My 575 seat post kept slipping with the supplied clamp. I changed it to a Hope and no problems since. Think new Yetis come with a Salsa clamp. The in house versions were pretty crap. Thomson post and 31.8 clamp.

These must be pretty low end; no adjustment that I can see from the piccies. No u turn, motion control or anything. Just what I'm told is rebound adjust on top of left leg. Sounds like they are not right for the bike.

P7 frames can take anything from 100-140mm, according to Orange.

As I said, quiet minor roads! Local knowledge is a great thing.

Ride the old railway towards Threlkeld. When you reach the main A66 you can go into the village for a pub lunch, or cross the main road and return via very quiet minor roads past Castlerigg Stone Circle. Easy peasy riding.

ERRRRRRRR You asked this question last night and were given some answers. Maybe you should take a trip out there and have a look for yourself!

If you are desperate to see turbines close up why not go to Cant Clough/Bent's Pasture. You can legally ride right under them there.

What the man says^^^^^^

I once had a phase of collecting the sticky labels off fruit and veg. Had 250 when I decided to get a life.

I get stung quite a lot through the job. I find if they come up straight away then they are no problem. The worse ones are those that come up after a day or so.

Not being melodramatic, but get to your doctors ASAP. Ring for an urgent appointment, and tell the receptionist that you've got an infected insect bite. You need to be seen NOW. There is serious risk of septicaemia, and if untreated can cause you to lose your hand, or in the worse case, your life.

Don't pussy foot around with things like this – they can be serious. Ring the docs, and don't take no for an answer. You need a course of anti-biotics.

I wear one of these

Sad I know.

Can't decide between Howgills, Ribblehead or a loop round Ambleside. Depends on weather forecast tonight.

Not at all. And I'm a big lump, without lashings of skill. Tend to bully my way over stuff

Just like me! I'll add it to the list.

But don't they have a bit of a twitchy back end?

But On One are out of stock of 456!

Like the look of the P7, Soul and maybe Rock Lobster. But….

what are these Blue Pigs like? Anyone any experience with one?

Decisions, decisions!

I'll be selling my large Cotic Soul frame – matt black with orange decals when I get back from hols if you're interested

Could be. I'm not in any particular hurry.

The downside is if a water pipe should burst after the water meter ( this is situated on the public pavement) I may not know it for some time but would be charged the usage..

This very thing happened to a customer of mine. Took two days to discover that there was a leak. UU were very good about it, and adjusted his bill back in line with previous usuage.

Legally pipes on the customer's side of the meter are customer's responsibility, but there is some agreement with OFFWAT (I think) where the water companies have agreed to deal with wear and tear damage at no cost to consumer. Not too hot on full details so you'll have to look it up! Don't think it will apply if you take a JCB to the pipes when laying a new patio.

Let's go to a trail centre.

We had an offer from UU to have a meter fitted for free, for a 13 month trial period. They sent us an estimate of what they thought our bills would be (don't know how they knew our usuage!) which showed that we'd save 25% off our bills. They also included a ready reckoner for us to do our own calculation. We worked this out on the generous side, and it showed that we'd be paying only 50% of the non metered cost. So we went with it, and after a year our bills were only 30% of the previous cost. A massive saving so we're well happy. We don't have a tribe of nappy wearing kids, but we don't skimp on water, use washing machine & dish washer when we need to and we have a fish pond that's topped up once a week. We do use a shower rather than a bath, but wash and hose our cars when they are dirty.

See if your water people will let you have a free trial like we did.

You've just got a degree and you want to work in a bike shop????

Talk about dumbing down.

NHS workers

An oxymoron surely?

I was born a Lancastrian, and I'm proud of that. That also makes me English, but I am not UKish or GBish, or any of the other politically correct labels that our Euro sucking leaders want us to be.

These are what you need.

http://www.trssupplies.co.uk/index.php?_a=viewProd&productId=16087

There seems to be a problem with carbon chainstays on the latest models of 575. The Yeti forum has several guys who have had theirs break. Of course Yeti maintain that there is no design fault, but one break is unlucky, two is a coincidence and three or more seems to indicate a problem. Why would anyone want carbon chainstays on a mountain bike? They are in the line of fire for all the crap thrown up from the trail – an accident waiting to happen. I bought alloy stays on my 575, and have had no problems.

Some different designs here. I've got one, and the quality is excellent.

http://www.foska.com/road-jerseys/mens/

Gordon said in his speech that 3/4's of the terrorist plots against the UK enemaniate from within the Afghan/Pakistan region.

If that's true, why don't we pull out of Afghanistan/Pakistan, and use the troops to secure our borders? If terrorists don't get into the country then they can't cause havoc, and our soldiers have a good chance of staying alive.

The Afghan government has just passed a law that allows husbands to starve wives who refuse to have sex with them. That's what we're fighting for. Wonder what Cherie has to say about that?

Edit. OOPS sorry, should have read the original link. Exit, with red face.

10mm internal diameter? I've got one.

We had a break into our garage. We called out the Crime Prevention Officer, who is now the Crime Reduction Officer! He advised doing away with PIR lights altogether, and replacing them with low energy bulbs linked to a dusk to dawn sensor. Apparently that's what crims least like. Seems to have worked – we've not been troubled since.

Do the Bash in the morning followed by the Threlkeld loop, to include Lonscale Fell and the Latrigg descent. I did that a couple of Saturdays ago and the descent was almost empty, at 2.30PM.

Long Mynd and Stiperstones.

Chain is too loose.

Depending on how your house is sited you might consider getting an old shipping container. They are pretty sturdy, but not the best looking!

Hmmmmm. That was said to me once. But then I'd just won an argument, and they were bad losers! I've not been reading that thread; now I know why!!!

I think we agree. Were we separated at birth?

I largely agree with your sentiments; but unfortunately in the present set up "the powers that be" make the rules and we must obey them. We may not like the rules, I certainly don't, but just saying "up yours" then taking 30 riders over footpaths, posting photos on the internet and shouting how great you are is no way to win the hearts and minds of the decision makers.

I regularly ride footpaths and other places where I'm not supposed to be, but there are ways and means of doing it without getting up everyone's noses. Unfortunately we don't have much of a voice in the corridors of power, so decisions are made on the general perceptions of what we are and do. Those perceptions may not be correct, but it is up to us to change them.

hope M4 bleed tool (holds pot and tube on side of frame so you can pump lever and close nipple with either hand)

hope m4 piston tool (to help clean the pistons and keep pistons open fully during a bleed)

OOH fozzy, details please. Sounds like what I've been trying, and failing, to make.

on the condition that riders respect current laws of access, I would accept because of the benefit those who dont or cant read maps

But isn't that the nux of the problem. Mtb riders (and I don't think any of us are exempt) want to ride where we wish. Unfortunately there are a few who demand this as a right and will happily charge where they want regardless of any rights, laws or agreements. Those mindless few will continue to do so whatever structure is put in place. Yes, they do largely seem to come from the trail centre crew who have little knowledge of, or respect for, the countryside at large; but there is one regular poster on here who seldom rides trail centres whose attitude appears to be "**** you, I'm going where I want". It's little wonder that the powers that be get upset.

So what you're saying is that to be able to ride our bikes where we wish (assuming we stay on legal tracks) then we must consent to being made to ride only on man made trails where the state decrees that mtbing is acceptable?

There was a group ride from Higham on sunday for Blackburn and District mtb.
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