cyclists and in my tiny sample, the anti cyclists have been awful around bikes, in a terrified, not got a clue what to do way and the rest of their driving was pretty lacking. No anticipation, terrible spacial awareness etc. Throw in a big pinch of impatience and suddenly we’re a massive inconvenience for these people.

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Please ignore anyone who says weights add unnecessary mass. I started weight lifting 4 years ago and I’m the same weight, however my strength Is significantly improved. If you use the right repetitions and don’t eat like a horse you’ll be fine!

Anyway, as a result, my endurance is improved, grip strength way better, more control through the rough stuff etc etc. I and I know it’s the weights that have caused it because we had our first child last year so i barely get on the bike but haven’t had any drop in performance since I’ve kept up the weights.

Cars with Baby on board or words to that effect. Whats the point? Why should I care who’s on board? Do they think it changes the way I drive? As far as I can tell they are just there to obsure the drivers vision and make them more dangerous.

To inform the emergency services that they need to look for a baby in the car when they’re cutting people out of a wreckage after an accident.

Haa i’ve never seen so much wrong in a single thread! It’s 4x not DH, they’re all on hardtails, nobody is on a dh bike and it’s a format that’s been around for over 10 years with tons of coverage everywhere…

I went to the alps about ten years ago when my bike was a 24″ wheeled dirt jump bike. It was fine, I was already doing a bit of DH on it and didn’t know any better. The tracks with acres of braking bumps were tedious but everything else was a fun. Plus it’s a nice ego boost on the rare occasions you catch people on full dh bikes!

Why would a 5″ full suspension bike be a compromise at fort william? Am I missing something?

I have a hardtail and went to Antur Stiniog and rode all the blacks etc. Certainly a compromise in terms of speed but not fun, it was awesome. But I can take the same bike on XC rides, dirt jump sessions, the bmx track and it’s good at all those. You might WANT a different bike for all that but you don’t NEED one.

I would have one superbike that I was totally in tune with, rather than a number of bikes that took a while to get used to each time I switched

Clips really don’t provide more control in the air, unless you have them so tight that you’d never get out of them if something went wrong. Things go wrong when you’re learning to jump!!

DH racers use them as there is marginally more power and let you pedal through the roughest stuff without worrying about your feet coming off. Plus there won’t be a rider on the pro circuit who can’t jump well on flat pedals.

For a long time my only bike was a 24″ darkangel, and it went everywhere, mostly dirt jumping but I did do DH on it including a week in the alps which was fine as it has 4″ travel forks (ha!) and it wasn’t thaaaaat bad! I couldn’t get down the ten percenter on the pleney without blowing my feet off and the same happened on supermorzine on the chute after the road. the braking bumps were savage… That’s where I found its limitations

I eventually went back to 26″ as I do more XC now and I’ve found rolling through the rough stuff is better but whips and tables don’t come so easy. If I was solely doing bmx tracks and dirt jumping then I’d consider 24″ but they don’t carry speed well enough once it gets rough.

I think you’re being paranoid! The area is fine, like most city parks. This is awesome news, I’ve just moved down the road and can’t wait. Actually, wait, no it’s terrible news. Please stay away, don’t want them getting too popular…

Could you swap it over and see for yourself?

Eurgh god, I hate “shredding the gnar”! Especially as it’s generally used in patronising/sarcastic way by the unskilled trying to do down those that have put in the time to get skilled.

In amongst some of your cycnical middle aged bloke whinging, there’s some good points, they are all starting to get a bit samey production wise.

This is my current favourite. not sure how to describe it other than hilarious. Not enough clarinet in edits these days..
http://youtu.be/Cq6ydy8TwI8

I would love a fixie, I think the simple lines are beautiful, no cables, zero noise etc but I love banging into corners as fast as possible, I don’t want to hampen that by smacking my pedal into the ground, I’d be happy on a singlespeed instead.

Seriously, offroad, no thanks. Riding mountain bikes without a saddle is also challenging, or with just one foot on, I’m going to do it though…I bet it isn’t more fun but you might be different

Get to the bmx track and get ragging. Get the adrenaline up, do some intervals, get awesome. And if you’re lucky, there’s a floodlit one nearby and you can get out in the evening.

Impatient ****er belts up the middle lane and forces his way into the outside lane causing everyone to brake, the queue size increases, rinse and repeat. M6 from Preston to Birmingham every day of the week is totally shocking

That’s one way of describing it. The other is everyone sits in the outside lane 6ft from each other. I drive down the inside or middle lane at 65 past everyone, get to a lorry. I indicate and someone flashes and I move over. Then the person who lets me in may brake and all the idiots parked 6ft apart have to brake. I move back to the inside lane. I don’t get the not indicating thing, some idiots may close a gap but most let you in.

Unless you’re actually racing, please don’t use the “XC racers have em up all the time” excuse!! They’re not having fun, they’re there to win a race at all costs that doesn’t involve really any proper technical features.

Only reason I’ve joined this debate is I just feel some of you don’t know what you’re missing out on. MTBing means different things to everyone but to me it’s hooning off drops, finding things to jump off, manualling the dips scaring myself etc while out in mad countryside. Permanent saddle up to me is just road riding with a varying surface..

I have one all terrain bike. It does all terrain, so that should cover everything. Some of you are mental…

A lot of the minicabs near us like to creep forward at red lights, into the advance stop box, over that then eventually stop across the pedestrian crossing. The light turns to green and they sit for a couple of seconds then trundle off at walking pace. Really weird

A lot of the minicabs near us like to creep forward at red lights, into the advance stop box, over that then eventually stop across the pedestrian crossing. The light turns to green and they sit for a couple of seconds then trundle off at walking pace. Really weird

I was recommended omega 3 supplements by a nutritionist friend and he said for the volumes of omega 3 you need to have any decent effect on your joints, the vitamin D in the cod liver oil gets to poisonous levels. He said to take fish oil if you only require omega 3 for joints and cod liver oil if you only require vitamin D.